Kite Lines - Vol.1 No. 2 - KiteLife

of thinking, is not a spectator sportbut one strictly for the participants .The preliminary bouts took place onSaturday, with the finals the followingday.A bonus was provided on Sundaywhen a local TV station decided totelevise live for an afternoon program .This took place at Venice Beach andwas attended by most of the fliers fromthe previous day. As the beach waspacked with the usual crowd of sunbathers,and all the kiters wanted toget on the screen, the area near thecameras somewhat resembled TimesSquare on New Years Eve, and therewere many aerial entanglements . Itwas a good day and a fine ending tomy California visit, made so pleasantby the friendly kite flying fraternity .COLORADOA report from Jane Parker Ambrose ofSky Scrapers kites, in Denver :U . S . Congresswoman PatriciaSchroeder recently sponsored her ownkite festival in conjunction with SkyScrapers kite store in Denver .The event was held on the RegisCollege campus and included demonstrationsof India kite fighting, thenew two-stringer kites, Coloradodeltas, and other kites . Picnickingand live music added to the finespring afternoon .Colorado Representative Pat Schroederwith her children and kites .Ms . Schroeder, a graduate of HarvardLaw School, earned her pilot'slicense and worked her way throughcollege as an airplane crash inspectorfor the FAA . She and her attorneyhusband Jim, and her son, Scott, 11,and daughter, Jame, 7, find kiteflyingthe perfect family activity ."We have a Japanese housekeeperwho got the children interested in kitemaking and flying . It's become a greatfamily sport . . . The one resourcewe have a lot of is wind in Colorado . . .Kiteflying is cheap, quiet, graceful,challenging and calming . It's a way tovicariously fly -soar! We all need tosoar occasionally, for the world's humdrumcan get us down otherwise ."Frances A . Weaver sent us the newsthat the Beulah Valley Associationfor Tethered Flight is scheduled forexposure in the National Observer atsome indefinite future date .This is a group of seven womenwhose "high-sounding name waschosen after great deliberation to givean air of sophistication to our tonguein-cheekapproach to kiting ." Fourmembers chartered the group becausethey all had kites . Then, "we addedthree more members because they hadpastures!"They find that flying in highmountain meadows is a challenge becauseof "shifting wind currents," and