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oops Idaho Kite Festival 2008 update new website coming: www.IdahoKiteFestival.com FOLLOW THAT (KITE) TRAIN! Kiter goes postal Kitemaking in Pocatello - CEF fair and upcoming Portneuf Library workshop Kudos to all the volunteers at the Community Environmental Fair Bonsai Buddies More Kitemaking in Pocatello-Chubbuck Kitemaking at the Community Environmental Fair in Pocatello April 26 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 
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From the standpoint of my The Sky's The Limit! volunteers, who made kites for more than 4 hours, we think the Community Environmental Fair organizers and volunteers should receive Journal Roses for providing this enlightening, fun, and practical event to educate and ease the public into earth-friendly living.
The Fair went great! The volunteer cooks intended to cook and give away 400 burgers and 300 hotdogs...and ran out way early and doubled that number before the Fair ended.
The weather was outrageously gorgeous. Even the kites had a breeze to fly most of the afternoon. I'd prepped about 180 kite kits from newspaper, shopping bags, stuff like that - recycling, you know. We ran out and were making kites from scratch nearly an hour after the official end of the Fair at 3:00! So we came close to 200, if not over. We were so busy (special thanks to Chelsea, Joan, Marie and JoEtta) we didn't have a chance to check out the Fair, get all the freebies, eat - but it was great fun! Chelsea took several photos and they are all of us with our heads down, bent over tables and working our buns off!
If we ran out of kites before you got to our tables, please come to a workshop on the JHub calendar and make one. We want everyone to have a kite to fly at the Idaho Kite Festival Oct 2-5 this fall, and will be holding workshops all year long!
In these simple workshops we use a geranium to practice bonsai techniques since geraniums are more forgiving and less expensive! You will learn tips on care and feeding, how to shape it to appear more exotic, how a plant reacts when potted in a tiny bonsai pot. In the spring workshops, your plant can become a deck display. In the fall, you will rescue geraniums in your yard or in your hanging pots. Instead of letting them frost and die, we repot them for elegant indoor winter flowering plants. Then in the spring, you can take cuttings to make your own outdoor plants! A spring class is scheduled at Portneuf District Library May 28. Register there, and bring 3 stones the size of a man's thumb. A fall class will be held at Pocatello Coop, TBA. Our schedule for workshops leading up to the Idaho Kite Festival Oct 2-5 2008 is growing fast. See below for free kite workshops. I',m hoping to hear from libraries throughout Idaho, and will try to fit in a workshop for you on my day off (in real life I'm a city mail carrier). Our goal at The Sky's The Limit! is that everyone has a kite to fly at the annual IKF! The focus of many of these workshops is making kites from recycled, reusable and household materials, celebrating Earth Day Every Day. Idaho Kite Festival 2008Calendar of Workshops and EventsApril 15: Marshall Library, 3:30 pm
& nbsp; & nbsp; Mini Kimono workshop
April 26: & nbsp; Community Environmental Fair, 11:00-3:00
& nbsp; & nbsp; Kitemaking every half hour; kite flies all day
May 28: & nbsp; Portneuf District Library, 5 pm
& nbsp; & nbsp; Geranium bonsai buddies
June 5: & nbsp; Portneuf Library, 2 pm
& nbsp; & nbsp; Kitemaking
September: Pocatello Coop geranium bonsai
Oct 2: & nbsp; Portneuf Library, 2 pm
& nbsp; & nbsp; Kitemaking
Oct 2-5: & nbsp; Idaho Kite Festival 2008 & nbsp; & nbsp; Workshops and kite flies daily
Please call the libraries to register for their workshops
NOTE: explanation for geranium bonsai buddies workshop in next blog
This Fair sounds fun and this is the first time I've had the day off work to participate. My community volunteers, called The Sky's The Limit!, will be in the activity tent. Look for Maxine with her facepainting table, posters for our Portneuf District Library partner, flags from another partner VFW - we'll be around! If all goes as planned, we'll have several different kites, so come at the half-hour and join in. Kites include: Old News - New Kite (a newspaper kite) Our VFW spring workshop: Go Green with the Red White and Blue - a kite from recycled tablecloths from a cancer survivor event My Kite's My Bag (kite from recycled shopping bags and other reusable plastic- bring your department store bags and we'll make kites of them at future workshops - anything but grocery bags) Come Fly a Fish - more shopping bags, with fins and fused tails We'll make kites till we run out, and fly them if there is a breeze! ALSO - watch EVENTS postings on TheJHub.com and check www.myspace.com/iskf to stay up to date about kites! |
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