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12th Annual Toronto International Kite Festival Sep 16-17


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Here's an open invitation to all on this board to come to Toronto for our big event

12th Annual Industrial Alliance Insurance

Toronto International Kite Festival aka Kitefest 2006

September 16th & 17th, 2006

Milliken District Park, Toronto, Ontario

On the southwest corner of Steeles Avenue East and McCowan.

Featured guests include:

  • Cliff Quinn, Coopersburg, Pennsylvania
  • Al Sparling, Napier, Illinois
  • Team "Dogs Playing Cards", Detroit, Michigan
  • Meg & Bill Albers, Buffalo, New York
  • Weifang China Kite Delegation
  • Carl Bigras, Ottawa, Ontario
  • Terry Thillman. Pierrefonds, Québec
  • Yves Laforest, St-Éustache, Québec
  • Daniel Rémillard & Christine McGee, Brossard, Québec
  • Normand Girard, Montréal, Québec
  • André Bernard, Montréal, Québec
  • René & Claudine Campeau, Pierrefonds, Québec
  • Bill Wilson, Halifax, Nova Scotia

And many, many more visiting fliers from Ontario, Western New York, Michigan, Québec, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

We have a host hotel, the Howard Johnson Toronto East with preferential kitefliers' rates (double queen room for C$79).

Past fliers have also included: Jos and Kaatje Valcke of Belgium, Michel Trouillet from France, Team Zoone from France, Wolfgang Schimmelpfennig of Germany, Team No Limits of Germany, Masaki Modegi of Japan, Ludovico Bertozzi, Italy, Pedro and Estoban Gonsalvez of Spain, Abdul Halim of Malaysia, Abdul "Hamid" Pabila from Indonesia, Kevin Sanders from Australia, and teams from Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan. American guests have included Reza Ragheb, José Sainz, Ron & Sandy Gibian, Dos Avispados (Brian Champie & Miguel Rodriguez), Glen & Tanna Haynes, Ron Despojado, Susan Shampo, Rick Wolcott, Team Too Much Fun, and more.

This is the largest international kite festival in Canada with over 50,000 spectators over the weekend with past sponsors such as United Airlines, Pepsi, Air Canada, General Motors and Hongkong Telecom. In 2005, General Motors gave away a new Pontiac Vibe car for one lucky spectator!

Come on up!!

For more info, email me or visit the Toronto Kite Fliers' website for further updates: http://www.tkf.toronto.on.ca

This year's poster:

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