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MOTS 2008...30 GREAT YEARS! WOW...30 years. THE WORLD will be WATCHING US FLY! "The 30th Annual Time Warner Cable Frank Mots International Kite Festival will be held on Saturday, September 13th,& Sunday September 14th, 2008, in Veterans Park on Milwaukee's Lakefront from 10:00 am until 5:00Pm Saturday and 10:00 am until 5:00pm on Sunday. County Executive Scott Walker will kick off the festival at 12 noon with the Caribou Coffee grand launch of hopefully 500 kites. That's right...two great days of flying. The event is sponsored by the Kite Society of Wisconsin and Illinois, and Gift of Wings, and our newest sponsors, Time Warner Cable, 102.1 WLUM, B93.3, and 1290am WMCS. Featured performers include Chicago Fire, featuring Eric Wolfe, the new Revolution Kite Flying Team...IQUAD, featuring John Barresi for the second year at Mots. The return of Mr. Kite and his 450 ft Dragon. St Elmos Fires will be back on the field. Welcome Bob and Karen Roehl. Mots also will feature Josh and Zach Gordon, Charlie Sotich, Team Pegasus…John and Elaine Cosby all the way from Puerto Rico, Mr. Incredible, Dave Bush, ( who by the way is now famous), Dan Newman, Paul Koepke, Paula Schenk, Mike Delfar, Ann Vondriska, & Donna Schenk as Mrs Kite Lady, and the GIANT kites of Yves LaForest. Yves Laforest will feature the giant Octopus Kite, along with the Giant Star, and all the other giant kites in his inventory. Yves will be teaming up with Gary Mark and Don Brownridge from Toronto, for one of the largest display of unusual kites in the Country.The Caribou Coffee Grand Launch of around 500 kites will take place directly at noon. The professional kite teams will start performing at 12:30 pm followed by the Radio Disney Kids Mad Dash at around 2:00. See Roscoe from the Milwaukee Admirals, and Bango from the Bucks. For more information, call Scott Fisher at 414/425-9993 or Jeff Kataoka at 414/277-9121.Be part of history....30 years of kites on Milwaukee's Lakefront!! Kites are available for sale from Gift of Wings located in Vetera
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