American Kitefliers Association

This is a great place to begin! What are you doing May 22 & 23? If not much, head over to Joplin MO for a great festival! You will have an opportunity to meet some people that live close by, well, anyway closer! We'll be flying on the old race track. For more details, contact  Greg Begey [gbegey-at-hotmail.com]
When you go out, take some small kites with you and share. Pass out cards with your name, phone & email. Think about setting up some sort of schedule, like the 3rd sunday of every month so folks know where/when to find you.
Contact your local newspaper and suggest they come out for some photos. Craigs list? Why not? Heck, it's free! Also, maybe set up a face book page, or at least blasting all your friends with updates.
Keep posting here and let us know how it goes.
And, come introduce yourself if you make it to Joplin. I'll be there. Richard Dermer, past AKA prez will be there. Lots of others too.

Now  that  sounds like  a plan!   Thanks Barbara .  Just  cross  our  fingers  this   bloody  weather  will be kind   to us .   Maybe  a   ...please ... is in order .   
  Humm...  small kites  ...   I may  have  just  the  thing .

Just in from Greg, more info about the field. Oh, and there is a special kiteflyers rate at La Quinta.
The "new" field, is the HUGE grass parking lot, east side of the old Route 66 Speedway, located west
of 7th and Shifferdecker.  Entrance will be off of 7th Street, on the east side of Carousel Park, which
would be the park maintenance entrance.  SIGNS WILL BE POSTED IN FRONT.

Will be using a flying area just about the same size that we have had for the past 2 years.   Field is on
the top of a hill, so winds should be good. 

Parks & Rec. Department is going to mow for us, CVB will have porta-potties on site.  NOTE:  There is
no electricity on site.

Again, the "new" field is directly south (3/4 to 1 mile as the crow flies) of the old field.  The street address
is:
    3834 West 7th Street, Joplin, MO  64801

For those of you that can GOOGLE EARTH, look it up.  More info later.

WOW   70  views   and only one posting  ...????   Whats up  with  that ?   Come on,   Y'all,   get  in  the  spirit !

After reading this morning I hope everyone going there is OK

question --   received a mail to "profile"  our kite club on the website -- anybody know how  and where to do this in the AKA site ??  it wasn't readily clear in the e-mail as i received it.   Our club is small but has been here  a long time -- would love to have   club "register"  with a profile  on the AKA site --

Go to the "About the AKA" tab at the top - scroll down to the "Join Us" tab - then scroll down to the "Affiliated Kite Clubs" tab.  Click on that and you will get to a page with a link for the affiliated kite clubs application.

There is also a link at the bottom of the page that takes you to the regional map - and then on to a listing of local clubs.  The listing is contact information and direct links to club websites. 

http://www.aka.kite.org/resources/regional-resources