16th Annual
Skydance Sakakawea
Kite Festival 2008
Skydance was unique in 2008 with the visit from Carveth and
Luella Kramer from Taos, New Mexico. Carveth's incredible banners
helped create a carnival atmosphere around the festival fields and brought joy
to the hundreds of daily visitors to the event. Rena Rustad,
owner of Prairie Wind Kite Company, kept a steady stream of new kites taking
flight into the prairie sky. Professional level kites
were flown by Mike Shaw, Chris Dodson, Rollie Metz, Lisa and Dan Rouse, Darwin
Smith, and Deb Lenzen. Mike's award winning
art kites garnered ohhs and ahhhs from the crowd. Deb raffled one of her
original kites as a way to raise money for the festival. Kyle's Katering
provided barbecue ribs and chicken for the flyers meal at the end of the flying
on Saturday. Tornadoes flirted with the shoreline on the other side of
the lake throughout the weekend making for exciting moments but at the end of
the weekend a great and safe time was had by all.