The city’s summer festival season is now off the ground.
Thousands of people took their kites to the skies around Chippewa Park Sunday for Thunder Bay’s 33 rd annual kite festival.
“It really kind of opens up our summer festival season,” city event supervisor Doug Henry said.
With live music, kite-making workshops and of course wide open spaces perfect for take-off, Henry said it was a great day for the festival. Warm weather and sunshine were out in full force. And even though there wasn’t much wind, people like 11-year-old Madison Donnelly didn’t seem to mind. Her technique included a lot of running to get her kite to fly.
“I wanted to show my kite off,” she said. “And you get to be outside in the beautiful weather.
The festival also featured out-of-town kiters from Southern Ontario and New York. Henry said there’s something nostalgic about flying a kite.
“We all flew a kite when we were young. It’s a hobby that can grow,” he said. “It’s something you can do your whole life and something you can do as a family.”
Seven-year-old Avery Engelmann had two very simple reasons why she wanted to fly her kite Sunday afternoon.
“It goes really high and they go in the air,” she said.
