KITES PAINT CLOUDY SKIES AT FAMILY FESTIVAL

Roanoke Times & World News | April 20, 2003| | Copyright

Some flew. Some dived and twisted. If you wanted them rainbow striped or wanted airplanes, dolphins, sharks or eagles - you had them. Even Barbie danced in the gray, cloudy skies.

Imaginations soared Saturday as kids and adults maneuvered spools of string to get their kites, some with 10-foot tails, off the ground at Green Hill Park in Roanoke County. It was a somewhat difficult task when winds were only 5 mph. Optimum flying wind speed is 10 to 15 mph.

Anyone care?

Of course not.

"Good job. Keep running," Kathy Habeeb of Christiansburg shouted to her 8-year-old granddaughter, Kaitlin Habeeb, ...

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