Staff photo / Bob Coupland Gabby Armstrong, 12, of Niles, center, and Ella de Blok, 8, of Austitnown, right, wait as Juriaan de Blok of Austintown prepares a kite for flying at the Kite Festival ...

Sixty people participated in the Waukegan Park District’s 15th-annual Kids to Parks Day Saturday at Bevier Park as part of a national effort.

The weekend includes professional kite flying demos, kid’s activities, food trucks, and a “kite hospital” for repairs and troubleshooting.

Because all this time — I don’t know what kind of mother he had — but he wasn’t allowed to fly a kite when he was a kid. “And there he is, 53 years old and having the time of his life.

They decorated kites for a simultaneous kite-flying event in New Brighton and Kyiv, Lviv, Khmelnytskyi and Poltava. Liverpool is hosting the Eurovision Song Contest on behalf of war-torn Ukraine.

The Council on Aging of West Florida wants you to go fly a kite. The nonprofit organization is presenting “Kites on the Coast,” Sept. 2-3 at Casino Beach.

More than 13,000 children are expected to simultaneously fly kites in the Philippines’ Muslim south later this month to break a world record in celebration of the conflict-ridden region’s ...