AKA Blog & News
More To Do in Shreveport
Some Free Things To Do in Shreveport-Bossier, Louisiana These are in downtown Shreveport and are close to the Hilton and Convention Center. Ark-La-Tex Sports Museum of Champions Located in lobby of the Shreveport Convention center. Open on weekends when there...
Alexa and Sam King – 2021 Lee Toy Award Winners
We would like to put forward the names of Alexa & Sam King for the AKA Lee Toy Award. Many years ago, while traveling along the Oregon coastline and stopping at a viewpoint, we struck up a conversation with a mother and her son, Alexa & Sam King. We discovered...
Darrin and Susan Skinner – 2021 Eideken Award Recepients
Kiteflier of the Year is a misnomer. The award recognizes a body of work and a lifetime of contribution. We write to nominate a couple who together have contributed more than 60 years to improving, sustaining, communicating, and expanding kiting as we know it. We...
Jon and Karen Burkhardt – 2021 Ingraham Award Recepients
Nomination for the 2021 Robert M Ingraham Volunteer of the Year It gives us great pleasure to nominate Jon and Karen Burkhardt to receive the 2021 Robert M Ingraham Volunteer of the Year award for their contributions over many years to the success of AKA. In the past...
2019 Annual Awards
Steve Edeiken Award: Val Deale Lee Toy Award: Loik Lamalle Robert Ingraham Award: Sis and Dick Vogel Regional Directror of the Year: Phillip Shining Star Award: Gary Mark Kite Club of the Year: Tulsa Windriders Volunteer of the Year: Marla...
Sis and Dick Vogel – 2019 Ingraham Award Recipient
Val Deale – 2019 Edeiken Award Recipient
It is our great pleasure to send you this letter nominating Val Deale of Kensington, Maryland for AKA’s 2019 Steve Edeiken Award. Val has been involved in kites longer and in more different ways than most of us. In all his efforts, he has exemplified the key...