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Kitty Hawk Kites’ 2nd Annual Life is good Watermelon Festival

Nags Head, NC (August, 2008) -From seed spitting, to potato sack races, to face painting, watermelons will take over the Outer Banks of North Carolina. On August 14th 2008 Kitty Hawk Kites and Life is good come together again for the 2008 2nd Annual Kitty Hawk Kites Life is good Watermelon Festival, held at the Kitty Hawk Kites and Life is good stores in Nags Head NC, across from Jockey’s Ridge State Park. Thousands of people were in attendance last year to celebrate summer with live music, classic backyard food, and a great mix of arts & crafts, games and activities for children and adults!! The 2007 festival raised $7,350 for two children’s charities; Project Joy, a National Boston-based non-profit children’s charity which brings powerful healing play to at-risk children, and Wright Flight, an Outer Banks Local Charity which helps local 5th graders master goal-setting skills, and excel academically with the reward of Flight! 100% of the proceeds of the festival will be divided between the two charities.

The kick-off to this day-long event will be the arrival of the N.C. Watermelon Queen at 10:30 am, who will be available all day to sign autographs, interviews, and get pictures taken.

The festival will be divided into 4 Villages:

Sports Town: This is the site of games including; seed spitting, potato sack racing, dog bowl toss, and more!
Chillville: Here families can get an ice-cold refreshments, homemade desserts, and other classic backyard picnic food by local restaurants. This is also the location of the pie eating contest.
Life Is Good City: This is where you can get more information on the two charities, purchase festival merchandise, as well as donate directly to the charities.
Creative Country: This will be an arts & crafts area where children and adults can make a tie-die t-shirt, decorate and make a kite, and more.

Other features of the festival include: rock climbing, live entertainment, dunking booth, etc.

All money raised through sales of the 2008 Kitty Hawk Kites Life is good Watermelon Festival Tee shirts will benefit Project Joy and Wright Flight. Merchandise sales, donations, and a portion of food sales at the festival will also be split 50/50 between the charities.

Charity Information

About Project Joy: Project Joy is a 501 c(3) non-profit organization dedicated to fostering the healthy development of young children who are at risk. Through innovative training retreats, Project Joy provides teachers and childcare providers with the resources they need to strengthen and heal their children through play. Established in Boston in 1989, Project Joy has expanded to national scope, currently supporting children and their caretakers from Boston to Biloxi and beyond.

About Wright Flight: Wright Flight, Inc. offers a program which uses aviation as a motivation to all fifth graders in Dare County. Created in 1986 and introduced to Dare County in 2000 it emulates the Wright brothers' example of setting goals and achieving them through hard work and discipline for today's youth. Through Wright Flight, children learn about the history of aviation and are exposed to career opportunities in aviation.
The program is taught through all five Dare County schools at no cost to the schools, students or their families. Students set an academic and behavioral goal wherein they contract to improve a grade then participate in a nine week study of the history of aviation while remaining drug, alcohol and smoke free.
Upon successful completion of the program, students are awarded Wright Flight t-shirts, bumper stickers and a Certificate to Fly that enable them to take the controls of an airplane and truly experience the joy and thrill of flight.
*All proceeds raised at the festival will be split 50/50 between these two charities. For more information, please contact Cydney Palmer, events coordinator, at 252-441-1719 ext. 204.