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stevef · Last edited by stevef on Sat Feb 04, 2006 1:17 pm; edited 3 times in total

To recap, we had six forum members nominated for kitebuilder of the year:

All nominees are definitely winners in my eye as they have all made major contributions to this forum over the last twelve months. All have asked questions and posted answers - the things that keep us coming back. Not to mention all the kites they have created - inspiration to us all. I want to thank all of them and would like to reward each with a $10 gift certificate, a small token of my appreciation.

But we can only award one Kitebuilder of the Year.

I tallied the votes and we have a winner! This year I am very happy to present the award to a kiter that has been a builder for a relatively short period of time, but has taken to it with passion and enthusiasm. He has spent 12 months contributing to the forum both on and off line…. His tests on spray glues took many months of preparation, experimentation and documentation. He rallied forum members to donate and construct the massive Crazy Eddy project. His Beast Within project entertained us for a year while also motivating us to discuss ways to construct a Rokkaku and applique challenging graphics.

The above examples are just a few of our winners contributions this year and in case you haven’t figured it out yet, I am pleased, excited, and happy to announce Terry Thillmann, aka Progcraft, as Kitebuilder of the Year for 2005! Applause

Congratulations Terry, you will recieve a $50.00 gift certificate, as well as a plaque for your kite room. Keep up the good work and I am looking forward to your projects in 2005. Isnt this forum great?
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wdrwilson · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:59 am Post subject:

Congrats Terry!!! Well deserved!

--Bill

Grant L · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:18 am Post subject:

Congratulations terry !!!

smarties · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:22 am Post subject:

Congratulation Terry! Keep up the good work and the enthousiasm! Applause

And thanks Stevef to keep up with us and creating this wonderful forum!
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Doug LaRock · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:23 am Post subject:

Terry way to go!!! Thank you for all your contributions to this forum. I've been honored just to have been nominated. Steve again thank you for your support of kiting.

Doug

spectre · Joined: 11 Nov 2003 Posts: 121 Location: Ankara, Turkey

Congratulations Terry Applause

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kiteguy · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:13 am Post subject:

Congratulations, Terry. I knew you could do it! Keep it up, and see if you can make it another year!

Very Happy

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CJQ · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:27 pm Post subject:

Congradulations TERRY , you truly are the most deserving. It's amazing how much motivation and drive you have. You've made a ton of stuff, shared your projects and inspired many , please keep it up .

REGARDS
CLIFF

Mountain Man · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:45 pm Post subject:

I tip my hat to you Terry ! yes you truly deserve this honour!

its been a pleasure to read all your posts ... looking foward to the next kite on your agenda

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PeterB · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:54 pm Post subject:

Terry, Congratulations on the award.
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mhartzel · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:40 pm Post subject:

Excellent job Terry,
Thanks for all of your inspiration.
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KiteSquid · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 1:41 pm Post subject:

Terry,

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And thanks for your hard work on the adhesive testing!!!!!!!!!!
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MaggieM · Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Posts: 11 Location: N.B. Canada

Congratulations. The title "Kitemaker of the Year" is well deserved. Keep up the good work!!
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Spence602 · Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 2042 Location: USA TX Houston

Well done P. Exclamation

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Progcraft · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:20 pm Post subject:

Hello

Thank you all so very much for voting me KBOTY. Smile

It's all owed back to you. I could never have come as far as I have without this forum and all of you. You've taken me in and gone along with all (ok, most) of my ideas and provided untold support for me. Many of you send me messages off-line just to say Hi or find out what I'm working on. It's all so very nice.
Kite building for me has come to encompass all those aspects of my past hobbies that I liked, and has non of the baggage that I didn't like. It's clean, quiet and can be flown anywheres. Always draws a crowd and makes them smile. And the variety of choices is limitless and tireless. And building kites is a great release for me. I've always been into building things. Models, Radio Controlled stuff, things like that.
But the people in this hobby are what makes it really special. Kiters are a unique group of people and I'm very happy I've been able to sneak in among you.
And a big Thank You to Steve Ferrel for giving us this home and takeing us all in. But especially for going out of his way to provide things like this to all us at his own cost. Your a good man Steve. We need more like you on this planet.
Ok, so, what's next? Ummm, lets see. Tonight I'm begining another arch for Crazy Eddy. Then, a couple bols, catherines wheels, two more Rokkakus (Canadian and Alberta flags), More parachutes and a new, bigger ferry and messenger kite. A train of Delta Conynes. And somewhere in there I need to fit in a giant windsock. It's going to be a busy few months Smile

Again, thank you all for your support and I look forward to meeting many of you at festival s in the near future Smile

Thanks all. You've made my day, month, and year. Smile

Cheers,
Terry.

Hey, Steve even spelled my last name correctly Smile

That's a rareity right there!!!
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woodpekr · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:51 pm Post subject:

Congratulations Terry Exclamation

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Steve D · Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 1034 Location: USA GA Newnan

Congrats Terry! Well deserved IMO!! BTW, I've got an eddy just about ready for your new arch.....

knotronda · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:08 pm Post subject:

Terry,

You were my inspiration for the Envelope decorating contest for MAKR. I just got it downloaded and will try to get it posted tonight. Hope you like it. Anyway, thanks for all your input and you don't look anything like your avatar.

KR

Dorsal · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:51 am Post subject:

Congratulations Terry! Well deserved! Exclamation

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pb · Joined: 10 Jul 2004 Posts: 330 Location: Portland Oregon

Terry, congrats, Very Happy

you have brought all of us further in our skills, ideas, dreams and... well just the desire to have fun with kites. I have had a lot of fun reading posts from this forum and learned much from many. The trick is people have to actually participate to make the forum work and you have posted ... well ... many interesting things for us to share.
Smile

Thank you. Cool

I look foreward to another great year.
PB
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