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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 1 Jun 1977, p. 5

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He has been involved in entertainment in the Reâ€" gion for the past eight years and is a coâ€"founder of Project People Enterâ€" tainment Inc.. an enterâ€" tainment group he currentâ€" ly manages. Mr. Winkler will continue to service accounts for The Times and will take on added responsibilities in sales for the Waterloo Chronicle, Elmira Signet and New Hamburg Indeâ€" pendent. Mr. Winkler‘s background also includes training in marketing, radio and teleâ€" vision broadcasting. proâ€" motion and public relations. Mr. Winkler has fourâ€"andâ€" aâ€"half years‘ newspaper exâ€" perience in the Kitchenerâ€" Waterloo Region. He has worked in the display adâ€" vertising department of the Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Record and for the past three years has been an advertising representative for The Cambridge Times. Paul Winkler has been named sales supervisor of Fairway Press community newspapers, effective June 1. Mr. Urschel lives in Waterloo and is a volunteer instructor at the Waterloo Family Y. ences with emphasis in graphic arts, design and photography. and as a partner in an advertising agency. His experience also includes promotion and public reâ€" lations. A graduate of Conestoga College, he holds a Diploma of Applied Arts and Sciâ€" Staff changes announced He has five years‘ adâ€" vertising _ experience in community newspapers Wolfgang Urschel has been _ named â€" advertising manager of the Waterloo Chronicle effective June 1. Mr. Urschel has been actâ€" ing â€" advertising manager at the Chronicle since February, 1976. Wolfgang Urschel Paul Winkier He‘s kept so busy during his six months working, he feels good and ready for a rest by the time fall arrives. Ken is now considered a consultant on kite flying and is paid by Union Carbide in Toronto to fly kites in shopâ€" ping plazas in Florida for advertising purposes. His favorite kite is the "Rusâ€" Ken‘s made kites for muâ€" seums, the University of Waterloo, and the Departâ€" ment of mines, energy and water resources in Burlingâ€" ton that requested a 300 squareâ€"foot kite flown one mile high to capture fallout from the steel mills. ‘I spend six months of the year in Canada and go south to Florida with the geese each winter," he says. ‘‘That‘s the way I‘ve been living for the last three years." Right now, Ken suppleâ€" ments his pension by flying kites, and by the sound of it, he‘s doing all right. When you‘re talking about kites, you‘re talking about four brackets, he says. You can write books about them, make, sell or fly them. He‘s only interested in the flying aspect now. One of his toughest jobs was in 1967, trying to teach the Indians in Brantford schools all about kite flying. ‘*The kids were really exâ€" cited about kites but ripped them to pieces as soon as they landed on the ground," he said. ‘"They thought they were birds and had been taught to rip these up for food. It was hopeless and we had to give up after a few Ken‘s grandfather, Sir Hiram Maxim, invented the machine gun and the Maxim flying machine in 1895. *‘*Since then, I‘ve been building kites all my life," says Ken, now 65 and retired from his first career. "I came to Canada from Grays Essex, England, in 1957 and was the first person to fly a kite professionally in Toâ€" ronto." He‘d wanted his mother to buy him one, but she, being aware of Ken‘s creative anâ€" cestors, told him to build his own, following instructions from a library book. Canada", began to seriously hack up old newspapers, mess around with boiled flour and water to create a grey glue and put together a soâ€"called "kite, using twigs from the park. Although Ken Lewis didn‘t join the Royal Air Force until he was 20 years old, he had been feeling "like a test pilot in my own plane" ever since he was seven. That was when Mr. Lewis. Meet "Mr. Kite Canada" as "Mr I call it a highly sophistiâ€" cated kite," he says. "For best results, I make it out of plastic, such as a garbage bag, and bamboo sticks. And the tail should be 10 times the length of the kite." But regardless of the hours of careful designing and days of manufacturing, a kite is just plain useless if sian Giant" â€" usually 14 inches square but ranging up to 20 square feet. _ Youd like to invest, but you‘ notgure hOeVV. And you‘re Z?raxrg of taking a chance. Te We‘ve got an investment we guarantee. But this is just one of the many ways we do more for your money. 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