Dave Bunner, vice president of New Era Air and Space Adventures, flies a kite during the 2024 New Era Kite Festival. (File Photo)

New Era Kite Festival

MINERAL WELLS — The 16th annual New Era Kite Festival will be 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at New Era One Room School on the campus of Mineral Wells Elementary School.

The event will feature craft vendors, concessions and free tours of the New Era One Room School Museum.

Thomas Family Entertainment will be on site with several kids activities (fee charged) and free There will be free kites to the first 50 kids on Saturday and a kite building workshop for children (small fee for craft). Hundreds of kites will be available for purchase.

Awards for various kite categories will be given throughout the day.

Sherry Wittekind admires guns at a 2022 Association of Ohio Long Rifle Collectors exhibit. (File Photo)

For more information, contact Kelly McGill at 681-417-0990 or email neweraairspace@yahoo.com.

The sponsors include New Era One Room School Museum, Mineral Wells School, Mineral Wells Baseball, Sam’s Club, ROTC, WVVV 96.9 FM & Jack Horton, Waverly VFC, Kona Ice, Granny Maes, and Fire Light Design and Promotions LLC.

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Association of Ohio Long Rifle Collectors

MARIETTA — The Association of Ohio Long Rifle Collectors will hold its annual meeting and show Saturday and Sunday at the Hotel Lafayette, 101 Front St., Marietta.

The event will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.

There will be buying, selling and trading. The event is open to the general public. Admission is $5 per person with children under 12 free with paying adult

It will feature Ohio-made muzzle loading rifles of the 18th and 19th centuries. Over 200 makers will be featured.

The event will also feature Ohio/Kentucky style rifles, fowlers, pistols, powder horns, tomahawks, knives and directly related items generally recognized as made during the 18th and 19th centuries and contemporary reproductions of these items.

Demonstrations will be given by ​Jeff “Po Boy” Luke on contemporary leather and accoutrements and Greg Parks on engraving.