97.3 The Eagle Kindfest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the 97.3 The Eagle Kindfest ballot?

Kindfest 2025 is a public-vote ballot that the Hampton Roads radio station 97.3 The Eagle ran from its own Second Street account. The station's balloting hub sits at eagle97.secondstreetapp.com, and inside it the Kindfest promotion is registered as a Ballot of the VotingBallot type, which is the format Second Street builds for contests where the audience picks winners rather than enters drawings. The distinction matters because the same hub also carries the station's sweepstakes promotions, so a visitor needs to know that Kindfest asks for a vote and not an entry.

The event behind the ballot is described in its own listing as a family-friendly, dog-friendly community gathering meant to bring Hampton Roads together for a day built around positivity. Pairing the vote with a real-world festival gives the programme a shape that a standing readers survey lacks, because supporters have a shared day to rally around while the form stays open around it.

Fixed identifiers of the programme

When did Kindfest voting run, and what has not been published?

The April 2025 span anchors every dated statement about this programme. The ballot opened on April 2, 2025 and closed on April 16, 2025, and the promotion now stands closed on the station's Second Street account. Inside that span the KINDFest event itself ran on April 12 from noon to 4 pm at Mount Trashmore, which gave supporters chances to vote before, during, and after the festival day.

This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Beyond those dates the listing stays quiet in ways worth stating plainly. It prints no category names, so nobody can say ahead of a future form which contestants or local businesses would appear. It also sets out no figure for how often a person may vote and no eligibility text, so both points stay open until the form itself resolves them. The station has likewise posted no successor ballot under the Kindfest name on its hub so far.

The 2025 span at a glance

How does a supporter cast a vote on the Kindfest ballot?

Casting a vote in Kindfest means working through the Second Street form that 97.3 The Eagle serves from its eagle97 subdomain. During the April 2025 span the ballot lived at the Kindfest address on that subdomain, and a supporter's path through it was short: open the page, review the entries listed, mark a selection, and send the form.

Several practical points sit outside the printed promotion. Whether the form asked an entrant for an email address or any sign-in before accepting a vote is not shown in the listing. How many submissions a visitor could make over the window is not stated either. And nothing in the promotion names a prize, a winner announcement date, or a results page, so a supporter checking back after closing had no published landing point for outcomes. No payment step appears anywhere in the promotion's details, which kept the barrier to taking part low.

Because the 2025 form is closed, anyone reading now is waiting on the station rather than sitting mid-window. If 97.3 The Eagle attaches a ballot to a future KINDFest, the address pattern on its Second Street subdomain is where that form would surface, and the steps above would apply to the new edition as they did to the last.

How does the Kindfest ballot sit beside other Virginia public-vote programmes?

Virginia carries a crowded field of public-vote programmes, and Kindfest stands apart from each of them in origin. The state's best-known ballots are publication surveys: Best of Arlington, Best of Coastal Virginia Magazine, Best of Charlottesville, and the Daily Progress Charlottesville Readers' Choice all grow out of print or online publishers inviting readers to crown local businesses. Theatre adds its own pair, with the BroadwayWorld Central Virginia Awards and the BroadwayWorld NOVA Awards covering stage communities in different regions.

Kindfest departs from that pattern. Its organizer is a music radio station rather than a newspaper, a magazine, or a theatre trade outlet. Its vote ties to a named festival with a fixed April date, where the publication surveys run long seasonal windows without a shared event anchoring them. And its confirmed history is a single 2025 edition.

The station's hub also shapes expectations. Visitors arriving from a sweepstakes promotion meet a ballot format that behaves differently, and visitors arriving from the ballot see the sweepstakes listed nearby. Neither arrangement exists on the publisher-run surveys, which keep their contests separate from prize draws.

How can a supporter strengthen a Kindfest campaign?

Reach in this programme flows from the station's audience and from the community gathered around the festival itself. A campaign that wants traction inside the April window works those channels directly: asking friends, coworkers, and the dog-friendly crowd the event attracts to open the ballot and vote early, then reminding them before the form closes.

The organizer prints no stated policy on outside voting help, so anyone weighing paid support should start from neutral ground. A practical primer on earning attention sits at how to get more votes online, and the service questions people raise most often are answered on the page about buying votes online. Whatever route a campaign takes, the deciding factor remains the same: votes accepted inside the window under the form's own rules.