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All Weather Walkers
Attn: Treasurer
It’s not a mystery address.
AWW membership is on a calendar year basis. Please send your renewals to the above –
$6/single, $12 family. AWW helps you
keep informed of walk schedules, as well as motivating you to stay healthy,
enjoy our many local trails, and WALK.
In recent years, we’ve had more and more group walks. Some of them are listed below under Wednesday and Weekend Walking. It’s an excellent way to meet other people and walk without having to worry about staying on the route. AWW personnel are instrumental in scheduling and leading these walks. We always have a 5K option, and often there are two 5K groups – one at regular pace and one at a slow pace.
From: WILLIS KORFF korffs@wildblue.net (our Regional
Director):
1. The Tumwater YR walk 1743 is closed until further notice (storm damage).\
2. It would be wise to check with the Points of
Contact before traveling to any of the Western Washington YREs and
seasonals.
3. AVA has hired a Marketing and Publicity
Director. His name is Chuck Bischle (pronounced Bishy and using his words
sounds like fishy). His resume shows him
to be very well qualified for the position. Performance standards are
being developed for the position.
4. Trailmaster Certification is
authorized. A 3” x 3” patch will be issued to those who are
certified. A Certificate of Service signed by the AVA President will be
issued as well. It has been approved that I can certify people with all,
any part, or none of the examination. This requires that Regional
Directors know the skills of those in their respective regions. If you
would like to be certified as an AVA Trailmaster, please let me know.
5. The Ad Hoc Committee for The Starting Point
completed its work. The following (one of several items) recommendations
were made:
a)
Keep The Starting Point in its current format (to include spiral binding)
– at least for 2013. Between now and 2014, more technologically sound
methods may be better researched and a plan for implementation prepared.
President’s Corner – Jan
Breneman 
PREZ SEZ
Much like email and club
websites took volkssporting by storm in the last decade or two, now social networking
– and there are dozens of sites! – is putting the pressure on. Several months
ago, I reluctantly entered the Facebook era, but have largely been inactive
except for an occasional brief look or note. When
Sam Korff just got back
from a National Executive Council meeting in
Head’s up – the Washougal
Start Point at Papa’s Ice Cream has decided to close on Sundays during the
winter. A note is on the AWW website, at AVA headquarters, and on the walk
details at the AVA website. It should change again sometime in early spring. In
the meantime, it’s a good idea to call ahead if possible anytime there’s some
doubt of a walk event’s status, or a possibility a start point might have
changed.
Few people have picked up
on the fact that each year, our YREs formally end on December 30, to give our
monitors one day’s flexibility to change the stamps and tidy things up. Phyllis
Clancy took this a giant step further at the end of December – taking the whole
box home, relabeling the folders and send the entire box through the
dishwasher! Now THAT’s going above and beyond the Call of Duty! J
Thanks for your extra efforts, Phyllis!
THE PEDESTRIAN CODE OF CONDUCT
The rules about which side
of the road people drive on are clear, but there are also “rules” that govern
how pedestrians behave in relation to each other. These pedestrian rules are
not usually codified in law but form a sort of “standard practice’ which many
people are not even consciously aware of until they travel to a country with a
different standard practice and end up bumping into the locals.
Keep left:
·
People
in
·
There
is a vague tendency to keep left in
·
In
Keep right:
·
Keeping
right is the normal practice in the
·
·
Pedestrians
in
No preference:
The
This doesn’t mean that the
British bump into each other. They don’t tend to use single-file traffic, but
they still manage to negotiate their way effectively using body language, eye
contact, and other cues to signal their intentions and notice others’ intentions.
Reprinted from Walker’s Pocket Companion, Malcolm Tait,
Pavilion Books,
From Norman Haller of the Ospreys: 24 Clever Ideas to Make Life Easier
Rubbing a walnut
over scratches in your furniture
will disguise dings and scrapes.
To be continued---
Next
Meeting: Feb 14 -
Sections
that rarely change are also at this link: AWW Challenge information, AWW
Challenge results, list of officers/valued associates, and Weekend Walking
description.
Upcoming Club
Event/Weekend/Wednesday Walk Calendar:
March 25 - Pinebrook/Cascade Park
May 26 -
July 21 - Camas History
October 27 - Cedar Creek Grist Mill
Group Walks: Wednesday Walks – 10am
http://home.comcast.net/~titone7604/Wed/wed.htm
2/1
2/8
Wilsonville YRE 755
2/15
2/22
Weekend
Walking – 10am
http://home.comcast.net/~titone7604/weekend/weekend.htm
2/25 Wilsonville (new walk)
2/26 Sherwood
NORTHWEST REGION'S CALENDAR OF EVENTS –
Feb 4 Wk Columbia River
Feb 4-5 Wk
Four Plus cancelled Eatonville
253-531-2796
Feb 11 Wk
Columbia River
Feb 11 Wk
Daffodil Valley Volks Bonney
Feb 11 GW
Feb 25 Wk
Interlaken Trailblazers Woodinville 253-813-1776
Feb 26 Wk
Mar 17 Wk
Cedar Milers
Mar 17-18
Wk Mac Trackers Amity 503-472-0254
Mar 24 Wk
Kitsap Volks Bainbridge
Mar 25 Wk
All Weather Walkers
Mar 31 Wk Over-the-Hill
Gang DuPont-Company Town 253-875-3064
Mar 31 Wk
Over-the-Hill Gang DuPont – Views of Northwest Landing
253-875-3064
Mar 31 Wk
Sherwood Merrywalkers Sherwood 503-805-5912
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February Birthdays: Connors, Liz Jan 5 (sorry) Breneman, Jan Feb 9 Bowen, Earl Feb 27 |
Achievements: please contact the editor with event and distance
milestones none reported |
Welcome to
new members: Diane & Dan Nielsen