October 17, 2010
            CAPITOL VOLKSSPORT CLUB MEETING MINUTES

The meeting was called to order by President Sue Cook at 7 pm.
twelve members were present. Sue asked everyone to tell which
walk they were most looking forward too.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Congratulations to Walt and Lynda Curtis who have completed
100 events and to Bob Morrison who has completed 450 events.
Walt and Lynda have also completed 1000K. Linda Polzin has
finished 500K. and Sheila Morrison 5,500K. 

Perki Sweet, our publicity chair, presented an article in the
Chronicle which resulted in five extra people going on our
Winlock walk.

Kudos to Bonnie for her excellent article about the Whidbey
Island walks and many thanks to Harry for his super article
about walking in Victoria.

The September minutes were approved as written and the
Treasurer’s report was passed around.

According to Sam Korff in his Sam Gram #18 the new
strategic directions are:

1.	Standardizing policy through effective governance
2.	Gaining recognition through marketing and collaborative
Partnerships.
3.	Reformulating leadership and internal communications.

It was also decided at the Albany meeting that we can now
use distance every time we walk.

TRAIN TRIP:

Sheila talked about the train trip that several members took
on October 3rd ten people left from Olympia and three
from Tacoma. They walked 4k. then had lunch. Some
participants looked at the Panama Hotel featured in the
book,” The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”.
others briefly checked out the Klondike museum, but 
time was limited. As they rode home on the train they
were treated to a glorious sunset.
CHRISTMAS WALK:

Bonnie is coming along with the Christmas walk and she 
showed us brochures. A sign up sheet for workers was passed
around. There will be more information on the walk at the 
November meeting.

SEABREEZE:

Sue showed us brochures for Sea breeze and they are ready 
to distribute. The dinner will be on Saturday night and open
to the first 60 people who sign up and pay. There will be no
tickets sold at the door. 

We will use Burma shave type signs on the Lion’s Club grounds.
Sue is looking for a large box, such as a refrigerator might come in,
to post messages and things like tide tables on. No information yet
on when we might have worker walks. We will have friendship
walks at 10 am every day and perhaps members can sign up to lead 
one of them.

NORTHWEST REGIONAL CONFERENCE:

Sheila has been checking out possible venues and most are much
too expensive. Perki suggested we check with St. Placid Priory.
the least expensive to date is the Phoenix Inn at $350 a day for a 
meeting room. The ESVA does need a motion by their October 22nd
meeting. Bonnie will tell them that so far everywhere is cost prohibitive 
and we may only be able to host the event if other clubs help out with 
the cost. In the meantime Bob and Sheila will continue to check
out more places.

OTHER ITEMS:

Perki suggested we make a donation to the Senior News since
they have run articles about us. Bonnie made a motion that we
donate $50 and Sheila seconded it, all agreed.

Karen has completed the new membership roster which she will 
be sending out by email. It will contain titles, addresses, cell phone
numbers and home phone numbers of all members who approved
sending this information out.

Effective in January the Friday morning walks will move to
Thursday morning as it is more convenient for most people. 
Linda will continue to plan these walks although she cannot
always lead them. Sheila will serve as back up. If anyone else
would like to lead the walks on occasion they are welcome.

The meeting adjourned at 8 pm. Because of time constraints Sue’s
presentation of how to work a walk will be done next time.

Respectfully Submitted by,

Lesley Willardson (Secretary)