November 2011
CAPITOL VOLKSSPORT CLUB MEETING MINUTES
The meeting was called to order by President Susan Berry at 7 pm. There were 23 members present. Everyone introduced themselves and talked about walks they had recently done. 

Jim, Vice President, praised our box tenders for their hard work. He stressed the importance of their task for walkers who are not familiar with the area. He also said he needed the ratings for our two new seasonal walks. These walks are Griffith Priday and Montesano. Karen, membership, said that she will welcome emails from anyone interested in joining our club. Perki, publicity, said that several newspapers are running articles about our walks and about the 
Christmas walk. 
Bonnie, ESVA Secretary, had many things to tell us. First of all the ESVA Webmaster, Nancy Wittenberg, would like pictures of people walking as these are good for advertising events. As usual there was much discussion at the monthly ESVA meeting about the Pathfinder. It is still losing money so the following steps will be taken.

1.	Starting with the Jan-Feb 2012 issue, the number of PR copies for the Executive committee will be reduced from 100 to 25.
2.	Clubs still receive 25/event for use with the New Walker packets and for PR.  If any club needs fewer than 25 let Diane Wagner know at the time you return the proof for the event ad to Eleanor Borgardts. 
3.	Motion to form committee to explore the idea of associate membership within ESVA. Annual dues would be $12.00 and would include the NorthWest Pathfinder as the newsletter. Members would be non-voting. The reason for this will be to eliminate the collection of WA sales tax, which is an accounting nightmare. This will require a change to the by-laws at the Annual meeting.
CHALLENGES:
2012---Parks:   city, county, state and federal.
2013---WA State Parks Centennial; only 100 books sold, each featuring 10 walks.
	Walkers would walk one time in each of the 7 geographical areas and 3 walks
of their choice.  
STARTING POINT: 2012 will be broken into regions. There is lower demand for printed copies.
Future ideas―Pre-ordered only and fewer print copies; perhaps E-books or print on demand.
ESVA needs a new President and Treasurer, if anyone is interested let Bonnie know.
The Northwest Regional Conference will be held in Auburn on August 15th through the 18th.
The registration packets will come out in January.
OLD BUSINESS
Starting Points will be here by Christmas. 

The annual Christmas walk is on December 10th.  The start time is 3pm to 6pm and finish by 9pm.  The start point is the Tourism and Information center on Capitol Way and 14th Street.  A signup sheet was passed around for members who want to help out. We also need cookies for the event.

The Christmas Party will be at Susan and Lloyd’s home at 4806 26th Ave SE in Lacey. 
It will be a potluck and BYOB. This will be at 6 pm on Tuesday 13th December.

The Thursday walks are very successful with many participants. Jeanne and Lesley have
also started Monday afternoon walks. These are especially good for working people who
sometimes have Mondays off or leave work early on Mondays. For November they start
at 3 pm and in December they will probably start at 2 pm. We walk for two hours.
Everyone is welcome and they all start at Bayview.

There are also group walks to events on many Saturday mornings. Meet at the Martin Way
Park and ride at 9 am to carpool.

NEW BUSINESS

On December 6th Elizabeth will give a presentation to the Tumwater City Council about
our club. Susan gave away two old CB radios. She also had several old pins that we may
hand out to children at the Christmas walk.

Following the meeting we were treated to a slide show by Linda Polzin and family about
their walk on the Highland Way in Scotland.

Submitted by,

Lesley Willardson (Secretary)