February 12th 2013
CAPITOL VOLKSSPORT CLUB MEETING MINUTES
The meeting was called to order by President Susan Berry at 7 pm. There were 26 members and guests present.

Elizabeth Mooney presented a slide show of her recent trekking trip to New Zealand.

OLD BUSINESS

120 people have signed up for dinner on Saturday night at Seabreeze.

NEW BUSINESS

On Memorial Day weekend the Northwest Trekkers will be having an event called TRIANGLE OF FIRE.  There will be walks in Fort Worden, Fort Flagler and Fort Casey. For further information check the ESVA Website.

There will be an article in The Wanderer in April about our Anderson Island walk. Also an employee of the Pierce County Ferry System is planning to write an article about it.

New challenges for 2013 are State Parks and 39 counties.

Nancy Wittenberg from the Daffodils is running a meetup group that can be located at WWW.Meetup.com/South-Soundwalkers  we can post events on it also. For more information contact Bob Morrison.

The AVA convention will be in Orlando, Florida April 29th to May 4th. Sheila Morrison will be our delegate.

California is testing an online start box.

AVA is changing their record books.

We need a trailmaster for the 2013 Christmas walk on December 7th. Sheila Morrison and Linda Polzin agreed to help.

On July 14th we will be having an event in McCleary in conjunction with the Bear Festival. We are still in the planning process but we do have a start point and we expect everything to be approved.

IVV is decentralizing. We voted that Sheila will say yes on a plan for AVA to join up with Canada and Brazil to form IVV Americas.

Next month there will be a survey to see if we should meet every month or every other month.

We need a new meeting place; the venues suggested are:

Cheers in Lacey
River’s Edge in Tumwater,
Lemon Grass in Lacey
Pellegrino’s in Tumwater.

Bob explained the Centurion program. You must walk 100 walks in a calendar year, they can be 10K Or 5K. In order to enter this program you must join AVA for a fee of $25 a year; you will then receive a copy of The Wanderer. Then the other fee is $25.

Pat Harmon, Liz Morrison and Bob Morrison agreed to be on the nominating committee for new officers

The next meeting will be on the second Tuesday in April at Apollo’s.
The meeting adjourned at 8 55 pm.

Submitted by,

Lesley Willardson (Acting Secretary)