Volkssport
Club of West Point e-NEWS
May 2006
Welcome to the May 2006
Edition of the Volkssport Club of West Point newsletter!
We organize our letter with club information first, other walking information
second, then a Calendar of Events.
- Next Group Walk - Sun
5/7 (This weekend!!!)
- Hyde
Park - See
calendar below!
- Next Event - Sunday, 5/21 – Mills Norrie State Park Event - See calendar below!
- Thanks to the Renewals and New Members in 2006!
Recently, we’ve received
renewals and membership dues from the following: The Koziols
(John & Karen & Alice), Dotty Homan, Joan Vorbach,
Susan Lynch, and Linda Kinney. If you mailed your
dues recently, we’ll acknowledge you in our next letter.
And thanks for supporting the club!
We will be mailing out membership cards to all shortly!
- June 11th New York City Group Walk -
Keep that calendar date held! Sometime in early June, we'll send out
more information about attending our Group Walk with the Princeton club (PAWS) and Liberty Bell Wanderers of
the Lower Manhattan YRE. We plan to start on 42nd Street near Bryant Park in late morning, do the walk,
and then meet up (if you'd like) at a local watering hold afterwards for
some cross-club social action! See the writeup
below for some details. So watch your email box for the specific
details on when and how to meet on Sunday, 11 June.
- Constitutional Change -
Our club needs to make three changes to the constitution.
One is to allow us to have multiple bank accounts. As it stands now,
we can only have money in one account. Unfortunately, that is
a non-interest bearing checking account (we don't pay any fees for this,
however). We would like to have the ability to put some of our
excess funds into a Certificate Account for interest bearing
purposes. We also would like to put a clause in that states
that not only the Treasurer has signatory power, but also one of the other
officers in case the
Treasurer becomes unavailable or unreachable for some reason.
The second change is to make the fiscal year match the AVA Fiscal year
(Legal requirement as we are using the AVA's
501(c)(3) umbrella account for non-profit
status. That change is from 1 July through 30 June instead of
the calendar year January-December.
Finally, we would like to change the membership year from it's current calendar year specification to a 12-month
renewal year which we've been using for some time now.
Below are the old and text proposed paragraph changes. Our club's
constitution states the changes can be made by a 2/3 vote of the
membership at either a special or regular meeting ;
thus, we plan to have this vote on the 6/25 club meeting ahead of the
Highland Falls Group Walk. All members are invited to participate in
the vote at the meeting if you can attend!
Current Wording in Article IX (Finances), Section 5:
Section 5. The organization shall have one fund, the Club General
(Operating) fund. Source of funds will be dues and other monies raised within the membership, as well as residue from
approved club activities after expenses.
Section 7. The organization's fiscal and membership year shall run the
calendar year.
Proposed Changes:
Section 5. The finances of the organization shall be banked in the name of
the organization and the signatories to the account shall be the Treasurer
together with any one of the President,
First or Second Vice President, or Secretary. Source of funds will be dues
and other monies raised within the membership,
as well as residue from approved club activities after expenses.
Section 7. The organization's fiscal year shall run from July 1st to June
30th to coincide with the American Volkssport Association's fiscal
year. The club's membership year shall run on a twelve
(12) month renewal basis.
- Re-scheduled Highland Falls
Walk for June -
Due to the snowstorm we had on
our regularly scheduled Group Walk in February that 'snowed out' Highland
Falls, we
RESCHEDULED Highland Falls Group YRE on Sunday, June 25th (see the
calendar below). As you know, you can get 'event' AVA
credit for doing a walk twice each calendar year, once in the first half,
once in the second half.
- Craftsbury VT Weekend (Oct 7 and 8) Walk Information -
We pass along some information about the Craftsbury
VT weekend event (Oct 7 and 8, see below for details) that our good
friend Charlotte Philips of Vermont writes to say:
Come to Vermont, enjoy the fall colors and have a wonderful Columbus Day walking
in Vermont. The dates of the walks are October 7 and 8th, the locations are Craftsbury
Common and Hardwick--two towns about fifteen miles apart. The dates may
seem very distant, but for the months involved it may be too late to get
decent lodging. However, can we offer you and your fellow walkers a deal. Rooms at the Craftsbury Common Outdoor Center. They are
used to groups like ours. They have hosted many Elderhostels,
Appalachian Mountain Club groups which go cross-country skiing during the
day, and the like. Lodging is simple and comfortable, in rooms of what
used to be a boarding school. Prices include meals, eaten self-serve
buffet style. Meals are wholesome, often something such as lasagna, and vegetarian options are
offered. Price per person comes to around $78, based on double
occupancy. We would get a small discount on this, probably 10%.
Web site is
www.craftsbury.com for those who wish to take a look. We
recently checked some of the few motels in the area and found they
were already pretty well booked for this
week-end--mainly by bus trips.
For those of you planning to attend and would like a local reservation, you
can get ahold of Cindy Gray to reserve a good room at
the Craftsbury
Outdoor Center: She only needs 10 people. So, if you're
interested in sending her an official deposit for the October 7 &
8 walks, here's the info: Rates are around $75 per person,
including three meals. She will arrange bag
lunches for Saturday, since most people will be going to Hardwick.
o
I need the
following from those who want to stay at Craftsbury Outdoor Center
o
$30 deposit
o
Contact
info: name, mailing address, email, phone
o
Friday,
Saturday, or both nights.
.
o
Cindy Gray
P.O. Box 34
Waterbury Center, VT 05677
Her
phone number is 802-244-6265.
Information about both the Hardwick walk and Craftsbury
walks from the AVA site are:
10/7/2006 - 10/7/2006 - Walk
Event Number : 74205 10 km
Start :
Hazen Union High School
Event City: Hardwick
Host Club : Twin State Volkssport Assn.
Event Website: www.geocities.com/cpwalkvt2000/06hardwick.html
More Details: Click here for directions, ratings, etc.
Write
for more information to:
2977
Route 122
Sheffield, VT 05866
Contact : Ellie
Dole & Marsha Gray, (802) 626 - 8398
E-Mail:elliedole@charter.net
Club Website: www.geocities.com/cpwalkvt2000/
10/8/2006 - 10/8/2006 - Walk
Event Number : 74206 10 km
Start :
Craftsbury
Common Town
Green
Event City: Craftsbury
Host Club : Twin State Volkssport Assn.
Event Website: www.geocities.com/cpwalkvt2000/06craftsbury.html
More Details: Click here for directions, ratings, etc.
Write
for more information to:
PO Box 34
Waterbury Center, VT 05677
Contact : Cynthia
Gray, (802) 244 - 6265
E-Mail:crwgray@adelphia.net
Club Website: www.geocities.com/cpwalkvt2000/
These below are 'confirmed' times and dates!
We are sometime
asked what a 'Group Walk' (as opposed to a Year Round Event (YRE) or
Event) is - We credit our sister club in Albany, the ESCV (EMPIRE STATE
CAPITAL VOLKSSPORTERS) for the following definition of GROUP walks: "Group
Walk means all meet and signup
together at the same time,
get a map and start together, then you proceed at your
own pace. There are NO GUIDES for this kind of walk.. Nor does a group have to stay together. "; so
when you see this term in our calendar below, you'll now know what it
means! We usually have fast walkers, slow walkers, and medium
walkers, there's
almost always someone you can walk with if you join us for your first
time in a GROUP WALK!
Changes from the previous month in RED!
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Sun 5/7 - Hyde Park:
Club Group Walk
on Sunday, 7 May 2006.
Our usual
breakfast meeting will be held at 9:00 AM at the Eveready Diner in Hyde Park. (540 Albany Post Rd, just north and across US Route 9 from
the FDR
Presidential Library) in Hyde Park.
All are
welcomed to the breakfast and meeting!
Registration at
10:15 AM at the Eveready Diner as well. Walking at 10:30 AM.
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Sunday, 5/21 –
Mills Norrie State Park Event
5/21/2006 - 5/21/2006 - Walk
Event Number
: 74516
10 KM
Start : Mills
- Norrie State Park
Event City:
Staatsburg
Host Club
: Volkssport
Club of West
Point
Event Website:
More Details: Click here for
directions, ratings, etc.
Write for more
information to:
14 Hankin
Loop
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Contact
: Joan Kimmel, (845) 462 - 6845
E-Mail:jvkimmel@optonline.net
Club Website: www.ava.org/clubs/WestPoint
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Sunday 6/11 - New York City (Group Walk co-coordinated with the Princeton Area
Walkers)
The Group Walk has been
determined to the "Lower Manhattan”. We will meet
at Bryant Park - just across the street from the New Balance Store on 42nd and
6th (a hop, skip, and a Jump from Grand Central) about 11:15 – 11:30 AM.
Maureen Penta of Princeton writes in her newsletter after meeting in Bryant Park “We will then take the train (subway)
to the start point in Lower Manhattan. It is a great walk along the river with views
of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island as well as many other significant landmarks in the
financial district.
We ask Liberty Bell
Wanderers and all walkers
to join us on this walk. Please stop at funky
"Jeremy's" along the route (you won't believe Charlie Kaiser's favorite place) and/or plan on
meeting at any of the many restaurants at South Street Seaport for
lunch. The restaurants are on the left as we pass the Titanic Checkpoint
- we won't miss each other, believe me. Lunch may be inside or out
and I am sure we will all hook up and see each other there.”
This sounds like a super multi-club event!
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Sunday 6/25 – Highland Falls:
Club Group Walk on Sunday, 25 June
2006. Our usual breakfast meeting will be held
at 9 AM at
the PARK Restaurant, 451 Main
Street, in the Village of Highland Falls. All are welcomed to the breakfast and
meeting! Registration at 10:15 AM at the West Point
Visitor’s Center, walking at 10:30 AM. Additional Info: College Campus,
Revolutionary War Site, US Presidents, Riverwalk
America
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These events below are subject to change; planning
dates only for now. We will get the details nailed down as we go
through event sanctioning with the AVA:
For planning purposes, here's the current TENTATIVE
Rest of 2006 Calendar:
These events are tentative
at the point in 2006 - hold the dates, and we'll issue confirmations in our
newsletters as we get AVA sanction confirmations and firm up details - as
always, you'll send them confirmed in our monthly newsletters:
1. Sept.17 – Sunday – Cold Spring Event
- Additional info: Hudson Valley Ramble
2. Sept 10 - Sunday - Nyack
Event Additional info: Nyack Festival
3. Oct 15 - Sunday - West Point Event
Additional info: Oktoberfest - Food provided by MWR (Morale, Welfare,
Recreation), West Point
4. Nov 12 - Sunday - New Paltz
Additional info: College walk
“See you on the trail!”
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- Joan, Nancy, Farrell, and Andrew
Volkssport Club of West Point
http://www.ava.org/clubs/WestPoint/
VolkssportClubofWestPoint@hotmail.com