HISTORIC PATHWALKERS SPRING NEWSLETTER
MARCH 2012

Everyone is talking about the weather! It seems we’ve jumped right over spring and into summer with these record setting temperatures.
Most of our seasonal walk boxes will be in place by April 1 with the rest following on May 1. Let’s hope the warm weather brings out lots of walkers this season. Our group walk schedule has been set up as follows based on member suggestions. The June walk will be followed by our annual business meeting.

March 31 10:00 Lansing Michigan Historical Museum
April 21 10:00 Holland Gazelle’s
May 12 9:30 Zeeland Community Hospital/Spectrum
June 16 9:30 Grand Rapids Big Boy Pearl St.
July 21 9:30 South Haven Kilwin’s

We have twelve sanctioned walks this year. The Holland and Grand Rapids walk routes have been changed partly due to construction issues and should also be more interesting to repeat walkers. Let’s hope there are some tulips left by the time we do our Holland walk!
We’re introducing a new award for both the Holland and Lansing walks this year. The patches have run out so we’re changing to a high quality die cut soft enamel pin. They look great!

Information on our walks can be found at www.ava.org/pathwalkers or our blog http://historicpathwalkers.blogspot.com/ . We can also be found on Facebook, just look for Historic Pathwalkers.
Overall participation in AVA walks is declining but walking continues to be the most favorite form of exercise as shown in an AARP poll recently. Our club has New Walker packets available for sale and can be obtained by contacting any one of our officers.

Pres: Jean Woltjer jean.woltjer@att.net 616-392-2844
V.P. Pat Korloch pk55@juno.com 517-882-1495
Sec. John Pierce jwpierce53@gmail.com 616-527-2413
Treas. Alma Lucas ajlucas@charter.net 616-662-2359

Hope to see many of you on our walks.