Special Programs |
| Special Programs are offered as special incentives to get everyone out and active. When you sign up for a Special Program, you will receive a book, much like an event or distance book, in which you record the qualifying events. Use the links below to get all the specific information for each program. If you know of a Special Program that should be listed, please email the webmaster here. Thanks. |
| Sacramento Walking Sticks Programs | ||
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| Name | Award | Description |
| Sticks Walk Stick's Walks |  |
This program is for Sacramento Walking Sticks Members Only! Cost: $0 for members who walk for credit. Participate for credit in 10 Sacramento Walking Sticks events and you will receive a "Stick's Buck" (a $3 coupon good for paying credit for any Sacramento Walking Sticks event). Get yours at our next event or Membership Meeting. You're not a member and want in on the fun? Print and complete the Membership Application form from our Membership page. Want to start walking for credit? Go to our Incentive Program page. Runs indefinitely. |
| Doggie Do Walks Email: Request Pin and Book |
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This program is for Sacramento Walking Sticks Members Only! Cost: $0 for members who walk for credit. Track your doggie's walks. There is space for 30 walks. Use the email link to the left to request your doggie's book and pin. Be sure to let us know what his/her name is so we can get the pin right! You're not a member and want in on the fun? Print and complete the Membership Application form from our Membership page. Want to start walking for credit? Go to our Incentive Program page. Runs indefinitely. |
| California Programs | ||
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| Link | Award | Description |
| Forty Niner Miner |  |
Discover the diversity, heritage, and beauty of CALIFORNIA. Become a 'PROSPECTOR' and walk in the original 27 counties that made up California when it became a state. Become a 'FORTY-NINER' after walking 49 of the counties of California, OR become a 'GOLD BARON' after walking in all 58 counties. An event may be used once per book. The goal is to walk an event in each of the counties of Californiauntil you obtain the level you desire. A distinctive patch will be available for each level of accomplishment. The program costs $10 which includes a record book, certificate of accomplishment, and one patch. If you wish to obtain a set of all three patches they will be available for $5 each beyond the original patch which comes with enrollment. Each patch will become available as you complete each level. To order the record book send your name, address, and a ten dollar check to the SONOMA STOMPERS, P.O.Box 6838, Santa Rosa, CA 95406 Runs until 12/31/2015. |
| Cities In Song |  |
The objective is to visit cities made famous in song and earn AVA credit! The program costs $10 which includes a record book, certificate of accomplishment, and one patch. To order the record book send your name, address, and a ten dollar check to the SONOMA STOMPERS, P.O.Box 6838, Santa Rosa, CA 95406. For more information, please contact Marilyn Nasi at 707.539.8083 or Don Deal at 707.762.4148. Runs until 12/31/2015. |
| California Missions Program |  |
Walk over, under, around or through 15 of the 21 California Missions (on sanctioned Year Round Events [YREs] or Event Walks, of course) and receive a beautiful patch and certificate - along with some great history lessons! In addition to being a great program for individual walkers, the Missions Program provides an opportunity for clubs to get more involved in the history of their community. All clubs in California are encouraged to sanction a walk that includes their local California Mission. For more information, contact Holly Pelking at ilex56@yahoo.com. Runs until 12/31/2014. |
| Out of State Club Programs | ||
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| Link | Award | Description |
| Birds & Beasts |  |
This challenge requires you to walk in a town or by a named geographical site on the walk route that contains the name of a bird or a beast (insects and fish also count!). Twenty-four (24) events required. Examples of cities would be Troutdale, OR; Eagle Point, OR; Swansboro, NC; Beavercreek, OH; Lone Wolf, OK. Examples of named geographic sites are Donkey Creek Park (Gig Harbor, WA), Blackbird Island (Leavenworth, WA), Iron Horse Trail (North Bend, WA), Eagle Creek Park (Indianapolis, IN) Named sites include lakes, parks, ponds, mountains, rivers, etc. If an event passes by two qualifying geographical sites, you may imprint the stamp twice in the book (once for each site) if you walk the event twice. For example, the Cannon Beach year round event passes by Whale Park and Elk Park. So you could walk Cannon Beach event twice and stamp your Birds and Beasts book twice, once for each qualifying location. To participate in this challenge, obtain a record book by sending a check for $10 payable to the Turnaround Trekkers at this address: Turnaround Trekkers Volkssport Club, Attn: Birds & Beasts Challenge, P. O. Box 222, Hammond, OR 97121-0222. For questions or more information contact Debbie Brown @ 503-325-3863 or debbra.brown@gmail.com or Arline LaMear @ 503-338-6883 or cliffandarline@msn.com Only 200 books will be sold. Runs indefinitely |
| COW Challenge |  |
Walkers participate by walking 24 different year-round, seasonal or regular AVA sanctioned events, eight in each of the three states to earn a COW patch. To participate in this challenge, obtain a record book by sending a check for $10 payable to the Turnaround Trekkers at this address: Turnaround Trekkers Volkssport Club, Attn: COW Challenge, P. O. Box 222, Hammond, OR 97121-0222. For questions or more information contact Debbie Brown @ 503-325-3863 or debbra.brown@gmail.com Books sold until 12/31/2012 |
| The World's Murals |  |
Any AVA or IVV sanctioned event that passes by a mural qualifies for this challenge. Thirty (30) events are required to complete the challenge. The Turnaround Trekkers Volkssport Club invites you to discover the world of murals as you earn volkswalk credit. To participate in this fun program and earn your Mural award patch, you must purchase a Mural record book. Send a check for $10 payable to Turnaround Trekkers to: Turnaround Trekkers Volkssport Club, Attn: MURAL Challenge, PO Box 222, Hammond, OR 97121-0222. For questions or more information, contact: Debbie Brown, 503.325.3863 email: debbra.brown@gmail.com Arline LaMear, 503.338.6883 email: cliffandarline@msn.com Runs until 12/31/2013. |
| Worldwide Bakeries |  |
Purchase a book for $10.00 and send completed books to Longview Border Crossers, 74890 Palm Creek Rd, Clatskanie, OR 97016. You'll receive a book with 25 slots to fill with an AVA stamp. Any sanctioned event worldwide that meets the criteria (events must pass a bakery anywhere in the world) may be entered in the book. Bakeries inside a chain store such as Safeway do not count. The stamp can only be used once per calendar year. Participants receive a multi-colored patched as well as a certificate. Runs until 12/31/2013. |
| Worldwide Libraries |  |
Purchase a book for $10.00 and send completed books to Longview Border Crossers, 74890 Palm Creek Rd, Clatskanie, OR 97016. You'll receive a book with 25 slots to fill with an AVA stamp. Any sanctioned event worldwide may be entered. Events must pass a library, doesn't matter whether it's a main library or a branch. The stamp can only be used once per calendar year. Participants receive a multi-colored patched as well as a certificate. Runs until 12/31/2012. |
| American Volkssport Association Programs | ||
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| Link | Award | Description |
| 50 States/51 Capitols |  |
Walk our land and achieve the goal of walking in each state and/or each state capital.
Special record books now available to chart your progress towards this goal. Runs indefinitely. |
| Walking America, A to Z |  |
Walk 26 cities - A to Z. For example walk in Albany for A, Zanesville for Z, etc. The program will continue indefinitely as long as there is interest. Mail payment of $8 to purchase an event book. Once you have completed the event book you qualify to receive a beautiful patch. Note: X is a wildcard and can be a walk at any event that is not already marked for the program. Xenia, OH is still an option. Make a copy of your book prior to mailing the original to AVA Headquarters, Attn: A-Z Program, 1001 Pat Booker Road, Suite 101, Universal City, TX 78148-4147. Direct questions to karen@ava.org Runs indefinitely. |
| Special National Officer Book |  |
Collect the special stamps from Regional Directors, National Officers and the AVA Executive Director at sanctioned events. Only stamps with the special center slug denoting the NEC member at the event qualifies. To purchase a book send $10.00 per book to AVA Special National Officer Book, 1001 Pat Booker Rd, Suite 101, Universal City, Texas 78148 or email karen@ava.org You may also purchase one from your AVA Regional Director or other National Officer. Runs indefinitely. |
| Youth Program - AVA Master Program |  |
Team up and walk with a child or youth and your team will earn a special award. Runs indefinitely. |
| Youth Program - Girl Scouts |  |
Find out more about the collaboration between the AVA and the Girl Scouts of the USA. Runs yearly. |
| Email: America's Bakeries | Picture not yet available | Walk 20 AVA sanctioned Volksmarches that pass a family-owned bakery to earn the Bakery patch. Any sanctioned AVA event that includes a family-owned bakery and whose walk route goes by the bakery will qualify for the Bakeries program. Chains such as Krispy Kreme or Panera Bread, for example, do not qualify nor do pizza restaurants. Books cost $10. Order from GVA, PO Box 7674, Fredericksburg, VA 22404-7674. Contact Kay Collie at sydnakay@yahoo.com Runs until 12/31/2014. |
| Celebrating Golden Cinemas |  |
Any sanctioned AVA event in the U.S. that passes a building that currently or historically served as a classic movie theater, defined as being built more than 50 years ago, qualifies. Use an event stamp once per calendar year. Not retroactive. Book costs $10. Direct questions to kitsapwalks@hotmail.com POC Stephanie Pollard, PO Box 981, Suquamish, WA 98392. Make checks payable to Kitsap Volkssporters Runs until 12/31/2014. |
| Email: Classic American Diners |  |
20 walks fill the book. The book is $10, and will be available in December of 2011. Historically, a small restaurant owner had a prefab dining car type diner shipped to a site, set up, and went into business. Generally, if it calls itself a "diner" it qualifies. Restaurants without the word "diner" qualify if they are in a traditional diner building, OR serve diner style. Closed diners qualify. Old dining car style diners now used for something else also qualify. What doesn't qualify? Fast food chains, coffee shops, and donut shops are not diners. We will maintain a website with more information, and a Facebook page. The name and location of the diner is the only identification required. Award is a beautiful color patch. Send your check payable to "Twin State Volkssport" to Carolyn Adams, P. O. Box 757, Wells River VT, 05081. Information available at carri@vtlink.net Runs until 12/31/2014. |
| Strolling Somewhere Over the Rainbow |  |
Complete 20 different sanctioned events where the route is located in or in sight of a color-named place anywhere in the world: any city, county, country, area (like Black Hills), place (like Yellowstone Park), state (like Nevada - known as "The Silver State"), rivers or any body of water, or mountains with the name of a color in it. Names for any and all shades of colors also qualify. Award is a patch and certificate. Cost is $10. POC: Lois Head, Central Minnesota Volkssports, PO Box 2162, St. Cloud, MN 56302-2162. Info: 320-252-7348 or LMHead@StCloudState.edu Runs until 12/31/2014. |
| Struttin' Down Main Street |  |
Complete 20 different sanctioned events where the route goes for at least one block on the main street of any town in the world. An event counts if, in any language, the word for "main" is in the name of the street, avenue, boulevard, lane, court, circle, row, etc. Participants will be awarded a "Strike up the Band" parade patch and whistle certificate. Books can be ordered now but they will be sent starting on December 10, 2011. Cost is $10. POC: Lois Head, Central Minnesota Volkssports, PO Box 2162, St. Cloud, MN 56302-2162. Info: 320-252-7348 or LMHead@StCloudState.edu Runs until 12/31/2014. |
| Email: Walking America's Murals |  |
Walk 20 qualifying events. A qualifying event is any sanctioned walk that passes a mural of at least 8' x 8' depicting any historical, cultural or local happening on a painted stationary wall or building. Award is a 3" x 4" patch. Books are $10 each: make checks payable to Illinois Trekkers. Send to Walking America's Murals, c/o Debbie Kruep, 220 Clearwater Drive, Belleville, Illinois 62220. For those ordering books before January 2012, the books will be sent out in December. Contact debmarkkruep@yahoo.com Runs until 12/31/2014. |
| Works Progress Administration |  |
Walk 20 YREs or scheduled events that pass anything to do with the WPA: art in a post office, dams, bridges, buildings, park entrances, swimming pools and even sidewalks. The program costs $10. Contact Sharon Snyder at walkingfan@aol.com or Suzi Bentley at schocksinews@aol.com. POC: Sharon Snyder, Holy Family Walkers Volksmarch Club, 1714 NW 49th St., Lawton, OK 73505. Runs until 12/31/2014. |
| America's Baseball Walks |  |
Participate in 18 different sanctioned events that go by a baseball diamond or stadium used by an Olympic, college, major league or minor league baseball team in the United States or Canada. Walks also qualify if they pass by a baseball related museum, statue, memorial, historical or grave marker or other site. Little League fields and diamonds in public parks do not count for the program. Advertising or retail establishments, such as billboards or sports merchandise stores also do not qualify. Complete 18 events to be an All Star Player. There must be 18 different events, but not necessarily 18 different baseball qualifiers. Send $10, made out to FLRVC for booklet to: Colleen Hailey, 413 Rayelene Drive, Vestal, NY 13850. Point of Contact: Colleen at chailey@binghamton.edu. Runs until 12/31/2013. |
| Carnegie Libraries |  |
To qualify for the 4"x4" rectangular 100% embroidered patch you must walk 20 YREs or scheduled events that pass a Carnegie Library. All Carnegie Libraries will be accepted in the US and Canada even though they could be vacant, used for offices, privately owned, etc. Use the website link to the left for a complete list of rules. Check the list of US Carnegie Libraries on the club website and Wikipedia Lists for locations of Carnegie Libraries. There are over 1400 Carnegie Libraries in the US and 156 in Canada. The cost of the program is $10. Please send check payable to Holy Family Walkers to 1714 NW 49th Street, Lawton, OK 73505-3241. POCs are Debra Leffler, (580)355-6949, debra6949@sbcglobal.net and Sharon and George Snyder (580)357-2930, walkingfan@aol.com. Runs until 12/31/2013. |
| Email: Grist Mills |
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Participate in 12 events that pass by a grist mill. Ruins may be counted only if a historic plaque is displayed at the site. The award is a fully colored 2" x 3" Lucite magnet showing a grist mill. Cost is $10.00. Checks payable to Susquehanna Rovers Volksmarch Club. Order and return completed books to Edna Little, 2 Cramer Drive, Newport, PA 17074. Point of Contact email thistle4@embarqmail.com Runs until 12/31/2013. |
| Email: Walking America's Trails |  |
Events located along American trails, as listed at www.americantrails.org. Qualifications: Participate in 14 different AVA events whose route is at least 50 percent located along a trail listed at the American Trails website. Besides walking, bicycle, snow shoe, cross-country skiing and boating events where at least 50% of the event route is located along a listed trail also qualify. A complete list of rules is in the AVA approved special event book. Send $10 to Volkssport USA, 591 Birch Street, Oak Harbor, WA 98277. For more information contact 1worldwalker@earthlink.net. Runs until 12/31/2013. |
| Forts of the United States |  |
The Tulsa Walking Club is sponsoring a new Special Event Program based upon the theme of Forts of the United States. Qualifying walks would take place in towns or state parks with "fort" in the name, military installations with "fort" in the name, walk by an actual fort or by a marker where one has been. To earn a patch, a walker must complete 25 qualifying year-around or regular event walks, which go through, pass by, or go around the qualifying entity. Upon completion, a full-color embroidered patch will be issued. Send check in the amount of ten dollars $10 made payable to TWC-Forts to the POC: Teresa Arnold, 1001 E. Tacoma Street, Broken Arrow, OK 74012. Phone 918-355-5820 Email arnoldtea@hotmail.com Runs until 12/31/2012. |
| Hillside Letters |  |
Giant capital letters adorn the hillsides near many towns and cities in the mid-west & western US States. There are about 400 such communities where the letters exist. Criteria is a sanctioned event that goes as close as possible or within sight of an authentic "Hillside Letter". Program cost is $10. Point of Contact: Beth Hendricks, The Black Hills Volkssport Association, 1031 Park Hill Drive, Rapid City, SD 57701. Email walkusa@rushmore.com Runs until 12/31/2012. |
| Honoring Law Enforcement |  |
Qualification are to walk in 24 events that passes a building historically or currently functioning as a city, county, sate or federal jail or prison or which houses a law enforcement body such as City Police, Sheriff, State Patrol, Texas Rangers, Border Patrol, etc. would qualify. Cost of program is $10. Point of Contact: Carol Grassman, 7701 Broadleaf Ct., Bremerton, WA 98311. Make check payable to "Kitsap Volkssporters", email grandmac15@aol.com Runs until 12/31/2012. |