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 | Sacramento Walking Sticks P.O. Box 191834 Sacramento, CA 95819-7834 SacramentoWalkingSticks.org President Barbara Nuss Vice President Steve Hughart Secretary Gale Hughart Treasurer Myrna Jackson Newsletter Editor Gale Hughart gigiwalks@yahoo.com Next Walking Sticks Meeting: June 8, 2006 7:00 pm Mercy General Hospital 3941 J Street Sacramento, CA (Want to walk first? Meet at 5:00 in the hospital's Greenhouse Cafeteria for a 5k year round walk before the 7:00 pm meeting.)
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in helping, I need volunteers for the fair on May 25th as well as on June 3rd. Call or e-mail me your preference and I'll give you more details. Last but not least the Hot Walkin' Nights summer series is almost here. Clear your calendars for Wednesday nights starting June 7 thru August 30 and come join in the fun. We have so many fun walks coming up in the next month and the weather is perfect! not too hot and no more rain. I hope to see you on the trails and encourage you to share volkssporting with your friends, family, co-workers and neighbors. Let's see if we can get hundreds of folks out for our walks. Take care and keep in touch by phone or e- mail. Barbara | | |||||||||||
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 | Barbara Nuss for being elected President of the California Volkssporting Association! |  | | ||||||||||
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June 3 FW Sacramento - East 4 WW Fair Oaks (Workers Walk 6:00) 7 HWN Fair Oaks 10 FW/B Vacaville - South 14 HWN Natomas 17-19 RW Fallen Leaf Lakes 21 HWN Roseville (Sculpture Park) 24 RW Lodi 28 HWN Vacaville (Lagoon Valley) | | |||||||||
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 | Do you have any pictures and/or articles you would like to submit to the newsletter? Do you have any stories, jokes or facts you'd like to include? We'd love to hear from you. Please submit to: gigiwalks@yahoo.com or by mail to: Sacramento Walking Sticks, Editor, P.O. Box 191834, Sacramento, CA, 95819-7834 |  | | ||||||
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