December 2015/January 2016 - Sacramento Walking Sticks

Sacramento Walking Sticks
The No Sweat Gazette
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President’s Greeting
“For a new year to bring you something new, make a move,
Like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! make a move!” Mehmet Murat Ildan
Greetings Sticks Members,
The Sacramento Walking
Sticks Club continues to
change, evolve, and grow,
thanks to all of our members.
We keep trying out new concepts, and yet we continue to
keep our core consistent and
true. As an example, we’re
hosting our membership
meetings on the 2nd Thursday
of the month (consistent), but
we are changing up the location of the meetings (new) because your current President
(me) likes to move them
around town.
Don’t you love all the group
walking choices offered to you
every month? December is
filled with wonderful offerings
above and beyond our usual
Tues/Thurs/Fri morning and
Wed evening walks. The
Sticks have three different
Christmas lights night walks
that are crowd favorites every
year—the Fab 40’s, T Street,
and Old Sac’s Theater of
Lights. Everyone’s welcome to
join in, and we’ll be walking
rain or shine. It’s a perfect opportunity for all of us to invite
friends, family, and coworkers to join us and see
what we’re all about.
I’ll be sending out information
soon about our upcoming
New Year’s Eve and Day
events. Nancy Alex has designed new routes for both
days, so it’ll be fun to go exploring again. We’ll be hosting
our events again out of the
Pioneer
Congregational
Church, and we’ll continue to
offer a potluck dinner, breakfast, and lunch to all who
come to walk with us. If you
have any ideas or suggestions
to help make our event even
better or easier to facilitate,
please share them with us.
We have so much to be thankful for with our walking
club—it gives us all a great
opportunity to walk/bike ride
for better health, and it offers
friendship and emotional
wellness as well. It allows us
to travel and see the world
around us in new ways, and
our Book Club gives us a consistent list of new titles to enjoy and learn from. People pay
big bucks for this kind of wellbeing, and we get it virtually
for pennies. Thank you everyone who donates their free
time to make all this happen
so that we can all enjoy and
participate, whether as a
group or as individuals. We
are truly so much more than
just a walking club!
Keep in touch,
Barbara Nuss
916.283.4650
nussb@surewest.net
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Publicity
Newsletter
Barbara Nuss
Gail Samcoff
Judy Gregory
Steve Hughart
Barbara Nuss
Kris Ericson-Cano
Sacramento Walking Sticks • P.O. Box 277303 • Sacramento, California 95827
Sacramento Walking Sticks • The No Sweat Gazette
Changes to the Newsletter
Message from the Editor
W
elcome to our mini
transition newsletter.
John McLaughlin and I have
been working with you to produce the No Sweat Gazette on
a bimonthly schedule since
the August/September 2014
issue. We have always strived
to make the newsletter interesting and relevant to you,
trying out different features
like the “Roving Reporter”
questions in our earlier issues
and
the
more
recent
“Spotlight on AVA Friends” in
the last two issues. We have
no problems chucking a feature if it does not appear to
resonate with you, the club
members. We want to make
the newsletter something you
look forward to receiving.
tistics regarding newsletter
readership. It appears that
less than one third of you are
actually opening the newsletter. Many of you have told us
that you receive so many
mailings from the different
organizations with which you
are involved that you do not
have time to read them all.
We get that. Therefore, we
believe it is time to change to
a quarterly format, beginning
with the Winter 2016 issue
that will be distributed midJanuary. This current issue is
simply a transition newsletter
to provide you with timesensitive information. We are
saving any articles already
submitted for the Winter
2016 edition.
MailChimp, our club email
service, provides us with sta-
In the meantime, we ask for
your comments and sugges-
tions for making the newsletter something you look forward to receiving.
Please
email either or both of us. Or
you are welcome to filter your
comments through Barbara
Nuss. We are producing this
newsletter for you and need
your continuing feedback.
Thank you!
Kris E-C
Kris Ericson-Cano,
SacKris@gmail.com
John McLaughlin,
kaiajohn@aol.com
Barbara Nuss,
nussb@surewest.net
Two Fun Ways to Give Back to the Sticks
...and exercise your brain cells at the same time!
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Maestro of the Website Calendar
If you like using the computer, learning new
things, and being creative, you will enjoy
MailChimp. MailChimp can be as simple or as
involved as you would like to make it. It takes
minimal time each week updating the mail list
and periodically helping with mailings. The current POC will provide training and there are excellent on-line training videos.
You don't need super duper computer skills to
add, delete, and maintain the Sticks on-line calendar. The only prerequisite is a willingness to
learn.
For more info, contact:
Kris E-C, SacKris@gmail.com or
Barbara Nuss, nussb@surewest.net
For more info, contact:
Joy Calkin, joycal55@att.net or
Barbara Nuss, nussb@surewest.net
December 2015
Click the calendar icon to check it out on the
Sticks webpage.
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Walking Book Club
Priscilla Fife, Book Walk Coordinator
916.616.6003 • prfife@gmail.com
Sunday, December 6, 2015
10:00 am
Walk: Sacramento MIdtown/
East Sac 5K
Start point: McKinley Rose
Garden, 33rd and H Streets
Discussion to follow walk at Cafe
Bernardo - Midtown, 2726 Capitol
Avenue, Sacramento 95816
John Sutter: A Life on the North
American Frontier
by Albert Hurtado
Description
from Amazon.com:
"In the history
of the American frontier,
John
Sutter
(1803–1880)
looms large. A
Swiss expatriate who attempted to create a personal empire in California’s Sacramento Valley, he founded New Helvetia, a cosmopolitan settlement
whose economy depended on Indian slaves and free laborers. New
Helvetia drew overland immigrants
to California in the 1840s and
then—after gold was discovered by
Sutter’s employees—a flood of fortune seekers. Sutter was poised to
become one of the richest men in
the West, but rapacious settlers and
his own poor business sense sent
his dreams crashing.
Albert L. Hurtado has written the
definitive biography of Sutter, mining a wealth of sources to create the
first fully documented account of
the man and his times. John Sutter explores Sutter’s life in the
broader context of America’s rush
for westward expansion while
plumbing the inner dynamics of this
erstwhile empire-builder.
Sutter was a quintessential outsider
driven by anxiety over status—a
man of talent, vision, and heroic ambitions who nevertheless became
the victim of his own inadequacies
as a businessman and his inability to
adjust to a rapidly changing frontier.
Sutter was full of contradictions.
While building a reputation as a humanitarian friend of destitute immigrants, he callously exploited Indians. Nevertheless, this penniless
dreamer became one of the most
important men in California and a
major player in the American conquest of the West."
book, Albert L. Hurtado focuses on
the Indians who survived this harrowing time. Hurtado considers the
ways in which native life and culture
persisted, how the survivors integrated their lives with white society,
and how the now-dominant whites
related to the Indians living and
working with them.
7 copies available from Sacramento
Public Library
First book walk in 2016 will be
Sunday, January 10, 2016
10:00 am.
Or
Indian Survival on the California
Frontier
by Albert Hurtado
Description
from Yale University Press:
During
the
middle decades of the
nineteenth
century, when
vast numbers
of
whites
poured into
California, the native Indian population was decimated through disease,
starvation, homicide, and a declining
birth rate. In this prize-winning
Winner of the 1989 Ray Allen Billington Prize awarded by the Organization of American Historians for
the best book in American frontier
history."
4 copies available from Sacramento
Public Library.
Both books are available in hardcover and paperback from online
vendors
The book is: On Gold
Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year
Odyssey of My Chinese-American
Family
by Lisa See.
We will be doing a portion of the
Capitol Walk with a side trip into
what is left of Sacramento's China
Town where Lisa See's great-great
grandfather sold herbal remedies.
Here is a synopsis from Amazon.com: "In 1867, Lisa See's greatgreat-grandfather arrived in America, where he prescribed herbal
remedies to immigrant laborers
who were treated little better than
slaves. His son Fong See later built a
mercantile empire and married a
Caucasian woman, in spite of laws
Click here for Carpool Guidelines:
http://www.sacramentowalkingsticks.org/docs/CarpoolGuidelinesWestSacParkRide.pdf
December 2015
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Walking Book Club (cont.)
prohibiting
interracial
marriage. Lisa
herself grew
up playing in
her
family's
antiques store
in Los Angeles's
Chinatown, listening
to stories of
missionaries and prostitutes, movie
stars and Chinese baseball teams.
With these stories and her own
years of research, Lisa See chronicles the one-hundred-year-odyssey
of her Chinese-American family, a
history that encompasses racism,
romance, secret marriages, entrepreneurial genius, and much more,
as two distinctly different cultures
meet in a new world."
13 copies available from
Sacramento Public Library.
Available in paperback, Nook and
Kindle formats from online vendors.
Celebrate New Year’s Eve and Day
with the Walking Sticks!
START LOCATION:
Pioneer Congregational Church
2700 L Street, Sacramento, CA 95816
START/FINISH TIMES:
Eve: Start from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm and finish by 9:00 pm
Day: Start from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon and finish by 3:30 pm
DESCRIPTION:
Eve: Both 5 and 10K goes through lively Midtown to the wonderful
holiday light displays in the Fab 40s.
Day: The Day walk goes through some classical Sacramento
Residential neighborhoods including Boulevard Park and
Mansion Flats. It passes by two of the notorious Dorothea
Puente houses. The 10K will wind through additional
neighborhoods chosen for their architectural and historic
interest.
Limited edition Commemorative Patch (design
at left) available for $4.00 each.
December 2015
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Upcoming Walks for December
Tuesday
Dec 1
10:00 am
Auburn (9:00 am carpool)
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Dec 2
Dec 3
Dec 4
6:15 pm
10:00 am
9:00 am
Sacramento - Land Park
Roseville - New Balance Fountains
Rancho Cordova - Lake Natoma
Saturday
Sunday
Tuesday
Dec 5
Dec 6
Dec 8
9:15 am
10:00 am
10:00 am
Sutter Creek - Food & Antiques (Friendship Walk)
Sacramento - Midtown/East Sac (Book Walk)
Sacramento - Arden Park
Wednesday
Thursday
Thursday
Dec 9
Dec 10
Dec 10
6:00 pm
10:00 am
9:15 am
Sticks Christmas Party!
Davis - University (9:30 am carpool)
Sacramento - American River Tour (Bicycle)
Friday
Dec 11
6:00 pm
Sacramento - Elmhurst to East Sac
(Christmas Lights)
Saturday
Dec 12
9:15 am
Sonoma (Friendship Walk)
Tuesday
Wednesday
Dec 15
Dec 16
10:00 am
6:15 pm
West Sacramento - Clarksburg Branch Line Trail
Sacramento - Ashton Park
Thursday
Friday
Dec 17
Dec 18
10:00 am
6:00 pm
Citrus Heights - Stock Ranch
Sacramento - The Fab 40s
(Christmas Lights)
Saturday
Dec 19
9:15 am
Elk Grove - Quail Ranch & Britschgi Ranch (Friendship
6:30 pm
Walk)
West Sacramento - River Walk
Sunday
Dec 20
Tuesday
Wednesday
Dec 22
Dec 23
10:00 am
6:15 pm
(Christmas Lights)
Sacramento - Natomas
West Sacramento - River Walk
Thursday
Saturday
Tuesday
Dec 24
Dec 26
Dec 29
10:00 am
9:15 am
10:00 am
Sacramento - Sac State
Grass Valley - Historic Town (Friendship Walk)
Lodi (8:00 am carpool)
Wednesday
Thursday
Dec 30
Dec 31
6:15 pm
5:00 pm
Sacramento - Curtis Park
Sacramento - New Year’s Eve
For more information about the walks, including start locations, please check the Calendar
of Events on the Sticks website: www.SacramentoWalkingSticks.org or the weekly Walk
Alerts.
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Upcoming Walks for January
Friday
Jan 1
9:00 am
Sacramento - New Year’s Day
Saturday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Jan 2
Jan 5
Jan 6
9:15 am
10:00 am
6:15 pm
Carmichael
Sacramento - Land Park
Historic Woodland
Thursday
Thursday
Saturday
Jan 7
Jan 7
Jan 9
10:00 am
9:15 am
9:15 am
Rancho - Lake Natoma
Sacramento - Arden (bicycle)
Lodi
Sunday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Jan 10
Jan 12
Jan 13
10:00
10:00 am
6:15 pm
Sacramento - Capitol Walk (book walk)
Davis - Southeast
Citrus Heights
Thursday
Thursday
Jan 14
Jan 14
10:00 am
6:30 pm
Roseville - Mall to Mall
Sticks Membership Meeting , Arcade Public Library
Saturday
Jan 16
9:15 am
Roseville - Bea Griffin
Tuesday
Wednesday
Jan 19
Jan 20
10:00 am
6:15 pm
Sacramento - Curtis Park
Sacramento - Sac State
Thursday
Thursday
Saturday
Jan 21
Jan 21
Jan 23
10:00 am
9:15 am
8:30-Noon
Historic Benicia (9:00 am carpool)
Lincoln (bicycle)
San Francisco - Moraga Steps
Tuesday
Jan 26
10:00 am
Jackson - Town Walk (8:45 am carpool)
Wednesday
Thursday
Jan 27
Jan 28
6:15 pm
10:00 am
Elk Grove - Watershed
Historic Folsom
Saturday
Jan 30
9:15 am
Elk Grove - East Recreation Trails
For more information about the walks, including start locations, please check the Calendar
of Events on the Sticks website: www.SacramentoWalkingSticks.org or the weekly Walk
Alerts.
Sticks Apparel
The Anchor Group
http://swsapparel.anchor-group.com/
Land’s End
LandsEnd.com/business
December 2015
For more information (including Land’s
End Customer/Logo Numbers), visit:
http://www.sacramentowalkingsticks.org/Store.html
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Sacramento Walking Sticks • The No Sweat Gazette
Welcome New Members!
Marie Aguirre
Julie Baumhoff
Deborah Davidson
Carol Edgar
Linda Haan
Diane Holloway-Rider
Nancy Jewhurst
Carey Krantz
Bob Murta
Donna Murta
Stuart Noda
Russell Rider
Happy Birthday!
December:
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Randall Williams
Adam Dayton
Joan Lamoreau
Anne-Louise Radimsky
Russell Rider
Dorothy Cousins
Jean Davis
Kate Simpson
Linda Sullivan
Susan Davis
Karen Owen
Sue Gaston
Anne Jauernig
Al Gravitz
Karen Lopes
Kris Ericson-Cano
Martha Jolley
Karen Williams
Charles Dayton
Chris Highsmith
Joyce Backus
Fred Bohmfalk
Gisela Parker
Jeannette Hogan
Chris Schmidle
Carolyn Chamberlain
Marilyn Ferguson
Ana Garza
Kaye Lochridge
Lori Tomita
Cynthia Hearden
December 2015
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Frances Fehrman
Gary Gilmore
Suzanne Mazzera
Janet Whetstone
Bob Thomas
Jim Tischer
Margo Schulter
Carol Voxland
Mary Donnis
Terri Pennello
Carol Pollard
Patricia Rahrer
Edward Flores
Carol O'Brien
Diane Coffman
Monika Dulay
Clare Norris
January:
2
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3
3
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6
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Jan Jerabek
John Joseph
Mike Vogel
Carol Black
Camille Derrick
Steve Purcell
Pat Hamilton
Shirley Kinnett
Darlene Smith
Sally Barton
Dennis Ledbetter
Parul Purohit
Amnon Igra
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Virginia Jelinek
Betsy Rowell
Renee Spain
Janis Williams
Janeece Killingsworth
Mary McMonegal
Matthew Calkins
Martha Korff
Gloria Boyd
Don Crane
Sally Watkins
Mike Fosgett
Otto Saltenberger
Terry Wieder
Diane Delancey
Joanna Tabarez
Kristi Wakefield
Barbara Duggen
Michael Shapiro
Eileen Herrin
Teri Steinman
Richard Donnis
Susan Waldo
Barbara Seidman
Dorothy Spangler
Michiyo Ellingson
Johanne Owens
Margaret Williams
Maryellen Nommensen
Philip Curra
Liz Kono
Sharon McZeek
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Sacramento Walking Sticks • The No Sweat Gazette
Congratulations on your
Sticks Anniversary!
27 years:
Joseph Fournier
26 Years:
Myrna Jackson
13 Years:
Yvonne Brandon
12 Years:
Heidi Foster
11 Years:
Elisa Ungerman
Diane Younglove
Gary Younglove
Rolf Zschoernig
10 Years:
Bev Davis
Gayle Green
John Joseph
Marty Langley
Karen Lopes
Mary McMonegal
Steve Oesterreicher
Qeldas Pickett
Otto Saltenberger
Elizabeth Shelatz
Bud Simmons
Jill Simmons
Betty Staley
Leonard Strickland
Mike Vogel
Ann Whitehead
9 Years:
Kymberly Andrews
Lenore Blaauw
Dwight Esch
Zori Friedrich
Pat Hamilton
Sharon Young
8 Years:
Fred Bohmfalk
December 2015
David Harzoff
Alan Leach
Anthony Rangel
Cristina Rangel
Jennifer Stanley
Susan Z'berg
7 Years:
Margaret Ravo
6 Years:
Sue Barela
Julie Bohmfalk
Diana Bosley
Chris Boyd
Edward Flores
Ana Garza
Janeece Killingsworth
Joan Lamoreau
Pat Mason
Pat Piotrowski
Joanna Watzig
Aaron Wintersmith
Cassandra Wintersmith
Christal Wintersmith
5 Years:
Arleen Bowman
Bob Chaplin
Pat Drouin
Patricia Elliott
Carol Gallardo
Nikki Hall
Tracy Harrison
Jeannette Hogan
Carol O'Brien
Gene O'Brien
Dorie Oca-Schmunk
Julie Osborne
Heather Reynolds
Russ Schmunk
Kate Simpson
Roy Simpson
Marilyn van Loben Sels
4 Years:
Barbara Alston
Pamela Cameron
Steve Cameron
Dara Candy
Bernard Cody
Anita Davies
Shu Davies
Mike Drouin
Owen Johnson
Georgianne Kelly
Carol Kerton
Holly Lakatos
John McLaughlin
Kaia McLaughlin
Ron Riseman
Susan Riseman
Pam Saltenberger
Michael Shapiro
Rosella Shapiro
Jerry Sherman
Esther Weaver
Miles Wichelns
Phyllis Wichelns
Nancy Wiertel
3 Years:
Peggy Briggs
Bonnie Chatfield
LeRoy Chatfield
Linda Duran
Jennifer Forester
Ted Hussey
Martha Jolley
Barbara Leach
Janice Lew
Chris Loupy
Cathleen Madge
Gretchen Moffat
Anne Ofsink
Connie Ramos-Haugen
Caitlin Robb
Marie Robb
Paul Robb
Chris Smith
Julia Smith
Pam St.Martin
Steve St.Martin
Doug Thompson
Stephanie Turner
Christina Wagner
Linda White
Karen Williams
Scot Williams
2 Year:
Don Crane
Patty Crane
Mary Donnis
Richard Donnis
Teresa Licholai
Sharyn Lieth
Ann McCandless
Cheryl McDonald
Lee McDonald
1 Year:
Bonnie Apple
Judy Baumann
Kay Bennett
Pete Bennett
Judy Christen
Sharon Grunow
Barbara Hodges
Bryan Jacobi
Mary Jacobi
Dale Johnson
Jill Mantraga
Suzanne Mazzera
Larry Meyer
Ruth Meyer
Katie Mulock
Marilyn Planzer
Neil Sander
Sandy Sander
Candace Schmidle
Chris Schmidle
Mary Scott
Gary Szydelko
Janice Warta
Marvin Warta
Jaci Young
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Renewal Heroes
by Steve Hughart
This club asks its members to renew based on the month in which they first joined. Many clubs renew their
members once a year. Since the Sticks has over 550 members, having a renewal drive once a year would overwhelm the all-volunteer Membership Committee. Our membership renewal process is fully explained on a
new web page. First go to the Membership page and then follow the link at the top of the page (Get all the details on the Membership Renewal Process here.) .
In an effort to reduce the time our volunteers spend on processing renewals, we encourage everyone to renew
early and to renew for more than one year. The folks who have done this in the past are clearly “Renewal Heroes,” especially to the Membership Committee.
Renewal Super-Heroes:
More than 1 year
renewal AND renewed via
email
Kymberly Andrews
Zori Friedrich
Owen Johnson
Marty Langley
Teresa Licholai
John McLaughlin
Kaia McLaughlin
Gretchen Moffat
Anthony Rangel
Cristina Rangel
Bud Simmons
Jill Simmons
Mike Vogel
Miles Wichelns
Phyllis Wichelns
Rolf Zschoernig
Multiyear Heroes:
More than 1 year
renewal
Email Renewal Heroes:
Responded to email
(1 year renewal)
Jeff Bucher
Tina Campbell
Virginia Jelinek
Deborah Ondricka
Janine Orsi
Lana Paulhamus
Patricia Rahrer
Andy (Kuo) Yu
Marcela Yu
Bob Chaplin
Diane Coffman
Katherine Dashiell
Ted Hussey
Myrna Jackson
Dale Johnson
Carol Kerton
Cathleen Madge
Bettie Mah
Julie Osborne
Gail Samcoff
Greg Samcoff
Michael Shapiro
Rosella Shapiro
Janice Warta
Marvin Warta
Joanna Watzig
Terry Way
Change-Ups
Change-up to our Fair Oaks-Suburban YRE: Fleet
Feet has been our start location for many years and
they're closing the store Oct 31st. The Sticks have
moved that box to our other Fair Oaks-Historic location until Dec 31, 2015 when we will officially close
the YRE down.
POC Fred Bohmfalk has redesigned the route for our
enjoyment. Fred will be retiring as the Fair Oaks
December 2015
POC soon and we welcome Marcia Maurer to the
position instead.
Change-up to the Sacramento-American River as
well as the Sacramento-Ashton Park & SacramentoSierra Oaks Vista YRE's as far as POC is concerned.
Carole Soenke is retiring and Beverly
Bales will take the position instead.
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