Club News - Low Desert Roadrunners

Kathy’s News September – October 2021

Greetings fellow walkers Are you Walking?  Are you staying Healthy? I hope to see you at our upcoming events. We… as a club continue to face many challenges of keeping our awesome sport active. You can help by keeping your membership current and showing up for our monthly theme walks, year rounds, and traditional events. We can do this together.

Save these Dates:

Remembering September 11^th ….club group walk in Newport Beach/Balboa Island /Cross Channel View. Meet at Start Point 8:30 am or earlier to sign up.  Self guided is available

September 23^rd ….AVA Big Give for 2021 Walk Long Stay Strong. Ava.org click on Donate at top right. Without AVA America’s Walking Club there would be no state clubs, no LDR.

October 1-3 California Volkssport Convention (CVA) in Sacramento. 3 interesting Walks/meeting.

October 16^th LDR Traditional Zombie Walk…one day event in Riverside. Look for the Zombie jeep at Start Table. Costumes preferred. Rain or shine the Zombies will appear. See flyer.

All of our YR walks except Claremont Hills have been renewed for 2022.

So please Show Up and keep our walks and other club walks active. See Ya on the trail

Keep On Walking!!! Your Fearless Leader Kathy

PAST EVENTS

Annual LDR Meeting: A Big Thank You to Maureen and Gary Carlson for hosting our 2nd Annual members meeting, lunch and water day in Canyon Lake.

Thanks also to all who attended. Meeting went well.

UPCOMING EVENTS

REMEMBER TO COME JOIN US ON THE UPCOMING DATES!!!!

REMEMBER THOSE LIVES LOST

Saturday September 11^th Meet 7:45am Pavilions Supermarket located @ 1000 Bayside Dr. Newport Beach ** One of the walks requires a Ferry Ride to the Peninsula ($1.50 each way total of $3.00) please have exact change ready to hand the crew for each trip. Enjoy your 5K/10K

BRING YOUR BOOKS IF THEY ARE TO BE STAMPED

CVA Convention

October 1-3  California Volkssport Convention (CVA) in Sacramento/Folsom

3 interesting Walks/meeting.  Flyer has been attached just in case you need a pre-registration form. ** Must be received by September 17^th 2021

ZOMBIE WALK

ZOMBIE WALK – October 16^th Meet at Ryan Bonamino Park located @5000 Tequesquite Ave Riverside Ca.

Walk starts registration from 8am to 11am return by 2pm. Group walks start at 8:30am Another Awesome Traditional Walk.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING PLENTY OF WATER AND SUNSCREEN

Bob Gebo – Green Valley Gators: Walks to enjoy

Crestline

Cherry Valley

Tehachapi Loop & Cesar Chavez National Monument

Both location in Keene Ca. Remote Registration check with POC

Redlands Downtown – ***Please Note **YMCA in Redlands is NOW ALSO OPEN on Sunday from 1-5pm

Redlands Palms & Palaces

Redlands – Westside

Editors Notes

UPCOMING CLUB WALKS:

We have THEME WALKS planned for the next few months. Your choices are Guided or Self Guided. We hope you will join us!!

Covid19 regulations have changed and more restrictions being lifted. Those that have asked about carpooling in the past please reach out to other members in the group that may be doing a walk you are interested in or even offer your own services as a Designated Driver for the day.

Payment Options for Renewal your current membership

  We now have 2 options that you can use to renew your membership!!!

1. To renew your membership, please make your check payable to the Low Desert Roadrunners. Membership dues are $10.00 for individuals and families.

Mail your checks to: Maureen Carlson 30268 Gulf Stream Drive Canyon Lake Ca. 92587

2. We now have the ability to send you an invoice via email. There will be an additional .50 cent processing fee added to the total Membership Fee $10.50. It is actually cheaper than using a stamp

We are also looking into other processing banking options. We will keep you posted on what we find out

                                        LOOK WHO’S WALKING

Membership News

Renewing Members into 2021       New Members 2021  

Membership due in May 2021        Past Due since Jan 2020

Low Desert Roadrunner officers

President – Kathy Bundy (951) 218-3755 bunznkatz7@gmail.com

Vice President – Bob Gebo (951) 924-2208

Secretary – Kathy Cole (951) 551-9723 kcole176@gmail.com

Treasurer – Jo Billman (951) 492-1461 lowdesertroadrunners@gmail.com

Membership – Maureen Carlson (909) 227-5319 lowdesertroadrunners@gmail.com

WebMaster – Simon Cooper

LDR YEAR ROUND WALKS

Here is a list of Year Round Events you can do at your leisure.  Big Bear walks have been added as SEASONAL and are NOW AVAILABLE with physical box and online registration @ava.Org. We encourage you to get out and enjoy the great outdoors and take a leisurely stroll at anytime whether it is, the beach, the ocean, the desert or even the mountains.

GET OUT AND BREATHE THAT FRESH AIR!!!

We have started to add more of our walks online. We have 1 San Diego walk now setup for online registration. We hope to have most or all of them completed for on-line registration by the end of the year.

Any questions please text or call and leave a message with Kathy Bundy at (951) 218-3755

******RED ASTRIC indicates BOX or Binder may still be with POC ******

LDR Year Round Walks  & we’ve added “Theme Walks” that can be done with or without a guide.

September

October

November

For online Start Locations Call, txt or email Kathy Bundy. You can also find this information on the lowdesertroadrunners.org website under the tab “Year Round Walk” on home page