Our Jeronimo Green Belt Park walk during March in Mission Viejo had 138 walkers. We sold two New Walker Packets. The New Balance shoes were won by Neil Cadwallader of Oceanside.

PRE-REGISTRATION: Vicki Bowman, our membership chairperson has kindly offered to do the pre-registrations for our annual Laguna Beach walk on July 6 and 7. This event is always planned during the Pageant of the Masters and Art Festival season. It's a good way to have free parking and spend the day browsing in beautiful Laguna Beach. I am taking a holiday and will be visiting my family in St. Louis for the entire month of June. Don't forget to mail your pre-registrations to Vicki Bowman, 2602 W. Orion Avenue #3, Santa Ana, CA 92704-7084. Please mail to arrive by July 1, 2002.

NEW OR RENEWING MEMBERS: Please join us in welcoming to our club:

Ada Bosnjak of Los Alamitos Beverly Travers of Fullerton

Judy A. Davis of Tustin Karen Yeager of Irvine

Carlota Haider of Brea Herman Husbands of San Diego

Sheri Long of Irvine Steve & Deborah VanAuker of Huntington Beach

Eileen McNamee of Laguna Hills Carol Stoop of Irvine

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION: Included in each newsletter for those wishing to renew (name highlighted on address) or for new people who are interested in joining and therefore supporting a club who put on six walking events per year and have four Year-Rounds for those times when you want to enjoy the beautiful scenery here in Orange County.

OUR NEXT WALK: Enclosed (in the mailed version) is the flyer for Laguna Beach. As usual, if you are working the Start/Finish table that weekend you may pre-walk before July 6th. You can get the walk directions and pre-registration start card from Bob. Also, if anyone has an idea for a new LTSW walk, please talk to Bob as he can help you put it all together. Some members will receive their newsletter without the flyer via e-mail.

May is National Physical Fitness and Sports month! Anyone doing a walk in May will be eligible to purchase the U.S. President's Council on Physical Fitness commemorative patch from AVA.

If it works out well, we will have our meetings here the first Wednesday of every odd number month, i.e., July, Sept, Nov, Jan, March, and May. Let's start the meeting at 6 P.M. and if possible, plan to eat earlier at 5 P.M. COCO'S has a Club 55 menu with entrees from $4.99 through $6.99. Please join us!

Please try to bring a friend or neighbor along on your next walking event.

Current numbers on our 2002 year-rounds:

#190 Dana Point Bike 4 bikers (0 from out-of-state)

#1342 Laguna Niguel Lake Walk 19 walkers (1 from out-of-state)

#251 Balboa Island/Newport Beach Walk 36 walkers (18 from out-of-state)

#1343 Dana Point Harbor Walk 41 walkers (16 from out-of-state)

TOP TEN: Since California has some of the most beautiful country in the nation we sure would love to have some California year-rounds on the top ten list, but only members from other states can vote for us!

LTSW's ORANGE COUNTY WALKS for the balance of 2002:

1. Laguna Beach Festival of Arts (annual event) July 6/7
2. Trestles Beach in San Clemente September 28/29
3. Heritage Historic Park in Lake Forest October 26/27

CVA ANNUAL CONVENTION: Time is of the essence if you are planning to attend the May 3, 4, & 5, 2002 events in Vacaville (Solana County), California. They have planned four walks, a luncheon meeting and a dinner. This gives everyone the opportunity to meet fellow volkswalkers from all over the state and to walk in another county (if you are among the many who try to walk every California county). Contact Jill Simmons if you have any questions: 707-448-5148 or Email Jillmail@jps.net.

AVA NATIONAL CONVENTION will be held in Colorado in June 2003. It's not too early to be planning ahead.

We received a Thank You card from Nancy Stenger, the AVA President for our $25 donation towards the website project.

IVV BOOKS: When submitting your Event/Distance books to the AVA, it is no longer necessary to include the previous level book. However, if you have a "carry-over" slip stapled to the previous book it must be submitted.

I CAUGHT THE SPIRIT AWARD: a special award is issued to a volkssporter who recruits five new Volkssporters. To qualify, a new participant must purchase a 'New Walker' packet and join our club. Our club is maintaining records to keep track of new members and their recruiters. Please advise one of the officers when you have recruited a new walker. This ties in with the Pacific Region Director's (Herman Husbands) goal that every Volkssporter recruit a new Volkssporter in 2002. The recruiters name should be put on the bottom front of the first Event book. Once new walkers have completed their first book, they usually stay with the program.

THANK YOU! To all our members for supporting a club in Orange County. This September LTSW will have it's sixth birthday! If you have Charter Member under your name on the address label, you have been with us since our inception and we thank you for that!! We need members to become Treasurer or Newsletter Editor. Won't you please step up and take a more active role?