Category: Newsletter

September – October Newsletter now available

Here’s the latest newsletter. Please note the information about the Breakfast Walk coming up on September 12th – you’ll be seeing more reminders, so go ahead and mark your calendars now!

It’s also not too early to think about our “Walker of the Year” award, voted on in December and awarded in January. Get those nominations in now, so that they can be presented in the next newsletter.

For your reading pleasure: NWFT Sept-Oct 2015 Newsletter

 

April showers bring May walkers!

Our gardens and lawns are pretty happy with all the rain we’ve been getting. While you’re keeping up with delayed yardwork, keep in mind this quick recap of May events and news:

  1. Worker’s Walk on May 2nd for the May 9th walk at Standing Bear Lake. Arrive by 8:45 a.m. to handle paperwork and walk with the group at 9 a.m. Use the entrance at 138th and Fort Streets (Omaha) to find the picnic shelter near the boat ramp, where we will be meeting.
  2. Regular walk on May 9th, starting times from 8 to 11 a.m., complete the walk by 2 p.m., same starting point as above. The 5K and 10K walks will go around the lake and into the surrounding neighborhoods.
  3. The Grand Island Farewell Walk will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 17th, during the last weekend that the Skagway Food Store (and Start Point) will be open for business. Make plans to carpool and to walk this great route one last time, and to say thank you to Jim and Martha McGahan for over 20 years’ dedication to walking in Grand Island and surround areas. More info on our Calendar of Events.
  4. Finally, our NWFT May-June 2015 Newsletter is attached so you can see what we’ll be doing in the summer months.

 

 

Late February News

February must be Soup News Month! We had 20 walkers attend the Shelby Old Stone Arch Nature Trail Soup Off on February 7th. Here are just a few photos from that event – lots more photos are available in the NWFT Mar-Apr 2015 newsletter and on Facebook.

The Workers’ Walk for the March 7th Soup Walk will take place at 9 a.m. on Saturday, February 28th, at St. Barnabas Church in Omaha. Please arrive 15 minutes early to take care of paperwork and to bundle yourself up for a rather chilly walk. Too bad that there won’t be any soup at the workers’ walk!

The Soup Walk itself will take place the following Saturday, March 7th, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. to start walking and be off the trail by 3 p.m. St. Barnabas Church is located just north of 40th and Dodge. Club President Mel Bohn promises that there will be more parking available this year.  Please bring 2 cans of soup – one for the pots of chicken or vegetable beef soups and one for the food pantry.

News, news, news!

Two great newsletters that you’ll want to dive right into:

NWFT Jan-Feb 2015  Be sure to read to the last page where you’ll see the reservation form for our annual dinner. This year, it’s being held at the Farmhouse Cafe, at 84th & Frederick, on Saturday, January 17th, social hour at 5 p.m. and dinner at 6 p.m.  Get your reservation form in as soon as you can! Treasurer Butch Spaulding sent out an email about sides, dressings and muffins available, so if you don’t have that information, contact us and we’ll forward that on to you.

Special Time to Walk Newsletter comes to us courtesy of our Grand Island member, Jim McGahan.  Loaded with pictures and Jim’s humorous take on things, you’ll enjoy remembering this great, once-in-a-lifetime event with us!

The Year Round Events are being updated on this site and on Facebook and a special booklet detailing them was mailed to all members.  Need one? Just ask!

The first three regular events of the year have been added to our Calendar and we’re busy at work lining up our September through December events. Suggestions and help are always welcome – and of course, you know how to contact us.

Musings and news from our Grand Island members

Some of you know Jim and Martha McGahan from the Mid-Nebraska Trail Seekers. That club became inactive last year, but that doesn’t mean that the walkers from that club slowed down! Jim edited an AVA-award-winning newsletter for the club and many asked, “But how can we go without brilliant commentary attached to the faces of those we know, from those MNTS newsletters?”

Well, ask and you shall receive!  Here are two of the most recent collections for your reading pleasure. Jim has promised to put together his own pictorial take on the recently completed Pie Walk in Blair just a couple of weeks (and 40 degrees of temperature!) ago.

Lincoln Volkssport Club’s 2014 Wyuka Walk

South Dakota 125th Anniversary Walks

Jim also has a great collection of reminiscences of the Lincoln Highway walks that he organized across Nebraska, with grand celebrations of the 100th Anniversary of the Lincoln Highway in Fremont, Grand Island and Kearney. Anyone interested in seeing those and not on the email list can contact us and we will forward those on.

Or, contact us, and we’ll get you on the email list so that you don’t have to wait to get the NWFT newsletter OR Jim’s photo essays!