Many wise and famous people have stated when commencing a daunting challenge that “…a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step…” While no one here is claiming to be wise or famous, I can personally vouch that your board and other NSC members have started the journey of this new NSC year off right with that first step of planning, reviewing, and approving many unique and exciting activities that you will be participating in this year. The agenda of this long July 15, 2008 board meeting was filled with much good discussion and rapport all with the aim of approving many of the new activities you will see here.
As winter-sports enthusiasts need to use the off-season months to increase overall conditioning, our hiking events are a fun social way of getting to know other members as well as a means to actively explore our world-class Bay Area sights. Our recent Tomales Point Hike is reviewed here by Celeste Rogers. Join us on August 24 as Angie Fong leads us on an Angel Island excursion. In September, we now have Hoyt Nelson leading us on his latest “SF Stairways Hike” (9/7). Also, Dick Wong will lead a hike in the Cupertino foothills in October (10/19). We will scatter more hikes in the schedule in upcoming months.
Karen Soo is leading the “NSC Raiders Event” which will center around the Raiders-Chiefs game on November 30th. Karen has arranged a great price which includes the game, one of her gourmet sandwiches, and some Raiders trinkets. Please sign up soon so you don’t miss out!
The “Four Tenors of NSC Fun and Cooking,” consisting of Judy Hom, Angie Fong, Angela Cheung, and Amy Tsuhako, are leading the charge to our annual preseason event this year entitled “La Vida Loca” with an obvious Mexican theme. Please mark your calendars for November 1, 2008 and read the kickoff article by Judy Hom.
Much of the meeting was concerned with pouring over the details of the Telluride 2009 weeklong trip led by Curtis Otaguro. As we all are all-too familiar with the rise in the price of gas and airline travel lately, the board has worked hard to keep costs down for this early-February trip to this premiere Rocky Mountain resort which the NSC last visited in 1995. All of your hard efforts during the year in volunteer service and fund raising events such as the Nikkei Matsuri, and the Palo Alto Obon, and Mountain View Obon helps the board to either generate funds or defray costs in other areas so that we can subsidize the annual weeklong trip and the weekend bus trips. Please see the flyer in this issue for details on this exciting upcoming trip.
As our just finished 50th Anniversary “Golden Memories” event is still in our warm recent memories, we need to recognize an individual that was inadvertently forgotten when we honored our members that have served NSC for ten or more years. So please recognize Judy Hom with our belated thanks on serving us so much in the past years and we look forward to her continued service for a long time to come.
Also, on the Golden Memories thread, thank you to Karen Soo and Jason Ng for their great efforts to churn out the professional-looking Golden Memories brochure.
In the next board meeting on August 13, we will review and approve the reprise of the Bunco dice event led by Sandie McGregor which was a big hit last year. Also, a mid-October Kayak activity led by David Ly is in the works. Finally, we will be closer if not finished with the details on our bus trips as a result of this meeting. Please drop us a line and get involved while giving us more ideas on what you want to do this year. After all, the NSC is YOUR club!
