The President's Corner
Happy Summer PHOC Friends!
Recently our web team has been working to streamline our communication within the club. We will now be using two main platforms for e-mail communications: Google Groups for pickup outings and Wild Apricot for general club announcements. Thank you to Tom Esker and Mark Prill for continually updating our online website as well as maintaining it so that members can use technology with ease!
Another recent accomplishment in our club was that our newly formed "New Hike Leader Mentor Program" increased our number of walk/hike/bike/kayak leaders from 43 to 57 by training 14 new leaders. This leader group comprised of Joel Deaton, Nicole Mazgaj, Vance Barron, Ken Yates, Cody Finney, and myself met and developed a list of "Best Practices/Guidelines" which was distributed to all veteran and new outing leaders. We arranged training hikes for interested new leaders as well as technology training to help support them. Thank you to new leaders who stepped up to lead outings and thanks to our wonderful mentors!
Finally, club members present at the last meeting on June 8 voted to donate $382 raised by the t-shirt fundraiser to the Piedmont Land Conservancy.
I hope that you can browse through this wonderful assortment of summer outings and find a hike, paddle, walk, bike ride, or social event to attend. Have a great summer!
Fondly,
Joan
PHOC President