Photo of jumping jacks at Dog Days at stadium.

run Lawrence logo   2007 Summer Dog Days at the KU stadium.

Meeting Minutes, July 1, 2007

Lawrence Memorial Hospital, 4:00 p.m.

  1. Introduction of members:
    Gene Wee & Dee Boeck, Greg Burger, Ellen Young, Ed Payne, Fran & Dan Breslauer, John & Janet Huchingson, Nate Rovenstine, Shannon Hodges and baby, Don & Lori Cackler. Everyone was asked to mention where they were born (city, county, state).
  2. Minutes of the June meeting passed.
  3. Treasurer's Report - the balance is approximately $4200.
  4. Thanksgiving Day Run: see the attached progress report from Gene for details.
  5. Other business:
    1. Shannon spoke about her 8 week beginning female runner's camp, which is going well.  She said the Journal World is planning an article about the camp.
    2. The Quivira Mile run may be canceled because too few runner's have
      registered.
    3. Club members wondered if there was an interest in going out for dinner following the monthly meetings.
    4. The new membership list was distributed.  The Keith Meyers family recently joined.  The family includes a 14 year old daughter who is a talented runner.
    5. The club has running resource books available for check-out, see Janet for details.
    6. Ellen and Red Dog need workers for the August 11th Boys and Girls Club fun run.
    7. Greg needs volunteers and publicity to assist in the Midwest Mayhem Triathalon at Lone Star July 22nd.  The race does donate to runLawrence as a thank you for our assistance.  Greg gave the members present water bottles.
    8. There is a 50 k trail run in the plans to be located at Perry Lake.  Greg and Ed would also like to construct and promote a 100K trail run sometime in the future.  They are looking at colder weather months, perhaps December.
    9. The club received a thank you note from Pathways for race support.

The next runLawrence meeting date is Sunday, August 5th at 4 pm.

Lori Cackler