Author: Diane Prost

The Illinois Trekkers donated food to the House of Neighborly Service of Monroe County, Illinois. Toni Miller received the donate food from the Illinois Trekkers.

One of the many scarecrows walkers saw on the walk.

 

Walkers took advantage of the beautiful weather to walk outside at St. Clair Square Mall.

Our new walker & mascot, Ava.

Walker at registration table.

Robert (Bob) Buzolich, Mid-America  Regional Director, presenting Trudy Duffman, President of the Illinois Trekkers, with 40th Anniversary award.

40th Anniversary cookie that each walker received.

Dee Wojtysiak receiving Meritorious Award for 5 years of service from Robert (Bob) Buzolich, Mid-America  Regional Director.

The Illinois Trekkers will have a group walk of the Columbia YRE & Scarecrow Crawl. Here is a sampling of the scarecrows that walkers will enjoy on the walk. Registration is at 8:46 & walk at 9:00. Please bring a nonperishable food item to donate to the food pantry.

Parking is limited at the City Police Station start point. Walking Groups should park in the Masonic Lodge parking lot at corner of N. Main & E. Temple [please park in north lot].

In accordance to AVA guidelines you must wear a mask when registering & please maintain social distancing when walking.

Come help the Illinois Trekkers celebrate their 40th anniversary with a walk at Cahokia Mounds, a State Historic Site, National Historic Landmark and World Heritage Site-the largest prehistoric Indian site north of Mexico. Scholars, travelers & walkers from around the globe visit Cahokia Mounds and its world-class Interpretive Center to learn about this highly sophisticated civilization built in an urban complex. Walk where the Mississippian Indians first settled in AD 700. The mounds were built of earth transported in baskets on peoples’ backs to elevate ceremonial buildings and residences of the elite, and to provide burial sites and mark important settlement locations. The walk path passes Indian cultural areas and travels through several habitats on grass, concrete and gravel. Experience the “natural stair-stepper” by climbing 154 steps to the top of Monks Mound, the largest earthen mound in North America equivalent to a 10-story building.

TIMES:  Registration from 9:30am – 11:30am. Must finish no later than 2:30pm. Masks are always required for registration and inside the Interpretive Center. Club will have a limited number of masks for those who forget to bring one. The event will take place regardless of the weather.

REFRESHMENTS:  Water will be provided at the start/finish. The club will provide a catered box lunch complete with a decorated cookie. Contact Trudy Duffman at [email protected] or 618-670-6920 to RESERVE A LUNCH prior to 10/09/2020. Please bring your own folding chair to join in socially-distanced fellowship while enjoying the box lunch together.

TO  view brochure click here. 40th Anniversary Walk Cahokia Mounds[6173] (2)

Monks Mound

 

Come help the Illinois Trekkers celebrate their 40th anniversary with a walk at Cahokia Mounds, a State Historic Site, National Historic Landmark and World Heritage Site-the largest prehistoric Indian site north of Mexico. Scholars, travelers & walkers from around the globe visit Cahokia Mounds and its world-class Interpretive Center to learn about this highly sophisticated civilization built in an urban complex. Walk where the Mississippian Indians first settled in AD 700. The mounds were built of earth transported in baskets on peoples’ backs to elevate ceremonial buildings and residences of the elite, and to provide burial sites and mark important settlement locations. The walk path passes Indian cultural areas and travels through several habitats on grass, concrete and gravel. Experience the “natural stair-stepper” by climbing 154 steps to the top of Monks Mound, the largest earthen mound in North America equivalent to a 10-story building.

TIMES:  Registration from 9:30am – 11:30am. Must finish no later than 2:30pm. Masks are always required for registration and inside the Interpretive Center. Club will have a limited number of masks for those who forget to bring one. The event will take place regardless of the weather.

REFRESHMENTS:  Water will be provided at the start/finish. The club will provide a catered box lunch complete with a decorated cookie. Contact Trudy Duffman at [email protected] or 618-670-6920 to RESERVE A LUNCH prior to 10/09/2020. Please bring your own folding chair to join in socially-distanced fellowship while enjoying the box lunch together.

TO  view brochure click here. 40th Anniversary Walk Cahokia Mounds[6173] (2)

Walkers getting ready to walk for Susan G. Komen “More than Pink Walk”.

The Illinois Trekkers will walk to support Susan G. Komen St. Louis. Registration $3. Mask are required.  Registration 1:15pm Walk 1:30.

Walkers are encouraged to sign up on the Stifel team (Geoffrey Bright-Trudy Duffman’s son). $25 donation at registration & you will receive team shirt (May not be available on walk day.) $100 donation will also receive a Komen shirt. Come out & support our club members who have beat the disease, family members, & friends. This year donations are critical!

http://www.info-komen.org/site/TR? fr_id=8359&pg=pfind        (Stifel Link)

One of many sites to see at the Shrine.

Walkers on the trail.

Walkers saw several deer along the walk.

Walkers getting ready to walk.

Walkers on the trail enjoying the weather.