By Nancy Lindeman

This year we had approximately 135 people attend our annual event, and we did have more people pre-register for the event this year. It was wonderful to see so many people, especially young people and families, turn out this year. We had many scouts. The decorations in the neighborhood were incredible, and many other people were out walking around the neighborhood enjoying the decorations. I bet it's one of the best decorated neighborhoods in the Bay Area.

They have changed the way you get a permit to use the facility, and this year I went through Facilitron to get the permit, it is easy to get and they let me know right away that we had permission. Sometimes we wait months to get the permission, as you might notice that many of our events have "pending park permission" even two weeks before the event. Our club now has an account with them, and it will be easy for other event directors to get their permits. It's too bad that we can't use Facilitron to get permits for all our events, especially the East Bay events!

Peter Graube had a good crowd again this year to listen to his interesting Water Play presentation. He really holds his audience's attention.

Congratulations to Vicki Woolworth, the winner of this year's BAOC Service Award. Thanks, Vicki, for all you have done to help the club!

Thanks for making this event possible go to:

• Tony Pinkham and Brad Wetmore, the course setters, for all their hard work on this event. They set the really interesting courses and added content for the BAOC Holiday Lights webpage. Brad ran the starts and finishes, and Tony was out from 6:15–7:15 with the moving control. This year his moving control went in a loop, which made it more interesting to catch up with him. He's moving to Oregon, so we'll miss seeing him at this event in the future.
• Jitka Hiscox, our assistant course setter, who is interested in course setting and worked with Brad and Tony.
• Steve Haas for handling registration and the presentation of the Service Award.
• Bob Cooley for printing the maps.
• Chuck Spalding for help with the website.
• Brad Wetmore for setting up the on-line sign-up form.
• Marina Keeting for handling the insurance.
• Steve Harrison, Fyodor Konkov, Chuck Spalding, Matthias Kohler, and Shirley Pierce for help with results/finishes.
• Peter Graube for bringing in all the science equipment, and giving the popular Water Play presentation.
• Kathie Wiegant for help with setup/teardown, and everyone else who pitched in to help, including the father of a scout who helped the custodian figure out how to get the benches and tables down.
• And everyone for coming out and participating in the event.

60-Minute Class  
                                                 Control-Points   Elapsed   Time    Total 
   Pl  Name(s)                                   Correct/Penalty   Time    Penalty  Points  Errors
    1  Rex Winterbottom                            310      0       58:18      0     310  
    2  Tapio & Johanna Karras                      250      0     1:00:04    -10     240
    3  Steve Haas                                  180      0     1:00:01    -10     170
    4  Sophia, Julien, & Joe Knapp, Erica Morris   160      0     1:00:40    -10     150
    5  Brian Hu                                    150      0     1:00:04    -10     140
    6  Vicki Woolworth                             150      0     1:00:15    -10     140
    7  Volkov                                      140      0     1:00:44    -10     130
    8  Ally Kraus, Patrick Lundquist               120      0       58:40      0     120
    9  Tom, Liz, & Elijah Theis                    110      0       59:01      0     110
   10  Ali Chalaknia                               110      0       59:07      0     110
   11  Dennis Wildfogel                            180    -60     1:00:40    -10     110    #61, #62
   12  Nancy Lindeman, Kathie, Shirley Pierce       90    -30     1:01:50    -20      40    #64
   13  Rachelle Romander                            70      0     1:02:10    -30      40

90-Minute Class  
                                                 Control-Points   Elapsed   Time    Total 
   Pl  Name(s)                                   Correct/Penalty   Time    Penalty  Points  Errors
    1  Jason Lee                                   400      0     1:26:10      0     400  
    2  Graham Brew                                 400    -30     1:27:45      0     370    #9
    3  Jason Reed                                  480    -90     1:31:04    -20     370    #17, #40, #61
    4  Thorsten Achterkirchen                      360      0     1:28:41      0     360
    5  Mary Beard                                  440    -30     1:34:33    -50     360    #302
    6  Steve & Koda                                330      0     1:29:30      0     330
    7  Attack Squad 23                             320      0     1:21:52      0     320
    8  John Beard                                  320      0     1:29:08      0     320
    9  Jedi Johnsons                               320      0     1:29:22      0     320
   10  Erika Reed                                  330    -30     1:32:18    -30     270    #36
   11  Kyle Peter                                  280    -30     1:29:30      0     250    #64
   12  Lobomir Šebo                                240      0     1:20:47      0     240
   13  Irena Stefanova, Nikolay Gersiev            240      0     1:29:03      0     240
   14  Joanne, Ada, & Blake Johnson                230      0     1:25:30      0     230
   15  Oesterreich                                 220      0     1:27:07      0     220
   16  Nelson                                      200      0     1:27:20      0     200
   17  Maeghan Myles & Kelleher                    240    -30     1:30:28    -10     200    #20
   18  Julia Doubson, Claire Duffie                220      0     1:27:40      0     220
   19  Betsy Farley, Jodi Hau                      180      0     1:27:28      0     180
   20  The Expert Family                           160      0     1:28:22      0     160
   21  Jun Fujisawa                                160      0     1:29:10      0     160
   22  Nick Corsano, Esther Heller                 150      0     1:25:48      0     150
   23  Jocelyn, Eliana, Mateo, Hijino              150      0     1:28:44      0     150
   24  Akito Fujisawa                              140      0     1:24:02      0     140
   25  Van Berkey family                           140      0     1:29:32      0     140
   26  Ethier                                      150      0     1:30:03    -10     140
   27  Neil Peter                                  130      0     1:11:25      0     130
   28  Obico & Talati Team                         130      0     1:22:45      0     130
   29  Mike, Keelye, & Neil Butcer                 130      0     1:22:59      0     130
   30  Jeff Lanam                                  150      0     1:31:10    -20     130
   31  Benj Brisal, Kenneth Stotts                 110      0     1:30:00      0     110
   32  Tom De Vrè                                  140    -30     1:30:03    -10     100    #64
   33  Vawn                                        120      0     1:32:30    -30      90
   34  George Mount & family                        80      0     1:08:23      0      80
   35  Rajesh                                      140      0     1:39:50   -100      40
   36  Manasuiui                                    10      0     1:32:37    -30       0