To say that WPOC had a somewhat difficult year in 2020 would be an understatement.  We sponsored only 3 local events; all other planned events were canceled, mostly because of Covid-19.  The statistics page  shows information about each of these events, including location, meet director,  type of courses offered, total starts, member starts and total number of participants.   The same page shows our membership at the end of 2020.  

It is not possible to compare event attendance for 2020 versus other years because of the greatly reduced number of events..  Thanks to all of our meet directors (Sherry Shank, Alexis Rzewski and Ryan Knecht,, vetters (Dave Battista  and Jim Wolfe), and event day volunteers (too many to list) for making all of the events run smoothly, even when when dealing with Covid-19 restrictions.  Also, thanks to Ryan Knecht for coordinating the volunteers, Sherry Shank for maintaining membership records and Giuseppina Mecchia for setting up one of the events.. 

Electronic punching was used for all of our events during 2020.  We even used Ryan's control stands for two courses on our last event of the year.

In addition to the events, Jen Livingston conducted 3 in-person workshops for scouts and scout leaders; this reached 33 people .  Jim Wolfe gave a presentation about orienteering and map making to 24 scouts and leaders.  Jim also created online lessons in orienteering to allow teens in a library program to teach themselves; it is not known how many participated.   We also tried to make the best of some of the canceled events.  The control sites had been marked for Laurel Ridge State Park and Forbes State Forest events before they were canceled; we publicized the courses online and allowed people to do the courses on their own looking for the tape markers.  Similarly, we left the tape markers for part of the Yellow Creek State Park course up and again allowed people to do it on their own after the event was over.  Alexis Rzewski also created a scavenger hunt using the South Slopes map; we publicized this for do-it-yourself participation as well.
 
The club continues in a variety of ways to try to publicize orienteering. This is done through the club's web pages, Facebook page, Twitter feed, the Attackpoint website, various meet-up groups and other social media.  We did not advertise on Facebook this year but are planning to in 2021.   For Raccoongaine, there is a separate Facebook page and Twitter feed, as well as a Yahoo group;  this is handled by Alexis Rzewski on behalf of the club.  

Much of the mapping effort during 2020 was devoted to creating a map for a mini-rogaine in the Babcock Division of Gallitzen State Forest; the field checked area is up to about 5000 acres.  In addition, there was a small area added to the North Park map, along with some updates (by Alexis Rzewski and Jim Wolfe); and updates were made to the Yellow Creek North and Pine Ridge maps (by Jim Wolfe).  Several small maps were at least partly done:  Camp Baker, Beaver County Conservation District and Churchill Valley Greenway (by Jim Wolfe with help from Jen Livingston on the first two).  Only Churchill has the possibility of being used for an event; the others are for instruction or permanent courses.