Archive : Minutes : 5-1-02

Lord Nial opened the meeting with a reminder to please pay your tithe, we do pay for this site. We ask $1, $2 from combatants, if this is your first or second meeting, please be our guests.

We recieved thank you letters from Their Serene Highnesses of Northshield Gaius and Aramanthra and from Their Majesties Sarnac and Joleicia of Ealdormere thanking us for Coronation. Lord Nial will have the letters at the next few meetings if you'd like to see them.

Baronial Candidates:

Today was the last day to submitt your name as a candidate for Baron or Baroness of the Cleftlands. The current list the Kingdom Seneshal has provided to Nial is:

Madelaine and Ephraim
Serena and Nickolas
Clairiel and Ealdred
Cienwen and Rutgur
Aurora de la Vie
Culainn the Lecher
Bronwen Elvina

Please feel free to approach any of these individuals to discuss issues of Baronial sucession.

Lady Aurora expressed her regret that she is going to be out of town and therefore unavailable to the populace for questioning for the next three weeks, however she does check her email. Check the Baronial directory for her contact information.

His Grace Laurelen is also out of town for the next couple weeks, please don't take this as a sign or portent of anything but a mundane buisness trip. His Grace also checks his email regularly. (Available in the directory or on the web site.)

Duchess Emmelyn expressed her concern that we as a barony be able to meet the candidates formally at a meeting and hear their views as potential barons/baronesses.

EVENTS:

Standard Bearer's - As we do not have a Baron, Lord Nial had decided that we shall not have a Standard Bearer's Competition. Once a Baron is selected they may decide how to handle the carrying of the battle standard, however he is looking to hold a Baronial Championship. He's looking at a date of June 22nd. Some concern was raised as we have a Demonstration scheduled for that day for Camp Homatakoda, however Nial felt the event was more important and that date is one that has no conflicting events scheduled. See Lord Nial if you've concerns or would like to volunteer to help organize the event.

At this point the Baronial Exchequer expressed some concern as she had not been consulted about the event and... she assumes we want to spend more than fifty dollars at it? Lord Nial ammended that the event is still in the planning stages and that is why Duchess Emmelyn was not consulted.

Other Events:

Encampment at the Castle in the March of Three Towers is This weekend! The calendar in The Pale is incorrect! The event website has the correct information. (http://www.geocities.com/rdehwyll/Event2002.html)

copied from the midrealm calendar:
3-5 - Collegium of Arts Martial {Shattered Crystal} [Carlyle, IL]
- Encampment at the Castle {Three Towers} [Mansfield, OH]
- May Fair {Cuil Cholum (Mynydd Seren)} [Columus, IN]
4 - Northshield Investiture & Coronet {Korsvag} [Fargo, ND]
- Pentamere Regional A&S {Fasach Mor} [Berkley, MI]
10-12 - Baron Wars V {Marshes} [Perrysburg, OH]
- Northshield Medieval Faire {Falcon's Keep} [Phelps, WI]

Another Local event coming up fast is Northern Oaken War Maneuvers:

If you have award recomendations please get them to Their Majesties as soon as possible, it helps them plan out their court and helps the scribes have time to finish the scrolls.

There will be set up for the event the weekend before, with free camping and a bonfire. Any guilds or fighters are welcome to come practice their crafts as well, there will be an archery range etc. See Crispin and Stephan von Lubek.

Cristina of the Black Rose Inn is the gatekeeper for the event, please give her your money! and shorten those lines at the Troll-booth on the day of the event.

Garvin the Slow is in charge of the feast on Saturday, it will be a buffet style feast, but some servers are needed to portion out the food, as well as kitchen help and pre-event cooking staff. See Garvin for details. The feast will have four removes, beef, lamb, seafood and pork, as well as vegitarian dishes.

There will be archery at the event, see Darius for details.

See Celeste if you've an opinion on if there should be middle eastern dance classes during the day or, as has been sugested, a henna party instead. Also anyone wishing to help out or assist with the hafla saturday evening please see Celeste.

Rutgur is the marshal in charge for the event and he reminded fighters to start practicing now at being hydrated.

SCA BUISNESS:

Some concern was mentioned about information being sent out on the email mailing list and that those who do not have access to email are not recieving this information. Milesent and Donasian are considering an archive of past posts, if you've imput on this please see them. Also thank you to everyone who's joined the list recently, and be aware there are other mailing lists as well for the Dance Guild, Cooks Guild, Scribes Guild and Archery Guild (oh, and a hearldry one soon, must remember to get that list made... )

The Fellowship of the Oaken Blade is once more raffling off a Schalger (rapier sword). The Schalger is the work of our own Gladius the Alchemist and a $175 value. Tickets cost $5, and only 175 tickets will be sold. The winner will be drawn on Sunday at Northern Oaken War Maneuvers, you do not have to be present to win. The proceeds this year are going to the building and supplying of five rubber-band cannons for the midrealm this war. The cannons are going to be named after local ladies of note, Clariel, Alys, Bronwen to name a few. Authorize as a rapier fighter and you can crew a cannon and be a melee god! (See Fitzranulf for details)

The Arts and Sciences sheet is on the table, if you've been doing anything let our A&S minister Edward Brackenburye know so he can write it into his report and make us look good. This means you, Guildmasters.

At this month's dessert revel, May 29th, Lady Alex is teaching a class on glass painting. Please bring a piece of glass to paint. It should be sturdy enough to handle baking in the oven. Clear glass works best. Lady Alex will supply paints and brushes. See her for details.

Aurora's T-Shirt Emporium is in buisness! T-Shirts cost $10 and come in a variety of sizes. The shirts are white, all cotton and bare the Cleftlands device proudly. See Aurora for details.

There have been changes in the rules for Combat Archery, you used to be able to authorize as Combat Archery as a primary authorization, that ended today. Now you must authorize as a fighter first, and then authorize as a combat archer as a secondary weapon style. See Ser Nick for details.

Duchess Emmelyne reported the proceeds for Coronation, our barony made $880 on the event and $880 were sent to the Kingdom.

Armourer's guild is meeting thursday night as usual, see Timothy for details. Also Timothy is putting in an order for Rattan.

Dance Guild is meeting Thursday May 9th at the Euclid Public Library, see Kathryn verch Rhys, Milesent, Hawise or your favorite dancer for details.

Archery is meeting on sunday at Lucus archery as usual, also Archery marshals your reports are due June 1st and Ian'd like to see Archery marshals after meeting to schedule who's marshalling at the next few practices.

Folklore enthusists, Peredur would love to talk with you after meeting over by the tree.

Milesent is updating the directory, it's here, check your information. She'll be bringing it to meeting until she's satisfied it's reasonably up to date and will send it to the printer. See me for details :)

The Chronicler is still interested in putting together a Cleftlands Literary Review, if you've any poetry, prose, fiction, non-fiction or black and white artwork on an SCA or medieval theme, please get it to Lyonnete or her lovely assistant Milesent :)

DEMOS:

May 5th there is a Dance Demo for Stone Creed Grove, at the River Grove Picnic area in the North Chagrin Reservation at 4:00pm. see the Dance Guild mistress for details.

May 10th there is a Demo for Whitney Middle School, that's a friday. see Darius asap if you can help out at this demo.

Friday May 24th there is a Demo for Shaker Heights, from around 3:30pm (when school closes) until 7:00pm. The students are putting on a medieval/renaissance faire and would like 'extras', jugglers, dancers, bards, etc.

June 30th and July 7th, both sundays, two demos for a camp of kids. See Lady Alex for Details.

Saturday August 24th there is an activities fair demo for the CWRU Medieval Society. See Jess, Lyonnete or Milesent for details.

Baycrafters is coming up fast this year, Darius would like all the planning to be done before Pennsic, see him for details.

There is a Demo coming up in October for Rainbow Babies, see Lady Alex for details, there are items being prepared as gifts for the children at that demo.

Thank you to everyone who helped out at the CWRU Medieval Society Demo on Saturday, Bastian, Olafr and Edward Brackenburye were there to help the CWRU students with their demo.

Non SCA:

Anyone who's just been waiting to see if Edward Fitzranulf would lower the price again, his Nissan Sentra is indeed still for sale. See him for details.

June 1st is the anual CWRU book sale, a great way to buy some rare books cheaply! Aldermouries is still gloating about buying a copy of the Visconti Hours (which normally retails for about $100) for ten bucks. See her for details, or your favorite CWRU person.

Euclid Library is having first aid and CPR classes on tuesdays and thursdays, see Elyane or the library for details.

Reported as faithfully as I am able,
In service,
Milesent