Archive : Minutes : 4-30-03

Lord Nial opened the meeting with a reminder to please pay your tithe. The tithe basket is in doors tonight, and can be hard to find when we meet outside, please remember we do pay for this site. We ask $1 from everyone, $2 from combatants.

With the warmer weather buisness meeting will be held indoors until there is light enough to permitt it outdoors.

Events:

16-18-  Baron Wars {Marche of the Marches} [Perrysburg, OH]
-  Quest for Camelot {Schattentor} [Rapid City, SD]
- Aethelmarc War Practice (Barony of the Debatable Lands) [Cooper's Lake, PA]
17-  Spring Faire {Fearanne na Criche} [Richville, MI]

NOWM:

The event is only 3 weeks away now! If you want to make award recomendations, make 'em now! Late recomendations make the scribes cranky and they may just take it outta your hide!

Mathias still has a few spots open for kitchen help, see him if you'd like to help out in the kitchen. Also bread bakers are needed! If you can bake a few loaves, see Mathais.

Rutgur's looking for someone to mind the list table for the heavy weapons combat at the event. See him.

Seadna is taking reservations! Pre-reg now for NOWM, or see her deputy Sarah Rex. (Akizuki Chako)

Timothy's in charge of security, see him if you'd like to help out.

Darius is in charge of waterbearers, please rinse out and thoroughly clean your milk jugs! Also see him if you'd like to help the day of the event.

There will be Rapier melees, authorizations and a novice tourney. Snowden's definition of 'novice' is anyone who has not won a tourney. See her for details.

Yseult will be teaching the Authenticity Policewoman's academy and Pietro's helping her out creating the Aunthenticity Policeman's Lineup. If you have BAD GARB to show or pictures of Bad Garb, please let him know. He promises to blur out the faces to protect the guilty. (if you'd like to teach a class at the event, see Edward Brackenburye)

There will be archery at the event, a children's shoot and novelty shoots as well as war practice. James Barkley is archery marshal for nowm.

SCA Buisness:

There will be a Dance Guild meeting monday at the Euclid Public Library, see your favorite dancer for directions (it's not far from regular meeting site) at the meeting we'll be practicing dances for the Video Project. The guild is meeting at Brandywine on Saturday May 31st to shoot more footage for a longer dance video, see Kathrine verch Rhys, Hawise or Hely for details. Also there is a poll on the table, please check a box and vote on how you feel dancing should be handled in your barony. You do not need to be a dancer to fill out a poll.

Baron Wars is the Oaken Regeonal Rapier Championship, if you know a Rapier combatant please encourage them to attend, the Cleftlands fencers are tired of just fencing each other all the time ;) See Snowden for details

Armourer's guild is meeting thursday night as usual. Be the next guild master, no experience necessary, see Timothy for details.

Elena and Guenhwyfar issued a challenge to our new scribes. If you are a new scribe as of January, produce a scroll for Northern Oaken War Maneuvers. Three excellent prizes will be given for the best Illumination and three prizes for the best calligraphy including the Medieval Miscellany book, Drogan's Medieval Calligraphy book, brushes, pen nibs, paint and more!

Ceinwen is resigning as mistress of the Baronial Gold Key, if you have a nice closet, see Ceinwen to volunteer to take the big box off her hands! Or her lovely assistant Rutgur.

There will be no archery practice this Sunday, and a quick Archery guild meeting will be held after buisness meeting at Dessert Revel, see Elayne Von K. for details.

The Directory is out. Database administration by Brian, Printing by Bastian and data entry by Milesent. It is, naturally, already out of date! If you have incorrect info please get it to Milesent for next year's directory ;)

DEMOS:

Monday May 26th (Memorial day) The City of Euclid would like us to participate in their parade, see Darius for details. They'll be meeting at the Lakeshore theater, it should only take an hour or so, if you can't make it but can donate garb for someone else to wear, please do!

Baycrafters is coming up fast, pavilions and shade are needed, a land-coordinator to help set up the tents, many volunteers and tourney prizes for the heavy and rapier tournements. See Lady Alex if you've a tourney prize to donate.

The next weekend is the Euclid City Faire, this is going to be a bit like Baycrafters light, and if they're impressed with us we may get a discount on our meeting space, oooo.

Darius is resigning as Demo Coordinator, if you're interested in the job see him.

Non-SCA:

Gallery Cafe on 185th street hosts middle eastern dancing every monday and a drum circle on thursdays

Katherine verch Rhys is hoping to donate proceeds from her tupperware sales to a worthy cause at Marcon, see her if you need tupperware.

Angharad cleaned out her spice cabinet, take!

War Horse Productions which handles the jousting at the Great Lakes Medieval Faire each year is looking for squires, Theresa has information.

From the Baron and Baroness:

We have a new King and Queen, for those who missed it, you missed one heck of a Coronation complete with horses, but don't worry there'll be another one in six months.

It's now not only Tupperware season, it's melee season. Take care of your fighters, make sure they have plenty of water and since the armour can be heavy to carry upstairs after fighting make sure that anything important announced at our buisness meeting gets back down to them.

Pennsic is not too far away, if you've not started your project for this Pennsic, it's probably too late!

Also, open windows will not break your fall. Please be careful, we do tend to open these windows rather far for air but we are fairly high off the ground.

There are some cleftlanders fighting in Crown Tournement in a couple weeks, it's not that far away, go cheer them on and see some of the most remarkable fighting.

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