Meeting Minutes: 13-Jan-50

Pre-registration for Regular Event is now open. Prereg to save $2 per person.
There are still two staff positions to fill: Breakfast Tavern Coordinator and Merchant Coordinator.
There will be a raffle for those who volunteer at the event. Please donate prizes for the Volunteer rafflle.
Still looking for prizes for the Rapier Tourneys.
At the Armored Tourney, being organized by James Layne, each entrant will bring a prize ‘appropriate to his rank’ starting around $20 value. At the end, the victor of the tourney will have first choice among the prizes, and so down the line. Everyone who fights will take a prize home.

The Regional Rapier Marshal will be here next week to lead a class in Cut and Thrust. Auric has extra helmets available for those who want to try it.
Arts and science reports are due next week. Please send a report of your activity for the last quarter to MOAS@cleftlands.org, or post it on Facebook.
Velvet is now an authorized Youth Rapier Marshall. He’ll be leading classes and training at meeting from 7-7:30 each week. Children between 8 and 14 years may participate—please contact him if you know someone who may be interested.

Woodworkers meets tomorrow (Jan 14) at Meinhard’s. Please contact him for details at Meinhard.hammerschmidt@gmail.com.
Armorer’s Guild will be meeting at Ealdred’s garage tomorrow night. (Really, it’s fine. There’s a furnace!) Please contact him at 440-243-1419 for details.
Unofficial fencing practice is resuming this upcoming Sunday. Please contact Cynwrig for details at jimpretz@sbcglobal.net.
Cooks’ Guild will meet upstairs next Wednesday to begin assembling the Scappi menus. Please bring index cards with your proposed recipes.
The entries to the Siege Cookery Challenge will be presented at the Jan 27 Dessert Revel. Contact me atBaronessAngharad@gmail.com if you’re interested in participating.
Ginevra is organizing carpooling and shared housing to Terpsichore at the Tower: a dance event the first weekend in March. Please contact her if you’re interesting in attending this Royal Progress event at Ginevra.Boscoli@gmail.com.

This weekend there are two events within a reasonable distance: Kingdom Twelth Night in Chicago and Andelcrag Winter Revel in Ionia, MI. Please check their website for all the activities.
The travel challenge is still in effect: counting miles traveled to and from SCA events between the last NOWM and the upcoming January Event. Travel lots to raise your miles.
The Barons have issued an A&S challenge: do something NEW to you, and present it at the March Dessert Revel. As always, documentation is admired but not required.
The Barony of Brendoken finds it has a surplus of ballistas and ammo, but a surfeit of siege engineers. If you are interesting in serving as a siege engineer, please contact them on Facebook, or ask Constanza for the Brendoken Siege Engineer contact.