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4/17/2012

Present at this meeting: Abelard, Moira, Tatiana, Typhaine, Myfanway, Corin, Hafgrimm, Magnus, Jean, Dahrien, Mysie, Ambrose, Jean Baptiste, Sigrid de la Mare, Gabrielle, Caitlin, Murdoch, Marcella, Albrecht, Eva, Kateryn, Arnbjorn

Officer Reports:
Seneschal Note: Nikea is not present because she's taking care of Julianna post-surgery. Kateryn is acting as Deputy Seneschal.
Baron and Baroness: We went to Coronation and it was great. His Majesty Northshield offered the army to His Majesty Midrealm, and was informed that the Northshield army "won't be needed" because Midrealm and the East have united this year. Instead, the Children of the Dragon and the Children of the Tiger will unite against their parents. The Metal Moot is coming, Spring Court is coming - please send in award recommendations. Happy to see so many people at Curia! Also, Crown is coming and Their Excellencies are going. They need things for gift baskets! Please drop off donations by May 9 (the Wednesday night before Crown).
Chatelaine: Read the Tower. Lots of new people, keep your eye out for them. Sometime before Coronation Baroness Kateryn will teach a class about court manners, etiquette, and 'how to recognize a hat'. The loaner garb (gold key) will be there as well. And be aware that we use a lot of jargon which won't make sense to new people, so you might have to stop and explain yourself as you're talking to them.
Exchequer: We still have money. We have a new Exchequer: THL Moira. Be aware that she's quite fond of saying 'no'. Working on the transition of the office.
QuarterMaster: Went to the storage locker and confirmed that there's stuff in it. Didn't do inventory last weekend because he went to Coronation instead, so he'll try to do it this week instead. If you have items which should be in the locker, please let him know.
Herald: If you want your name and/or device registered, let the herald know. Tower articles will include information about 'heraldese'.
Minister of Children: Still waiting for his warrant. Nikea will follow up.
Chronicler: Articles are due by Sunday (4/22). Please write articles, and remember that all officers should submit reports as well.
Webminister: Hafgrim has announced his intent to be the new deputy for a month and then to be the new webminister, following a 'behind the scenes' tour of the site. If you have information for the Border Skirmish website, please send it to the Ravenslake WebMinister. If you have information for the Youth Event, please send it to ours.
Minister of Arts and Sciences: Garlic Wine is on April 29. The Metal Moot/Playing With Fire is May 5. (More information later in this missive.) Typhaine will step in as the new MoAS. She's a self-described A&S geek, and will have 'office hours' at practices. She intends to be a database of resources, and will promote conversation of A&S and projects on the CAM email list. And she'll be teaching A&S for kids too.
Knights Marshal: We have practice at Marquette Monday nights until the first week of May, and Tuesday nights at Stritch until the second week of May. (Need to confirm these dates with the students.) Will switch to Thursday nights outdoors at KK Park the first week of May, more information forthcoming. Probably also outdoors on Sunday afternoons.
Archery: Will start shooting outdoors May 14 - rotating Monday nights between Whitnall Park and Menomonee Park, Thursdays at KK Park.
Other Missile Weapons: Marquette is having a treb day on May 5. Meet at the Marquette Physics building at 1ish.
Seneschal: Read the Tower.

Old Business:
April Moot: April 28, 1:30-7:30 at the Schuetze Center in Frane Park in Waukesha. Bring what you want. Only planned activities are fighting and Court, but if you want to teach classes please contact Tatiana and Jean. (Tatiana's in charge while she's there but can't stay all day; Jean will take over when she leaves.) There is no kitchen, but there are outlets. Also, there's no place to clean feast gear; if you bring feast gear, also bring a bag to transport your dirty dishes home.
Metal Moot: May 4, 5, 6 at Albrecht and Eva's house. Will have at least two forges. We'll have a particular project in mind (making a coal shovel) which will teach different blacksmithing techniques. We'll also have pewter casting. If armorers want to bring basic equipment and work on that, that's fine too. We can also cook outdoors. It's the evening of the 4th, all day on the 5th, and some of the day on the 6th. More information will be coming.
Youth Event: The website is up. Corydon is making crowns for the kids. We have the castle for the kids to sleep in. The challenge is all put together. Special guests are coming!
Border Skirmish: Mysie is sponsoring a big warlord tournament with lots of prizes for the winning team. Julianna is working on the Break Feast (breakfast feast) and could use help. Tatiana is bringing the tavern, providing dinner Friday night, and lunch and dinner Saturday, roughly 11-8. (Different food for different meals.) Royal Court will likely be in the morning, and there will almost definitely be no Baronial Court.
Coronation: The theme is "Northshield - Bring Out Your A-Game". Will have high-ranking people from the University to impress, as well as the usual high-ranking Northshield people. Let's showcase what we're all about. Please bring banners and banner stands because we can't hang anything from the walls. We will have heavy fighting but no rapier, details contingent on the incoming royalty. (Rapiers are banned from campus because of a strict 'no weapons' policy. Heavy weapons fall under the category of 'sports equipment'.) There are still openings for staff positions.
Boar's Head: The theme is 'Celebration of Travellers'. The website will be up soon. Katerina is sponsoring an Arts and Sciences Pentathalon. We've sent in the contract and the check. Julianna is looking into lunch options. We can do the cookie caper if we pay 18% to the site, which is standard; it's a good fundraiser so we'd like to do it again. Please bring banners to decorate the hall - we probably won't hang them from the rafters. We'll have fewer merchants. We won't have the bleachers. And we can't use the outlets without paying lots of money for them. There are still open staff positions - contact Tatiana.

New Business:
Curia Meetings in June/July/August: We discussed and voted, and decided that we will have June and August in Brookfield (assuming it's available) and no Curia in July.
Wisconsin Scottish Highland Games Demo: It's Labor Day. We discussed and decided that we're too busy this year so we can't make it.

Guilds and Groups:
Brewing and Vintnig: We brewed an Irish Stout - bottling will be at the *Garlic Wine session on April 29. Also, making Garlic Wine on April 29.
Herbal and Cooking: We'll set something up.
Marquette: School year ends May 5, so practices will end then as well. Treb launch on May 5.
Stritch: Demo on May 1. Students will be available as early as 4, though the demo doesn't start till 7:30. Please bring stuff! Will have tables for A&S, fighting, and maybe tents/pavilions. Next week's "A&S at fighter's practice" activity is embroidery. Last day of classes is May 11.

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3/20/2012
Officer Reports:
Baron & Baroness: Spring Court is coming. Put in award recommendations! Come play and enjoy the weather. Coronation is coming up (April 14), and we need gifts for Their (incoming) Majesties. Tokens, jewelery, or whatever - we'd like to put together a bundle of items for them, but have run out. Please talk to Their Excellencies if you have items to donate. Border Skirmish is also on the horizon, and we need volunteers. Talk to Astrid or Leif. If you want to try a position you've never tried, they can set you up with a more experienced backup. We'll also have a breakfast feast at that event, and will need volunteers specifically for that. (Talk to Julianna about that.)
Chatelaine: Welcome to Ulrich and Illaria (sorry about misspelling your names), people who moved here from the Outlands (New Mexico). Chatelaine will start pushing the Bayview Bash soon - let's make it bigger and better. If you want to run it in the future or have ideas, let her know. We're really building a presence at that demo, so let's continue to do so.
Exchequer: The check for the settlement is done. The money market account is closed. We still have money. We haven't made a deposit yet for Border Skirmish and we probably need to. The office is open, and please be aware that we must have an Exchequer in order to remain an SCA group. Please send a letter or intent to the Baron, Baroness, Seeneschal, and Exchequer.
Quartermaster: We have stuff. Going to do a fresh inventory. There's a check-in/check-out form on a clipboard at the storage locker somewhere, which Jean will dig out - please use it. If you have things that belong in the storage locker, please return them to the locker or give them to Jean at fighter's practice.
Herald: If you want the Herald to look something up, or you need her to shout, please let her know.
Minister of Children: Has filled out the background check and is waiting to receive his clearance letter.
Chronicler: Articles are due by Sunday (March 25). If you reply to her email, please change the subject line (remove CAM from it) so that it doesn't go into the CAM folder and get lost. You don't have to be an officer to write for the Tower - please submit any articles, letters, art, or whatever.
Webminister: Abelard is awesome. Dahrien's office is ending - he's willing to keep maintaining the website if someone else wants the title. (Please submit letters of intent to Baron, Baroness, Seneschal, and Webminister.) The Youth Event website is up.
Minister of Arts and Sciences: We had a Heraldic Project Day, which was great. This weekend is a Stout Making Day (Sunday, March 25) at Longstrider Manor (Kateryn's house). Next month we're having a Garlic Wine Making Day. Coming up soon is a 14th Century Garb day. The office is open - please submit letters of intent to Baron, Baroness, Seneschal, and MOAS.
Knights Marshal: Akira's life should get less busy soon. He's still working on securing practice space at Bucketworks - he should have a proposal next week or so. It might be time to consider outdoor practices.
Archery Marshal: Practice is still Mondays at West Town Archery. (Note, new location.)
Seneschal: Any contacts must be signed by the Seneschal. (This will be added to the Kingdom Bylaws officially, but for the moment be aware that it's the rule.) All open offices, moots, etc - please help, volunteer, and participate. We must keep officer positions filled in order to stay a valid SCA group.

Old Business:
Metal Moot: Working on finalizing the site. This will be a mini-event, reprising the metal moot from a few years ago. The location has a forge and other equipment that we'll need, and we should have the site for Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday (May 4, 5, 6). We'd like people to pre-register so that we know how much coal and other materials to get. Volunteers and participants welcome!
Spring Court: April 28 from 1:30-7:30 at the Schuetze Recreation Center in Frame Park in Waukesha. There will be fighting, and there will be court. Note: some of the people involved will be leaving early to attend a wedding that day. If anyone wants to teach or hold a planned activity, please let Tatiana know. (Katerina will be in charge when Tatiana's not there, but Tatiana's still the Event Steward.)
Cam 40th Anniversary (Gawain Event): Valerius and Arnbjorn brought their presentation again. They propose: CAM's 40th Anniversary should have a theme of Gawain and the Green Knight, September 26, 2015. The event will be at DeKoven in Racine and focus on the Arthurian Mythos. It will be a "full" immersive opportunity to play within part of the story. There will be a quest on the grounds to mimic Gawain's quest for enlightenment. There will be a pas - each team will be sponsored by the Knights of the Round Table. Feast and Court will be combined and will also be part of the quest. (We will offer a high feast and a low feast, based on the feasts presented in the book.) This is not meant to be exclusive, but we will provide lots of opportunities for people to make heraldry and clothing appropriate to the period. We need to submit a $500 non-refundable deposit in order to secure the dates, and six months before the event we will need to pay the remaining balance ($2500). This money is refundable only if the DeKoven Center can re-book the space. Note: We need to cap attendance based on occupancy limitations at the site. The proposed cap is 250 people. (The break-even point for this is a site fee of $21.50 per person.) We have the chapel, gymnasium, assembly hall, great hall, and the grounds. (Lodging is also available on site.) Comments from people at the meeting: People all over the country are already interested in this event, even with the site fee so much higher than other SCA events. It's critical that we start talking this up *now* and get the seeds planted and the challenges issued. The Curia voted that we make the $500 deposit, and two weeks before the six-month deadline (March of 2015) we decide if we have enough interest and pre-registrations (suggested 75%) to make the final deposit of $2500 and go forward. (A note: the Baronial Championships could be moved to the Legends Moot that year.)
Border Skirmish 2012: Most positions are filled. Contact Astrid and Leif, and if they don't get back to you contact them again. (When contacting Astrid, use the Polaris Signet address because she doesn't check her other email address as often.) The Tavern will be there to serve lunch and dinner, the Quave (coffee house) will be there as well. Assuming that Their Majesties have Court at the regular time - Saturday afternoon, after fighting - there will not be a Baronial Court because Their Excellencies will be at a graduation. Note: This site has showers, trees, electricity, flushies, and parking.
Boar's Head: Tatiana and Julianna are the event stewardss, Katerina is the deputy. The theme is Celebration of Travelers. The site token will probably be a pilgrim's badge. They're trying to make it more interesting, and there will be more information in the Tower. Will sign the contract for the site tonight.

New Business:
Youth Event: Typhaine and Nikea are the event stewards. The event will be May 25-27 at Camp Rokilio (where the last one was). The theme is the History and Values of Northshield, as exemplified by Sir Conn at Gwyneth's Investure. (As Her champion, Conn was tasked to find people who exemplified the knightly virtues, and he did so.) We have a feast steward. There are many planned activities. The kids will form a compass rose with lights, and there will be special guests invited to embody the virtues. (See the website at http://caeranterth.northshield.org/Calendar/YouthEvent/2012/index.php for more details about the activities.) This event should be a big deal for us - please talk it up and make it so.
Coronation: We have submitted the six page bid and it has been accepted. Event will be September 8 at Cardinal Stritch University. There will be a site fee of $5. Feast will be $15 for high feast and $13 for low feast. The feast will be catered - don't bring feast gear. We should finish the Baronial banners! If you want to help, talk to the event stewards Nikea, Alice, and Julianna.
Curia location: Some people have expressed displeasure at splitting Curia between two locations. (People don't like attending only half of the meetings due to distance, people don't feel that they are 'in tune' with the Curia or aware of what's going on.) There will be more discussion on this topic in the future.

Guilds and Groups:
Cooking and Herbal: On hold until they can decide on a date and location.
A&S 50 Projects: Going well. Had an embroidery class last week and learned three stitches. Sunday (March 25) we're making Stout. Next month is Garlic Wine. April 1 is African Dance at Longstrider Manor. We'll learn to make glass beads at the Legends Moot, and 6 and 10 panel dresses at a Project Day at Marquette.
Vintning and Brewing: Jean is taking it over. Stout Day will be the first activity, March 25 at Longstrider Manor. He will also write articles about brewing for the Tower. There will be a Brewing Day coming - maybe at Legends Moot. Please save your leftover grains for making bread...
Marquette: 3/22 class on rivets, buckles, and straps. 3/29 class on candles and candle clocks. Still have practice on Monday nights. Hoping to attend upcoming events such as Bardic Madness. Project Day March 31 - would love to see CAM folks there. Will have something for the Tower.
Stritch: Will have something for the Tower. Finally have permission to a demo on campus, which they've scehduled for April 3 (a Tuesday night). This will be instead of fighter's practice. They also invite everyone to practice embroidery at practice on March 28th, and will be encouraging different projects at future practices. And please let the group know if you have fundraising ideas.

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2/21/2012
Officer Reports:
Baron and Baroness: We had an emergency Curia meeting to discuss the settlement, and that's all taken care of. Thank you all for your support, financial and otherwise. There are lots of things coming up. Thank you, Arnbjorn, for the Heraldry Moot. Keep up the good work!
Chatelaine: Read the Tower.
Exchequer: Having paid our portion of the settlement, the checking account is too low to handle the payments we anticipate for the next year. We also have money in a money market account. Recommend moving the money from the money market account to either a Not-For-Profit Savings Account or to the primary checking account. (Interest in the money market is roughly 1.5%, interest in an NPF Savings Account would be .1%.) We voted to move the money from the money market to the primary checking account. Another thing: Should we allow electronic transfers into our checking account, for purposes of donations? Recommendation: let's look into ACCEPS (which sca.org uses), PayPal, and standard electronic transfer. Also, the Exchequer office is going to be open soon. Please send letters of intent to the Seneschal, Baron & Baroness, and Exchequer.
Herald: Had a great Heraldic Moot. Almost finished my banner! Lots of people learned about (and tried) silk painting, lots of people spent time with the book heralds, and Guinevere's class was very informative. Now we all know the difference between a tabard and a surcoat! In other news, I'm your new Herald, having received the badge of office.
Minister of Children: Has sent in the background check paperwork.
Chronicler: Deadline for new Tower submissions is next Sunday, Feb 26. Please send them in on time, with a subject line that indicates that your email is for the Tower. Anyone can write articles or submit photos or art. We want to get a count of how many people actually read the Tower online; if people aren't reading it every month maybe we don't have to publish it that often.
Web Minister: Term of office expires in May. Willing to continue if people want me to, or to step down, or to keep doing the work while someone else holds the title and attends meetings and turns in reports. Note: Web Minister does not have an active deputy. Check on the website to find out when officers' terms are expiring.
Minister of Arts and Sciences: Typhaine is the new deputy. She'd like to hold another chausses/cotehardies day in March, possibly 3/10 or 3/31. Also, we'll be having a Metal Working Moot, but it won't be safe for children. It'll be the first weekend in May at a shop near Capitol and Port Washington.
Knights Marshal: Armored combat is in good health so far. We have two weekly practices hosted by the colleges, and I am continuing to work with Bucketworks to secure availability for additional practices. (We have some great talent in our area and to make the most of it lots of practice is required by those with the desire to achieve their best. It is my goal to secure 3+ slots of martial arts training to be available to local SCA martial artists. Some of the SCA 'Legends' achieved their status by being able to practice 4-5 times a week. I want that kind of opportunity for all our local fighters.) I will be meeting with the new head of Bucketworks (Tim Syth) - James (the previous head of Bucketworks) is now leading a different larger aspect of the organization. Tim likes the ideas I have brought forth to him, and later this week we will be meeting in person to go over some more options. This includes continued 'free use' of space for small groups under the Angry Young Men, Limited membership, but I will also be discussing what options would be ($) for the local fighter base to have its own membership (and its own keys, and dedicated space beyond just available open space) as well as a general fitness area in Bucketworks. While I strongly support the college practices and am grateful for them, I believe finding an indoor site that is control of the local SCA fighters year-round - either as a group of individuals (as per the old key site) or through Baronial support (which I wouldn't turn down, but neither expect) - is the best way to grow the local fighter base in both quality and quantity. Having our own keys and dedicated space would mean 24/7 access, as long as one of the two keyholders could be there. Options for additional keyholders may be possible as well.
Seneschal: See the Tower.

Old Business:
Boar's Head 2012: We had decided last year that BH2012 would be run by the officers of Curia. We have received a bid from some other interested folks (Julianna and Tatiana). The Curia voted to make them the event stewards and shelve the existing plans for the event. Note: Boar's Head will be December 8 at the Waukesha Expo Center. (Also, Nikea handed off the contract to Julianna and Tatiana, who need to sign it and put down the deposit.)
Settlement: We donated some money and covered some other groups. See the Emergency Curia Notes on the website for more details.
Heraldry Project Day: Great time. Lots of consulting and other things. Arnbjorn wants everybody to know that he actually needs three color copies of submissions, not two as previously stated. He's looking forward to lots of submissions as a result, and we're all looking forward to new banners.
Border Skirmish 2012: Since it's CAM's year to host Border Skirmish, Astrid is hoping to get the members of Curia to head up their areas in wrangling folks to be in charge of those activities. If not, we're asking for assistance in directing us to people who we can contact to cover those areas. We will need all areas covered, including children's activities and boffer fighting. Areas of interest we need filled are: Troll (Astrid will handle pre-reg), Heavy Weapons, Rapier, Archery/Thrown Weapons, A&S, Class Coordinator, Herald, Children's Activities, Security, Bardic, Games. Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in making this year's Border Skirmish the bestest evah! Side note: The theme this year is 'It's Only A Game'.

New Business:
MOAS: The office of Minister of Arts and Sciences is open a little early. Please submit letters of intent to the Seneschal and Baron and Baroness. We'll make a decision by April Curia.
Spring Court Moot: Tatiana has been looking for a site, and would like to reserve the Schutz Recreation Center Activities Room (in Waukesha) for April 28th. Will cost $180 - requires a deposit of $400, but we get the extra back. We voted to do this. Event will either be 2-8 or 1:30-7:30, and we have to clean up afterwards.
Legends Moot: Will include beadwork/lampwork/glass and brewing beer. More information to come.
Yule Moot: Katerina has reserved the Waukesha County Beachhouse for December 12 (12/15/12) as a fallback location and date because she has to wait until October to reserve it for the date she really wants, which is January 19 (1/19/13). We are allowed to rent this space for any non-martial activities. The theme will be 'Winter Games', and the event will include using a trebuchet to throw snowballs into the lake. (Not at each other, because that would be a martial activity.)
CAM 40th Anniversary: We looked at an event proposal from Valerius and Arnbjorn to hold the CAM 40th Anniversary at the DeKoven Center in Racine on September 26, 2015 (9/26/15). The theme will be Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Katlin would be the feast steward. From the proposal: "The concept for the event is a full-immersion experience based on the 14th century poem 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. The basic synopsis is: At Arthur's Yule Court a Mysterious Knight, all in green (with green skin and hair, and a green horse) arrives and challenges the knights to a wager. Gawain accepts and beheads the knight, who picks up his head and orders Gawain to meet him at the Green Chapel in one year's time to accept the return blow. Gawain goes through various trials before meeting the Green Knight and earning his respect." This event will recreate the poem's 14th century minuet, with a higher-than-usual expectation of period authenticity. The event's activities will be bease on the 3-4 scenarios depicted in the poem, including various Arthurian elements such as the quest. Prior to the event CAM will have book club nights to read and discuss the poem (possibly including different variations of the tale), and clothes-making days to help those who wish to make 14th century attire. Regarding the feast, Katlin has suggested a dayboard for lunch and an evening high feast and low feast, recreating the feast as described in the book. The event will be advertised as 'full immersion', meaning that nothing modern is visible and people will be expected to be in 'full high persona'. ("Bring your A Game.") We will have fighting in the form of a Pas (as described in the poem), with a gallery to determine the winners. Period entertainment for the kids, such as puppet shows. Assume no merchants. Note: we may have to cap attendance at 250 people based on occupancy restrictions. We then discussed the proposed pricing ($25 per person, plus feast). Some people think it's too much money for an event, others think it will be fine because we have plenty of time to build hype and getting people excited. Would like a $500 deposit to reserve the DeKoven Center for September 26, 2015 (9/26/15). We need to know the cancellation and refund policy before we approve this - tabled until March.

Guilds and Groups:
Herbal Cooking Guild: Hope to meet in March, or else April; more details as they become available.
Brewing and Vintning: Geoffrey will teach a class about garlic wine once he's healed enough. Might make beer at the Legends Moot, the grains from which will then be used to make bread. Katerina is still cleaning the house to prepare for meetings there, and is trying to get information and the charter from the previous head of the guild.
A&S 50: The first project is done (silk banner making)! Plan to do an embroidery class, taught by Lewina, at her home or the library. Intend also to do something at the Metal Moot, and to do wood carving. African Dance will meet Sunday (2/26) at 2 at Longstrider Manor. Dahrien will add an A&S 50 Projects section to the website and the calendar.
C&I: Eva is trying to get C&I started again. It will probably be Sunday afternoons, once or twice a month, including field trips to Fort Atkinson and Kenosha to learn from people who live there. Working on dates now.
Marquette: Temporary hold on loaning out the armor while they categorize/list it all. Held a puppy chow sale to raise money. They need an adult sponsor (someone older than 21) for Gulf Wars - please contact Amanda. Thursday night meetings will feature movie night once a month, as well as classes (they will get us a list of what they'd like to learn) and projects.
Stritch: Thank you for attending the Heraldry Moot. We need to discuss Curia dates for the dates that the College isn't available (June and August). Three of the Stritch students intend to be at Fighter's School. Fighter's practices have changed to Tuesdays to accomodate class schedules, including fighting after Curia meetings. They'll know as of March 10 if they're going to be hosting Coronation. They're having Club Carnival on Wednesday Feb 29 from 11-1, and would like people to show up if they can.

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02/12/2012 - Emergency meeting on a Sunday to decide a special issue

MAIN TOPIC

This meeting was held to dicuss a Baronial payment and possible donation; read on. A couple of other unrelated topics were briefly touched on, since we happened to be together, but that was the reason for the meeting and main topic of discussion.

The following is quoted from www.sca.org/BOD/announcements/settlementannouncement1.doc - Google Quick View and www.sca.org/BOD/announcements/settlementFAQ.doc - Google Quick View:

"The Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. (SCA) has been operating under the burden of a massive and difficult legal battle that has critically drained resources and caused significant ongoing difficulties for the organization. In October 2011, the board of the SCA and its legal counsel were finally able to resolve this issue, but not without significant financial costs."

We will not try to elaborate further in these notes, so that we can avoid accidental misinformation or misunderstanding. If you wish more information and detail, follow the links above, which take you to documents hosted on the SCA's official website.

The important thing to know for the purpose of understanding these notes and the reason for this meeting is that the SCA has financial debt which it can only meet by using money from all of its branches; money belonging to any part of the SCA does belong to the SCA. To meet their obligation, the SCA requires a fixed percentage from each branch of any level (essentially, from each SCA bank account). Each Kingdom must send the total due for itself and all of its branches, and may collect that money in any way which it sees fit. Our Kingdom, Northshield, will pay the total amount out of its coffers, and asks all of its groups to pay what it can of their own calculated debt, but not to pay more than what they can afford to spare. If a group can pay its full amount, great; if it can pay extra to help offset another group's portion, great. But we're told that no group should leave itself without enough money to conduct its business. We had this meeting for the officers and anyone else in the Barony interested in discussing our group's payment.

On the Wednesday before the meeting, our Baron and Baroness participated in a conference call with the King and Queen, Northshield's other Baronage, and the Stallari Council. If you send a personal donation to the Kingdom, it will lessen the amount the Kingdom has to pay; if you send to corporate, it will not lessen the *Kingdom* burden, but will go to help offset corporate costs. The SCA had policies with two insurance companies to cover debt of the current sort, one of which eventually paid. The SCA's lawyers are confident that we will eventually win a lawsuit to make the second insurance company pay on its policy, and if and when they do, the SCA will distribute any recovered monies back to the Kingdoms; and Northshield will make sure that local groups get their monies back before the Kingdom confers are refilled. The SCA and Northshield's leaders want to make sure that all people understand what is happening. The King and Queen prefer that you send any private donations to Northshield or your local group to help cover those expenses. [Note that the branch payments in total were calculated to pay the SCA's total remaining debt from the settlement, so "extra donations beyond the branch contributions" should not be necessary for these legal costs; thus, your donations through your local group or Kingdom will help offset their expenses -- and if moneys they donated are refunded, your money has become a donation to your group or Kingdom, rather than being distributed throughout the Society. The Board of Directors (BOD) also suggests that private donations go to Kingdoms or local groups, in this short letter.]

As the group at this meeting was talking about donating extra money to help defray costs for less-rich groups, Dahrien suggested that we should be sure to hold in reserve at least enough to cover our three upcoming events: Youth Event, Border Skirmish and Boar's Head. Exchequer Magnus said he thought that we only need to cover the first two, since those will bring in money to help with the third, and he thinks we would be okay. Boar's Head deposit is $2,000 (erring on the side of caution), and the others are about $1,000 for the Youth Event and about $3,000 for Border Skirmish. So, basically, keeping approximately $6,000 on hand would be good in the Seneschal's eyes.

The group decided to pay our own full amount and donate an additional $2,220, for a total of $6,200; the donation amount will cover payments for the next four smallest group payments not already covered by Nordskogen (plus a few cents), those being:

Group	Debt
Shattered Oak	$610.50
Trewint/Western Keep	$609.76
Tor Aerie (Nordskogen)	$570.49
Rokeclif	$428.55
TOTAL:	$2,219.30

Miscellaneous ...

There have been corporate charges. Youth now has its own director. They are pushing for stronger presence of youth and looking for youth officers.

President of the SCA has two directives:
#1 HAVE FUN. This is a game, have fun.
#2 Make the game fun for everyone: youth, fighters, non fighters, everyone.

All contracts have to go through the Seneschal, and the Seneschal has to go over every word, to make sure that they all fit guidelines.

Currently there are 13 subsidiaries of the SCA (Like SCA WI, Inc), and they are shooting to get 55 over the next couple of years.

Curia Meetings Will Remain On Tuesdays

END RESULT OF THIS ITEM IS NO CHANGE.

Cardinal Stritch group is moving fighting practice to Tuesdays (see Calendar). They said that they would cancel on nights that there was Curia, or schedule for later, if we wanted. They are planning longer practice hours than other weeknight practices, anyway, from 7-11pm; and Curia always ends earlier than that.

The question was asked, "Should we move Curia to a different day?" Magnus and Corin both state that there are plenty of practices, and Curia is important and needs to stay on the same night and time. Dahrien agreed, and others did as well, and it was decided that Curia will remain on Tuesdays.

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1/17/2012
Officer Reports:
Baron and Baroness: Had some people ask about starting dancing again - how do we restart it again and make it fun? And not too stuffy? We need a space and someone who can teach it. We've been getting more award recommendations - thank you! Keep your eyes open for new sites. Regular practices at the colleges will be starting soon, which is a good chance to broaden our horizons and recruit new folks. Flesh Wound is coming soon, and we'd like to make a good showing. (It's on our lands and we've never seen any compensation for it.) Also, we would like to request some support for awards - largesse and tokens would be most welcome. (Scroll blanks, trinkets, whatever would be cool.)
Webminister: Not much is different from last month. Read the Tower!
Chatelaine: Nothing to report.
Exchequer: Boar's Head report is done. We still have money. Will be stepping down in April - please send letters of intent to Baron, Baroness, Seneschal, and Exchequer.
QuarterMaster: Will be stepping down in April.
Herald: Had three people approach me with devices (two) and names (one) which had been rejected, and they want to re-submit. Anbjorn has been transferring things to me (like the library), but he will be running the Heraldic Day Moot in February. If anyone wants to work on names, devices, or whatever, talk to Kateryn.
Chronicler: Handing office over to Tatiana. Send articles and reports by Jan 22.
Knights Marshal: Akira is the new Knights Marshal. Practices at Stritch, Sundays 1-4. Monday 1/23 at Bucketworks, 6:30-9:30. Marquette starts again 1/30, 7-9.
Archery: Monday nights at West Town. Come shoot!
Seneschal: Read the Tower.

Old Business:
Border Skirmish: Astrid is meeting with Ravenslake regarding offices and positions and locking in prices for things like portapotties. We have signed the contract with Walworth County Fairgrounds.

New Business:
Heraldic Project Day: This is to encourage more usage and display of heraldic materials - banners, devices, crests, etc. It's February 18 from 11-6 at Cardinal Stritch. We'll have classes about silk banners, the submission process, conflicts, and the heraldic library. If you want to see or learn anything specific, please ask Arnbjorn and he'll arrange it. Come play!
Heritage Weekend Demo: Lisbon (near Murton) has a living history weekend, which draws re-enactors from a really wide variety of living history groups (from the Romans to Vietnam). Are we interested in joining them for a demo weekend? Aug 11-12 (the last weekend of Pennsic). Camping is allowed, but encampments must be period during 'public' hours (8:30-4:30). Period dress only during that time - nothing non-period can be visible. This is open to any living history group.
Yule Moot: Let's move it to January. Katarina will be the moot steward. Location is TBD.
Metal Working Moot/"Bring Your Own Fire Moot": Sometime in Spring or Summer. A chance to work with smithing, forging, pewter casting, glass work, lampwork, etc. Need a location, which should be outside (though we need cover for some demonstrations). Possible locations - Little Aaron has a shop with a forge and plenty of outdoor space. Maybe the local colleges have space? What about Bucketworks?
African Dance: Nikea is offering a class starting in late February which will meet twice a month.
A&S 50 Challenge: There's an A&S 50 Challenge, to celebrate the SCA's 50th anniversary. People are encouraged to learn or do 50 new things, do 50 of the same thing, or do 50 things your persona would do. We should participate and keep a record, which we could post on the website (with pictures).
Equipment needs for the Barony: Kateryn purchased some walkie-talkies for the Barony and would like to be reimbursed. Voted and approved.
Boar's Head 2012 Scheduling: Washington County only has one building available on Dec 1 (the first weekend in December), so Nikea has requested that they pencil us in for Dec 8 weekend. Also, they have raised their prices - this year cost $3850 for both buildings, next year will be $3400 for one building, plus $.50 per person, plus $100 per hour for the cherry-picker to hang banners. We should look at alternate sites - Waukesha County, for instance, which has better kitchens now. Arnbjorn will look into Waukesha County, Kateryn will look into another possibility, and they will bring their findings back to the group.
Boar's Head 2012 - Change it up!: Boar's Head is boring. What would make it more fun (for non-fighters)? Classes that are more workshoppy - look at the Northshield Artisans Database. Dancing. A pub (the Pickled Pig!) - what does a liquor license cost? Games. Taverns for lunch. What about switching the schedule around - feast and court in the beginning of the day, fighting in the afternoon? Note: TeslaCon is December 1. Should that make a difference to us? This will all be discussed more online.

Guilds and Groups:
Cooking and Herbal Guild: Nikea will come up with something in the next month or two.
Brewing and Vinting: Katarina would like to start this group again in a few months.
Marquette: Practice starts again on January 30 from 7-9. O-Fest is Thursday January 20. Four of the Marquette students are going to Gulf Wars and want someone to camp near - to whom should they speak about camping with Northshield? They will have new officers after Spring Break.
Stritch: We're back! Practice started this past Sunday and will continue to be Sundays from 1-4. They have the site for Curia reserved. Coronation at Stritch might actually cost money - apparently the school had underestimated the size of the event. Curia needs to know how much money that will be so that we can include that in the bid to the Stallari. All set for the Heraldic Moot. They also have an organization-fest kind of thing - they'll let us know when and where so that we can come play.

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11/15/2011
Officer Reports:
Baron and Baroness: Things are going pretty smoothly and relatively quiet. Albrecht sends his regrets that he can't be here, as he's returning home from a business trip. [He arrived later in the meeting.]
Chatelaine: We found out that Bayview Bash 2012 will be September 15. New people are getting garbed for Boar's Head. We had a new person come to fighter's practice on Monday night.
Exchequer: Report will be in the Tower. He's working on getting the signature card at the bank changed.
Herald: Office is open. Please submit award recommendations for Yule Court.
Minister of Children: Need to finish paperwork.
Chronicler: Reports and articles are due by Sunday, November 20.
Knights Marshal: Office is open. Fighting is happening at Stritch on Sundays and Marquette on Mondays.
Archery: No West Town Archery next Monday (November 21).
Seneschal: Working with someone who might request a demo next year. Milwaukee Admirals contacted her to offer discount tickets if we show up in garb, and also offered discounted rental space for meetings.
Webminister: Nothing interesting to report.

Old Business:
Border Skirmish: Curia chose Walworth County Fairgrounds, which is charging us $1000 for the park. This gets us running water, electricity, and camping (and the campsite has trees). We also want to rent portapotties for the far end of the list field. (The list fields are huge.) Also, we can lock the entrances.
Boar's Head: Everything's covered and running smoothly. Meeting on Saturday November 19 at 1 PM at Marquette Physics Building.
Yule Court: Getting things organized, working on an activity. Remember to bring food for the potluck!
Baronial Directory: Done. 100 copies: $144. Bright yellow so we can find it. $1.50 per directory - talk to Arnbjorn.
Baronial Planning Meeting Recap: We met, dates and events are chosen, see Curia page for the results.
Bylaws: We made some changes to the bylaws which will be published separately.

New Business:
Coronation bid: We will put in a bid for Coronation in September 2012. Wolves Hollow (Stritch) can get us the Conference Center, the chapel, and maybe the kitchen. Won't cost us anything. Need to sort out site fees and how the monies are disributed - can we donate half the proceeds to the University organization which funds the student clubs? (Need to find out if they're not-for-profit.)

Guilds and Groups:
Cooking/Herbal Guild: January's meeting will probably be Andalusian. The cheese was a big success, and they figured out hwo to salt the cheese so it will keep until Boar's Head.
Stritch: We will have practice on Sunday the 20th and Sunday the 27th.
Marquette: We will have practice on Monday the 21st. Mysie will bring the physics club's force pads and wants to record data - how hard does a polearm hit? So, come to practice. Project Day was a success - made game boards for the fund raiser as well as a few other small projects.

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11/08/2011 - Baronial Planning Meeting For 2012 Activities

Greetings All,

Here are the results of the 2012 Baronial Calendar planning meeting. This is not an exhaustive list, nor does it in any way mean that other ideas can not or will not be considered at a later date.

The most exciting thing about this is that we have Stewards for most of the planned Events.

If I got anything wrong, left something out, or you have changed your mind about something, please let me know at your earliest convenience.

I am listing these in order as they occur during the year.

Current Calendar Plans:

1. February 18, 2012 Herald Project Day.
   Steward: Arnbjorn
2. April 28, 2012 Spring Court.
   Steward: Tatianna
3. May 25 thru 27, 2012 Youth Event.
   Stewards: Typhaine and Nikea
4. June 8 thru 10, 2012 Border Skirmish.
   Stewards: Astrid and Leif
5. August 25, 2012 Legends Moot.
   Stewards: Tatianna and Alice
6. September 8, 2012 Submit Bid to Host Coronation.  Site: TBD.
   Stewards: Nikea, Julianna and Alice
7. September 22, 2012 Bayview Bash.
   Steward: Julianna
8. September 29, 2012 Baronial Championship.
   Steward needed
9. December 1, 2012 Boar's Head.
   Stewards: Curia
10. December 8, 2012 Yule Court.
    Steward needed

Future Projects:

1. 2014 Baronial Championship & 40th Anniversary.
   Steward: Arnbjorn.  With Valerius to assist with possible site location (DeKoven).
2. "Let's Make Things with Fire" - A Metalworkers' & Glassworker's & Other-firey-stuff-workers' Moot for Spring 2012.
   Stewards: Albrecht of Caer Anterth Mawr, Dahrien Cordell

Future/long term planning:

1. Gawain and the Green Knight event
2. Formal Pas d'Arms. That's French for "Passage At Arms", and refers to formal combat tournaments, often involving both individual and team competitions of various kinds, ladies in the gallery, personal heralds, pageantry, really fancy fun stuff.

Now that you have gotten this far through these lists, I am also adding the need for volunteers for the following Moots and Events:

1. Baronial Championship: Event Steward needed.
2. Yule Court: Event Steward needed.
3. Coronation: Feast Steward needed. Those who are interested in doing a feast for this event will need to get to Nikea, Julianna and Alicetheir proposed bid by the end of December so we can have it in the bid to be submitted to Kingdom.
4. Boar's Head: Event Steward needed. . Bid proposal to be submitted to Curia.

Nikea
Seneschal, Barony of Caer Anterth Mawr

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10/18/2011
Officer Reports:
Baron & Baroness: October and November are quiet times for the Barony as we prepare for Boar's Head.
Chatelaine: Had some new people at Stritch fighter's practice and project day over the last few weeks. They're very excited. She has a mailing list from Bayview Bash and has been sending mail to that list, but hasn't heard much back from them; she'll keep it up until the end of the year and if people aren't interested she'll stop then.
Herald: Office is open. He's heard from one interested person. Sent Dahrien some updates for the website, and now the Order of Precedence (list of all of who has received what awards for the Barony), the list books in the Heraldic Library, and the Herald's page are updated.
Minister of Children: Corydon is now the Minister of Children. He will also look into how to become the Youth Marshal.
Exchequer: We have money. Finally closed the books on Border Skirmish. We lost some money compared to last year, and we think that's because of the decrease in people camping.
Quartermaster: We have stuff.
Chronicler: Office is open. Articles are due by 10/23.
Webminister: Nothing to report.
Minister of Arts and Sciences: Griffin's Needle Challenge is this weekend - quite a few people from the Barony are going. Hoping to schedule another clothing day (chausses, cotehardies, etc), but weekends have been too busy. Cooking and herbal weekends are going well.
Knights Marshal: Practices are Sunday afternoons at Stritch, Monday evenings at Marquette.
Archery: Practices are Mondays at West Town Archery.
Seneschal: The Shire of Skerjastrond have asked for help with an event. Nikea would like to suggest that we take them on as a 'sister' group, and possibly schedule a bus trip to one of their events. Also, as of November 2010 we own the West Bend, WI zip code (the location of Boar's Head).
Old Business:
Boar's Head Update: If you want to help with the Boar's Head pre-feast, please contact the feast stewards. Next meeting will be Thursday, October 27 at Marquette.
Baronial Champions Recap: Read the Tower.
Border Skirmish Site Walkthroughs: Various people went on a walkthrough of the Walworth County Fairgrounds and the Racine Country Fairgrounds. (We are also considering the McHenry County Fairgrounds - Astrid has been talking to Ravenslake about that.) Each of the three sites are more expensive than Simmons Island (the site we've been using). All sites have fences and gates, and we would have exclusive or nearly exclusive access to them. We would be able to use half of McHenry's site, which has buildings, no shaded areas, a kitchen with two ancient stoves, and two showers. Walworth has six showers, water, electricity, trees, and a decent kitchen. We would not be the only people on their site that weekend, but would control the gates. And the fighting fields are huge. Racine is an odd site - it's split between the County Faigrounds and the Old Settlers Park. They have 8 showers, brand new structures, and large open fields. No kitchen, but water and electricity are available. No trees in the camping area. Buildings are available during the day but not at night. We're waiting on definitive prices for all three.
Bylaws: No changes suggested.
Directory: Lots of updates. Took out the awards list (since the OP is up to date on the website) and listed only the highest title for each person. Brought a mockup for review. Should have a price estimate to print it soon, and will have it available at November Curia and Yule Moot.
Cooking and Herbal Feast Recap: It was great. Lots of food, mostly pork and herbs.
New Business:
Date for 2012 Baronial Planning Meeting: November 8 at Stritch. 6:30 PM.
Storage Locker Site Search: We're currently paying $95 per month for the 10x20 locker, and the best price Siri could find was $95 for a 10x10. We'll stay where we are for now and keep looking.
Heather Dale Concerts: October 30, 2-3 PM, St Joan of Arc Chapel at Marquette, and October 30, 7:30 PM, Randall and Anna's House. Donations suggested: $5 at Marquette, $15 at the house. (Donations cover travel expenses.)
Guilds and Groups:
Cooking Guild: 2 PM, November 6, Typhaine's House. Theme will be cheese.
Herbal Guild: Will look into combining the herbal and cooking guilds, and having combined informational and practical sessions. Making cheese this weekend so that they can test freezing the cheese for Boar's Head.
Marquette: Will bring five people to Boar's Head.
Stritch: Growing. Had a big meeting last weekend, and might have another new fighter. Will give us a date for the Masquerade Ball when they choose one. Yule Moot planning is going well. Curia voted to give them $50 to cover expenses. Come to Sunday practices!

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9/20/2011
Officer Reports:
Baron and Baroness: Thank you for participating in the demos. They were great, and generated lots of interest and lots of education. Please make award recommendations for Baronial Championships, which is this weekend. By the way, we need ideas for regalia for the Bardic Champion.
Chatelaine: We have fun on Saturday at the Bash. (See Bash Recap below. We also had a guy from Albequerque. Brithwen is the new Chatelaine deputy, and she's very excited.
Exchequer: We still have money. Vote to reimburse receipts from Bayview Bash, passed. Please remember to get expenditures approved in advance. We need to visit the bank to sign a new signature card since Caitlin is no longer Seneschal and Arnbjorn will step down soon as Herald.
Quartermaster: We still have stuff. Do we have a list of who has the storage locker keys? The office hours at the storage locker are difficult to work with - can we find one that's easier to handle? Siri will look into a new locker, with the suggestion that we should move over Boar's Head weekend because we'll have a truck and most of the contents will be removed anyway. Note, we currently pay <$100 for our 10x10 space. Herald: Will have office hours at Marquette and Stritch practices. Stepping down at Yule Court, but will continue from month to month if necessary.
Minister of Children: We have children. Corydon will take over as MoC in November. He might also become the Youth Combat Marshal. The Youth Event should be quiet until January or so.
Web Minister: Nothing to report.
Chronicler: Please send articles and reports by Sunday, September 25.
Minister of Arts and Sciences: Nothing to report.
Knights Marshal: Sunday fighters practice changing to Cardinal Stritch as of October 2.
Seneschal: This is Nikea's first meeting as Seneschal. She's instituting the new policy that everyone should stand when it's their turn to speak.

Old Business:
Highland Games Demo Recap: It was Labor Day weekend. Despite the rain on Saturday it was well-attended, and we had some interest. Yay!
BayView Bash Demo Recap: Really good turnout, lots of interest. The kids loved the pictures. (We dressed them in garb and/or armor and took photos for them, and allowed their parents to take photos too.) Cleanup was fast and easy, and we were out by 5. Akira will run the stage activities next year, so we'll try to get him more stage time to play with. A young lady stopped by (Carol) wanting to join us.
Boar's Head: The theme is Marauders of the Waterways. We have all officer positions filled. We might have a Herald's table. Jean will do pre-registration, and Magnus will run Troll. The website is under construction and will be released when it's done - still need text from A&S, Archery, and Lunch. The next planning meeting is Thursday, October 27, and after that Saturday, November 19. Does anyone know where the walkie-talkies are?
Baronial Champions Moot: Will be Saturday, September 24, beginning at 10 AM. Inspections will be at 11, and tournaments begin at noon. Their Excellencies will meet with their polling orders in the afternoon (2 PM: Fortress Virtuosos, 2:30 PM Castle Commanders, 3 PM Twr Mawr). Court will be at 4 PM. Feast will be after Court. Bardic championships will be during feast. By the way, we need ideas for regalia for the Bardic Champion.
Planning Meeting: Will schedule this at next Curia for November.
Followup to Long-Term Planning Meeting: Should discuss electronically. Perhaps on the Forum?

New Business:
Advertisement/Printing: Tatiana has a connection to VistaPrint, which can make large signs, business cards, brochures, rubber stamps, etc. for a reasonable cost. (We would pay to get artwork uploaded to them, and then pay shipping and handling for whatever they produce.) Proposed $100 seed money for an initial run of items, approved. Initial run: Chatelaine and generic Baronial business cards, two signs, possibly more. If you want business cards for your office, tell Tatiana.
Border Skirmish 2012: Leif and Astrid have put in a bid for Border Skirmish 2012. It was approved. If they win Crown, they will have a backup person in place. Also, Mistig Waetru (in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan) wants to hold a Border Skirmish event the same weekend as ours, since they're on a different border. No objections.
Walworth County Fairgrounds: Site Walkthrough has been changed to October 16, 10:30 AM. More details forthcoming. (This is not the day of the flea market. No money will be charged.)
McHenry Fairgrounds: Walkthrough TBA.
Racine County Fairgrounds: Haven't been able to get hold of them.
Princess Ball: The Clare Oasis organization has invited us to do a demo of sorts at their Princess Ball, October 8 (the same day as Crown), from 5-9 PM. Their site is the Marion Center (the old Cardinal Stritch location) in St Francis. Nikea suggested that we hold a mock coronation for each of the 'princesses'. If anyone is interested in helping, please contact Nikea.
Bardic Madness Bid: We found sites, but we've decided to allow another group to host the event because we just did it four years ago.
Bylaw Review: We will publish the Bylaws in the next Tower for review.
CAM Directory: Do we want another run? Arnbjorn will do it.
Yule Moot: Does anyone want to be the steward? Cardinal Stritch has volunteered to steward this as a group.

Guilds and Groups:
Brewing and Vintning: The position of Guildmaster is open.
Calligraphy and Illumination: The position of Guildmaster is open.
Cooking/Herbal Groups: Hosting a cross-guild feast October 15 at St Ed's. Cooks should arrive around 2 PM. Food will be served at 4 PM. Foods should include herbs. Bring an ingredients list, and make enough to feed 10.
Marquette Group: We're here! Fighting on Mondays all year, same time (7-9 pm), same place (old Open Pantry, see website for directions). Classes and meetings on Thursdays. Want to do a Project Day.
Stritch Group: We now have officers! First event will be a Masquerade Ball, October 14. Anyone can come - we'll let you know what time. Attended the University Club Fair, at which Delphina and Murdoch came and fought. That plus a Fiore demonstration as part of a class has brought in 7-10 new people. Looking for people to teach classes, attend sewing days, A&S, etc; can do stuff on Sunday afternoons during fighter's practice because the space is so large.

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8/16/2011
Officer Reports:
*Baron and Baroness: Pennsic was lots of fun. There were lots of classes, lots of tagging, lots of fighting. Valkyrie cheerleaders. Dahrien is now a Pelican - congratulations!
*Exchequer: The most recent report is complete and has been sent in. We're pre-paid for Bayview Bash.
*Quartermaster: We have lots of stuff. Please let the quartermaster know if you're taking something out, even if you return it before anybody notices.
*Chatelaine: Dougal has things to donate to the Barony - 2 29-gallon tubs of garb, books, and other sundries.
*Herald: Office is open. Congrats to Dahrien, Master of All That Is Wrong and Honorable. Need to find a new Herald to continue as a Barony. (Will step down in December.)
*Minister of Children: Running youth activities for Boar's Head: Will have a four-stage activity for the kids which should take most of the day. Office is open, and there may be an applicant.
*Chronicler: Reports are due Sunday August 20. Office is open.
*WebMinister: Nothing to report.
*Minister of Arts and Sciences: Nothing to report.
*Knights Marshal: Nothing to report, but note that Marquette will start Monday night practices again September 12.
*Archery: Will move back indoors mid-September.
*Seneschal: Stepping down. New Seneschal will be Nikea.

Old Business:
*Bayview Bash: We have reserved a 10x30 space. It's the same space as last year. We have the stage from 2:30-3:15, and a 15 minute window on either side of that time for setup. Abelard is in charge of the fighting demo portion. We expect lots of people. Turn An Dem See will join us and bring their sign. We need to secure business cards, and we need a source of them. We will also have brochures. Julianna will write some skits for folks who are wandering. The box for the portable garage/carport is dead, and we should consider a replacement for it - Curia voted to approve up to $100 for a new container. Jean will measure the poles and materiel, Abelard will look at possible bags at Gander Mountain.
*Youth Event: New proposal. Needs a check for the camp, and a signature on the contract. The event is on the Northshield calendar already. TADS will do lunch. The break-even point with the new pricing is 50 people.
*Boar's Head: Progressing nicely. Need someone to run Troll and Pre-Reg. (Jean might volunteer.)
*Day of Legends Moot: August 27th at Alice's House at Noon. Pete needs a ride. Gather your legend stories!
*Scottish Highland Games Demo: September 3-4, Waukesha County Fairgrounds. Let Arnbjorn know if you will be there so he can add you to the list and get you in the gate for free.
*Banners: If anyone wants to help finish the banners which were started last year, please let Eva know. She will be working on them. We'd like to have them done by Boar's Head, so the site doesn't look like a warehouse.
*Meeting Places: We'll start switching between Brookfield and Stritch again, but we still need to have a meeting in Waukesha or points west. Also, Typhaine volunteers her house as a meeting place.
*Planning Meeting, part Two: What came out of the meeting was the need to write demo scripts. Experts in various fields need to write two-minute scripts about their areas of expertise, then five minute scripts, then half-hour scripts.
*Planning Meeting, Part Three: We need to schedule this, sometime in mid-late October.

New Business:
*Baronial Champs: Sat September 24. Get award recommendations to the Baron and Baroness. When you bring food for the potluck, please don't use tinfoil, plastic, or paper plates.
*Heritage Weekend: There's a group in Waukesha which had a Heritage Weekend last weekend (Aug 11-12), which is not limited to United States heritage. (They had romans, for instance.) Some folks from Windhaven were there, so we should be there next year. It happens to also be the closing weekend of Pennsic, as well as Poorman's Pennsic, but it's still worth looking into.
*Forums: Do we want to keep the website running or not? General opinion is to keep the site there for another six months and see if traffic picks up.
*Museums: We should talk to the local museums and see if they are interested in us setting up 'living exhibits' - we can do demos, displays, etc. Maybe teach some things. Get the Peers to do things to show off their arts and sciences. We should try to tie into current exhibits. "What's coming up, and how can we enhance it?" Note: Participatory Archeology.

Guilds and Groups:
*Herbal Guild: Need to discuss and plan the October 15 mini-feast (which will be at St Ed's).
*Brewing and Vintning: Alasdair is stepping down as the leader of this guild, so we need a new one.
*Cooking Guild: Gwyneth is stepping down as the leader of this guild, and Typhaine is taking over. She'll let us know when and where to meet.
*Marquette: Fighters practice will resume on Monday nights as of September 12. They might want some help with O-Fest, their Activities Fair.

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6/21/2011
Officer Reports
Baron and Baroness: Rose Tourney was a lot of fun. Many people from the Barony were there. The tournament itself was great, the feast was fabulous. Dahrien was put on vigil for Pelican, and Geoffrey was made a Court Baron.
Chatelaine: Bayview Bash is coming up. See 'New Business' for more information. Looking for a "talking points" brochure. (Hamish has one, which he'll provide.) Also looking for information about other SCA groups' demos, canned or scripted, which can be adapted to our purposes. For Border Skirmish, Julianna is working with the Ravenslake Chatelaine to set up tours. Please volunteer to lead a tour!
Exchequer: We have money. Paid the bill for the storage unit and the archery equipment.
Quartermaster: People are meeting at the storage locker Thursday night at 6 to pick up things for Border Skirmish - if you need anything or can haul anything, please meet there.
Herald: Nothing new to report.
Minister of Children: Will have childrens activities at Border Skirmish. See below for more information about the children's event.
Chronicler: People liked the hyperlinks. Submit articles by the 24th.
WebMinister: Need to catch up on some work on the website. Wants to have a cut-and-paste party to update the last of the HTML pages to PHP - more information forthcoming.
Knights Marshal: Two practices each week (Thursday nights KK park, Sunday afternoons Kletzsch Park). Beginning to look for a successor.
Seneschal: Office is open. Needs to step down in September, so letters of intent are absolutely due by August Curia.

Old Business:
Border Skirmish: Weather should be nice. TRM and TRH Northshield will be there - sadly, no royalty from the Midrealm. (The Baron and Baroness Ayreton will be there, though!) Need to put together another gift basket - cordials, jellies, tokens, note cards are welcome. No soaps or candles, please. Meet at the storage locker at 6 PM Thursday (6/23) to get stuff out and loaded into vehicles. (Should talk to Alexander about the trailer he's bringing.) We need to cut a check for taxes, which we'll put towards the General Fund. Setup starts Friday at 9 AM. We've contacted local press and will be dropping off flyers at local libraries.
Boar's Head: Will be meeting after Border Skirmish.
Planning Meeting II: This can wait until next meeting. (Note: at this point in the meeting we were all getting soaked with rain.)

New Business:
Quarterly Tower: Do we want to change the Tower to a quarterly publication? Abelard said no - there is always at least one thing in the Tower which is timely, and it's information which isn't always communicated via the website and email. Not everyone is in touch with all of the forms of communication, but the Tower is always in the same place. We could, however, make every fourth issue focus on the arts; we could also add monthly themes like Shava did with the Northwatch.
New site location: Racine County Fairgrounds. (Technically in Union Grove.) It has lots of big buildings, an outdoor area with bleachers, a dining hall with kitchen, and other amenities. Prices are flexible - estimated cost for a weekend rental of the big hall and dining hall would be $1750. Note: no web presence. We want more information!
Fundraising idea: Group rummage sale. Is anyone interested?
Highland Games demo: Labor Day weekend. It sounds like there's interest...
Bayview Bash: September 17th. Should we get three spaces this year? (Last year we got two and expanded into the third because it was empty.) Should we get the stage this year? We voted yes for both. Essentially we ought to use the same setup as last year, with the garage-sized shade fly and tables. We'll try to get the same location as last year, too. We will also have a better sound system to provide for dancing. When we request stage time, we'll also request a cushion on each end of the time so that we don't have to lose the stage to people cleaning up or taking down their shows. We will invite Turn An Dem See again, and any other groups that want to come. We will also have an actual sign-up sheet as the date gets closer. Would like to use nice card stock, pre-printed with the website and group name, on which our calligraphers can write peoples' names (like Baroness Kateryn did last year).
Security at WW: Don't forget to sign up for Friday night shifts at WW, or else we'll remove the Barony's name from the time slot.
Youth Event: Nikea and Typhiane presented a proposal to do the Youth Event again. It would be at Camp Rokilio in Kiel, WI. The last weekend of May 2012 (May 25-27 - Memorial Day weekend) is available, and the camp is currently empty that weekend. The MN groups discussed having a youth event in 2011, thinking that we could alternate with them (we did 2010, and this would be 2012). Nikea brought a proposal for the event, which suggests renting the Castle and the Dining Hall (not the Viking Ship this time), which provides a place to sleep and a place to eat and perform other indoor activities. We expect the event to have a larger draw than last time. It's easily day-trippable for the Barony (only an hour from Milwaukee). Parking won't be a problem. Border Skirmish 2012 is targetted for the weekend of June 8-10, which is close, but the staff overlap shouldn't be heavy. Still need a feastocrat, teachers, and general volunteers. Estimated cost, $2000. We voted on the proposal and approved it - we'll do the event.
Moot proposal: Nikea proposed a "Mini-feast" cooking moot in October at St Ed's. Everybody who wants to can cook something, and others can come to eat. Cost would be the cost of renting St Ed's. Will pick a weekend with Alice.

Guilds and Groups:
Herbal Guild: July 2 at Alice's.

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5/17/2011
Officer Reports
Chatelaine: Talked to the new Kingdom Chatelaine, and we're doing everything correctly. We'd been talking about doing demos at smaller church faires or festivals, but be aware that they're mostly on the south side. We have three new people, two of which are at UWM. The third one came from the Bayview Bash last year. We would like to focus more on families and adults than just university students - we don't want to exclude the students, of course, just not put our focus there. We will have a demo at Kletzsch Park on Sunday May 22 - please bring banners and dress in garb (or armor). We should also help the students who are going home for the summer find their 'local' groups.
Exchequer: We stil have money. Quarterly report has been turned in.
Herald: Term ends in abou six months. Would like to find a successor sooner rather than later - wants to step down in September.
Minister of Children: We still have children. Michael took over running youth activities at a recent event and did a great job. We'll be doing Capture the Queen again at Border Skirmish, as well as a Youth Eating Contest (that is, an eating contest for the youth). This information will be on the Border Skirmish site. Stepping down in September.
Chronicler: Moving to Florida in a couple weeks. The new interim Chronicler is Abelard, until someone else volunteers, so the position will remain identified as 'open'. We do need to publish at least quarterly. We could also put officer reports on the website...
Web Minister: Volunteer sign up sheets are in place on the Boar's Head and Border Skirmish websites. Web Minister is making updates a couple times a week. If you have immediate changes, please send them to Dahrien's personal email address (AT vigil DOT com). We should change the front page so that we don't greet people with a big block of text - please make suggestions to Dahrien. Also, if you want any of the details about your activities or events - meetings, potlucks, fighting, whatever - please submit them to the webminister.
Knights Marshal: Practices will continue based on weather. Thursdays at KK Park, Sundays at Kletzsch Park. Tune in to the various communications (CAM, CAM-heavy, etc) to find out when we're going to have a Sunday practice at another location, such as Fort Atkinson, Jara, Racine, or whatever. If we get permission in advance, we can set up pavilions at Kletzsch; this weekend please bring banners.
Archery: Twice a week, please see the website.
Seneschal: Office is open.

Old Business:
Border Skirmish: Prince and Princess Northshield will be at Border Skirmish. (Midrealm does not have a Prince and Princess at this time, so we don't know about them yet.) Kateryn is the royalty liaison. We need to make royalty gift baskets for Their Highnesses. We want to give Their Highnesses a , which we voted on and approved. All the major positions are filled. Contact the position chiefs if you want to volunteer. Site will be almost the same as last year, with the exception that we won't have a gate at the north end. (We'll have security fencing across it.) We'll also extend security fencing right up to the gate on the south end. Don't camp on the battlefield. We're working on an offsite shower location through the Kenosha schools. People are working on everything they need to work with. Schedule should be done in the next week or so. There will be a parking coordinator. We will have the torchlight tourney Friday night on the beach (same place as last year).
Boar's Head: Website will be up soon.
Meadowbrook Demo: Murdoch reported that he had fun, and they sent us a letter of thanks.
May Court: We forgot to put out a donation basket. Communication is important - remember that the moot steward is in charge at a moot.
Janesville Demo: Saturday was cold and wet but still fun. Sunday we only had a couple people representing us. We need to make sure that people sign up in advance, realizing that sometimes people can't make it at the last minute. Next year we should invite Jara and make a bigger deal out of it.
Scottish Highland Games (Demo): We're always welcome. Coronation: Nobody in CAM put in a bd, so the group will not be putting in a bid to host this time. We should look at Coronation a year hence, though, and strongly consider DeKoven. We should also look at hosting Crown, but be aware that the local group's energy levels are low.
Curia Locations: Eva will look at Greenfield Library for 6/21 and 8/16. We're going to skip Curia in July. Eva and Albrecht would like to volunteer their house for a Curia/potluck/moot in the future.
Long Term Planning Meeting: Corin and Fancy's house, May 24, 6 PM. Bring a side dish. Submit your three topics by Sunday at 7 pm.

New Business:
Border Skirmish 2012 Date: Someone wants to get married at Border Skirmish in 2012 and wants to know what the date will be. It's too early to say for sure, since we aren't sure that we'll still be at that site. In theory it will be the second weekend in June, but we'll decide for sure after this year's event.

Guilds and Groups:
Cooking: June 5, Typhaine and Corydon's.
Herbal Guild: July 2, Alice's. Herbal potluck! Also, we have clippings. We'll also have an "eat what we harvested" potluck.
Marquette: No fighters practice over the summer, but they have reserved Practice Space East (aka the Old Open Pantry location) for Mondays through the whole school year next year. And thank you to everyone for teaching classes, attending moots and events, and generally supporting the group this year.

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4/19/2011
Officer Reports
Baron & Baroness: Officer's Day/Project Day was great. The May Moot is coming up quickly - please submit award recommendations. (Please use the online form, and you can follow it up with an email to us if you wish.)
Chatelaine: Meet and Greet at UWM went well - we had three students, one of whom we'd never met before. They're all on the mailing list now (or will be soon). They want to learn to make their own garb, among other things. Julianna will also be in charge of Chatelaine activities at Border Skirmish, including tours. (Will need tour guides. Please volunteer!)
Minister of Youth: There's a demo at Meadowbrook Elementary School on May 6. Nikea will be unable to attend. If you're still interested in doing this demo, please let her know. She will also be running the kids acticities at Border Skirmish (Capture the Queen), at the May Moot (to be announced), and is working on a series of classes (details coming in the fall). Office is open if anyone else wants to be Minister of Children...
Knights Marshal: New practice schedule! As of May 12 we'll move Thursday night practices to KK Park (armored, rapier, and archery). As of May 22 Sunday practices will begin at Kletzsch Park. We'll do three Sundays of each month at Kletzsch and make the fourth Sunday a 'travelling' practice - we can visit Frame Park or Fort Atkinson or Ayreton or Windhaven or whatever. We might be able to use Stritch as a rain location. For the May 22 practice we should treat it as a demo - pavilions, banners, garb, the works. Until then, Thursdays at Marquette, Fridays at Leif's, Sundays at Stritch - with the exception that there's no practice this week (Thursday the students will be on break, Sunday is Easter).
Exchequer: The quarterly report is almost done. Magnus learned some things at Officer's Day.
Minister of Arts and Sciences: Lots of events coming up for people interested in Arts and Sciences: Bardic Madness, Silks and Needles, Games People Played, Quest for Camelot, Burn Baby Burn, and Lamb to Loom. Also the Pentamere Squires Tournament in the Midrealm will have an A&S component. Corin went to Officer's Day and met his regional officer, and also learned things. What kind of A&S Moots would people like? (Silk banners and metalworking were mentioned.) With the Northwatch moving from paper to electronic format, we expect to see a supplemental publication as well (possibly the North Star will return), so we'll have a new place for recipes, blueprints, and other instructional articles; people can also submit such things to the Song of the Tower. Also, take a look at the Atlantia website for their links (http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/), and at Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/) - these are excellent resources.
Chronicler: Articles are due Sunday 4/24 for Geoffroi's last issue of the Tower. Abelard will step in as an interim Chronicler until someone else wants the position.
Herald: Send in award recommendations to Their Excellencies for May Moot!
Webminister: Dahrien is hard at work on the Border Skirmish website.
Seneschal: Looking for a deputy. Stepping down in six months (September).

Old Business:
Officer's Day: 62 attendees. Cost for the event was under $50. Very well done.
Border Skirmish: We have a site. We have most of the staff positions filled, except Archery Marshal (waiting for confirmation from William) and Merchants Steward. We have commitments from the Midlands Army - they'll be here despite two other events in their Kingdom and lack of royalty. The generals (Stephen and Ix) will be the Marshals in Charge, and they will use Saturday's fighting as a place to train for Pennsic. We'll also have a torchlight tournament on Friday night. We'll have a meeting with Ravenslake at the site in a few weeks. We do have someone in charge of parking, and have someone in charge of security. (We also have a certain household from Jara as a brute squad.) Security teams will have general local information and maps as well so that they can be helpful to the public. We won't have showers. Also, the autocrats are keeping a three-ring binder (Book of Knowledge) detailing everything they're doing, how much things cost, who they've talked to, and so on, so that future autocrats have this information at hand. We know that we've outgrown the site, so start looking for a new site for next year. We won't get the Northshield pavilion this year, so please bring shade flys. (Can we build a reviewing stand like the one in the Nordskogen area?)
Boar's Head: Most of the officer positions are filled. We're working on a theme. We will have a meeting soon so that we can start advertising early. Stritch students have offered to help in the kitchen. Marquette students have offered to help whereever they can. We will have archery and youth activities again. Every staff position needs volunteers to help them out. If you want to volunteer, please tell Kateryn. The places that almost always need more help are Troll, Royalty Room guards, and kitchen help. Note: You must be a member to actually handle the money.
Strategic Planning Meeting: We need to have the next Strategic Planning Meeting. This should be in May - maybe May 15? Abelard will send out the planning meeting notes again. Everyone should choose their top topics from this list and send them to Katlin and Their Excellencies, who will select the top 3 topics and make up the agenda for the meeting. We can shoot for a weeknight if we meet from 6:30-9. Maybe a Tuesday?
May Day Moot: Can Gabrielle have $150 for the moot? Yes she can. Their Excellencies will be there and holding court. It's Sunday, May 1, at Rock River Parkway in Fort Atkinson.
May 6 Demo at Meadowbrook School: Nikea can't make it. Please confirm with her if you can.
Known World Handbooks: Magnus has them, so please talk to him if you ordered one. Also, we have extras.
Baronial Championships: We have reserved Rock River Parkway as a tentative location - if anyone has any other ideas, please tell Katlin or Their Excellencies.

New Business:
Crown Tournament/Coronation: Do we want to host either Crown Tournament or Coronation in the Fall? Bids for Coronation are due by June 1. (Event would be September 10.) We can't get Stritch. Fancy will talk to DeKoven. (We would need rooms for court, meetings, fighting, feast, and kitchens.) Other places to look at: Marion Center, Kemper Hall, Tripoli Shrine Hall, Bavarian Inn. We also need to find an event steward. We need to know by next Tuesday (4/26). Also, the officers will help put the bid together. We voted and agreed to fact-find.
Curia Locations: We can still use Stritch as a meeting space in the summer if we want. Can we move Curia to another day? Maybe Sundays?

Guilds and Groups:
Cooking: Next session will be Eastern European. People should select what they want to bring. (They need to set a date.)
Marquette: Camping at Ledge Park on April 29-30. Please let Annamarie know by Friday (April 22) if you're coming.
Stritch: May have a new advisor. They want to put in a bid for SUN - probably for next year. (FYI: SUN is the second Saturday of November.) Stritch needs to file the paperwork to become a group.

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3/22/2011
Officer Reports
Baron and Baroness: Glad to hear that so many people are going to Coronation. Not sure if there will be a theme, as there sometimes is, but currently we expect "Northshield colors". We had a great time at Gulf Wars - fighting, learning, retaining, relaxing, all excellent. Please make award recommendations for Spring Court.
Chiurgeon: Office is open. (We have a potential applicant, who is still thinking about it.)
Chatelaine: Nothing to report.
Exchequer: The final CD has matured, so we will sign it over. Has some checks for people to sign. We expected to receive the Known World Handbooks by now, but there was a mistake in the shipping address; they've been re-sent and should arrive soon. Also, we've sent a check to the Washington County Fairgrounds to reserve it for Boar's Head.
Herald: See the Tower.
Minister of Children: Nothing to report.
Chronicler: Please submit your reports, articles, and other content by March 27th. Also, the office is open - please send letters of intent to the Baron, Baroness, and Seneschal.
Web Minister: Nothing to report.
Minister of Arts and Sciences: Nothing to report.
Knights Marshal: Nothing to report.
Archery Marshal: William has a budget request to replace some archery equipment. This happens every four or five years. We voted and approved the request.
Seneschal: Wants a new brain. Gulf Wars was awesome - this one even more than the ones in the past. Coming home was very difficult.

Old Business:
Boar's Head: One bid, which Curia accepted. Kateryn will be the autocrat. The site is secured: Washington Country Fairgrounds. (Contract and check have both been handed over to WCF.) If anyone wants to volunteer, please talk to Kateryn.
Officer's Day: April 16. Wm Weir Physics Building at Marquette. Ads are in the Northwatch and on the Kingdom calendar website. Need to get some more classes from the Kingdom Greater Officers. The Kingdom Chatelaine will handle a beginner's class track. We will also have a room for projects. We need to talk to the Dept of Public Safety at Marquette re: putting up signs to direct people to the building.
Baronial Championships: Where do we want to have this moot? Should we stick with Ft Atkinson/Rock River Park, or try somewhere new? We discussed looking at Cliffside Park in Racine, Simmons Island Park in Kenosha, Kletzsch Park on the north side of Milwaukee, and other places. We decided to reserve Rock River Park for now, and keep looking.
Site Hunting Group: The group needs a fourth member. If you're interested, please contact one of the current members (Arnbjorn, Annetje, and Nikea).
Border Skirmish: Any news? So far, same as last year. Dahrien is in charge of the website, and has made a copy of last year's site. He's replacing old data with new data as it arrives. We have learned that no Majesties will be there.
May Moot: Their Excellencies will formally invite Their Excellencies Jara, and then we can further investigate inter-Barony archery options.

New Business:
Fighting in the summer: We had discussed this at the planning meeting. Should we keep Sunday practices at Lake Park, move to another park, or rotate between locations? (Discussed Frame Park, Kletzsch Park, Cliffside Park, place by Their Excellencies house.) Fighters should discuss and decide - Abelard will bring it up in various venues. Also, do we want to have joint practice at KK Park on Thursday nights again this summer?
Melee Unit: We're looking for something that a unit of CAM fighters can wear to identify them as a unit of CAM fighters. Perhaps tabards? Maybe not, because different periods have different styles of tabards and because the fighters are all different sizes. What about patches, split top and bottom, with the Northshield device on the top and the CAM populace device on the bottom, made with embroidery sewing machines? Fighters could then sew them onto their armor where-ever they want...

Guilds and Groups:
Brewing and Vintning: Nothing to report.
Calligraphy and Illumination: Nothing to report.
Marquette: Five people went to Gulf Wars and camped with CAM in 'Northshield South'. It was great. We have nine rooms reserved for Officer's Day. Might sell food - how many people do we expect? (50-75) Please teach classes for us: Pewter casting, alchemy, cooking of some kind, cloak making, calligraphy & illumination, jewelery-making.
Cardinal Stritch: Fighter's practice starts again Sunday 3/27 at 1 PM.
Cooking Guild: Meeting on Sunday 3/27 at 3 at Corin and Fancy's house. Don't bring kids, and be aware that they have cats.

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2/15/2011
Officer Reports
*Baron and Baroness: We had an herbal event on Sunday and Stritch Project Day, and they were great. Thanks for coming and having fun. Also, Hamish and Abelard approached us about more formal melee training and forming a CAM melee unit, and we approve.
*Chatelaine: Been checking into Harbor Market about doing a demo there. She needs to get the loaner garb and the list of people from Bayview Bash to organize another meet and greet. Bayview Bash will happen again this year - think about things you want to bring and show. Maybe this year we can do street skits, like the ones that Bristol Faire has? Maybe fundraisers? Meadowbrook School Demo on May 6 from 1-3, but we haven't heard back from them regarding confirmation. (Murdoch has volunteered for that demo.) We'd like to do more school demos, but we need more organization. Maybe next year. Also, Nikea is in charge of the Dover School Rummage Sale during Bayview Rummage, and can provide a place to sell some of our SCA things and maybe do a demo. Also, we should add a Demo section to the Curia meeting agendas. Do we want to do a demo encampment at the 10th Annual Highland Games (Labor Day Weekend)? Will discuss later.
*Exchequer: Domesday is submitted. Boar's Head is sumbitted. Have some additional reports to submit and checks to send in, such as the domain name registration for our website and a payment for May Moot.
*Herald: Read the Tower. Purchased the Dictionary of English Surnames.
*MoC: Open. Nikea has been approached to do a youth event again, and is considering a one day event in 2012 involving chariot racing. Also possibly some youth activities at Border Skirmish.
*Chronicler: Office is officially open. Please submit articles by Sunday, Feb 25.
*Webminister: Same old, same old. In order to be compliant with rules about publishing personal information on the website, we need to have people sign the new 'consent to publish' form. In answer to the question 'How do I get my information onto the online directory, which is broken?' Dahrien changed the submission page to declare itself broken. If we want to change the paper directory back into a database, we could link to it from the website as well as print the paper copy ... but again, need to sign the consent forms.
*Minister of Arts and Sciences: Project Day and cooking were great. Ravenslake is hosting an A&S day on March 5. See the CAM mailing list for more information.
*Knights Marshal: Fiore and fighter's practice on Sundays at Stritch. Fighter's practice on Mondays at Marquette through the end of the month, switching to Thursdays at the 'practice space east' on March 10.
*Seneschal: Nothing to report.

Old Business:
*Border Skirmish: Kenosha has approved the use of Simmons Island Park this year, so we officially have the site.
*Heraldic Symposium Bids: Stritch isn't sure they'll be here the proposed weekend of Labor Day. Do we still want to put in a bid? Does Kingdom still want us to put in a bid?
*Boar's Head bids: Does anyone want to do Boar's Head? Should we skip it this year? We will reserve Washington County, and extend the call for bid submissions until next Curia (March 22). Please put in a bid, and encourage others to do so as well. Get excited, get involved!
*Officer's Day: Arnbjorn is collecting classes - if you're interested in teaching, please contact him. Nikea has volunteered to run the registration table and coffee cart. Arnbjorn is working with Mysie to set up the reservations. The event will also be a Project Day and a Newcomers Day. It will be a free event.
*Project Day Recap: Awesome. We ate like kings, learned how to make medallions, learned illumination, did sewing and embroidery, and had a totally great time.
*Known World Handbook: We have 20 people pre-registered to buy them. We'll purchase five more than the number of books requested.

New Business:
*May Day Moot: We have reserved the clubhouse. (The price has increased.) Money is due April 1.
*Possible locations for Baronial Champions: Rock River Parkway, Kletzsch Park, Whitnall Park. Annetje would be willing to steward this moot if someone will show her what to do.
*Curia Locations: We've lost Shorewood Library as a meeting location because they've changed their hours. It's confusing to switch between different locations, but not insurmountably so. Let's look at Curia locations in Franklin, Oak Creek, Greenfield, and South Milwaukee. We'll need a place for June and August Curias - maybe one of those will have a place. A note: Our populations tend to center in the southeast corner of Milwaukee County, the Tosa area, and the Bayview area.
*IKCAC Event: The Cheshire Archers (combat archers from Jara) are interested in running an Inter Kingdom Combat Archery Challenge shoot at Fort Atkinson sometime this spring. Perhaps it can be combined with May Moot? Abelard will look into this.
*Simmons Island Park Renovations: The Kenosha City Council is entertaining proposals for renovating/revamping Simmons Island Park, which is where we have Border Skirmish. If you go to the City of Kenosha website, Parks page (http://www.kenosha.org/departments/parks/index.html), you can see their proposals. You can also submit comments and email on the subject. Please do make comments, because some of their proposals will make it impossible to use the park for Border Skirmish in the future.
*Legends Moot: Nikea will be the steward.
*Site Locations: We need to find some new site locations, for moots, events, and meetings. We need a committee to find new sites, nicknamed "Committee to Find Sites". Volunteers so far: Nikea, Annetje, Arnbjorn. If you're interested in joining this team, please contact the seneschal, Baron, Baroness, or one of the members. These people will gather information and explore site location possibilities. This is a great way to learn how to run an event, because you'll learn what an event needs.

Guilds and Groups:
*C&I: Mysie is not in charge of C&I. We need a person to run it.
*Cooking: Sunday, German dinner, 3 PM, Fancy and Corin's house.
*Marquette Group: They are transitioning to new officers. Amanda is here, and will be the new president. Fighting on February 28th at the Annex, then March 10 at the Practice Space East (which we'll have through May). The club wants to learn how to make things - for instance, Nelson wants to learn leatherworking (belts and pouches). Anna Marie wants to learn bardic stuff. And the basics of clothing. Basically, the basics.
*Stritch Group: Project Day was fun. Fighting on Sundays. Please come!
*Herbal Guild: We had Lavender Day. The next one will be March 20, odds and ends. Plans include cordials with herbs, breads, and so on. We'd like to do a formal tea. We'd also like to explore herbal remedies and medicines.

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1/25/2011
Officer Reports
Officers Reports:
*Chiurgeon: Office still open.
*Chatelaine: Trying to connect with a guy in Greenfield who has some armor and rattan to donate. Also, Gabrielle from UWM has been attending meetings lately, and welcome to her. Transferring the office from Baroness Eva to Julianna. (Change now made on the website.)
*Herald: Read the Tower.
*Minister of Children: Nothing to report.
*Chronicler: Office is open. (Will step down in April.) Please submit Tower articles and reports by Jan 28.
*Web Minister: Changed email and officer page to Julianna. Please let web minister know if and when things need to be updated, changed, or removed.
*Knights Marshal: Fighter's practice Mondays (Marquette) and Sundays (Stritch). Fiore will move to Sundays at Stritch as well.
*Minister of Arts and Sciences: A&S is happening at fighter's practices. The cooking guild will meet on Jan 30th. Project Day at Stritch on Feb 12. Let MOAS know if there's anything you want to include in his report to Kingdom. Also, Ravenslake is hosting a Project Day on March 5.
*Exchequer: We have money. Reports are signed for Kingdom, and wrap-up is complete for Boar's Head. We have converted to the new bank account except for the CD which comes due in March.
*Baron & Baroness: Thanks for coming to the planning meeting and to Curia. More to come under New Business.
*Seneschal: See New Business and Old Business.

Old Business
*Boar's Head Wrapup: Got the final numbers. We finished in the black. Arnbjorn wrote up suggestions for the Boar's Head 2011 steward, which he will send to the CAM list. Otherwise, thank you to everyone.
*Planning Meeting: There are two sets of notes from the meeting, one of which was sent earlier today (1/26) and one which will be sent later. Everyone should review these notes and list five things to work on. Send your lists to the Seneschal, Baron, and Baroness and they will consolidate the lists down to five major talking points to work on over the next five years. These will then be addressed at the next Planning Meeting, in three months.
*Border Skirmish: Two bids have been submitted. Hamish's bid has been accepted.
*Heraldic Symposium 2012 Bid: On hold for now. Does anyone want to work on it? Bids are due to the Society in April 2011, so we need them submitted to Curia by Feb Curia.
*Bylaw Amendments appear at the end of this message.

New Business
*Boar's Head 2011: Bids due by February Curia. If anyone is interested, send bids to Seneschal and/or Baron and Baroness. We also need to tentatively reserve the Washington County Fairgrounds for December 3.
*Officer's Day: We have been chosen to host Officer's Day, which will be Saturday April 16 at Marquette. More information to come.
*Known World Handbook: Would we like to make a group purchase? Books are $25 each, and a bulk order of 20 or more lowers the price to $22 each. We decided to place an order. If you are interested in getting one, please let Magnus know before February Curia. He will order 5 additional copies for the Baronial Library.
*Baronial Progress: Their Excellencies intend to hold a 'Baronial Progress' throughout the Barony, in which they visit the far-flung regions of the Barony. For instance, over the next few years we will have Curia meetings in the far reaches of the Baronial lands, such as Racine/Kenosha and western Waukesha. More information to come. Also, Arnbjorn is working on a census map.
*Demo: Meadowbrook Elementary School. They would like a demo on the afternoon of Friday, May 6. It should not involve fighting, but can involve armor. The school is just off Hwy G and 94. More information will be posted to the CAM list.

Guilds and Groups
*Herbal: The herbal guild will meet at Alice's house sometime in February.
*C&I: Celtic and pictish design work is the root of all evil and shall be abolished from the Barony. Flemish design, however, is ... I'm kidding. Abelard, stop writing. *Cooking: January 30, Corydon and Typhaine's house, 3 PM, modern food. (For instance, kringle and various flavored pastas.) The next meeting after that will tentatively be February 20 and will feature a full meal, probably 15th century Italian. This needs coordination, and more information is forthcoming.
*Marquette Group: We're having fighter's practice at 7 PM on Mondays at the Annex in January and February, switching to Thursdays for March, April, and May. The student group also meets on Thursdays, and if people are interested in teaching classes on Thursday evenings please contact AnnaMarie.
*Stritch Group: Demo, Thursday Feb 3 from 1-3 for their Club Carnival. They will have a space for fighting with a high ceiling. Project Day on February 12, followed by a potluck dinner. The space for Project Day has electrical outlets, and we have a fighting space as well. Every Sunday from 1 till whenever, fighter's practice, dance practice, and whatever else people want to do. (They also have brunch from 11:30-1.) Also, in a couple months they want to do a demo in conjunction with Food Services, and are looking for period recipes for large groups.

Bylaw amendments
*Part X, Sections B, C, and D were changed as follows:

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X. Voting
b. A voting quorom consists of: Baron and/or Baroness, Seneschal or Baronial approved representative, and a majority of the remaining Greater Officers or their representative(s).
c. Telephone voting is used only in the event of emergency or extenuating circumstances and must be conducted by the Baron and/or Baroness and/or Seneschal. Only the Curia will be polled. If the situation is not an emergency, the item is to be presented and discussed at the next Curia meeting.
d. Other electronic communication will not be used for voting purposes.
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X. Voting
b. A voting quorum must be counted in order to conduct Baronial business. A voting quorum consists of: Baron and/or Baroness, Seneschal or Baronial approved representative, and a majority of the remaining Greater Officers or their representative(s).
c. Telephonic or email voting is to be used only in the event of an emergency or extenuating circumstances and must be conducted by the Baron and/or Baroness and/or Seneschal. Only the Curia will be polled. If electronic mail is used, the conducting official must call the Curia, notifying them that a polling message has been sent to them and that they must respond within 24-72 hours. The results of a telephonic or electronic email vote must be presented at the next scheduled Curia meeting. If the situation is not an emergency, the item is to be presented and discussed at the next scheduled Curia meeting.
d. Other electronic communications will not be used for voting purposes.
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Also added Guideline 1:
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I Events
A Definitions
1) Moots: Local events that are not typically published on the Kingdom calendar
2) Events: Local events that are published on the Kingdom calendar
3) Kingdom-sponsored Events: Events under the purview of the Crown and/or Stallari Council. These include Coronation, Crown Tournament, and other events the Stallari Council may designate. These are published on the Kingdom calendar
4) Known World and/or Society Events: inter-Kingdom events that are under the purview of the Society Officer(s) or other inter-kingdom bodies. These are published on the Kingdom calendar.
5) Events Stewards (autocrats) are ad hoc deputies of the Seneschal

B Bids and proposals for event steward
1) All event proposals and bids shall be submitted to the Curia by the announced deadline. The Curia will determine which bid or proposal it will accept.
2) Proposals to steward moots may be made simply by volunteering, unless otherwise stated by Seneschal
3) Kingdom-sponsored event bids must include the required information as specified in kingdom policy.
4) Known World and/or Society event bids must include the required information as specified by the Society Officer(s) or other inter-kingdom bodies 5) Event bids or proposals should include at a minimum the proposed venue, costs, and fees.
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12/14/2010
Officer Reports
* Baron and Baroness: Boar's Head went great. Arnbjorn makes running an event look easy! The Moot was also great. Thank you all!
* Chatelaine: Office is open.
* Exchequer: Gate from Boar's Head is settled, but we aren't finished reimbursing people yet. Looks like we're in the black. Also, we've received a donation from the old keyholder's site which will be devoted to martial activities (renting a space for a regional fighter's practice, hiring an instructor, purchasing rattan, etc.).
* Herald: Read the Tower.
* Minister of Children: Was not present, but did a great job with the Yule Moot.
* Chronicler: Articles for the Tower due Sunday, 12/19/10. Remember, Officers, you need to submit articles.
* Webminister: Working on a handbook for the office. We're in compliance with the newest webminister rules. Yay!
* Knight's Marshal: This week is the last Thursday practice of the year. Sundays are also finished until next year. Fiore practice is still on Mondays.
* Seneschal: Someone has put in a letter to become the new deputy; will decide soon about the applicant.

Old Business
* Boar's Head Recap: Roughly 360 people. Feast was great! The event went very well - the only hiccups were a merchant who cut himself and had to be rushed to the ER (he's fine, and many people helped take his booth apart for him) and an incident with the children using the classroom unsupervised during feast. Weather was bad and affected attendance (a storm effectively shut down travel west of Madison for most people). The Fair Park is willing to waive the fee for lunch catering (they currently take a %20 cut from lunch) in favor of a $1 fee per attendee, in return for which they would allow people to bring in food. This would open the opportunity of an off-board feast. The exchequer requested that a space be set aside for troll/gate reconciliation at future events. We also need a stronger volunteer base, because cleanup is taking longer and longer - perhaps people who sign up in advance to volunteer to clean up after feast could be comped for feast? Maybe we can hire professional dishwashers? Do we need an explanation of the Non-Member Surcharge (NMS) on the website? We'll look to see if it's explained anywhere else, but the webminister was not able to find it so he included it here. The Exchequer also raised the question of multiple fee levels for the event, which makes bookkeeping difficult. The group decided that we could probably cancel the 'pre-reg discount' option for the future, which makes it easier. Perhaps we can also figure out a way to make the troll/gate/check-in process easier (which would also make reconciliation easier) - the Kingdom SUN event registration was not the 'standard' form, but a 6-column sheet listing Member/Non-Member/Feast/No Feast/(two others I didn't get). People showed their membership card to the gate staff, who marked the appropriate columns and quoted a price accordingly. Names and card numbers of attendees were not recorded (except for non-members, who had to sign the waiver) which made the overall process easier. Someone will check with them about this, and can check the rules about what's required...
* We should reconsider the DeKoven Center in Racine as an event site - it has been re-wired and refurbished, and in the process of doing the work they've 'found' another Great Hall. Fancy will organize a trip to see the space.
* Long-Term Planning Meeting/Strategic Planning Meeting: January 22 at St. Ed's. Meeting will start at 1, then a 'tavern moot'/potluck/project day. Where do you see the Barony in a year? In three years? In five years?
* Border Skirmish: June 24-26. Caly is the autocrat from Ravenslake, and we need an autocrat from CAM. (Kateryn can't do it.) People remembered that Simon said something in an email...
* Heraldic Symposium: If you have an event bid, please submit it by January Curia (1/18/11, Brookfield).
* Bylaw Review: Please review the bylaws on your own, which are online (http://caeranterth.northshield.org/Officers/cambylaws.php). If you have suggested changes, send them to the Seneschal, the Baron, and the Baroness. See the end of this message for a proposed change to the bylaws - the Seneschal is looking for commentary and response to this suggestion.
* Officer's Handbooks: The officers should be working on handbooks/guidebooks/guidelines documents. These won't be full-on handbooks, but addendum to the Officer Handbooks (available on the Northshield website) detailing some of the nuances of the local office.

New Business
* Northwatch Cover: One of the fundraisers from Boar's Head raised money for the Northwatch. Shava asked if she might use the money to commission and print a 4-color cover. The Curia decided that they would rather that the funds go towards general operating costs, but suggested that a color cover be created and loaded onto the website; a black-and-white version could be used for the printed cover, with a note that the full cover can be viewed/downloaded from the web.
* Boar's Head 2011: We are officially accepting bids for Boar's Head 2011.

Guilds and Groups
* Cooking Group: Will meet sometime toward the end of January. No theme yet. For the February meeting, Gwyneth would like to plan an actual meal... more information to come.
* Stritch: Stritch is on break.
* Marquette: Aine sent this letter to Curia: To my friends of the Barony, It's been an amazing semester here at Marquette. Thank you for your help, your support, and your friendship. Whether it's been teaching a class or showing some of our new fighters the ropes, we have had new interest sparked and the club has been reborn in all of the new people who have joined our ranks. I hope you understand how far reaching my gratitude is. The organization that became a family for me my freshmen year has resulted in far more than I ever imagined in friendships and opportunities. Again, thank you on behalf of my student group and myself. As for Fighter's Practice, we will have one more this Thursday, December 16 at 7 pm until 9 pm or so at Practice Space East. Practice for next year will resume on Monday, January 24 at 7 pm at the Annex and continue on Mondays in the Annex until they kick us out like they did last year in March due to March Madness (they like doing this apparently). However, from then on Practice in March through May will be on Thursdays at Practice Space East again at 7 to 9 pm. I know it's confusing and I apologize for the way it ended up, but I may have a surprise for April and May (as in maybe more practice time). I will have to talk to the club about this though since our regular meetings are going to be on the opposite days of Fighter's Practice (ie. Thursdays in the beginning and then Mondays in March through May). As well, it may help if you also realize that my reign of Terror will be over in March. As in, when we switch in March to Practice Space East, new people are in charge of Marquette's group for the rest of that year. Amanda Skowronski aka Alys aka My Scribe aka My Left Hand aka The Faithful One will be taking over for the rest of the semester then as club president. Well, I hope this updates you all well enough on Fighters' Practice and the like. I do plan on being at Curia in January so you will hear all of this again. Love to you all from Marquette and Blessed Holidays... (Signed) Aine of Caer Anterth Mawr

Bylaws Suggestion
* The Seneschal has proposed the following change/addition to the Bylaws:
*Seneschal would like to make a suggestion that from now on a person who wants to run an event should put together an event bid - that is, the collection of information assembled by a potential autocrat which states 'I want to run an event, and here's the theme, the menu, the schedule, etc'.
*Event bids should be submitted to Curia by a particular deadline.
*Curia will then vote on which event bid they want to use for that event. (This will no longer be determined only by the Seneschal, Baron, and Baroness.)
*Designate a difference between different kinds of event bids:
*Moots (small, local events),
*Big events (large events hosted by CAM),
*Kingdom level events,
*Known World Events.
*Each level of event ought to have different requirements. For larger events, bids should be submitted to the Curia to vote on, and then the bid becomes the proposal which we send to Kingdom or Known world. On the flipside, a short description is probably sufficient for a moot.
*A bid needs to be a complete bid. If one wishes to do a feast, then can announce this on the CAM list to drump up interest in doing the event.

The Seneschal feels strongly that this should be a bylaw change, not a guideline. These are simple statements of fact, no opinion is involved in them.

The manner in which one wishes to submit their bid is entirely up to that person or group. They can make it as elaborate or as simple as they wish, as long as they have the required information included:
*Date, Time, and Address of the site
*Estimated costs for site as well as any other funds that will come out of the Baronial coffers for the event.
*Cost to the populace for attending the event
*List the names of the people in key positions (if they are known at the time): Event Steward and Feast Steward are the only two required
*State if the site requires a certificate of insurance with their name on it.

These will be discussed again at the Planning Meeting in January.

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11/16/2010
Officer Reports
Baron and Baroness: This is our last Curia. Thank you all. Please send award recommendations to the King and Queen for Kingdom-level awards. Please send recommendations for Yule Court to the Baron and Baroness (you can use the form on the website), and please send them in writing or electronically because we don't want to lose or forget them. Please give the Baron and Baroness largesse and/or tokens, which they can use as gifts and rewards. CAM will have a new Bardic Champion, to be decided at Yule Court. We're also having a long-term planning meeting in January, and it would be great to see people there to help plan. Note: This is to plan the long-term goals ("Where does the Barony want to be in three years? In five years? How can we get there?"), not just for the rest of the year. (More information about that below.)
Chatelaine: The office is open - if you're interested, please send letters of intent to the current Chatelaine, Baron, Baroness, and Seneschal. Got some interesting email from people who are moving into the Kingdom from another Kingdom - they would like to know where there isn't more A&S on our calendar. Since people do A&S every week at fighter's practice, maybe we shouldn't call it "fighter's practice" anymore. Let's rename it...
Exchequer: Has some checks to hand out, and some reports to correct. Finished the event report for the Youth Event, which was great in every respect except financially. Talked to the bank about new rubber stamps for checks (for deposits and for Troll), and with OfficeMax, and would like some money to spend towards acquiring them. Seneschal gave permission to use her funds to do so, since the yearly Exchequer funds have already been spent. We also need to address the storage locker bill someday, which is currently being sent to the previous seneschal instead of the current one. Merchant Coordinator and Pre-Reg Coordinator are sending checks to Exchequer weekly - Seneschal wants to be cc:'d on those communications.
Herald: Looking for a deputy. Will step down at Yule Court 2011 (just over a year from now).
Chronicler: Please submit Tower articles by Sunday 11/21/10.
Webminister: Nothing new. You can submit award recommendations via the website, as well as suggestions.
MoAS: Chausses and Cotehardies Weekend went well, and we should do it again. Project Day was also a great success. SUN was last weekend, and it was great (except for the weather). RUM is this weekend in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. We currently have three classes per hour for Boar's Head.
Knights Marshal: We have fighting on Thursdays at Marquette (but not on Thanksgiving). Fiore on Mondays. Cardinal Stritch has gotten permission to hold a Sunday practice, 12-4:30. More information coming.
Seneschal: Has things to say, which will wrap into both Old and New Business.

Old Business:
Heraldic Symposium: Need to take an official vote about whether or not we want to put in a bid for this event. (At last Curia we decided that we needed more information - essentially, needed to make sure we could do it and not conflict with Border Skirmish.) The current proposed date is Labor Day weekend (September). Curia voted yes. People who are interested in putting out a bid should submit proposals by January Curia.
Boar's Head: The event is in a few weeks. Merchant spaces are sold out. Pre-registrations are coming in. There are volunteer sheets on the website. Their Majesties and Their Highnesses Northshield will be in attendance, but no royalty from Midrealm. Rowan and Johan are running Troll. The deadline for pre-registration is next week. Don't forget that we'll have archery! The next Planning Meeting is this Saturday at 1 PM at Payne and Sigrid's house.
Long-Term Planning Meeting: January 22, probably from 1-9 at St Ed's. (This needs to be confirmed.) If you have ideas for things to do, please post them to the CAM list. This is not just a "plan the year" meeting, it's a meeting to plan the next five years - to look at the big picture of where the Barony wants to go or be. How do we support the Barony, what can we do to help the college groups, what demos do we want to create or repeat? Suggestion: Read Guinevre's email about recruiting.
Border Skirmish: The date we wanted for Border Skirmish (June 10-12) conflicts with a Midrealm event. Kateryn suggested that the best weekend is probably June 24-26. She talked to Alexander de Seton (current Ravenslake seneschal) about it, and Ravenslake's officer group needs to discuss and vote. We discussed and voted that June 24-26 looks like the best weekend. We should pick a 2012 event date at March Curia.

New Business:
Handbooks: Officers should create handbooks for their offices. The Seneschal proposed that the current officer in each office should create a CAM-specific handbook or guidelines, which will supplement the Kingdom handbooks. If you have served in an office and have suggestions, please contact the current person in that office with them. (This is not restricted to Baronial officers - we also want event staff.) The Baroness proposed a motion: Each officer in CAM be responsible for creating a draft copy of the handbook for their office, by January Curia 2012. Motion carried. Note: The individual officer should be responsible for seeing that the draft be created, he or she doesn't necessarily have to do it himself or herself.
Changes to Bylaws: Seneschal proposed that we add an amendment to cover Bids/Proposals for Events: Seneschal would like to make a suggestion that from now on a person who wants to run an event should put together an event bid - that is, the collection of information assembled by a potential seneschal which states 'I want to run an event, and here's the theme, the menu, the schedule, etc'. Event bids should be submitted to Curia by a particular deadline. Curia will then vote on which event bid they want to use for that event. Designate a difference between different kinds of event bids: Moots (small, local events), big events (large events hosted by CAM), Kingdom level events, Known World Events. Each level of event ought to have different requirements. For larger events, bids should be submitted to the Curia to vote on, and then the bid becomes the proposal which we send to Kingdom or Known world. On the flipside, a short description is probably sufficient for a moot. A bid needs to be a complete bid. It was suggested that instead of making this an amendment to the bylaws, we instead make up a list of 'Guidelines and Traditions'. Quote: "We don't want to legislate our culture." In the end, we ran out of time and will table this conversation until the next Curia.

Guilds and Groups:
Cooking: Cooking Guild Sunday at 4, Katlin's House, Theme is Pumpkins.
Marquette: They've elected new officers: Amanda is president, Cameron is vice-president.
Cardinal Stritch: They have a meeting on Wed 11/17 at 6:30. They have secured fighter's practice space: Sundays from 12-4:30. More information to come.

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10/20/2010
Officer Reports
B&B: No update from Their Majesties regarding the Baronial transition. We have some new people tonight from Cardinal Stritch University (more on that later), and Andy, who has been a member for a few years but has been working nights and hasn't been able to attend events or meetings. Also, the youth event was great.
Herald: Boar's Head is in six weeks. Please send in award recommendations.
Heraldic Consulting office hours are during Thursday night fighter's practices at Marquette. If you're interested in being a deputy herald, please contact Arnbjorn. Read the Tower!
Arts and Sciences: Cotehardies on Saturday Oct 23, for the ladies, cotehardies and chausses on Sunday Oct 24 for the men. This weekend is also the Midrealm Cooks Symposium (in the Chicago suburbs). Project Day on Oct 30 at Marquette. SUN is November 13 in Nordskogen (Minneapolis), RUM is November 20 in the Midrealm (Chicago).
Youth: We had an event. More information below. Nikea will serve another year as Youth Minister.
Webminister: We still have a website. Please give Dahrien any borders or artwork which you would like to see on the website. Also, please let him know if you're doing things so that he can put it on the website.
Chatelaine: New people! Also, read the Tower. We've gotten large donations of fabric, so we should be able to garb anybody who wants it.
Knights Marshal: Fighters practice on Thursdays at Marquette, Sundays at Lake Park, and Fiore practice on Monday nights. Read the Tower.
Exchequer: We're still solvent. Curia voted to not purchase another CD at this time. Working on the third quarter report.
Chronicler: Articles are due on Sunday, Oct 24. You're officers, send in reports!
Seneschal: The youth event was awesome.

Old Business:
Youth Event: It was fantastic. Kids and adults were exhausted. We had 59 people, 16 of which were kids. We did not break even, but the event was a success in many other regards. The site was amazing, and period-looking - there is no modern architecture in sight from the castle. There are many huge fire pits around the area. The site also includes a 'viking' fort with battlements suitable for fighting on. Katlin wants to reserve the castle campsite for next year for another event. The Northshield Kingdom Youth Minister has requested that this event become annual, but rotate between multiple locations - Nordskogen and Silfren Mere have a castle campground available to them as well, and are in the process of reserving it for the event for next year. The Boy Scouts (who own the site) would like us to return to this site in August for a demo. There's plenty of parking available (parking was a problem initially because there was training as well as other camping, but they have a second parking lot which wasn't utilized), and the owners are flexible about parking. These buildings are furnished with donations, so perhaps we could donate a trestle table and benches or similar period furniture. Note: Between October and Springtime, campers are responsible for their own garbage removal because the garbage trucks can't get to the bins. Testimony from kids and adults included some folks who had stopped playing years ago because they had kids and stopped attending events which didn't have kids activities, and this was the event that brought them back. Overall, a great site, a great event, and many thanks to Nikea for it.
Boar's Head: 3 merchants are reserved. All Northshield Royalty will be in attendance. Midrealm King and Queen can't make it, but we don't know who the Prince and Princess are yet. Next planning meeting 10/28 at fighter's practice at Marquette. We still need someone to organize youth activities. More information the planning meeting. There will not be a pre-cook, but the cooks/feastocrats request lots of people to help chopping and prepping the food on Friday (12/3) at the site.
Demos and Faires: Kenosha Harbor Market is an indoor/outdoor (depending on the season) market, close to the place we had Border Skirmish the last couple years. Lots of people attend. Do we want to have a booth there? More information forthcoming. (http://www.kenoshaharbormarketplace.com/) Also, the VA Medical Center has an event each year called 'Reclaiming Our Heritage', which features war reenactors from various American historical battles (beginning with Jamestown). We are obviously outside their period, but perhaps we can work something out. (Website at https://forohmilwaukee.org/Home_Page.php) And, the potential demo at the German Immersion Camp has fallen through - it's the same day as Yule Court, so we won't be doing it. Also, we could use an official demo coordinator...

New Business:
Baronial Planning Meeting: November 9, 7 PM, Wehr Physics Building at Marquette.
Cardinal Stritch University Group: A group has spontaneously formed at CSU, and they would like to petition CAM to become a Shire of our group. The Baron and Baroness suggested that they formally make a request at Boar's Head.
2012 Heraldic Symposium: Do we want to host the 2012 Heraldic Symposium? Need more information, but generally yes as long as it's not in June. (Because then it could conflict with Border Skirmish.)

Guilds and Groups:
C&I: Mysie will take over C&I, since Genvieve is moving, and will hold it at Marquette. More information forthcoming. Jara has presented a challenge to create scroll blanks and present them at Boar's Head.
Cooking: Next cooking night will be Novemeber 21 at Katlin's house. Theme will be pumpkins.
Marquette: Project Day, October 30 from 10-5. We have the site from 8-6, so people can arrive early if they wish. Marquette has asked specifically for garb projects, as well as armoring. Please also bring personal projects - needlework, leatherwork, woodwork, whatever - but be aware that other people might see what you're doing and ask you to teach them something.
Herbal Group: Meeting on October 26 at Arnbjorn's at 6:30. The herb will be basil.

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9/21/2010
Officer Reports
B&B: Good turnout at the Bayview Bash.
Chatelaine: We got 13 email addresses at the Bash. We're having a newcomer's meeting next Tuesday (9/28) at Anodyne Cafe in Bayview.
Exchequer: We still have money.
Herald: Added some books to the library. We'll have heraldic consulting available on Thursday nights (at fighter's practice).
Minister of Children: Office is open. Will be stepping down in October/November. We've added a new kid to the Barony!
Chronicler: Tower articles due Friday, 9/26.
Webminister: We have a website. We need to remove (or mark inactive) some guilds and groups - please contact webminister to tell him what you want removed.
Minister of Arts and Sciences: We will set up an evening to figure out/learn how to drape chausses.
Knights Marshal: Still have Thursday night practices at Marquette, Sunday afternoons at Lake Park until it gets too cold. Please come, even if you can't fight; we're doing both in-armor and out-of-armor practice.
Archery Marshal: Archery has moved to Monday nights at West Town Archery until May.

Old Business:
Baronial Transition: Send in your poll. Really. Right now. (Contact Elspeth - the TANG - if you have not sent yours in and still want to.) As of Curia, roughly half of the polls had been sent in.
Bayview Bash Wrap-up: Curia voted to reimburse Julianna for bagels and pizza which she provided. The Bash was a blast. We had a fighting demo and a fashion show, as well as 16 people or so (at various times) at the booth talking about garb and costuming, armor and weapons, heraldic things, food, and many other things. Both kids and adults tried on armor and took pictures, Rose Marian and Baroness Kateryn callig'd people's names for them, and everyone had fun. This should be an annual thing. Next year we should strike sooner - this year the drunks turned up around dark, just as we were starting to clean up.
Baronial Champs: This Saturday (9/25), 10 AM - 10 PM. Event Stewards are Gabrielle and Armond. We will provide lunch and the main course of feast, please bring other food for potluck feast. There will be a heavy weapons championship at the barrier.
Kid's Event: We did not cancel the second building (the ship) because we had a big response, though we don't have a lot of pre-registrations yet. Plenty of activities including a quest and a subtlety class, as well as the main event. There may be archery and rapier, if marshals are forthcoming. We're behind on making things for the event. If you pre-register, you must include the waivers - Boy Scout rules. (The site is a Boy Scout camp.)
Boar's Head: Planning meeting this past weekend. The website will be up shortly. Volunteer! We need someone to run troll. We'll talk to Balthazar about the pre-cook.
Marquette Collegium: Rather than a formal, class-based Collegium, MMS will host a Project Day on October 30.
Marquette Classes: Next class will be October 4. Kateryn will teach making basic jewelry. (Estimated 8-10 students.)

New Business:
German Demo: There's a potential demo approaching at a Milwaukee German Immersion school, Dec 11. $30 for a space.
Demo Notes: We should build a demo kit: 2 tables and tableclothes that go to the floor, a tote with flyers, cards, photocopied/laminated scrolls, maybe feast gear, maybe spare armor. We aren't supposed to provide food for the general public to consume, unless it's pre-packaged and/or we have advance permission. We shouldn't have live steel available unless it's somehow fastened down. (When the drunks get hold of it, it can be dangerous.) We need a banner which says 'SCA', like the one we borrowed from Turn an dem See.

Guilds and Groups:
Marquette Group: MMS has 6 new people. Yay! The group will be focusing on what the new folks want to do. They will attend Novices, Neophytes and Knaves on October 2. Project Day on October 30 at the Marquette Physics building - bring your projects and work on them!
Cooking Group: Next meeting will be at Katlin's house, date and theme to be announced.

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8/17/2010
Officer Reports
Baron & Baroness: The Legends Moot is this weekend. Baronial Champions is next month - please submit award recommendations. This will be Alasdair and Kateryn's last court as Baron and Baroness.
Chatelaine: We should get Baronial business cards again. The Baroness will make her business card template available for use. Simon has offered to donate a print run (10,000 cards?) to the Barony for general consumption. These cards would not be personalized, but will have the website address on them.
Exchequer: Finally wrapped up the Border Skirmish paperwork, though we still need to finish a few things with Ravenslake and cut a check for the Royal Travel Fund. The 2nd Quarter Exchequer report is also complete. We are now using our new checking account, and we should get a stamp with the new name on it (Society for Creative Anachronism Wisconsin, Inc. Caer Anterth Mawr).
Quartermaster: Jean is now the Quartermaster. Nothing to report.
Herald: See the Tower.
Minister of Children: The office is open.
Chronicler: Articles are due by Sunday, August 22. Officers must submit articles.
Webminister: The candidates for the Baronial Poll should submit information to the Webminister, Dahrien Cordell, to be posted on a website so that the populace can read about them. Also, will work on the Online Directory Submission Form to make it functional. [1:25 AM 8/20/2010: This is done now.]
Minister of Arts and Sciences: Corin has volunteered.
Knights Marshal: Fighting on Tuesday (or Wednesday, depending on what else is scheduled on Tuesdays) at Nikea's, more fighting on Thursdays at KK Park, more fighting on Fridays at Leif's, and even more fighting on Sundays at Lake Park. Question - should we try Kletzsch Park for a Sunday practice? What if we rotate between a central location (Lake Park in Milwaukee), a northern location (Kletzsch Park in Glendale), a southern location (Cliffside Park in Racine), and a western location (Frame Park in Waukesha) for Sunday practices?

Old Business:
Legends Moot: Among the other planned activities, we should have a Meet and Greet for the polling candidates. We'll have a panel discussion from 3-4 and 'private time' from 4-5, during which the candidates can each find a place to sit down and be approached for more questions. Also, after the tournaments Alice would like us to have a fighter's practice until we're all too tired.
Youth Event: Just sent in the Northwatch ad for September. If we don't have enough people preregistered by her date in September, Nikea will cancel the Ship campground and just use the Castle. We need more black fabric to make adult-sized cloaks and favors. If anyone has some time to volunteer to help make the cloaks, favors, and other things, please contact Nikea. We have time slots for classes, if anyone wants to teach any. We will also have combat, a coronation, feast, a campfire, breakfast, and other activities.
Boar's Head: Drafting the ad for the Northwatch and the Pale. Will find out when we need to do the insurance certificate. Will post the staff list soon. Next planning meeting in September.
Baronial Changeover: Polls will be sent out on August 24. Please meet the polling candidates and ask them questions. We (the populace) are providing our opinions to Their Majesties, who actually make the final decision; the comments that people write are often as important as how they rank the candidates. Note, only the TANG and King and Queen will see these results. Also note, the polls are not due until after Coronation - Siri and Tom will not see these, Anne and Hrodir will.
New Business:
Demos and Fairs: How about we enter the Arts competitions at State Fair and other smaller fairs? Some of them will allow a group's entries to be presented together. We should, as a whole, do more demos. There are opportunities out there, such as Bayview Bash, Chill on the Hill, parades, etc. We should also script out a demo, more than just hitting each others' shields with sticks. We should really have a demo coordinator. Tatiana offered to make a display for use at demos or fairs. Julianna offered to be part of a group to investigate and organize demos, in lieu of a single point person.
Her Excellency purchased a Baronial Hatbox to pass along to the new Baron and Baroness. The Curia approved a reimbursement for it.
Border Skirmish site report: Still looking around.

Guilds and Groups:
Brewing and Vintning: There will be a tasting at Legends Moot.
C&I: Nothing to report.
Cooking: Still planning to reschedule.
Marquette: Would like to have another Collegium in October. Perhaps 10/30? Also would like to invite people to teach classes. AnnaMarie will send an email to CAM with more information. O-Fest will be September 2.

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July 20, 2010

Officer Reports
Baron and Baroness: Stepping down at Boar's Head. Please come to Day of Legends!
Chatelaine: Please see the Tower.
Herald: Please see the Tower.
Chronicler: Please see the Tower. Reports and articles due by July 25 (Sunday). Remember, all officers should submit a letter every month.
Webminister: A change is coming to the web site soon. Otherwise, please see the Tower.
MoAS: Needs to step down very soon. (She'll explain why in a week or so.) Please submit letters of intent by August Curia.
Knights Marshal: Fighting at least twice a week (or up to five times a week, depending on how you read the schedule.)
Seneschal: Will step aside for all functions regarding Baronial Transition. Valerius will be in charge of the Transition process from a CAM perspective.

Old Business:
Youth Event: Event is still on. Still need volunteers. Construction this weekend at Tatiana's and ongoing. Do we want the treb at the event?
New sites: A new restaurant has opened near the airport called Stone Sword, which we'll pay attention to. Also, a new place will be opening sometime soon called the Uberdork Cafe. Either of these might be good places for meetings, though probably not for events.
Fundraiser: We have 100 medallions so far. We've sold 55 of them. Contact Tatiana for more information. Also, you can order mugs from Elspeth.
Boar's Head: Had a meeting on Sunday the 18th. Will be going to site next Tuesday to get measurements. We will be using the pavilion building for indoor archery. There are still jobs available for anyone who wants to volunteer - talk to Arnbjorn. Also, Arnbjorn might have a replacement idea for flowers in the flower tourney - pipe cleaner flowers. Pre-cook to be rescheduled.
Legends Moot: August 21, at Alice's house. After the Mama Kat Tourney, we will have a 3-person team melee in Price's honor. We'll also have a 'dress up your favorite animal as a legendary person from CAM history' contest. There will be a B&V tasting. There will be a costume contest: How would you dress if you were a CAM legend? We will have a potluck dinner.

Guilds and Groups:
Cooking: Next meeting will be at RoseMarian's house, more information will come through the mailing list.
C&I: Please get scrolls to Gwyneth for the 'let's make scrolls for Pennsic' challenge.
Marquette: They propose the following dates for classes. Please volunteer to teach on one of these days. Sept 13, Oct 4, Oct 25, Nov 15, Dec 6. They would also like to do another Collegium, and we'll start planning it in August. Fighting will be Thursdays starting Sept 2, from 7-9 in the 'old' practice space.

New Business:
We've been asked to put in a bid for the 2012 Known World's Heralds and Scribes Symposium. More information forthcoming.

Baronial Transition: Valerius is the local contact person for the process, and will run all aspects of the process instead of Katlin. Elspeth is the Northshield TANG. Candidates: Geoffrey and Tatiana, Nikea, Murdoch and Katlin, Albrecht and Eva, and Dahrien and Guinievre. We will have a 'Meet and Greet' opportunity at the Legends Moot (August 21). Anyone can write a letter to the King and Queen to advise Them or make comments about the candidates, but only Baronial members will be polled. If you think that there is a chance you will not receive a poll, please contact Elspeth (TANG ~A~T~ northshield ~D~O~T~ org) or Valerius. The polls will be mailed to all paid SCA members who live in the zip codes which are designated as the Barony of Caer Anterth Mawr. Poll will go out on August 23. There will be a definite deadline by which everyone must return their polls to be considered. Changeover will happen at Boar's Head. Dahrien will post bios and other information on the website.

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6/15/2010

Officer Reports
Baron and Baroness: Due to modern life needs, Their Excellencies announced that They are stepping as Baron & Baroness at Boar's Head. They are beginning the transition process, as stated in the by-laws. Letters of Intent are due to Their Excellencies and the Seneschal by July curia. More details will be posted to the baronial email lists and the Tower.
Chirurgeon: Position is vacant
Chatelaine: Things have been quiet this month.
Exchequer: The WI groups will be spun-off into the SCA, Inc- Wisconsin. This will occur on 7/31/2010, While we are waiting for the new Tax ID # for SCA-WI, groups that are holding events after 7/31/2010 are encouraged to send money to kingdom to cover the events. Separate event accounts will be set-up by kingdom to pay event expenses. After 7/31, checks to Caer Anterth will need to be made out to "SCA, Inc- Wisconsin- Caer Anterth Mawr" . Rose Marian suggested that we should buy check stamp for people filling out checks at troll, given the long name.
Quartermaster: Dahrien reported that the missing water cooler has been found.
Herald: Encouraged people to send recommendations for awards year round rather than before Boar's Head. It allows for shorter Boar's Head courts and more business at Border Skirmish and other events.
Minister of Youth: The office is open, please send letters of intent to Their Excellencies, Seneschal, and Lady Nikea. Nikea may be considering applying for a third year.
Chronicler: Could not make it to curia due to work. Submissions for the Tower are due 6/20/2010.
Web Minister: Will be upgrading the left hand menu links on the website. Any updates for the website should be emailed to webminister at caeranterth dot org.
MOAS: Please let Lady Genevieve know about what A&S projects you have worked on this year for her quarterly report.
Knight's Marshall: Fighter Practice is held on Thursdays at KK River Parkway, with the archery and rapier practice. Sunday practices at Lake Park are also resuming.
Seneschal: Katlin is out of town

Old Business:
"Sister City"- Mysie suggested contacting Shattentor to see if they wish to be our sister group.
Border Skirmish Recap- Approx 383 attendees, despite weather. Approx. 200 general public took demo tours. Thanks was given to the staff and all the volunteers. Recommendation was made that a pavilion be rented from a commercial vendor rather than renting the kingdom pavilion. Concerns were expressed about the site (difficulties with the parks department, hostile general public, lack of showers, etc...) Deonysia volunteered to gather information for alternative sites.
Youth Event- Nikea is simplifying the "King" & "Queen" selection to a larger version of Capture the Flag.
Moots for rest of 2010- Confirmed the dates and stewards for the Day of Legends Moot (8/21 at Alice's Home, Rose Marian- Steward) and Baronial Championships (9/25 at Rock River Park, Armond & Gabrielle- stewards). Decided to not hold a changeling moot in October due to Youth Event and the Newcomer event in TADS. Rose Marian will check with Fancy to see if she wants to hold a Boar's Head pre-cook in November. Nikea volunteered to steward Yule Court on 12/11. Will check to see if St Edmund's is available.

New Business:
Boar's Head- The first BH planning meeting will be on July 18, at 1:00 pm at Greenfield Park (Lincoln Ave Pavilion).
WW Security- CAM will volunteer to provide security on Friday night at WW for the 14th year.
6/27 Fighter Practice and Treb firing- We have been invited to hold a fighter practice and trebuchet firing on the property of friends of Mysie & Dahrien, near 76th & County Line Road, starting at 1 pm.

Guilds and Groups:
B&V: Tasting at Day of Legends Moot.
C&I: Making scroll blanks for the Kingdom of Gleann Abhann.
Marquette Medieval Society- Fall fighter practice will be on Thursdays, in the Old Open Pantry. Spring is still up in the air. Their meetings are on Mondays. Will discuss when to hold another collegium and other lectures at a later date.

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May 18, 2010
Officer Reports
Baron & Baroness: Their Excellencies' divorce will not affect their standing as Baron and Baroness. Please send them award recommendations. They will be attending Mermaids and Border Skirmish.
Minister of Children: Nikea is doing lunch for Mermaids and cooking all day with the kids. That night there will be a teen/youth encampment, including a campfire. (The older kids will help with the fire, the rules, and so on.) At Border Skirmish she's teaching a class, and also running Capture the Queen in the afternoon. She's looking for a deputy, and her office is up in November. We need to move the CAM grills - Tatiana and Geoffrey will help with that.
Knights Marshal: Moving to Kinnickinnic Park on Thursdays, Sundays at Lake Park until someone comes up with a different park (with better parking).
WebMinister: Some pages have been updated, including the Baronial OP.
QuarterMaster: We found the shade fly, but are still looking for one of the orange water jugs. It's labelled 'CAM'.
Herald: The Baronial OP is on the website.
Minister of Arts and Sciences: Next Tuesday, Eithni will be teaching documentation at the Shorewood library at 7 PM. Please come!
Seneschal: If we keep Curia as the third Tuesday of each month, she'll be late for the forseeable future. Can we move to another night or another location? (Genvieve will run the next Curia, June 15.)

Old Business:

May Moot: Fun! Food! Friends. There were old people who we haven't seen in awhile, and new people. And Court! Yay!

Youth Event: We need someone to organize rapier and archery activities. (Leif will handle the heavy weapons portion.) They are organizing a game which involves fighting through the woods, onto the ship, and hanging a banner. Still working out the details.

New Business:
Pelican Meeting Report: The Pelicans had a meeting. There are lots of conflicts arising between the smaller events (Moots and things). Seneschals should check with other seneschals to see what might be scheduled which isn't on the main Northshield calendar yet. And, groups should put their activities on the Northshield calendar. In addition, we might consider 'adopting' a smaller group somewhere else in the Kingdom.

Guilds and Groups:
Marquette: The Marquette group thanks everyone for their help this past school year, and will be back next school year. Also, Anna Marie will be at the June moot (which will include some planning) to discuss possible future plans.

Cooking: Cooking is cancelled this month.

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April 20, 2010
Officer Reports
Baron & Baroness: May Moot is coming up. We need award recommendations. Also need largesse - please make or donate things (trinkets, jewelry, trim, notebooks, personalized notecards, etc) which we will then give to Their Majesties to use as largesse. Coronation was fun. We have a new King and Queen! Come to Mermaids - Baron Alasdair will be cooking feast. (Alasdair and James vs Trite and Lucretia: Best of the Wurst Throwdown!)
Chatelaine: See the Tower.
Exchequer: We have money. Working on reimbursement checks for Coronation and the first quarter report. Hasn't seen any checks for Border Skirmish yet.
Herald: Updating the Baronial OP - will have a rough draft by May Moot. Should have a PDF ready to upload to the website by June.
MOC: Doing lunch at Mermaids (Nikki's Grill). Proceeds will be split between Northshield's youth and CAM youth programs. At Border Skirmish the kids will play Capture the Queen. Nothing new to say about the youth event.
Chronicler: Tower articles are due Sunday, April 25. Please send in articles and pictures. (You don't have to be an officer to write an article.) If you send pictures, please include permission to use it and identify the people in it. If you send an article via email, please include 'Tower' in the subject line.
WebMinister: Stepping down at May Moot. The new web minister will be named soon.
MOAS: Working with Eva to comobine A&S night with a night of garb repair and photographing.
Fighting: We have practice. The Marquette site is reserved for Monday nights through May 17.
Seneschal: Will purchase insurance for Border Skirmish.
Quartermaster: Dahrien is the new Quartermaster, and the office will officially change hands at May Moot.

Old Business:
Coronation: Everything seemed to go fine. Feast was a big hit and there were hardly any leftovers. The feast crew was out the door by 10 PM. We made a small profit, which we'll split with the Kingdom. We had 339 people.
Border Skirmish: It's in June. We have bathrooms and portajohns, but no showers. We still have some positions to fill. Let's get the word out. There's a walkthrough on May 15 at 11 AM. The website is up. There will be a sandcastle contest! Need to make sure that it's okay to have parties on the beach. No pets this year.
Party bus: Do people still want a bus for Quest in May of 2011? Dahrien will look into the cost of a 30-person and a 50-person bus and get back to us with numbers.
Marquette Colloqium: Anna thinks that hands-on classes are a good idea for next time. We need more advertising, more classes, more lead time, and better timing. Can we do one in the fall, advertised at O-fest? Anna will come to the June Curia/planning meeting to discuss.
May Moot: May 1, Rock River Park in Fort Atkinson. 11 AM. We'll have indoor games, space for fighting and archery outdoors. We need award recommendations. The building is not heated, so dress accordingly. Will get the signs and put them up. Also, the Orders will meet.

There is a demo on Friday, May 7 at the Meadowbrook schools. We'll have three 45-minute blocks, between 1-3 PM.

New Business:
Sites: We should expand our search for a new site, because people are avoiding CAM events because of the locations we choose. (Both the Expo Center and the County Fairgrounds prevent people from bringing in food from outside, and our general public wants to bring food in.) Maybe we can look at places that aren't as large.
Turn An Dem See has generic SCA signs available to loan.
Fundraiser idea: A person in Windhaven is putting together a fundraiser to sell ceramic Northshield amulets. (~$2 to make them, sell them for ~$5-6.) Windhaven is contributing money to this cause. Do we want to do so as well? Curia decided that we need more information.

Guilds and Groups:
Brewing and Vinting: B&V will hold a tasting at the Legends Moot.
C&I: Will meet again. They have a new project to create some scroll blanks. All are welcome to help!
Cooking: Next meeting in June.
Marquette Student Group: They used the treb on Sunday to great success. A person in Mequon has invited them and the SCA group to her home for a 'fling'. Mysie will figure out when to do this.

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March 23, 2010
Officer Reports
Baron and Baroness: Send in award recommendations for Spring Court (May 1). Kateryn went to Gulf Wars and had lots of fun.
Exchequer: Changing officers from Jean to Magnus. Paperwork is underway. We still have money.
Quartermaster: Changing officers from Tatiana to Dahrien.
Herald: Quarterly report is in. Banners are going well.
Chronicler: Submit articles for the Tower! (Due by Mar 28)
Web Minister: See the Tower. My office expires in April, and I'm looking for a replacement - send letters of intent to Baron, Baroness, Seneschal, and web minister.
MoAS: Won't be here for Coronation or Border Skirmish. If you need anything from her, let her know.
Seneschal: Our insurance is renewed.
Chatelaine: Still working on the photo catalog of the gold key. Can we add the garb which comes in from the 'give-away table' (see below) at Coronation to it? Theodwyn will act as Eva's second deputy.

Old Business:
Regional Fighter's Practice: Went well, though attendance was a little light (six heavy, four unarmored, three A&S). Next time we'll advertise better.
Coronation: Dress in Northshield colors! There will be fighting. There will be court. There will be feast. (3 course steak dinner! - salad, cheese fondue on bread, mac and cheese, veggies wrapped in bacon, steak, custard, and cookies.) Bring back the old school SCA, with pageantry and day camps. There will not be bleachers. We expect a bunch of Midrealmers. If someone wants dancing at the event, someone needs to volunteer to run it. There will be a number of prizes given for things like best garb, most period feast gear, and door prizes. We're splitting the merchants into two rooms to try to manage the flow of traffic. Table decorations for feast will be period-dyed eggs, which will also be used for gaming during feast. Also, there will be a 'give-away' table - people can bring SCA things that they don't need anymore and drop them off; people can also come to that table and take things from it.
Bus Report: Maybe we can take a bus to Quest for Camelot in May?
Marquette Group/Colloquium: Facebook group is up at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=357564921271&ref=ts . We have six or seven classes arranged, and there are spaces for more - we have four "smart" rooms reserved from 8 AM - 6 PM. (Smart rooms = computer and projector hookups available.) Not sure what to do about lunch. Garb is optional. First class at 9, last class tentatively at 1:30. Should also have a roundtable at the end.
Fighter's Practice at Marquette: Potentially have practice on Thursday (Mar 25) and Monday (Mar 29) at the Annex. More info to come.

New Business:
Melee in the Fort: Donald suggested that we have melees in the Fort (at Fort Atkinson) this summer. Potentially we can do it once a month on Sundays, more often if people prefer. No charge. More information to come.
Demo at Janesville Ren Faire: Arnbjorn is looking into whether we can do one there or not.

Guilds and Groups:
Brewers and Vintners: Should have another tasting soon.
Cooking: Has been happening, and people have had fun. More folks should come to eat the food being prepared.
Calligraphy and Illumination: Too busy to schedule lately.

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February 16, 2010
Officer Reports
B&B: We received thank-you letters from His Highness Midrealm Radagaisus, Her Excellency Castel Rouge Isobel, and Their Excellencies Nordskogen Saraidh and Ilya. 12th Night Nordskogen was fun.
Chatelaine: Still cataloging. Can I buy some bins with lids? (Answer: Yes, you have a budget of $50.)
Demo Coordinator (new office): Adelicia is our new Demo Coordinator, a position we used to have which has gone unfilled for a long time. This office is a deputy of the Chatelaine.
Exchequer: We have money. Jean is stepping down next month and Magnus is stepping up. The Troll Manual is in basic form, and the Exchequer Manual is on its way. Incidentally, the refund policy is a guiding principle and not a bylaw.
Quartermaster: Dahrien will be the new Quartermaster.
Herald: The heraldic library is catalogued in last month's Tower and on the website.
Minister of Children: Looking for a deputy.
Chronicler: Articles for the Tower due by Sunday, Feb 21.
Web Minister: Office is open in April. Please submit letters of intent to Baron, Baroness, Seneschal, and Web Minister.
Minister of Arts and Sciences: Next Tuesday (Feb 23) there will be a Calligraphy and Illumination/Arts and Sciences gathering at Alasdair and Kateryn's house, in which we will discuss documentation.
Knight's Marshal: Weekly practice (every other week or so) at Marquette. Check the CAM and CAM-Heavy email lists. We are looking into another potential space for practices as well.
Seneschal: We've sent the money to reserve the space for Boar's Head.
New Business:
Boar's Head: Arnbjorn will be the event steward. The theme is Boar's Head: The Thistle on the Moors - a Scottish Boar's Head.
Banners: We should replace the Midrealm banners with Northshield banners. Perhaps use the swaths of black fabric we still have in the storage locker?
March Curia: March 23 instead of March 16th, so as not to conflict with Gulf Wars.
Future Moots: We need to plan the October 30th potential moot and the Boar's Head Pre-cook Moot.
Old Business:
Regional Fighter's Practice: We have a regional fighter's practice scheduled for Sunday, Feb 28 from 1-6 PM at the Schuetze Center in Frame Park, Waukesha. (http://www.ucpsew.org/Schuetze%20Recreation%20Center.htm) No site fee, donations welcome.
Demo: Demo on May 7, from 1-3 PM, at the Meadowbrook Elementary School in Waukesha. Need more people.
Demo: Demo in Racine - need to get back to them about the date (March 13th or 20th). Want to discuss knights.
Coronation: Need more information in order to report.
Border Skirmish: We have official permission to use the site. A few changes from last year. There are some questions about how feast will work.
Youth Event: We need a check in order to reserve the space. (Taken care of.)
Group trip: Where can we go as a group in the September time frame? Please chat with the Baron and Baroness on the subject.
Guilds and Groups:
Marquette Group: The group is planning to attend fighter's school this weekend. The group is building up again, and would like to invite people to teach classes or lecture on things like events, politics, and people in history during the weekly meetings on Tuesdays at 7:30 in room 154 of the Marquette Physics building.
MU A&S Collegium: Will be holding an A&S Collegium on March 27th in the Physics building at Marquette. Deonysia is collecting people to teach classes, and is looking for lecture-based topics instead of crafting or 'doing' topics - for instance, relgion in medieval times. (The MU group wants to entice students with lectures for which they might get extra credit.) It will last most of the day. Deonysia is inviting people specifically to teach particular things.

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January 19, 2010
Officer Reports
Baron and Baroness: Kateryn is home sick. She will not be at Flesh Wound, though Alasdair will. Next court will be May Day (May 1).
Chatelaine: Read the Tower. Need another night of photographing garb, possibly overlapping with an A&S night, and will need models. She will also publish what she needs when she has a list compiled. We should expect this to be a slow process.
Exchequer: Has copies of the event report from Boar's Head, as well as the end of year report. Our net worth has increased. We have balanced our books. Don't forget to pick up forms (or fill out forms) for the Pick and Save "We Care" program, which donates money to us every time someone in our group shops.
Herald: Has inventoried the heraldic library, and a copy of the inventory will be in the Tower and on the website. Hopes to get the OP completed by Border Skirmish.
Minister of Children: Read the Tower. We've been contacted by Meadowbrook Elementary School (in Waukesha) to do a demo on May 7, for 40 minutes, between noon and 3 PM. They were hoping we would do heavy weapons. (Target audience is 4th-6th graders.) She saw us at the Highland Games.
Web: Nothing.
Chronicler: Reports due by Sunday, Jan 24.
Minister of Arts and Sciences: Deonysia is stepping down, Genvieve is stepping up. Next meeting is February 9 at Alasdair and Kateryn's - there will be a guest speaker to discuss documentation.
Knights Marshal: Fighters practices moving to Thursdays at the Annex. Will keep the calendar on CAM-Heavy up to date. (Contact Valerius or Abelard to be added.)
Seneschal: See New Business.
New Business:
Event Submission Forms: Caitlin has created a sample bid packet and is collecting feedback. Once it's more or less compiled, she'll provide it to the web minister to post on the website. This form is not required, but is heavily recommended for larger events (not moots). It includes a worksheet which ties closely to the 'end of event report' which the Exchequer must turn in, and should help autocrats figure out pricing and other details for an event.
Exchequer Duty Additions: Caitlin suggested a policy change, which would make the Exchequer the pre-registration coordinator for future events. After discussion, we decided that the pre-reg coordinator, the merchant coordinator, and the Exchequer will work closely for future events - they must communicate weekly to make sure that checks are deposited in a timely manner and pre-registration goes more smoothly. The Exchequer can also pre-address and stamp envelopes for this purpose. The Exchequer will also write up a 'how to handle pre-reg' document (outline due by February Curia, to be complete by March Curia).
Other suggestions which arose from this conversation: The group will put together information packets about how to run each area of an event - autocrat, troll, pre-reg, marshal in charge, feastocrat, etc - so that future 'crats will have information at their fingertips. This information will expand the Event Steward Handbook and will live on the website. Please get this information to Alasdair.
March Moot: Deonysia is in charge. The Marquette group has requested a Collegium on March 27. Garb will be optional (don't want to scare people away, but want to draw people who will be drawn by the garb). Event will be free, accepting donations. Open call for teachers - no time limit on classes. Event may include a white-glove walkthrough of the Haggerty Museum's collection of Medieval Manuscripts, and also might include a ball of some sort at the Haggerty. This will not be on the Northshield calendar.
Old Business:
Coronation: Menu is just about set. There is a meeting on Sunday, Jan 24.
Border Skirmish: We are responsible for site this year. There was a meeting at TGS 12th Night. There will be some changes in site layout this year - merchants which were previously at the bottom of the hill will be at the top of the hill, among other things. There will be more formal tours this year, with actual tour guides and pre-determined routes beginning at Chatelaine Point. There will be Artisans Row added to the Merchant area. The general public will not be amongst the private camping areas. Recommend that people erect sheet walls to delineate edges of their space.
Regional Fighter's Practice: We are reserving the Activity Room in Frame Park in Waukesha for regional fighter's practice on Sunday, February 7 from 1-6 PM.
Baronial Bus to Cecil's Siege: This event may not happen. More information coming later.
Youth Event in October: Nikea visited the site and took lots of pictures. It's very cool. Most of the activities will be outdoors, with camping indoors (in the castle and viking ship). We can fly banners from the ship. The castle has a moat and working drawbridge. Sleeping/camping space will be available by pre-registration only, because they must be assigned in advance. There is space for 95 people to sleep indoors; attendance will be capped somewhere between 15-200 people (including people day-tripping the event). We have until June 1 to get in the deposit. If we can't get enough people by April Curia to justify both the castle and the ship we will drop one or the other.
Guilds and Groups:
Cooking Group: Next meeting is February 28 at Typhaine's.

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December 15, 2009
Officer Reports
Baron and Baroness: Thank you to Gwyneth, who was the steward at Yule Court, and for all the people who made it so much fun. Had a great time. Boar's Head was also great, and thank you to everyone for that. Send in award recommendations to the Baron and Baroness, as well as to Their Majesties.
Chatelaine: There are new people (Emily and Casey) at Curia! Some of the gold key garb (the loaner garb) is not fit to be worn. In keeping with the office's mandates, it will be maintained accordingly. The chatelaine will also go through all of the available loaner garb and inventory it, including photos, in part so that people know what we have, but also so that people know what we don't have. (For instance, we have some women's garb which requires an underskirt, but no underskirt.) For these photos, she would like people to model the garb. (Perhaps we can have a Baronial loaner garb fashion show.) And, as you go through your old garb, please consider donating it to the Barony. We should also have an A&S day focused on making garb.
Exchequer: Working through the numbers on Boar's Head. It looks like we made money. Will be stepping down in March or April, so LOI are due.
Herald: Going through the library. We need name source books. He will put together a list of books to look for, which we can put on the website. We also need the Baronial OP (the website version is broken), to post on the web by the summer.
Chronicler: Waited to run the Tower until after Boar's Head, but didn't get enough articles. Will cancel the December issue and run January instead. Articles are due by December 20.
Web Minister: The 2010 calendar is posted. Will remove C&I from the schedule page until the times are established. The new resources are posted in a hidden location. Will fix the OP/address book when he has a few free days.
Minister of Arts and Sciences: Letters of Intent are due - the office officially ended in November, so she's on extended time. Please tell her what projects people have been working on since July 15 for her Domesday report. She hopes to still have A&S nights once a month at the library.
Knights Marshal: Valerius was approved as the new Knights Marshal.
Seneschal: Please make sure you turn in copies of Domesday reports to Seneschal, Baron, and Baroness. Will call Washington Country Fairgrounds about Boar's Head 2010 contract.
Old Business:
Boar's Head report: 545 people were at Boar's Head. Exchequer is working through the financial numbers - the different prices for different registration times for different people has made it complicated, but not impossible. Next year Jean would like to run troll to try to minimize potential accounting snafus. We also should establish the rates as early as possible. Overall, the event was a great success - longer report next time. (The autocrats were not at Curia due to illness.) The autocrats still have the Lost and Found, and will re-post after the holidays.
Border Skirmish: Deonysia and Sigrid are the autocrats. There will be a meeting in January, possible at Tree Girt Sea 12th Night on Jan 16.
Youth Event: We have until June to turn in the reservations. Nikea will collect numbers to find out if it's feasible to rent both the castle and the viking ship, and will cancel the ship if numbers are not high enough. The event will be October 15-17. She has approval from Turn An Dem See to use their lands.
Officer Badges: Two are complete.
Trailer: What if we get a trailer and park it in the storage locker? A three-day rental of a truck or trailer (to haul things for Boar's Head or Border Skirmish) costs money, but the money is currently budgeted for in the event funds. As long as the driver of the vehicle hauling the trailer is a paid member of the SCA, they are covered under Corporate insurance. The size of trailer we will need may require license plates - in whose name would they be registered? Do we need a trailer for everything in the storage locker, or just for everything we need for Boar's Head? More investigation required.
Coronation Bid: We don't have answers yet from Isabella. Kaitlin will try to get a deadline from David de Bohun about when the bid is due, Geoffroi will investigate the use of the Scottish Rite Mason Hall on Van Buren, and Kateryn will investigate the use of Frane Park in Waukesha.
New Business:
September Trip to Cecil's Siege: Dahrien will look into getting a bus for the trip.
Boar's Head 2010: Bids are due 2/16/10. Feast and event bids can be combined or separate.
Guilds and Groups:
Brewers: There was a tasting at the Yule Moot. Jean's stout was great.
Calligraphy and Illumination: Starting up again.
Marquette: They would like to hold a colligeum in April, with classes during the day and a ball in the evening. Perhaps it can be combined with the March Moot?
Cooking Group: Will meet again January 17 at Countess Gwyneth's house. The theme is almonds - everyone bring your favorite almond dish. There will be prizes for the best period almond dish!

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November 17, 2009
Officers Reports:
Baron and Baroness: Submit award recommendations for Boar's Head and Yule Moot! We need to collect items for royalty baskets for Boar's Head (there are seven Royals coming - King, Queen, Prince, and Princess Northshield, King, Queen, Prince Midrealm). Alice is embroidering napkins. Donate stuff! Also, the planning meeting has happened. More planning will happen in June.
Chatelaine: The Marquette group would really like a demo to drum up interest on their campus. We should look for a demo coordinator...
Exchequer: Give me receipts for Boar's Head in advance, if you can. Deadline will be Yule Moot. We have no outstanding debts. Officially looking for a replacement - stepping down in March/April. We need to pay taxes at Boar's Head - will do the usual ($250, half to travel fund, half to general fund).
Quartermaster: If you need anything out of the storage locker for Boar's Head, let me know by November 20th (Friday). I'll go this weekend to pull everything we need off the shelves and put it all in a pile so that the Boar's Head autocrats can load the truck faster.
Herald: Still herald. Today is the deadline for letters of intent - and the new Herald will be Arnbjorn, as of Yule Court.
Minister of Children: We'll have stuff for Yule Court. Local kids aren't doing anything special right now.
Chronicler: Deadline for Tower submissions will be December 8, to include Boar's Head stuff.
Web Minister: Will post the Yule Court stuff with the Curia notes, and try to post the new Resources information this weekend.
Minister of Arts and Sciences: Nothing new.
Knights Marshal: The office is officially open. Only one person has expressed interest, but has not yet put in a letter. We still have practices at Marquette, but the weather is getting cold for Lake Park.
Archery Marshal: No archery practice November 23rd because of hunting season.
Seneschal: Out sick. Thanks to Gwyneth for filling in!
Old Business:
Boar's Head: Website continues to be updated. Scheduling has shifted slightly to add a 10 AM morning court, which moves afternoon court to 4:30 and feast to 6:30. Bar opens at 11. All tournaments will immediately follow morning court. Send Nikea stuff for the booklet. There won't be a dais, but will be a raised platform for the royalty. The autocrats have a plan to get stuff in place early. Re: the Cookie Caper, we may have Princess Bride cookies. Bring containers! There will be a notice stating that no care will be taken to keep the cookies separated (that is, people who are allergic to nuts should avoid the cookies). We have filled all of the merchant slots and have an overflow list. People can get in to site to set up between 7:30 AM and 10 PM.
Border Skirmish: Today was the deadline for bids. An announcement will occur soon.
Officer Badges: Two of them are complete.
Yule Court: See the website at http://caeranterth.org/Calendar/yule.html. Info went out to the email list. It's the weekend after Boar's Head, at St. Ed's, and setup is at 3:30. There will be a potluck feast and things to do.
Coronation Bid: Waiting for Mistress Isabella to complete the bid and submit it.
New Business:
Youth Event: Looking at the Bay-Lakes Council Boy Scout camp "Kohler Castle" (and possibly the Gunderson Viking Baten) as a location for a youth event October 15-17, 2010. Can rent just the castle or also the viking ship. Can also camp on the grounds. CAM voted and approved the event. Site information at: http://www.baylakesbsa.org/camping/rokilio.htm
Guilds and Groups:
Brewing and Vintning: Bring stuff to Yule Moot for drinking and tasting.
Calligraphy and Illumination: Will begin again right after Boar's Head.
Marquette group: Fighting site moving to the Annex for next semester. Practice will be Thursdays from January through March, then Mondays in April and May.
Cooking: Maybe November 29. Definitely January 17.

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Baronial Planning Meeting
Dec 2009
5 Boar's Head
12 Yule Court
15 Curia - Shorewood

Jan 2010
Too many events so no special items for CAM this month
19 Curia - Brookfield

Feb 2010
7 Regional Fighter Practice, need a steward, tentative location: Frame Park
16 Curia - Shorwood - At this Curia - Boars Head Bids are due to us to be voted on
Too many events so no special moots

Mar 2010
16 Curia - Brookfield
Gulf Wars is this month
27 - Moot - Steward gets to suggest theme & location (we need all 3)

April 2010
10 Spring Coronation
20 Curia - Shorewood
Since we might be doing Coronation - no moot is scheduled

May 2010
1 May Day Moot & Spring Court, Steward: Arnbjorn, tentative location: Rock River Park
18 Curia - Brookfield

June 2010
12 Border Skirmish
22 Curia - Shorwood - at this Curia - we will Discuss the Changeling Moot and the BH precook Moot ideas

July 2010
20 Curia - Brookfield

Aug 2010
17 Curia - Shorwood
21 Day of Legends Moot, Steward: Rose Marian, Location: TBA

Sep 2010
18 Cecil Siege - possible Group Trip - chartering a bus and all go together
21 Curia - Brookfield
25 Baronial Championships, Steward: TBA, tentative location: Rock River Park

Oct 2010
16 Possible Youth Event - voting on at Nov 09 Curia
19 Curia - Shorwood
30 Changeling Moot possibly

Nov 2010
9 Planning Meeting for 2011
16 Curia - Brookfield
27 Possible Pre-cook for Boar's Head

Dec 2010
4 Boars Head
11 Yule Court Moot, Steward & Location: TBA
14 Curia - Shorewood - this moved up to the 2nd Tuesday because the 3rd Tuesday is too close to Christmas.

Possible moots to be reviewed in June: 10/30/10- Changeling Moot, 11/27/10- Boar's Head Pre Cook & Dance Moot

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October 20, 2009
Officers Reports:
Baron and Baroness: We had the 30th Anniversary Moot, and it was wonderful. Everybody was there. The site was great - we couldn't hear any traffic noise or general hubbub from the pool or the football games. Arnbjorn and his staff did a great job.
Exchequer: We have money. Boars Head prereg is about as high as usual. We will make a donation to the Kingdom at Boars Head. If you submit a receipt, please put the amount of the receipt at the top to make it easier to read.
Chatelaine: We had a lot of people at Lake Park on Sunday, which drew more people. Bayview Bash also drew lots of people.
Herald: Nothing to report. Office changeover at Yule Moot.
Minister of Children: Nikea's kids went to Griffin's Needle and did great things - one spent time entertaining the Queen and the other made a name for himself ironing. Next year they will put together a team of teenage boys ("The Beasts") to compete. We may have some new youths joining us - the National Honor Society at Ronald Reagan High are interested in putting in volunteer hours at Boars Head and possibly Yule Court. Also, Nikea is planning something for WW (chariot races?). What happened to the demos we used to do at local high schools?
Webminister: We have a website. If you have problems or questions, please contact webminister.
Chronicler: Deadline for articles is Sunday, October 25. He will distribute new permissions/right to publish forms.
Minister of Arts and Sciences: A&S on alternate Tuesdays at Shorewood Library.
Knights Marshal: Sunday fight practices still going on, while the weather holds. Marquette on Mondays. Looking for a new knights marshal. Will request letters of intent in the new Tower.
Seneschal: Doing paperwork.
Old Business:
Boar's Head: Walkthrough and Planning Meeting at site on Saturday October 24 at 2 PM. Expect to have 8 royals on the dais. Court will be before feast. We will have a cookie caper this year. We will also have a 'casbah', with turkish coffee. There will be a bones tournament, so bring your bones. Autocrats will make arrangements to get things out of the storage locker on Thursday night so that they can be on site Friday morning at 7 AM.
Yule Court: Saturday, December 12, St. Ed's.
Border Skirmish: We need an autocrat, and we need one soon. Volunteer!
Officers Badges: Chronicler's badge is nearly done.
Bylaws: The changes to the bylaws were read into the meeting and accepted.
New Business:
Coronation Bid: Since three out of four royals would not have to travel far, we ought to put in a bid for Coronation. Isabella has volunteered to do the legwork - she will be the event steward, find a site, put together a staff, etc. She's already talked to a possible feast steward. Coronation would be April 10. With Border Skirmish in early June, can we do this? Curia voted yes, we will do this.
Trailer: What about a trailer instead of a storage locker? Discuss. (Do we have to license it? What about insurance? How big does it need to be? We
need to have big trucks to haul a big trailer. The storage locker is ~$800 per year. How many years will a trailer last? And does that make sense financially? (How much does a trailer cost?) Where do we park it? If the huge trailer isn't a good option, what about a small one for hauling things?)
Guilds and Groups:
C&I: Genvieve is taking over C&I.
MMS: Full moon party was fun. They'll have another one in November. They'd also like to do games night once per month, on a Thursday.
Don't forget: Planning Meeting is November 10 at Marquette.

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September 15, 2009
Officers Reports:
Baron & Baroness: Happy 30th Anniversary to everyone - 30 years ago today (Sept 15) the first Baron and Baroness were invested and the Barony was born. We will be attending CeCil's Siege this weekend. Today is Geoffrey's last Curia. Please send in award recommendations, both for Baronial awards and for Kingdom awards. (Their Majesties and Their Excellencies will be holding Court at the 30th Anniversary/Baronial Champions Moot next weekend.) Please also consider bringing contents for gift baskets for Their Majesties.
Chatelaine: There are some new people - please keep an eye out for folks you don't recognize and greet them.
Quartermaster: Nothing to report, except that Murdoch and Caitlin will store the Baronial Carport for the winter.
Herald: A few devices are in process. The office is open, and Letters of Intent are due by next Curia.
Minister of Children: Nothing to report.
Webminister: There is a new Kingdom Webminister.
Knights Marshal: We have 3 practices: Monday at Marquette, Thursday at Kinnickinnic, and Sunday at Lake Park. The new potential Knights Marshal has plans for new practice formats...
Archery: We have moved to West Town Archery until next May.
Seneschal: The office will turn over at Baronial Championships. The Seneschal report has been turned in. The Seneschal boxes should probably be stored electronically.
Exchequer; The old bank account is finally closed. We have all the signatures we need for the new bank account.
Old Business:
Boar's Head: We have so many things happening that we're running out of space to put them all. Otherwise, everything's fine. Next meeting will be in October. The Young Marines will be present again - they will help with setup and takedown, and will also collect the toys during Court (with Their Majesties permission). The theme for the fighting includes gambling of some sort - Leif is having coins made for this purpose. We have the site for the entire day before the event to set things up (7 AM - 10 PM, but please let the autocrats know when you'll be there). We might allow merchants to set up the night before. All of the merchant spaces have been filled. There will also be a bones tournament of some sort. And please look at the menu for feast and lunch.
Baronial Champions: Rock River Park, next Saturday (9/26), in Fort Atkinson. Non-members and kids will still have to sign the waivers, though there is no site fee. (Though we are accepting donations.) We need at least one Baronial grill. Does anyone know if there's a microwave on site? People need to bring things other than just desserts, but we need desserts too. (Not just 'meats and sweets'.) The Baronial sunshade will make an appearance. There will also be a youth champion for the Barony, to be chosen through pan-athenic games.
Border Skirmish: Still need an autocrat.
Baronial Badges: Albrecht is still working on this.
Midrealm 40th Anniversary and CAM History display: This will be complete in time for the Champions moot next weekend. If you have photos from the last 30 years of Baronial history, please send them to Arnbjorn. Does anyone have a photo of Rissa, the first Baroness? Also, please send historical recipes to Sir Fern (or to Rose Marian, who will get them to Fern).
New Business:
Bylaws meeting: October 6. Maybe at the Shorewood Library.
Planning meeting: November 10, at Marquette.
Yule Court: December 12. Gwyneth is the autocrat.
Guilds and Groups:
Brewers and Vintners: Had fun at the moot, and will do more tastings soon.
C&I: Nothing to report yet.
Marquette Medieval Society: They would really like to get things moving again, and hope to send representatives to our events and meetings but they're still getting their feet back under them. They would also like to host some sort of Collegium again.

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August 18, 2009
Opening Comments: Pennsic was fun.
Baron & Baroness: Pennsic was fun. Jara and Castel Rouge Baronial changeovers are coming soon. If you have largesse - trinkets, necklaces, unscented candles, beeswax, honey, whatever - which you wish to donate, please give them to Kateryn. The Legends Moot is this weekend, and there will not be court. There will be court at Baronial Champions, and we need award recommendations. If you don't know what award to recommend a person for, just tell the Baron and Baroness what thing you saw the person doing and they'll figure it out from there.
Chatelaine: Nothing new.
Exchequer: There are still some accounts left at the old bank, but they will be closed out soon. Otherwise, we're at the new bank.
Herald: Handing off the office at Yule Moot.
Minister of Children: Nothing new.
Chronicler: Thanks for input re: layout of the Tower. Still learning and playing with the software, but I've mostly settled. The deadline for the next Tower is Sunday, August 23.
Webminister: Nothing new.
Minister of Arts and Sciences: The time to step down is approaching soon, and someone is interested. The sunshade made it to Pennsic and was set up.
Knights Marshal: Still fighting at KK Park on Thursdays. People tried a new Sunday location (Riverside Park, Oakland and Newberry) while he was at Pennsic, and they liked it. Someone needs to talk to Marquette about winter indoor practice space, unless U of M can provide one...
Seneschal: Still waiting to hear if we can possess the Washington County Expo zip code.
Old Business
Boar's Head: Met over the weekend. Built the platform. Have ideas for pillars. We have a feast menu and most of a lunch menu. We will be getting a truck. The Baronial Tournament (fighting) will be at 10 AM. (Can we get the list board from Gunther?) Fighters should bring their own heraldry. Don't forget to pre-reg! Toshi wants to build list poles - please donate one gallon paint cans to him. (You can use cat litter to dry the paint faster.) The Curia approved his request to spend money to build said list poles.
Baronial Champs: Links are up and working. Expect 150 people; plan to feed 100. Tig has a "different" tournament in mind for the fighting.
Border Skirmish: Still no autocrat. Planning to have Simmons Island Park again. Deonysia will be running the "demo"/guided tour portion of the event, and will coordinate a period encampment, A&S Artisans Row, and other things to show the tours.
Baronial Badges: Arnbjorn is still working on these.
Brewing and Vintning Guild: Will be having a tasting this weekend at the Legends Moot.
Legends Moot: This weekend! Bring trinkets to play bones, but no money! Does anyone have a shaved ice machine?
C&I: Will be starting again. Want to make scroll blanks and a Baronial model book. These will be at Marquette.
New Business
Midrealm 40th Anniversary is in October, and other historical things are happening. To that end, Arnbjorn would like some money to build tri-fold exhibits of photos and other historical records. Approved.
Bayview Bash: September 19, we will have an hour of demo time on the stage. So, we need people to do an hour of stuff.
Bylaws: We will have a separate meeting to discuss bylaws in October. They will be printed in the Tower. (They are already on the website.)

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July 21, 2009
Baron and Baroness: Border Skirmish earned us some money, which is good. There are still comments coming in, but overall people liked the event and the site. This is also the anniversary of CAM as a group. Valerius is working on new coronets, which look spiff. Please send in award recommendations!
Seneschal: The Baron and Baroness Poll is complete - the results were overwhelmingly positive and Kateryn and Alasdair will remain Baron and Baroness. Side note: When the bylaws come up for review in September and October we should clean up the language of how the transition process works. Everything else is fine. Term ending soon...
Chatelaine: New people are still turning up. Yay!
Exchequer: We have money. We're in the process of transitioning into the new bank, and we need some signatures. Exchequer report is due at the end of the month.
Quartermaster: Position is open. Apply! Thank you to everyone who helped clean the locker - it looks great.
Herald: Deputy has been helpful. People are working on names. Term ends in December (Yule Moot), and there is an applicant for the position.
Minister of Children: An activity is planned for the Legends Moot.
Chronicler: Still some directories left! See Arnbjorn! Experimenting with Scribus for the next Tower. Articles are due by July 26. Officers, if you're not submitting an article this month please email to let him know that you're not submitting one. And thank you for the AoA.
WebMinister: New deputy (Simon)! Please let me know if you're not receiving email.
Minister of Arts and Sciences: Three Stars Challenge is coming. Thank you to everyone who helped on the shade fly, which is going to Pennsic. There's no A&S night next week (7/28). Report got in on time. A&S Challenge for Boar's Head: Italy through all of period.
Knights Marshal: Still fighting. Adeliz is authorized. Term ends at the end of September.
Old Business
Boar's Head: August 16: Building Party/Planning Party/Fighter's Practice/A&S/Potluck at Nikea's house, August 16 at noon. (Building pillars, in case you wondered.) We'll probably use the risers from the site as the throne dais instead of building/transporting our own. We will do Toys For Tots again, and the Young Marines will probably be on hand to receive them. Merchants are registering. Still waiting to hear what the menu will be. We need volunteers for setup and takedown. Kids Activity at Boar's Head: Queen's Spy.
Baronial Sunshade: Complete! And, within the cost allocated to it. Look at it sometime, because we want to use it for demos, camping events, and so on. We want to see it get used. We will store it in the storage locker.
Baronial Champions: Rock River Park, September 26, clubhouse building. Feast is likely - Barony will probably do the main dish, and everyone can bring side dishes. $3 donation recommended (per person) - $1 per decade. Need to get information to website, Northwatch, etc.
New Business
Border Skirmish 2010: June 11-13. Need autocrat, etc. Also need to contact Stallari about holding event second weekend of the month.
Officer Badges: Some are missing, some are damaged. Albrecht has volunteered to remake them. Barony will reimburse him. If you're an officer and you need one, let him know.
Bay View Bash: Sept 17-18. Need more information.
Legends Moot/Mama Kat Tourney: Aug 22, Noon, Alice's house. Court if needed. Potluck feast: Bring your legendary recipes. Kids activities, African dance class (bring your drums), B&V tasting.
C&I: On hiatus. Heralds and Scribes event has been combined with SUN.
Marquette Student Group: Some of the students will be at Pennsic.

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June 16, 2009

Baron and Baroness: Hi! Don't forget to give us award recommendations.
Chatelaine: We had one person contact us through the normal channels, and lots of non-SCA people came through the gate at Border Skirmish (55-60). Security also handed out info to the public at the event. Also, Adelicia is the new Deputy Chatelaine.
Herald: See the Tower. Minister of Children: Of the 44 kids at Border Skirmish, 22 played Capture the Queen. Leiflette and Sascha won. Jasmine (a young lady in the group) is putting together a creative writing/arts website/discussion forum specifically for kids (though adults can play too).
Chronicler: Reports are due Tuesday 6/23. The theme for this issue is SCA Networking (for instance, Legio Draconis, Armour Archives, etc.) Also, please submit photos so that he has some to use.
Exchequer: We got a letter from the bank that they'll start charging us on July 1, so we'll switch accounts at the end of June.
Web: See the Tower.
Minister of Arts and Sciences: A&S night next Tuesday. Might be movie night - theme to be announced. MoAS reports is due, so please send her lists of projects. There will be an A&S Tournament at Baronial Championships: Three projects, of which one must be in an art or science you've never done before. The theme is stars and/or towers. No more than 5-6 pages of documentation for the entire project. No performances because there's no space for it.
Knight's Marshal: KM report is due. We're still practicing Thursdays and Sundays. We beat the Midrealm in everything except for one engagement. We had a significant numerical advantage, and also had lots of fun.
Seneschal: Event report was turned in. Kaitlin will be the new Seneschal - changeover will be at Baronial Championships.
Old Business:
Storage Locker Clean-up: Things got thrown out, things got reclaimed, things got removed and repurposed. Things which were in the inventory lists were recorded as disposed of.
Baronial Poll: So far, roughly half of the Barony has responded. Geoffery will continue to gather votes.
Boars Head: Planning meeting will be June 26 at 7 PM - IHOP at 43rd and National off 41st. The exact address is 110 Miller Parkway. Lots of volunteers!
Border Skirmish: Thanks from the autocrat. People liked the site. We raised over $600 for Alice. You can send comments to Albrecht and Marie, but especially send them to RLEventSteward ~A~T~ gmail ~D~O~T~ com. Some specific comments: Those weren't mosquitos. It wasn't well-publicized in Kenosha. It was a requirement from the city that we have 'open to the public' hours. Maybe we should have a guided tour - make the public entrance near the battlefield so people have something to watch, and schedule tours to leave every twenty minutes.) Need better signage. Need more (or better marked) parking.
Baronial Sunshade: Deonysia is in charge, and plans to have it done by July 1. White, blue and green, and made out of trigger. Waiting to hear back from Corin and Fancy about using their big sewing machine. Waiting to hear back from Danr about stakes (or maybe we can make our own). Need rope.
WW Friday Night Security: Arnbjorn is in charge, and he will send out another request for people to work. We can still use people for all shifts.
Menomonee Falls Park: We haven't heard anything new from them. Don't plan to go back there ever again.
Baronial Directory: Directories are printed and available from Arnbjorn for $2 each.
New Business:
Border Skirmish 2010: Proposed date is June 11-13.
Ravenslake would like to invite everyone to an event soon, and will send people to our Baronial Championships.

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May 19, 2009
Baron and Baroness: Went to Caravan in the Midrealm, and had a great time (though traffic was awful). Neat themed fighting, in which the fighters were divided into 'caravan' and 'bandits', and they had to escort non-combatants (designated as 'mules') from point A to point B. Their Majesties Midrealm have told their western fighters to come to Border Skirmish, so we expect a large turnout. Also, it's the end of the term - more information from Seneschal.
Chatelaine: Moot was good and had new people. The Meet and Greet was also fun and had more new people. Whee!
Exchequer: There was no fee on our April bill from the bank, so maybe we don't have to change banks ... but just in case, he's following up with other banks (Associated and USBank).
Herald: People are interested in taking on the job of Herald, so once the job is announced as open there will be letters of intent to read. Others are helping with names and devices while Albrecht focuses on court heraldry.
Minister of Children: Nothing to report.
chronicler: Articles are due Monday May 25.
Web Minister: Nothing to report.
Knight's Marshal: We've moved to outdoor practice. Lake Park has been beautiful. We'll keep Thursday nights at Kinnickinnic Parkway for now, but keep your eyes open for other parks with archery and space to fight. (We may also get space at UWM.)
Seneschal: Lub Siochail is talking about going with Turn an dem See, but we are still trying to get the Washington Country zip codes. Will send the Baronial Confidence Poll to the CAM list and then to the recipients of the (snail) mailing list. If someone has no internet access and is a paid member, please have them contact Geoffrey. Poll responses should be turned in by the end of June.
There is still wood at the rectory. Contact Murdoch about it if you want some.
Old Business:
Baronial Championships/Menomonee Park: We are still negotiating with the Waukesha County Park Systems. (They've decided that we need to put them on our waiver. Milpitas says no way.) We're waiting for some information from Corporate. So, we need to find another location for Baronial Championships. Please send ideas to the CAM list or directly to Geoffrey.
Boar's Head: Platforms are coming together, but need a way to transport them. (People are offering trailers.) Simon will be the cleanup coordinator. We still need volunteers for Troll.
Storage Locker Cleanup Party: June 8, 5 PM. Location: A Just Storage: W220N515, Springdale Rd, Waukesha, WI 53186. (JJ and Springdale, across from Sam's Club.)
Border Skirmish: Potluck Saturday feast. Beach house plumbing is being renovated, but should be ready for us. 6 portapotties. No food permit (so we can't sell any). Can have ground fires if we cut the sod and replace it. Need source of firewood. Limited driving on the grass. Archery range will move. The city will set up a wooden barricade (stockade style), which they also set up for the Civil War thing. Alcohol policy: BONE DRY during demo hours, discreetly damp during non-demo hours. Questions: Can we set up pavilion camping separated from modern tents? Where will get ice?
Baronial Sunshade: We still want to do this. We should use poly/cotton cloth, which isn't actually waterproof but can be treated to become so. We want these done by WW. Pictures are available online. We need someone to lead the project. What colors should we use? Do we want to make more than one? (Jara's making 2 and Nordskogen's making 5.)
New Business:
Do we want to do Friday night security at WW again? Yes. Arnbjorn will send around the sign up sheet.
Do we want to do Highland Games on Labor Day weekend? No.
Arnbjorn is almost done with the 2009 Directories. He will send email about it - please let him know if you need to update your contact information or award information. The price will increase to $2.00 per directory.
Coronets: We have the leather ones and the fluffy ones, but don't have nice shiny ones. Valerius is currently designing some, which will probably be done by Boar's Head.

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April 21, 2009
Baron and Baroness: Spring Court is May 2! Please submit award recommendations!
Exchequer: Time to change banks, because ours wants to charge a fee. Will do research and wrap this up via a phone Curia before the end of the month.
Herald: Lots of things going on in the background. Arnbjorn is the new Deputy Herald.
Minister of Children: Needs to talk to Albrecht about Border Skirmish. (See "Border Skirmish", later on this page.) There will be childrens' activities at May Moot - rhyming contest, candle making, etc. Note from Seneschal: Need to make totally sure that we're set up for having kids on site at events, to avoid potential problems down the line.
Chronicler: This is Arnbjorn's last Tower - the new Chronicler will be Geffroi. Send articles by April 26. Arnbjorn is also making changes to the Baronial Directory - hopes to have it completed by June or July.
Web Minister: Working on the Baronial Resources area of the site. Please send me information about local resources: fabric stores and restaurants have been covered, but we also want brewing and vintning supply stores, embroidery supplies, leatherworking, pottery, glass, etc. Any craft which requires shopping, we'd like to know where to shop for it.
Minister of Arts and Sciences: A&S night next Tuesday (April 28), 6 PM, Shorewood library. Might have a movie for people to watch. There will be an A&S competition at Baronial Championships.
Knights Marshal: We continue to have fighting. Need to have an outdoor place as well - this week's practice will be at Kinnicinnic River Parkway at 6 PM. Note also that we're about to change Kingdom Earl Marshals (from Sir Tristan to Sir Gunther Kegslayer). Check out the new thrusting tip rules.
Seneschal: Office is open. We actually have an applicant, but we can take more than one...
Old Business:
Boar's Head: We need volunteers for Troll and a few other positions (Rapier MIC, Herald, Cleanup Coordinator...). Meetings will start after Border Skirmish.
Storage Locker Party: Monday, June 8, 5 PM - and don't be afraid to arrive late. Actual location forthcoming.
Border Skirmish: The website is up and running. Need more volunteers - see the website for more details. The city expects us to have a window of time for the public to visit. The Northshield Pavilion will be there. We will also have a silent auction for Aesa and Wilhelm to cover their personal expenses. We will also have a children's Capture the Flag event happening. (The kids will split into teams, strategize, design their own flags, and play.) Need adults to wrangle that.
New Business:
Baronial Sunshade: Their Majesties have requested that each Barony make their own sunshade, using a simple pattern that they will provide. More details forthcoming. (Note: Check out Hamilton Dry Goods - http://www.hamiltondrygoods.com/ - for inexpensive sunforger fabric.)
Taxes: We typically pay taxes at Border Skirmish. We intend to do so again.
Castle Fever: People should go to this event. May 22-25. It's also a ToC.
Highland Games: Sept 5-6 (Labor Day weekend). Should we do it as a demo again?
Spring Court/May Moot: May 2. cooking outdoors! How to put up four different styles of pavilion! Campers round table! Other stuff! Submit award recommendations!

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March 7, 2009
Happy anniversary, Murdoch and Caitlin!
Baron & Baroness: Alasdair is sick. The bathroom is finished. Thanks to everyone for the good wishes and support regarding Baroness Kateryn's mother - she's now healthier, and still getting better. Baron and Baroness will not be at WW this year.
Chatelaine: There's some new interest from various folks. Still getting stuff from the previous officer.
Exchequer: ...is in Antartica. Nothing to report.
Herald: People are working on device and name submissions. Would like to have a banner-making party when the weather gets nice.
Minister of Children: The kids of the Barony are doing things. This summer MoC will have a rummage sale, the proceeds of which will go towards the children's fund. We may combine the rummage sale with fighter's practice. Kids should let her know if they have questions, project requests, project ideas (maybe outdoor cooking?), etc.
Chronicler: Due date for the Tower newsletter is March 22. (This is for the April Tower, which will be the April Fools Edition, so feel free to submit a real report and a humorous one.) The office is open - term expires next month. Be aware that this office only takes about 2-4 hours per month of real work. Also, Chronicler is updating the Baronial Directory.
Web Minister: Email addresses and various pages have been updated.
Minster of Arts and Sciences: The A&S nights continue. This month there are two. MoAS is looking for a deputy.
Knights Marshal: Everyone should fight. Looking for a deputy. We need to continue to look for other fighting spaces, because we only have our current indoor space confirmed through the end of Marquette's semester. Also, KM has some of the loaner armor.
Seneschal: The Senescal is in Ireland. (This meeting was run by Caitlin.) Office is open and looking for new Seneschal.
Old Business:
Storage locker party still on hold until Spring. We'll pick a date next Curia. Border Skirmish: The event is June 12-14, at Menomonee Park (same place as last year). HRH Northshield received a phone call from HRH Midrealm because he can't make it to the event this year, but he expects to send 75-100 Midrealm fighters to the event this year. Ravenslake is hooking up online prereg. Dahrien will be webminister. Marie is holding an A&S challenge to create the design for the t-shirt and logo for the event - Lindesfarne Strikes Back. There is a meeting on Tuesday, March 10. Will post a list of open staff positions on the CAM list.
Baronial Champions: The event is Sept 25-27, at Menomonee Park. There will be camping at the beachhouse enclosure, as there was ten years ago. It's on the Kingdom calendar and will be in the Northwatch. Waiting to get the event agreement from Seneschal.
Boy Scout Demo: March 29th (Sunday) at St. Gregory at Oklahoma & 60th, beginning sometime between 1 and 2 PM.
Black Fabric: We have 4 bolts. Curia voted to donate 2 bolts towards projects for the King and Queen.
Boar's Head 2009: We have the site secured (Washington County Expo Center). Waiting for the Baron to send the dimensions for the hall. Side note: Baroness will send the event steward handbook to be posted on the website. We still need volunteers for staff positions for the event. Final bids for the feastocrat position are due by April 1, and the feastocrat will be chosen by mid-April.
New Business:
Gaming Demo: March 21-22 at UWM. http://www.m-cononline.com.
Guilds & Groups:
C&I: Please let Mysie know when people are available to meet.
Marquette Group: They would like to do some non-fighting things, perhaps a medieval bookclub. General feeling is that someone should talk to them and find out what they want, and we'll figure out how to make it happen.

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February 17, 2009
Baron & Baroness: Nothing to report.
Chatelaine: Eva is now the Chatelaine. Would we be interested in the USM International Faire on March 10? Probably too late, and not on a weeknight. Also, a Boy Scout troop has asked for help. And Armand's daughter Katie wants to have a medieval-themed 18th birthday party. More information forthcoming.
Herald: Nothing to report, except that there are some submissions that we're waiting to hear back from.
Quartermaster: Nothing to report, but the job is open.
Minister of Children: Nothing to report.
Chronicler: Deadline for Northwatch articles is Sunday, Feb 22. The office is open, and letters of intent are due by March 7.
Webminister: Nothing to report, except that our sitename is renewed.
Knight's Marshal: We have a local fighter's practice. We want to get a .permanent one.
Minister of Arts and Sciences: Nothing to report.
Seneschal: Office is open. Please submit letters of intent by June Curia.
Old Business:
Boar's Head: The site contract is signed. The event is December 5. The theme is "Medieval Faire with a Roman Flair". The site will have a new layout, with the list fields (armored, unarmored, and "play") at the center with everything else around it. ("Everything else" is merchants, A&S displays, Artisans Row, raffle, and an area for performances.) Royalty will be on a raised platform or dais so that they can see everything. Please submit 'roman feast'-themed feast ideas and feast-o-crat applications by April 1. Lunch will be by Turn an dem See - we've requested a "hardy" lunch, a la carte. We need volunteers!
Storage Locker party will be when the weather gets warm. (May?)
Border Skirmish: No response from Marie, but we need to move on it.
Cedarburg Demo: About a dozen people. Much fun was had.
New Business:
Baronial Championships: Will be at the Menomonee Falls Beach House. Arnbjorn is planning to make it a camping event, from September 25-27. More information forthcoming.

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January 20, 2009
Baron and Baroness: This weekend is Yule Moot. Kateryn's mom is improving.
Chatelaine: Demo coming up, first weekend in February. Deonysia is in charge. RoseMarian stepping down at Yule Moot, Deonysia stepping up.
Exchequer: Domesday is in. Overall for the year we spent a little more than we earned.
Quartermaster: Stepping down in August. Office is open.
Herald: Has renewed his office for another year. Deputy is Arnbjorn.
Minister of Children: Nobody has returned any surveys. Please do! Information is on the Minister of Children and the CAM Youth pages on the website (http://caeranterth.northshield.org/Youth/index.html). Shark tournament and candle thing at the Yule Moot! We will also be having an in-house rummage sale, probably in late February.
Chronicler: Office is open. Letters of intent due by March Curia. (Stepping down in April.) Anyone can sponsor an issue of the Northwatch for $10. (So far, three people have done so.) If you sponsor it, you get your name in the issue. You can see how the Tower is put together at the Feb 15 gathering at Arnbjorn's house. Tower articles due Sunday, 1/25.
Web Minister: Nothing to report, except that there's an active Web Minister mailing list.
Minister of Arts and Sciences: Next Tuesday (Jan 27) is A&S. Adeliz is teaching sari wrapping. It's at the Shorewood library at 6 PM. The following Tuesday is general A&S, same place and time. Valerius is going to teach shoemaking soon. A&S is meeting on the last Tuesday and first Tuesday of each month (so, two weeks on, two weeks off).
Knight's Marshal: We need a practice space. Gwyneth approached the Shorewood schools and is waiting for an answer. Rec Center has three gymnasiums, for $65 per hour. (The church was $25 per hour.) There are two other lodges, at $22 per hour. What about St. Augustine, Saint Sisters of somebody, the big church at the corner of 92 and North? Winter will talk to his roommate about the Klotsche Center at UWM. What about the Buella Brinton Center and Hide House? Maybe we can be sponsored by a student group at a school - we'd be happy to do educational things in exchange for space. We could also donate money to a student group. Remember floor coverings - fighters might want to consider buying rubber mats. And what about Frame Park ($25 per hour)? Let's get that, maybe on a Sunday...
Seneschal: Office is open in August, please apply now.
Old Business:
Boar's Head: End result, made money. Thanks to everyone. Should we stay at that location or move? This place was 24,000 square feet, and we had 488 people. Serb Hall is $3500. Geoffrey thinks we should go for Washington County on December 5, new building.
Storage Locker: Waiting for spring. (Picnic party!)
Border Skirmish: Proposal has been made for Simmons Island Park in Kenosha. Expect to hear more in the next week or two.
New Business:
Curia dates: For now we'll switch between Shorewood and Brookfield.
We're changing the date of Feb Curia to Feb 16 (Monday).
Windhaven Investiture: Investiture is February 14. (Investiture and ToC.) We need a gift basket for Grimmund.

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December 16, 2008
Baron and Baroness: Thank you for coming out in the lousy weather.
Exchequer: We made money on Boar's Head. Needs the 'stuff' inventory from the QuarterMaster. Corin gets a Nesco. Position open in November - will probably request an extension.
QuarterMaster: Position open in August. If anybody has stuff that belongs to the Barony, please let Tataina know.
Herald: Office is filled (again), by Albrecht for another year. Arnbjorn is the backup/deputy Herald.
Minister of Children: Planning youth activities for Yule Court. Parents and children, please fill out the survey (which was emailed, but is also on the website at http://caeranterth.northshield.org/Officers/moc.html). There is a secret project underway, whose details are known only to the Queen. There will be an MoC article in the Tower. Also, she has ideas for Boar's Head next year and requests an extension on finding a new site.
Chronicler: Office is open, please submit letters of intent by March Curia. Idea to help donate money for the Tower: Allow people to sponsor issues. $15 per issue. December 28 is the deadline for Tower articles.
WebMinister: Still planning to move the website. Please let me know if there are changes or updates. There will be a website for Yule Court.
Knight's Marshal: Update your info on the roster (http://www.scamarshal.org/dotnetnuke/) or send it to Murdoch. We'd like to start practices at St. Marks or some other location again.
Seneschal: Office opens in August.
Old Business:
Boar's Head 31: We win. Some complaints that the fighting space was too small. Rave reviews for the feast. People really appreciated the populace space. There is some question as to whether the merchants did well or not. Her Majesty was pleased, especially by the volume in the hall during court (which was generally quiet enough that She didn't have to move court). We had roughly 480 people.
New Business:
Boar's Head 32 (2009): Sigrid will be autocrat, Nikea and Julianna will be deputies. Let's consider new places for next year (we'll decide at next Curia), but we're leaning towards Washington Park instead of Waukesha Expo.
Border Skirmish: June 12-14 (according to Ravenslake autocrat). Marie thinks she has a good site, but isn't sure that it's locked down for that weekend. We still need to have the date locked down by TreeGirtSea's 12th Night event.
Curia in 2009: We will discuss changing meeting locations at the next Curia meeting. (Which will be in Shorewood.)

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November 18, 2008
Baron and Baroness: Please make Award Recommendations to the King and Queen for Boar's Head. Send in Award Recommendations to Baron and Baroness for Yule Court.
Chatelaine: Greetings to Eileen.
Exchequer: We're collecting checks for Boar's Head. Please encourage people to pre-register.
Herald: People are working on devices. Currently accepting letters of intent - office will expire soon.
Minister of Children: We have a Minister of Children: Nikea.
Chronicler: The deadline for the Tower is 11/23, by noon. (Arnbjorn will be demonstrating how he puts together the Tower to a potential applicant that day.) Office is open - letters of intent are due by the March Curia meeting. We'll continue to have the Tower available for free, but might accept donations of 'sponsorships'. (He's checking to see if this might be tax deductable.)
Web: Nothing to report. Send changes and updates to me and I'll post them on the website.
Quartermaster: Needs to know what people need from the storage locker for Boar's Head.
Knight's Marshal: Encourages people to go to practice. Note: Ravenslake practice is now on Monday nights. Contact Murdoch about rides to other practices.
Seneschal: Office is open. His term ends in August, but he'd like to have it filled by June so that he can train someone.
Old Business: Boar's Head: Trying to set up a night next week to visit the site. Four spots left for classes. Pre-reg! 38 out of 45 merchant slots are filled. The pre-cook was *great*. Please consider sponsoring flowers for the flower tournament. (Currently $7.20 per dozen.) The Princess' Sleeve rapier tournament will be held at BH. Come, volunteer, have fun.
Storage locker party will happen next year.
Border Skirmish: The group is trying to find a place before the end of 2008, though they need to meet to discuss it. Rumor has it that His Excellency Stephen will attend Tree-Girt-Sea's 12th Night and would like to challenge the Prince of the Midrealm to attend Border Skirmish.
Cookie Caper: Bring cookies, bars, brownies, or other items which can be served in individual portions. We need boxes for this, though they've already got a scale or two, disposable gloves, wax paper, tongs.
Bylaws: The current changes for the bylaws will be published in the Tower.
New Business Boar's Head 2009: The event steward has been chosen. Geoffrey has spoken with the Sports Complex guy, and it didn't go great. Fee would be $1800. The covers for the basketball courts would be canvas, and he would lay plywood over those to make a fighting surface, which is not ideal. The site is nice, but the kitchen facilities are also small. Perhaps we should go elsewhere - people will look into Jefferson County Fairgrounds, Waukesha Expo Center, and the Union Grove Expo Center. We'll need to make this decision soon to get on the calendar.
Wine tasting: Alice and Tatiana will be hosting a wine tasting at Alice's house, Friday Nov. 21 at 7:15 PM.
Yule Court: Yule Court will be Jan 24, 2009 at St. Ed's. It will feature the fourth annual gift exchange! And Baronial Court - don't forget to make award recommendations!

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October 21, 2008
Baron and Baroness: Went to Creating the Creative. Raito and Aesa are looking for award recommendations, and mentioned specifically awards for "spreading the wealth, spreading the knowledge" - people who travel, people who teach, people who share, people who contribute in meaningful ways. You can make award recommendations for any level of service and any award. Please fill in the 'Where will this person be?' area so they know where to expect to find the person. Next year's Mermaids will feature an Iron Chef-style feast challenge. Remember that Boar's Head is coming up.
Chatelaine: Things have been quiet. Stepping down in December - submit letters of intent to the Baron & Baroness.
Exchequer: We have some money in the bank.
Quartermaster: We'll put off the 'cleaning out the locker' party until Spring.
Herald: Stepping down in January - submit letters of intent to the Baron & Baroness.
Chronicler: Articles for the Tower due by Sunday, Oct. 26.
WebMinister: Nothing of note to say. Let me know if there are problems with the website.
A&S: No meeting this month because of the Baronial Planning Meeting.
Knight's Marshal: We have a fighter's practice. The Earl Marshal is trying to ensure that the database is up to date, so please visit it at http://www.scamarshal.org/dotnetnuke/ and do so. See below for more information about the fighting site.
Old Business Boar's Head: Scheduling another walkthrough. Setting up another meeting. Turn an dem See is doing lunch.
Bucketworks still hasn't gotten back to us.
Changeling Moot: This Saturday night (Oct. 25) is the Changeling Moot. Don't forget to make guesses about who people will dress up as, since the theme is 'come as your own worst enemy'.
New Business St Mark's Rental: The group decided not to continue practice at St. Mark's in November because turnout is too low to justify paying for it. Recommend starting it up again in February. PLEASE look for other locations, otherwise fighters are encouraged to go to Jara (Wednesdays) or Ravenslake (Tuesdays).
Border Skirmish: Albrecht has volunteered to be the CAM autocrat for this year's Border Skirmish. Ravenslake is looking for BS sites closer to the border. We should keep in mind the Menomonee Park location for the following year, which will have running water and showers in the area we camped.
Baronial Planning Meeting is next Tuesday, Oct. 28, at the Shorewood Library.
Cookie Caper: At Boar's Head, we will sell cookies by the pound. (Probably $5 per pound.) Please bake cookies and other baked goods for this so that we have something to sell! Proceeds will go to the travel fund.
Note: Their Royal Highnesses will be at Boar's Head and Border Skirmish.
Bylaws: The Baron has requested a re-wording of section 5 of the Bylaws.

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September 17, 2008
Baron and Baroness: Boar's Head is coming up. Baronial Championships is coming up. We have received award recommendations, but feel free to make more. We have new people, as well.
Chatelaine: Scrambling to keep FrodoFest stable amidst changes. She needs someone to run the 'garb petting zoo' on Friday and Saturday. Office expires in January - accepting applications now.
Herald: Read the Tower. What does everyone think of the Crestfallen Tournament idea?
Chronicler: Deadline for the Tower is September 28. No extensions this time! There are three more directories available for purchase at $1 apiece. The October Tower will also include the bylaws.
Webminister: Nothing to report. Please let me know if there are problems with the website.
A&S: Next week (Sept 23), Mysie will teach a class about Gutenberg as a dry run of the class she'll be teaching that Thursday at Marquette. The docents and representatives from the Haggerty and art clubs at Marquette would also like to see some of our artwork - fiber arts, metal arts, armor, etc. This might lead to an exhibit of some sort at the Haggerty.
Knights Marshal: Thursday is the last outdoor practice. Where will go next? Marquette's Sunday practice is cancelled. Magnus will talk to a possible warehouse in Waukesha. Tatiana or Geoffrey will talk to St. Mark's. Deonysia also suggested a school on the northeast side.
Exchequer: There is money in the accounts. We lost some money on Border Skirmish. We will share that loss with Ravenslake.
Old Business Legends Moot: It was fun. The Baron fought, even with a twisted ankle. Alice went over the wall.
Baronial Planning Meeting: October 28, Shorewood Library. Time TBD.
Next Boar's Head Meeting: September 24. Location TBD. We need someone to do lunch. We have a rapier marshal. Dahrien will build the website sometime.
Frodo Fest: Might have archery. We'll have people there from Noon until 5 or 6 on Friday, and 10 AM until 5 or 6 on Saturday. Fighting is at 11, 1, and 3. (Fighters, remember to get there early enough to put on gear.)
Clean Storage Locker Party: TBD.
Baronial Champs: Site opens at noon. Two tournaments. First tournament: Potential Champions only. Second tournament for everybody. The first tournament will begin at 1 PM, but all fighters in that tournament must first fight the Baron. He'll be in armor at 12:30 to face all comers. There will be a drum circle, so bring your drums. And your kids. Potluck feast - more info forthcoming. Court is at 6. Meetings with Orders between the tournaments and court.
Changeling Moot: Eva and Albrecht are 'cratting. "Come as your own worst nightmare, or your own worst enemy." 5-10 PM, Oct. 25.
Talk to Alice about hurricane relief. Maybe we can donate proceeds from the auction at Boar's Head?

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August 19, 2008
Baron and Baroness: Border Skirmish was fun. It was beautiful. It rained a little, but the weather was kind to us - it waited to rain until the NS Pavilion was down. Yay for Tatiana for autocratting! Baronial Champions is coming up in September - get in your award recommendations! (Please re-submit any from the last few months, because the Baron's computer ate itself.)
Chatelaine: We had several new people at the event, who had a good time.
Exchequer: It's too soon to say whether we made money from the event or lost any. Get receipts and bills to him as soon as possible. What message do we want on the issue of the Northwatch which we're sponsoring?
Quartermaster: Other people now have keys to the storage locker. And the Exchequer now knows where it is.
Herald: Accepting letters for Herald.
Chronicler: Please turn in articles by August 24. We'll have spare copies of the newsletter at the three demos in September, so if you want to write something extra for this month's issue of the Tower please do so. Also, in the process of looking at old, old newsletters it's amazing how much we've grown up.
Webminister: Still moving to a new server. Also, the Highland Games location has been changed on our website to reflect the actual location - Waukesha Expo Center.
Knight's Marshal: Still having fighter's practice.
Seneschal: Need to schedule the next planning meeting, so come to the next Curia with dates in mind to do that.
Old Business
Border Skirmish: The event went well. It was nice and small. The site was happy with us. Thank you to the staff for all their hard work. It's probably too expensive to rent a shower for this site, though we do have showers at the Beach House just up the road. The park is planning to run water to the camping area we used and install some sort of toilet facilities, to make it a more 'finished' camping area. Ravenslake might have a new location closer to the IL/WI border, but we'll wait and see. Tatiana has begun the process of finding a site for next year (we can re-use this site if necessary, but we would like options), though she isn't planning to be autocrat. She suggests that we re-use this site if a new location has not been found by January.
Boar's Head: Sign up for jobs. We'll be in the Washington County Fairground, which has a new building. It's 4000 sq ft bigger than the old building, though the size increases aren't in places where they're obvious. There are no pillars, so it does look larger from the inside. (Also, the carpeted rooms that we've used for rapier and court in the past have been absorbed into the larger room.) There is a big sliding wall which splits the big room into two smaller ones, but it may not be in place by the time of the event. Perhaps we should bring artificial dividers to break up the room somehow, so it doesn't get too loud and overwhelming, such as the latticework from last year, carports, or banners. We should at least use something to differentiate the fighters' space from the populace space. (One of the autocrat's goals is to provide more populace space.) The floor is the same (slippery) floor as the other building. Alasdair will set up another time to look at the space. And hey, we might have a staff room for a change. The date of the event is December 13. There will be a Boar's Head meeting sometime in September.
Highland Games Demo: September 6. We have the interior (table) space from 9-6. (This space will be 10'x20'). We have the outdoor fighting demo space from 4-5. The names of the seventeen participants have been sent to the Highland Games people, and those people should receive more information in the mail.
St. Ed's Demo/Day of Legends Demo: September 7. They would like us to set up 5-6 pavilions. They'll be roasting pig for their feast. We'll have the Mama Kat Tourney as the fighting demo. There will also be a Bier Garten, Root Beer Garden, and Pastry Tent. ("Hope it doesn't rain and ruin the pastry tent." A black-and-white copy of their flyer is here. (It's nicer in color.)
FrodoFest Demo: September 19-20 at the Salem, WI library. This event is on the library's calendar at http://www.community.lib.wi.us/calendar.html#calendar. They sent us a contract.
Baronial Championships: September 27 at the Beach House, from Noon till 10. Mikea is the moot steward.
October Moot (Festival of Changelings): October 25. Need a moot steward.
Bucketworks: They said they'd get us a proposal package. We haven't seen one yet.
Marquette: Working on getting us a space for fighter's practice, but we haven't heard anything yet.
New Business
Caitlin needs to get a couple more people to help her at the Griffin's Needle Challenge this weekend. (She needs people who can do hand-sewing.)

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July 15, 2008
Seneschal: WW was fun. Don't forget that Border Skirmish and Boar's Head are still coming up.
Baron and Baroness: WW was fun. There were awards, and Ian passed his fighter's authorization.
Chatelaine: WW was fun. FrodoFest (Salem, WI, which is western Kenosha County) is scheduled for September 19-20, and they would still like us to sign an unofficial contract to a demo. The group approved this, pending the Seneschal's review of the contract.
Quartermaster: We've cleaned stuff out of the storage locker. Maybe we can have a potluck and go through the locker front to back, so we can decide what else we can get rid of and what needs to be replaced. The old keyholders' devices are still there (painted on 2'x3' pieces of plywood), for instance, and some old 'wardoor' shields. Let's do it in September or October.
Herald: More people have submitted devices. Banner making was cancelled, and we'd like to do it informally instead of formally. Probably after Pennsic. And, the badge and name for Caer Anterth Mawr are approved.
Exchequer: It's been slow. We have money.
Chronicler: Reports are due July 25. Please send them on time or early. Think about things we might distribute at demos, such as flyers. (That is, think about what you might want on the flyers.)
Web: Test the new award recommendation system at http://caeranterth.org/Links/AwardRecForm.php
MoAS: Report is in on time. Everything's fine. No A&S meeting in July, there will be a C&I meeting for Pennsic (she thinks) at which we'll be doing actual painting. A&S will restart in September. Something coming up is an outdoor cooking activity.
Side note: Banner Crafts is going out of business and everything's on sale. Store is in Fox Run, near Alasdair and Kateryn's house, at the corner of Sunset and St. Paul.
Knight's Marshal: Practice Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays. Congratulations to Ian.
Old Business Border Skirmish is still on. Ravenlake's attendance will be low because they're not available, but we can cover it from our group. We still need people to cover Troll on Friday. We still have the land permit and the portajohns ordered.
Boar's Head 08: Probably meeting in late August. Getting paperwork in order.
Legends Moot (Sunday, Septemer 7): The church is meeting tomorrow. The press will be in attendance at the moot/demo, so be spiffy. A German vendor will be there selling potato pancakes. There will be a German beer garden, serving Sprecher's beer and rootbeer. They plan to have a jailer again. They'd like us to bring banners (and banner stands). At 5 they'll have their own feast, at which point we'll move to Caitlin and Murdoch's house for a potluck dinner and Court. We'll table the Crestfallen tournament until next year.
Highland Games Demo (Saturday, September 6): We'll have a table inside, with fighting from 4-5.
Bucketworks: We'll talk to them and see if we can try it out for three months or six months. But we need something from them on paper first.

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June 24, 2008
Chatelaine: FrodoFest (Salem, WI, which is western Kenosha County) is scheduled for September 19-20. They have asked us to sign an unofficial contract to a demo. (Fighting and treb, at the least.) They also would like our permission to use our name and photos. We will wait until next Curia to decide. Also, 3 more people want more info about the SCA.
Exchequer: Need more info about where to send money for the donation challenge. Need contact info for the issue of the Northwatch that we're sponsoring. Info was provided. The bill from Crown has arrived. Will follow up with Gwynedd. We've spent money on Border Skirmish already.
Quartermaster: The storage locker leaks. (This is something we already knew.) She proposes that we have a day when people come to help clean out the storage locker, to see what's in there.
Herald: Banner-making weekend, maybe Menomonee Park Rec Center on 6/28. Will report more when it is confirmed. There will also be a class on Tuesday, 6/24 at the Shorewood Public Library, at 6:30. This class will be for Heraldry, Yarn, and C&I.
Chronicler: The deadline for the July Tower is Sunday, June 22.
Webminister: Will move the site to a more advanced server to take advantage of more advanced functions.
MOAS: Nothing to report, except the class (above) on the 24th. Also, time for the mid-year report - please notify MOAS of A&S projects.
Knight's Marshal: The road between here and Jara is washed out, and will be for a few weeks. Also, Murdoch will be out of town for 10 days. He encourages fighters to keep practicing in his absence. We can have practice Thursday and Sunday as scheduled. Also, Tuesday nights at Glenbrook North. Tiggod has offered his barn in a few weeks - we'll do a Sunday practice there to try it out. His Majesty has asked that all fighters read the tactical information at http://www.thewarwicks.org/Letters/SCA_Combat_Doctrine%20only.doc. Please pass it along to all fighters.
Old Business
Border Skirmish report: We would like to reschedule. Tentatively looking at the weekend of Aug. 15-17. We will use the same location.
Boar's Head: We will start meetings soon.
Bucketworks: We have not heard back from them.
Brewers and Vintners: Oeach mead rocks.
C&I: Twice monthly meetings for C&I at Marquette. They've been projecting Illuminations on the big screen, which makes a big difference. And, we will still be doing a demo at Marquette.
New BusinessThere will be a picnic at Marquette University on the 4th of July (Laumier field), starting between 3-4 PM. Fighting and treb!

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May 20, 2008
Chronicler: Deadline for Tower submissions is Monday, May 26th.
Baron and Baroness: One of the banners at Crown, created a few years ago, features the devices of Baronial members. The Baron and Baroness will get the measurements of these devices so that current members can add their own. Registered devices only, please. (Contact Albrecht to discuss how to register your device.)
Chatelaine: People had fun at Crown, and some new people were present.
Exchequer: There are some outstanding (uncashed) checks. If you have a check from the Barony, please cash it.
Quartermaster: If you wish to donate something to the Barony, please make sure it has a container in which it can be stored. And please don't put staples in banners.
Herald: Heraldic Commenting webpage has been updated. Please attend the A&S /Heraldic Commenting night in June. We will paint banners again after Border Skirmish and before WW.
Web Minister: There's now a calendar view of the calendar.
MoAS: A&S nights are going well. Upcoming events will be posted on the website. June will feature knitting and Heraldic Commenting. July will be free.
Knights Marshal: We're going to look at Bucketworks next week. Sunday practices at Lake Park, Thursdays at Kinnickinnic.
Archery Marshal: Monday's practice (Memorial Day) will be at 3 PM at Menomonee Park and will include a picnic. Plotting evil shoots for Border Skirmish.
Old Business
Crown: Report will be sent out when completed. The event was very good. The food was scrumptious. Thanks to everyone who helped. Attendance was low, but the event ran smoothly. The girdle books were a big hit - we will donate 50 of the remaining books to the Group Heralds, the rest to the Baron and Baroness for largess. We have other leftover materials from the event which will be held for future projects.
Border Skirmish: We are getting the Northshield pavilion. We have some merchants and some teachers, but more are welcome. We will be buying a portable carport for Troll. There is no feast, but we'll have a barbecue on Saturday night - we'll provide potatoes, people should bring other food on their own. (See the website.)
Boar's Head: Please volunteer for positions.
Possible New Boar's Head Site: Baron and Baroness will take questions back to the owner and get answers.
New Business
We will donate some money to the Knightly Quest group, to support Leukemia and Lymphoma research.
We will have a table in the Cultural building at the Highland Games on Saturday, September 6, and have a fighting demo outside.
We will have the Day of Legends Memorial Moot at St. Ed's, to coincide with a demo at their location on Sunday, September 7. The demo will be from Noon till 5, but the moot will start earlier and end later at Caitlin and Murdoch's house.
We will donate money to the Northwatch, hopefully for December.
We will volunteer to do security Friday night at WW.

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