March The 2012 Wastekeep Word Issue #371 June Anno Societatis XLVII, Being 2012 Gregorian Upcoming Events 1
June 2012 Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat. 1 2 Springfest at Sacagawea Park in Pasco, June 1-3 See copy in this issue. 3 4 5 6 Wastekeep Fighters Practice at Howard Amon Park in Richland, 6:30 7 8 9 10 11 12 13Joint Fighters Practice in Wastekeep at Howard Amon Park in Richland, 6:30 14 Baronial Council at 6:30 in at Round Table Pizza in Pasco 15 16 17 18 19 20 Wastekeep Fighters Practice at Howard Amon Park in Richland, 6:30 21 22 Greenwood Faire Castle Set Up 23 Greenwood Faire in Howard Amon Park in Richland (non SCA) 24 Greenwood Faire continues Greenwood Faire Castle take down 25 26 27 Joint Fighters Practice in Vulkanfeldt 6:30 in Zillah at the park 28 29 30 Note: The Barony is not putting on demos or running a food booth at Greenwood Faire this year. We will be paid to set up the castle on Friday and take it down on Sunday, so we will need volunteers to help with that. (Time to show up will be announced later.) Otherwise, go and enjoy the faire! The Commedia group will be performing twice a day, with times to come out later. 2
Regular Baronial Gatherings Fighters Practice: Wednesdays at 6:30 PM: Fighters Practice has moved back to Howard Amon Park in Richland. Fighters Practice includes practice for heavy armored combat and rapier combat. Non-fighters are encouraged to attend, bring projects to work on, observe and ask questions. Newcomers are always welcome. Call Sir Dyon at 509-627-0142 for more information. Check the calendar, and watch the email lists for updates. Wastekeep fighters will travel to Vulcanfeldt for a joint practice on 4 th Wednesday of this month. Vulcanfeldt practices are held at 6:30 on Wednesday at a park in Zillah, WA. For those who would like to keep up to date on what s going on with practice, send an email to subscribe to the fighters emailgroups:wastekeepheavyftrsubscribe@yahoogroups.com or for rapier WasteKeepRapiersubscribe@yahoogroups.com. Help Needed for Castle Set-up We will be setting up and renting our castle for the entry way at Greenwood Faire. If you can help Friday afternoon or Sunday for take down, contact Catriona at sue1436@msn.com. More details about starting time for set up will come out soon on the Wastekeep email list. Take down should start about 5:30 on Sunday. We are not doing a Food booth or demos this year. 3
Regular Gatherings... Continued Baronial Council (Business Meeting) 2nd Thursdays: This event is not in costume, and newcomers are always welcome. It is here that upcoming activities are planned, budgets are discussed, etc. All are welcome to contribute ideas. The meeting begins at 6:30 at Round Table Pizza in Pasco. Pages: Pages have been meeting irregularly in recent months. There has been discussion about moving Pages meetings to events rather than the monthly Sundays. Contact Baroness Stjarna at baroness.wastekeep@gmail.com with questions. Watch the email list for updates. Armoring/Arts & Sciences: Contact Mistress Marcia if you need help with research or a project at monferret@yahoo.com. Publication Notes This is the June 2012 issue of The Wastekeep Word, a publication of the Barony of Wastekeep, of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. (SCA, Inc.). It is not a corporate publication of SCA, Inc., and does not delineate SCA, Inc. policies. The Barony of Wastekeep was founded in 1979, and is located in the Tri-Cities, Washington and the surrounding area. The Wastekeep Word is available from the Chronicler, Mistress Catriona of Rathcroghan (Susan Painter) at sue1436@msn.com or by joining the Wastekeep Yahoo group at www.wastekeep.org. The newsletter is available in online/electronic format only, at no cost. The submissions for each month s Word are due by the 20th of the previous month. Photos in this issue are by the Chronicler. Suggestions and corrections are welcomed. 4
Springfest June 1 st - 3 rd in Wastekeep Greetings From the wonderful land of Wastekeep. Sacajawea Park, Pasco, WA We invite all to attend our annual Springfest event where the Champions of Wastekeep will be chosen by their skills on the field. We are looking for the best of the best to be our champion in Heavy Fighting, Rapier fighting and of Archery! Youth are encouraged to come out and fight in our Youth armor combat champions tournament and our Youth archery champion tournament. Pot luck feast Saturday evening, our barony will be providing meat and breads please bring a dish to feed 10-12 people. Mundane Last name: A-H Side dishes, I-P Main Dishes and Q-Z Desserts. Also, come by and wish our Baron and Baroness safe travels as they prepare to travel to Spain on an epic adventure. (They will be gone til December :( ) If you are interested in teaching a class in embroidery, cooking, painting scrolls, calligraphy, period encampments, armoring etc please email the the autocrat, or if you are interested in sponsoring a contest :) Classes offered at Springfest: * Dancing--- come out and learn the latest steps to your favorite period tunes * Embroidery -- learn the basic, intermediate and some expert stitches to finish up the garb, favor or arts and science project * YAC- Does your child want to start learning the basics of fighting, those who attend (with a parent) can be authorized to fight in the yac tournament on Sunday. * ATTENTION HEAVY FIGHTERS!! Sir Pembroke, a knight of the West is offering a class on Sunday to all those interested. A Grand Siege cooking competition will be happening: Read the following for more information! For many months Wastekeep has been under siege. The invaders have burned the surrounding countryside. Supplies are dwindling, but the spring festival is fast approaching and the Baron knows that little could be worse for his populace's morale than for the holiday to go unobserved. SO Baron Styrkarr has ordered the Sergeantry to scour the keep for any foodstuffs that can be found, and to bring the greatest cooks in the barony, as well as those great traveling cooks who have been trapped by the siege. Wastekeep will not be deprived of its Springfest!! Contestants (or teams of contestants) will be provided with the ingredients below and tasked with creating a meal (that likely will contain a few different dishes). The results will be judged during the feast. Ingredients that will be provided are: goat meat, 2 eggs, apple cider vinegar, olive oil, honey, asiago cheese, lentils, dried mushrooms, dried adriatic figs, whole wheat flour, Almonds, cabbage, turnips, onion. No limits on spices. A selection of spices will be available or you may use your own. You may also bring on personal ingredient that you have stashed away during the long siege. May be fresh. May not be the majority of any dish. If you are planning on or thinking about participating, have questions please email Phillip de Mantel at jepainter@gmail.com. 5
Springfest continued... There will also be some family activities planned and open play area for kids to enjoy also. (parents are required to attend with their child/children) Dancing.. dancing...dancing! Come out and be ready to put your dancing shoes on Friday evening at 7:00 and learn some new steps to dance to. If you would like to merchant please contact the autocrat for more information. Autocrat: HL Ysabella Greene 137 South Gibby Road Moses lake Wa 98837 509-750- 5636 Please no calls after 9 pm Site: Sacajawea State Park, 2503 Sacajawea Park Rd. Pasco Washington Fee: Adults 18+ $15.00 Youth 6-17 $10.00 Child 0-5 free Family Cap $ 50.00 $5.00 Non member surcharge will be applied. Please make checks payable to Barony of Wastekeep, SCA INC RV's are welcomed with NO extra charge Please remember to bring the appropriate paperwork if you are bringing a child with you that is not yours. You need to have a minors consent to participate and a medical waiver with copy of parents ID. http://www.antir.sca.org/pubs/forms/28_multiple_minor_waiver.pdf to find the minors consent to participate http://www.antir.sca.org/pubs/forms/04_minormedical_us.pdf to find the minors medical waiver 6
Springfest Schedule.. Friday June 1, 2012 3:00 pm Gate opens 7:00 pm Dancing Class Saturday June 2, 2012 8:00 am Herald Wakeup Call 9:00 am Morning Court 10:00 am Archery Range open 10:30 am Heavy Championship Tournament 1:00 pm Embroidery class by Cler(at the covered shelter) Make a Favor at the Families Activity area 1:00 pm Youth armored combat Class(Family Activities pop-up) 2:30 pm Adult and Jr. Archery Tournament 3:30 pm Dancing lessons 4:30 pm Feast contributions to the kitchen Letters for Defenestrator Contest due to the Baron and Baroness 5:00pm Feast 7:00pm Closing Court (outgoing and current champions please be present) Sunday June 3, 2012 8:00 am Herald wakeup call 9:30 am Rapier Tournament championship 10:30 am Youth Armor Combat Championship,with closing court to follow ASAP 11:15-2:00 PM Sir Pembroke, Knight of the West, offers a heavy fighting class 4:00 pm Event Closes 7
Greetings, Barony of Wastekeep Rapier Championship Tournament at Springfest Scheduled for 9:30 AM Sunday June 3rd I became the rapier champion of Wastekeep by defeating a knight using an offhand squire, by using a rapier and off-hand cadet, Rowland Greene. The prize was entertaining Baroness Dagrún Stjarna. She kept a contagious smile and inspiring laugh, despite my display of skill, which left her beloved Baron Styrkarr in the grass, grasping the belt of the dead squire Philip de Mantel. This year my goal is to continue to please the baroness to keep her laughing and smiling as we join together to test our rapier fighting skills to determine the next rapier champion for the Barony of Wastekeep. All combatants will use a combination of rapier and a random off-hand parrying device. Don Jack Tyler is assisting me in gathering usable, suitable and yet entertaining items for rapier fighters to hold in their off-hand. The fickle hand of fate will guide dice to determine what they are to use in their defense. If destiny provides an item that displeases Baroness Dagrún Stjarna, she may decide to change the fighter s fate and provide an alternative. As out-going rapier champion, I wish to provide her with a champion that bears the necessary fighting skills to succeed with a rapier, and the wit to entertain her. Prepare yourself. You must be deadly and charming. Andrew Williams Order of the White Scarf Rapier Champion for the Barony of Wastekeep 8
Wastekeep Baronial Council Minutes May 10, 2012 Attendance: Catriona, Dyon, Marcia, Ysabella, Inguz, Meghan, Ulrik, Thorkell, Stykarr, Stjarna, Gudrun, Ysabella, Viktoria, Luaithrenn Call to order: The meeting was called to order by the Seneschal at 6:30 at Round Table Pizza in Pasco. Approval of minutes: The April minutes were approved as presented in The Word. Old business: Baronial Library: Sorting of the original library for discards still needs to be completed but no date has been set for the next meeting. Hopefully we will have some of those already discarded available for sale at Springfest. Pavilion committee: They have not met since the last Council meeting. Her Excellency said Tai is making tents again, and is still finalizing a canvas supplier. We are talking about redoing the top and/or buying a travel pavilion, possibly one like Tiernan and Miranda s. At May Crown the committee will work on taking photos of pavilions that look like something we might want for a travel pavilion for the Baron and Baroness. Greenwood: We have decided that we will not be running a food booth or doing demos at Greenwood this year due to many members having scheduling conflicts. We made under $500 on the food sales last year, so we decided that the stress was not worth the profit. We still plan to do the castle rental and set up for $250.00. Springfest: Contests will include siege cooking, heraldry in your encampment, and heraldry to identify your child. There will be dancing Friday night and dance classes on Saturday. There will be a potluck feast with the barony supplying beef and pork. Contact Phillip if you want to participate in the siege cooking. Set up for the event will start at noon. There will be a sale of lost found & books at Springfest. There is no charge for RVs. Port a Potty and showers will be available. The park has a $10 merchant fee. A motion was passed to spend $214.50 to haul the trailer to Crown. Darby and Trent will haul it. Seneschal: He received a couple of quarterly reports but everyone needs to 9
make sure that they send copies to him now and to the Baron and Baroness. He has put those report deadlines up on the calendar and will send a reminder a week in advance. If you are going to stay in your office and your two years are up, please check with your Kingdom superior and let them know that you are continuing and need your warrant to be renewed. Baron & Baroness: Demo on May 15 th at Enterprise Middle School. The regular teacher may be out. The teacher contact said they may have the media come in. Ysabella said we could talk to them as long as we make sure someone responsible and knowledgeable. We need to be there by 7:30 to set up. It will run from 8:00 until about 11. They will be attending May Crown, Grand Thing and Springfest. They will be leaving in June and back on December 18. Sgts tourney: It will cost Her Excellency about $1700 to come back for Sergeants. She wants to make sure there are candidates that are going to follow through before she buys the ticket. She wondered how people would feel about having the tournament or part of it without her, and having the swearing in later. There was discussion about doing it at Yule Feast, maybe with some of the testing done in advance. There was discussion about looking for a Yule site that would allow fighting indoors. Yule Feast will be set for December 22 nd when Their Excellencies will be back. Reeve: We have $3674.30 in savings and $3445.81 for a total of $7,120.11. The check to the kingdom for our share of the settlement has cleared. Her report is in. She hasn t had a reply to her inquiry about her warrant. Chamberlain: NNTR Chronicler: NNTR: Master of Stables/Dean of Fence: He bought a bag for the new armor. We have arms and gambuson to go to the second kit. We have the first set on hand. Ulrik hosted another armoring workshop last weekend. Ulrik has created a baronial armor box that he will be bringing to events for armor repair. His Excellency has arranged for Sir Pembroke to come to practice with us. We talked about having him come on the Sunday of Springfest. If he can come we will comp his fee. Youth: He has the new helmets in and is going to paint them. He is hoping to get his daughter s set done this weekend and a loaner set. He would like to run an informal class at Springfest, for new kids interested. Baronial Archer: Nothing to report. Lists: She has asked local fighters to send her their information about their authorizations for marshalls. The Kingdom Lists mistress had a baby and hasn t gotten back to her with her warrant yet. Chatelaine: He would like to thank Marcia, Her Excellency and others for helping with newcomers in the park. There has been a lot of public response so come and talk. We need to update the brochure to take out the word boffer. 10
Gold Key, Greteboke, NNTR Arts: Marcia has extra surveys if anyone didn t get to fill them out. She reported on results from the surveys which were published in the May issue of The Word. Mike Botu is willing to teach leatherwork. Mairghread has volunteered to teach charter and scroll work. Marcia bought the big roll of paper she discussed at the last meeting. She plans to use it to make patterns when we are sure what we want and then we will sell them to cover costs. Marcia plans to start bringing cookbooks to practice so that people can look at recipes. The gambuson is finished. It may need to be taken in a little on the neck. She may have to change the attachment method for pauldrons. She has about a ten page write up at this point. Family Activity Coordinator: There will be a favor making class and open play activities. Pages: Vickie is interested and Her Excellency is thinking of stepping down since she is going to be gone. Ithra, Library: NNTR Canton: They found an archery range that has a rate for non profits. They have four openings for officers. The next council meeting will be June 14. Ulrik s deputy will run the meeting. Their Majesties of An Tir, King Ieuan and Queen Gwyneth, can be reached at Ieuan and Gwyneth Gower, 46589 Portage Ave., Chilliwack, BC, V2P 3G3, Canada or 778-386-4490 or by email King@antir.sca.org or Queen@antir.sca.org (Please note that either email address goes to both Royals.) Their Royal Highnesses Vik Vikingsson Jim Manners 1325-72 St Edmonton, AB T6K 3E9 Canada prince [at] antir.sca.org Astrid of the Fjordlands Kimberly Nickerson 2520 Hyde Ct SE Salem, OR 97301 USA princess [at] antir.sca.org 11 heirs@antir.sca.org heirs [at] antir.sca.org
Their Excellencies of Wastekeep Baron Styrkarr Jarlsskald and Baroness Dagrún Stjarna Kevin and Rebecca Hodges Styrkarr: hadji_erdoc@yahoo.com Stjarna: baroness.wastekeep@gmail.com Their Excellencies welcome award recommendations from the populace. Photo by the Honorable Lady Katherine of Akornebir 12
Kingdom Curia Kingdom Seneschal: Baron James Llewellyn ap Gruffydd, 3140 Stevenson Place,Victoria, BC V8X 1C5(250) 995-8526 seneschal [at] antir.sca.org Wastekeep Curia: Seneschal: (Legal Branch Administrator ) Master Ulrik Grimwolf de Montazure grimwolf@hotmail.com Seneschal of Akornebir: (Walla Walla Canton) Lady Gudrun Saebjornsdottir (Darby LeClair) aisling23@gmail.com Reeve:(Financial Records/Accounting) Companion Inguz Sigrun Miksdottir(Kathy Irish) 509-967-2075 (Companion Inguz prefers contact by phone & doesn t check email very often.) Deputy Reeve: Mistress Arianwen verch Kynwraidd ap Aedden (Tina Spadoni) 509-735- 3343 arianwen@frontier.net. Chronicler: Monthly Newsletter/Meeting Minutes) Baroness Mistress Catriona of Rathcroghan (Susan Painter) sue1436@msn.com 509-627-0142 Deputy Chronicler: HL Meghan Oakendottiir (Doris Lund) Hl_meghan@hotmail.com Basilisk Herald: (Registration of Names & Devices Heraldic Consultation) HL Èireannach ingean ui Guindhe (Vicky Bounds) ladyeireannach@gmail.com 541-566-2034 Chief Scribe: HL Mairghread (Kim Rust) mkimber@charter.net Web Minister: Master Ulrik Grimwolf (Ed Lund) Grimwolf@hotmail.com. HL Jublian Harwyck also assists with the website. Minister of Arts and Sciences(Medieval Crafts): Mistress Marcia of Jarrow Motte (Marcia Monthey) monferret@yahoo.com 509-627-4711 Chatelaine: (Newcomer Contacts/Welcome) Steinbjorn (Sean Totten) chatelaine.wastekeep@gmail.com, Gold Key: (Loaner Costume) HL Rowena Kyncaidd, (Sandy Parchen) 509-547-4690 rowena@eiijd.com Chamberlain:(Inventory) Mistress Arianwen verch Kynwraidd ap Aedden (Tina Spadoni) 509-735-3343 13
Dean of College of Pages: Baroness Dagrún Stjarna (Rebecca Hodges) hotwings4k@charter.net Family Activities Coordinator: Svana Ormr (Sara Totten) SJTeverythingart@live.com 509-521-8546 Librarian:(Caretaker of Baronial Library) HL Xarrmon Andralenger (James Furness) Captndomino@yahoo.com 509-302-1131 Ithra Chancellor of Wastekeep: (Medieval Education Workshops) Mistress Marcia of Jarrow Motte (Marcia Monthey) monferret@yahoo.com 509-627-4711 Ithra Bursar:Financial Records/Accounting)HL Meghan Oakendottiir (Doris Lund) Hl_meghan@hotmail.com Captain of Wastekeep Company of Archers: His Lordship Ronan McKay (Steve Hearin) ronanmackee@yahoo.com 509-249-0927 Heavy Arms Marshal:(Armored Heavy Fighting) Sir Dyon de Mantel (Dale Painter) donjacktyler@msn.com 509-627-0142 Rapier Marshal:(Rapier Fighting) Don Jack Tyler (Dale Painter) donjacktyler@msn.com 509-627-0142 Youth Armored Combat Marshal:(Smalls and Jr. Heavy Fighting) ) Steinbjorn (Sean Totten) chatelaine.wastekeep@gmail.com, Mistress of the Lists: Honorable Lady Luaithrenn the Falconer`s Wife (Laurie Magan) cnlmagan@wildblue.net First Aider: (Basic Event First Aid)Lord Thorkell Paulson (Trent LeClair) 40kfelix@gmail.com Deputy First Aider: Baron Styrkarr (Kevin Hodges) hadji_erdoc@yahoo For more information about the Barony of Wastekeep, check out our website at www.wastekeep.org or for info about the SCA in general, go to www.sca.org. 14