Lionsdale Council is being postponed until Thursday January 26th due to the weather.  It will be at Rose’s apartment 202 – 46199 Margret St. Chilliwack Thursday January 26th at 7 pm.

Also, a reminder to officers that your quarterly reports are due this month.

Thank you.

-Tomas de Courcy
Seneschal of Lionsdale

Winter’s Tourney 2012
February 4, 2012

The Shire of Lionsdale welcomes you to our annual Winter’s Tourney where lords and ladies vie to be our new champion of rapier, arts & sciences, and bardic, while other gentles compete in armoured combat, and cut & thrust tournaments.

Site:
St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church
8469 Cedar St. Mission, BC V4S 1A1
Site opens at 9 AM and closes at 11 PM

Site Fee:
Adults: $10
Youth 13-18: $5
Children 0-12: Free
Merchant fee: prize donation
NMS Applies
Please make cheques to “Shire of Lionsdale”

Event Steward:
Tomas de Courcy (Noah Arney)
#153 3455 Wright St, Abbotsford B.C. V2S 5P1
604-744-8591
tomas@noaharney.com

Merchant Steward
Danielle (Christy Sandison)
604-289-0017
christymccoll@yahoo.ca

Events will include three of our Shire Champion competitions: rapier, arts and sciences, and bardic, and also an armoured combat tourney and cut & thrust tourney as well as merchants, dancing, classes, and a potluck feast for which the shire is providing a main protein.

For the potluck please bring a dish to serve 8-10 people with an ingredients list. Please note that there is no alcohol allowed on this site.

January Council will be at Rose’s apartment 202 – 46199 Margret St. Chilliwack Thursday January 19th at 7 pm.

We have a number of important items of business this month including:

• Looking at Bard & a Banquet – we are looking into changing B&B to an alternating year system, removing it completly, having it alternate with Odin’s Playground, and many other options will be brought up.
• Potential practices and gatherings – does lionsdale want to setup a combat practice or regular gathering throughout the year
• Officer openings – Three greater officers are looking for replacements right now: Seneschal, Chatelaine, and A&S Minister
• Shire Locker – we are outgrowing our current locker, we need to look into alternatives

If you can’t make council you can always voice your thoughts on these either on the forum, e-mail list, or in an e-mail to the seneschal (seneschal[at]lionsdale[dot]net).

Also, November’s minutes have been posted.

Lionsdale A & S Championship :

1. The competition will be a single entry ( but a person may enter more than one piece if they are different pieces )

2. No theme ( so as not to exclude anyone ),

3. With documentation.

4 The competitors will give an oral presentation for up to 15 minutes about the piece.

5. If possible though not required I would like to see the pieces be donated to Lionsdale largess ( This is so the artists word – fame will grow and well as the shires ).

6. In progress entries are welcome for commentary but will not be considered for Shire Champion competition.

Those bringing projects for commentary please inform the current A&S Champion, Sir Kerrigan, or our A&S Minister Kayleigh de Leis of their intention as soon as possible to ensure time, space, and adequate judges.

If the pieces are to be donated they should be accompanied by a recipe card size tag with the artists name, branch and brief summary of the documentation so the future receiver with have a full understanding and appreciation of the piece.

The prize will be a carved Leather pouch custom made by Sir Kerrigan after discussion with the winner.

Just a reminder to everyone that the next council meeting will be in January.

There will be a few items of new business coming up in January, and the information about them will be posted here.  If you have any new business for January please contact the Seneschal through the contact page.

Remember that Bard and a Banquet is this weekend.  Do you have your ticket?

If not contact Aine Selmasdottir at: exchequer (at) lionsdale (dot) com

Council this week is at Desiree’s place. Thursday Nov 17 at 7 PM.

19250 119 ave Pitt Meadows.

Minutes have now been posted.

October Council will be at Geofrey’s common room in mission, October 20, 2011 at 7PM.

33165 2 Ave Mission, BC

When you get to the building the common room is through the passageway to your left before entering the building.

Minutes are posted.

Minutes have been posted.  See you all at the coffee shop on Thursday.

http://www.lionsdale.net/library/council-minutes/

Just a reminder to everyone that Council is this week in Abbotsford at Legal Grounds Coffee Shop.

Thursday September 15, 7:00-8:30

33775 Essendene Avenue Abbotsford B.C.

Minutes from last council will be up soon.

Also, I only have one application for the Heralds position.  If you are interested, please send an e-mail to the Seneschal before Thursday (seneschal (at) lionsdale (dot) net).