[Archers] St. Sebastian's 6 Pennsic 2016

[michael sheppard]

I'm in.

YIS,
Saphir

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Jay Nardone <jaynardone at comcast.net> wrote:

> Good evening my Brothers and Sisters of the Bow. This is about the time of
> year that I start my planning for next year’s SSB shoot at Pennsic. But,
> before I do this year, I wanted to have a discussion with everyone to gauge
> the interest in the shoot and your willingness to still support the shoot.
> I first just also want to say that I completely understand it is everyone’s
> vacation, to include my own and we all have tons of other commitments, I
> understand that.
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> We were asked once again by the East to conduct the shoot next year. My
> concern is that usually during these discussion I get almost 100%
> resounding “yes, let’s do it, I want to help”, but when it comes to the
> shoot I’m seeing the participation decline. Even for the Friday night
> setup, there were only 6 of us there. So I will ask again, what are your
> thoughts for doing this again next year? Who is in, who is willing to make
> a station or two and help? I was very clear to the East that if I don’t get
> the numbers we need, I will not conduct the shoot and burn out the few of
> us that are there year after year, I just won’t do that…
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> So if we are going to run the shoot again next year, this is what we will
> need:
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> 1.       Roughly 30 marshals, I need enough to run the 13 -14 stations
> for one 3-4 hour shift and then switch so they can go shoot and the
> replacement marshals take their place. Last year this was the plan and we
> had many stations that were out the whole day long because their
> replacements either never came back or simply left the range.
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> 2.       I would like someone to lead the scheduling of our volunteer
> marshals for time slots and assignments, I as MIC just have too much on my
> plate during the day to manage it all….
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> 3.       We will need 3-4 scorekeepers to assist Lady Aemilia at the
> check-in table
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> 4.       We will need 13-14 target stations, a few of us last year made
> 3-4 and one volunteer actually made 5 stations themselves
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> The theme they asked us to work with is “medieval creatures / macabre”
> which lends itself to many cool targets.
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> So please take some time and think about this. In mid-December if we
> choose to move forward, I will start preparing the lists to coordinate the
> shoot, or tell the East that we will not conduct the shoot. I can’t think
> of not doing it but won’t run our faithful into the ground anylonger.
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> Of course, you are what makes this shoot what it has been and is! I could
> never have pulled this off by myself.
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> So in service,
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> Janyn
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