[Archers] St. Sebastian's 6 Pennsic 2016

[Danielle Willgruber]

Lord Janyn,

I am also in, I loved helping with St. Seb last year. I'd also be happy to
coordinate scheduling for volunteer marshals, if you like, as well as
making a station.

YIS,

Damiana Morena

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 9:18 PM, michael sheppard <mlsheppard2760 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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…
>>
>>
>>
>> So if we are going to run the shoot again next year, this is what we will
>> need:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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….
>>
>> 3.       We will need 3-4 scorekeepers to assist Lady Aemilia at the
>> check-in table
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The theme they asked us to work with is “medieval creatures / macabre”
>> which lends itself to many cool targets.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Of course, you are what makes this shoot what it has been and is! I could
>> never have pulled this off by myself.
>>
>>
>>
>> So in service,
>>
>>
>>
>> Janyn
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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