[Ponte Alto] Help needed: Welcoming the Directors ("Basketdrive '02")

[e.georges at att.net]

Unto the gracious and generous populace of Ponte Alto, 
greetings!

As you know (or will find out soon), The Board of 
directors for SCA Inc. will be coming to our beloved 
Barony for their meeting during the weekend of July 20, 
2002.

In honor of their visit, we will be preparing small gift 
baskets to welcome the Directors to Ponte Alto, which 
will be delivered to their hotel rooms when they arrive.

To that end, I am putting out the call, far and wide in 
the barony for donations of items for the baskets, and 
since I am fond of devising cute names for things, I'm 
calling it BASKETDRIVE '02.

WHAT: (aka What do you want me to do?) the following are 
items that we are collecting for the baskets (we are 
making 11 in all), so if you can donate some of these 
items, I would be MOST appreciative:

1) Baskets:  I am sure more than one of you has a spare 
basket or two to contribute.  We have no preference for 
size or shape or material, only that they be reasonably 
presentable.

2) Bottled Water:  small bottles of water (not the 
liters, the smaller ones) Any kind is fine, it needen't 
be fancy.

3) Small chocolate boxes:  little boxes (like Whitman 
Samplers) of chocolate (6-12 pieces).  

4) Virginia-made goodies:  Virginia is famous for 
peanuts, honey, candies, all kinds of homemade 
goodness.  So any of those things you can contribute 
would be great. PLEASE, NO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.  
(Although Virginia has fabulous wineries, I am told by 
my inside sources that alcohol would not be suitable for 
the baskets.)

5) IDEAS:  Email me with your favorite things to do/see 
in the VA-DC-MD area.  The BOD is going to be in 
meetings most of the days, but in the evenings, they are 
going to want to have dinner, and have fun.  Rather than 
buy sterile (and expensive) travel guides, I thought it 
might be nice for the Barony to present its own favorite 
restaurants and activities.  You email your suggestions 
to me at lucia at lucia-pegasus.net, and I will put them 
all in a nicely printed, ribbon-bound booklet for the 
directors to enjoy.  The more descriptive you can be, 
the better.  Be sure to include things like addresses 
and phone numbers.  Reviews of places would be great!  
For those of you who are brave enough to want to do so, 
I will attribute authorship. You may be anonymous if 
you'd like, too.

WHERE: (aka How do I get the stuff to you?)

Please bring your donations for BASKETDRIVE '02 to one 
of the following Ponte Alto meetings.  I will be there 
to collect it (I'll even have a little sign identifying 
the BASKETDRIVE '02 drop-off location):

1) BARONIAL PICNIC:  June 2, 2002 at the fighter 
practice location

2) JUNE NEWCOMER'S MEETING:  June 14, 2002 at Baron 
Thomas and Baroness Denise's house.

3) JUNE BARONIAL BUSINESS MEETING: June 30,2002 at St. 
Paul's Lutheran Church 7426 Idlywood Rd., Falls Church

If none of those times or locations is convenient for 
you, don't despair, just email me at lucia at lucia-
pegasus.net to arrange a date and time for me to pick up 
your donation.

Also, if any of you have questions, please email me.  
And thank you all in advance for your help.

Lady Lucia Antony Venus


P.S. (Corun, can you run this in Il Tempo?  Thanks...)