[Ponte Alto] FW: [Ravenlake] Digest Number 61

Fri Jun 9 08:55:20 PDT 2006

House RavenlakeFYI.  I got this posting from my Household list and thought
you all would find it interesting.  I think the idea makes a lot of sense.

Miles
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  1. Fw: [EK] Pennsic Starting next year From: Susana Del Lago
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  1. Fw: [EK] Pennsic Starting next year
  Posted by: "Susana Del Lago" ohsusana at charter.net   houseravenlake
  Thu Jun 8, 2006 7:50 pm (PST)

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "SPaterson" <sjpaterson at tru.eastlink.ca>
  To: "East Kingdom" <sca-east at indra.com>; <northprinc at yahoogroups.com>;
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  Barony Ruantallan's Mailing List." <sca.ruantallan at lists.wolfstar.ca>
  Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:37 PM
  Subject: [EK] Pennsic Starting next year

  > >
  >>>> Greetings are extended unto the Seneschals of the Known World from
  >>>> Baroness
  >>>>
  >>>> Rosamund Beauvisage, Mayor of Pennsic 36.
  >>>>
  >>>> I would like to take this opportunity to announce to you that the
  >>>> Kingdom
  >>>>
  >>>> Seneschals Group (the Seneschals of Aethelmearc, the East, and the
  >>>> Middle,
  >>>>
  >>>> alphabetically), in accordance with the Pennsic Administrative Policy
  >>>> and
  >>>>
  >>>> with the consent of their respective Crowns, has approved a "special
  >>>>
  >>>> project" I have been pursuing for Pennsic War 36 (2007) -- to move
the
  >>>>
  >>>> Pennsic War one week earlier in the calendar year. Per the old
  >>>> schedule,
  >>>>
  >>>> Pennsic 36 Troll would have opened on Friday, 3 August 2007 and the
  >>>> site
  >>>>
  >>>> would have closed on Sunday, 19 August 2007. Under the new schedule,
  >>>>
  >>>> Pennsic 36 Troll will open on Friday, 27 July 2007 and the site will
  >>>> close
  >>>>
  >>>> on Sunday, 12 August 2007. Please note that THIS year's (2006)
Pennsic
  >>>>
  >>>> (Pennsic War 35), will NOT be affected.
  >>>>
  >>>> This decision to move Pennsic up a week was not undertaken lightly
and
  >>>> was
  >>>>
  >>>> prompted by a steadily-increasing level of concern about the conflict
  >>>>
  >>>> between Pennsic and school calendars. School districts across the
  >>>> country
  >>>>
  >>>> have been starting earlier and earlier, with many routinely starting
by
  >>>> the
  >>>>
  >>>> third or fourth week of August, and some as early as the second week
  >>>>
  >>>> (several districts in Florida, for example). This situation has been
  >>>>
  >>>> preventing many parents and their school-age children from attending,
  >>>>
  >>>> especially since many can often only stay for only the first part of
  >>>> War
  >>>>
  >>>> even though they would have to pay for both weeks that way. Some must
  >>>> miss
  >>>>
  >>>> Pennsic altogether. Needless to say, it also affects our members who
  >>>> are
  >>>>
  >>>> educators from kindergarten through college as well as the above
  >>>> mentioned
  >>>>
  >>>> SCA families with school-age children.
  >>>>
  >>>> I brought it up to the Coopers at the November Pennsic staff meeting,
  >>>> and
  >>>>
  >>>> Dave Cooper was enthusiastically all for the change. Local schools in
  >>>>
  >>>> western Pennsylvania also start earlier than they used to, and that
  >>>>
  >>>> situation cuts into his available labor force for Pennsic. Moreover,
  >>>> the
  >>>>
  >>>> earlier start will give the Coopers an extra week to have the
  >>>> campground
  >>>>
  >>>> ready for Labor Day weekend. Fred Brezel said it would not adversely
  >>>> impact
  >>>>
  >>>> his registration system, since all he would have to do is change
dates,
  >>>>
  >>>> which he does anyway. Dave and Fred both opined that announcing it
over
  >>>> a
  >>>>
  >>>> year in advance would be fine for making the change. Dave has
discussed
  >>>> it
  >>>>
  >>>> with his contractors (the porta-john folks, et al.), and they have
said
  >>>> that
  >>>>
  >>>>
  >>>> it poses no problem. Those probably represented the most serious
"hard
  >>>>
  >>>> stops" to this idea and those hurdles have been cleared. In fact, at
  >>>> the
  >>>>
  >>>> Aethelmearc War Practice Pennsic staff meeting on May 20th, the
Coopers
  >>>>
  >>>> pressed to have this finalized as they want the change. It was at
this
  >>>>
  >>>> meeting that the Kingdom Seneschal Group approved the change.
  >>>>
  >>>> The Kingdoms would obviously have to make some adjustments for this
to
  >>>>
  >>>> happen, most importantly, changing their Kingdom laws if Pennsic
dates
  >>>> are
  >>>>
  >>>> written into their Law, and changing the last available date to
  >>>> authorize in
  >>>>
  >>>>
  >>>> time for Pennsic. Some events which traditionally have made that a
big
  >>>> part
  >>>>
  >>>> of their "marketing" to the populace will either have to drop that as
a
  >>>>
  >>>> "draw" or will have to hold their events a week earlier in 2007 and
  >>>>
  >>>> subsequent years. I am hoping that I can count on all of you to
  >>>> facilitate
  >>>>
  >>>> this change. I have asked your Crown to forward the following
  >>>> attachment to
  >>>>
  >>>> your Kingdom Chronicler for inclusion in your Kingdom newsletter's
  >>>>
  >>>> announcements section, and to notify your Kingdom Marshal as soon as
  >>>>
  >>>> possible. The changed schedule will also be announced on the
  >>>>
  >>>> www.pennsicwar.org website very soon.
  >>>>
  >>>> Thank you in advance for your time and cooperation in publicizing
this
  >>>> new
  >>>>
  >>>> schedule.
  >>>>
  >>>> In service to the Society,
  >>>>
  >>>> Baroness Rosamund Beauvisage, OP, OL
  >>>>
  >>>> Mayor, Pennsic War 36
  >>
  >>>>
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