Gleann nam Feòrag Dhuibhe - Canton Meeting Minutes April 27, 2005

The Incipient Canton of
Gleann nam Feòrag Dhuibhe
Barony of Bhakail

Canton Meeting Minutes

Wednesday April 27, 2005

Present: Lord William Graham, Lady Eleanora the Tilemaker, Lord Corwyn, Lord Bilgisayar, Lady Damiana.
Meeting called to order at 7:43 pm

Officer’s reports:

Seneschal

Welcome to our visitor Baron Lorcan.

Welcome to all of you this evening. As the seneschal I wanted you to know that I appreciate all the work your are doing. It looks like everyone is turning in their reports to the respective kingdom officers as is expected. I will be contacting the southern region seneschal shortly to get a list of all our members so that I can put out a polling about going to full Canton status.

It has come to my attention that Fiona, our Exchequer, will be letting her membership expire at the end of May and therefore stepping down as Exchequer. I want to thank her for all the work she has done for the Canton. In light of that I would like to nominate Bilgisayar as a nominee for that office. Eleanora seconded it. The position will be open and I will be accepting nominations for that position. We will vote on it at May's meeting.

Exchequer

Fellow Canton members: This is my official notice that I am stepping down from this office, effective May 30, 2005. I am not accepting any questions about this, and please don't ask Bil either. This is a personal decision. Regarding financial activity this month: the sun fly was purchased under budget for $214.55 and received, we were reimbursed for $15.00 for a bounced check, and we transferred $50.00 to the Barony for support of the Clivden meeting site, and received $90.00 for Brew U. Our current balance is $1,107.46

Chatelaine

Demos abound. The April 5th demo was a great deal of fun.

Our Big Demo is on May 14th for Middletown Pride Day.

We have a full schedule of demos scheduled with the Delaware County Library system. They are all listed in last months minutes, and in addition:
May 31st (Tuesday 1:30-3:00) We have been invited to return to Media Elementary for their Medieval Festival. I will be teaching easy dances. A fencing demo would be most appreciated!
July 21st (Thursday 7pm) Haverford Township Library (kids ages 12-19)

Gold Key: Lady Eleanora met with the Gold Key reps from Bhakail and Ivyeinrust, Ladies Judith and Philadelphia, and Master Rashid on April 17th to review Gold Key. They are collectively looking for fabric donation in order to increase the Gold Key selections. Basically the three groups are working together and spilt it up 3 ways. We have the children's and middle eastern gold key stuff.

Herald

Completed some major research for Lord William. If you need help, ask.

Mistress of Arts and Sciences

A&S workshops are on the 3rd Wednesday of each month.

From now until Pennsic, there will be a garb workshop every Tuesday night. Master Rashid is available upon request, sometimes, and he may attend these every so often to help people. See gold key info above.

Brewers Guild meeting is the 2nd Wednesday of each month.

Dancing in the Canton: we have secured the community room of the Middletown Free Library for dance practice from 7pm- 8:30pm on Monday nights in June and July, except for July 4th. Come on out and socialize even if you don't dance. We'll be doing kid-friendly dances so that children can participate, no dance experience is required. Suba is looking for a teacher and can teach several dances herself.

Webmistress

Posted the class schedule and dayboard menu for Brew U.
Updated the officer's page to reflect changes.

Martial Activities

Check out Bhakail's website for heavy and fencing practices. Also, check out Rogues Den in Delaware for the same.

Thrown weapons starts sometime in May, an announcement will go out.

Archery should be starting soon, and check out Caer Adamant's site for their practices too.

At Spring Thing, Lord Corwyn won the Roving Range award. Vivat!

Chronicler

The plan is to start with a quaterly news letter. Expect the 1st one near the end of May.
Bear with me as I work out the format.

Chamberlain

We have new swords, they need some stuff, to be used for fighting. Our sun fly has arrived.

Special committees

Finance Committee

Finance Committee: nothing new

Event Committees

EK Southern Region Brewers' University

Brew U. is going well. Classes are all set up. We have 10 prepaid reservations as of this meeting. Fiona is still working on the dayboard, Eleanora and Lisa will be helping, coolers will be obtained, and the menu was posted to the Canton Web Site.

Middletown Pride Day Demo:

Middletown Family Pride Day Demo is going well. Bilgisayar will post to the Bhakail list asking who is planning on attending and what they plan to do. We will have water there.
Lord William and Bilgisayar are planning on talking to the owner of Arasapha Farm about future events.

Old Business

We received a Thank You note from Their Majesties for the Canton's donation to Them.

New Business

Sun Fly - Eleanora would like to borrow the Canton's sun fly. - new procedure, ask the Chamberland, who asks the Seneschal, who presents it to the group.

SRWP - camping with the barony on July 23 at SRWP. All agreed it was a good thing to do.

Awards - Lord William had some ideas about have unofficial canton level awards that we can be talking about. Baron Lorcan strongly recommended that we get an experienced herald to discuss this with due to implications that may or may not arise from out neighbors, kingdom, or other kingdoms. And so it shall be done.

Comments for the good of the Canton

Next meeting is Wednesday, May 25th, at Eleanora's house
Motion to adjourn by Bil, 2nd by Eleanora. Meeting adjourned at 8:41pm.

as recorded by Bilgisayar

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