With war behind us we are left with a hollow lonely feeling in our hearts, not to mention some knots and bruises in our muscles. Come join us in Windale at the end of March, we can’t help with the knots and bruises, but we can help lift your spirits with some great spoofs on some well known games. We will have a hobby horse joust, a scavenger hunt, cattle raid and we will be tossing some farm yard animal. There will also be a silent auction with wares donated by some of our very talented local artisans. With the coming of spring also comes time to tend the crops, so you can expect that our hardsuit tourney will once again involve farming utensils. Our event has something for everyone and promises laughs or at least giggles for all. This wondrously fun event will be held in Metcalf Park, which has beautiful mature trees to block that occasional breeze that we get. There is also a fenced in play ground to help keep those smalls corralled. There will be a light luncheon that is included in the site fee. There is crash space available for those wishing to stay the night. So please come and join us for some completely not serious good times.
Site Fee: 5.00 for Ault members with proof of membership, 8.00 for Adult non-members, 3.00 for youth (ages 5-17) under 5 are free.
Site opens: at 10:00 A.M. and closes at 7:00 P.M.
Directions: Best route to Kingman, exit Beale Street, turn toward old downtown area. The site is at the corner of Beale and Grandview. Parking is behind the park, next to the school, there will be signs.
Autocrats: Sir Dougal MacPherson (Mike Holmes) holmes_44@hotmail.com or home 928-753-6648 cell 928-530-1440. And Mylord Gabriel the Goth (Glen Conley) 928-681-4757.

Hear ye, hear ye! May this announcement cause all ears to ring in the most pleasant of ways! We of Sankt Vladimir College in the cold northernmost regions of the Kingdom of Atenveldt, standing alongside the Barony of Ered Sul, would like to invite all who can come to join us on March 8th, 2008 to attend Aurora’s Feast! Join us as we celebrate the life of Lady Aurora de la Croix and Thegn Antonio Biagi as well as witness the final court of Their Excellencies Gunnar and Saeunn, protectors of all things wooly, and the Investiture of Lord Christopher FitzArthur and Lady Miana ní Chonnagáin as the next Baron and Baroness of Ered Sul!

Aurora’s Feast/Ered Sul Baronial Investiture will be held at Flagstaff High School. The site will open at 12 noon and close at 8pm. Among the activities scheduled for the day are:

• A Silent Auction will be held throughout the day, half of the proceeds will go to Sankt Vladimir to offset the costs of the event and half will go to the Kingdom of Atenveldt General fund. To that effort, if anyone has any items they wish to donate, please contact the coordinator, THL Jerusha a’Laon. She’ll be happy to pick up items.
• A wind-chime tourney will also take place. It will be a round robin tournament with the participants having been armed with pillows and blindfolded. There will a prize for both an adult and youth winner donated by THL Jerusha.
• If there is interest, Mistress Jehanne will lead the populace in English Country Dancing.
• There will be a Feast served with lots of yummy food please look to the lists for a specific menu. The Feast steward is Uilleam O’Cleirigh. If you have any questions, please contact him.
• Court will be at Their Majesties discretion.

This year, feast will be included with the site fee:

Adults with proof of SCA membership: $7.00

Adults without proof of SCA membership: $10.00

Youth 6 to 17 years of age: $5.00

Children 5 and under are free

NO ALCOHOL allowed at this event. Smoking permitted across the street from the school property. No animals allowed except assistance animals. Policies will be strictly enforced.

Directions to Flagstaff High School: Address is 400 W. Elm Avenue Flagstaff, AZ 86001

From Tucson: Go to Phoenix via I-10 West. Take the I-17 North exit in Phoenix.
From Phoenix: Go to Flagstaff via I-17 North.

Once in Flagstaff: I-17 will turn into Milton Road. Continue on Milton Road. Milton Road will veer left (going through an underpass) and become Route 66. Take the first left immediately after the underpass (Santa Fe Street). Then take an immediate right at Sitgreaves Street. Continue on Sitgreaves until it dead ends at Elm Street. You’ll be right in front of the High School. Look for signs directing to parking.

Event Steward: M’lady Mishi– Michelle Jager – 520-609-5450 (no calls after 9pm) mika_ichijougi@hotmail.com

Feast Steward: Uilleam O’Cleirigh – Kelly Sawyer – 928-856-4381 – liamoclare@yahoo.com

Silent Auction Coordinator – THL Jerusha a’Laon (Johanna Garcia) 602-423-9203 (no calls after 10pm) jerushasca@cox.net

Investiture Assistance - Mistress Jehanne (Jeanne Russell) 928-564-2886 nametaken@ctaz.com

Greetings to all,

SunDragon’s spotlight event, Mixed Weapons War will be on March 14th through 16th, 2008. We would like you all to know that this year you can go to the ACCEPS web site and preregister and prepay your site fees and feast fees at:
http://acceps.ansteorra.org/index.php

Due to the popularity of this event we strongly encourage that you take advantage of the advance payment system through ACCEPS. There is a $1 per transaction fee and you will need a debit or credit card to make your reservation. THE DEADLINE FOR ACCEPS REGISTRATION IS MARCH 10TH! After that date you can only pay by cash or check made out to: Barony of SunDragon, SCA Inc. at the event.

As always this will be a busy event with lots of fighting. Their Excellencies Baron Ryan and Baroness Katheline will be holding their final court on Friday evening. Lord Robert and Lady Theresa will be invested as the next Baron and Baroness of SunDragon on Saturday
morning. We have added Equestrian activities this year, so there will be equestrian tourneys on Saturday. Remember the site is an Equestrian Resort! So a lot of the site is open for your riding pleasure. There will be armored combat activities, rapier activities, youth combat activities and plenty of archery. Saturday
evening is Robert and Theresa’s Investiture Feast, put on by Lady Jacquelin de Normandie; the feast is by reservation only only so remember to get your reservation early because seating is limited.
The annual Jugger Tourney will be conducted on Saturday evening. If you unfamiliar with our Jugger Tourney, it is a team activity that is a mix of armored combat and modern day football. On Sunday
morning we rise to the Kon Hawke Memorial Helm Auction and Tournament. Proceeds go to support local nonprofit theater groups.

If nothing else just come out and enjoy this wonderful site. Empty Acres is a privately owned site with more than enough room for our activities. If you’ve never been here then you need to come and see it. We will be using the 17 acre grass field (yes, grass) that we used last October for our Baronial Champion and Chatelaine tourney weekend.

As I’ve talked to many of the populace over the past few weeks, everyone it seems is making something new or improving something old to get ready for war. The craftmanship, creativity, and ingenuity of our populace is astounding! Please take some time when you get a chance and consider writing a brief how-to or story about a project you’ve worked on this year to share with the rest of us on our website. We hope to build this site as a destination for learning as well as general info! Its your site so help build it! I am ready and willing to help with putting it together with you if you need help, so contact me via web@baronyoferedsul.org

Since many of you are starting to think about packing all the cool garb, weapons, armour, furniture, instruments, etc you’ve frantically been making over the past few (ahem) weeks (days, hours ) Here’s a great Checklist for Events for packing. Its created by Master Yehudah of Nuremberg from Atenveldt, so he deserves the credit for the list, but none of the blame if you’ve forgotten something. Here’s wishing everyone a great war!!!!

Need we say more? www.estrellawar.org