Welcome to July, Altavia! We hope everyone is having a wonderful summer and are getting to go on fabulous vacations like His Excellency or enjoying time with your families in and out of the SCA.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve\u00a0only had two events since the last meeting,\u00a0Lyondemere\u00a0Anniversary\u00a0and this past weekend\u2019s Coronation\/Privy Council two-for-one.\u00a0LyondemereAnniversary was\u00a0a nice day\u00a0full of many events for everyone to participate in. There was a silent auction, a snow cone booth, several arts & sciences classes, a bardic competition,\u00a0and ,\u00a0or course, martial championships. Congrats to\u00a0Altavia\u2019s\u00a0Taliesin (also known as Son of Santa\u00a0\ud83d\ude09) for his win in the bardic\u00a0competion\u00a0and to Don Nathanial Longbow for his win over Papa Colwyn in the Rapier tournament.\u00a0Thank you to all who helped with set up and tear down and kept us company in the baronial\u00a0dragonwing.<\/p>\n
This past weekend saw the peaceful transition of power from\u00a0Valrik\u00a0and\u00a0Drada\u00a0to Adam and\u00a0Staeina. Thank you to everyone who attended and especially those who provided largesse for the royal couples. We had\u00a0manywonderful things for both outgoing and incoming Royals and, with the help of\u00a0Amabel, started HRM\u00a0Staeina\u2019s\u00a0dice collection with a lovely set of golden rose dice!\u00a0Saturday also saw Baroness\u00a0Tezar\u00a0step up as Kingdom Lists Officer and, at Privy Council the next day, Master Laertes\u00a0was officially announced\u00a0as deputy Kingdom Seneschal. He will take over from Sir Tiberius as Seneschal at Twelfth Night in January. We thank these and all Altavians that step up to serve not only the barony but the entire kingdom!<\/p>\n
Coming up\u00a0this weekend is\u00a0Consort\u2019s Champion Armored\/Rapier\u00a0in al\u00a0Sahid. It\u2019s going to be a warm\u00a0onebut we\u2019ll have the\u00a0dragonwing\u00a0for shade and will bring much cold water to share with all. I believe the shire will also have its misters out to help keep both combatants and spectators cool. The following weekend is an early-morning\u00a0CC Ranged\u00a0out\u00a0in Starkhafn.\u00a0Pennsic\u00a0follows shortly and we wish Christof and Cecilia and any other Eastward travelers a safe journey and\u00a0a great time! Finally, the first week in August is\u00a0Darach\u00a0Pirate Tourneyand I, for one,\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0wait to actually participate in their famous tavern and ship battles as a combatant for the first time this year!<\/p>\n
We\u2019d\u00a0like to close out this month\u2019s update on a couple of notes about service. As we reminded folks earlier this week, we are accepting Letters of Intent from those that wish to serve as the 9th<\/sup>\u00a0Baron and Baroness of Altavia through Saturday, August 13. At the September council meeting, we encourage everyone to attend and ask questions of the prospective barons and baroness that have thrown their hats into the ring.\u00a0We are looking forward to seeing the next generation of leaders for Altavia begin their journey.<\/p>\n Speaking of leaders, if you know anyone who\u00a0is looking for a way to get more involved with the barony or\u00a0you think\u00a0needs a nudge to get more involved, please let myself, His Excellency, or\u00a0Sybilla\u00a0know. We are always looking for deputies to back up our officers and eventually step up into the officer role.\u00a0We often hear that it\u2019s the same few people trading office back and forth (this is NOT a problem limited to Altavia as we heard at privy council)\u00a0but it doesn\u2019t have to be that way. We know there are people out there that want to help but they just might not know how.\u00a0We\u2019re\u00a0happy to chat with folks and point them in the right direction!<\/p>\n Have a great month, everyone, and try and stay cool!<\/p>\n Yours in Service to the Dream,<\/p>\n Baron Nikolaos Phaistos<\/p>\n Baroness Briana\u00a0MacCabe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to July, Altavia! We hope everyone is having a wonderful summer and are getting to go on fabulous vacations like His Excellency or enjoying time with your families in and out of the SCA. We\u2019ve\u00a0only had two events since the last meeting,\u00a0Lyondemere\u00a0Anniversary\u00a0and this past weekend\u2019s Coronation\/Privy Council two-for-one.\u00a0LyondemereAnniversary was\u00a0a nice day\u00a0full of many events […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baronial-words"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/places.sca-caid.org\/altavia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/places.sca-caid.org\/altavia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/places.sca-caid.org\/altavia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/places.sca-caid.org\/altavia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/places.sca-caid.org\/altavia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/places.sca-caid.org\/altavia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"https:\/\/places.sca-caid.org\/altavia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/places.sca-caid.org\/altavia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/places.sca-caid.org\/altavia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/places.sca-caid.org\/altavia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}