Category: Commons

The next BrokenBridge commons will on Friday, August 26th starting at 8pm. Arnora is hosting in Ditmas Park. The address is 273 Argyle Road, 1st floor in Brooklyn. Call 917-297-2356 if you get lost.

Take the Q train to Cortelyou road, walk three blocks left, and take a right on Argyle road.
Apartment 1.
There is a cat and small dog in residence.
Meeting scheduled to start at 8pm. Feel free to arrive anytime after 6pm.

The meeting will be on Skype. If you wish to access via Skype, email ArnoraKD [at] gmail [dot] comat least two days ahead of time and she will set you up.

The next BrokenBridge commons will on August 26th starting at 8pm. Arnora is hosting in Ditmas Park. The address is 273 Argyle Road, 1st floor in Brooklyn. Call 917-297-2356 if you get lost.

Take the Q train to Cortelyou road, walk three blocks left, and take a right on Argyle road.
Apartment 1.
There is a cat and small dog in residence.
Meeting scheduled to start at 8pm
Meeting will also be on Skype. If you wish to access via Skype, email ArnoraKD [at] gmail [dot] com at least two days ahead of time and she will set you up.

Greetings unto our wonderful Canton of BrokenBridge,

As many of you know. This September My Lady and I will be stepping up as Viceregents. This means that I will also be stepping down as Seneschal of our Canton at that time. This has been a good year for us. I will continue to serve our great Canton until September 10th. At that time, another will step into the position. Some of you have known about this and who was to step in, but unto the populace this may be news. Who will be taking my place will be discussed at our next Brokenbridge commons meeting. We will also publish the minutes of those meetings to the populace who can’t make the meeting. Thank you all for your support this past year, I’ll never forget it.

In Service,
Lord Suuder Saran
Seneschal of Canton of Brokenbridge

Greetings all of Brokenbridge,

Here are the Minutes of the local Canton meeting.

Meeting held at Omonia Cafe. 12/11/2015

Those in attendance, Suuder Saran (Seneschal), Lillie of the Red Towers (Exchequer, Chatelaine), Devra the Baker, (Phone-in) Norana Cantrell (Westminster)

• Meeting called to Order:
• Brokenbridge event called BaconBridge was discussed, Everything seems to be on track. Budget approved, Site walk-through done. The Autocrats are asking for Volunteers to help run, and teachers to do a class or two for the event. lightly touched on again when the Autocrat phoned in.
• Officers gave reports:
• -A&S report stated A&S nights were happening and being decently attended.
• -Chatelaine reported we have a new person or two that has been coming around and seem to enjoy themselves.
• -Exchequer has approved the Budget for event and all parties are notified.
• -Webmistress phoned in and gave report about the kingdom server emails will be in effect by Monday or Tuesday. The site will need to be visited by the officers before the end of the year to make passwords and such. These will need to be checked at least once a week. She will set up reminders about checking them to personal emails. Also Officers will be able to post to the Brokenbridge website, just put your name at the end of the post so we know who wrote it.
• Ostgardrs Last Commons was discussed:
• -The Current Seneschal was the first topic-Lori Copland(current seneschal) is resigning due to attack of life, and her drop dead is Baron Francesco (called Bish). She said she’d send in her resignation the next week. Her office was up with the end of this term. So, Bish will be Interim Seneschal for the next 4 months. During this time Ostgardr is asking anyone who wants to try their hand at seneschal for Ostgardr can submit a letter of intent to Bish and/or the Viceroy’s. At the end of the 4 months a vote will be held at Ostgardr Commons to determine who will be the next Seneschal of the Province out of all the candidates. At the moment 3 people have stepped up so far and said they want to be the next Seneschal: Baron Francesco (Bish), Master Phillip White (Craig Shupee), and Baron Ian.
• -The Vice-regal polling was the next and last topic of the Ostgardr commons. Due to the fact that the holidays are rather busy. The next step for the polling process will take place in January. The next step is asking Kingdom for the mailing lists. So, make sure your membership is up to date if you wish to participate. Once the list is given, there will be a Envelope stuffing day. All of Ostgardr will get a letter in the mail. With the list of candidates and another envelope with a stamp and address on it. There will also be a "none of the above" box to check if people so wish. People will need to fill out the ballot and put it in the envelope given and dropped in the mail. Should only take a couple minutes. Even though there is one set of candidates Ostardr needs a majority of the ballots to return to kingdom. Otherwise ostgardr will have to do the polling process over again. This is also everyone’s chance to write comments on the ballots about the candidates if they wish. So when people get the ballot please fill it out and send it off. These will all go to the Kingdom polling officer not anyone in Ostgardr. Once the time for ballots to be received is passed the Kingdom will count them up and see if there is enough. If so, they will open them and inform the King and Queen of Ostgardrs vote and important comments from the ballots. From there Their Majesties will decide what they wish to do.
• Norana said that the next brokenbridge commons meeting will be at her and Austins house next time.

End of Meeting.

Greetings All,

This Friday we will have a Commons meeting for BrokenBridge. Lada and myself will host but due the the fact that we live on a 3rd floor walk-up we will have the meeting at ​​
Omonia Cafe on 3rd Ave between 76th and 77th Street. We will order a couple munchies type items for everyone since we are hosting. We will meet there at 7:30pm Please let us know if your coming so we know how big a table we will need. Hope to see you all there.

In Service,
Lord Suuder Saran
Seneschal of BrokenBridge

October Østgär∂r Commons will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday, October 16, at the home of Gy Dioguardi in Port Washington, NY

Here is a link to the notes from the BrokenBridge Commons meeting from last night, September 4th, 2015 (pdf document):  09/04/15 Meeting notes pdf

The next commons meeting is scheduled for Friday, December 11th, 2015 at 7:30pm.  Location is TBA.

We are planning an event, BaconBridge, tentatively for Saturday, 02/06/2016.  There will be a planning meeting on Tuesday, 10/20/15 at 8pm.  The meeting will be held over GoToMeeting which means that participants can either call in on the phone or log in on their computers.  Due to a 25 person limit for the planning meeting, there will be an RSVP emails sent out on the mailing list shortly.  GoToMeeting access information will only be sent to the first 25 people who RSVP for the planning meeting.

The next Brokenbridge Commons will be on Friday, September 4th at 7pm.  Please note, that this will not coincide with Brokenbridge A&S night.  This is in an effort to ensure that the Arts and Sciences do not get overshadowed by the discussion of business.

Here’s the minutes to the short meeting at BrokenBridge A&S night.

Officers presiding: Seneschal- Brad Richey, Webmistress- Arnora Ketilsdottir.

• Canton has not had Exchequer for 2 years. Kingdom didn’t say anything and our default was the Province Exchequer.  Canton needs a new Exchequer.
• Canton Officers positions are open to anyone who wishes to step up and become an officer, There are many positions that aren’t filled. Such as Knight marshal, Chronicler, Historian, Minister of Children, etc.
• Lillie of Red Towers has thrown her hat in for Exchequer, If anyone else wants to apply for the position contact the Seneschal of the Canton by the end of the Month of May.  Vote will be next Canton Meeting.
• Sasha has thrown her hat in for A&S Minister, If anyone else wants to apply for the position contact the Seneschal of the Canton by the end of the Month of May.  Vote will be next Canton Meeting.
• Viking Day Demo
  • We have committed to the Demo and are being paid $400 for the demo
  • We have several popups from Devera the Baker.
  • We have at least 1 fighter, and a couple fencers joining us.
  • Initial thought of 9am setup, Has now been seen at 8:30am, Car need to be off by 9:30-10am
  • Suuder to speak to Sofya regarding pamphlets for the Chatelaine
  • Contact Ian regarding ropes
• Next Commons is on June 12th at Arnora’s parents house in Ditmas Park off the Q train.  A&S project will be t-tunics for quick Pennsic garb.  Email Webminister@brokenbridge.eastkingdom.org for directions.