[Bryn-gwlad] Archery on the calendar (was Ideas Versus Actions)

[Chris Zakes]

At 07:34 PM 2/9/2007, you wrote:
>Don Tivar, for the past month or so, the archery practice has still been on
>the website's calendar, but struck through and a big bold "Cancelled" after
>it.
>
>The reasoning for not removing it completely is that folks who are visiting
>the calendar from afar, for the first time, or after a long time away will
>see that we DO have archery in this Barony, although it is currently in
>abeyance. The link from the calendar goes to a listing with a message to the
>same effect.
>
>I am reluctant to remove it from the calendar completely, lest these
>non-regular users of our calendar conclude that Bryn Gwlad has no organized
>archery. (And according to weblogs, 70% of our web visitors are first-time
>users!) I welcome your feedback -- is this reasoning sound? I will remove
>the listing completely if the archers think I should, but I'd really rather
>not!
>
>In service to the Barony, --Lucia


Actually, I was talking about the "Where to find us" section of the 
website, which still says we're having rapier fighter practice on 
Sundays. Can we at least remove that notice, because rapier isn't 
happening on Sundays any more.

And the fact is, we *don't* have an organized archery practice at the 
moment, nor are we likely to have one in the forseeable future. 
Austin doesn't allow archery in their parks and (apparently) neither 
does Round Rock any more. A call was put out when RR closed down the 
Sunday practice back in November, and as far as I've been able to 
tell, nobody has come up with an alternate site. Thus we won't have 
an archery practice until we either buy enough land in Round Rock to 
build our own legal archery range, or find a usable site outside the 
city limits. Neither of those seems likely at the moment, but I'm 
willing to let the Archery Marshal make the final call on this one.

         -Tivar Moondragon