News and Information
Welcome to Potrero War
The Barony of Calafia wishes to cordially extend an invitation to the entirety of the Knowne World to join us once again for a weekend of fighting, frolicking, and revelry in the shade of the beautiful oak trees of Potrero Park.
Land Allocation is open!
Pre-Registration is closed! For any questions concerning Pre-registration please e-mail Lady Medb ingen Mathgamna at prereg@potrerowar.org
Grey Water Disposal: There have been some new environmental laws enacted both at the State and County level this year which affect all San Diego County parks. The laws require parks to implement a stricter control of gray water disposal to avoid soil and underground water-source contamination. These new laws require that the only water to touch the soil is rainwater, to the extent that this is feasible. Please read the full policy here.
This is YOUR war, please keep in mind that wars are only successful because of all the hours so generously worked by the YOU, the volunteers. Please donate two hours of your time to make the war a more enjoyable experience for everyone. To make it as easy as possible to for our volunteer staff to plan their war schedules ahead of time, volunteer sign-ups are available in advance on the website. Our online volunteer sign-up will be available on March 1st. Please donate 2 hours to help make the war happen!
Ant Abatement and Vehicle Fee
The Barony has made some changes to the war over the past few years, some were not as successful as others, but for the most part they achieved their desired effects. An area we have had limited success in was that of ant abatement. The arrangements of the past have not had recent successes. The Barony has decided to contract with a commercial pest control firm to survey the site and provide timely applications to make the camping areas more hospitable to our folks.
Another thing that has become clear to us is that the capacity of the event will be determined by parking capacity and the ability to safely evacuate the site in an emergency. In an effort to allow everyone interested to attend and to encourage carpooling, the Barony will start charging a $1.00 per vehicle parking fee this May War. The per vehicle fee includes trailers as well. This is viewed as a permanent addition with the amount of the fee to be reviewed annually. These fess will be used to help defray the cost of professional ant control before the event. The Barony thanks the populace for it's understanding in this matter and looks forward to seeing everyone out at Potrero.
Art Auction
Saturday afternoon we will be holding our traditional fund raising arts auction; donations of hand-made items and other artistic works are most graciously appreciated!
Message from the Lists Officer
ATTENTION ALL FIGHTERS:
All fighters must sign in at lists. For your convenience, we will be located at gate, at the heavies field, and at the rapier field. Please bring a valid fighter authorization card and your site token with you to sign in. If you do not have a valid fighter card or cannot be found on the current copy of the fighter database, you must find a senior marshal, or a provost for rapier fighters, to vouch for you before you will be allowed to sign up to fight.
ARMORED FIGHTERS:
Upon signing up at lists, you will be issued a fighter dot that the marshals WILL be looking for. All fighter dots are the same, we are no longer using them to designate authorized weapons.
RAPIER FIGHTERS:
There will be no fighter dots issued per request of the rapier marshal. You still MUST sign up on the rapier list.
Thank you, and have a great war!
Message from the Youth Activities Team
If this is your first war with young children, "The SCA and Young Children" written By Duchesse Sabine de Rouenthis is an excellent article that we highly recommend reading. Duchesse Sabine has graciously allowed us to report her article her for your perusal.
Directions
Need information on finding the event? We can help!
Once you're there, maps are available for the
entire park and for
just Sleepy Hollow.
Please Recycle!
Potrero War will offer a recycling service with the proceeds going directly to help the park. The trash crew will be picking up the recyclables when they make rounds to pick up the trash, so please separate out your glass, plastic and aluminum (no paper please!)."
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