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FESTIVAL
2010 WRAPS UP
The 2010 Kingdom of Osgoode Medieval
Festival ended on Sunday with the untimely death of King Brent who was
killed for allowing the dreaded HST to permeate the Kingdom while Queen
Natalie departed for a Nunnery to train as an assassin (who would have
thought as she was such a pure, meek and mild Queen - mmm
now where do you think this is going?)
The Kingdom
of Osgoode
now has a new King & Queen ....King Tracey and Queen Gaenor.
LONG LIVE THE KING!!!
The 2010 festival was a success with many students and parents
attending the (first-ever) Education Day in the Kingdom on Friday and with
large crowds visiting the Kingdom on both Saturday and Sunday to see the
jousting & sword fighting demonstrations, dancing, music, theatre and
the merchants and their wares. Saturday night’s Medieval Feast was a
sell-out and enjoyed by all.
PRIZE
WINNERS
Congratulations to the following loyal subjects who were
considered worthy and deserving to win prizes:
Winner of VIA Rail tickets (4 people to Quebec City)
·
Sandy Young of Metcalfe
1st
prize Raffle Winner (Westjet tickets to any scheduled Westjet
destination)
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Allana Burry of Osgoode
2nd
prize Raffle Winner (quilt )
·
Sharon Holwell of Kemptville
2010
FESTIVAL PHOTOS COMING SOON
Pictures and articles from the 2010 festival will be posted in
the near future so please come back and check out the website again.
The 2010 Festival
Judy Carey, the
festival organizer, has invited Stephen Harper and his family to join the
festivities and watch the jousting with the King and Queen, but he declined
the invitation. “We really are getting more sponsors, more media attention,
and more grants than ever before, like the grants from Trillium and the
city of Ottawa.”
Via Rail has also donated a trip for four to Quebec City as a door prize
for the King’s Feast on Saturday night, one of the highlights of the
festival. Carey says that raffle
ticket sales are also starting to take off as people hear about the prize –
two tickets on any regularly scheduled flight anywhere West Jet flies.
“This is an awesome deal because we’ve only printed 600 tickets and most
people are buying 3 for $20 rather than 1 for $10. That means there could
be as few as 200 names in the draw when we pick the winner on the Sunday.”
"Medieval Coordinator, Judy Carey, and her husband Lee
work on the rustic gates to the Kingdom
of Osgoode. "We used only what was available in medieval
times to build them," explains Carey. "An ax and a
hammer."
The public
will get a chance to buy the usual swag at the festival, including swords,
flower circlets, and T-shirts but Carey has produced some new memorabilia,
too. “We want to give the public something to remember us by, especially
the kids,” she says. “We’ll be selling trading cards that they can collect
and keep. We’ve got the knights, horses, blacksmith, all
the dancers on them. All the entertainers will have trading cards with
their pictures on them.”
As volunteers
scurry to ready the site for July’s festival, Carey points to the gates as
her personal favourite new item this year. “Our
biggest complaint last year was that you had to walk all over town to get
to everything. Now the festival is all in the same spot, next to the Osgoode Market
Square. The grounds have been cleared out and
leveled and we’re putting up fencing. Because we were able to fence it all
in, we’ve made these rustic, Medieval-looking gates that everyone will walk
through. They really add something.”
Read more of
Andrea's article on the Village festival by clicking here.
The Osgoode
Village Community Association would like to thank the following sponsors
for helping to make the Kingdom
of Osgoode Medieval
Festival a success:
Rideau Osgoode Karate Club Red Dot Café
Outsource
Oasis Osgoode & District Lions Club
Hall Superior
Coatings Osgoode Storage The Old Co-op
Royal Canadian Legion Branch 589 Osgoode
Ian
Drew Custom Homes Wayne’s Bulldozer Service
  
  
As well the Osgoode
Village Community Association is very appreciative of the following individuals
and businesses that have graciously
made donations to the festival:
Dr. Chevreul Harris Dentistry
Jim &
Judy Beveridge
La Pampita
Farm
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