Ostgardr (NY) Valentines Day Revel Feb. 15 Senors y damas, it is time once again to express the passions to the one who has captured your heart! So, please join the gentles of the Crown Province of Ostgardr in celebrating our Fourth Annual Valentine's Day Revel in Spain. We will be having the traditional Nonce Lovers game and brewing competition in which all spirits entered must be the color of love! The categories are cordials, meads, wines and beers. There will be a Don Juan contest in which the proper Spanish gentleman must impress our panel of ladies with chivalrous act, worthy deeds and poetic words in order to win their affections. We may also have a bull run for those who are daring! House Ravens Moon has also requested to hold bardic trials during the day. During the course of the feast, there will be a bardic competition with prizes for the best stories and song preferably with a Spanish theme (if you would like to be provided with material, please call the autocrats). Lady Elwisia Mouche will also be putting together her famous Valentine raffle baskets with a Spanish flair. Our spectacular Spanish feast will be prepared by Lady Rufina and Lord Ieshua (Deborah Peters and Stephen Bloch). Please call these good gentles if you have dietary restrictions (if you don't call about it, they won't know!), questions, or if you would like to help in the kitchen at 718-847-7151. The feast is strictly limited to 72 gentles, so please get your reservations in! Off-board is available and space is limited to 60. Please bring yourslf some afternoon sustenance, as there will be no day board. The site for this most romantic event is the Manettobrook Masonic Lodge, 18 West Nicholai St., Hicksville, NY 11801. The site opens at 11am and closes around 11pm and it is damp. The site is not easily accessible to the handicapped; there is a long set of stairs down to the hall. If you are in need of a children's area, please call the autocrats so they can work with you. Please volunteer for breakdown, even if just for a short while, as it would be greatly appreciated. On-board is 14 tygers, off-board is 7 tygers, and out-board is 4 tygers. Children 12 and under are half price, and babes-in-arms are free. The only reservation is a paid reservation, please. Make checks payable to "SCA, Inc. -- Ostgardr." Include an SASE if you wish a confirmation. Send your reservation with any special requests to Lady Elwisia Mouche de Voujeaucourt (Michelle Boullianne, 29 Barnum Ave. Plainview, NY 11803-6005; 516-931-2507, before 10pm. There is an answering machine for your service). We encourage merchants to attend! There will be a 5 tyger charge per table. Please call co-autocrat Baron Sean de Londres (John Cnapich) at 718-762-4645. Directions: >From East or West: Take the Long Island Expressway (Route 495) to Exit 41 South (Route 106/107). Take Routes 106/107 past Ikea and the Broadway Mall. After you pass the mall, Routes 106 and 107 will split. You want ot continue on Route 107, which will fork to your left. There is a slight fork with Jerusalem Ave., but continue on Route 107 (Broadway), bearing to your left. You will then pass under a train trestle. Count three blocks on your right. The third block will be West Nicholai St. (The street signs are on the light poles in the middle of Route 107.) West Nicholai St. is one-way and very short. It is advisable that you only park near the Masonic Lodge temporarily to drop off passengers and gear. There is municipal parking on East Nicholai (left off Route 107). You will pass a small church on your left, immediately after the church you will see the parking lot. By Train: Take the LIRR's Ronkonkoma or Port Jefferson branch to the Hicksville station. Go downstairs to Jerusalem Avenue. (If you end up on Newbridge Road, when you go down the stairs you will need to walk one block east to Jerusalem.) Go south on Jerusalem, 3 blocks to West Nicholai, turn left, walk bast the church on your left and the Masonic Lodge is right after the church on your left.