1. January 17-19, 1986 Winter Wars in Champaign, IL. Contact Greg Novak, 618 West Union, Champaign, IL 61820. This historical minintures Convention is a big event in Illinois and usually sports a couple of 18th century wargames.

2. February 28-March 2, 1986 Fourth Historical Miniatures Gaming Society Mini Convention in Lanham, Maryland. The HMMCs always are host to a variety of ;SYW events. Expected to attend is Barry Gray presiding over o Koenig Krieg wargame. Contact Wally Simon for registration details at 12905 Layhill Road., Silver Spring, MD 20906. .Judges and vendors should contact Pat Condray at 8234 King's Arm Drive, Alexandria, VA 22308.

3. _April 12-13, 1986 The Third Annual Seven Years War Association Meet, in Champaign-Urbann, Illinois. Greg Novak and Walt Lc Begue will host the event with on exciting all new format as reported in News Item 25 elsewhere in this issue. Plan now to attend and to possibly volunteer to judge a Seven Years Wargame or to speak about o topic of your choice. Greg and Walt would appreciate your prompt correspondence at this Lime please concerning the event because planning is underway now and they want to he able to have a program guide and registration form available for inclusion in the March issue or before. Write to Greg Novak at 618 West Union, Champaign, Il 61820 or call 1-217-356-5725 if you went to volunteer to be a judge or seminar speaker or contact Walt Le Begue at Box 32, Mason, Il 62443 or call 1-618-238-4790 for general information. Vendors are welcome to attend as well.

4, May 9-11, 1986 Little Wars in River Grove, Illinois right in the Chicagaland area. This is the big effort to have a major historical miniatures wargame convention in the midwest of the USA. Last year there were nearly eighty events and the convention committee hopes to top one hundred in 1986. A wide variety of vendors will be on hand again as well to round off the festivities. There has always been a variety of SYW events at Little Wars including, "Drums Along the Mohawk" by Bill Protz and "The Age of Reason" run by Tod Kershner and Dale Wood plus many others. Contact Todd Fisher at 6010 North Marmora, Chicago, I1 60646 to volunteer as a judge, to volunteer as a convention helper and/or to receive a convention mailer.

5. August 7-10, 1986 The Historical Mintatures Gaming Society presents Historicon 1986 in New Carrollton, Maryland. This is the national annual major effort to provide a large historical miniatures wargame convention In the USA. Contact the same folks as mentioned in Event Item (1) above.

6. October 4-5,_1986 Eighth Historical Wargame Weekend in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. All Midwestern members will receive a flyer concerning this event. It is expected that a variety of SYW events will again occur, such as Drums Along the Mohawk, the Charge Project and others. This past October there were ten Eighteenth Century wargames in the roster of events. Write to Chairman Joe Gepfert at 3440 South Monterey Avenue, New Berlin, WI 53151, for details and/or to volunteer to be a judge or convention helper.

7. November 1986 Rock Con XIII in Rockton, Illinois. A variety of SYW events are always in the program of events, usually hosted by Greg Novak, Greg Johnson and Bob Loken. Write to organizer Cliff Wilson, 14225 Hansberry Road, Rockton, Il. 61072.

8. Consideration is being given by two of our members to hold SYWA Meets in the future. Both wish to hear from members as to their interests. Both prospective sites are near each Other so perhaps our "Man on Horseback" can give some thought to merging their efforts. First, John Laing of Rafm Company Inc., 11 Concession Street Cambridge , Ontario, Canada NIR 2G6 is thinking about having a meet in Southern Ontario-Toronto-Upper New York in the spring or summer of 1986, perhaps in conjunction with a local convention. He feels that the dozen or so Canadian members in the area plops members in New York might have an interest in same.

Second is Hap Jordan, 14 Parkview Avenue, Jamestown, NY 14701 who hopes to have a meet in 1987 at Fort Niaqra, New York complete with a prominent guest speaker. He feels that his idea will especially appeal to the ladies who surely will want to take advantage of Niagra Falls plays across the border.

These are wonderful ideas and I ask that all interested members and vendors in this region contact John and let them know what their thoughts might be and also of course, to volunteer to judge an event. This is exactly the sort of thing we want to see happen and so let us help our "Men on Horseback" get off to a good start. Perhaps someday we could all even meet at a favorite place of mine on the shores of Lake Champlain, Fort Ticonderoga.

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