Apologies and Return to Duty

Greetings SFI, ‘Tis I, Jeremy “Sideshow” Carsten, and I’m here to say I’m sorry. I’ve been pretty absent lately. Had a lot of stuff in ‘real life’ just beating me up (Work/contract chaos, Death of a dear friend, the various complications of leadership in a camping/renn faire group, potentially new quasi-professional opportunities, my health, both […]

RC Update Feb 2021 (late)

Greetings Region 3! There is a LOT to talk about this time – so please grab a drink, and hang on until the end! 2021 Doesn’t seem to be treating us any better than 2020 did, but yet we push on! Many of our folks are still suffering from the snowmagedon we had, with damage to […]

RC Update – Jan 2021!

Greetings Region 3! 2020 is over! I’m not entirely sure what time dilation effects were all in play, but 2020 seemed to be especially long. But we’re out, and looking forward to slowly returning to normalcy. We still have COVID, and social distancing, but there is hope by way of vaccines. Things will get better […]

RC Update – September 2020

Greetings Region 3,  September has been especially trying for me, and I know a lot of others out there. However, I shall focus on the positive – and it’s about over! As previously announced we have new staff, and they now have access to do their tasks.  I’m really excited about the video production plans. Right now the plan is […]

RC Update May/June 2020

Again I begin with an apology – I missed publishing one of these last month. I will say my personal life has been as nuts as most folks, between work, traveling back to Nevada, and dealing with ‘life staying at home’ just nuts.  But I have been keeping up with my other RC duties. MSR’s […]

USS Battle Born teams up for local food bank

Stardate: June 6th, 2020 – members of this fine crew, the USS Battle Born, teamed up with other fellow geeks to escape our self-isolation and get out into the world to do some good. With conventions and other events canceled throughout the summer, Peter Gonzales of the Star Wars Society of San Antonio (SWSSA) organized […]

RC Updates – March/April 2020

Greetings Region 3! My sincere apologies for not posting in March. In all the chaos, personally, professionally, and various other commitments, the updates kept getting bumped to the right – and now here we are.  First off – our schedule. Summit 2020 has been postponed until 2021. All registrations carry over, and the hotel will (slowly) move […]

RC Update – February 2020

Greetings Region 3!  It took us a little longer to tabulate last year’s charity efforts, but that’s because there was more to count! Great work to all of our members and chapters – the final total reported to Region 3 is $19,560.95! This is a big gain over last year’s 12K…and I think a lot […]

RC Update – January 2020

Welcome to 2020!  We have an exciting year ahead, both as a region and as Star trek and sci-fi fans.  But first, I need everyone to look back on 2019 – remember all the good you and your fellow members did; then write that up! It’s award season NOW. For Region 3 awards, ‘of the […]

Region 2 Summit Approaches

Greetings R3, I’m Ryan, the Region 2 Coordinator and wanted to formally invite you all to visit our Region 2 Summit being held at CoastCon in Biloxi, MS this year. Friday to Sunday, March 6-8, the Mississippi Gulf Coast Coliseum and Convention Center is playing host to CoastCon where, as an SFI member, you will […]