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Celebrating a special birthday for one of our members is always a lovely event. It is an important aspect of the wonderful Peninsula Bridge Club community.

If you know of someone who is turning 90 or 95 and they are happy with the idea of a public celebration then the Club is happy to organise it or support you organising it. Please alert the committee ahead of time so that it can be advertised to the appropriate sessions and ensure photos are taken for our TV slideshow and website/newsletter. (You can check if one of our volunteer photographers is available by emailing photographers@peninsulabridgeclub.org.au.)

Expenses up to $60 for a card, cake and/or flowers will be reimbursed against a claim with receipts. For other special days please be careful to check with one of the office-bearers for approval before raising any expectations.

Check the latest Australian Bridge Federation Newsletter.

Items include: Workshops With Will: William Jenner-O’Shea, ABF Marketing Report: Peter Cox, ABF Education: Joan Butts, Bridge Vid: Peter Hollands, The Value Of Four Trumps: Mike Lawrence, Coaching Cathy At Contract: David Lusk, A Game At The Club: Barbara Travis, Australian Open Playoff: Sartaj Hans, Spring Nationals: Liam Milne & Ron Klinger, Improve Your Defence: Ron Klinger, Suit Combinations: Brad Coles, Bridge Into The 21st Century: Paul Lavings, How Would You Play? Barbara Travis, ABF Youth Initiatives: Leigh Gold, Around The Clubs...

Enjoy.

In a close and surprising finish the Farmer team (Alan Davies, Vivien Eldridge, David Farmer and Cath Whiddon) had a strong final week, managing to climb from 7th to win the 2019 Club Teams Championship, ahead of the Ardill team (Jen Ardill, Peter Clarke, Anne Small and Hans van Weeren) and the Kolding team (Marieta Borthwick, Annegrete Kolding, Heidi Colenbrander and Nerida Gillies) in third place.

The Milovanovic team (Lisa Dunphy, Maris Taylor, Alessandro Gado and Aleks Milovanovic) who were leading for much of the event came fourth. Notably there was only ten VPs difference between first and sixth place teams, the top half of the 12 team event.

We will be having a dinner get-together for all Peninsula members participating in the Canberra Summer Festival of Bridge 2020. I have made a provisional booking at Bamiyan on 62/10 Lonsdale St, Braddon, for Sunday 12 January at 7pm. Bamiyan is a wonderful Afghani restaurant, an easy 10 minute walk from the Rex. It is licensed but you may also BYO – corkage $3 pp.

As it is a very busy time in Canberra, I need to confirm numbers by 30 December so please email me ASAP at colenbrander@optusnet.com.au if you plan to attend. Partners welcome.

Look forward to seeing you all in Canberra!

Heidi Colenbrander

Cath and Bob Whiddon spied an appeal in Pittwater Online News, and asked Peninsula Bridge Club if they could ask our members to help.

And help they did. Ten carloads of donated unwrapped toys, non perishable food, toiletries and other goods are on their way from club members to four drought-stricken towns in western NSW. 

Janet Cater (pictured) has first hand experience of living through drought on the land and brought in many bags of toys, toiletries and food.

The 2019 year long Sloman Cup was won by Aleksander Milovanovic and Alessandro Gado, decisively with a 70+% score in the final round (according to the report posted on Facebook). They finished ahead of Alan Davies and Vivien Eldridge, and in third place David Farmer and Catherine Whiddon.

The 2019 Sloman Cup was played on the first Thursday of each month from March through November, with the best six scores counting. 

Check the full ranking and session scores. Note that the winning pair only played in six sessions so had no ability to drop their worst scores.

The 2019 Committee invited all our wonderful volunteers to drinks and nibbles at the Dee Why Grand hotel on Thursday 12 December to say thank you! See the flier.

While the numbers were not large in comparison with the huge number of members who do volunteer at the club, it was a great chance to chat with others who might contribute in a completely different way.

If the 2020 Committee agrees, some kind of volunteer "thank you" event might become a regular tradition. There were more photos of the event (thank you Jen Ardill!) posted on our Facebook group.

Chris Dixon is a long term and much loved member at PBC. When his electric wheelchair broke down last week, members quickly rallied to his aid. $7,530 was raised!

This has enabled Chris to buy a brand new electric wheelchair to suit his specific needs. Chris is thrilled that he will be mobile again and wishes to pass on his thanks to everyone who has contributed. He is looking forward to being back at the Club and hopes to be able to make it to some night games as well.

Thank you all for your very generous support!