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Dear fellow Peninsula Club member,

I am writing to you today in my capacity as Treasurer of the Club. The Club's annual accounts will be formally audited this year and our external auditor requires that we verify the values expressed in the Club's Balance Sheet (the financial statement of our assets and liabilities) as this reflects the equity that we as members have in the Club. We need to do a few things that will not impact you, such as complete a stock take of our fixed assets - computers, tables, etc. to verify that they exist and are appropriately valued, and this will be done by Committee members.

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Bridge is mind sport, a challenge of mental rather than physical capacity and stamina. Consequently we have many members who have mobility challenges - whether due to accident, disease or just the passage of years.

It is one of our club's strengths that we welcome and try to assist these valuable members. We are fortunate that Meals on Wheels have agreed to give us use of eight of their weekday parking spots from noon onwards. Even with this we do not have a lot of accessible parking near the club-house. What we have, we need to look after carefully.

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We have received information from other clubs on upcoming events which some members might find of interest. The flyers are posted on the noticeboard.

• The Toronto Bridge Club will hold the annual Swiss Teams Congress on Sunday 25 August - online entry: www.nswba.com.au/tourn/calendar.asp
• Ingleburn RSL Bridge Club is also holding a Teams Congress on Sunday 11 August, 10am - online entry: www.nswba.com.au/tourn/calendar.asp
• Central Coast Leagues Bridge Club, Inaugural Weekend Congress on 21-22 September 2019 - online entry: www.nswba.com.au/tourn/calendar.asp
• Great Lakes Bridge Club 38th Annual Congress 14-15 September 2019, Convener: Sylvia Goodwin 0431 066 388, great.lakes.bridge1@bigpond.com
• Sydney Spring Nationals auspiced by ABF and NSWBA 16-24 October 2019, gold masterpoints and Playoff Qualifying Points. http://www.abfevents.com.au/events/spnot/2019/

Twenty five pairs competed in the 2019 Charlie Mitchell Shield on Saturday 29 June, but there was one clear winning pair, Patrick Starck and Vivien Eldridge, who scored a massive 71.15% ahead of runners-up Di Agostino and Trish Berry.

This event was convened by Cassandra Mitchell and directed by Sue Riley.

Join us for some relaxed kitchen bridge on Sunday 14 July at 3pm at the Peninsula Bridge Club.

Get together your foursome or just come along and we'll find you a table. Friends and family welcome.

BYO drinks and nibbles. Tea and coffee will be available. $3 members and visitors.

Each table will deal their own cards and score or not score as they wish. No masterpoints, no Bridgemates, no stress! Inquiries to Beth Randall.

On Monday 23 June the Members and Novices Teams was a fun day with many novice members enjoying the first or second experience playing in a team event. Photos of all the teams can be found on our PBC Facebook Group - please consider joining this group!

It was well attended with two categories - a Green category with a partly experienced Novice pair combined with Restricted team mates, and a Blue category with a Novice pair with no teams experience combined with an Open pair. Everyone played the Peninsula Basic System to make it a pleasant more even playing experience for our novice players. 

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Join us for our second major congress of 2019 - this one being our Swiss Pairs event using IMP scoring. Check all the event details.

In 2018 the event was very well received by those that participated. Ronnie Ng did a great job as director and everything went very smoothly. Volunteer caterer Cassandra Mitchell provided wonderful food all day which was much appreciated.

The 2018 winners were Peter Jeffrey and Yimin Lee ahead of runners-up David Hudson and Paul Lavings. The Novice Prize (under 100) went to Sarah Young and Rob Scott and the best Peninsula Pair was Vivien Eldridge and David Farmer. 

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Coming up on Mon 24 Jun is our Members and Novices Teams. This is a single afternoon teams event, designed to introduce newer players to the fun of teams.

Two experienced players combine with two newer players (<50MP) as teams - pairs can play in any combination. Everyone plays the Peninsula Basic System (Green Card) - these are out of print but you can download it here.

Join the fun by registering on the noticeboard by noon Fri 21 Jun. Check the event for all the details. Inquiries to convener, Cath Whiddon.