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I would like to invite members to participate in this members-only, red-point trophy event which will be played on four successive Mondays commencing 8 October.

It is an "individual" event. To be eligible to win, a member must play with a different member each week - the best three scores will count.

No need to sign up. Just turn up on 8 October. Check the event details in the calendar. Trish Giles has won the 2017 Stebbins competition, ahead of runner-up Anne Small.

Alan Davies, convener

Please join me in  welcoming two new Club Directors, Sandie Rooke and Susan Jensen.

They both recently completed the directors' exam and are looking forward to assisting the Club's players in this very important activity.

We are always on the lookout for new directors. If anyone has an interest, please let me know.

Alan Davies, Chief Director

Check the 2018 Peninsula Bridge Club Income and Expense Report. Balance Sheet and accompanying Treasurer's Report that will be considered at our Annual General Meeting on Saturday 29 September.

A number of printed copies will be available at the club for those unable to access the financial statements linked in this article. 

We have recently updated our table number statistics to see how our various sessions are going from a quantitative viewpoint. Overall non-supervised weekly table numbers have eased slightly in the winter months from their high earlier in the year. (Supervised sessions were excluded because we do not have reliable data for previous years.)

Within this overall trend, Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon sessions have increased or retained their higher table numbers while Tuesday morning, Thursday and Saturday afternoons, and Tuesday and Friday evenings have eased. Wednesday evening, apart from the last few weeks (when a session was cancelled), has shown higher table numbers.

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Bring your family and friends to our social Trivia Night on Saturday 22 September. This is a chance to have fun with family and friends and perhaps softly encourage them to learn to play bridge.

An initiative of one of our members, Nerida Gillies, this is a combined Peninsula Bridge Club/Australian Mensa event. We're providing the venue (and bridgy environment) and they are providing the experienced Trivia Night compere, and hopefully a range of their members who will learn to associate fun with bridge.

The event is free to attend but will raise money via gold coin quizzes and raffle for our charities Rural Fire Brigade of NSW and Mona Vale Hospital Auxiliary.

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The Club’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at 11am on Saturday 29 September. Formal notice of the meeting will be sent to members before 8 September.

This year it will include consideration of a number of special resolutions proposing amendments to our Constitution - chiefly arising from member suggestions that were too late to be formally considered at  our Special General Meeting in May. That Special General Meeting updated our Constitution in response to changes in the relevant NSW legislation and was largely, but not fully, aligned the Department of Fair Trading Model Constitution.

I hope you will be able to attend the meeting to have your say and also to be part of the running of our club.>

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In the past three months we have incurred four separate callouts from the building's security contractor when the alarm system has indicated that our club-house has not been properly secured. The charges for these callouts add up to several hundred dollars - money we would prefer to spend on other benefits to our members!

While the responsibility for ensuring that our club-house is left secure rests with our volunteer directors and we are trying to find our ways of supporting less issues, all members can help by ensuring that windows are fully closed at the end of each session. 

Peter Cotton and Rob Wallace won all four rounds to win the Swiss Pairs on Tuesday 28 August, ahead of David Farmer and Catherine Whiddon and our guest experts Liam Milne and Shane Harrison. Full results on our website.

It was an excellent night with 9 tables, with special thanks to our standby pair Di Agostino and John Simmonds.

It followed an excellent short talk from Australian international player, Liam Milne, on "Bidding more effectively in the pass-out seat" - you can check Liam's notes.

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