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Great food, great bridge, great cause! Twenty seven pairs turned up on Friday evening to support Peninsula Bridge Club’s 2017 Charity Night.
Thanks to Noleen Cregan, Cassandra Mitchell, Margaret Rogers and Vickie Busteed who laid on wonderful warming soups to take the chill off the night, and to Di Agostino and Christine Egan who spoiled us with delicious desserts. Thanks also to director Sue Falkingham.
The raffle hamper was won by Anne Thomson and the bottle of whisky by Pam Kempster.
Sue Evershed and John Simmonds did very well in the 2017 Australia-Wide Novice Pairs, coming 11th Australia-wide with a score of 67.0. Interestingly when scored over just the Peninsula entrants they were pipped by Grahame Elith and Keith Trevallion, but scoring nationally turned the tables strongly in Sue and John's favour. Nationally Maggie Gibbs and Susan Jensen came 32nd, ahead of Judith Croxall and Robert Gaven who came 55th.
Read the full letter below from the event's national organiser. Brad Coles, and prize winners should note what they need to do to claim their prizes.
"Thank you again for taking part in our Australia-Wide Novice Pairs! The final results are now on the Australian Bridge web site.
Directors from Peninsula, Manly Leagues, North Shore, Narrabeen & Newport gave up their Saturday morning to learn about changes to the Laws of Duplicate Bridge.
The training session was conducted by John McIlrath with the support of the ABF and hosted by PBC. The 15 directors who attended were very grateful for the help.
The event and lesson flier templates in this folder are in Word (.docx) and/or Google Docs format, and contain sample text as well as the club's visual branding and Roboto font. are editable as appropriate. Updated or additional templates can be uploaded by Vivien or David. The Word format docs all embed the Club's Roboto font (hence the large files sizes) so that you do not need to download and install it on your computer.
If you want to use Word, you can download the relevant Word template by right clicking on it and then selecting the Save As option. This will allow you to then edit the flier template as you wish on your computer.
The flier templates are available in both colour and black and white formats each using the appropriate logo. To use both colour for posters and black and white for the same event/lessons you will need to copy and paste the event/lesson details from one format to the other.
These club templates are in various appropriate formats, generally including Word (.docx) format for standard documents. They often contain sample text as well as the club's visual branding and are editable as appropriate. Many embed the club's Roboto font in the template (hence the large files sizes) so that you do not need to download and install this font on your computer.
If you want to use Word, you can download the relevant Word template by right clicking on its link and then selecting the Save As option. This will allow you to then edit the flier template as you wish on your computer and save it as your own document.
Some of the templates are available in both colour and black and white formats each using the appropriate logo.
Some may be interested in this "riotous new play about two fiercely competitive bridge-playing grandmothers stars Virginia Gay, Nancye Hayes and Sue Jones in a charming odd-ball story that will leave you grinning."
According to the Melbourne Theatre Company website "The Autumn Road Retirement Village in Caulfield has a fiercely competitive bridge club, but with old age doing its inevitable work, no bridge partnership lasts for long. When Minnie loses her playing partner in an unfortunate swimming accident, Liraz is desperate for them to team up. You see, Minnie has a granddaughter and Liraz has a grandson. Both are hopelessly single. Laying all her cards on the table, Minnie is bidding hearts."
This new play Minnie & Liraz by Lally Katz runs from 13-24 June 2017 at the Arts Centre Melbourne, Fairfax Studio. Fancy a trip down south?
I suspect that most of us turn up to play bridge without giving thought to the fact that the boards which are delivered to you by the lovely director have been lovingly crafted by a group of volunteers.
It takes several hours every week to "deal" these boards and put them in their containers. Usually a team of two will take 3 to 4 hours to deal the boards for the coming week and when there are special events on that require extra boards it takes a bit longer. There is also a considerable amount of paper work which has to be done in conjunction with each board - photocopying hand records and documenting what has been done to ensure the smooth running of a bridge session.
Congratulations to Vickie Busteed who has recently become an ABF accredited teacher.
This also means Peninsula Bridge Club is probably the first club across Australia to have three accredited teachers (with Cath Whiddon and Sue Falkingham), attesting to our recent teacher training program.
