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Time to pair up for the Australia Wide Novice Pairs coming up on Friday 26 May. Compete with other novices on the same hands being played across Australia. Make Peninsula proud!

Check the event for all the details, including the ridiculously low cost. Bookings required.

The Comms team's goal is to establish effective and efficient communication options (see below) and to support event conveners and others in their use of these options. This support can vary from backup technical advice through to training in how to use a channel through to, where appropriate, the actual work involved in using the channel. 

Please let me know on comms@peninsulabridgeclub.org.au if you have any suggestions as to how these communication channels could be improved.

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There was a great turnout of members for the Bridge for Brain Research charity event on Monday 1 May.

There were more than 21 tables playing, as well as a raffle and a lovely afternoon tea of member's cakes and other creations.

See the photo gallery (thanks to photographer Heidi Colenbrander) and the results (thanks to director Sue Falkingham). 

Hans Van Weeren and Peter Clarke won the 2017 NSW Restricted State Championship. Marieta Borthwick and Annegrete Bach Kolding came fourth in the NSW State Novice Championship with Heidi Colenbrander and Ray Hurst just behind them coming in sixth place. Both events were played at the Southern Highlands Bridge Club on the weekend of 29-30 April.

The matchpoint pairs events were played over four sessions - check out the NSWBA coverage and the full results for the Restricted State Championships and for the Novice State Championships.

Peter and Hans had an exciting fourth session with the pair coming second having a great last session but just not doing quite well enough.

The May NSWBA eCongress newsletter profiles the club's Swiss Teams Congress held at Peninsula Bridge Club in March.

Annegrete Kolding provided the NSWBA with expanded coverage of the event accompanied with the photos that are displayed in the profile's photo gallery. Annegrete is the channel coordinator of the various NSWBA and Australian Bridge Federation's publication options - please contact her if you think you would like to discuss these options or have some information that could be suitably profiled in one or more of the NSWBA's or ABF's publications.

This is part of an expanded emphasis on streamlining and expanding the internal and external communication channels available to the club.

The Committee would like to thank Verl Lawrence, who has done such a marvellous job for 17 years as our Chief Director. Along with her husband John, Verl has contributed to the Club in an amazing way. She has guided our directors in training, directed numerous events over the years, as well as being so friendly and welcoming to members, new and old. On Saturday 29 April, we will be thanking her with an afternoon tea. I hope you can either come to the session to play or drop in at 2pm for a glass of champagne!

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Members flocked to commemorate and thank our wonderful Chief Director, Verl Lawrence, on Saturday 29 April, after she announced her retirement from directing. As well as holding the role of Chief Director for the past 17 years, Verl has held almost all of the office-bearer positions in the Club.

Our president, Sarah Young, thanked Verl on the Club's behalf and presented her with a floral tribute. She also announced in honour of Verl and her husband's past contributions to the club a new competition, to be called the Lawrence Competition, to start in June on Tuesday nights.

Verl thanked the club for the recognition and more importantly for the key role it had been in her life and the support she had received over the years.

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Peninsula players won the Best Restricted Team at the Trumps' Easter Teams, with the team of Annegrete Kolding, Susan Jensen, Sandie Rooke and Ray Hurst taking this prize. Sandie and Ray did particularly well coming 13th out of the 36 pairs across the whole field which included a large number of strong pairs.

Other Peninsula players of note were Linda Abbenbroek and Carolyn Dowling who came 5th on the Butler pairs ranking and Alan Davies and Vivien Eldridge who just made it to the top half of the field. Check the full results including Butler pairs rankings on the Trumps website.