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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.
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.
Congratulations to Lyn Smith and Cath Whiddon for making the final field and being first of all the Peninsula Pairs who played in the Trumps Good Friday Pairs Congress. A great result - no wonder they're smiling!
Lyn and Cath came 8th in the final field ahead of another Peninsula pair Ian Bailey and Lynn Baker who came 11th. Sixty four pairs competed on the day overall.
Check the results for the final field and you can check the results for the morning session and other fields on the same site.
It is with regret that I am resigning from my position as Director and Chief Director at our wonderful club.
My last day of directing duties will be on 29 April.
I joined the club 27 years ago and have served as Tea Lady, Master Point Secretary, Vice President, President and for 17 years as Chief Director.
The 27 years have been most enjoyable and interesting.
The Harlequin Teams Day was a great success, with lots of pairs enjoying their first experience of teams play. Pairs who had no or very limited experience of teams play were combined with an experienced pair so that the experienced pair could help them learn about and enjoy the teams experience.
Congratulations go to Team Agostino - Di Agostino, Christine Egan, Yvonne Edwards and Julie Daniel who came first and were presented with well deserved wine and chocolates by Sarah. Check below for the full results and more photos.
The Committee wishes to inform all members of some compulsory tax changes which will take effect from 1 September 2017.Peninsula Bridge Club is a non-profit association, but is still subject to taxation rules. We are fortunate to have Bob Whiddon as Treasurer, who is a qualified accountant, and who has been ensuring that the Club meets all its financial responsibilities.
This year our annual turnover reached an annual rate of $150K and as a result, we are required by law to register as a GST entity. This means we must pay GST on our annual subs and table money, but that we also qualify to get a GST refund on GST included in goods and services we pay for. In order to register for GST we are required to first have an Australian Business Number (ABN) and tax file number (TFN). This has now been done and we have registered for GST but have not yet received details on this from the tax office (ATO).
Bruce Neill, President of the ABF, attended the Teacher Training Program Day at Peninsula Bridge Club on 9 April 2017 as an interested observer.
He expressed his support for the successful Bridge Education Program that operates at Peninsula. "The lifeblood of any bridge club is its education program, and is key to the growth of the bridge community."
He praised the wonderful work that Cath Whiddon does for the game of bridge, as director of bridge education at Peninsula and as a teacher trainer conducting Teacher Training Program days. "Part of the ABF Strategy is to ensure that bridge teachers are well trained and use modern teaching materials and methods."
Cath Whiddon gave a brilliant Teacher Training workshop at Peninsula today which was attended by people from all over NSW - from South of Wollongong to Coffs Harbour.
Bruce Neil, the president of the Australian Bridge Federation (ABF) was present to support Cath and explain how important the Bridge education program was to the future of the game. All the smiling faces show just how well received the workshop was.
