A large contingent of Peninsula Bridge Club members travelled in August to Coffs Harbour for the 2019 Coffs Coast Gold Congress - a delightful combination of a Swiss pairs and a teams event each with open, intermediate and restricted categories. The event is popular and normally books out within a day or so of opening for registration (next year is going to be 9am on 1 Apr 2020 - diarise this now).
Peninsula had some significant successes in the Restricted and Intermediate categories! Here are some of the highlights:
Check out the latest ABF Newsletter (Aug 2019).
It includes a huge range of material of interest to bridge players, particularly but not only for those at the competitive end of the spectrum.
The gods have whispered in our ear and told us that there may be too many session announcements.
So we will try to reduce these and not repeatedly remind players about upcoming events.
Instead please look at the upcoming event notices on the notice-boards - and at the club TV slideshow to see what is coming up!
Due to very few members purchasing 5 PPVs (pre-paid vouchers) and the administration costs of supporting it, this 5 PPV purchase option will no longer be available as at 1 September. Members can of course continue to buy PPVs in lots of 10 and also pay cash at the table if needed.
Additionally the colour of the pre-paid vouchers will be changing to red when the current stock of green cards runs out. We have been able to print the red cards ourselves, again saving the club and its members significant money.
Please contact me (Bob Whiddon) if you have any questions.
Dear all,
The Charity Day went off very happily, thanks to Sue and all the helpers who made the day run so smoothly, and raised money for two local charities - the NSW Rural Bush Fire Brigade and Mona Vale Hospice.
We also had one of our major congresses, our Swiss Pairs, which was a hugely successful day - a big thanks to Cassandra who was the convenor, Gayle, and to the whole team who made sure everyone had such a great day.
"...maintaining physical, social and brain health is an important component of reducing dementia risk, which all Australians can implement in their daily lives. Learning a new language, picking up bridge, travelling and going back to study are ideal examples as they incorporate brain challenges and increase social engagement, which are both important for dynamically engaging the brain." (bolding added)
From an article "What causes Alzheimer’s disease? What we know, don’t know and suspect" by Yen Ying Lim and Rachel Buckley, published in The Conversation on 2 Jun 2017, and republished on 3 Aug 2019.
This is reminder and last call for any remaining yellow session cards that past directors and other helpers may have accumulated and are not going to use before the end of August.
That is our end of financial year and we need to know our liability on these session cards to complete our financial accounts. Read all about the stocktake and replacement of yellow session cards for new blue ones in this earlier article from our Treasurer.
NOTE - this has nothing to do with green PPVs (prepaid vouchers)!
Green masterpoints for these two months will be submitted as is normal but the red points for August and September club events will be delayed until the end of October.
Cassandra Mitchell – the masterpoint secretary – will be away, but rest assured, the red points will come in time. Often these points are delayed in being uploaded by months and months because of various factors outside of my control so this isn’t unusual.
If anyone wants to volunteer to learn how to process masterpoints for the club, please contact me on 0421 764 300 (NOTE: You do not need to be a director to process points). I leave for the United States around 21 August.
