Congratulations to Sue Falkingham on becoming an ABF accredited teacher, Peninsula's second member to be so recognised.
Today, Joan Butts, the ABF teaching coordinator, came to Peninsula and presented Sue with her certificate.
The winners of the 2017 GNOT qualifier were the Whiddon team with Cath Whiddon, David Farmer, Lyn Smith and Jocelyn Bertram. Well done to them all! The runners up were the Davies team of Alan Davies, Vivien Eldridge, Anne Small and Ron Smith.
This event is a rare opportunity for members to gain GOLD POINTS at PBC and it was wonderful to see 14 teams participating this year. Thanks very much to our calm and competent director Ronnie Ng.
The Committee wants to ensure that effective communication takes place with all Club members.
Email contact - This is our preferred way of communicating to each of our members. If you can use email, then please use this if possible, as it is less costly for the Club. If you use email but have not been receiving emails from the Club, we might not have your email address.
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A great win by Sandie Rooke and Alan Davies at the Swiss Pairs event on 22 March.
They were hotly followed by Marieta Borthwick and Vivien Eldridge and Terry and Lois Rothwell who came equal second.
It was such a well organised and fun evening with 13 tables, despite the torrential rain during the early part of the night. We were lucky to have Joan Butts to introduce the evening and point out the different aspects of play and scoring when taking part in an IMPs scoring event like Swiss Pairs.
The full results can be found (for a while at least) on our Results page.
Margaret and John Rogers together with the Moffits from Darwin won the Intermediate Teams at the Gold Coast Congress. This is a wonderful achievement. Congratulations! There were 94 teams participating in this event.
Peter Clarke and Hans van Weeren were second in the Ivy Dahler Restricted Swiss pairs.
Alan Davies and Vivien Eldridge with their team mates Kevin Dean and Bob Hunt won the best mixed team in the Intermediate Teams.
Jean Quin has been an active member of Peninsula Bridge Club for many years and today Sarah presented her with a bouquet to say farewell and good luck as Jean is moving to Queensland.
Beverley Schultz reminded us of the many contributions Jean had made to the club in the past. The cakes during the tea break were delicious - particularly the lemon one!
Did you know that our Bridge Club is the 4th largest in NSW and the 11th largest in Australia?
It's run by volunteers and one of our prominent volunteers has been Sue Riley. As well as director duties, Sue also runs the charity days.
She has recently given up writing the directors roster and today, Sarah, our president, took the opportunity to present her with a bouquet and say thank you for her great contribution to the Club. Thanks Sue.
As many people know, John and I met at the Gold Coast Congress eight years ago, so it's always somewhat of a sentimental journey for us, despite the fact that we haven't really distinguished ourselves in the past, although John, playing with his original team, had come second in the Restricted.
This time we played with Sue and Ken Moffitt, a really interesting couple who live in the Northern Territory. Sue has achieved local fame for writing a book called "Darwin in the Wet".We met them at the Darwin Congress last year, and, as we all got on well, decided to play together.
