We had a great teams congress at Peninsula on Sunday 28 April with 37 tables. Thanks to director Ronnie Ng who coped well with the stress of a team not turning up.
Len, Gayle, Nerida and Sarah took second place in the restricted, with Jocelyn, Lyn, Vivien and myself the best Peninsula open team (but not great...). It was great to see Kate McCallum, current world champion, competing with us. Check the full results.
Thanks to all those who helped in any way especially Gayle King for organising all the food and Bill Fitzsimons who gave up his Sunday to caddy and Di Agostino and Terry Rothwell for the extra last minute dealing and especially Annegrete Kolding who was assistant convenor but on the day was too sick to attend.
Members may be interested to know that Warriewood Square is changing its approach to parking, introducing 2 and 3 hour time limits to most of its parking.
You can find the full details of the new parking arrangements on the Warriewood Square website.
The club celebrated Betty Bevins' birthday on Monday 15 April. Flowers accompanied a tribute by the President.
Betty has been a stalwart member of the club for many years - and it was great to see the well wishes of the other Monday players.
Thank you to Annegrete Kolding for the photo.
As a club we try to help members who find themselves at a session unexpectedly without a partner - due to some last minute problem of their partner or due to a partnership communication failure!
For the last 12 months we have relied on fill-in volunteers who are happy to be called to see if they are free to come in and play. We would like to reward these volunteers and attract more to join their ranks - so that this service will work even more reliably than it does now.
So from Fri 10 May we will not only offer the fill-in volunteer a free game when they come in, but also a free game voucher to use later.
I hope you have Monday 6 May in your diaries and are coming along to Bridge for Brains, an Australia-wide ABF-organised charity event. The proceeds go to Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) - an independent, not-for-profit research institute based in Sydney, Australia, aiming to prevent, treat and cure brain and nervous system diseases, disorders and injuries through medical research.
Premises Update
In April, members of the Committee and the Premises Working Group met with Council representatives regarding the initial community consultation on the Warriewood Valley Community Centre.
Update your Diary. The Charity Day has moved from June to Monday 22 July, commencing at 11am.
Check all the Charity Day event details or talk with the conveners, Trish Berry and Sue Riley.
Cost is $25 this includes lunch and afternoon tea - all monies raised will go to Rural Fire Service and the Palliative Care Unit at Mona Vale Hospital. Invite your friends.
I am pleased to announce the start of a new Honour Board pairs competition, the Cath Whiddon Cup, for our many "super novice" players. In 2019 this will be restricted to players with less than 15MP as at end March, but this level might vary in future years.
Entrants will play as a pair over three Mondays 20 and 27 May and 3 June. Check the event details.
In announcing this competition the Committee and Tournament Sub-Committee are responding to the fact that more than one third of Peninsula’s members have less than 15MP.
The Australian Bridge Federation calculates and publishes the club's best improvers (in terms of the most masterpoints gained) for each masterpoint ranking. Click the link for the up-to-date full details of these McCutcheon rankings for our members.
For the three months to end March Peninsula's highest masterpoint earner was Robin Ho on 35.04 ahead of Alexander Cook on 34.2 and Vivien Eldridge on 33.94.
Congratulations to these three and also to our leaders in each masterpoint category, who are as follows:
