Newsletter 18 October 2024

In our newsletter this week..

Message from the President
CBC AGM
A and B Grade Sections
Youth Day
Advanced Bridge Series
Name Tag order
New Members
Rank Promotions
John Brockwell's Column
South Canberra Bridge Club Beginner's Course
Upcoming Events
Ian Morison
Lighter Moments

Message from the President

As you may have noticed with recent reminders in the Newsletter, the AGM is coming up (in 11 days). All members are welcome to attend, and I look forward to seeing as many familiar faces as possible.

Please feel free to contact me on any issues you have relating to the club, I do welcome all of your thoughts.

- Mary

Call for nominations to the Canberra Bridge Club Committee

As members will be aware, the Club’s AGM is scheduled for 29 October 2024. We are now calling for nominations from members to join the new Committee. All of the positions on the Committee are available for members to nominate and these include the office holders that include the President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary, Tournament Secretary and 5 ordinary Committee members.
We would encourage members who are interested in actively supporting the Club and its running to nominate. This is a great way to contribute to the business and management of the Club, as well as learn more about the Club. Being a member of the Committee is not only a great way to support the Club but is an excellent way to meet other Club members and help our Club be a vibrant active organization supporting the learning and playing of bridge.
The nomination form will be circulated to all members and nominations need to be submitted by 2pm Monday 28 October 2024.

Nomination by 28 October 2pm - place in the yellow box in the office
AGM 29 October 2024 - 5:30pm

A and B Grade Sections

At last night’s CBC committee meeting, we agreed to extend the trial of A and B graded sections to include our Wednesday morning session. This has the overall affect that all sessions run by the club that normally have two sections will include an A grade section and a protected B grade section (except for Friday morning which is entirely B grade).

Youth Day

The next Youth day with Will Jenner-O’Shea will be held on Sunday, 3 November from 11:00am - 1:00pm at the Canberra Bridge Club. These sessions are available to anyone under 30 for free. And if there are “Youth” who are not too far on the other side of 30, please let them know as they will also be very welcome.

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Sunday: 3 November 2024
Venue: Canberra Bridge Club, 5-7 Duff Place, Deakin.
Time: 11:00am-1:00pm

~Youth Bridge is Bridge’s future~

Advanced Bridge Series

Advanced Bridge Series is back with Will teaching the first week and Jodi hosting the mentored play in the second week. The final topic in this series will focus on Improved Declarer Play.

Count the Opponents Points and Shape When you play.
Which Is The Safe, or Dangerous Opponent.
Improve Your Knowledge Of Suit Combinations

Lesson including a booklet of notes.

Sunday 3rd November 1:30pm. Cost: $25 (Free for players under 30)
- Click here for more information

Name Tag Order

If you would like a magnetic name tag please submit your order by emailing the office with your full name and abf number.

Cost: $20 to be charged via myABF
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New Members

Canberra Bridge Club welcomes the following new and returning members to our club:

Anna Dyason
Kate Gardner
Terence Gardner
Steven Weir
Michelle Williams
Janet Compton
Karen Cookman
Des Storey
Helen Morrison
Wendy Moyes
Amal Babashaq
Adil Al-Khoury

Rank Promotions

Graduate

McIntyre, Richard
Robinson, Alexander
Wu-Sun, Juliana

Club

McKenzie, Caitlyn
Thomas, Ross
Trethewey, Shan

Local

Gregson, Geraldine

Bronze Local

Cherbuin, Jacques

Silver Local

Lyndon, Pam

Regional

Lipinski, Maureen
Walcott, James

State

Hassall, Colleen

John Brockwell's Column

Pre-alert

Only 68 days to Christmas, so it’s now time to give advance notice of our Christmas competition.

I know someone who has a talent for relating 4-figure bridge scores to postcodes, e.g.:

2140 (13 tricks in 7♣ vul.) is Homebush,

2330 (13 tricks in 7♦x vul.) is Singleton,
2490 (13 tricks in 7NTx, vul.) is Tumbulgum,
2800 (5 down, vul. & redoubled) is Orange,

and so on.

Precise details of the competition (and how to submit entries) will be released in due course.

Basically, the winner will be the person who links most 4-figure bridge scores with Australian postcodes. In the meantime, get ready with your lists of (i) unusual bridge scores, (ii) postcodes.

The prize will be a bottle of champagne. But don’t get your expectations too high. The bottle will not be magnum-size, nor will its content be Bollinger.

- John Brockwell

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South Canberra Bridge Club Beginner's Course

South Canberra Bridge Club will be running a 6 week Beginner's Course presented by Steve Geddes. Please pass this information on to anyone who might be interested.

• Wednesdays 30 Oct to 4 Dec, 9:45am – 11:45am
• 2 hrs each lesson
• Canberra Southern Cross Club, Woden, Community Room 1
• $75 ($60 for Canberra Southern Cross Club members)

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Upcoming Events

Halloween Bridge Night

Bring a plate of Halloween themed food to share, dress up if you wish, bring your best Halloween jokes!

Normal Bridge session at 7:15pm with chief Ghoul John directing. Incantations and wand waving permitted.

Small prizes will be handed out by the Chief Ghoul.

If you have additional Halloween decorations that you would be happy for the club to use please drop them in to the office on Tuesday 29^th October or before lunch on Wednesday 30^th October.

Wednesday 30^th October 6:30pm

** Volunteers wanted on Wednesday 30th October at 1:30 pm to help decorate the room.

Melbourne Cup
Get ready - it's "The Race that Stops a Nation"

Please come and join us on Melbourne Cup day, Tuesday 5 November 2024. The afternoon Bridge session will include Melbourne Cup fun.

We will have $5 and $2 sweeps on arrival, so start stockpiling small change.

The Club will supply refreshments - bubbly, juice and light nibbles. The Director will adopt a session that allows us to stop, have a drink and something to eat while we watch the race. Bridge will then continue.

Dress in style (or not). There will be a prize for the best outfit, hat or fascinator announced at the end of the session.