Newsletter - 3 November 2023
In our newsletter this week...
- Melbourne Cup
- Community Rewards at Southern Cross Club Doubled for November
- Annual Membership renewal for 2024
- Discounted Summer Festival entries for Novices
- Upcoming Sessions and Events
- Director's course
- Promotions for October
- Ian Morison
Melbourne Cup 7 November
Please allow extra time before the bridge begins at 1pm to buy your sweep tickets.
The afternoon bridge session will include Melbourne Cup fun.
We will have $5 and $2 sweeps on arrival, so remember to bring some small change.
The Club will supply refreshments - bubbly, juice and light nibbles. Director Bruce will adopt a session that allows us to stop, have a drink in hand and watch the race. Some more interesting bridge will follow.
Dress in style (or not). There will be a prize for the best hat or fascinator announced at the end of the session.
Community Rewards Doubled for November
The Canberra Bridge Club is a part of the Canberra Southern Cross Club Community Rewards Program. During the month of November the CSCC is doubling their Commnunity Rewards.
That means that our club will earn 15c for every $1 Members spend on eligible food and beverages across the Southern Cross Clubs. If you are a member of the Southern Cross club please don't forget to nominate the Canberra Bridge Club as your rewards program recipient.
Annual Membership Renewal for 2024
The Annual Membership renewal request for 2024 has been emailed to all current members.
Please reply to the email and ask for your membership renewal fee to be taken out of your CBCpay account.
Alternatively if you need to pay cash or can't reply to the email, please ask the director for a membership renewal consent form and pay the director, not the office.
Summer Festival of Bridge Discounted Novice Events
Canberra Bridge Club members with less than 100 MPs have the opportunity to enter the Summer Festival Novice events below at a discounted rate of 50%.
- Novice Teams (4-6 players): 12/01/2024
The fee is $130 (discounted from $260).
The Novice Pairs have been very popular and unfortunately we have reached the limit so the entries are now closed.
We still have quite a lot of spots in the Novice Teams. Please let us know if you need teammates or partners. We are putting together teams.
Use the Online Entry Form or email the managers to enter.
Upcoming Sessions and Events
11 November Saturday F-2-F Bridge moved to 18 November
Please be advised that due to the ABF playoffs being run at the club on the 11 November we will need to cancel the trial face-to-face Saturday bridge that had been scheduled to run on the same date.
The trial F-2-F Saturday afternoon bridge scheduled for 11 November has now been postponed to 1pm on 18 November instead. (The 4 November Saturday bridge is still on!)
The RealBridge will run as per normal on all Saturdays.
Directors Course 18 and 19 November
Dates: Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th November 2023
Presenter: Sebastian Yuen
Venue: Canberra Bridge Club, upstairs room, 5-7 Duff Place, Deakin
Parking: onsite or if full near the soccer field
Start time: 10am, please be there by 9:40 on the Saturday to complete your registration
Finish time: 5pm
Bring your own lunch or alternatively there are cafes at the nearby Deakin shops
Outline
Introduction to directing on the Saturday, with some more advanced examples for existing directors. More refresher and remainder of the Club Director level material on the Sunday. No one should be entirely bored and at the end you will know so much more! The more directors the Clubs have the more holidays the other directors can take!!!
The Directors course is fully funded by BFACT for ABF members. For non ABF members the fee is $25 per day.
Please email the office if you are planning to come.
Promotions for October
Congratulations to the members below who have promoted their ranks!
Graduates:
- Tim Bennetts
- Paul Bibo
- Helen Eggins
- Liam Minogue
- Trish Sandling
- Chris Wawn
Club:
- Kumari Flynn
- Tony O'Dowd
- Sue Phillips
- Margaret Vincent
Local:
- Barbara Bialowas
Bronze Local:
- Sue Game
- Pam Lyndon
- Sue Taylor
Bronze National:
- Adam Robinson
Life:
- Desmond Manderson
Supervised Lessons
These happen on Wednesdays from 7pm, or Fridays from 9.30am.
- 8/10 Nov: Transfers - majors
- 15/17 Nov: Rule of 20 and rule of 15
- 22/24 Nov: Pre-emptive openings
- 29 Nov/1 Dec: Weak 2 openings
- 6/8 Dec: Strong 2C opening
- 13/15 Dec: Slam bidding, Blackwood.
Ian Morison
If you would like to read Ian's article please press the link below
Lighter Moments
Things You Learn if You Live Long Enough (Part 1)
- I choked on a carrot this morning, and all I could think of was, "I'll bet a doughnut wouldn't have done this to me."
- Nothing spoils a good story more than the arrival of an eye witness. (Mark Twain)
- I finally realize why I look so bad in pictures. It's my face.
- It only takes one slow-walking person in the grocery store to destroy the illusion that I'm a nice person.
- It turns out that when asked who your favorite child is, you're supposed to pick one of your own. I know that now.
- It's fine to eat a test grape in the produce section, but you take just one bite of rotisserie chicken and it's all, "Sir, you need to leave!"
Have a great weekend!
Elizabeth (for Elizabeth and Amik)
