Newsletter - 1 December 2023
In our newsletter this week...
- President's Message
- Barnados Christmas Giving Tree Appeal
- Christmas Gift Vouchers for Beginner's Lessons
- Christmas Raffles
- Bridge Calendar for 2024
- Annual Membership renewal for 2024
- Name Badges
- Upcoming Sessions and Events
- Saturday F2F Bridge Sesions
- Ian Morison
President's Message
Thank you to everyone who helped on Wednesday to decorate the Barry Turner room and erect the giving tree. Our helpers were: Pam Crichton, Jennifer and Brett Yeats, Nick Vonthethoff, David and Kathleen Kenny, Barbara Bialowas, Jenny Bergin.
If you are able to support Barnados in their charity please bring your unwrapped presents and place under the Christmas tree in the next couple of weeks.
This weekend the Gala National Open Pairs are taking place in Brisbane we have two teams participating, we wish them the best of luck.
When playing bridge in a competitive situation please keep in mind that bridge is a game (albeit a most competitive one) and should be played in good spirit. Please support more inexperienced players as they grow in the sport. It may be that in years to come they will be better players than you, and the better you treat them now, the more likely they will be nice to you in the future.
Tim Mather
From the Committee:
There has been a fantastic response from members to the request for your views on what could be done to enhance the building and Club. The Committee is currently considering the responses received and will advise members in early January regarding what will be proposed for members to consider.
Barnados Christmas Giving Tree Appeal
The CBC has a tradition of present giving at Christmas. This year, we will reprise our support of Barnados.
Barnados is an Australian charity dedicated to supporting vulnerable children in need.
If you wish to support them please bring gifts for the giving tree such as:
- presents for teenage boys 14-18 yrs (e.g., gift vouchers for movies, JB HIFI, Westfield, clothing and sports stores) - Unwrapped
- food such as Christmas puddings, chocolates and other non-perishables including tinned food, jam and Milo
Alternatively if you wish to donate cash, the club will collect the donations and buy movie vouchers. Please bring your donations to the office.
More information about Barnardos can be found here.
Christmas Gift Vouchers for Beginner's Lessons
Our next beginners classes commence on Wednesday evening 31 January and Friday morning 2nd February 2024. Why not give a gift voucher to friends and families this Christmas introducing them to the wonderful world of Bridge? Each voucher will cost $69 and will be available to purchase at the office.
Course overview: 6x weekly lessons
Includes everything you need to learn- textbook, detailed notes, and 3 free vouchers for 'supervised play' after completion.
- Wednesdays: 7pm - 9pm January 31- March 6
- Fridays: 10am - 12pm February 2 - March 8
Christmas Raffles:
As per tradition you can purchase a Christmas raffle ticket for $2 each or 3 tickets for $5.
The first prize is a hamper, 2nd is a cake and 3rd is crackers.
The raffles and prizes are located on the table in the main room.
Printable Calendar for 2024
The 2024 Club Calendar has now been released. You can find it by clicking on the link below or on our website. If you'd like an A3 hardcopy for your noticeboard at home, just ask the office.
Highlights of the 2024 Calendar:
- All current sessions, both face-to-face and RealBridge, remain unchanged
- This includes the Saturday afternoon face-to-face session which has now been made ongoing
- The only exception is the events night which will move from Thursdays to Tuesdays
- New daytime events have been added, giving players of all levels more opportunity to earn red master points and gain ABF promotions.
- The range of lessons have been expanded, with Will Jenner-O’Shea offering the Advanced Teaching Series on top of his existing Will’s Workshops.
- Novice and restricted players have a pathway of events to build their game across the year.
Annual Membership Renewal for 2024
We are now half way through renewing everyone's memberships. If you haven't done so already 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.
NEW Discounted Novice Events at the Summer Festival of Bridge
This is the last offer of discounts into the Summer Festival of Bridge.
Reduced entry of 75% is being offered into the
- Novice Swiss Pairs on Saturday and Sunday 13th and 14th January.
The fee is $216 per pair (discounted from $290).
Nominations for the discount by Thursday 7th December.
We have 5 entries to give away. If we have more entries than this, priority will firstly be given to those who missed out on the earlier offers and then names will be drawn out of a hat.
SFOB Partnership desk:
For all partnership enquiries (not related to the Discounted Novice Events) please contact Perelle Scales.
Perelle will be able to help you if you are looking for a partner or team mates to play at the Summer Festival. She is also looking for people who can substitute for a player at the last minute, let her know if you are available. If you are called in to substitute you will get to play for free!
Name Badges
If you would like to order a metallic name badge please let the office know.
Each badge costs $20 and can be taken out of your CBCpay account.
Christmas Pairs (Thursday evening):
The last Thursday night event of the year is a two week Christmas Butler Pairs on 7 and 14 December.
You do not need to play both nights - you can play either night if you wish. When you enter, please specify which nights you are playing.
- Dates: 7 and 14 December
- Time: 7.15pm
This will be our last Thursday evening competition for the year, from next year our Thursday night competitions will be moved to Tuesday nights.
Saturday F2F Bridge Sessions
Good News! The Committee has decided to continue the Saturday afternoon face to face bridge at the club. The next session will run on the 2nd of December.
So please join us on Saturdays from 1pm for even more bridge for those who can't get enough.
Note: The RealBridge will also continue to run as per usual on Saturdays.
Supervised Lessons
These happen on Wednesdays from 7pm, or Fridays from 9.30am.
- 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
Monthly Eclectic Explanation:
The Club counts only the first 28 days of the month to calculate the monthly eclectic. Therefore if you play 5 times in a month and your best result is on the fifth session it won't be included. If you play four times but miss the first session of the month and the last session falls outside of the first 28 days then only 3 sessions will be used towards your eclectic's result.
Lighter Moments
- What is a king’s favorite kind of precipitation? Hail!
- What do books wear on a wet and rainy day? Rain quotes.
- When does it rain money? When there is “change” in the weather.
- What’s all wet and likes to shake? An earthquake on a rainy day.
- Why does Snoop Dog need an umbrella? Fo’ Drizzle.
- What do you call it when it rains ducks and geese? Foul (fowl) weather.
- What did one raindrop say to the other? “Two’s company; three’s a cloud.”
- Why did the man use ketchup in the rain? Because it was raining cats and hot dogs.
- What’s worse than raining buckets? Hailing taxis!
Have a great weekend!
Elizabeth (for Elizabeth and Amik)
