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Congratulations! Due to the efforts of Sandie Rooke, Peninsula Bridge Club now has another ABF Accredited Teacher. Your club will be able to display the Accredited Club certificates.

By completing the ABF Teaching Accreditation Program and becoming an ABF Accredited Teacher Club, you have demonstrated commitment to best practice and continuous improvement.

Well done and keep up the great work.

Regards
Allison Stralow (ABF President) and Joan Butts (ABF National Teaching Coordinator)

Supervised Sessions 

Supervised Sessions are held 3 times per week

Monday 18:45 -21:00

Tuesday 14:15 - 16:30

Friday 09:15 - 11:30

Practise Play topic in SS in July is Overcalls.

Review lesson in SS with Cath:

• Tuesday 16 July 2.15-4.30pm
• Friday 26 July 9.15-11.30am

In the third week of June Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon red section players responded to a survey about the possible movements trialled in response to the larger red sections since April. Thank you to those who responded.

The larger red sections at these sessions arose from the successful graduation of many green section players who no longer need that section's particular attributes.

Since April we have tried different movements to respond to these often larger table numbers, with these simply categorised as:

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Congratulations to our long term member, Dr Joan Castle, who was awarded in the Queen's Birthday honours, the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to medicine.

A former medical practitioner in private practice at Dee Why, Dr Castle was also a honorary consultant physician at Manly Hospital for 35 years and worked pro bono at diabetes clinics at Sydney and Royal North Shore hospitals. She also established a diabetes clinic at Manly Hospital.

Dear fellow Peninsula Club member,

I am writing to you today in my capacity as Treasurer of the Club. The Club's annual accounts will be formally audited this year and our external auditor requires that we verify the values expressed in the Club's Balance Sheet (the financial statement of our assets and liabilities) as this reflects the equity that we as members have in the Club. We need to do a few things that will not impact you, such as complete a stock take of our fixed assets - computers, tables, etc. to verify that they exist and are appropriately valued, and this will be done by Committee members.

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Bridge is mind sport, a challenge of mental rather than physical capacity and stamina. Consequently we have many members who have mobility challenges - whether due to accident, disease or just the passage of years.

It is one of our club's strengths that we welcome and try to assist these valuable members. We are fortunate that Meals on Wheels have agreed to give us use of eight of their weekday parking spots from noon onwards. Even with this we do not have a lot of accessible parking near the club-house. What we have, we need to look after carefully.

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We have received information from other clubs on upcoming events which some members might find of interest. The flyers are posted on the noticeboard.

• The Toronto Bridge Club will hold the annual Swiss Teams Congress on Sunday 25 August - online entry: www.nswba.com.au/tourn/calendar.asp
• Ingleburn RSL Bridge Club is also holding a Teams Congress on Sunday 11 August, 10am - online entry: www.nswba.com.au/tourn/calendar.asp
• Central Coast Leagues Bridge Club, Inaugural Weekend Congress on 21-22 September 2019 - online entry: www.nswba.com.au/tourn/calendar.asp
• Great Lakes Bridge Club 38th Annual Congress 14-15 September 2019, Convener: Sylvia Goodwin 0431 066 388, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• Sydney Spring Nationals auspiced by ABF and NSWBA 16-24 October 2019, gold masterpoints and Playoff Qualifying Points. http://www.abfevents.com.au/events/spnot/2019/

Twenty five pairs competed in the 2019 Charlie Mitchell Shield on Saturday 29 June, but there was one clear winning pair, Patrick Starck and Vivien Eldridge, who scored a massive 71.15% ahead of runners-up Di Agostino and Trish Berry.

This event was convened by Cassandra Mitchell and directed by Sue Riley.