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Want to improve your defense? Then come along to the Killer Defense Course on Mondays in May 9:30-11:30am and Saturday 26th May.
Come to a few sessions or come to all.
With topics of Opening Signals & Leads (NT) on May 7, Opening Signals & Leads (Suit Contracts) on May 14, Attitude Signals on May 21, 3rd Hand Play & Second Hand Play on May 28 plus on Saturday May 26th More on Signals.
Looking for a teams event with championship tier red masterpoints at your local club? The three week State Open Teams qualifying event starting on Thursday 10 May is your answer.
Check out the details of the event.
Last year the event was won by Alan Davies, Vivien Eldridge, David Farmer and Cath Whiddon. This year it could be you.
Are you adept with taking photos on your phone? Perhaps you could join our club photographer group.
This group of volunteers takes photos of happenings at the club both spontaneously as a roving photographer or by request from an event convener. They are the key step in showing you photos on the website and in the newsletter, and on our club TV slideshow.
If you feel able to join this group, keep reading and let me (David Farmer, 0415 715 743) know.
Many of you will remember that we almost cancelled a Monday afternoon playing session due to a planned power outage for the building - but that this outage was itself postponed.
The power outage has been rescheduled, but this time at night from 10-12pm on Thu 3 May - so there should be no impact on the Bridge Club (though fingers crossed for the first session on Friday morning).
The power outage is part of preparation for the widening of Jacksons Road near Pittwater Road to allow a second lane of traffic turning right into Pittwater Road.
Joan and John Castle won the Michael Marks Shield against a field of 17 tables, ahead of Joan Fawcett and Sue Riley and Anne Small and Hans van Weeren. See more photos on our Facebook Group.
The Shield event remembers the solid contribution made by past president, Michael Marks, who during his presidential period in the late 1990s, oversaw the building of our current dedicated annex on the Nelson Heather Centre and the 21 year lease from the Council. Event convener, Annegrete Kolding, asked long term member, Sue Riley, to provide some background information. Interestingly John Castle was president at the time we first moved from the Mona Vale Golf Club to the Angophora Room in the Nelson Heather Centre.
Today's large field with a single winner tested our directors, Alan Davies and Cassandra Mitchell, as they were both running a Web Mitchell movement for the first time, complicated by adding in an Arrow Switch.
Anne Small received her well earned ABF Teacher's accreditation certificate on Thursday 5 April, with congratulations from President Sarah Young.
Anne is the fifth member to receive this teaching accreditation from the ABF and this is particularly well-timed for our Bridge Education team given Sue Falkingham's departure to Tasmania.
Following the Advanced 2/1 Workshop on Saturday 14 April, Anne will be the Bridge Education team's reference point for this increasingly popular system. See her ABF Teacher profile.
The committee and key representatives of our sub-committees met in the second half of January to think out loud about the future of the Club and identify decisions that needed to be made and issues that needed to be managed. Read our strategy meeting summary.
There were three key questions:
- Why are we here as a club?
- Where do we want to be in five years?
- What do we need to manage well to get there?
The Tuesday session on 3 April stopped to wish Heather Roseby a happy 90th birthday!
The cake was lovely and accompanied by some spectacular fragrant flowers.
And the 14 table bridge game was as competitive as always!
