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Gayle King would like to hear from anyone who would like to help make this year's Christmas party a fantastic & memorable event. It is being held on Sunday 10th December.

Assistance is required with...

• Food and sundries purchase (quantities have already been estimated from last year )... And you can still play bridge!
• Publicity ... And you can still play bridge!!
• Setting up on the day ... And you can still play bridge!!!
• Photographer for the day ... And you can still play bridge!!!!
• Kitchen co-ordinator for the day ... And you can still play bridge!!!!!

If you would like to help, please contact Gayle - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

On Tuesday 24 October Anne Brown and Bill Fitzsimons won the 4th session of The Lawrence competition, just ahead of Trish Giles and Verl Lawrence.

There is just one more session of The Lawrence in 2017, to be held on Tuesday night on 28 November, with another $200 cash prize to be won.

Maybe Verl will win this one?

Trish Giles has won the 2017 Stebbins competition, ahead of runner-up Anne Small. It was a four week event that saw many players humbled but not Trish and Anne, nor Annegrete Kolding who won the <100MP category.

Board 16 in the final session was notable - with game contracts in both directions. In fact 12 tricks made in Hearts by North five times (including one doubled and one redoubled), while eleven tricks were made in Spades by West at all the other eight tables! 

Check the full results.

On Thursday, Sarah Young presented cheques for $4,500 each to Eileen from Mona Vale Hospital Auxiliary and Ken from the Rural Fire Service. They were very pleased indeed.

Ken let us all know about the great work the RFS does, in particular that if you live in a bushfire prone area and are no longer able to prepare your property for the bushfire season, the RFS can come and help at no cost.

Eileen told us all about the changes that will be happening at Mona Vale Hospital when the new hospital opens.

Congratulations to Sue Riley who is the driving force behind the fund-raising and thanks to all our members for their generous contributions throughout the year.

October has been another month of competitions at the Club and at Congress events. Congratulations to Maggie Gibbs and Susan Jensen on winning the Under 100MP Competition. On the Congress front, congratulations to Peter Clarke and Hans van Weeren for winning the two-day Two Men and a Truck Restricted Teams at the 2017 Sydney Spring Nationals event.

This month, we sadly lost two of our members, Bob Woodcock and Vona Hadfield. They will be missed at the Club by their friends and partners and by the Club as a whole.

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Vona lost her life this October after an almost 18 month battle with cancer. Till the end one of her passions was bridge. She and Alan joined Peninsula Bridge Club in 2000 and Vona last played on 3 August this year.

Her funeral was low key, family focused and attended by a large contingent of her bridge family.

Vona loved to represent the club in congresses and interclub events. She was a very good player with 830+ masterpoints and relished the challenge of playing difficult to make contracts. She was also an enthusiastic doubler always saying to the opposition: “I think I’ll give you a kiss”.

Over the years as well as representing the club Vona was a dealer, and was involved in aspects of catering and mentoring younger players.

Farewell Vona you will be missed.

This is one of Peninsula’s prestige events so find a team and sign up at the club. This held over three weeks starting on Thursday 9 November and will be directed by Ronnie Ng.

Check the event for full details and how to enter.

The strategy for Swiss teams is different to the normal matchpoint pairs we play at most of Peninsula's sessions. This is a good article about the different tactics.

This is one of Peninsula’s prestige events so find a team and sign up at the club. This red point event is held over three weeks starting on Thursday 8 November and will be directed by Brian Soutter.

Check the event for full details and how to enter.

The strategy for Swiss teams is different to the normal matchpoint pairs we play at most of Peninsula's sessions. This is a good article about the different tactics.