Upper Hutt Multigrade 16th August
In the morning session Naciye Bagci and her partner were 1st N/S. Suzanne Duncan and her partner were 3rd N/S.
In the afternoon session Ryan Crowley and his partner were 5th= N/S.
Overall, Naciye Bagci and her partner placed 6th in a field of 40 with 56.22%.
KHAP
In the latest round of the Kapiti Horowhenua Area Pairs, Ernie Davis and Marg Gott placed 5th. Full results available here.
The Waikanae team for this event will be selected by BAG: two pairs are required in each grade (Open, Intermediate, and Junior).
If you would like to be considered for selection, please contact either myself or Graham Cheater directly to register your interest.
I'd like to thank Fiona McDonald-Bates and Marg Gott for organising yet another very successful and profitable raffle, this time at the Multigrade Tournament on Sunday 2nd August.
The prizes - shown here on the right - were kindly donated by the following local firms:
and by Murray Lobb, Angela Gattsche and Diane Horton.
Our grateful thanks go to all of them for their support. The club benefitted to the tune of over $500.00!
We hosted a very successful Multigrade Pairs tournament on Sunday 2nd August, jointly sponsored by Waikanae Funeral Home and Relish Café.
The event was very well supported, with 20 tables, and splendidly organised by Margaret Gordon (from her sickbed)!
In addition to Margaret I would like to thank:
Session One
Session Two
1 Tim Horner and Anne Baird- Horner (Otaki)
2 Carolyn Brodie and Hans van Bunnik (Palmerston North)
3 Lorraine Gaffaney and Vicky Young
4 Richard Johnson and Joyce Bosman (Upper Hutt)
5 Marius Tumilowicz and Walt Davis (Karori/Wellington)
Category Winners
Open/Open - Marius Tumilowicz and Walt Davis (Karori/Wellington)
Open/Other - Ann Verboeket and Graeme Norman
Intermediate/Intermediate - Karen Eriksen and Jude Lucas
Intermediate/Junior - Glen Lust and Anne Brunt (Paraparaumu)
Junior/Junior - Susanne Corbett and Janine O'Connor (Upper Hutt)
Session Prizes
AM - John Seator and Barb Robinson (Feilding)
PM - Hans van Bunnik and Carolyn Brodie (Palmerston North)/Richard Johnson and Joyce Bosman (Upper Hutt)
Overall
1 Lorraine Gaffaney and Vicky Young
2 Tim Horner and Anne Baird-Horner (Otaki)
3 Ann Verboeket and Graeme Norman
4 Karen Eriksen and Jude Lucas
5= Pryor Rowland and Jo Anson
5= Marius Tumilowicz and Walt Davis (Karori/Wellington)
The full results can be found here.
First prize in the raffle went to Jane McArthur from Paraparaumu.
Many congratulations to Lorraine and Vicky, and all the Waikanae players in the top 5: an excellent result for our Club!
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We send our sincere condolences to all of Val's family and friends.
I will announce Val's funeral arrangements as soon as they are available.
The repainting of the building every 10 years is a requirement of our lease.
Thanks are due to Rae Lutman for obtaining a grant of over $10,000 from Pub Charity to cover the cost of this work and also repairs to the window sealing which will be undertaken separately on 12th August.
| Tēnā koutou katoa
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Greetings to you all |
| Mānawatia a Matariki |
Celebrate Matariki |
| Matariki, te tau hou Māori, he mea nui ki a tātou |
Matariki, the Māori New Year, is important to us Greetings of Matariki to all of you |
| Kia ora | Be well |
Kia ora Rae and the Waikanae Bridge Club
Reaching out to personally say thank you for your recent generous donation to Kaibosh.
It means the world to me when local clubs like your recognise the hard work that the Kaibosh team are doing in our community.
We really appreciate the support - a significant donation like this will be put to good use - hopefully to help us purchase a our very own truck up in Kāpiti!!
Thanks and keep up the great community spirit you obviously have!
Susie
This is a great result - thank you to everyone from both clubs who supported the event.
The new form is available here. Tournament organisers are requested to complete the form and forward it to NZBridge following all official tournaments run by the Club.
The Club is currently short of volunteers to carry out the functions of Duty Officer as follows:
If you can assist in filling any of these vacancies please contact Ann Verboeket.
The Duty Officer's responsibilities are set out below: Ann will ensure that any new volunteers have someone to guide them when they first start.
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| The raffle prizes (1st prize not included!) |
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| Congratulations to the winners |
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| Isobel speaking on behalf of Kaibosh |
We would like to hear from you - do you read these? do you find them useful? And mostly, do you have any ideas for a topic you would like to see explained? Please email secretary@waikanaebridge.nz with any comments both negative and positive.
This month's tip -
This year's Waikanae/Paraparaumu Charity tournament will take place on Sunday 28th June.
This year's charity is Kaibosh.
Detailed information can be found below (also available on the noticeboard).
Waikanae players are asked to please bring a plate and an item for donation to Kaibosh (see below):
The Bridge Advisory Group (BAG) is tasked by the Committee to select a team to represent the club in the Regional Club Championship and also the Quadrangular match where Waikanae compete against Otaki, Levin and Paraparaumu.
We have encouraged members to consider being part of the team in the forthcoming Regional Championship, 12th July. We received some interest but would have liked to see more.
For those members who wish to be considered for the Quadrangular match on 19th September BAG will be selecting 2 pairs from each main grade viz Open, Intermediate and Junior. To assist in the selection process BAG will look at current XG ratings but particular consideration will be made of current partnership results and most notably in this year's past tournaments and also forthcoming local tournaments (Charity Tournament 28th June, Waikanae Multigrade 2nd August and Novice/Junior Pairs 10th October).
The document is available on the Club website here.
A proportion of the feedback received was in the form of text responses: these are still being collated and will be the subject of a further report in due course.
As we move into Winter it's important that we all understand that as a group we are all to one extent or another vulnerable to the full range of seasonal illnesses. With the clubroom doors and windows mostly closed to keep us warm, our germs can spread quickly and easily, and lead to potentially serious consequences for all of us, particularly the older and more susceptible among our number - and our extended families.
If you do come when you are unwell, you are not letting your partner down (he or she can always find a replacement for you) - you are letting the whole club down: it's not fair on you and it's not fair on your friends at the club. They will not thank you for playing when you are ill - but they will thank you for staying away and protecting their health as well as your own.
On a separate note, the Committee asks all members to be considerate of those who suffer from allergies and try to avoid making things worse for them. Examples include the wearing of strong perfume or scents, the indiscriminate use of insect killing sprays, or bringing flowers.
Your co-operation will be appreciated.
For those who are interested, the paperwork is available here.
Huge congratulations to Anne Ricketts, who has recently completed her Tournament Director qualification, a major achievement given that there are currently only 52 people with this qualification in the whole country.
Well done Anne!!!
The team for this event will be selected by BAG. If you would like to be considered for selection, please email Graham Cheater.
The following article from the Scottish Herald (re-published on Facebook) may be of interest:
From the Wellington Bridge Club
Our winter Saturday afternoon Lets Talk About It Sessions are aimed at giving “Improver” players (about a year out of the lessons) an opportunity to learn from a more experienced player at the table.
Players from all over the region turn up to these sessions, and what they love most about them is the conversation about how to avoid basic mistakes, and how they can improve their game.
These sessions will start again on 6 June after Kings Birthday, and continue till the middle of August. The focus topics this year will be on play and defence. We teach the NZ Bridge material, so that our improvers learn a consistent approach to the topic: all the learners use the same simple systems, so they are not distracted by trying to remember too many different conventions or approaches with different partners.
I will let you know if/when it is published.
