We had a very successful day on 2nd February with 104 attending at our Bushfire Victims Appeal event raising $2100 in table money. Most of these were our members with a sprinkling of visitors from other clubs. Many members who could not attend contributed generously to the raffle which raised an additional $2048. Red Masterpoints from ABF were free of charge. All funds will go to the Red Cross.
Most of the prizes were donated by local businesses. The first prize of a dinner/lunch for 2 at Bert’s, Newport Hotel with wines was won by Bryanna Whitaker. Sue Wilcox and Nolene Stewart won 2nd prize, $50.00 vouchers from Officeworks. Terry Herfort picked up the $30 voucher from Flower Power and Chris Moore will be enjoying the Magnum of Oakley Cabernet/Merlot donated by Porters Wines. Terry Herfort made 5 people happy with 5 vouchers for 2 ice creams. Trish Berry also donated a prize. Joan Butts provided 1 month free membership to the Joan Butts online school of bridge for 10 people as well.
Alan Davies has provided this interesting board from the Gold Coast Congress - the Ivy Dahler swiss pairs - that he and Vivien played and which was the top board.
They were sitting NS. The bidding went:
E 1D, S 2C, W pass, N pass (At the post mortem N acknowledged that they should have bid spades),
E X, S pass (sensing a trap), W pass (a trap!), N XX (we're in trouble, take it out)
E pass, S pass (nowhere to go!), W pass. Lead 9D.
The Club Pairs championships were held in mid-February in 3 sections and over 3 sessions with the last 2 held on Sunday Feb 16th for a grand finale.
Some info on successes in the Gold Coast Congress:
Nerida Gillies, Annegrete Kolding, Heidi Colenbrander and Ray Hurst winning the Restricted Teams
Building on the work of the 2019 committee, our club's agreed volunteer strategy is to:
- Ensure volunteers are well supported to ensure the experience is a rewarding one,
- Identify critical roles to ensure backup is in place,
- Ensure reasonable understandable coverage under our insurance policies and compliance with legal requirements,
- Offer, when necessary, tangible thanks to volunteers, in proportion to the skills, qualifications, effort and/or reliability/commitment needed for the role, and
- Review volunteer expenditure (including vouchers and money) and associated arrangements regularly to ensure they are appropriate and represent good value to the club.
The eligibility criteria for this pairs event on Sat 21st March have been changed to be:
Entrants must be over 70 years of age or have 20+ years membership.
Regrettably this event has had to be postponed and we hope to arrange it later in the year.
Invite your friends and join us for a Dementia Awareness education presentation at 11am on Wednesday 4 March.This is part of the Northern Beaches Dementia Friendly Community Project, which is funded by Northern Beaches Council and Dementia Australia.
The session will cover the following topics:
- What is dementia?
- Reducing risk of dementia
- Dementia-Friendly Communication
- Dementia-Friendly Communities and Organisations
