Chris Dixon is a long term and much loved member at PBC. When his electric wheelchair broke down last week, members quickly rallied to his aid. $7,530 was raised!
This has enabled Chris to buy a brand new electric wheelchair to suit his specific needs. Chris is thrilled that he will be mobile again and wishes to pass on his thanks to everyone who has contributed. He is looking forward to being back at the Club and hopes to be able to make it to some night games as well.
Thank you all for your very generous support!
What a day!! As Sue, our fabulous director said, ‘it was the best Melbourne Cup Day ever at PBC’. Great fun with friends, fabulous hats, fantastic food and wine, sweeps and of course, the reason we all come together as a club, bridge.
Vivien has loaded some pictures which you can see here.
Congratulations to all the fashionistas who made so much of an effort and special congratulations to our best dressed lady Katherine, a visitor to the club and friend of Beverly Schultz.
PBC’s Under 100 MP Club Pairs Championship, an honour board and red points event, was conducted over 3 Fridays in October and was a great success with 11 pairs playing all 3 sessions of 24 boards.
Congratulations to Robert Scott and Bruce Kleem - the overall winners of the competition by the smallest of margins scoring 187.8% points followed by Nerida Gillies and Sandy Carter with 187.5.
The winners of the 15 to 50 MP category were Anne Brown and Bill Fitzsimons with 163.2% points closely followed by the runners up Margaret Wayland and Lynne Talmont scoring of 159.7.
The 0 to 15 MP category was won by Jacqueline Park and Georg Somerville with 144.5% points and runners up were Kay Armstrong and Merrenna Carter with 100.0.
Celebrating a special birthday for one of our members is always a lovely event. It is an important aspect of the wonderful Peninsula Bridge Club community.
If you know of someone who is turning 90 or 95 and they are happy with the idea of a public celebration then the Club is happy to organise it or support you organising it. Please alert the committee ahead of time so that it can be advertised to the appropriate sessions and ensure photos are taken for our TV slideshow and website/newsletter. (You can check if one of our volunteer photographers is available by emailing
Expenses up to $60 for a card, cake and/or flowers will be reimbursed against a claim with receipts. For other special days please be careful to check with one of the office-bearers for approval before raising any expectations.
Peninsula pairs took out the first two places in the Wollstonecraft Pairs event on Sun 6 Oct!
Ado Hardy and Derek Tyms, won ahead of Anne Small and Lori Neville. You can check the full results.
Congratulations to all four - doing our club proud!
Eighteen pairs entered our Australia Wide Pairs event at the end of August. It proved a close contest locally at our club with Cath Whiddon and David Farmer with 63.9% playing North South just pipping sister Jennifer Ardill and her partner Peter Clarke with 63.2% playing East West.
But the tables were turned when the event was scored nationally, with Jen and Peter edging slightly ahead (at 61.2% and 118th nationally) of Cath and David (on 61.1% and 123rd nationally). Further scores are still coming in. You can see our club players' rankings in the nation wide scoring as it evolves. Our players local and national results are also listed below - with links to each player's personal electronic results booklet.
A large contingent of Peninsula Bridge Club members travelled in August to Coffs Harbour for the 2019 Coffs Coast Gold Congress - a delightful combination of a Swiss pairs and a teams event each with open, intermediate and restricted categories. The event is popular and normally books out within a day or so of opening for registration (next year is going to be 9am on 1 Apr 2020 - diarise this now).
Peninsula had some significant successes in the Restricted and Intermediate categories! Here are some of the highlights:
Green masterpoints for these two months will be submitted as is normal but the red points for August and September club events will be delayed until the end of October.
Cassandra Mitchell – the masterpoint secretary – will be away, but rest assured, the red points will come in time. Often these points are delayed in being uploaded by months and months because of various factors outside of my control so this isn’t unusual.
If anyone wants to volunteer to learn how to process masterpoints for the club, please contact me on 0421 764 300 (NOTE: You do not need to be a director to process points). I leave for the United States around 21 August.
