Thank you to all of you who attended our AGM on Monday night, both in person and on Zoom and to those who sent their apologies.  It was lovely to see you all and congratulations to all the prize winners.

The following motion was resoundingly passed at the meeting and  I quote

A reminder that our AGM and prize-giving is to be held at the club rooms next Monday 6th December with a start time of 7pm.

The AGM is to be held on 6th December 2021 at 7pm on Zoom but the prize giving will be next year – possibly as a “start” to the year.

There are some committee members who are not standing again for the 2022 year.  All members have the right to nominate a member to the committee should they wish to do so.

Subscriptions and table money will remain the same in 2022.

Michael Jeans' professional photos are available under the Galleries tab in our top menu.

The section of the website at www.mycompasss.com that reflects members' Compa$$ table money accounts has been brought up to date. Low-balance alerts have gone out to a few members. One or two deposits were still to be recorded at time of updating so please disregard any notice you may have got if you have made a payment this week.

Congratulations to all eleven to pass New Zealand Bridges' latest Club Directors - our own Clare Coles and Pam Moore included. The test was the first of a new on-line exam. We are so lucky to have two new qualified directors at our club. What a fabulous achievement. Congratulations Pam and Clare.

Congratulations to "our" Anna Kalma (now very honorary affiliate member of Cambridge), and Karen Martelletti - both of our region - who, along with Sam Coutts of Dunedin and John Skipper of Christchurch have been elected to the Board of NZ Bridge. It was re-election in the case of Karen and John who are current members.

It is with heavy heart I have to report the death of Harry Shields which occurred yesterday afternoon.

Harry was a keen bridge player and supported Cambridge Bridge Club for many many years and his company has been enjoyed by us all.

He lead a very active life here in NZ after being born and spending his youth in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

There were two winning teams for the 2021 Monday teams!

Finishing with the highest result of 84 VPs was Team Moore comprising Ian and Pam Moore and their team mates, Malcolm and Alison Smith from Hamilton Club.  Congratulations to the fabulous 4!

As the flurry over subs comes to an end we aim to settle into a pattern of weekend updates of your Compa$$ account where we record table-money ins and outs. The last step of that process is refreshing the mycompasss.com website where members can check their transactions and balances for both the current and the preceding months. To do this you'll need to create a login that will allow you to access your own account only. If there's anything you need to comment on you can email both Kevin and Michael from that screen.