Club Captain’s Newsletter 16 September

It’s time for an update on the Club’s activities for the year, starrting in June.

Fairlands Trophy

We travelled to Te Awamutu to play the Fairlands trophy and were very pleased to retain this trophy. Well done to the 12 pairs who represented our Club.

Battle of the Bridges

This was a successful evening with over $600 being donated to the Blue Light Project run by the Cambridge Police. It provides leadership courses for the youth of Waipa. 

Well done Allison (Smith) and Kevin, winners of the 2023 Thursday Championship pairs with an average of 65.64, followed by Pam and Ian on 62.18.

With 34 teams all arriving on time the annual Sixes tournament was off to a great 'Sporting' start on a beautiful day at the Sir Don Rowland Centre, Lake Karapiro.  

After Team photos were taken (thanks to Bruce and Dawn Hancock) all attendees were welcomed by our President Paul Phillips (his first Sixes - both to play and attend).

Directors Caroline and Murray Wiggins wheeled in from Hawkes Bay in their cycling gear.

Bruce Hancock, our fantastic official photographer sends these links to his Flickr pages:

Team Photos from Saturday – see our Galleries tab or ...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/brucesimages/albums/72177720310300510

Prizegiving –

https://www.flickr.com/photos/brucesimages/albums/72177720310305386

General photos –

Congratulations to Pam and Ian who won the Henry Davies Championship with an average score of 61.06.  They were very closely followed by Clare and Kevin with 60.47.

Well done to Kim and Sue (Aitken) who were the top non-open pair and have won the Club Captain's award. 

On Thursday players joined in sharing Allison Smith's special Birthday with a cake.  Allison's daughter had also sent her some lovely flowers

Perhaps you had to dodge around the scaffolding on a recent Wednesday. In a busy day Cambridge Roofing swooped in and refurbished the flattish roof of the street-side extension. After 30 years and a couple of heat pump units installed it was past used-by date. Clayton's team replaced some purlins, re-mounted the aircon units, and redid the flashings to see us right for another 30. A couple of pics:

32 pairs showed up for our Junior tournament to play and enjoy the Bridge and feast on the generous catering from our members.

Although Cambridge members didn't win the overall competition we had some successes with:

Sue Keating and Els Cochrane - best Novice pair in their first competition

Newsletter from Ian Moore, our Club Captain

It has been a pleasing start to the 2023 bridge year with all sessions showing an increase in numbers from last year. Currently we have 3 events running including the Junior, Intermediate and Open individual championships. The Junior event is on Wednesday evenings with the Open and Intermediate, starting on Monday evenings. I would encourage members to arrange partners and play in these events.

TOURNAMENTS

Cambridge Club’s Junior and Novice tournament is on Saturday 15 April.

We have started a new bridge year and it is pleasing to see an increase in the table numbers. There are still many members not playing and you can always find a partner by contacting the partnership steward if you wish to play.

Our partnership stewards this year are: