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Happy Holidays! We hope to see you at our annual holiday party game this coming Sunday with your ugliest sweater (which is optional).
Upcoming events for you at Palo Alto Bridge Center:
Attached is a 1-pager current list of planned events – more will be added through the year. |
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Call your bridge friends and partners, wear your ugliest sweater (optional!) and join us at Palo Alto Bridge’s annual party to celebrate the holidays with food, fun and Bridge on Sunday, December 14. Table fee: $5. Appetizers start at 11:30AM. We will serve light snacks and desserts. The bridge game starts at 12:00 noon. |
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This is a Unit game with more generous masterpoint awards and separate Open, 0-750, and 99er stratified sections. As we do every year, during the holiday season, we will also collect donations for Community Services Agency (CSA) and Second Harvest of Silicon Valley. |
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Palo Alto Bridge offers monthly Swiss team games for you to gain team game experience in a relaxed atmosphere. Next team club game is on Monday, December 15 at 11:30AM, where the boards are already shuffled and dealt with hand records. If you need a partner, or help to be matched with another pair, let us know. Swiss Team games SignUp |
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At last month’s game on November 10 – congrats to the winning team: Ken Pelowski – Lori Mirek – Marc Cervellino – Steve Carr. Honorable mention of the top strat C team: ilya Sherman – Michael Callahan – Pearl Renaker – Solveig Kjartansdottir. |
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Need a few New Year’s resolutions? How about introducing a friend/family to Bridge? |
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Highlights: It’s been an eventful month! |
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Congrats! On November 1, Palo Alto Bridge members, Bill Chow and Ron Morris, won the 0-99er section game at the San Mateo Unit 498 sectional held at Palo Alto Bridge Center. |
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On November 11, we held our annual Palo Alto Unit 503 Membership meeting. Attached are slides from the presentation we made at the meeting. There is a good summary of the many achievements made to date – we are especially thankful for all our hardworking volunteers – and our financial challenges. Youcan also help support our bridge community. |
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56 players – we had a great turnout for our first Pro-Am Swiss Teams event on November 13 at Palo Alto Bridge Center. Check out the photos on our Facebook page of the 14 teams having fun! Award-winning teacher, Phil Abrahamson, gave a great lecture on Swiss teams before the game. Thank-you especially to our 28 Pro players for coming to play and help our less experienced players improve their game. We also thank PBEF for funding this educational event. Thank-you also to Will Watson for running and directing the game so that we can have hand records! Thank-you to our volunteers for organizing this: H Paul Davis, Phil Abrahamson, Liz Koh, Dana Shelley, Marc Cervellino. |
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76 players attended Josephine Ventura’s memorial game on November 15 at Palo Alto Bridge Center. Josephine’s family was in attendance and bridge players also shared their stories of Josephine. Huge thank-you to director Paul Davis, Debbie Carey, Stephanie Youngquist, Eileen Digiorgio, Kathy Zmay, Lucy Ballard, for organizing the game and lunch. |
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Hope you enjoyed yourselves at the NABC in SF! For some, this could be your first nationals, which is very exciting. Sharing a team’s story at the NABC: David Merenbach had an incredibly brilliant and creative gift for his fellow Palo Alto Bridge teammates Marc Cervellino, Dianne Giancarlo and Liz Koh: individually named team shirts with “Koh Conspirators” at the back! Also pictured in one of the photos is Debbie Rosenberg who gave advice to the team. They made the “Fashion News” in one of the NABC’s Daily Bulletin (page 9) – the Palo Alto Bridge Fashionistas… SF NABC Daily Bulletin 9 |
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Accessorize your outfit at your next club game, tournament or bridge event. You can purchase your own customized name badgewith our colorful Palo Alto Bridge logo – order yours online for $14: Custom Name Badge Order |
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A new year is coming! A new goal? Get involved in your community! Our events and activities are put together by our volunteers, and we want your help. Any little of your time would be appreciated! We need volunteers for marketing and publicity (photo-takers, storytellers, email blaster) and help organize a bridge tournament. Please let me know. |
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Newer Players: we have newcomer/0-49 masterpoint games at the Bridge Center on Tuesdays at 10:45AM and Wednesday evenings at 6:45PM. Gain experience and improve your game in a relaxed environment. SignUp |
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Congrats to the following Palo Alto Unit 503 members who achieved a new ACBL Rank in November: Junior Master: Suresh Gajwani. Club Master: Yinzi Cai. Sectional Master: Bill Chow. NABC Master: Solveig Kjartansdottir. Advanced NABC Master: Kathy Lee. Bronze Life Master: Nick Ward. Silver Life Master: Dianne Giancarlo.
A very warm welcome to our new Palo Alto Unit 503 members:
P.S. Feel free to forward this to others who play at Palo Alto Bridge but who are not members of Unit 503. |
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Play, Laugh & Learn!
Liz Koh |