On a beautiful Winter's day, we hosted the 8B tournament with 12 tables and what a fabulous day it was too. We had many  comments about the amazing food-the soup variety was impressive and the morning/afternoon tea so tasty- and the excellent service from our team of dedicated kitchen volunteers.

Immense thanks to you all for helping make this day so successful. We raised an impressive $2041!  And we did scoop the pool with a number of prizes:

Top open/junior Jane Gebert and mum Margaret

3rd overall Rex and Joyce

The Bay Teams' Event was held in Rotorua yesterday and we came a creditable 3rd overall. Thanks so much to all 12 participants for a very big day out. 

This ladder shows 3 of our pairs came in the top 10!

Here is the team to play in the Bay interclub teams' event in Rotorua 28 July:

Open

Tom Henwood and Jenny Elgar

Ian and Bobbi Drysdale

Intermediate

Rex Tulloch and Joyce Reid

Derek Moores and Christine Wood

Junior

Sue Gordon and Claire Barkla

Gerda Corporaal and Linda Browne

Whakatane Club-one of the smallest in the Bay-made up one of the largest contingents in the final Bay Pairs on  very wet Sunday in Te Puke with 12 of us competing.

Jane and Steve Searle came 4th overall 🍷; Bobbi and Ian 2nd on the day, Jenny E and Tom 5th and Joyce and Rex took home the top intermediate pairs prize-fabulous results!

Hi Everyone

If you haven't got a partner and want to play on a Monday night we now have a new way of finding a partner for you. 

Just email me your details at jsgebert27@gmail.com or text 027 4903010, and I will send an email out to everyone on the Monday night email list. The person who would like to play with you will contact you directly.

Please include your phone number and/or email address.  Unless you state it is for a three night competition, we will assume it is only for the next Monday night.

Congratulations to our class of 24 who graduate into the club on July 1. There are 3 not in this pic who are travelling the world but will return to play.

Huge thanks to our wonderful tutor Bobbi and to the many of you who have come along to support our learners on a Thursday evening.

Let's give them a mighty welcome when they arrive; remember to be encouraging and sparse with your advice 😎

This month we are showing our sponsors appreciation by taking them baking or some other lovely treat.

Willets, our major sponsor, showed how much they liked their baking with this photo on their webpage.

Thanks to you all for supporting our sponsors.

🙏

Team Joyce Reid    122.79 VPs    1st   

Team Rex Tulloch   119.08 VPs   2nd

Team Tom Henwood   113.11 VPs  3rd

Team Jane Searle   104.77 VPs  4th

Team Stave Searle  104.33  VPs 5th

Team Eric Burnie   95.92  VPs  6th

Great participation with 6 teams involved.

Kia ora whanau

Great to see 18 attend last week's class. Thanks to Bobbi and her team of helpers.

Tonight's topic 'Responding in a suit to a 1 No Trump opener.'

Happy learning ❤♣♦♠ 

Bobbi had 15 new learners on Thursday night [brilliant!] We need 4 assistants each night to help our learners. Please consider putting your name down to assist for at least one night over the next 8 weeks.

This week’s topic is responding to the 1 No Trump opener.