Hooray!
One of Frontier's tech gave me a call and came 5 day early. He didn’t completely fix my problem, but our website is backup.
I’ve played bridge more than half my life. The lesser half I wasted.
Folks,
My assessment of the two of these that I reviewed is that the content and general formatting is very nice. They show a lot of thought and effort.
However, the number of capitalized words is unnecessary and very distracting (looks like the CAPS LOCK got stuck here and there). I’d reserve caps for special terms and words to which we want to bring particular attention. Alternatively, we could just capitalize everything……….
I did proposed revisions on two of the four attachments (attached) which you can review, assess, and comment on for what they are worth.
Don
Donald K. Garner
Cell: (310) 367-3092
Email:dgarnersemail@gmail.com
From: Patricia Luehrs <patluehrs2468(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2024 9:15 AM
To: Roy Wilson <unit559webmaster(a)gmail.com>; Unit 559 board discussion list <Unit559board(a)bridgemojo.com>; adamwindbarron(a)gmail.com; thomasmlill8(a)gmail.com; Paula Olivares <paula(a)pacbell.net>; Katherine Cresto <mysuki(a)att.net>; John Coulombe <gemodaddyret(a)gmail.com>; Morris Jones <mojo(a)pasadenabridgeclub.com>
Subject: [Unit559board] Fwd: Re: Sectional director issue
Greetings! Please see the attached flyers for the upcoming sectional tourney. Please post as is appropriate.
Thanks to Kathy Cresto for her great job on the flyers.
Best to you!
Pat Luehrs
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From: Katherine Cresto <mysuki(a)att.net <mailto:mysuki@att.net> >
Date: Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Unit559board] Re: Sectional director issue
To: Patricia Luehrs <patluehrs2468(a)gmail.com <mailto:patluehrs2468@gmail.com> >, Morris Jones <mojo(a)pasadenabridgeclub.com <mailto:mojo@pasadenabridgeclub.com> >
Attached, Please find the updated Sectional Flyers.
Pat, Please follow up with Roy.
Kathy
On Tuesday, June 18, 2024 at 04:59:12 PM PDT, Morris Jones <mojo(a)pasadenabridgeclub.com <mailto:mojo@pasadenabridgeclub.com> > wrote:
Tournament assistants: Paula Olivares, Morris Jones
On 6/18/24 4:57 PM, mysuki wrote:
Let me know how to incorporate Paula so I can send it to Pat for further work I think anytime would be fine to send it out.
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Morris "Mojo" Jones
mojo(a)PasadenaBridgeClub.com <mailto:mojo@PasadenaBridgeClub.com>
https://PasadenaBridgeClub.com
<https://pasadenabridgeclub.com/>
Don,
The two attachments marked Roy were only supposed to go directly to him as he requested larger font.
You are more than welcome to work with Pat to update the one that has the picture.
On June 20, 2024, at 9:58 AM, dgarnersemail(a)gmail.com wrote:
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Folks,
My assessment of the two of these that I reviewed is that the content and general formatting is very nice. They show a lot of thought and effort.
However, the number of capitalized words is unnecessary and very distracting (looks like the CAPS LOCK got stuck here and there). I’d reserve caps for special terms and words to which we want to bring particular attention. Alternatively, we could just capitalize everything……….
I did proposed revisions on two of the four attachments (attached) which you can review, assess, and comment on for what they are worth.
Don
Donald K. Garner
Cell: (310) 367-3092
Email:dgarnersemail@gmail.com
From: Patricia Luehrs <patluehrs2468(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2024 9:15 AM
To: Roy Wilson <unit559webmaster(a)gmail.com>; Unit 559 board discussion list <Unit559board(a)bridgemojo.com>; adamwindbarron(a)gmail.com; thomasmlill8(a)gmail.com; Paula Olivares <paula(a)pacbell.net>; Katherine Cresto <mysuki(a)att.net>; John Coulombe <gemodaddyret(a)gmail.com>; Morris Jones <mojo(a)pasadenabridgeclub.com>
Subject: [Unit559board] Fwd: Re: Sectional director issue
Greetings! Please see the attached flyers for the upcoming sectional tourney. Please post as is appropriate.
Thanks to Kathy Cresto for her great job on the flyers.
Best to you!
Pat Luehrs
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From: Katherine Cresto <mysuki(a)att.net>
Date: Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Unit559board] Re: Sectional director issue
To: Patricia Luehrs <patluehrs2468(a)gmail.com>, Morris Jones <mojo(a)pasadenabridgeclub.com>
Attached, Please find the updated Sectional Flyers.
Pat, Please follow up with Roy.
Kathy
On Tuesday, June 18, 2024 at 04:59:12 PM PDT, Morris Jones <mojo(a)pasadenabridgeclub.com> wrote:
Tournament assistants: Paula Olivares, Morris Jones
On 6/18/24 4:57 PM, mysuki wrote:
Let me know how to incorporate Paula so I can send it to Pat for further work I think anytime would be fine to send it out.
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Morris "Mojo" Jones
mojo(a)PasadenaBridgeClub.com
https://PasadenaBridgeClub.com

No, this is not a problem caused by an aging computer nor an aging webmaster.
Frontier, my internet service provider, is at fault —- AGAIN! They caused the last one and several others in the past and they also responsible for this one, and won’t send a tech until next Tuesday.
Roy
I’ve played bridge more than half my life. The lesser half I wasted.
Any adjustment to the flyer, i.e., adding Paula as an Assistant Director?
On June 17, 2024, at 5:01 PM, Morris Jones <mojo(a)pasadenabridgeclub.com> wrote:
And Paula has just accepted the invitation to work with me for all four sessions. :)
She just arrived at her place in Rosarito, Mexico, gazing at the ocean, and enjoying a cool breeze with no ash or smoke. :)
Mojo
On 6/17/24 4:29 PM, Lisa Walker wrote:
Dear Board, I have spoken at length with MoJo and you all have seen his emails. Having the national director is not going to be as expensive as he envisioned as he lives in San Diego County and has already paid for his room, so we would have to pay that anyway. MoJo is suggesting and I agree that we stay with John as our TD, hire Paula Olivares as the second director and keep MoJo as a third director to deal with the dealing machines and Bridgemates and site issues. This wi enable us to keep the full MP awards and also make it much easier on the directors. We have not heard that Paula is willing to do this yet, but I will keep you informed. This is much easier on our directors, as the TD signs everyone in and takes care or all payments, etc. Thanks for all your quick responses this morning. Lisa _______________________________________________ Unit559board mailing list -- unit559board(a)bridgemojo.com To unsubscribe send an email to unit559board-leave(a)bridgemojo.com
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Dear Board,
I have spoken at length with MoJo and you all have seen his emails. Having the national director is not going to be as expensive as he envisioned as he lives in San Diego County and has already paid for his room, so we would have to pay that anyway. MoJo is suggesting and I agree that we stay with John as our TD, hire Paula Olivares as the second director and keep MoJo as a third director to deal with the dealing machines and Bridgemates and site issues. This wi enable us to keep the full MP awards and also make it much easier on the directors.
We have not heard that Paula is willing to do this yet, but I will keep you informed.
This is much easier on our directors, as the TD signs everyone in and takes care or all payments, etc.
Thanks for all your quick responses this morning.
Lisa
Don't like the cut in MP's.
Will caddies be any help?
On June 17, 2024, at 9:55 AM, Morris Jones <mojo(a)pasadenabridgeclub.com> wrote:
There's more information to consider.
First, John Coulombe is from San Marcos in northern San Diego county. We're on the hook for mileage (I didn't find out $/mi) and hotel. John has already spent about $200 for a Pasadena hotel room. Either way, this is way below my nightmares of him flying from somewhere.
So we may not be looking at as much of a savings as I thought, especially at this point, where he's already spent the hotel money.
And again, another cost of switching is that the masterpoint awards get cut to 80% of a full sectional.
If we kept our sectional a Championship event, I might suggest hiring Paula (if she's willing) so we have two assistants. That would leave one of us to do things like duplicate boards for the next session (we need four board sets each session!). That would add $400 I think.
Mojo
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Morris "Mojo" Jones
mojo(a)PasadenaBridgeClub.com
https://PasadenaBridgeClub.com

There's more information to consider.
First, John Coulombe is from San Marcos in northern San Diego county.
We're on the hook for mileage (I didn't find out $/mi) and hotel. John
has already spent about $200 for a Pasadena hotel room. Either way, this
is way below my nightmares of him flying from somewhere.
So we may not be looking at as much of a savings as I thought,
especially at this point, where he's already spent the hotel money.
And again, another cost of switching is that the masterpoint awards get
cut to 80% of a full sectional.
If we kept our sectional a Championship event, I might suggest hiring
Paula (if she's willing) so we have two assistants. That would leave one
of us to do things like duplicate boards for the next session (we need
four board sets each session!). That would add $400 I think.
Mojo
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build message
Morris "Mojo" Jones
mojo(a)PasadenaBridgeClub.com
https://PasadenaBridgeClub.com <https://pasadenabridgeclub.com>
Pasadena Bridge Club <https://pasadenabridgeclub.com>
Dear Board,
We have an opportunity to engage a local sectional director rather than a national director for our sectional. I received a notice from the ACBL a few days ago notifying our unit that local sectional directors can be used. There are a few restrictions, the most important one being that we cannot have more than 25 tables. We qualify for all the other restrictions. The other is that we will be giving out slightly less MP to thewinners because we are not using a national director.
The benefit is that the cost is substantially less. A national director will be around $2500 according to MoJo and a local director will be around $600. MoJo has already contact Paula Olivares and she has agreed to be the local director for us if we would like to take this avenue.
This is a Board decision and since we do not have a meeting until July 8, I need your consent to move forward in this way. MoJo does not believe the table restriction will be an issue since we are space challenged anyway, and the cost savings are significant.
Please reply all and email me your vote on this question ASAP.
Many thanks for your work for the Board.
Lisa
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I concur.
On June 16, 2024, at 9:55 AM, Lisawalker <lisawalkerlac(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Board,
We have an opportunity to engage a local sectional director rather than a national director for our sectional. I received a notice from the ACBL a few days ago notifying our unit that local sectional directors can be used. There are a few restrictions, the most important one being that we cannot have more than 25 tables. We qualify for all the other restrictions. The other is that we will be giving out slightly less MP to thewinners because we are not using a national director.
The benefit is that the cost is substantially less. A national director will be around $2500 according to MoJo and a local director will be around $600. MoJo has already contact Paula Olivares and she has agreed to be the local director for us if we would like to take this avenue.
This is a Board decision and since we do not have a meeting until July 8, I need your consent to move forward in this way. MoJo does not believe the table restriction will be an issue since we are space challenged anyway, and the cost savings are significant.
Please reply all and email me your vote on this question ASAP.
Many thanks for your work for the Board.
Lisa
Sent from my iPad
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