[Unit559board] Unit 559 Pasadena San Gabriel

Here's a draft column for the unit board to review. Tom if there are corrections, I'll send an update. Dear board, please review for corrections and omissions! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm home from Providence, Rhode Island, where I spent two full weeks doing bridge activities. (And came back healthy this time.) The trip started with the first in-person meeting of the American Bridge Teachers Association since Las Vegas 2019 (I'm currently their Recording Secretary). I received my Master Teacher pin, and ABTA gave out awards for Teacher of the Year and Books of the Year. If you're looking for a new bridge book, this is a great place to start. https://abtahome.com Following was a ten-day binge of bridge, receptions, evening activities, and even a new play called /Bridge to Nowhere/ by playwright / bridge pro Adam Parrish. If you have friends who have been thinking about learning the king of card games, there will be new face-to-face classes for absolute beginners starting in September at Arcadia Bridge Center on Saturday mornings and through Pasadena City College Extension on Wednesday evenings. I'll update the schedule on https://bridgemojo.com/class as we get closer to class dates. In July we held two Unit Games, though the second game is happening just as this column goes to press. Winners on July 17 were North/South A strat: *Fredy Minter* and *Lulu Minter*, B strat *Madhu Sudan* and *Stan Majcher*; East/West A strat: *Arthur Moore* and *Dominique Moore* in A (Overall winners), and B strat *Miriam Harrington* and *Mark Hartzell*. Unit Game results can always be found on ACBL Live for Clubs by searching for "Unit 559," or bookmark this link for club results: https://my.acbl.org/club-results/905596 (ACBL promises that hand records will be included in the results after fixing some bugs.) Congratulations to new Sectional Master *Liza Billington*. (I'm the proud teacher as well.) August Unit Games will be held on Sundays the 14th and 28th. Game time is 12:30 p.m. and reservations are required. Contact MIriam Harrington to save a seat for your partnership (626) 232-0558. (I'll suggest that we make those games NAP qualifiers instead of Unit Championships.) -- Morris Jones, Monrovia, CA BridgeMojo <http://bridgemojo.com> Old Town Sidewalk Astronomers <http://otastro.org> Mojo's Blog <http://mojo.whiteoaks.com>