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Pasadena San Gabriel
The big news this month is the successful presentation of the John
Waken Pasadena Sectional for the first time post-pandemic.
For most of our unit board members, this was the first experience
with putting on a sectional tournament. It turned out to be a great
way to get experience with all the organization and promotion that's
involved. It was really gratifying to see how everyone pitched in to
help set up the rooms, bring in snacks and coffee, and clean up the
space by 7:00 PM on Sunday! Congratulations and thanks to tournament
chairs Angela Peters and Sherry Hansen.
We ended up with a total of 103 tables of bridge played over the
weekend. The top winners were Freddy and Lulu Minter.
The unit managed to cover expenses and then some. This should make
us more confident and ready to hold a sectional in a real venue next
year. Not having split rooms will enable us to have pairs games on
Saturday and team games on Sunday. We're working on getting the
Arcadia Community Center August 9-10 next year.
We held one unit game last month with 12 tables on July 21. Winners
N/S were Jeannette Deverian and Dan Lubesnik. E/W was Amr Elghamry
and Dominique Moore.
Our August 4 game had 11-1/2 tables, and was won by Karen Arase and
Gitta Earll N/S, with Amr and Dominique winning again in E/W.
We'll be holding unit games on most first and third Sundays of each
month for the rest of 2024. The next two are August 18 and September
1. All of the unit games are held at the Pasadena Bridge Club.
Contact Miriam Harrington at (626) 232-0558 or miratpf@aol.com to make
reservations. We serve pizza at 12:00, and the game starts promptly
at 12:30. Card fees for the unit games are still only $10, cash only
please!
We're planning to hold an Over/Under game on Sunday, Sept.
29. This is a game where newer players will be paired with
experienced players. It's a great opportunity for the new players to
get experience playing with experienced players, and for the
experienced players to provide encouragement for new players to play
more fearlessly.
Special congratulations to new Life Masters and Bronze Life Masters
Karmen Armoudjian and Elliott Mazur. Congratulations
to new Silver Life Master Teresa Thurman.