August Bridge News column - Unit559board

13 Aug 2024

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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(a)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*.

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