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ACES,
PLACES, and FACES PUBLICATION OF THE FRESNO UNIT OF THE AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE |
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| Volume
LXI
No 4 April 2009 Recaps Special Events Calendar |
EDITOR: RICHARD MEFFLEY bridgefresno@hotmail.com (please e-mail to get on e-mail list) |
| MOVING DAY IS HERE! Friday, April 17, 2009, is the last day of bridge at the Clubhouse on Clinton Ave. We'll be playing the last few days missing our permanent tables - already moved to to 1320 Shaw Ave. Suite 100. We'll be saying goodbye to the place that has been home to club games and sectionals since 1964. Many of us have never known another place to play duplicate bridge. We'll leave behind memories of games directed by Alice Edwards and Grace Willard, Peggy Ochs, Syd Levey, Jerry Faas, Evelyn Maddox, Pearl Lowell, Pat Tylor, Sandy Barnes, Marion Kanter, Jean Kesler, and all our current directors. We'll remember the parties we had here, with Jerry Faas and Jess McCoy often tending bar. We'll cheer that we'll no longer need to pull out the ladder to change the lights. We wonder what ever happened to the casino nights we had here. We'll remember the rummage sales we had to help raise funds for the Clubhouse, and the fashion show to raise money for Hinds Hospice. Many good things have happened here, and we know more good things will happen when we move to our new home. We'll have a silent auction during April of items that we will not be taking to the new location. If you want any of the furniture or other items that we will not use at the new bridge center, please make a bid. Saturday April 18th will be a day to make sure everything is in place at the new Fresno Bridge Center. The directors will learn the new computer system and other changes at our new home. Sunday April 19th will be the first game at the new bridge center. Everyone is invited to come play and check out our new facility. We hope you like it! CLUB NEWS Friday April 17th is the last day at the Clubhouse on Clinton Ave. We may need to eat off paper plates the last few days, but we shall still enjoy the last week. Friday night April 17th will be a Fond Farewell party. Come play bridge, look through our photo albums, and remember the good times we've had here. Friday afternoon will be a pot luck party. We may not have all the equipment we usually have, but we'll remember the last day. The Wednesday morning 49er game will close when we move to the new bridge facility. In its place will be a new Saturday afternoon 49er game, starting April 25, 2009 at the new Fresno Bridge Center. Maggie will have her famous Guess Your Score game on Wednesday April 29th. If you can guess your score, you win a free play. There will be no games on Easter Sunday, April 12, or the Saturday before and after Easter. The top winner in March in Madera was Richard Meffley, followed by Everett Bondeson and Bob Mortimer. Everett Bondeson leads for 2009, followed by Denny Green, Morgan Johnson, and John Simpson. The fourth in the series of bridge lessons will begin on Saturday, May 9th at 9 a.m. The series will be lessons on conventions and more conventions. This will include twelve sessions about some of the most popular conventions. Mike Molinari will give the lessons. Top player for February was Verlee O'Neill, followed by Barbara Thacker and Steve Sharp. Wanda Cardella leads for 2009. Top 99er for February was Linda Coppersmith, followed by Angie Heisdorf and Gwen Davey. Linda leads for 2009. WINNERS CIRCLE February 15, 2009 - March 15, 2009 Feb 5-8, 2009 Fresno Winter Sectional Overall Winners Sectional Recaps UNIT CHAMPIONSHIP 1A Victor Greener - D Zody 2A1BC Mike Rouch - Kirk Stewart 3A2BC Angelina Heisdorf - Gwen Davey 3C Judy Jessick - Sally Perring 1ABC William Wood - Jill Wood 2A Richard Meffley - Ginny Dow 3A Wanda Cardella - Ray April 2BC Michael Molinari - Paul Boyd 3B Kay Chrisman - Verlee O'Neill PRO-AM TEAMS 1 Richard Meffley - Paul Messner - Florence McDonald - Bud Thompson 2 Verlee O'Neill - Mike Molinari - Laura Da Costa - John Barrer UNIT GAME Victor Greener - Margaret Mahaffey Barbara Thacker - Jane McCoy[C] Rose Boot - Wanda Cardella Jean Kesler - James Sweet[B] MEMBERSHIP CHAMPIONSHIP 1A Wanda Cardella - Margaret Mahaffey 2/3A1/2B1C Muriel Trantham - Margaret Seibert 2/3A1/2B Linda Lambie - Kazue Iwatsubo 3B Barbara Thacker - James Sweet 2C Delia Green - Mary Jo Davila CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP 1A Robert Endara - Carolyn Lofton 2A Bert Rettner - David Shuster 3A Barbara Thacker - Doris Frazer 1B Judy Nicholson - Shelia Smith 2B1C Linda Coppersmith - Carol Miller 3B Mary Lloyd - Dorothy Soles 2C Dolores Parada - Virginia Johnson 3C Ted Macaulay - Cynthia Dixon MADERA CHAMPIONSHIP 1A Richard Meffley - John W Simpson 2A1BC Betty Eden - Dan Cartago 3A Everett Bondesen - Robert Mortimer 2BC Rose Wheeler - Barbara Brock RESTRICTED CHAMPIONSHIP 1A Skip Miller - Jill Wood 2A Kim Morris - Shelia Smith 3/4 Jim McKoane - Barbara Thacker 3/4A1B Patricia Creede - Lorraine Elia 2B Betty Martin - Charlotte Maschke 3B Judy Nicholson - Susan Vildosola 750 CHAMPIONSHIP 1A Howard Reed - Steve Sharp 2/3A Carol Miller - Judy Shuster 2/3A1B Cor Yssels - Marlene Frazier 2B Juanita Mason - Stephen Blumberg 3B1C Mary Ann Clark - Gwen Davey 2B Joan Deyager - Marsha Infausto 49ER SPECIAL Maggie E. Houliahan - Alan Simmons Andrew Graves - Kathleen Graves Jackie Finn - Lucy Crawford Betty Anderson - Anna Amrein |
UNIT UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR with tournament links Bay Area Tournaments California and nearby tournaments GRAND OPENING MAY 2 We'll have a grand opening at the Fresno Bridge Center to show it off to all bridge players on Saturday May 2. We do not plan to have a normal club game, but we will have silent auctions, some bridge, refreshments, and other activities. Please invite your friends to see the new center. Here's a map, but you'll want to enter from 6th St, not Shaw Avenue. PLACES and FACES At the North American Championships in Houston, Shirley Blum and Steve McConnell were 17th in the Rockwell Mixed Pairs and won the bracket 2 compact KO consolation. Richard Meffley won the open pairs and was 13th in another open pairs. Jim Tritt, Ed Wojewoda, and Farid Assemi were second in the compact knockout teams. John Simpson was second in bracket 5 compact KO teams. Judy Zimmerer was sixth in the 299er pairs at the Palm Springs sectional. Richard Meffley won the Swiss teams at the San Mateo sectional. At the Modesto sectional, John and Della Schnell were sixth in the open pairs, and fifth in the Swiss teams with Jim and Susan Slinger. Congratulations to all our winners! Once again some of the Madera players have gone missing. Fortunately, Morgan Johnson is back from Chile, and Ruth Rowe is back from Hawaii. But Judy Hecht is off to Washington. Welcome to new members Linda Pickett, Shelly Pickett, and John and Mary Slater. On March 4th former member Becky Standifer presented to beaming grandparents Paul and Susan Boyd a new grandson, Aiden. The tiny baby is 10 lbs 8 oz. Get will wishes go to Verlee O'Neill and Cathy Macleod. Also to Keiko Collins, who will soon have hip replacement surgery. Our sympathy goes to Margaret Giragosian on the loss of her husband Peter. APRIL 19, 2009 Sunday April 19th is our first game at the new bridge center - be sure to play that afternoon! INDIVIDUAL 1AB Joycelyn Kauder 2AB C.J. McPike 3A Gerard Laquerriere 3B1C Angelina Heisdorf 2C John Oakshott OAKHURST WINNERS Everett Bondeson - Jim Honeywell Don McCartin - Ray April Don McCartin - Mike Molinari Joe Fox - Corey Cole (2) Joe Fox - Mike Molinari Burke Zane - Al Crane Genie Krieghoff - Verna Arnest Wally Cucura - Paul Mertens Ken Doig - Gardner Murray Claire Molnar - Betty Ann Dunn Glen Ford - Terri Stitt Frank and Glenna Buck Gardner Murray - Corey Cole SPECIAL Margaret Mahaffey - Wanda Cardella Wanda Cardella - Jill Wood Skip Miller - Byron Steinert Kay Chrisman - Kim Morris John Schnell - Verlee O'Neill Skip Miller - Byron Steinert Bert Rettner - David Shuster Laura Neville - Jim McKoane Margaret Mahaffey - Ginny Dow Skip Miller - Barbara Thacker David Shuster - Mike Shuster Cynthia Dixon - Ted Macaulay[B] Barbara Thacker - Doris Frazer[B] Virginia Johnson - Martha Waller[B] Barbara Thacker - Victor Greener[B] Esther Pohland - Blanche Frech[B] Steve Sharp - Mary Jo Davila[C] Mary Lloyd - Frank Goeddel[C] Verlee O'Neill - Ginny Dow[C] Marion Krohn - Kent Billeter[C] Mary Jo Davila - Dora Gostanian[C] RESTRICTED SPECIAL Laura Neville - Ginger Zumwalt Skip Miller - Jill Wood Howard Reed - Steve Sharp[B] Marion Krohn - Betty Swartz[B] 750 SPECIAL Howard Reed - Jim Stefanich Kathleen Coit - Ina Yssels Ina Yssels - Paul Messner Lou Vancoevorden - Paul Boyd Carol Willoughby - Joan Deyager[B] Dolores Beebe - Cheryl Hiney[B] Patricia Creede - C.J. McPike[B] Catherine Macleod - Bud Thompson[C] Cathleen Burden - Denny Tweed[C] Linda Coppersmith - George Dalition[C] 49ER Bill Civiello - Diane Civiello Andrew Graves - Kathleen Graves Jackie Finn - Lucy Crawford Bill Civiello - Diane Civiello[B] Lorna Kvammen - Scott Hagen[B] Jackie Finn - Lucy Crawford[B] |
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