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Welcome to Unit 116, District 5 Home Page

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Message from the president:

Wow, what a positive experience took place at our Spring Sectional!! Great comments about the facility (Main Transit Fire Hall), the food (including hundreds of homebaked cookies), the smoothly run games (Mike Roberts, director) and the person in charge (Judy Kaprove, chair) with the help of co-chair Fran Kurtz (and many other helpful hands). Kudos to all of you for a superb job!!

Here is my vision of the role for the Unit and its board. Give bridge players many opportunities to enjoy this great game. Provide a full series of Sectionals with well organized games and great food. Plan and execute special Unit Games. In these ,  we want a  wide variety of format, themes and player participation. It is also important to have these Unit Games at different time slots (day and evening) and different days (weekday and weekend).

Your Unit Board has prepared just such a schedule. Look on this web page for full details for the wonderful offerings we have for you. Unit games include: Barometer (weather related food and prizes), KnockOuts with lunch and strawberry dessert, Two Session Pairs  with an All American  chicken  Barbeque Picnic. (Wear red, white and blue for this event). These all add up to Fun, Food and Great Bridge. Your best way to thank the board is by your participation at these activities.
Enjoy!! Enjoy!! Enjoy!!


Betty Metz
President Unit 116

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WNY UNIT 116 SPRING SECTIONAL

April 20,21,22 2012

Main-Transit Fire Hall

6777 Main St. Williamsville, NY 14221

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Winners of masterpoint races.

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Chair Judy Kaprove and Co-chair Fran Kurtz.

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Unit 116 Spring Sectional in session.

RESULTS

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Highlights from Memphis 

District 5 and Unit 116 NAP representatives Peter and Penny Shui finished 3rd at National event: 2012  NAP President's Cup - Flight C, earning 16.88 gold points.
Congratulations!


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Peter and Penny Shui
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Unit 116  "Wearing of the Green" Game

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Chairs of the game - Elaine Moon and Betty Metz


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Winning with 64.58%  - Chuck Schorr and Sue Neubecker.
(Link to more pictures)

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Unit 116 "Taste of Buffalo" Pro-Am  - beside the bridge, players enjoyed a lot of delicious appetizers, entrees and deserts and voted for their favorites.

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Front row (from left): Donna Steffan, Carolyn Siracuse, Usha Khurana
back row - chairs Kathy Pollock and Joyce Greenspan.

Here are the "culinary" winners:

Appetizer Category:
1st place: Usha Khurana's  Bean Salad
2nd place: Jeanne Gladysz's  Nachos and Dip
3rd place: Benna Deshmukh's  Chip and Dip

Entree Category:
1st place: Carolyn Siracuse's  Chicken Salad
2nd place: Joyce Greenspan's Noodle Pudding (Kugel)
3rd place: Betty Metz's Cabbage Rolls

Deserts:
1st place: Donna Steffan's  Fruit Pizza
2nd place: Paul Piciulo's  Chocolate Caramel Nut Brownie Cake
3rd place: Laurie Foster's Pumpkin Pecan Bars

Who played the best bridge? -  Harry Cheung and Gaurang Sheth with 69.64%

Thanks Kathy Pollock and Joyce Greenspan for the wonderful event!

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The Whist

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Buffalo Whist Club  - October 2, 2011

After 75 years Buffalo Whist Club is closing.  For the last decade and more The Whist Club has been sharing the bridge facilities of the Zion United Church of Christ in Tonawanda with the B&P Duplicate and later with Bridge Club Meridian. The Monday Night Game was "The Game" in Buffalo - drawing the top players in the area in a high level competition.
Starting November 7, 2011  Bridge Club Meridian - in an attempt to preserve the spirit of the Whist Club - will offer a continuation of the Monday evening games at Zion UCC - same time, same place, same tradition!


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Joel Wooldridge: 2011 Player of the Year

The ACBL is pleased to announce Joel Wooldridge as the 2011 Player of the Year. Several impressive national wins this year including the Norman Kay Platinum Pairs, Silodor Open Pairs, and United States Bridge Championships along with a second place finish in the Baldwin North American Open Pairs helped Wooldridge claim this great achievement.

The honor of Player of the Year is awarded to the ACBL Member who wins the most platinum masterpoints in a calendar year. Wooldridge’s 6th place finish in the Keohane North American Swiss Teams at the Seattle NABC secured him the award, giving him a 0.95 edge over Bobby Levin.

A former junior player, taking the honor of the Youth Player of the Year in 1996, Wooldridge, now 32, has an established career in duplicate bridge.

Wooldridge remembers fondly on his first trip to the local bridge club. “It was just before my tenth birthday and I went and played a club game with my father. Our goal was to not come in last,” he said. “We came in second to last, went out for ice cream to celebrate and I was hooked.”

His career first place finishes include the 2001 & 2005 World Youth Team Championships, 1997 Lebhar IMP Pairs, 2003 Fast Pairs, 2009 Roth Open Swiss Teams and Freeman Mixed Board-a-Match Teams, in addition to his 2011 wins previously mentioned. Wooldridge was also member of the Bathurst Team, one of the two teams representing the United States in the 2011 Bermuda Bowl.

Be on the lookout for a full interview with Wooldridge in February’s Bridge Bulletin.



Interviews with Joel:

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Check the Duplicate Bridge column in The Buffalo News each Saturday for weekly game results and other announcements. Unfortunately, space there is limited, but additional results, more complete announcements and other information can be found in the weekly Internet version of the column at www.buffalonews.com. For quickest results, search the words "duplicate bridge" and Saturday's date. For the latest information and detailed game results directly from the clubs, check the web sites of clubs in Western New York.

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Welcome to the Western New York Unit 116 website.  Our unit of over 500 dedicated bridge players is part of the American Contract Bridge League’s District Five.  Geographically, we encompass the counties of Erie and Niagara, at the eastern end of Lake Erie and western end of Lake Ontario, in New York State.  We often have players from across the Canadian border playing at our clubs.

Our goal is to promote bridge and support local bridge clubs.   We have six open, active clubs. We host three sectionals each year – January, April/May, and September – as well as a Non-Life Master sectional in the summer.  The District Five Regional is held at the end of October and famously titled “Spooktacular”.  Numerous unit games are held throughout the year.

We publish a bi-monthly newsletter, Bridge Buff, for and about its members.  It regularly includes extensive interviews with several members, an interesting bridge hands and analysis, and perhaps a good recipe enjoyed at a Unit game.

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The "Bridge Buff" issues were retrieved starting with  issues back in the past. You can read old and current issues to see where we were and where we are going as a bridge community. There was a gap in publishing from March to October 2007, when the bridge community was torn apart by controversy and the Buff was on hold.
Help preserve the bridge history of Unit 116 by downloading the files and saving them - you will never know when and who from the future generations will read them.



 

 

Coming to Unit 116!



April 20-22, 2012

Unit 116 Spring Sectional at M-T Fire Hall 
6777 Main St - Buffalo, NY 

Results

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Monday, May 14, 2012 

Starting at 7:15 pm  -

Unit 116 "Barometer" Open Pairs Game

at Bridge Club Meridian

15 Koenig Cir
Tonawanda  NY  14150

Results

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Western New York Unit 116
2012 Extended Team Championships

Saturday, June 9, 2012 10:30 am

Round 1 at Bridge Club Meridian

15 Koenig Cir
Tonawanda  NY  14150

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Conditions of Contest

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Unit 116 All American Picnic
Sunday, July 8, 2012 Game times: 11 am and 3 pm

Carousel Room  at the Hamburg Fairgrounds

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Purchase Tickets

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