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!!
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!
Peter
and Penny Shui
• • • Unit 116 "Wearing of
the Green" Game
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.
Front row (from
left): Donna Steffan, Carolyn Siracuse, Usha Khurana
back row - chairs Kathy Pollock and Joyce Greenspan.
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! • • •
The Whist
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!
• • •
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. ...
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.
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
