Congratulations to Ruth Lewis, who has very deservedly been named as NZ Bridge’s Volunteer of the Month for August 2018.
Ruth has been a member of the Rotorua Bridge Club for well over thirty years. During that time she was on the committee for nearly thirty years including two terms as President, has directed Wednesday night bridge and took the beginners’ lessons for ten years.
Ruth is probably best known throughout the North Island as the organiser of Rotorua Bridge Club’s Christmas tournament which had been extraordinarily popular for seventeen years. With her band of elves, they create a Christmas extravaganza which includes the finest Christmas quilts, glorious decorations, a delicious Christmas dinner and generous prizes. There is often a waiting list to fill the 39 tables available for players of all grades.
However, her quiet commitment to dealing boards for all the events at the club is remarkable. Week in week out, for approximately 14 years the boards are ready for each session regardless of whether Ruth is away on holiday or has family commitments.
It is people like Ruth Lewis who ensure a club functions well and has events of which we can be proud, so it is great that the club can show her some recognition in this way.
Category: Club news
Interclub Teams 2018
The BOP Interclub teams, played for the Ib Thulin Shield, took place on Saturday at Rotorua, and was a very enjoyable day. Six clubs from the Bay of Plenty took part – Rotorua, Tauranga, Mt Maunganui, Whakatane, Te Puke and Taupō, each with teams of Open, Intermediate and Junior players, thus giving players of varying experience the chance to represent …
Rotorua 5A Open Pairs 23rd June 2018
Rotorua players showed a lot of flair in our recent Open Pairs although unfortunately the top prize eluded the local pairs. Wendy Blackman & Elspeth Goodrick won a session prize, as did Tom Henwood & Tom Winiata and Pam & Ian Moore. The top local pair were Pam & Ian Moore who were 3rd overall and won the Marg Angus …
Defence Lessons –a great chance to improve your game!
May 15th and 29th 7.00-8.30pm The defensive play is probably the part of bridge that requires the most skill and yet we often focus on bidding and play-complaining when we don’t get points in a session. At both sessions you will discover two new skills to help your defence and you will play several relevant boards to help put them …
2018 Bridge Lessons
Beginners’ bridge lessons are coming up soon. Have you spoken with all those acquaintances and friends who have expressed an interest? Start your arm-twisting now! The lessons start Wednesday 2 May 7 – 9pm. $60 for ten lessons (and continuing play for 2018), $100 for 2 people. Email rotoruacontractbridgeclub@xtra.co.nz or phone Gill 07 346 2911 or Roger 07 348 5995 …
Kelly Peirse Teams
The Kelly Peirse Tournament held on Saturday 17 March was a great success. There was a full house for the event and it attracted a very strong field, with players travelling from all over the North Island to take part. The overall winners were the team from Auckland comprising Michael Ware, Matt Brown, Jeter Liu and George Sun. In second …
Prizegiving 2017
Christmas Tournament 2017
2107 AGM Notice
This year’s AGM is on Thursday 30 November at 7.30pm. We would like a good turnout of members to come along to have a say and be informed about the running of the club. Fun bridge afterwards. Download the agenda here
X Club and Pianola
Our Club is a participant in the X Club, whereby we get to deal and play the same hands as other participating clubs in our region. The advantage of this is that the results on the hands can be calculated over the entire region and thus the effects of relatively small table numbers and variable field skill levels are removed …
Employment Appointment
Carola Gohring has been appointed to the Cleaning Role at our Club, effective from last week. Carola is one of our members and will continue the responsibilities that Regina and Joe Van Der Sluis had in this role. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank Regina and Joe for their commitment to the cleaning role over the …
Employment Opportunity
Regina Van Der Sluis is resigning from her role as cleaner for our Bridge Clubrooms. Due to this we are looking for a new employee for this role. We would like to pass this opportunity on to our current members. The hours are currently 2 per week, and the tasks are weekly. The tasks include: • Vacuuming throughout (1hr) • …
Interclub Teams Final
The finals for the Waikato Bays interclub teams were held in Cambridge on Sunday 27th August. The Rotorua Open team (Pam & Ian Moore and Tom Henwood & Tom Winiata) won the Open event winning all their matches. Unfortunately the original Intermediate team who qualified were unable to play in the final, but Rotorua were well represented by Roger Dempster, Leonie Pritchard, Kevin Jensen and Paul Rogers. They only lost one match and came third overall.
Well done everyone!
The victorious Open team with their trophy.
Ib Thulin 2017
The winners of the IbThulin on handicap, Margie Robbie and Ian Moore, pictured with James Twist from the tournament sponsor, Craigs Investment Partners
Runners up on handicap, Rex Tulloch and Joyce Reid with James Twist.
Interclub Bay Teams 2017
The Bay Teams Interclub competition was held at Rotorua on Sunday 30 July with teams from Mt Maunganui, Rotorua, Taupo, Tauranga, Te Puke and Whakatane taking part. Each club fielded a team in the Open, Intermediate and Junior grades.
It was a very successful day for the host club with Rotorua taking out the overall prize with 204 Victory Points across all the grades. Tauranga were second with 173 and Whakatane third with 166.
Within each grade, both the Rotorua Open and Intermediate teams won their competition and the Junior team came a very creditable third in theirs. The Open Rotorua team scored 61 VPs and Tauranga were second with 59. The Rotorua Intermediates amassed a whopping 90 VPs, followed by Whakatane on 57. In the Junior section, Whakatane were first with 65 and Tauranga second with 56. The top two teams in each section go through to the Waikato Bays final to be held in Cambridge on 27 August. (Because the Whakatane Intermediate team wasn’t eligible to go through, the third placed Tauranga will take their place.)
It was a very enjoyable day. Many thanks to the Rotorua members who organised the event, helped in the kitchen and provided a wonderful morning and afternoon tea, to Heini for directing, and well done to all the players!
The intermediate team relaxing after a good day’s work at the bridge table – from left Elspeth Goodrick, Joyce Reid, Cathy Ward and Wendy Blackman