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If you are not aware, Mike Ray webmaster of the Low Country (HHI and Sun City) Bridge web page publishes a monthly bridge calendar. You can access the calendar through the web page at http://www.freewebs.com/lcbridge/ or directly by clicking on Bridge Calendar .
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oneNT® - Hilton Head Island Bridge News
September 9, 2003
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ACBL INSTANT MATCHPOINT GAME
On Wednesday September 10th at 7:00 pm the HHI Bridge Club will run the ACBL Instant Matchpoint Game a special gold point game. In addition to gold points players will have a chance to earn extra red and black points in competition with winners from other clubs.
The annual Instant Match Point Game is a special event of ACBL and features, in addition to gold points, a booklet with complete analyses of the deals by many-time national champion Richard Pavlicek. The card fee for this special game is higher than usual - $9.00 for the game and Instant Match Point analysis and booklet.
A special thanks to Doris Caudy who originally registered for the game and is allowing the Bridge Club to use her registration.
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Friday
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Australian Wine Tasting
Our next Friday Night Bridge game will be Friday night, September 19th. At September’s game we will have a wine tasting of Australian Shiraz wines. Shiraz [shih-RAHZ] or as we in America call it Syrah [sih-RAH] is a majestic red with a pronounced pepper, spice, black cherry, and roasted nut flavors. In France it is grown in the Rhone region, but the Australians are the ones who have made the wine popular with an increasing number of high-quality vineyards.
The Wall Street Journal last year published an article on Southeast Australian Shiraz focusing on quality wines for less than $20 a bottle. I have been able to obtain bottles from the WSJ’s recommended list of very good wines. I have bottles of: Lindemans Bin 50, Jacob’s Creek, Black Opal (received the highest rating from WSJ’s tasting), and Koala Blue (Olivia Newton-John’s winery). And to give you something to compare it too I have some Kendall‑Jackson California Syrah. In addition, I will be making a Shiraz Sangria. The party and festivities will start at 6:00 pm … with the game starting by 6:45 pm, thus, giving everyone a chance to play.
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District 7 Charity Games
On Wednesday September 24th both the afternoon game 1:00 pm and night game 7:00 pm will be special District 7 Charity Pairs games.
Joe Burke Appointed to the HHIBA Board
Lee Sturm has announced that Kathie Walsh has now signed an agreement with HHIBA to instruct and direct Easybridge games for the club. To avoid any conflict of interest Kathie has resigned from the Board of HHIBA. Lee also announced that Joe Burke has been appointed to fill the 17 months of Kathie’s term. In addition to serving on the Board, Joe will serve the club as Computer Services Director. The club’s computer recently received a virus putting the operation of the games at risk. In making the announcement Lee emphasized how important this position is to the continuation of the club’s operation.
SHARE offers Beginning and Intermediate Bridge Classes
The SHARE Active Adult Center will again offer beginning and intermediate bridge classes beginning the week of September 16th. SHARE, a division of the Island Recreation Association, www.islandreccenter.org is dedicated to providing adults 50 plus with quality educational, recreational, and social activities. These classes long taught by Craig Gibbons and taught last year by Marty Nathan will be taught this fall by Fred Ferguson, a Director in the HHI Bridge Association’s Bridge Club. Both the beginning and intermediate classes will run 8 weeks beginning the week of September 16 through November 4.
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Beginning Bridge – using the ACBL Club Series will be taught on Tuesdays from 1 – 3 pm and will feature a field trip to the island’s Bridge Club to play in one of the Tuesday afternoon games.
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Intermediate Bridge 1 – using the ACBL Diamond Series will be taught on Wednesdays from 9:30 – 11:30 am and will feature a field trip to the island’s Bridge Club to play in on of the Wednesday night games.
For information on registration contact SHARE 843.758.6444 or register online at www.islandreccenter.org . For information on the class content contact Fred E. Ferguson at 843.363.2538 or fredferguson@mindspring.com .
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North American Pairs (NAP)
In our two NAP qualifying games we had 17 pairs qualify for the next round of competition. I have printed qualifying slips that I am distributing. Once I know the date and location of the Unit 160 qualifying game I will report in oneNT.
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Remember Bridge should be fun!
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Fred E. Ferguson, Editor
843.363.6416
Hilton Head Island, SC
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September 9, 2003 ... oneNT® is a private enewsletter devoted to bridge technical issues and bridge news on Hilton Head Island and the SC Low Country. oneNT is published and emailed on a weekly basis, if the editor is not off playing in some tournament. Although certain internet service providers consider oneNT to be junk mail (spam), it is not intended as unsolicited email. If you do not wish to receive oneNT, send an email to oneNT@mindspring.com and call me a few names and I will remove you from future emailings.
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