Welcome to the website of Bridge on the Edge, based in St. John's, NL, Canada.  In 2016 we became a player owned bridge club.  We support a respectful culture, both at the bridge table and in all BOTE communications, for the enjoyment and growth of all members.  

Please contact info@bridgeontheedge.ca if you need additional information.

Members who want to use the member's functions (ie bookings etc), please ensure you've accessed the site using the bridgeweb link bridgewebs.com/onedge/.

Treats at the Game

As you know we are blessed to have some very generous members who will randomly bring treats to a game to share with everyone.  This could be home baking, a box of Girl Guide cookies, an unwanted box of chocolates  . .  we eat anything!  It's an excellent way to remove temptation from your home and brighten up the club hospitality breaks. Up to now these have been random acts of kindness which has resulted in sometimes we have lots of choices and sometimes nothing.  Susan Follett  suggested we bring some order to the randomness and has offered to do up a schedule where people will know who is bringing something on any given day.  Thanks Susan! So if you are interested in contributing some treats let me know and I will pass your name on to Susan.  

Social Committee

The Board would also like to have a Social Committee separate from the Executive so  . .. . is there anyone who would like to help with/run our social events?  We have several events every year, probably once every couple of months, and the Board would provide input re format and budget.  We always try to include Supervised Play in these events so maybe someone from that group would also like to help?  We have our tenth anniversary coming up in September so would love to have something special for that. 

And finally  . . . 

The Longest Day

We need someone to organize and run our Longest Day fundraising event for Alzheimer’s in June.  This person/persons could be any member from any group, Pat O’Brien did a fabulous job last year but unfortunately can’t commit to this year.  Pat left extensive notes so there is lots of guidance available.  

We are an equal opportunity club so any person of any gender is welcome to help with any of these requests.  Contact me at info@bridgontheedge.ca and we’ll go from there. 

FREE 4 ALL-FUN 4 ALL WELCOME WEEK HUGE SUCCESS 

Mainly in order to celebrate the move to our new home, but also to try to dissipate the deep winter blues, we held a fun festival of food, furor & farrago during the first week of March.  Everything was free except the finesses. We also continued our long-standing penchant for giving back to our community, with member donations to the Community Food Sharing Association (CFSA). During all the turbulence & commotion, of our first foray, we managed to hold four great sessions of bridge & light treats for all.

Monday, saw a record turnout of Supervised Play attendees, 19 tables, and our dedicated teachers were kept extremely busy. So were the Social Committee volunteers & the ad hoc Food Donation managers as the huge collection of boxes, bags, & cans truly reflected the extensive generosity of our Monday Morning Players.

All the bustle & excitement was re-enacted all day Thursday as the re-energized BOTE Board & trusty volunteers were right back at it again with the CFSA gaining another batch of badly needed provisions.

Starting with the food donations from the Begin Bridge Group at 10 am. continuing with the amply stocked lunch tables at noon, the organized tumult continued on well into the late afternoon. With two busy Directors on hand, we saw 10 full tables in the Open Game, 4 1/2 in Duplicate Lite and 2 1/2 in Begin Bridge III, amazing.

AND THE WINNERS ARE…

Playing NS, Peggy must have taken some time away from her cherished soliloquies, to play some bridge, as she & Janet posted a huge 62.55% for first in A + B  and the Overall. Bink & Peter were close behind them with 61.32%.

It sure was great to see Marilyn Bennett, an icon of the NL bridge scene, back at the table; she & Judith came in 3rd. with 58.25%. June & Elizabeth won C.

Over in the EW, Paul continued his winning ways, playing with one of Marguerite’s many avatars, (Marguerite does so much for our Club, we are convinced no one person could possibly handle it all). This dynamic duo won all three sections outright.

In Duplicate Lite, Eugene & Joan had a monster game to easily win first place. I tell you no Lye, they scored a whopping 64.54%. The 2 Karens came in 2nd. while Judy & Gail were a millimetre behind them for third place.

A number of people told us they had a wonderful time & the Begin Bridge students were especially appreciative as they got the opportunity to mix & mingle in the Open Room and enjoy the socialization & friendship factors that have always been a big part of BOTE’s purpose & pathway.

A huge shoutout to all our generous food bank donors, our faithful volunteers, hardworking Directors & of course the Federal Minister of Agriculture & Agri-Foods, Heath MacDonald, who sometimes works part time with Judith on the Food Delivery Van, lol.

Tom and Deirdre will be teaching three lessons on defence on Thursday mornings 10:00am to noon at St. James beginning March 12th (next week).  
There will be an optional fourth lesson in April.  The topics are listed below:

March 12th Opening leads, third hand play, attitude signals and suit preference signals.
March 19th Discards and more suit preference signals.
March 26th Counting and unblocking.
April 9th If there is enough interest, practise hands to reinforce the above topics,

There will be prepared hands with each lesson to illustrate the topics as they are taught. 
Cost will be $25 per lesson, pay as you go. Sign up on the website singly, as pairs or as a full tables. 
Full tables would obviously be great but we can't guarantee this will happen.

These classes would be of benefit to all levels of players so sign up, there is no gardening on the go yet!

Starting this Thursday, March 5,  all players in BOTE’s Winter/Fall Session are invited to start again at the new premises at St. James Church on Elizabeth Avenue for a full day of BOTE Bridge. The morning lecture at 10 am, will kickstart a 4 lecture series throughout March. Cost for the full March block is $100. This Thursday only, to celebrate our successful move, we will break for lunch, and we will provide free finger food at noon. In the afternoon, more freebees as you are invited to stay & play some more supervised bridge with Roy as long as you want, no partner needed. All Welcome.

Please bring a donation for our food bank drive.