EMAIL FOR ALL CLUB QUESTIONS:
7ntbridge@gmail.com
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| HOLIDAY GAMES IN EARLY 2025 |
There will be NO Monday holiday games on Martin Luther King Day (1/20/25) or on Presidents' Day (2/17/25).
Part of the issue is the difficulty in removing the room setup left over from Friday activities and replacing that with our bridge setup (although the recent help of Dan, Ernie, John, Dave and others was certainly appreciated). But the larger issue is our inability to be guaranteed sole use of the Senior Center during these games. The bridge club (i.e. "me") has total responsibility for persons in the building, yet we have no control over other functions or random visitors. Add to that the vagaries of January and February weather, and I am simply reluctant to schedule these games.
We will certainly revisit this issue for holiday games later in the year if we can achieve exclusive use of the Senior Center on Monday holidays.
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| THE ACES OF WACHUSETT |
A new “competition,” or measure if you will, has arrived at the left ladder menu: “The Aces of Wachusett.”
The goal was to set up a pairs contest, but to do so while getting away strictly from masterpoints. After all, there are already plenty of ACBL masterpoint contests: Ace of Clubs, Mini-McKenny, not to mention our own Player of the Quarter. Besides, depending on each week’s event rating, a win in one week might be worth three times the masterpoints of a regular club game.
The Aces of Wachusett will accumulate each pairs standings: 5 points for each 1st, 4 points for each 2nd, down to 1 point for each 5th over the course of the year. But those points will be averaged by the number of times played. That’s only fair since we have Snowbirds not playing in Winter, and some of our sun worshipers not playing in Summer. Only pairs having played together at least 10 times will be included.
This is intended just for fun so let’s not take it too seriously. But hopefully, it will serve to give each of our pairs an idea of where they stand over time.
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| PLAN FOR CLOSING OUT 2024 |
As we head into holiday season I just want to outline our plan for the rest of the year. There will be games on all Mondays with the exception of . ..
NO GAME on December 23 . . . just too close to Christmas and Hanukkah.
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| A NEW WRINKLE IN SNOW POLICY |
 Holden Senior Center will close whenever there is a cancellation of classes within the Wachusett Regional School District. Cancellations are usually broadcast on area TV and radio stations.
I will do my best to post last-minute cancallations on our website not later than 9:30 on game days. I will also send EMails to all players for whom I have addresses.
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DAVE BOULAY
RODNEY CARLSON +
ELAINE JOSEPH
JOHN LUKACH
DOT MURPHY
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CMBA GAMES
MONDAY 12:00 PM
WACHUSETT BRIDGE CLUB
(Non-LM)
Holden Senior Center
1130 Main Street
Holden
Al Berg: 7ntbridge@gmail.com
WEDNESDAY 12:30 PM
GARDNER BRIDGE CLUB
(@ WESTMINSTER)
Westminster Senior Center
69 West Main Street
Westminster
Shirley Wagner: swagner1942@gmail.com
THURSDAY 9:00 AM
GRAFTON BRIDGE CLUB
Grafton Senior Center
30 Providence Road Route 122
Grafton
Denise Bahosh: dbahosh@yahoo.com
FRIDAY 12:45 PM
WORCESTER BRIDGE CLUB
(@ AUBURN)
Auburn Senior Center
4 Goddard Drive
Auburn
Denise Bahosh: dbahosh@yahoo.com
MONTHLY w/ DATE TBA
CMBA UNIT GAME
(@ STERLING OR HOLDEN TBA)
Sterling Senior Center
36 Muddy Pond Road
Sterling
(HOLDEN SENIOR CENTER ADDRESS AS ABOVE)
Check CMBA Website
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