Announcements

We still have no expectation of opening back up at the club anytime soon. There are only a handful (literally) of clubs that are trying f2f. Assuming we do at some point have f2f games, for sure Virtual EBC will continue with some number of the online games. This will no doubt be true for all clubs all over the Country.

There must be something in the water. Paul and Jeff had a pretty amazing game Saturday morning August 22 — 77.5%. That is impressive. And Steve and Ginny racked up a 75 game Sunday evening August 23. Congratulations!

The Board held a Zoom meeting and discussed several items. Two of most note were the Save the Building fund and the Annual Election Party. There are plans to poll the members of the Unit per a couple of options regarding the annual election. The current status of the Reserve Account will also be posted on the website.

We for sure miss the f2f interaction with all of you.

Stay Safe. Stay Sane.

Don and Sherri

Go to the members’ area to see an update on two of our friends.

Kim reports that he is recovering nicely from his heart surgery. He says he is pretty much back to what he considers normal. Seems like quite an impressive recovery.

Libby Glenn is moving to live with her son in California. We shall certainly miss her.

From Don and Sherri:

We’re adding a new 299er game on Wednesday morning at 9:30. We had considered running a parallel game with the Open on Thursdays like we did for Silver Week. Our concern is that it would take too many tables away from the Open. We need those Tuesday/Thursday Open games to stay viable and if the table count drops too low, folks stop playing. The Open games are stratified.

This sometimes feels like a little bit of a balancing act. It is not a problem for us to add new games and yet we know that too many games can get to be problematic. We are also aware that there are lots of folks with less than 750 MPs playing and we want to accommodate to that as much as we can.

For now, let’s start with the new game on Wednesday mornings and see how many show up for that. It is very easy to add games. We are open to it. We are also open to different point ranges. The 299er seems to be about the right range for quite a few folks.

As always, more feedback/input is welcome. The comments are always thoughtful and helpful.

Stay Safe. Stay Sane.

Don/Sherri

Drew Casen is a championship bridge player who apparently missed his calling as a comedian. I got an especially big laugh out of “The Alcatraz Coup” story.