A pleasant summer has passed and the fall season is coming to an end. We have enjoyed many special events at the club as well as a very successful Regional. We are approaching winter and the busy Christmas holdiay season as well many people are getting ready to go south. We hope that you will still find time to squeeze in a game or two over the next few months.

BRONZE LIFE MASTER: George Kusch, Emmy Neufeldt

SILVER LIFE MASTER: Muriel Marlatte, Maxine Godfrey

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS:

Friday Swiss Teams, September 7 & 14: A - Orpha Douglas, Wilma Katzman, John Billett, Elsie Stephenson

B - Al Schumacher, Ruth Schumacher, Doug MacDonald, Sheila MacDonald, Ian McDermid, Sheila MacLean

C - Bjorg Birt, Ruth Sandy, Gloria Hnatick, Moe Hnatick

New Horizons Pairs, September 10 & 17: A -Ken McGuirl & Josie Plasson

B - Mike Gadd & Evelyn Sisonenko

C - Connie Knapp & Jean Warner

ACBL Instant Matchpoint Game: A - Cydney Hayes & Liz Warren

B - Evelyn Sisonenko & Ann Shaw

C - Gertie Braun & Harold Kroeger

Open Pairs, September 19 & 26: A - Muriel Marlatte & Frank Gray

B - Evelyn Sisonenko & Jean Warner

Tuesday Swiss Teams, October 9 & 16: A -Ursula Jugnauth, Lynne Holderness, Vivian Orban, Peggy McGregor

B - Evelyn Sisonenko, Shirley Porter, Grace Samborn, Ann Shaw

Thursday Open Pairs, October 11 & 18: Linda Wakeman, Ron Pegg

Thursday M/NM Swiss Teams, October 18: Evelyn Sisonenko, Kay Aschim, Marilyn Brown, Della McCannell

Thursday, Novice Swiss Teams, October 25: THREE WAY TIE

- Joyce Wilson, Esther Henderson, Pauline Evans, Gerry Hammel

- Lynn Goshawk, Ann Beeton, Kay Aschim, Ellen Senger

- Lynne Smith, Della McCannell, Pat Griffith, Betty Reekie

ERIN BERRY ROOKIE MASTER - Thursday, October 25th: This is a Canadian event and was well attended with 17 tables. FIRST was Barry Nishnik & Murray Hidlebaugh with a 66.67% game and SECOND was Ruth Sandy & Arlene Janke with a 60.42% game. Congratulations!!

A NOTE FROM THE EXECUTIVE

The Annual Meeting is coming up on December 9th at 1:00 PM and the executive is looking for members to fill certain positions - Treasurer, Club Manager, Social Convenor and a member at large. If you are interested in filling one of these positions or know of someone who might be interested, please contact Denny Schneider at 373-7800.

No tournament is a success without its volunteers. The chairpersons's job is only as successful as the key volunteers in each area. My job was easy as I had great volunteers. One only had to look at June Ogilivie and Harold Jones and their volunteers at the Partnership desk; Kay and Nick Mogus and their volunteers at the Hospitality desk; Liz Warren and her caddies and, of course, watch Alf Keating sell 50-50's to the sum total of $701.50 to people who "never" buy 50-50 tickets! Singlehandedly Frank Bryski and Moe Hnatick collected over one hundred door prizes which were distributed at each of the three sessions Tuesday to Saturday. We have to thank the many people who contributed dainties which Doreen Reid spearheaded. We have to thank Sheila Rodger for taking photographs, Mike Gadd for introducing the guest speakers; Larry Custead for the daily bulletin and of course the guest speakers.

We always have a great tournament which we can be proud to attend because of you - the volunteers. We have developed a REPUTATION!!

Thank you again.

Lil Hemeon

EDITOR'S NOTE: I think we have to thank Lil Hemeon for organizing such a successful regional - she definitely devoted a lot of time and energy so the rest of us could enjoy the regional. This is the sign of a true volunteer.

Thank you to Barb Klombies who devotes a great deal of her time to painting and maintaining the boards, repairing table tops, fixing pictures, organizing bidding boxes and many other things

around the club that often go unnoticed. It is greatly appreciated.

EASYBRIDGE!3 is just over half finished. Besides taking part in lessons, the Easybridgers have also taken part in the Saskatoon Regional and the Erin Berry Rookie/Master game. In the Regional, 6 teams took part in the first Bracketed Knockouts with three teams advancing through the first round and one team winning the 5/8 competition.. A number of pairs took part in the 99er and 199er events. In Novermber, each group will hold a Junior Fund game and a good number of people are planning to take part in the 99er events at the Fall Sectional. In December, each group will take part in the STaC if Evelyn is able to get us permission and will hold a graduation/Christmas party that will end the season until January. In January, games will still be held on Monday evenings and Thursday mornings.

Joy Treleaven

A new session in Easybridge!1 will be starting the week of January 14th. It will go on Monday evenings at 7:15PM (presented by Ken Connell) and Thursday mornings at 9:30AM(presented by June Ogilivie). Anyone knowing of someone interested in taking part in either of these should have them contact Ken Connell at 374-5747 or June Ogilivie at 374-8025 for more information and to register. The format will be the same as last time with a free book and 6 free lessons to begin the series. People from the Club will probably be asked to post fliers and send/give out postcards like last time.

The Club Series is underway taught by John Pond and there are plans to offer the Diamond Series in January. If you are interested in these or other lesson series, please contact John Pond at 242-4858 or Verla Zerebesky at 374-6144.

The Saskatoon Bridge Club has a new web site: www.lights.com/bridge. If you have a computer, visit our site.

Please note that the Unit's General Meeting will be held on Friday, November 16th after the evening game. Plan to attend.

IN MEMORIUM: Marion McIntyre, Maureen Somers, Ken Robertson

NEWSLETTER: The next issue of the newsletter is planned for the end of January, 2002. If you have anything you wish to have included in the newsletter, please submit to Liz Warren at 652-9376.