The Rotorua site is seeking to update the personal information of its members. This is both topical and typical for clubs at this time of year as they prepare to print their 2018 programme books. There is a quite brilliant feature in Compass that not many people have tried though it's been there for a while. In the Club database under the EMail Options tab there is a function to email or print for all members a personal dump of just what data is held on them by Compass. This seems a pretty good way of getting everything squeaky-clean at any time.

The Babich NZ-Wide pairs is to be held at various centres around the country on Friday 3rd of November. To date the only Waikato clubs that appear to have registered are Cambridge, Hamilton, Huntly, Morrinsville, Taupo, Thames, and Tokoroa. This is a fun evening with everyone playing the same cards at the same time. Last year it attracted over 1000 pairs. Some clubs arrange to gather for a meal of pizza, curry, or the like and a glass of the sponsor's product beforehand. This year the event is going international with one section playing a couple of hours after they fly to Rarotonga on a bridge holiday. Register at the host club.

Click here to download the presentations made by members of the Board on their portfolios at the AGM on 30th of September. They cover papers by Clare Coles on the Board's Strategy 2018-2021, Allan Morris on Communications and Relationship Management, Jane Stearns on Bridge Development, Karen Martelletti on aspects of the new website, and Alan Turner on Constitution Review.

For anyone who didn't already know it, the 32nd annual New Zealand Bridge Congress has just finished in Hamilton. Reporting of this country's biggest event is well-covered on the NZB website and Facebook so we shall restrict ourselves to singing the praises of Lauren Lehndorf of Taupo (left in the photo) who was one of the ones that Waikato Bays Region sponsored to Congress. She is standing next to her partner Christine Knowles (eyes closed - must have been a hard week) who is also a junior from Taupo, and their team-mates who are the pair that Richard Solomon matched them up with for the teams.

Best Team with three or more Juniors in the Intermediate Teams Lauren Lehndorf / Christine Knowles / Tonni Keijzer / Charmaine Churches (all Juniors).

On Friday 22 Sep we enjoyed our final round of The Waikato Interclub Teams more fondly known as TWITs.