Unit 223 Reporter

News from Southern Illinois-Paducah Unit 223

Editor: Janet Jones, 100 Fairway Drive, Harrisburg IL 61946

(618-252-7979)       janetjones51@gmai

Welcome to new members of Unit 223:  Barbara Roberts and Charles Roberts of Olney

For Your Information

There are 320 current active members in Unit 223 Southern Illinois-Paducah.

The unit has seen six (6) member gains in the last twelve months.

The average member age is 70.80. (We need to work on recruiting younger members!)

If you are interested to know where you stand in Unit 223, there are:

CONGRATULATIONS to players who have reached bridge milestones in the last two months!

NEW NABC MASTERS

   Jayne Costanzo, Glen Carbon

   Sterling Dare, O’Fallon

   Donna Howell, Fulton KY

NEW LIFE MASTERS

   Linda Badgley, Edwardsville

   Dan Evers, Mt. Vernon

NEW RUBY LIFE MASTERS

   Judith Shepherd, Paducah KY

NEW SAPPHIRE LIFE MASTERS

   Ronald Brockman, Paducah KY

Hats Off to Dan Evers

Dan is a new Life Master! Dan started playing bridge around 1995 in Mount Vernon, but rarely played a tournament. There were not a lot of points to be had playing in Mount Vernon with a three-table game and several very good players.

He served as the manager of the Mount Vernon club for several years until it could not get a two-table game and folded. He started playing in O’Fallon in 2014 and earned more points in three years than he had in Mount Vernon.

He had his name published twice in the Bridge Bulletin’s “It’s Your Call” article. He did place first out of 22 tables at a 199er game in Saint Louis during an NABC in 2007 with a partner that he had pickup up about 10 minutes before the game started. He did very well at the Saint Louis Regional recently where he played with Linda Key. They earned 27 gold points together. At the time he thought he was going to be short some red points and did not think about becoming a life master at the time.
 

***REMINDER****

District 8’s Fall Sectional-at-Clubs is fast approaching. The event dates are: Monday October 29 through Sunday, November 4. All master points will be silver!!!

Find clubs near you and play all that you can that week. OPEN GAMES with 6 or more pairs will QUALIFY FOR DISTRICT OVERALL RANKING.

Recap of the Irvin Cobb Sectional Tournament, Paducah KY

The Irvin Cobb Sectional Tournament was held in Paducah KY on August 31 - September 2, 1018, at the Robert Cherry Civic Center. The partnership chair was Sharon Henneke and the tournament chair was Dennis Rose.

Congratulation to all of the masterpoint winners and to the organizers for hosting such a successful event!!!