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Pat Clark   
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
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fter three months in the new facility, Annabelle Hills reported an increase in game attendance to the Board. Due in no small measure to the 299'ers game being held by Mary Ann duFresne, the total players is up some 14% for the April to June quarter. But even without the newcomer game, attendance is up over 7% in that period.

In addition, the Lessons being presented by Carol Hargraves' Education Committee, appear poised to increase attendance even more. At the start of classes, 32 students were enrolled. Some of these are already playing with us, and some will not choose to play any more, but even so, a few new people can be expected.

Your Board had hoped that this would happen after the two former clubs merged. The reduced duplication of assets and the convenience of the new location, should result in even better results in the future.

The above results were for the second calendar quarter. For the entire year, attendance is up by 3.7%, and for the first quarter attendance was up 2%. (The clubs operated separately during the first quarter, although the Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday games operated in the new site for much of March.)

The Monday and Friday games continue to be much larger that the others. Since this is your club, you should know that this is not necessarily a good thing, especially in the winter. You who play only on Mondays and Fridays really should consider switching to another day. It puts a lot less stress on everything -- the parking, the playing space, the equipment, the directors, and so forth. If everybody only played on Mondays and Fridays, we'd need a larger facility for less time -- not an economical situation.

So if you and your partner can switch to another day, please consider it. The most economical arrangement would be when all the games are the same size.

Similarly, some of the best directors wish only to direct on the good days -- "good" may mean large or may mean small to different directors. This is not right, and should be discouraged.
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Millie Dabbs   |2009-07-01 20:04:48
Favorable comments I've heard: I like the new facility because
*room is large, clean and private
*same location for every game; don't have to think about where to go "today"
*bathrooms are spacious, no waiting for a station
*gives one a feeling that it's OURS
*large parking lot
*drive-up/drop off, few stairs favorable
*director's station seems to elicit respect for director and gives director a good view of room
*Tables, chairs, bidding boxes are set up for week
Ananbelle Hills  - Treasurer   |2009-07-01 18:26:10
While the board appreciates Pat's committement to the club and to the website, we would like to state that his comments concerning playing on other days than Monday and Friday are Pat's opinion alone. The Officers and board wish our players to know they are welcome on any day that fits their schedule. We gladly provide our players with the choice of games on any or all of 5 days a week.  Come play bridge whenever you want and we will accomodate you. Good bridge, good fun, good friendship to all!
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