The work of countless volunteers, coordinated by Mary Ann DuFresne, combined to provide the best Sectional in Florida! The best facility, the best parkng, the best food, the best competition, and the best caddies.

Of particular note were the efforts of Carl McGiffin, who arranged for us to rent this great site, and who set up and tore down the tables and chairs, together with Rich Talbott. Food was arranged by Sue Graham, with immense contributions by Joan Waite, Claudia Hendry, Lois Fortunato, Howard and Terri Coley, Annabelle Hills, Karen Alpaugh and more. Many tables and bidding boxes were graciously loaned by the Spring Hill Duplicate Bridge Club.

Local players noted in the ACBL's National Mini-McKenny race, as of June 1, include:

Adam Kaplan

• Millie Dabbs (34nd in her Bracket, improving 18)
• Gerry Panos (80th, dropping 13)
• Adam Kaplan (20nd, improving 2)

I have just added a new feature in the "Red Section" called My Partners for logged in users only. It is your personal calendar, and is intended to use to keep track of your partners, like your paper calendar does.

But it has some unique features!

• First, the "title" of the calendar is your partner for today, or if you have none today, it says "Nothing today."
• Second, your partner for tomorrow, if any, appears under the calendar.
• Third, if you add John Doe to your calendar, it will appear as expected, but also your name will appear on John Doe's calendar on that date.

To add a partner (or any reminder), click on any open date. To see what you have scheduled for some date, "hover" your mouse over that date. You will see the appointments for that date show up in a little window.

Roscoe Alexander, one of the best Bridge players around here, will celebrate his 95th birthday on June 13. Born in 1913, on Friday the 13th, in Washington, DC, Roscoe shared some thoughts with me at a game recently.

Just wanted to tell everyone another club member was admitted to the hospital.

Susan Russett, who was complaining about jet lag Monday, ended up in Citrus Memorial Hospital on Tuesday.  She has now been released and is at home.

Most of you probably know that we have been searching for several years for a permanent playing site where we can set up our tables and leave them up. We've had no success so far because renting or purchasing a facility is much too expensive for us. The latest option we are exploring is a partnership arrangement with the Enrichment Center. They are planning to expand their Oak Hill premises within the next year or so and may be willling to set up a games room with permanent tables for bridge and other possible games--chess, checkers, dominoes, etc. For this to happen, they will probably ask us to pay for the tables--something more substantial than card tables. We don't have the price tag yet, but this might be something we could afford. We'll keep you posted.