Newsletter Archives

 

  • December, 2012 – 27 pages – 3.0mb – Ally Whiteneck Accolades, Winnie Jasper interview, What’s Your Opinion, Declarer Play, Hand of the month, NABC Pictures, Club Schedules.
  • November, 2012 – 27 pages – 2.3mb – Unit 499 Election News, Tournament Results and Club News.
  • October, 2012 -25 pages – 2.4mb – Beth Eggers Interview, Unit 499 Election News, Tourney Results, News from all Clubs, Jerry Helms talks at Rossmoor, Masterpoint Milestones
  • September, 2012 – 22 pages – 1.7mb – David Geary Interview, Help with Nationals, Tournament Results, Rossmoor Speaker Grand Finale
  • August, 2012 – 23 pages – 1.6mb – Keith Gunn interview, all about Google Groups, group mentoring, Please Help with NABC, Lots of Tournament results and game Calendars.
  • July, 2012 – 20 pages – 1.8mb – NABC Volunteers needed, Anne Hollingsworth profile, Junior Committe Volunteers, Bridge Club News, Tourney Results and Calendars.
  • June, 2012 – 21 pages – 1.6mb – Danville move to DVBC on June 21, Inverted Psycho Suction, Ellen Beltran BOD member, Ron Klinger at Rossmoor, and all the regular columns
  • May, 2012 – 22 pages – 1.4mb – Bylaws update, Master Point Milestones, Bill King interview, Mentoring programs, Tournament Result, open and limited game schedules.
  • April, 2012 – 31 pages – 2.8mb – Marj Russell Interview, 2011 Mini-McKenney & Ace of Clubs winners, 499 Sectional May 25th, Ron Klinger and Mentoring at Rossmoor, The Squeeza by Larry Miller, Tournament Results and much more!.
  • February/March, 2012 – 21 pages – 1.5mb – Grant Robinson profile, volunteer opportunities, Free Bridge Lessons, St. Patrick’s day theme, The Year of the Stars.
  • January, 2012 – 23 pages – 1.8mb – Philip Luks profile, New BOD member Jack Meng, Google Group advice, Barbara Seagram Rossmoor Report, Monterey Regional Report, master point milestones, Bridge Club schedules and reports.
  • December, 2011 – 3.2mb – Election Results, Unit Milestones, Brian Eisenbert is Board Member of the Month, STaC winners, Unit Directory Status, Club Updates and much much more.
  • November, 2011 – 3.4mb – Sectional Commentary, Mentor of the month Brad Komsthoeft, Candidate info for our upcoming BOD election, Hand Analysis by Grant Robinson, and much much more is available in November’s eDeclarer.
  • October, 2011 – 1.8mb – Our Nov. 11-12 Sectional, Ron Klinger on Oct 29 at DVBC, Mentor of the Month Frank Concepcion, Junior Program update, event calendars and a very nice photo gallery are all included in this issue of the eDeclarer newsletter, that’s FREE!
  • September, 2011 – 2.5mb – Nice article on Ida Veidins who lives in Antioch and plays at DVBC. Lots of Unit 499 winners from the Santa Clara Regional were listed. Tournament advice from Mark Marty. Update on the Junior program by Ally Whiteneck. Grant Robinson column analyzing the bidding and play of a tricky bridge hand. Almost every bridge club in the unit submitted information about their club. In all, 24 pages of interesting news in our unit. Nice Going, Judy and Mary!
  • August 2011 – 2.3mb. Read articles about a DVBC Youth program, Judy and Bob’s wedding, Mike Bandler and a wonderful TOC menu system for each article. There are 24 pages of Unit 499’s News that you can read in the comfort of your own web browser. Or you can print it out, if you want.
  • July 2011 – 1.9mb. Nearly all clubs in Unit 499 have columns in this month’s newsletter. Nice articles about Eldona Dayton and Joan Reid. Don’t miss it.
  • June 2011 – 2.6 mb. June 2011’s issue has 29 pages “chock full” of information about such things as last month’s sectional, the Grand Opening of DVBC, great information about classes, Unit 499 bridge clubs and Intermediate Novice events and… it’s free.
  • May 2011 – 2.1 mb – May’s issue is FILLED with information. Judy and Mary have outdone themselves. There’s an article about Judy Lowe; There’s coverage of the opening of DVBC (Diablo Valley Bridge Ceter); The Unit’s Mentoring Program including Mentor of the Month, Trisha O’Connor; Lots of information about I/N (intermediate novice) games and classes; Description of bridge clubs in the Unit; An article about whether to balance against an opening 1NT by Grant Robinson; And much, much more. 27 pages in all. The deadline for submissions for June is the 10th. The size of the newsletters are listed, in megabytes to explain why they take a few seconds download.
  • April 2011 – 1.8 mb – April, 2011 is the premier Issue of this Unit 499 monthly newsletter. The editor is Judy Keilin and publisher is Mary Krouse.