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This section of
the home page is dedicated to previous District 1 news , including events,
and members major achievements.
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Quebec City 400th Anniversary Regional: Please make your plans to attend this special ex-quota Regional April 10-13.
This special tournament promises, in addition to great bridge, special events to honour the birthday of this special
historic city.
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Other District 1 Regionals:
We hope that you will attend our Regionals:
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May 13-19: Kingston/ Miramichi Split Regional
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June 26-July 1: CanAt (Halifax, NS)
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Aug 11-17: CanAm (Montreal, QC)
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Oct 8-13: National Capital (Ottawa, ON)
For more information go to the “District 1 Tournaments” link |
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Grand National Teams:
The District 1 Final will be held at the Kingston site of the Split Regional on May 18th and 19th . Please see details at the “District 1 Tournaments” link to your left. |
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Bridge Week 2008 in Montreal:
District 1 is proud to be the site of the Canadian Bridge Federation’s Bridge Championships. Three
events:
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Canadian National Teams Championships (CNTC),
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Canadian Women’s Team
Championships (CWTC) and
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Canadian Seniors Team Championships
(CSTC)
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crown national champions who will represent Canada in the World Mind Games
in China.
In addition CNTC B, Canadian Open Pairs Championships and Canadian IMP Pairs Championships will be held.
For more information about these events, which will be held in Montreal May 24-30, please go to
www.cbf.ca. Thanks to Jean Castonguay and his Committee for organizing this prestigious event, and good luck to all players. |
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ACBL President to Visit District 1:
We are very pleased that ACBL President, Dan Morse will be attending the CanAm in Montreal in August. We look forward to welcoming the head of our organization and meeting this former World Champion at the table. |
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District 1 Players Achievements at 2007 World Championships in Shanghai.
Congratulations to the following for representing Canada and District 1 so well!
Sylvia Caley, Julie Fajgelzon, Pamela Nisbet, Isabelle Smith, Francine Cimon who with Linda Lee (Toronto-who filled in at the last minute) and Ray Lee (NPC) finished 7th in the Round Robin and lost to Germany in the quarter finals of the Venice Cup.
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Joe Silver, Boris Baran, Fred Hoffer and Don Piafsky who, along with Arno Hobart, John Carruthers and Daniel Korbel (NPC), all of Toronto, won the Round Robin and lost a close Quarter Final match to Brazil in the Senior Bowl.
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Waldemir Frukacz, John Zaluski, Jeff Smith, Nick L’Ecuyer, Kamel Fergami,along with Piotr Klimowicz(Ednonton) and Nader Hanna (NPC) of Toronto represented Canada well in the Bermuda Bowl.
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2008 District 1 Goodwill and Charity Committee Appointments:
District 1 Director, George Retek is pleased to announce the appointment of
Kathie MacNab (Halifax) and Fred Hoffer (Montreal) to the ACBL Charity Committee, and
Pierre Hamelin (Quebec City) to the ACBL Goodwill Committee.
These honourary appointments recognize the appointments great contribution to bridge in our District. Congratulations! |
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District 1 Board Annual Meeting:
District 1 President, Leo Weniger, invites Unit Representatives and delegates to the meeting to be held at the CanAm Regional in Montreal on Saturday, August 16th following the afternoon session. |
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DISTRICT 1
ESTABLISHES WEBSITE:
By the end of September, this website will be in operation. We will try to
make it as bilingual as possible. We hope to make it a “1 stop
shopping centre” for bridge information in the District. There
will be district wide masterpoint race information and information about
achievements by our members. You can find out about what our
District is and how it works. Our District Director’s Report
(after each NABC) will inform you about the decisions of the ACBL Board of
Directors. We hope you enjoy the website and visit it often.
The contact links of your webmaster and content advisor are on the bottom
of this page.
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QUEBEC CITY
APPROVED FOR EXTRA
REGIONAL IN
MAY 2008.
In a rare decision, the ACBL Board has approved an
ex-quota Regional for Quebec City in honour of the City’s 400th
Anniversary. Congratulations to the City’s Committee and our District
Director, George Retek, for getting this passed. Please mark your
calendar on April 10-13 for this special tournament which will be part of
the city’s celebrations.
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DISTRICT 1 PLAYERS TO REPRESENT CANADA
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WORLDS IN CHINA.
The following District 1
players will be on the Canadian teams in the following events in Shanghai
Sept. 28- Oct 13.
Bermuda Bowl (Open): Waldemar Frukacz, John Zaluski, Jeff Smith, Nick
L’Ecuyer and Kamel Fergami.
Venice Cup (Women): Sylvia Caley, Julie Fajgelzon, Pamela
Nisbet, Isabelle Smith, Francine Cimon and Rhoda
Habert.
Senior Bowl: Joe
Silver, Boris Baran, Fred Hoffer and Don Piafsky
All these players had to defeat tough competition at Bridge Week, and the
Bermuda Bowl team had to defeat Mexico, for the right to go to the
Worlds. Good luck in China, we’re sure you will make Canada
proud! For up-to date information about these events go to:
www.cbf.ca
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EXCELLENT PERFORMANCES BY MARITIMERS
AT
NASHVILLE NABC.
Congratulations
to Karl Hicks and Brian Alexander, who pulled off an unprecedented sweep
of the 0-5000 Life Masters Pairs and the 0-5000
mini-Spingold (with Mike Betts and honourary Maritimer, Jim
Gordon). And Mike and Jim were tied with Karl and Brian going into
the last round of the Pairs event! Quite a performance in these two
gruelling events!
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