The annual meeting for the members of Unit 146 will be held Sunday, December 6, 2026 at the Bridge Center. Lunch will be provided at 11:30 AM, followed by the business meeting and a bridge game.  Unit 146 Treasurer Chuck Heilig will preside due to the expected absence of Unit President Kathy Haglich.

A preliminary agenda for the meeting includes:

• Moment of Silence to Remember Those We've Lost this Year
• Minutes from 2025 Annual Membership Meeting
• Unit Treasurer's Report
• Proposed Bylaws Amendments
  • Codifying the status of ACBL Guest Members.
  • Reducing the Unit Board from 11 to 9 directors.
  • Shortening the lead times for the Nominating Committee and adjusting it from 5 to 3 members.
• Elections for the Board of Directors.  A Nominating Committee chaired by Linda White has proposed 3 candidates.  These are Grace Orsini, John Wilson, and Peter Haglich.  Under the current bylaws, there will be 5 vacancies.  However, under the amended bylaws there will only be 3 vacancies.  Should the amendment reducing the Board not be approved, nominations from the floor will be needed to fill the additional 2 slots.
• Bridge Center Update - Beth Rafferty
• Goodwill Award - Lois Fairbanks
• Mini-McKenney Awards
• Unit Member Comment Period
• Adjournment

If you have any other items for the agenda please provide them to Unit President Kathy Haglich by Sunday November 29th..

Congratulations to Richard Depaulo who won 59.4 Master Points and Maureen Brines who won 15 masterpoints at the Kennewick Washington Regional this last week.  

Daniel Swanson and Barbara Duer earned 14.8 master points (almost 13 were gold) at the Halloween Spooky Nook Pennsylvania tournament. 

Other Unit 146 members earning points were the team of Dennis and Theresa Haynes, Deborah Line, and Steven Rose.

Congrats! All.

The Unit 146 Board of Directors has scheduled the annual meeting for Sunday, December 6, 2026.  

Three amendments to the Unit Bylaws will be presented to the membership.  Proposed Bylaws Amendments 2026.pdf

A summary of the amendments:

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On September 22, 2026 The Unit 146 Board of Directors voted Kathy Haglich as Unit President.

All results from the Summer Sectional can be found here:  https://live.acbl.org/events/2607316

If you played in the 0-1000 Swiss today your results are not yet posted as of 6 PM Sunday.  Cathy, our Director, needs to double-check the results and will post them this evening.  She has a long drive home and has to cope with tunnel traffic, so the results may not be available until Monday morning.

One note for all players:  Today's Swiss had two separate fields, playing differing numbers of boards in each round.  This led to different rhythms of finding tables, shuffling, comparing results, etc.  It was especially noisy and disconcerting for the 0-1000 field.  Please keep this in mind for our future tournaments.  These are the players we are trying to encourage to return.

Each Director decides whether or not to cancel their own games based on inclement weather.  Many of you remember that we used to link Bridge Center status to Virginia Beach Public Schools: if they closed, we closed.  We eliminated that linkage a few years ago.  Now it's up to each Director for the given day.

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P. Haglich