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Winter Weather Advisories and Cancellations

The winters in Highlands can have snow at a moment's notice, making the roads unusable for several hours.  If you are concerned about the access to Highlands, tune your radio to WHLC FM 104.5 or call the Highlands Recreation Center at 828-526-3556.

 

Mailing Address

Highlands Duplicate Bridge Club

P. O. Box 734

Highlands, NC 28741

MEMBERSHIP and GAME FEES

The Highlands Duplicate Bridge Club welcomes all players and club membership is open to all.   HDBC members pay only $5 per game to play even if the game is a special event that costs the club a premium -- but also pays extra ACBL masterpoints to the game winners.  However, in lieu of joining the club, a player may play as a guest for a fee of $10 per game.

The annual fee to become a member is only $20 and is due on January 1 or on the first day that a player participates in a game.  The annual dues may be sent to the club's PO Box or paid directly to the club's Treasurer.  The club's mailing address is:

HDBC

POB 735

Highlands, NC 28741.   

We hope to see all of you at the club soon!

 

Annual Meeting Minutes

HDBC Annual Meeting

June 30, 2023

The meeting was called to order by President, Becky Ray, at the Highlands Rec Center at 12:35 p.m.

Minutes Approval:  The 2022 minutes were read to attending members.  There were no corrections or additions.  A motion was made and seconded to approve the minutes.

By-Law Revisions:  Bob Buchanan opened the discussion of the by-law revisions.  He stated that the changes to the by-laws were made to ensure compatibility between Club procedures and the by-laws.  There were no questions from the attending members. A motion was made and seconded to approve the revisions.  The motion carried unanimously.

Treasurer's Report : Lynn Kleifgen passed out a financial report to the attending members.  There were no questions, additions or corrections. A motion was made and seconded to accept the report.  The motion carried unanimously.

Old Business/ New Business:  Bob Buchanan announced that the Club would be offering a beginner’s bridge course beginning July 7th.  The cost of the course is $50.00.

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 12:55 p.m.

Gina Cogswell, Secretary

HDBC Zero Tolerance Policy

HDBC Board policy* for violation of Zero Tolerance follows the Club Regulations, Roman Numeral III, found in the HDBC Bylaws:
"The director is responsible for strict enforcement of ZERO TOLERANCE FOR RUDENESS. (See Law 74 Conduct and Etiquette, ACBL
Laws of Duplicate Bridge, 2017, pp. 83-84). After one warning of a rudeness infraction from the director, an additional infraction within six
months of the initial infraction shall subject an offender to such penalty as imposed by the Board of Advisors.  A penalty may be imposed after
hearing from offender(s), director, and any persons witnessing the objectionable conduct."
        

*Director discretion is allowed, per Duplicate Law 91, if the DIC determines that any offense warrants a less or a more serious penalty.

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Winter Weather Advisories
The winters in Highlands can have snow at a moment's notice, making the roads unusable for several hours.  If you are concerned about the access to Highlands, tune your radio to WHLC FM 104.5 or call the Highlands Recreation Center at 828-526-3556.
Last updated : Aug 12, 2012 07:02 EST
Game Procedures

Create Calendar Event
The Manager will create a new calendar event from the administrative menu of the website for future events.  This is easily done from the Quick Update tab.

Generate Random Hands
A hired employee (or HDBC volunteer), under the direction the President or Club Manager will generate random deals using DealMaster Pro according to ACBL procedures. The PBN files are placed in a DropBox account ("HDBC" folder). DropBox will automatically sync all files with all computers authorized to use the account. This has the added advantage of serving as an automatic offsite backup. 

All files will be named with Year-Month-Day format so they will sort properly, e.g. 12-07-11.pbn is the Wednesday game on July 7, 2012; 12-07-13N.pbn is the Novice Game (99er) on July13, and 12-07-13O.pbn is the Open Game on July 13.
 

A volunteer (usually the one making boards) will upload all Hand Record files to the appropriate Calendar Date on the website. You will be able to see an icon depicting a hand of cards indicating the hand records have been uploaded for that event. From the Admin Calendar list, you can view the North spade suit of Board 1 to verify that the pre-dealt boards are correct.  Lastly, she will print a copy of the Hand Record.

 

Deal Boards

Hired employee, Club President appointee,  or Club Volunteer designee loads the appropriate hand record file into the Dealer 4 Software and deals the boards. She will look at the first board and compare it with the printed Hand Record to make sure she has dealt the right hand and leave the Hand Record in the box for use by the director.

 

Director's Instructions

After the game is completed, the director posts the results on the website (Administration > UploadResults). Select Choose Future Event and further select the appropriate game from the drop-down menu. The ACBLScore Game file (.ACx format) goes into the ACBL Game File box and the BridgePads file (.BWS format) goes into the Bridgepad File Box. Leave the Information File field blank.  You will need to enter the password as well.  Click Upload when the two files have been selected. A hired employee, director or a designated Club volunteeer will have already uploaded the Hand Record File (.PBN format) into that event.

 

 

If for any reason you want to reload the game file (e.g., there has been a correction), select Choose A Previous Result to select the game in question.  

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