The membership meeting is Sunday December 14, Luncheon at 12, meeting 1230 and game at 1.  Pot luck with unit buying main course, sign-up sheet at the club, game is free to unit 146 members, all other guests welcome at $10 per person

From Nominating Committee Chairperson Debbie Line:

In accordance with Section VI of the bylaws, the 2026 nominating committee met on 10 October 2025. Board members present were Debbie Line and Chuck Miesch. Non-Board members present were Anne Duty, Grace Orsini and Beth Rafferty. There are 5 vacancies and 5 nominees. The following are the nominees for 2026:

• Janet Fuller (OBX Rep.)
• Chuck Heilig
• Paul Howarth
• Steve Rose
• Linda White

Additional nominations may be made by the membership at the time of the annual meeting.

Several of us attended the Lancaster, PA Regional over Halloween.

Masterpoint winners were the team of

Beth Rafferty Virginia Beach, VA,  June Cartledge Virginia Beach, VA, Linda White Virginia Beach, VA, and Kees Vandenheiligenb Chesapeake, VA   who won 25.48 each.

Also winning points were:

Barbara Duer Virginia Beach, VA

Joann Tucker Norfolk, VA

Stephen Rose Virginia Beach, VA

Deborah Line Norfolk, VA

Others attended the Charlotte Regional.  Masterpoint winners were:

8.99   Rebecca Habel Suffolk, VA  

8.99   Joann Olson Suffolk, VA

Also winning points were:

Hazel White Suffolk, VA 

Fran Duman Suffolk, VA 

I will check both tournaments to see if anyone plays on Saturday or Sunday.  This is through Friday for both tournaments.

Several Unit 146 members placed in the District level of the Silver Seniors Event last Wednesday (Oct 15th)  They are:

• Brian Schoenfeld, Virginia Beach VA; Muh-Sha Crawford, Hampton VA    2nd  7.5  Silver

Here's the schedule for the Sunday Unit Game in October:

• October 5:  The Unit Game is cancelled.  We'll be holding the District Final for Flight B North American Pairs that day.
• October 12:  The Unit Game is cancelled due to expected inclement weather. The Mentor-Student game will be moved to October 19th.
• October 19:  This will be the monthly Mentor-Student game for October.  It will also be a Club Appreciation Pairs game.
• October 26:  October Birthday Game.  If your birthday is in October you get to play for free.  There will be cake and refreshments.  This will be a Unit Championship game.

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Many of you are receiving email from club owners about upcoming events and other bridge topics, even if you never signed up for them.  The club owners probably obtained your email from the ACBL roster.  The ACBL terms of use (found at https://web2.acbl.org/documentLibrary/about/termsofuse.pdf) allow them to send information about ACBL-sanctioned bridge events and announcements and newsletters discussing activities of the respective club, Unit, or District.  If you don't want to receive their emails then send them a note to direct them to remove you from their mailing list.  If they won't honor your wishes then let me know.

Emails from the Unit will be sent using the database we maintain on BridgeWebs, which is also updated with the ACBL roster.  If you want to opt out of those, you can either use the Contact Us form on the web page or else you can update your member profile in the Member Area (under Membership).  If neither of those work then contact the webmaster, Wrus Kristiansen, or myself.

P. Haglich