What an amazing day! Our club earned nearly $3500 for Alzheimer’s. There were 27 tables of bridge in the three sessions.
There are many people to thank! Paul and Nancy Klein helped all day and donated the bagels. Al and Karen …
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The Longest Day 2024
We are excited to announce Build Better Bridge will be holding The Longest Day on June 17, 2024. We have sponsored this event through the ACBL since 2012. I’ll enclose the flyer.
One of the highlights of the
… “Longest Day” – Alzheimers Charity Event – 2023
The money we raised from online donations, sanctioned game fees, raffle tickets, and other donations.was very close to $3000. I’m pretty sure that was an all time record breaker for The Longest Day for BBB. We are overwhelmed by everyone’s …
The Longest Day 2023
BBB is having The Longest Day celebration again this year. The ACBL sponsors this event and we will be participating. We will be having all day activities (Details) on June 19. Doors will open at 9 for …
The Longest Day 2022
We are very excited to get back to celebrating The Longest Day for Alzheimer’s. We will be having all day activities on June 20. Doors will open at 9 for free bagels and coffee and social bridge. At 11 there …
Westminster Food Drive
Remember the fall food drives Build Better Bridge used to have? Remember Face to Face Bridge games at all? It’s tough for Bridge players, but, of course, we realize there are much bigger needs in our community.
Westminster Presbyterian continues to …
The Longest Day: Virtually
One of our favorite bridge days was the fund raiser for Alzheimer’s, The Longest Day. This year it will look a little different. The ACBL is dedicating all the virtual club games played on the weekend of June 20 and …
The Longest Day at Build Better Bridge
The Longest Day was celebrated on June 17 at Westminster Church in Cedar Rapids. It was an amazing day!
We had 25 tables of bridge, party bridge in the morning and three duplicate games during the afternoon and evening. Breakfast …
Giving More and More and More!
When we were in charge of the Wednesday night club, we adopted the phrase, “We give more!” We gave more points by having special games nearly every week. We gave more opportunities to learn with free lessons, hand records, and …
Giving to the Community through Bridge
For October, November and December, the daytime bridge clubs of Cedar Rapids donated to the Westminster Food Bank. The first Monday and the first Thursday of each of those three months were Food Bank Days. Players were encouraged to bring …