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 generosity! 

We had a sign out to thank our sponsors who donated , but there was so much going on that I want to mention them again. Tommy’s Restaurant was the biggest donor. Please go there and tell Steve that you are there because of his generosity to The Longest Day. These.restaurants also donated: Applebees, Pizza Ranch, Cheddars, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, HuHot Mongolian Grill, Scott’s Family Restaurant, Subway(half price subs!) and Mary Boyd (who donated a convention card book).

Thank you to so many of you who donated labor by bringing food, helping clean up, and giving gift cards. A huge thank you to all of the people who helped get the party bridge crowd to come. Six tables!! Several of the regular duplicate players played with the  group. That was a huge bridge community builder, not to mention all the donations collected from the 9:00 free game. 

Nancy and Paul and Jan and Duane helped in many ways. Bob Buckheister helped spread the word through our web site and was there for all three games, also.

The raffle winners were Joe Rinas, Mary Day, and Carolyn Wadsworth. Mike and Wyn donated a plant that was won by Judy Vopava. 

Someone left a phone at the playing site. We have it here at home and are waiting to hear who lost it. There has only been one call that we have caught and it was an IC number, but we couldn’t answer. 

We were especially pleased that so many out of town people came. Thank you to Vickki who cancelled her Q Cities evening game and encouraged players to come to CR instead. 

We had record breaking number of tables for the games, 6 at the 9:00 game, 12 at the noon game, and 7 at the 6:00 game. Wow! 

Meagan Wagner gave a very informative presentation about Alzheimer’s. She brought her helper, Jonah, who efficiently passed out materials. 

There were several players who played in all three games or were there to help during all three.Nancy Klein directed the 9:00 game. Thank you!

We can’t figure out why the results for the 7:00 game did not come to us automatically through Live for Clubs. You can find the results for that game here: https://my.acbl.org/club-results/details/808087

Thanks again everyone! Way to go Bridge Players!

Jim and MaryAnn