Eddie Wold comes to Vancouver

Eddie Wold, top ranked bridge professional with over 10,000 masterpoints, is coming to Vancouver.
He will be giving a series of four 3 hour talks over two days.
Aug 14 and Aug 15th.
The cost for all 4 sessions is $80.00.
There are only about 8 spots left of the original 64, so if you are interested send a cheque to Vicki Moffat, Unit 430 treasurer, made out to Unit 430.

There have been several top pros come to Vancouver and give similar talks over the last few years. The latest before Eddie was Mike Lawrence.
However this is the first time in my memory that Unit 430 has been the sponsor of the event.

Greg Morse

Unit 430 Finances. Priorities.

Thanks to the consistent hard work of our fund-raising people over the years the Units finances are in good shape. Since we like to run at approximately break even, (while being prudent of course) the question comes up as to how to spend whatever surplus there is.
There are two main areas that could use as much money as we can afford:
1. Travel subsidies for people and teams attending GNT, Canadian Championships, etc.
There are may groups such as Open Teams, Women's Teams, Senior's Teams, Pairs, and many events that we could subsidize. How much and how often?

2. New Member development. There is more opportunity for creativity here. We can subsidize teachers and courses, we can do some targeted advertising, we can offer free plays etc.
One idea that I have is to run a tournament for people under 25 years old with a (significant) cash prize, say $500, for the winners. Think any students at UBC, or Kwantlen college would be interested?

3. There is also the Vancouver Regional of 2012. While this is not strictly a Unit 430 event, it is of benefit to our members to have a Regional here, and if we can help out with prizes, after session refreshments, and the like perhaps we should consider it.

Anyone else have any ideas?

Greg Morse