MERRY CHRISTMAS

HAPPY NEW YEAR

If I were really clever, I could put holly and Christmas trees all over this, but you’re going to have to be satisfied without decoration.

Tournaments coming up:

January 20^th (Sunday) Greenbank at Logan City Tavern, $22 or $24 with lunch, 7 games, Karrin Henderson 3800 1757

February 10^th (Sunday) Ipswich at Sports Club, Green Street, Booval, Joan Watson 5427 0307

February 23^rd (Saturday) Early Warm-up, Venue TBA, 7 game Round Robin. The Scrabble Queensland AGM will be held at lunchtime

March 8^th (Saturday) Redland Bay Community Centre, probably 7 games, Elaine Ison 3829 2441

April 27^th (Sunday) Lismore Workers’ Club, Svend Grunnet (02) 6663 1156

SCRABBLE QUEENSLAND AGM

The AGM will be held at lunchtime of the Early Warm-up, February 23^rd. If you have any agenda items, please ask your club organiser to send them to Anne Drew, so that she can include them in the AGM announcement. Clubs will have the opportunity to discuss them as soon as Anne gets them.

HAVE I GOT YOUR EMAIL?

If you are not receiving messages from me, then please email me your address so that I can add you to my list. My email is visser@optushome.com.au When I send out bulk mail, I put your addresses in the Blind carbon copy, so that your email and those of all the other people are not listed on the page.

GEN CON GAMES SPECTACULAR

Ian Houlihan who used to run the Auran charity weekend, is involved in a games expo at Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. It’s the same weekend as Coominya Christmas in July (Sunday 6^th) which is an important tournament on our calendar. We could play on the Saturday, 5^th July, if enough people want to. Ian says that the entry would be about $24, no lunch and parking would be an extra cost and Scrabble Queensland would have to pay all expenses. Failing that, we could man a booth in the merchants’ hall, play a demonstration game and hand out information sheets. We’d probably get more exposure doing that rather than joining them for a tournament. Let your club organiser know if you are eager to play in the Gen Con Games.

MINI COASTAL SAFARI

Mattel has already given us funding to run tournaments along the coast. Their funding would pay for the fuel costs, and I am pretty sure that we’d be able to arrange some billets for scrabblers who will join in. At the moment, we’re thinking of mid-April. It’d be up to Rockhampton for a tournament on a Friday, Gladstone on Saturday, Bargara (or Bundaberg) on Sunday, and perhaps Maryborough on Monday. There’d be a rated tournament for experienced scrabblers, and unrated for raw beginners. Three or four people in a car, depending on space, might result in a happy group of us bringing scrabble to the provinces. I shall be going with two others in the car so let me know if you want to make up a group in another car or two or three.