Spa Town Tournament

The Spa Town Tournament went well over the weekend with 28 teams from around the top half of the country turning up to compete on a very cold and misty Te Aroha day.

We have received positive feedback from many people who attended who said the catering and organisation was first class.

Thanks to all of our members who pitched in with stuff for the raffles (of which we made more then $500) and helped to set up and contributed in some form or other. Also thanks to the Matamata club who allowed us to borrow tables, stools and boards for the tournament.

In particular thanks to John Phillips for dealing 14 sets of boards; Corolyn and Tom Stephenson for organising the catering, Martin, Joan and Peter who helped in the kitchen all day, Pamela Clydesdale who helped in the room all day, Hermanna who made 130 portions of apple cake and Linda who also came and sold raffles for the morning. Once the dust settles and we have worked out the final bills we hope to have raised around $2000.

Also thanks to Laurie and Kristen Rigter for arranging grant funding which provided funding for catering, venue hire and equipment for the tournament which can be utilised going forward and means we now have awesome heat pumps in the clubrooms!

As far as the bridge went ... the best of the Te Aroha bunch was Victor Kooter, Foster Kalma, Tim Rigter and Rochelle van Heuven who came 2nd in the Multigrade.

Charlotte Jager, Jacob Kalma and their partners Wayne Burrows and Gary Foidl narrowly missed out on some prize money in the Open coming in at 6th place.