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Help save lives and enjoy your favorite hobby at the Second Annual Community Blood Services |
Crossword Puzzle Tournament & the first-ever New Jersey Sudoku Tournament at |
Bookends |
232 E. Ridgewood Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450
Tel - 201 445 0726 |
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From 7:00 pm through 10:00 pm |
Sponsor |
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Crossword Tournament |
Saturday, September 30 |
Registration begins at 8:30 am |
Tournament begins at 10 am & concludes at about 6 pm Lunch on contestants’ own at approximately noon
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If solving puzzles is your thing, whether Sudoku or crossword puzzles, then join the fun of the 2nd Annual Community Blood Services Foundation Puzzle Tournament. |
Through your participation, you will help Community Blood Services, headquartered in northern New Jersey, to save lives through collection and processing of blood and blood products, recruitment of bone marrow donors, and donations of umbilical cord blood that will have the potential to save the lives of people with leukemia and lymphoma. |
Anyone of any age can enter either or both tournaments, but those who are paid professionals in the crossword puzzle business are encouraged to volunteer as judges and not attend as contestants .(Judges are guests of Community Blood Services Foundation for all events.) |
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Meet Crossword Guru Will Shortz of The New York Times. |
Will Shortz, star of the hit documentary, Wordplay, will be on hand to lead word games (beginning at about 4:30 pm), sign books, and give out prizes. |
Morning Continental Breakfast and afternoon snacks will be donated by Starbucks of Ridgewood. Contestants can choose a place to have lunch on their own from more than 50 local restaurants. |
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Special Post-Tournament Reception |
Join our judges, Will Shortz and your fellow contestants for a wine and cheese plus light supper reception at Bookends after the tournament.� Cost for this reception will be $20/person. (free to judges and constructors). |
Stock Up On Your Favorite Puzzle Books |
(Great way to start your holiday shopping!) |
Bookends will donate a percentage of the gross proceeds to Community Blood Services Foundation for any puzzle books, games, or other books purchased by contestants or guests during the two days of the tournament. |
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About
Community Blood Services |
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Community
Blood Services has saved lives by providing blood
and blood products to nearby hospitals since 1953. CBS
collects, tests and processes donations at its headquarters
in Paramus, NJ, as well as through mobile drives throughout
Northern New Jersey and southern New York. We also have
sites in some of the hospitals we serve and at our two
branch offices located in Goshen, NY and Lincoln Park,
NJ. The organization provides blood and blood products
to 37 hospitals throughout the area, including Morris,
Bergen, Passaic, Essex, Sussex, Union and Hudson Counties
in New Jersey, Rockland, Albany and Orange Counties in
New York State, and a few hospitals in New York City. |
Our efforts
thus save thousands of lives of accident victims, cancer
patients, people with leukemia or lymphoma, surgical
patients, and those with sickle-cell anemia. Each month,
we needs to process approximately 3,500 units of red
blood cells, plus 600 units of platelets (used for
surgery, cancer patients, and hemophilia) and plasma
(used for burn patients and accident victims) in order
to meet patients’ needs. |
The HLA
Registry, a division of Community Blood Services, has more than 225,000
donors who are willing to donate their bone marrow
to victims of leukemia, lymphoma or other devastating
diseases who need transplants. Our Elie Katz Umbilical
Cord Blood Program is one of only 31 centers throughout
the United States that provides stem cells from the
umbilical cords of new-born babies for use by the general
public. |
How
Does It Work? |
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First Sudoku Tournament in New Jersey |
For those who love figuring out the numbers to solve a Sudoku puzzle, you’ll have your chance to show how good you are in New Jersey’s first-ever tournament for this latest craze in puzzling. |
There will be two divisions: |
Junior: Ages 12 through 17 (must have parental permission) |
Adult: Ages 18 and over |
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Sudoku fans will be challenged by at least four puzzles prepared by puzzle guru Will Shortz, puzzle editor of The New York Times.� Compete for a first prize of $100, trophies for the top three winners in each division, plus hand-held Sudoku electronic games donated by G.S. Schwartz and Company to be given to the top ten winners.� All those who correctly solve each puzzle will receive bonus points for each minute they finish early; winners will be those with the highest score.� No credit will be given for incorrect puzzles. |
Second Annual Crossword Tournament |
Here’s another chance to match wits with some of the best-known constructors for The New York Times, Penny Press/Dell Magazines and Newsday crossword puzzles. |
All contestants will tackle five puzzles specially created for this tournament and edited by famed wordsmith Nancy Schuster. They will be judged on speed and accuracy. Solving time limits will vary depending on each puzzle's size. When all five puzzles have been completed and scored, the top three finalists from each division will tackle a sixth championship puzzle in front of all other contestants. All pre-registered contestants will receive a crossword book donated by St. Martin’s Press. |
Division A: Those who have placed in the top 30th percentile in any crossword tournament |
Division B:� Everyone else |
Winners will share $500 in prize money, and will each receive a trophy.� Trophies and books will also be awarded to the top contestants in the Rookie division, top contestants from several geographic regions, age groups (including juniors under 21, 50’s, 60’s, and Senior Citizens� 70+), plus "the coveted Handwriting Award."
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REGISTRATION
FORM |
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At the door:
$70 |
REGISTER
above and pay the registration fee
below through our online store or by
mail. |
Pay Online for your events: |
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Your entry fee includes
a tax-deductible donation. |
For more
information, please cal or email - Therese Weiss at
(201) 705-1623 or [email protected]. |
Fax: (201) 265-2032 |
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Acknowledgments |
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The Community Blood Services Foundation Crossword Puzzle Tournament is sponsored by: St. Martin’s Press, Bookends of Ridgewood, Starbucks of Ridgewood, and by North Fork Bank. Artwork by Joseph Bulaon. |
Hotel |
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We have reserved a block of 10 rooms at the Crowne Plaza Hotel ( 3 miles away), Paramus, located at 601 From Road near the Paramus Park Mall.� Rooms are available at a special rate of $110/night. Reservations must be made by September 5, 2006 to qualify for this rate. The Inn will run special shuttles to and from the tournament site. To reserve, call (201) 262-6900, and mention that you are with the Crossword Tournament., or go to www.crowneplaza.com, and click on Paramus. |
Directions |
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From New York City: �Take the George Washington Bridge to Route 4 West, go about 10 miles to Route 17 North.� Take Route 17 North about 4 miles to Ridgewood Avenue West. Take Ridgewood Avenue to the center of town, about two miles.� Just past Maple Avenue, you will see Bookends on your left.� |
From the Garden State Parkway North or South: Take Exit 165, Ridgewood Avenue, West, and follow above directions |
From the West:� Take Route 80 East to Garden State Parkway North, then follow above directions. |
Parking:� Some free parking (first-come, first served) is available behind Bookends, off of Dayton Place. Make a left at the next corner past Bookends, then left onto Dayton Place. Metered parking for the entire day is available in the Ridgewood Municipal Lot; make right into lot just past bookends.� Long-term parking is at the far end of the lot; please bring quarters. |
By public transportation:
Take the 5:37 pm Northeast Corridor line train on Friday or the 8:14 am Northeast Corridor Line train on Saturday from Penn Station to Secaucus Transfer Station, and then transfer to Main or Bergen Line to Ridgewood.� Or take Buses # 164, 144, 145 or 148 from Port Authority downtown or Bus #175 from Port Authority uptown to Ridgewood. Bookends is just a short walk East on Ridgewood Avenue from either the bus station or the train station.� Go to www.njtransit.com for bus and train schedules. |
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Community
Blood Services Foundation |
970 Linwood
Avenue W, PO Box 39 |
Paramus , NJ
07653-0039 |
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