August 18, 2005 - meeting

Greetings to all Fellow Toastmasters -

We had a wonderful summer meeting at the Schmidt’s home – thank you to Heidy and Harvey for hosting it. It was great to see your farm and what great food! Thanks to Heidy for all your hard work, oh yes, and you too Harvey. We had a great turnout – a total of 15 members and 1 guest Gary. Heidy did a wonderful job of chairing the meeting with the theme appropriately being summer sunsets. We are truly blessed this year with wonderful warm days and equally gorgeous sunsets. Ezra was wonderful to spontaneously arise to the occasion to conduct the toast to Canada. Audrey once again did a delightful job of language enricher by using the word “cacophony” which is a noun and means ill sound or discord. Diane did a wonderful job of Literary Corner by reading an article called “Why I joined Thinkers Anonymous” very entertaining and thought provoking – thanks Brenda, great job. It was wonderful to hear Erinne present her first speech “the ice breaker”. You did an amazing job Erinne, and it was “lucky for all of us” to hear your wonderful life story. I am really looking forward to hearing your next speech. Brian also did a fantastic job by presenting his speech and it was called “Thank-you, I appreciate it.” Brian appropriately worked in the successes of his day, in that he was notified of a new job offer. Way to go Brian, congratulations. As I said at the meeting, Marie you are my hero, you did an impromptu by acting like you were in a job interview for a bartender. Amazing job, you are great on your feet! John did table topics to-night, “tough questions John”, but this is what we need to keep us sharp. We had a combination of evaluators tonight and they were Keith, George, Heidy, Ken, Jane, Marie and Audrey, Keith and Brian giving feedback to Erin, Brian and Marie. Ezra gave the timers report at the end of the evening.
It was also noted by Audrey that all toastmasters are encouraged to bring goodies to the meetings – please take turns, it will be either feast or famine, but it always has a way of working out. The really great news came at the end of the night which Gary announced that he was planning on joining Toastmasters....great news Gary and welcome! The meeting adjourned at 8:45 – oh yes, we missed seeing the sunset tonight but the meeting was equally as entertaining and enjoyable ….. see you all in 3 weeks - the first fall meeting on September 8, 2005 at 7:15pm

Linda D.

Linguists of Listowel

Linguists of Listowel

Our next Summer Meeting is on Thursday August 18th at the home of Harvey and Heidy's.

Linguists of Listowel

Linguists of Listowel

Meeting of Thursday August 4, 2005

Our Tall Tales Contest was held at St. Paul's Lutheran Church at 7:15 p.m. We had 7 contestants consisting of Brian, Brenda, Keith, Harvey, Marie, Linda, and Allan. First Place winner is Allan, second runner up is Keith and Third Runner up is Harvey.
Congratulations to all who participated and also to those who assisted with the contest. We had approximately 30 people in attendance. Our First Place Winner - Allan will go to the Mt. Forest Motivators Club on Tuesday August 16th.
Our next meeting will be held on Thursday August 18th at Harvey and Heidy's place.