Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,
What another great meeting! We had great attendance and the meeting was full of many laughs that were too numerous to count. The theme for the night was "Fact or Fiction".

Audrey Orth called the meeting to order right on time and introduced myself as the Chairperson. Throughtout the meeting I challenged everyone with a quiz that I found on the Myth Busters website. We had 3 members tie for the most correct answers with 6.

Next Sharon Diehl as our Toast and Timer gave a great toast to Canada and kept accurate times of all the roles. The Grammarian role was filled by George Nichol and he challenged us to use the word "Prevaricate" which means to act or speak misleadly. "Prevaricate" was used 9 times. Keith McCluskie did the role of Literary Corner where he read an interesting story out of a Country Woman article called "The time the ice cream tasted salty".

We had a business meeting conducted by Diane Bender to address the vacant secretary role and we elected Marilyn Miller. Then our Area Govenor, Keith Stoltz inducted Marilyn into the role. Next we had a ribbon ceremony where Diane Bender put our President's Distinguished ribbon on our banner and Keith Stoltz put the ribbon of "Home of the Area Govenour" on the banner.

We had one speaker for the night. Richard Boertien completed his second speech out of the "Speaking to Inform" manual. His speech was called "Milwaukee Iron" where he told us the story of how the motorcycle Harley Davidson came to be and how it is the great motorcycle with his great sound effects.

Sharon D'Arcey did a great job evaluating Rich's speech by giving some great glow points speech.

Marie McCutcheon had a very interesting challenge for everyone with Table Topics where we partnered up, had to speak for 3 minutes and had to tell everyone about the new item that we are going to sell . The partners that won were Audrey Orth/Richard Boertien who all had us wanting to buy an electronic typewritter.

Heidi Menzi challenged with quizmaster and Keith Stoltz as general evaluator gave us a good review of how the meeting went.

Afterwards, we enjoyed snacks provided by Audrey and Sharon D'Arcey.

Hope to see you all on Thursday for our next meeting and our Humourous/Table Topics Contest.

Brent

Dates to remember:

Sept 23rd Linguists of Listowel's Humourous and Table Topics Contest.
Oct. 20th is the Area Contest in Harriston
Oct. 29th the District Contest in Waterloo.