At this past Thursday's Linguists of Listowel, we had lots of fun with the theme of Blizzard Stories. There was 13 members and 1 guest (Lorna's son - Marshall) in attendance. Marilyn Miller called the meeting to order with a minute of silence for the fallen firefighters and then she introduced our chair for the meeting. Audrey Orth was chair for the evening and she told some blizzard stories. She also told us how the community came together with volunteers to help organize the funeral for the firefighters (Raymond Walters and Ken Rea).
Rich Boertien started the laughs going with the role of Joke of the Day by telling a couple of jokes. Keith Stoltz held the role of Toast and Timer and he gave a toast to the fallen heroes (Ken and Raymond). The Grammarian role was done by George Nichol and he challenged everyone to use the word "Obfuscate".
Our first speaker was Lorna Vanderploeg and she gave us a very entertaining speech about some personal blizzard stories. Our second speaker was Heidi Menzi and she told us about the time she visited Victoria Island, British Columbia with all their beautiful gardens (Butchart Gardens). I did the role of Point of View and told the points of why people should join Toastmasters. Then Leo Brisebois had to counter those points with reasons why not.
Karen Bott took on the role of Table Topics Master and had us all continue a story that she started by using some props that she brought. The winner was Audrey Orth. Keith McCluskie tested our listening skills with the role of Quiz Master and Jane Stoltz took on the role of general evaluator, where she introduced our evaluators and went over what we did well and some grow points during the meeting. Marilyn evaluated Lorna's speech and Keith McCluskie evaluated Heidi's speech.
Hope to see you all at our next regular meeting on Thursday. There will be a short business meeting to follow our regular meeting for the club executive officers.
Brent
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