April 14, 2011, Theme: Boost Your Hometown

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

On Thursday, we had a great time at our meeting with the theme of “Boost Your Hometown”. There were 10 members in attendance. Audrey Orth called the meeting to order by introducing myself as the chair for the meeting. I boosted the home towns that I have lived in and discussed why everyone should boost their home town.

Rich Boertien took on the role of Joke of the Day and got the laughs going by telling a couple of really funny jokes. Wayne Stoltz filled in for the role of Toast and Timer and he gave our toast to Canada and our home town of Listowel. George Stevers took on the role of Literary Corner and read a very interesting story from The Book of Virtues by Wayne J. Bennet.

Our first speaker was Marie McCutcheon with her speech presentation "You can make a story out of nothing”. We all got to hear about her very interesting trip getting to the Spring Conference in Toronto. Next, Jane Stoltz filled the role of Educational Corner and taught us the basics of parliamentary procedures. We will be using parliamentary procedures in our upcoming Officer Election in May.

Rich Boertien took on the role of Point of View where he explained the importance of clean living and taking care of yourself. Then Wayne Stoltz had to counter his Point of View.

Keith McCluskie for the role of Table Topic master and had us all pick an Easter egg out of the basket. Inside the egg was a topic or method of how we would each boost our home town. The winner was Marie McCutcheon. Keith Stoltz took on the role of general evaluator, where he introduced our evaluators and went over what we did well and some grow points during the meeting. Leo evaluated Marie’s speech.

Remember that our next regular meeting on Thursday with our theme "Earthquakes" will be at a different location. The Meadows which is at 710 Nelson St. in Listowel (behind Zellers) and the meeting is at different time (7pm).

Brent