May 12, 2011 - Theme: Home and Garden

Hello Fellow Linguists of Listowel and Friends,

At this past Thursday's Linguists of Listowel, we had a very fun meeting. There were 12 members in attendance. Jane Stoltz called the meeting to order with a funny joke and a great introduction of our Chairperson. Heidi Menzi took on the role of Chairperson for the meeting for her very first time and did a great job. Heidi introduced our theme for the evening of "Home and Garden".

Keith McCluskie started the laughs going with a very funny joke for Joke of the Day. Richard Boertien held the role of Toast and Timer and he gave toast to Canada and all our service clubs. George Nichol held the role of Grammarian and he challenged us to use the word "Captious" which means a having inclination to find fault, especially of a trivial nature. The word "Captious" was used 8 times during the meeting. For Literary Corner, Karen Bott read a very funny and interesting story called "Grueling Garden".

Our first speaker was Lorna VanderPloeg with Speech #4 out of her CC called "My List of Likes". Our second speaker was Diane Bender and gave a very informative and interesting speech called "The Auction Sale" about all her work organizing an auction sale. Next, Audrey Orth did an Educational Corner that was very informative about the mentoring program at Toastmasters.

Jane Stoltz took on the role of Table Topics Master and she had us all pick a type of garden out of the bucket and exaggerate the topic. The winner was a George Nichol with his Shade Garden. I took on the role of general evaluator, where I introduced our evaluators and went over what we did well and some grow points during the meeting. Keith McCluskie evaluated Lorna's speech and Keith McCluskie evaluated Diane's speech. We also had a short discussion on the upcoming Home and Lifestyle Show about our booth.

Hope to see everyone at our next regular meeting on Thursday with our always fun "Reverse Meeting".

Brent