October 13_2011 Theme: Books, Magazines, Papers Worth Reading.

Toastmasters

We had a fun filled meeting last night with plenty of laughs and good jokes. The theme; Books, Magazines and Paper was a good theme for last night's meeting. We had myself and Lucy bring a box of paper-backed books. Keith Stoltz brought his IPAD 2 to show us that you can read books and run a meeting paperless.

Joke of the day, by Lucy D’Arcey, was about a children's story where the children thought that God had been lost and they were the ones to blame.

Grammarian, by Jane Stoltz, provided the word "Ambiguous". It was used 3 times which was very ambiguous on every one's part.

Speaker, Sharon D’Arcey, practiced her speech introduction for an event that she will be hosting. She used this opportunity to get feedback and she received good grow points to take with her for the event night.

Table Topics, lead by myself, had a theme about "The monkey on your back". This monkey was something that nobody wanted and each person had to pass it on to the next toastmaster with a good reason why they couldn't keep it. We are given Monkey’s from other people everyday and it’s how we delegate them to others which frees us from those tasks or "monkeys on our backs". The Table Topic winner was Jean Van Der Straeten, our guest and returning toastmaster for the evening.

Quiz Master, Audrey Orth had us thinking a lot of the phrases that each of us used throughout the meeting.

Literary Reading, from Lucy D’Arcey was about good help books and literature about children.

Lorna VanderPloeg, General Evaluator, gave us some good grow points to take home and improve our next meeting with.

Brent Jemmett helped out by stepping in to fill the agenda roles by introducing our guest for the evening and Calling the meeting to order.

All in all, we had over 75 laughs. Everyone had a good time.

Have a good week and hope that all the toastmasters that were not in attendance for this weeks meeting can make it next week for our Youth Leadership Workshop this Thursday.

Let’s make a good impression for our Youths.

Thank-you,

Leo Brisebois

October 6_2011 Theme: Fall Colours

Lucy D'Arcey presents her speech # 6 entitled "Thank-you for Thanksgiving".

















Lorna VanderPloeg evaluates Lucy's speech presentation and provides some "glow" and "grow" points.

















Sharon D'Arcey was the Grammarian for the evening. She provided a report on the usage of the word of the night "pilgrimage" as well as a report on the group's overall grammar usage during the meeting.















Audrey Orth was the general evaluator of the meeting. She provided the club members with her views on what she liked about the meeting and suggestions to enhance future meetings.

October 6, 2011 Theme: Fall Colours

Linguist of Listowel

The meeting last night finished with over 75 laughs! What an increase over the last meeting by 25 laughs. What a boost to the meeting. Great joke by Keith Stoltz, if you are a speaker always make sure you are not the last one to speak if you want a guarantee that there will be anyone left to hear it.

Grammarian by Sharon D’Arcey, provided us with the word Pilgrimage which means; a long journey. The way the word was presented was that Sharon was going to pay close attention to it's proper usage. We did use the word and had a lot of fun with it. The word pilgrimage was used over 7 times or more during the evening.

We had a Thanksgiving reading from Heidi Menzi. She read about saving habitat for pheasants and how they were preserved in the wildlife. We had one speaker; Lucy D’Arcey, who provided us with a motivational speech on Thanksgiving that added humor and inspiration.

Table Topics, led by Jane Stoltz, was about things that we are thankful for. The winner was between myself and Keith Stoltz. Keith won because I voted for him and he did have a better mini speech than mine.

Quizmaster; Keith McCluskie did a good job and had us puzzled on some of the comments or statements made by people during the meeting. It was good that he had some easy ones in the mix.

We also had an award for Lucy D'Arcey who gave her 6^th speech tonight and she was recognized for her achievement. Great job Lucy! We always enjoy listening to your speeches.

Audrey Orth, General Evaluator only had good things to say about the meeting which was full of laughs and good times.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones.

Leo Brisebois

September 29, 2011: Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contests

Table Topics Contest Winners;
Left: Jane Stoltz (2nd place)
Centre: Brent Jemmett (3rd place)
Right: Keith McCluskie (1st place).










Humorous Speech Contest Winners;
Left: Valrie Hummel (2nd place) - Speech entitled - Racoon Race.
Right: Keith McCluskie (1st place) - Speech entitled - Family Re-union