Wednesday, November 16, 2011

November 3, 2011 Theme: Remembering the Past, Present and Future

Toastmasters

Our meeting last night was fun and it included lots of laughs according to the laugh counter. "Awesome" was the word of the evening and it was used over 15 times. Thanks to Lorna VanderPloeg, our Grammarian, awesome eh!

The theme; past, present and future is based upon the quote "Yesterday is History, Tomorrow a Mystery, Today is a Gift, That's why it's called the Present. The theme is also timely as we reflect on Remembrance Day and those who fought and have fallen for our country's freedom.

Jane Stoltz, who was chair for last night’s meeting, did a fantastic job keeping thing moving forward and on schedule as every meeting should be run.

This was the second week for our Youth Leadership group and it started with introductions which flowed into the Joke of the Day done by myself about a parrot named Moses and the dog named Jesus.

Youth Leadership participants; Lexi and Caityln both presented their Ice Breaker speeches last night and both presented very well for their first speech presentation. They were both evaluated and were provided with lots of glow points and at least one grow point to help improve their speech presentation for next week. Overall they were wonderful.

Table Topics was presented by Lucy D’Arcey. She had us all speak about a famous person and make us all believe that their success and achievements in life came from being in Toastmasters.

The Table Topics winner was a tie between Lexi and Caityln. Way to go!

Sample speech was provided by Valrie Hummel. She is so humorous because she appears so serious and makes you just want to keep laughing. Our Timer George Nichol who explained his role and gave us a toast to Canada.

All in all we had lot of laughs and lot of fun.

Leo Brisebois

Club President

October 20, 2011 Theme: It Starts With Us

October 20th was the start of the Youth Leadership Program. We had two youth sign up for the 6 week program.
We also had a guest, Tracy Ireland, during the meeting.











Part of the Youth Leadership Program is to demonstrate and explain what happens during a Toastmaster's meeting.
Lucy D'Arcey is running the Youth Leadership Program and introduced the program to the youth.
George Nichol provided an educational module on preparing a speech.
Diane Bender provided a very good speech presentation with her sample Ice Breaker Speech. (This helped the youth participants understand how they might write and present their Ice Breaker Speech).
Lorna VanderPloeg presented a great speech entitled "Stop Making Excuses and Start Making Changes".
We also had a visit from our Area Governor, Gregory C.N. Smith.

Shown left: Area Governor, Gregory C.N. Smith presents Brent Jemmett (Sergeant At Arms) with the first place trophy for winning the Area Humorous Speech Contest.
Congratulations Brent!

October 13, 2011 Theme: Books, Magazines, Papers Worth Reading

Lucy D'Arcey presents a Literary Reading.


















Sharon D'Arcey presented her speech. Sample speech about being a master of ceremonies.

















Leo Brisebois was the Table Topics master for the meeting. He had a theme of "Get rid of the monkey on your back".

















Sharon D'Arcey participates in Table Topics and speaks about how to get the monkey off her back.