November 8, 2012 Theme: Remembrance Day

Vern called the meeting to order and introduced our Chairperson for the evening, Tony.  Tony welcomed everyone, with special mention to our guests from the Palmerston Legion and Army Cadets for coming out on our Remembrance Day evening.

Guests:  Cheryl Thomson, Josh Wakeford, a member of the Norwell 1943 Army Cadets and from the Palmerston Legion, Branch 409, Chris Wakeford, Liz and Jeff Lambier.

Guest introductions were made and there were no agenda changes.

Toast and Timer was Apryl.  For this evening the time given to this role was extended.  Before doing the toast, Apryl read the poem "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae.

Grammarian and Laugh Counter was John.  The word for this special evening was Commemorate.  George took on the role of Literary Corner.  He first read a poem called "Final Inspection", author unknown, and then read a story on the appearance of the old veteran on the $10 bill.

Up next was Keith S with his speech "What Would You Like to Know".  This is Keith's 3rd time through the CC manual and this was the icebreaker speech.  Doing it impromptu, he asked for questions on what people wanted to know and then did his speech based on answering those questions.  He did avoid one question which was why he thinks Jane needs another cat.  A minute for written evaluations followed.

Table Topics was done by Val.  She had everyone draw a number and then drew a matching set of numbers herself to determine the speaking order.  The theme for TT was what you did to recognize Remembrance Day.  Most of our guests participated as well. 

Brent was the General Evaluator this evening.  He first asked for Keith M. to do his speech evaluation on Keith S., followed by asking for the various reports.  Apryl gave her Timer report, followed by John with his Grammarian report.  Val was next with her Table Topics report.  The winner this evening was our young guests for the Army Cadets, Josh.  I must admit a lot of the Toastmasters were in awe at the way he stood up and spoke with such confidence.  Brent then gave his General Evaluator report.

Leo was up next with his Quizmaster's Report; our guests participated in this with enthusiasm.  Tony again took the lectern as the evening drew to a close.  There were a few items for Anything For the Good of Toastmasters, followed by Roles and Themes for the next few weeks.  Before Tony officially called the meeting to an end, our guests then had a chance to share their views of the meeting.