As 2013 gets rolling, I am looking at a couple events we have coming up.
First, our Club Level International and Table Topic contest is scheduled for April 3rd this year. The event is scheduled to be chaired by Jean, with Monica our Area Governor coming out that evening to be our Chief Judge. Being a club level event, we are planning to let our members practice their skills by taking on some roles, such as judging. Certainly there are practical reason to do this "in house" but certainly it is good practice and experience for our membership, and if you can't practice these roles at our own club, your learning curve would be a lot longer.
Our second event, and one we are very happy to HOST is the Area International and Table Topic contest is scheduled for April10th @ 6:15 p.m. at our normal location at the Masonic Temple. In the case of an Area Contest, we are just hosting the location and the Area will handle the actually contest. In this case, the formality of the event goes up a notch and the roles have to meet the guidelines solidly -- so Judges and so on will be from other clubs.
Contestants, Guests, and Toastmaster Members are all invited to these events. The Area event will have a door fee -- probably $10. We would love to see you out.
Glenn Laycock
President (2012-13)
Venio Dictum Toastmasters Club
On November 27th, Venio Dictum Toastmaster held their 2012-13 club level storytelling event.
At the conclusion of the event, Janet Adam, Don Eppler, and Gary Stempnick shared the background of why this event was name in honor of Peter Thomas. By the sounds of it, Peter was quite the "character" with an adventurous personality and had members amazed as he recounted his adventures when delivering speeches.
Our contestants for this event were: Toban, Janet, and Don. Our chairman of the event was the clubs VP of Pubic Relations, Andrew Smith who ran the event very well. All the speeches ended up being exactly as "billed" as storytelling they were. All unique, entertaining, insightful, and at times humorous.
The winner in the end was our Past President, Don Eppler. Special thanks to the speakers, judges, ballot counters, timers, and avid listeners.
On Saturday, November 17th, Venio Dictum Toastmasters hosted the luncheon at this year's Fall Conference. It was held at the Holiday Inn on Portage Avenue, close to the Moray Bridge.
Janet Adam and Don Eppler championed this project to good success.
Keynote speaker for the lunch was Barbara Bowles.
In the above photo: President Glenn Laycock, Barbara Bowles, Past President Don Eppler.
The luncheon went well with a strong keynote by Barbara, and the Holiday Inn lived up to its reputation as a good venue.
Last week our club had its Evaluation and Humourist Speech Contests.
- Eric Elford was the winner of the Evaluation contest
- Nicolette L. was the winner of our Humourist contest
Eric and Nicolette advanced to the Area 21 level event, which was held on October 25 at the St. Boniface University.
We had several people on hand to cheer on Nicolette and Eric, including:
VP of Membership, Ray Larkins
President, Glenn Laycock
Members Ian S. and Josephine O.
Although Eric and Nicolette did not advance to the next level, the evening was an enjoyable one that was chalked full of excitement as the competition was of good caliber.
