Sheridan Park Toastmasters Club 628: Minutes of the Meeting of Sheridan Park Toastmasters-March 1st, 2006

Thursday, March 09, 2006

Minutes of the Meeting of Sheridan Park Toastmasters-March 1st, 2006

Miriam Richter, CTM chaired this special meeting with “Olympic Achievements” as the theme, with 20 members 3 guests.

The Toast by Phil Taylor, ATM-B, CL “To our champions – the Canadian team” who won the 3rd place at the recent Torino’s Olympics Winter Games and the Word of the Day “WIN” by Eugene gave the meeting a great kick start.

Tim Fuchs, the President of Trillium Toastmasters Club invited us to participate at their special 30th Anniversary Celebration on Saturday April 1st, 2006.

Jeff Peters, CTM was the Table Topics Master and true to his style and form built TT around Olympics carefully selecting the participants. Kai Chan won for the Best Topics presenter again. Kai will remain recognized for his wisdom and his words:” WIN WIN WIN!”

Miriam overcame graciously the adversity of the neighbor’s noise and took it as a challenge to be able to conduct a business meeting session even during the hammer’s kicks and walls trepidations. At the Officers Reports session, Clive announced the Speech Contest for the next meeting giving personal example and leading the contestant’s registration. A new member was inducted – Candy Zhang and our hardworking Simona Cheoreanu – VP-Ed, presented an excellent Parliamentarian report full of explanations for the new members.

Phil as Toastmaster introduced in his original and inspirational style the speakers for the evening; Bruce Mackay with his Icebreaker and Eileen He, CTM – our VP-PR…

The speech by Bruce “My Family” and the evaluation done by Clive were both splendid.

Eileen presented us very interesting tips and “saving money tricks” in her “Planning a trip” speech. Rudy Dacorte as evaluator was very impressed and declared that even he likes the danger of the unknown, he will think again before a new trip scheduling.

Bruce and Clive were awarded with the Best Speaker and respectively the Best Evaluator.
But the best deal in town was done by Bruce, again! He revealed us the secret and told us that "buying their daughter for 1 $/ pound worth every penny". He was the Spark of the Meeting and the Thought of the Day!

Members attending: Rudi, Miriam, Phil, Simona, Ross, Daniel, Eileen, Carter, Kai, Vivian, Jeff, Frank, Heather, Krish, Niv, Raj, Clive, Benjamin, Bruce, Candy. Guests: Dil, Andre, Tim, Eugene, Stuart,

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Sheridan Park Toastmasters Club 628

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Minutes of the Meeting of Sheridan Park Toastmasters-March 1st, 2006

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