Meeting 2021 - Contest Night

Carmy opened the Meeting and read the Mission Statement. President Christiane welcomed all Members and guest Vaughan, as well as visiting Toastmaster Judges Jenny, Maria and Allan.

Carmy and Christiane

Maria, Jenny and Allan

Casey took the role of Toastmaster, introducing Annette who raised a Toast to "All the Contestants"

Casey and Annette

Blake provided two jokes which set the mood for a fun night, one of the jokes had a great punchline.

Blake

Steve

Steve was Contest Toastmaster for Table Topics.

The Table Topics Contestants were Darryl, Leanne, Christiane and Chris. The placings were:
First Leanne, Second Darryl and Third Christiane.

Christiane, Leanne and Darryl, and Chris

Leanne

Leanne was Contest Toastmaster for the Humorous Contest.

The Humorous Speech Contestants were Christiane and Stephen. The placings were:
First Stephen, Second Christiane.

Christiane and Stephen

First and Second Place Getters will represent Sandgate Club at the Area Conference later this year.

The Raffle was sold by Liz, and the lucky winner was Casey.

Liz

A great Contest night and Congratulations for all participants.

Meeting 1020 "Scenic Sandgate"

The meeting was well attended, and included guests Area Director David, and Shane, Vaughan and Marian.

President Christiane had returned from her trip and was inducted by Trish, since she had been away for the Changeover ceremony.

New President Christiane inducted by Trish

 Jonathon proposed the toast, which included "Scenic Sandgate" and handed control to Toastmaster of the evening, Paul.

Jonathon

Paul

Wordmaster Darryl presented the word "Picturesque," meaning visually attractive and gave examples for it's use.  It was well used during the evening.

Since it is Exhibition week in Brisbane, Trevor's Round Robin topic was "Showbags." All agreed that there is not much value for money in them nowadays. 

The first prepared speech of the night was Marlene's "Higgins Great Managerie," It was the Pathways "Research and Present" project. It was evaluated by Peter. 

Peter

Eileen's speech "The Joy of Volunteering" was also a "Research and Present" project. It was evaluated by Blake.

Eileen

Blake

Stephen's speech about Diets was from "The Communication and Leadership Programme" and was evaluated by Christiane.

Stephen

Christiane

 Speech 4 was Gail's amusing family tale, "Are We There Yet?" evaluated by Jonathon.

Gail

Jonathon.

Table Topics Master Leesa had topics for David, Darryl, Carmy Gail, Monica and Trevor, all with a Scenic Sandgate theme.

Leesa

David

Carmy

Monica

Trevor

Darryl

They were evaluated by Casey and Annette.

Casey

Annette

Annette chaired the business session. One of the items for discussion was whether to hold an extra meeting on the 5th week in October. Those who were for an extra meeting won by one vote.

Grammarian Carmy commented on good word usage and filler words during the meeting.

Time keeper Monica reported that our meeting had gone slightly overtime. (It was a very full meeting.)

Darryl's raffle - a bag of goodies including a desk light, chocolates, wine etc was won by Stephen.

Darryl's raffle.

Area Director David

After a short address by David our Area Director, Christiane closed the meeting and presented awards to Jonathon (Best Evaluation,) Darryl (Best Table Topic,) Gail (Best Speech,) and Carmy. (Most Improved.)

Award winners 8th August 2018

Thanks to Trevor for a scrumptious supper.

Next meeting 28th will be our Table Topics and Humorous Speech contest. More entries needed, especially for the Humorous Speech contest. Join in the fun! It doesn't have to be a new speech.

Speechfest 31st July

There were five Tuesdays this month, so we had a Speechfest on the 5th Tuesday. We welcomed guests Andrew and Gabriella, whom we had met at the Einbunpin Festival.

Carmy proposed the Toast and  Peter introduced the meeting theme, "Coffee."

Carmy

Peter

Wordmaster Eileen chose the word "Instant."

Eileen

Round Robin MasterJohn invited us to tell of a positive experience involving coffee.

 There was a wide variety of speeches. Blake told of his first love at the age of 12 - which turned out to be a red BMW car!

Trevor gave us some shocking facts about Cancer.

Blake

Trevor

 Leanne presented her Pathways Icebreaker, and shared some important parts of her life, including her love of travelling. (Sorry, didn't get a photo.)

Marlene repeated one of her previous speeches, about a trip to the vet.

Monica took us back to the past with her speech about the Gayndah Commune.

Monica

Speech Evaluators were Gail, John, Leesa and Marlene.

Gail

John

 

Leesa

Annette presented an information session about meeting roles and stressed the importance of keeping within the allotted time as it affects everyone else on the programme.

Darryl

 Darryl had some constructive suggestions in his General Evaluation.

Gail's raffle (a bag of goodies, including coffee, chocolate and puzzle book,) was won by Monica.

Annette presented the evening's awards to Peter (Most Improved,) Marlene (Best Speech,) and John (Best Evaluation.)

Award winners 31st July 2018

Next meeting Tuesday 14th August.

The following meeting on the 28th will be a Table Topics and Humorous Speech contest. Contestants needed. Give it a go!

Einbunpin Festival 2018

A great day was had at the Einpumbin Festival on Sunday with the sun shining and the Sandgate Toastmasters team out in full force to let everyone know that they too can become a better communicator.

Darryl, Leanne, Kirsty, Casey & Steve got the ball rolling first up in the morning.

Sending out a big thank you to John Topping who arrived early and had everything set up before everyone arrived. It was very much appreciated by those eager to grab a coffee. 

Darryl, Leanne & Steve were all at their stations ready to  welcome any passers-by.

Steve looking dashing out front of the stall. 

With good effect! 

The view over the lagoon... Look out for the Einbumpin! 

Paul & Stephen 

Liz & Monica 

Monica & Liz

Blake, Chris, Leesa, John & a Photo Bomber!

Blake, Chris, Leesa, John & Marlene wrapped up a lovely day by the Lagoon.

Thankfully all volunteers managed to avoid the Einbumpin and leave the Lagoon with a smile on their face, although there may have been a bit of chocolate on the edges after eating lots of chocolate brownies!