Area B3 Fall Humorous Speech Contest Winner

Our own Steven Castle won the area B3 “Fall Humorous Speech contest” and will be competing on Tuesday 10/19 against areas B1, B2, B4 and B5 at the Microsoft Northeast District in Waltham located at 201 Jones Road, 6th Floor beginning at 6:30pm..

The purpose of the Humorous Speaking Contest is to…
• Provide an opportunity for speakers to improve their speaking abilities and to recognize the best as encouragement to all.
• Provide an opportunity to learn by observing the more proficient speakers who have benefited from their Toastmasters training.
• Recognize the value of humor in speaking.

Steven is an outstanding contender, the location is going to be great and this contest will feature the best speakers in the Area. This is going to be a competition full of energy and excitement and all club members are encouraged to attend.

Report card as to how good we are doing as a club from Rene Roy, our VP of Membership:

Twin City Club Members,
Attached is a report card as to how good we are doing as a club.
Let me say… we are doing a fantastic job.
Keep up the good work club officers and members.

If you have never seen a report card of how we are doing in Area B3 - read on...

As a club, we are on track, for we have gained three points for the club since July. If we maintain our membership of 20 members and complete four additional Competent Communicator awards, we will have picked up two additional points, which is the magic number for becoming a distinguished club.

Any other points we gain is gravy on the mashed potatoes.

Club Statistics:
One Advanced Communicator Award – 1 point
One Competent Leader Award – 1 Point
Submitted on time April and October Renewals and Officer list – 1 point

Goals:
Four additional Competent Communicator Awards – on track
One additional CL, AL or DTM
One Additional AC

Please review where you stand in your educational progress and provide me with that information to keep track as to where we stand in educational progress.

Last year we were Presidential Distinguished.

The club did it once - can do it again?

Rene Roy / VP Membership

Directions to Aubuchon Hardware (site of tomorrow's meeting)

Tomorrow's meeting will be at Aubuchon's conference room for Tuesday 9/14/10. The directions from Leominster are:


Route 2 West to Exit 25 - Rt 2/140 towards Westminster Princeton

Right on to 2A - Main Street. Go 1.3 miles. Right on Aubuchon Drive. Main entrance is around the front of the building by Route 2.

News from Emily, our club Treasurer

It’s time for members to pay club dues for the October 2010 – April 2011 period. The total cost per member is $42, we’ll send $27 to the Toastmasters organization and we’ll keep $15 for the Twin City club. You can pay dues with cash or a personal check payable to “Twin City Toastmasters”. In order to avoid confusion, please only hand your funds to Emily W. (Treasurer) or John F. (President). Once the dues are paid to Toastmasters online, it will generate an email receipt that Emily will forward to you.

Moving forward, Emily will be the contact person between the club and the Leominster library regarding the use of the meeting room. You can expect that we’ll have a podium and whiteboard for meetings at the Leominster Library, but if you would like to use the library’s projector or other audio visual electronics please let both me and Bill B. (Sergeant at Arms) know a few days ahead of time. The library custodian sets up our meeting space in advance, but he leaves at 4pm on Tuesdays, so the electronics are not available at the last minute.

We are thinking of you David

Last week news spread of David H.'s recent health emergency. Many of our members have expressed their interest in keeping up with David's health. Peter Souders was able to get us some information.

You can keep up with David via his daughter, Jeanette, on a blog. She has been posting updates pretty regularly. http://davidhenshaw.blogspot.com/

David, we all miss and love you. We hope you get better soon so we can see you at meetings again. We are all thinking about you!

Members, feel free to use the comments to post messages for David.

End of the Year Dinner

It's time for our annual end of the year dinner. Everyone is invited to join us!

When: July 22, 2010
Where: Bull Run in Shirley, MA (see menu and get directions)
Time: 7pm (subject to change- check the club webpage)

How is this different from a meeting?
This is not a meeting. There are no speeches unless you want to make a toast. We announce who won our Toastmaster of the Year award. We celebrate the amazing year we had and our success achieving Presidential Distinguished Award.

Who can come?
All members are welcome to come as are guests. We encourage you to bring your families. Just let John know so we can make sure to get enough space at the table.

Using the Webpage Duty Roster/Agenda

Sara gave an demo on using part of the club's webpage. She said there was a video available for us to watch if we ever forgot her instructions. Here is that video for you to easily view: