Table Topics Funfest was Fun!

A recipe for fun. Mix together Val, our warm welcoming Toastmaster, Marc our creative Table Topics Master and our willing victims (oops volunteers) and voila - lots of laughs at the Table Topics Funfest and Potluck Lunch. The room was full and the food was very tasty. Cleverly using a tag team format (so they could eat lunch too), Kevin and Darlene evaluated 13 speakers. Our entertaining speakers were: seasoned Chris, Ruth, Phil, new Chris, Mitch, Jean Francois, Kyle, Linda, Mary Jane, Ray, Lee, Geetha, and Helen.

NOTE: CTI is taking a break for the holidays so the first meeting of the New Year will be Jan 5, 2011. We hope you will plan to be there.

Table Topics Funfest and Potluck Lunch

Val will be our Toastmaster for our annual Holiday Table Topics Funfest and Potluck Lunch. Plan to be inspired, have your funny bone tickled or just enjoy the nonsense as Marc, our Table Topics Master leads us in a round of impromptu speaking challenges. The food is always good, and the company is great, and the topics will be interesting. What more can you ask?
Extended time: 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm on Wednesday, Dec 15
Please come for the whole party or for whatever portion you are able to.

CTI is a Distinguished Club!

What is a Distinguished Club? Toastmasters International recognizes Toastmaster clubs that show the club is energetic, welcoming, growing and organized and that the club members are achieving their objectives. A club that achieves 5 out of 10 goals and either grows by 5 members or has a membership of over 20 is awarded Distinguished club. So far, CTI has achieved 5 goals. Being recognized as a Distinguished Club is not just a numbers game, it's an award that is earned by running a club that meets member needs.

CTI Techtalkers now has Distinguished Club status with Val's ACGold! We are now only 2 goals away from Select Distinguished.

Other levels of Distinguished Club status are: Select Distinguished Club (achieve 7 out of 10 goals), President's Distiguished Club (achieve 9 out of 10 goals).

Val is Golden!

Great news! On Nov 17, Val presented her 10th speech towards her Advanced Communicator Gold award.
To receive this award, Val presented 10 speeches for the Competent Communicator, 10 advanced speeches for Advanced Communicator Bronze, 10 more speeches plus 2 educational sessions for the Advanced Communicator Silver, mentored a new member for three months, presented a Success/Leadership module "Working in a Team Environment", and presented 10 more advanced speeches. That is a major achievement involving 43 presentations over 6 years.
To send Val your best wishes, please email her directly or add a comment to this posting.
Congratulations, Val!

Division J Rocks at District Contests

Nine entertaining, hilarious contestants had the audience laughing for two hours at the District 42 Humorous Speech contest on Nov 13, 2010 in Canmore. Garrett Ulmer, from Division J, came first with his funny story about childhood pranks, titled "Why are Kids so Bad? Jody Fireman, from Division G, came second.

On Friday night, Nov 12, the nine Table Topics contestants entertained us with stories around the question "If you had three wishes, what would you wish for and why?" Audience members said afterwards that the table topics contest was like a bonus mini-humorous speech contest. Kelly Kaur, from Division G, won first place and Nandini Venkatesan, from Division J, came second.