Stepping Up Speakers Fundraiser

What a great night for all that attended!

Stepping Up Speakers hosted a FUNdraiser to get chartered on Friday night at the Langley Community Music School and what a great night it turned out to be.

Our Sgt At Arms - Linda got the evening off to a great start!


Our MC Cathy kept the speeches flowing with a wonderful touch of humour!!!

The Timers were ready!
and................
8 Speakers from Clubs all over the Fraser Valley came out to lend a hand in delivering Speeches that had us Laughing, Crying, being Inspired and Entertained :) making this night a night to remember.

Geoff from Stepping Up Speakers

Lanny from Good News ToastmastersJhet from Early Edition

Allan from Good News Toastmasters
Mark from Township Toastmasters
Tom from Walnut Grove Toastmasters

and missing because I was laughing so hard was Baaaaaaaaaad Boy Mike !!! along with Gene who made the whole front row cry with his tribute speech to his mom...........

Stepping Up Speakers received generous donations from Cloverdale Toastmasters as well as Speakers Advantage and Surrey Business Friends


Contributing businesses: Honda Canada, Estrella's, B&M Professional Land Maintenance, Clean for a Change. Many thanks to all for helping to make this night a wonderful success!

Pictures of some of the evening:
The Cup cake girls
Speakers with the Mayor of Langley Peter Fassbender

we ate
We metWe had fun!


Many thanks to all that participated and helped to make this evening so enjoyable.

I missed it

Blink and you miss it......... "It" being "A Toastmaster Meeting" As my car decided to go on vacation I missed last nights meeting....I have no idea what happened last night so with my very colorful imagination I could make it up, not like I haven't done that before lol :)
....... but I think instead I will update you on the fundraiser for the new Stepping Up Speakers Group......

This fun filled evening will be held at

Langley Community Music School
4899 - 207 Street
Langley, BC

May 11, 2007

7pm - 9:30pm

We will hear from 8 Speakers from various lower mainland Clubs, presenting speeches on Humour, Story Telling and Tall Tales....... nice gifts for everyone for participating!!!

The night will be an oppportunity for Toastmasters to participate and present in a beautiful venue!

take a look http://www.langleymusic.com/facility_rosegellert.html

Please Save the date and support a great group of individuals to Charter!

The Toasty Talker

Congratulations!

I just want to say Congratulations and a job well done Terry Lynn!

The competition was stiff, 6 speakers who all did excellent jobs but like the stars in the sky there is always one that shines a little bit brighter and it proved to be our very own club member Terry Lynn.

As I was listening to the speeches I kept hearing a commond thread.... all the speakers encouraged us to reach out, make a difference and live life!

Which shows the quality of people that come to Toastmasters.

I won't be going to the next level of competition in Vernon but I know everyone joins me in sending you positive energy and a great big hug Terry Lynn..... while you shine even brighter in Vernon!

Congratulations!

The Toasty Talker

Move over Martha Stewart

Yes you read the Title right!

The theme "Home Decorating" and decorate we did!

A smaller turn out than expected tonight but we did the night up right........

We laughed, we laughed some more and we cried, Let me explain :)

The night started with our very well decorated Karen getting the meeting off to a great start.

Then our chair Alison doing double duty got the juices started with trivia...... now why does Alison know so much about Bob Villas????? lol

We also had a Toastmaster from over a year ago return and say Hi. Do you want to know who it was??????????????? sorry not telling...... if your reading this and you don't know....you guessed it......You missed the mystery guest!

Ok the laughing and crying part............. Our first speech tonight was from Alison and this is the part where we laughed :) she carefully crafted together one of her best speeches on travelling from the hustle and bustle of North America to a Third world country complete with all the fun memories that go along with travel. I would like to say "she painted a nice picture"

Then the next speech/song was moi, yes people I had more fun looking at your faces when you couldn't stop my awful singing!!!! lol it was soooooooo much fun, I never get a captive audience to sing to.....So thank you for letting me torture you all for 7 minutes and 40 seconds I promise not to "Sing like no one is listening " again for quite awhile...... oh and that whole story was made up....... ok, non of it was true!

We wallpapered the room with the Table topics Terry lynn provided.... and by the sounds of our tabletopics those home improvment guys have nothing to worry about, none of us will be taking their jobs any time soon!

A great night all in all! and a reminder that Terry lynn is in the Speech Contest tomorrow/today so that's Friday April the 13th at the Grove Church 208th & 93rd come on out and give her your support!

Good night or good morning!

The Toasty Talker

Trying something different

Alright my little Toasties!



Hats off to Midnight Madness


It's Easter weekend and you are invited to try the Midnight madness club in Langley that meets the first Friday of the Month at Andrea's Restaurant ........ Do you go????? OF COURSE YOU DO!!!!


This group is a little different to say the least :) in a good way! a lot of laughing and not quite so much structure as a regular meeting.......


I think its a great way for a seasoned Toastmaster to let their hair down and have some fun.


Tonight we were in for a treat..... The speech was on Job Interviews but the funny side of them........ Little did the speaker know that a Employment Cousellor was listening and enjoying every minute of it!!!!! Yes people that's what I do for a living, hey it pays the bills! lol I thought the Speaker did very well in showing how regular life throws you the funniest material for a speech!


Then on to the Table Topics and just know that at this group everyone does them (except me cause unfortunately I had to head to my next stop)....... which could have been a good thing cause my stomach was hurting from laughing so hard and I'm not sure if I would have been able to pull off the humour like this bunch does................ this is a busy group who have lots of fun! so don't be shy go out say hi and laugh alot!



It was Eggstra ordinary! Happy Easter Everyone!


Nighty night........


The Toasty Talker

Look! I got a trophy for Blogging

OK OK I didn't get a trophy for this Blog but I tried........... Just thought I would take another moment of your time to encourage you to attend next weeks competition at the
Grove Church, Friday the 13th of April, 7pm .......... come on I promise it will be fun!!! after all I will be there and Tom is buying everyone coffee........ who knows what the next trophy I get will look like.............maybe a little bigger than this one and pink please!!!!
See you there
The toasty blogger................

Were Back!

We have a winner from the Area 61 International Speech & Evaluation Contest

and we have a winner! No we really do have a winner, our very own

Terry-Lynne Stone from Walnut Grove Club took the trophy for 1st Place. CONGRATULATIONS TERRY LYNNE!

Horst Schwingboth from Cloverdale Toastmasters won the Evaluation Contest.

CONGRATULATIONS HORST!

on to some of the evenings highlights, there seemed to be a slight problem with the buildings door bell as our timers Angel and Shannon discovered during the break....... it just kept ringing!!!!! who could it have been ?????? lol

Sue Kitson who has worked hard this year as our Area 61 Governor will pass the torch to Ken Mc/MacDonald...... congratulations Ken!

Our records show that Walnut Grove had the most support with a tally of 10!!!! now the next level of competition is held on Friday the 13th at

The Grove Church so no excuses people lets see you out supporting Terry Lynne ( DONT MAKE ME PUT YOU ON THE EXCUSE LIST!!!)

Missing Mark and Christine taking our picture!!!!

Night Night my little Toasties

The Toasty Talker