Incoming Executive Members.

Please welcome our incoming Executive members for 2014! From left to Right :

President : Nandini
VP Education : Daryl
Treasurer : Abinov
Past President : Marvin
Secretary : Diane
Seargent at Arms : Chris C
VP Public Relations : Chris G
VP Membership : Marion

Adam is presented with Ribbons.

Awards:

We had an award ceremony with Adam receiving his CC and CL ribbons from club president Marvin.

Election:

We had two dynamic campaign speeches during our election for VP Membership. Congratulations to our winner Marion, and thank you to Charter Member Michel for making every day a membership campaign!

Announcements:

Nandini announced a new member Adam which to give us a total of 20 members. Igniters qualifies for the Distinguished Club Program! One more member completes goal 8 to lift Igniters from the bronze status in the DCP to silver status.

We would love to add one new member!

Igniters have our new sandwich board.

We would like to thank Marion for completing work on our sandwich board. We are sure that this will increase our membership due to increased foot and car traffic stopping by.

Great job Marion!

Mona places second in the Division Speech Evaluation Contest!

Igniters is very proud to announce that Mona has won second place at the Division Speech Evaluation Contest!

Congratulations Mona on your amazing achievement!

Look at these Lucky Igniters Leprachauns!

Igniters wear green to show their St. Patrick's Day Spirit in fine form! Our Toastmaster for the evening Mona wore her best brilliant green tie.

Nights like these show why we have such a vibrant club. Thanks to all who went the extra mile to make this a fun night!

Back Row : Gio, Glenn
Center : Marion, Marvin, Nandini, John, Mona, Diane, Adam
Front : Chris

Mona wins the Area Speech Evaluation Contest!

We are excited to announce that Mona has won the Area Speech Evaluation Contest! Mona moves on to the Division contest. Congratulations Mona on your amazing accomplishment!

Right: Area Governor for J41, Chris
Middle: Mona
Left: VP Membership Adam

Igniters International Speech Competition results!

Our Club Contest included an International Speech Competition. Chris G took first place with his speech entitled "Great at 98!"

Mona won second place with her speech "Beastly Contests". Congratulations to both Toastmasters! Chris will continue at the Area Contest March 25th.

Igniters Evaluation Club Contest results!

Igniters held their Speech Evaluation Club Contest on March 11. Adam and a great group of volunteers worked very hard to pull off a very successful evening! We were also fortunate enough to enjoy socializing around the potluck table.

Mona finished in first place and will continue on to the Area competition! Chris G finished in second place and Chris C finished in third place.

Congratulations to all of the finalists!

Susan achieves her half Competent Communicator Award.

Congratulations Susan for completing your half Competent Communicator award! We know you will continue to work hard toward your Competent Communicator Goals.!

Chris achieves his half Competent Communicator Award

Congratulations Chris for completing your half Competent Communicator award! We know that you will continue to work toward your goal of Competent communicator!

Adam is awarded his competent communicator award.

Conratulations Adam on being the latest member to complete your Competent Communicator goals!

We are all sure that you will be continuing to grow within the toastmasters umbrella.

Giovanni Chajon completes his Competent Communicator Designation.

Gio has completed his Competent Communicator Designation. Club president Marvin is pictured with Gio at our last club meeting February 12, 2014.

Congratulations Gio on the hard work you put forward to complete this milestone! We look forward to seeing you complete the next goal in your Toastmaster journey.

Gio also puts a lot of work into solidifying our weekly meetings, and for that our entire club is thankful!

February 4th. Meeting

It was a cold, cold night on February 4, 2014. We had a rousing meeting complete with 2 speeches and of course Table Topics. Gio gave a great speech about dreams that landed him in the winner's circle this week for Table topics. Congratulations Gio!

We have a lot of events coming up. Keep watching the blog for the details.

Igniters Role Checklists

I have shared a Google Document to aid in preparation for Igniters Toastmaster meetings. It is my hope that by using a check-list approach we can all be better prepared each week, allowing us to focus more on great content!

After clicking the link you may copy and paste the portion that you need and edit anything you wish. Some of the formatting will be lost, but you should have no problem fixing the formatting in a word processor.

If you use one of the check-lists please take time to suggest an improvement or addition. I will make edits and your suggestions will make future meetings even better!

Link to Google Docs

Chris

Amazing joint meeting between Igniters and Miracles Toastmasters.

On Tuesday January 14th. Igniters and Miracles Toastmasters enjoyed a joint meeting at the Unity Church. Our evening matched the word of the day - Camaraderie!

After enjoying a pot luck meal we quickly got down to business. Four very passionate Table Topics speakers got us off to a great start!

Our intermission was filled with some Didgeridoo music graciously supplied Trevor from Miracles TM.

Prepared speeches were next on the agenda followed but a great chance for everyone to rekindle old relationships as well as to forge new ones!

We also welcomed Nicholas from Bedstone Olympics Toastmasters club and a couple of guests into our fold.

I hope we will be able to make this joint meeting a yearly event.

Igniters have returned from our break.

Igniters returned from our Christmas break with our first meeting on January 7th, 2014. We are looking forward to a joint meeting next Tuesday.

Merry Christmas from Igniters!

We celebrated Christmas and a successful year together as Toastmasters.

Thanks to Mona for being a gracious host for our very enjoyable evening.

Igniters are on Christmas break.

Igniters will be on Christmas break until the New Year. Please watch our blog for pictures of our Christmas get together this week. We would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year.!

Igniters awarded three ribbons.

Glen, Past President of Igniters Toastmasters club in Calgary, proudly displays three ribbons earned during his presidency. From left to right: The Founders Award ribbon is awarded to a club that helps sponsor a new club. The Sunshine Club ribbon is awarded to a club that meets at least once during July and at least once during August. The Club Fitness ribbon is awarded to a club that submits an updated membership roster and an updated July club officer list to Toastmasters District 42. 

Congratulations! Thank you to all members who contributed to earning these awards!

Igniters induct our newest member!

Please help us to warmly welcome Steven to our toastmasters club.

Left: Area Governor for J41, Chris
Middle: New member Steven
Right: VP Membership Adam