Year End Celebration a great success.

Igniters enjoyed time together tonight for camaraderie and to celebrate each other's accomplishments over the past year. We started out the evening with a delicious potluck. Outgoing president Marvin led us in an Awards night celebration. Thanks Marvin and your helpers for putting on such a great night!

Keep an eye on the blog over the next couple of weeks as we share details about the awards and our accomplishments.

Come one, Come all to Igniters open house!

Igniters Toastmasters will be hosting an open house at the Nifty Fifties Hall at the Parkdale Community Center on July 15, 2014 6:30-8:30 pm.

We plan to have guest speakers, a table topics session and of course ample time for a potluck and some camaraderie.

Please mark your calendars and save the date!

June 17 meeting recap.

Nandini led us with a rousing evening of talk surrounding restaurants and eating out.

Marion, Daryl, and Marvin took the stage for our speech section of the meeting. Marion spoke about her experience in a hurricane in the United States, Daryl spoke about how to find the best burgers, and Marvin provided us some background for our year end social.

Diane (l) surprised Mona (r) with a Thank You for purchasing  timing lights for the use at our club meetings.

Everyone is welcome to attend our year end social next week.

Tuesday June 10th meeting recap.

Our Toastmaster Chris C. began our meeting with a three point introduction, which gave us all a challenge to start.

Marvin gave us a great educational session about how to improve the opening for speeches. We all had a chance to explain how we have successful incorporated some of Marvin's ideas during our Toastmasters careers.

Michel led us in Table Topics with his "Book of If". All 6 members in attendance took a turn at speaking, with Nandini taking home the Table Topics Trophy.

The best part of our meeting tonight is that we managed to have a fun full meeting with only 6 members!

Meeting recap.

We had a fun meeting with our members joined by our newest Igniters Adam and Sylvia.

Diane shared in her inspiring speech 3 key tips from Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut.

Going  after your dreams.

1) Attitude - be prepared.

2) Be a 0!

3) Negative Thinking

What do 2 and 3 mean?! Come to meeting next week and talk to Diane or an Igniter. :)

The New District 42 Prairie Horizons newsletter is out. Link below. Great tips and fascinating Toastmasters.

Igniters are in the issue. Picture of Michel who along with another Toastmaster Dave who helped during the flood. Michel kindly nominated Dave for an award.

http://issuu.com/district42/docs/ph_-_volume_3_final_copy

Check the link to read Inspirations 2 by Shaila- stories and tips about Toastmasters achieving their DTM (Distinguished Toastmaster). We were honored to be included.

Marvin  - great tips for new toastmasters among other stories

Nandini - how joining TM helped her as a leader and lessons along the way.

Hope to see you next week!

Nandini

VP PR Igniters

The most recent member to join Igniters.

Please help us at Igniters to extend a warm welcome to our newest member Silvia!

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