Canning Vale

Welcome Our Newest Member

March is synonymous with St Patricks

day and this particular Paddies day just

so happened to fall on our Tuesday

meeting. As a multi cultural nation, we

need no excuse to drink, celebrate and

be merry! However library policy cate-

gorically states “no booze”. (Have you

ever annoyed a Librarian? It ain’t

pretty). So, green water was the best

we could do!

Inside this

issue:

Evaluation &

International

Contests

2

St Patrick’s

Day

3

Tapping in on

Meeting 338

4

Roll of Honour 5

TM in the real

world

6

Odd Spots 7

A wee bit

special…...

Verdine &

Diana make

it to the

Southern

Division

Final.

TM lands one

of our

members a

special job!!!

Editorial

To our new member :

Welcome to Canning Vale Toastmasters and

congratulations on taking that first step in your

Toastmasters journey. Every member is willing to help you

at any time and we will all support you with your progress

towards your goals.

Hazel Tang

The Evaluation & International Contests

The Month of March was all about competition! Diana Veitch & Verdine Gow won the

Evaluation & International contests at club level as well as the Area S31 Final, making it to

the Southern Division Final. Verdine was ’Good Enough’ but unfortunately we will not see

him, nor Diana, on the podium at Kalgoorlie. Contests however, are much more than

winning, They make you step out of your comfort zone and embark on that never ending

journey of learning & discovery. See you all next year competing & growing!

Anne Go was the contest chair

and Diana Veitch won our

Canning Vale club Evaluation

contest.

A full house at the Area S31 final. Verdine

Gow & Diana Veitch did us proud & are

shown here with their winners certificates.

St Patrick’s Day Meeting #337

A very unusual St

Patrick’s

beverage...green

water! YES!

No alcohol added!

What do you call an Irishman who has been dead 50 year?........Peat!

The doctor was puzzled ‘I’m very sorry Mr Flaherty, but I cant diagnose your trouble. Must be

the drink’. ‘Ah don’t you worry about it Dr Cullen, I’ll come back when you’re sober.’

Where would we be without the Irish jokes? Meeting 337 fell on the auspicious St Patrick’s

Day, commemorating the patron saint of Ireland. All tings green (including the water & supper)

where on the agenda along with our newest, greenest Toastmaster, Michelle Duncan, who

delivered an amazing ICEBREAKER and Jay Thwaites did his very first Tonic!

Andre’s WORD OF THE

DAY….Leprechaun (A mythological

creature) was a perfect match for his

green attire. Miss Venezuela, aka Eloyise,

delivered an awesome table topic as a Miss

Universe contestant—her ideal man would

be a Leprechaun with a pot of gold!

Don’t seek approval from others.

Let others disprove themselves.

-Jay Thwaites

***THE GREEN TEAM***

Tapping in on Meeting #338

Meeting 338 gave us a plethora of speech topics from the perfect storm to how to dance up a storm at

the tap dance studio. Sheldon was our first time Toastmaster and did a superb job keeping his

collywobbles at bay.

CVTM Tap Studio

presents the one &

only, Elena Lindgren.

Body speaks & toes

tap in her CC5.

If you build it, they will come!

Mark’s catch call tells us about the

inception of CVTM. He has built it,

& people keep coming to our little

club!

Dennis told us about the

gangster side of mother

nature & the recipe for a

perfect storm.

Mathew presented the dark side of

video games. Maybe psychopaths

should avoid violent video games for

the sake of humanity!

Wish I had never

been asked

THAT!!!

Huili tells us about her

perfect wedding

Word of the Day...

Collywobbles: a

feeling of FEAR!

One we can

relate to @ TM!

We all start our Toastmasters

journey with 2 manuals—The

Competent Communicator &

Competent Leadership. With every

role you perform (from Timer to

Toastmaster) you can be evaluated

and get closer to being recognized

as a Competent Leader.

Well done Rahman Khandker! Another

of our amazing Canning Vale members

completes the 10th speech in the

Competent Communicator Manual!

Roll of Honour

Competent Communicator

Whip Out Your Competent Leadership Manual!

Toastmasters in the Real World..

Just a Few Questions for Josh……..

Josh’s CC6 project speech titled Sailing the Seven Seas did require the blankets,

as it was a really cool speech! He told us about his dream to be an Officer in the

Navy and to improve his chances of getting through a grueling selection process,

it was suggested he check out Toastmasters. An intensive one on one session

with our very own Mark Richards, brought him up to speed and gave him what he

needed to be accepted. This guy demonstrates thinking out of the box skills

(necessary of a good officer!) sporting his bit of ‘green’ on St Patrick’s.

Officer training for Josh starts in July. The awesome one liners will be missed!

Why did you join Canning Vale Toastmasters?

The selection process for officer training is tough

and it was the Navy that suggested I should join

Toastmasters. I found Canning Vale Toastmasters

online.

This is a family affair as your mum also joined

CVTM also. Does she help you with speeches?

How has Toastmasters helped you?

It got me a job! It’s also helped with confidence,

evaluating other’s ideas & learning to give feedback

properly.

What stuff do you like?

Kite surfing and aerial photography.

Will you continue with Toastmasters when you leave

Perth in July?

I will have to take a 6 months break when officer

training starts, but will look into joining another club

in the future.

Now get your blankets

out......this is where it gets

cool. REAL COOL!

If you have any writing

talent or you would just like

to read something

entertaining in the

newsletter please email

your short, sweet article to

me at:

vharrison@amnet.net.au

For any members going to

the Kalgoorlie ‘Gold Fever”

District 17 Convention, see

Phyll for transport &

accommodation options. Get

registering for the event!

Committee meeting 7th

April following the club

meeting.

Announcements……...

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Canning Vale Toastmasters

@CVTMPerth

Toastmasters

Where Leaders are

Made!

We meet every

Tuesday @ 6.30pm

Canning Vale College

Library

Dumbarton Road

Phone: 0407 851 361 (Robyn)

Phone: 0407 595 161 (Mark)

E-mail: president

@toastmasterscv.net

“If you speak when angry, you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.”

Groucho Marx.

ODD SPOTS