Area S31 Humorous & Table Topics

The Area S31 Finals were held at Canning Vale on the 1st November 2011. It was a fantastic contest with our representatives, Diana Veitch & Carlton Soo both placing 2nd.

Diana Veitch placed second and Mike Palmer representing Southern River placed first in the Table Topics contest with the topic "every man has his price, what is your price?" Peter Law representing Armadale placed first in the Humorous contest with his speech " I saved the spirit of christmas" and Carlton Soo placed second with his speech " B+ you die". Best of luck to Mike and Peter in the Division Final on the 19th November.

 

Table Topics & Humorous Contests 2011

Congratulations to our winners and participants for our Table Topics & Humorous contests held on the 27th Sept & 4th Oct respectively.

There were 7 contestants in our Table Topics being Fiona, Diana, Kieu, Takashi, Chandana, Cathy, John and our contest Chair was Jean. The topic was "what does living a good life mean to you" and the winners were, 1st place Diana Veitch, 2nd place John Cecchi & 3rd place Chandana Weerasekera. Good luck to Diana in the Area Final.

We had 5 contestants in the Humorous contest who were, Carlton, Diana, Rajes, Kieu, Dave and our contest chair was Mark. All 5 speeches had us rolling in the aisles. The winners were 1st place Carlton Soo with his speech "You Die" which was a look at his academic upbringing in an Asian environment. 2nd place Diana Veitch with a speech about bras and boobs and 3rd place Kieu Pham with a speech about Honesty being the best Policy? It was great to see 2 brand new members placing in the top 3 with Carlton giving just his 2nd speech at the club and Kieu giving her 1st speech at the club in the contest. Good luck to Carlton in the upcoming Area Final.

 

Canning Vale's 3rd DTM

John Palmer became the 3rd member of Canning Vale to achieve the Distinguished Toastmaster award, the highest award given in Toastmasters, on July 14th 2011. John achieved this goal in just 2 and a half years and now joins Mark & Robyn Richards as DTMs for Canning Vale. Congratulations to John and I'm sure he is already working on his 2nd DTM.

 

Awards to 2011/12

John Palmer receives his DTM on the 14th July 2011. Phyll Lightbody receives her CL on the 7th Sept 2011

 

Toastmaster of the Year 10/11

This years recipient of the coveted "CVTM Toastmaster of the Year" has gone to Takashi Kurihara. Takashi was a popular winner as he has shown the true qualaties of a caring and giving member. Takashi was shocked when his name was announced but eventually came forward to accept his accolades from the members. Takashi has grown so much over the years with Canning Vale and as english is his second language, this is a remarkable achievement.

Takashi receives the Toastmaster of the Year trophy from new Preident, John Cecchi.

Takashi with Past Preident, Peter Jordan, current Preident John Cecchi and current VPM, Fiona McLean.

At the start of the meeting the new club comittee was inducted by the District 17 Governor, Mark Richards (seated). The new committee are, from left to right - President - John Cecchi, VPE - Robyn Richards, VPM - Fiona McLean, VPPR - Manuel Morin, Treasurer - Mick Turner, Secretary - Michele Naidu & SAA - Mark Pidcock.

 

D73 West Awards Night

It was a wet night indeed as the heavens opened up on the Change Over dinner and Awards night on Friday 24th June 2011, but it did not dampen the excitment of the Canning Vale members. On the night our new VPE Robyn Richards was awarded the District 73 Division Governor of the year from the 10 Divisions throughout the District.

Robyn receives her Division Governor of the Year plaque from District 73 Governor, Bruce Hill

As well as Division Governor of the Year, Robyn also achieved Presidents Distinguished Division with new club Rockingham chartering in Area W16 and having 11 Presidents Distinguished Clubs in the Division (Canning Vale is one of those 11) and 3 Select Distinguished Clubs out of 22 Clubs in the Division, is certainly a notable achievement. Of the 5 Areas in the Division, W16 was Presidents Distinguished (John Palmer) W28 & W36 (Diana Veitch) was Select Distinguished and W21 & W29 were Distinguished, a brilliant result and a worthy winner.

Here is Robyn with her 2 Awards, District 73 Division Governor of the Year & Presidents Distinguished Division Governor for Western Division.

The new District 17 Executive Team was inducted on the night. left to right - Pascale A-Colby - LGM, Robyn Richards - PRO, Tim Blackburn - Treasurer, Sandra Morton - Secretary, Ross Wilkinson - LGET & Mark Richards - District Governor

 

Swan Song Convention

Wow what a weekend at the "Swan Song on the Swan" convention held at the Parmelia Hilton in Perth May 20-22.

Canning Vale won the Knox award for the 2nd time with the most members from one club in attendance. We had 23 members and a handful of partners, to make it a very memorable event. Here we are pictured at the Gala Dinner "Top Hat & Tales", hence all the bow ties.

On the Friday night, our own Jean Boladeras performed the "Welcome to Country" and her son Peter Jordan delivered a superb performance as Contest Chair at the Humorous Contest.

 

Robyn was the SAA for the Saturday at the International contest then received her DTM at the Saturday night Gala Dinner.

The Gala Dinner was a hoot.

To top off the weekend Mark was elected the inaugural District Governor for District 17 and Robyn the Public Relations Officer. Pictured here with LGET Ross Wilkinson and LGM Pascale.

 

CVTM Turns 150 Meetings Young

On the 26th April 2011, Canning Vale held it's 150th meeting and of course we had a celebration. Our first President, Robyn Richards, was the Toastmaster for the night and we enjoyed speeches from our 2nd President, Peter Jordan, and our current President, Phyll Lightbody. Diana Veitch also gave a speech and we had an Icebreaker speech from Manuel Morin. It was a great night and we enjoyed cake and nibblies after the meeting.

Our 3 Presidents Robyn Richards, Peter Jordan & Phyll Lightbody cut the 150th celebratory cake.

 

International & Evaluation Contests 2011

The International Speech contest was held on the 8th March 2011 with 5 speakers giving us a variety of emotional, comical & analytical speeches.

Our contestants with Contest Chair, Mark Richards were, Chandana Weerasekera, who asked us all to look in the mirror and see yourself as others see you. Michele Naidu, who gave us a tale of woe about her 1 year renovation of her backyard. Dave Clarke, who is going through his quarter life crisis. Mike Palmer, who shared his boyhood memories of a near tragedy in the South West where the crashing waves almost took his family. Andre Sequeira, who shared personal tragedys with us and showed us all how to deal with this when it happens to you.

The place getters were, 1st Andre Sequeira, 2nd Mike Palmer & 3rd Michele Naidu.

Andre receives his trophy and certificate for 1st place. Andre will now represent Canning Vale at the Area Final at Foothills on March 28th. We wish Andre & Dave all the best in the International & Evaluation Area W16 Final. Go Guys!!

 

The Evaluation contest was held on the 1st March 2011 with 6 contestants who all gave brilliant evaluations of our test speaker Gerry Prewett's speech "Abandoned". All evaluators gave Gerry detailed commendations and recomendations in what turned out to be a very close contest.

Gerry Prewett, our test speaker, receives a thankyou gift from President, Phyll Lightbody and Contest Chair, Peter Jordan.

Our contestants with Contest Chair, Peter Jordan are Jean Boladeras, Mick Turner, Dave Clarke, Chandana Weerasekera, Michele Naidu & Takashi Kurihara.

 

Our place getters are 1st Dave Clarke, 2nd Michele Naidu & 3rd Chandana Weerasekera.

Dave Clarke receives his trophy and certificate for 1st place. Dave will now represent Canning Vale at the Area Final on March 28th against 3 other clubs. Good Luck Dave!!

 

Awards for 2010/11

Takashi Kurihara receives his CC Award & Mick Turner receives his CL award from President, Phyll Lightbody, in September 2010.

Billy Griffiths receives his ACS award from President Phyll, in January 2011 & Dave Clarke receives his CC award in Februaury 2011.

Michele Naidu receives her CC award from President Phyll during our unexpected outdoor meeting in March 2011. Chandana receives his CC award in May 2011.

Mick Turner receives his ACB from President Phyll in June 2011

 

Christmas Fun at Canning Vale

December was buzzing with Christmas spirit at CVTM. It started with a Christmas party at Peter Jordan's home where members enjoyed dining, drinking, and lots of fun activities. The pool was like a hot spa and the games were just as hot. After a feast of BBQ delights the members enjoyed a game of Headbandz where we had to guess who we were by asking questions about our character. This was followed by a game of Balderdash, where you have 3 members tell a story about a true event, name , place etc with only 1 of them giving the true answer. This was lots of fun.

Our Christmas meeting was held on the 14th Dec and all members got into the spirit of the season. The night started with a chris kringle table topics session, where each member opened their present and gave a short speech about the present.

Our President Phyll tries to shake her pressie for a clue. John is extremely happy with his giant bon-bon.

Kwang seems pleased with his gift and so too does Nilakshi. Nilakshi & Shehan are leaving us next year to start their new business in Sri Lanka. We wish them all the best.

After table topics we were treated to 3 CC speeches from our members. Michele Naidu told us a lot of facts about Christmas in her CC7 speech. This was followed by Dave Clarke's CC9 speech where he tried to persuade us to buy his Nissan Skyline (with a new holden keyring) for a Christmas present. Fiona McLean gave her CC2 speech about the different type of party games you can do to make your next party a real hit. Maybe we can play some of them at next years Christmas party.

Michele Naidu CC7, Dave Clarke CC9 & Fiona McLean CC2.

Like all good Canning Vale special meetings, there was plenty of yummy food for everyone.

 

 

New DTM for Canning Vale

Robyn Richards, past President and now Western Division Governor has achieved the honourable title of Distinguished Toastmaster, the highest award one can achieve in Toastmasters. Robyn gained this title in July 2010, after joining the club in March 2008, making it only 2 years and 4 months to make it to DTM status. We think this could be world record time in which to achieve a DTM. When asked how she achieved this milestone so fast, Robyn said “I never intended to get my DTM so fast but when fellow club member, John Palmer said to me that he would get his DTM in less than 3 years, it really gave me the incentive”.
To achieve a DTM you must give at least 40 speeches, 4 workshops, CL manual, be a club officer, be a District Officer, run a Speechcraft course and start or mentor a new club.

Robyn was the co-founder of Canning Vale Toastmasters, was the inaugural President of the club and was Area Governor of the Year in Western Division last year. Congratulations to Robyn on this momentous achievement.

Robyn receives her DTM plaque and DTM badge from Club President, Phyll Lightbody.