Canning Vale Toastmasters
Park Meeting kicks off 2010
1st meeting of the new year, 19th January 2010, had us in the beautiful setting of Sanctuary Waters Park Canning Vale. There were 22 members and 1 guest present on this very hot and balmy evening. We enjoyed 3 speeches from Billy, Mark & John C, plus all the other entertaining parts of the meeting. After the meeting a sumptuous banquet was enjoyed by all. What a great night it was.
Robyn gets us under way with an inspiration. Toastmaster, John Palmer looked right at home in the outdoor setting. Members enjoy the surroundings while Jenny answers a table topic from Chandana.
Presidents Distinguished for 09-10
Canning Vale members chalked up awards at an alarming rate this year and the club has reached Presidents Distinguished status once again. Here are the achievers for the year.
Mick Turner & Colin Sears both received their CC award in July 09 from President Peter Jordan.
Mick Turner & Colin Sears both received their CC award in July 09 from President Peter Jordan.
Robyn Richards receives her ACB award and Phyll Lightbody receives her CC and CL award from Peter Jordan in July 09.
John Palmer receives his CC award
from Peter Jordan in Sept 2009 & Andre receives his CC award from VPE Mark Richards.
Mike Palmer receives his ACB award from Peter Jordan in Oct 2009
Diana Veitch recieves her ACB award in Nov 2009
Ephraim Osaghae receives his CC award and John Palmer his CL award in November 2009
Jenny Ramshaw receives her CC award in Nov 2009 and Andre Sequeira receives his CL award in Jan 2010 from President Peter Jordan.
Robyn Richards receives her ACS award and Billy Griffiths his ACB award from VPE Mark Richards in April 2010.
Speechcraft 2010
Canning Vale Toastmasters ran a public Speechcraft course at Durack House in Perth for 6 weeks, from Jan to March 2010. The course was a huge success with many volunteer assisitants from the club helping to run the course, which was co-ordinated by Robyn Richards.
Of the 10 participants, 4 graduated on the final night and the others will give their final speeches at other Toastmaster clubs or future Speechcraft courses, as they were unable to complete their speeches due to work or family commitments. Pictured here on the final night are, from left to right:
Bottom Row: Phyll Lightbody, Robyn Richards, Mike Palmer, Mark Richards
Middle Row: Frances Zabella, Elsie Parker, Daniel Temple, Diana Veitch, Leah Proctor, William Barry, Pip Brown
Top Row: Mick Turner, Ben Lutze, Peter Jordan, John Palmer,
Absent: Jean Boladeras, Chas Mahanga, Brad Wicherson, Michelle Spain.
100th Meeting
Canning Vale Toastmasters celebrated it's 100th meeting on the 13th April 2010 just 2 years from it's charter. We celebrated in style with 34 members and guests in attendance. We had 4 speeches, that were given by Ross Wilkinson & Steve Barry, our mentors, and Robyn Richards & Peter Jordan, our Presidents. The meeting was also attended by Western Div Governor, David Nicholas and his wife Glenis.
Past & Present Presidents cut the celebratory 100th cake which is shared by all members and guests. It was great to have past charter members Martin Soh & Margaret Langford attend along with mentors Ross & Steve, special guests Pascale, David & Glenis. It made the night, all that much special.
What a line up of Speakers. Steve Barry & Robyn Richards
Peter Jordan. Ephraim gives a table topic.
John Cecchi starts the meeting and Phyll Lightbody celebrates with past member Margaret Langford.
As always, Canning Vale TMC puts on a great spread, and their members always oblige.
What a fantastic night we had. Canning Vale TMC has gone from strenght to strength over it's 2 years, now becoming the number 1 club in the District when it comes to educational awards. At last count we had 15 awards for the year and still coming. There have been 14 new members join our club and soon we will help start another club in neighbouring suburb, Southern River, with the leadership team coming from Canning Vale members. Well done Canning Vale!!
Creswick Convention 2010
WOW what a fantastic weekend for Canning Vale TMs in Creswick, Victoria May 14th to 16th. 10 members & 3 partners of CVTM travelled over to Vic for a weekend full of contests, workshops, keynote speakers and most of all, FUN.
Canning Vale once again has won the Travel Gavel award, for the most distance covered by a club to convention. The highlight of this convention was having the 2009 World Champion, Mark Hunter, as our keynote speaker. He was just awesome and gave up a lot of his time for all CVTM members, and the others.
John Palmer perforned very well in the International and Diana Veitch gave a brilliant performance in the Evaluation.
The "Go For Gold" party was fantastic and all CVTM members were in the party mood.
District Exec Top 3 gave out the DTMs and Robyn received an award from the District for outstanding service at the Change Over Dinner in WA.
The Golden Girls were a hit, and the boys just partied on.
These are the District Executive for 2010/11, there are 6 this year as we go into transition stage when WA breaks away from District 73 to form it's own District in 2011/12.
Mark Richards LGET WA, Carrol Jones LGET East, Catherine McGillvray LGM East, Ross Wilkinson LGM WA, Pascale A-Colby PRO, Bruce Hill District 73 Gov, Damian Chong Past DG 73.
Back to Back Club of the Year
Canning Vale Toastmasters Club have topped the Western Division once again to achieve back to back wins of the "Victoria Quay Award" for Club of the Year in 2009/2010. The Club achieved all 10 goals in the DCP by February 2010, the most Educational & Leadership awards in the District with 19, being 6 CCs, 6 ACs & 7 leadership awards. We put on 15 new members over the year and we are a truly deserved winner. Here new President Phyll and all club members in attendance accept the award from Western Division Governor, David Nicholas and District Governor, Damian Chong.
The club also won, back to back, the Travel Gavel at the Creswick Convention which was presented to us on the night, as the original trophy has gone walkabout. Phyll proudly accepted the award for the club on behalf of President, Peter Jordan.
Robyn Richards was named the Area Governor of the year for Western Division with a Presidents Distinguished Area W16.
The club we sponsored, Southern River Toastmasters, were presented with their banner by District LGM, Mark Richards. Club founder, John Palmer, with President, Jenny Ramshaw, and other club members proudly accept the banner.
The new District Executive were inducted on the night and here they are, Robyn Richards (Western Div Gov) Martin Lindsay (Perth Div Gov) Kristin McIntosh (Innercity Div Gov) Pascale A Colby (District PRO) Ross Wilkinson (District LGM West) Mark Richards (District LGET West) Damian Chong (IPDG) & Bruce Hill (District 73 Governor)
John & Michael at the registration desk. CVTM members enjoy the excellent buffet spread.
Someone is happy about winning the Travel Gavel back to back.
Toastmaster of the Year 09/10
John Palmer has won the crown of "Toastmaster of the Year" for Canning Vale Toastmasters Club making him the second winner of the title.
John has been a very active member since joining the club in February 2009 and has recently attained his ACS and has become the Area Governor for Area W16 which Canning Vale is a part of. John was heavily involved with the chartering of the new club "Southern River Toastmasters" where he is now the VPE for the club. John has also involved himself in starting Gavel Clubs in schools, bringing the Toastmasters experience to children.
John's dedication to Toastmasters and to Canning Vale has seen him win the title and we wish him all the best as he expands his Toastmasters journey beyond the club level.
John receives the award from Western Division Governor, Robyn Richards and past winner and now Club President, Phyll Lightbody.
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 receives her DTM plaque and DTM badge from Club President, Phyll Lightbody.
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.
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
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!!
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.
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.
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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.
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
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.
