Meet us at the Northgate Festival on September 11th.

We had a fun meeting – Toastmaster Barney led with his dry sense of humor. The term “corny” had Barney going when he first arrived here in the US….. Mary talked about the “shadow” that we all have. It’s the part of ourselves that we try to contain or deny – things like girls who [...]

Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contest on Sept. 15, 2010

Toastmaster (and Immediate Past President) Melissa had us on a fun meeting with the theme “Dog House” Opener Bill had a funny story about building a dog house for his dog “Moonshine”. After he built it, Moonshine refused to use it….. Barney did one of the speeches from the Interpersonal Communications manual, using Steve as [...]

Interesting meeting. James as both Presiding Officer and Toastmaster kept things moving. Michelle opened with a discussion of the concept of “Cosmos”, the science of everything. Joe spoke about the Pike Place Market Foundation, and the community that it serves. There are 4 components of the Foundation: Medical Clinic, Day Care, Food Bank, and Senior [...]

This was a fun, if sparsely attended meeting. Barney opened with a hilarious diatribe on pirating. Scott, as our Toastmaster, illustrated the concept of Pirating – he passed our bags of “Pirate’s Booty” (baked rice and corn puffs) (and they were good….). We even had the requisite “talk like a pirate” section. We also had [...]