In This Issue

Roll of Honour

Let There be Light!

A Word from the President

Upcoming Events

Tip of the Month

Member Musings

First in the District!

Fifth in the World! We were first in the District and fifth in the world to achieve all 10 Distinguished

Club Goals .

This year our District leaders held a Club Officer Training session in December,

which allowed us to achieve the final goal earlier than usual by having a

minimum of four club officers trained during the December to February period.

Congratulations to Vanessa, Prem, Robyn, Matthew and Chandana who all

attended this training . If you were elected into a new club officer role beginning

January 1, you will still need to attend one of the sessions in February.

Here’s how we have achieved the goals.

Canning Vale Toastmasters Club Newsletter

January 2016

From the Editor

This is a short edition due

to only holding 2 meetings

during January, neverthe-

less, it is still jam packed

with great information,

achievements and photos

to remind you or prick your

conscience about the New

Year fun we have had at

Canning Vale Toast-

masters.

Enjoy!

Robyn

Criteria Achieved Recipient

2 CCs Yes

Vanessa Chang CC

Steve Chatterton CC

2 More CCs Yes Josh Lindgren CC • Matthew Hoskin CC

Ronnie Giandzi CC • Eloyise Braskic CC

Hazel Tang CC

1 AC Yes Michele Naidu ACS

1 More AC Yes Robyn Richards ACB

Maksud Zaman ACB

1 CL, AL or DTM Yes Mike Palmer ALS

1 More CL, AL Yes Mike Palmer DTM • Robyn Richards CL Michele Naidu CL • Michele Naidu ALB

4 New Members Yes

Prem – July

Viola – July

Masoud – August

Olivier – August

4 More New

members

Yes

Theuns – August • Marcus – October Shyamane – Sept • Jim – October Luke – Sept • Paul – December Hendra – October • Akash – December

Club Officers Trained

Yes July training – 5 Officers trained

December training – 5 Officers trained

Dues Paid on Time

Yes October dues paid

Our Newest Competent Communicator

Roll of Honour

AWARD MEMBER DATE ACHIEVED

CC Eloyise Braskic January 19th

Let’s Shed Some Intense Light on Toastmasters Acronyms

Let’s take a closer look at those acronyms. Now that you know what the acronym

stands for, this will show you the functions of each club officer role.

President—As the person who sets the tone for the club, the President is expected to provide

helpful, supportive leadership for all of the club’s activities. The President’s responsibilities

include presiding over meetings, ensuring the club earns Distinguished Club Recognition and

to lead and guide members.

VPE —Vice President Education—The Vice President Education schedules members’

speeches and projects and serves as a resource for questions about education awards,

speech contests and the mentor program. The VPE’s responsibilities include scheduling

agendas, assisting with educational awards, planning club speech contests and managing the

club mentor program.

VPM —Vice President Membership—The VPM promotes the club and manages the process

of bringing in guests and transforming them into members by initiating contact with guests,

making them feel welcome and providing them with the information they need to join. The

VPMs responsibilities include recruiting new members, conducting membership building

programs, assisting guests and processing membership applications.

VPPR —Vice President Public Relations—The VPPR promotes the club to the local

community and notifies the media about the club’s existence and benefits it provides. The

VPPR promotes the club, updates web content and keeps members abreast of all club

activities. The VPPRs responsibilities include publicising the club externally and internally and

safeguarding the Toastmasters brand, trademarks and copyrights.

Secretary—The Secretary maintains all club records, manages club files, handles club

correspondence and take the minutes at each club and executive committee meeting.

Treasurer—The Treasurer is the club’s accountant. They manage the club’s bank account,

writing cheques as approved by the executive committee and depositing dues and other club

revenues. They are also in charge of submitting membership-renewal dues to World Head-

quarters (accompanied by the names of renewing members) and keeping timely, accurate,

up-to-date financial records for the club

SAA —Sergeant At Arms— The SAA keeps track of the club’s physical property, such as the

banner, lectern, timing device and other meeting materials. The SAA arrives early to prepare

the meeting place for members and stays late to stow all of the club’s equipment.

Meeting 377 Our first meeting back in each

new year is traditionally our

outdoor meeting in Sanctuary

Waters Park, however nature

had different ideas this year

and sent a thunderstorm and

heavy rain down on Canning

Vale on January 19th. This

didn’t deter us from our meet-

ing and we just relocated to

John & Phyll’s house. Their

patio is almost totally en-

closed which protected us

from the weather and gave us

a different set of challenges to

conquer. Thanks John & Phyll!

The meeting was delightful

with 8 guests attending,

undeterred by the weather and

late change of venue. The

highlight was Eloyise’s CC10

speech, where she reminded

us of her outstanding growth

in Toastmasters and her future

aspirations. Congratulations

Eloyise Braskic CC!

Vanessa thrilled us with her

tale of The Aussie Taj and

gave us a bucket list destina-

tion to check out. (See photos

on page 7) Masoud enlight-

ened us as to why it was

raining so hard in January —

Climate Change, of course.

Our guest, Krystal, stepped up

to evaluate the evaluators

which gave us a whole new

perspective. Thanks Krystal!

Our Annual Outdoor Meeting

I’ve turned

my

butterflies

into fireflies!

A smile is a great tool for

a new speaker. It shows

that you are confident.

Inspired by Ronnie, my new

year’s resolution is to only

have 3 drinks per session.

Our First Ever Rain Affected Outdoor Meeting Explained

Just over a millimetre of rain on Sunday January 31st proved to be significant for Perth, as it ensured a record breaking January for the city.

If you thought it was a particularly grey start to the year, you wouldn't be wrong, with the 31sts rain taking the amount of rain affected days in January to nine - the most since records began way back in 1876.

Early on that Sunday morning it looked like this January was going to equal the record, until the Perth rain gauge got a drop over one millimetre.

The previous record of eight days was shared in 1916 and 1990, while Perth, on average, usually gets 2.4 days of rain in January.

January also equalled the record for the most thunderstorm days, five, which it shares with 1992.

Strangely, despite the record number of rain days and unusually frequent number of thunderstorms, Perth only just pipped the January average of 15.4ml by a mere 0.1 of a millilitre.

Bureau of Meteorology duty forecaster, Gianni Colangelo, said there wasn't one contributing factor to why January saw so many rainy days.

"You can't hang your hat on one reason," he said.

"You might get a couple of weather systems where it rains for two or three days. For January, we had two systems which each had three days of rain in them.

"Next year we might have three weather systems which brings three days of rain each, but it is highly unlikely."

The average day time temperature for January was down slightly from the average of 32 degrees to 31.2. While the minimum temperature was higher than the usual average of 18.1 degrees up to 19.3.

An excerpt from an article by Brendan Foster, WA News Today.

A record breaking January in 2016 with most days of rain ever

Meeting 378

Back at Canning Vale

College on Australia Day, we

slipped straight back into

routine with another fun

meeting. Mark was our

Toastmaster and kept the

meeting running smoothly.

Akash inspired us to not get

complacent, take a new

route to work. Jim stepped

up at the last minute with his

Tonic about his Dad & he

going to the footy together.

Cherish the moments with

your parents while you still

have them. They can be an

inspiration and funny situa-

tions arise, which make for

great speeches.

Our speeches were of the

usual high standard. Elena

encouraged us to try Uber

Taxis because there’s lots in

it for you. Steve had us

laughing at his Toastmes-

ser’s path and Dennis

demonstrated how to make

his world famous “Foo

Tonic”. Ronnie loved it, but

this little black duck could

take it or leave it. Maybe less

Kale and some berries might

make it tastier.

We were honoured to have

our Area Director, Andre,

attend for his official visit

and our Southern Division

Director, Cathy, visit at this

meeting. Both were highly

impressed with our

spectacular achievement of

10 DCP goals in only 6

months!

You do love

it, don’t you

Ronnie?

Australia Day Meeting

What an amazing, remarkable, magnificent and different start to our Toastmaster year in 2016! The first

meeting of the year was our annual park side gathering and it was once again a rather soggy experi-

ence. However rather than sitting in a pool of sweat we would have been waterlogged in torrential rain

had it not been for our amazing hosts Phyll & John Cecchi. At the 11th

hour the heavens opened and a

change of venue had to found and thankfully the Cecchi amphitheatre was available for the evening!

Despite the unusual weather we had 8 guests for the meeting 6 of whom have come again! Andre’s

Mum, Joyce. joined us once again and Krystal from Willetton Toastmasters. The calibre of speakers

and speeches for our very first meeting back was phenomenal but the highlight of the evening for me

came from a very special CC10 project speech. Eloyise Braskic

delivered a line that sums up her (& I’m sure many other)

Toastmasters experiences..... as she has turned her ‘butterflies

into fire flies’!

For all our new and existing members may 2016 be the year you

embrace challenges head on and allow your fire flies to fly!

Vanessa

A Few Words from the President

Queensland’s Spanish Castle

Upcoming Events

Club Officer Training There will be 3 opportunities to attend Club Officer Training

during February. If you are a club officer and didn’t attend the

session in December, this is another opportunity for you.

When: Saturday February 13th, 1.30pm—5.30pm

Thursday February 18th, 6pm—10pm

Sunday February 21st, 1.30pm—5.30pm

Where: The Innovation Centre, Technology Park, Bentley

District 17 City of Dreams Convention

May 27—29, 2016

Four Points by Sheraton, Perth

International Speaker Mark Brown

1995 World Champion of Public Speaking

Come Chase Your Dreams

Speech Contests

Our Club International and Evaluation Speech Contests and the

Area Final will all be held in February. You need to have complet-

ed at least six speeches from the Competent Communication

Manual to compete in the International Speech contest. If you

would like to compete or perform a contest Chair role in any of

these contests, Please advise Prem ASAP.

When: International - Tuesday February 16, 2016

Evaluation - Tuesday February 23, 2016

Area Finals - Tuesday March 1, 2016

Where: Canning Vale College

If you would like to perform a role on any of these nights, contact

Mark ASAP.

Tip of the Month

3 Tips to Make You Feel Confident When Giving a Presentation

1. Avoid using words you might misread during your talk when you glance at your notes.

If you wrote, “It assures our success” on a note card for a presentation you were going to give, it would be easy to mis-takenly read it as “assumes” if you glanced only briefly at it

during the talk – especially if you were talking fast.

If you’re going to refer to written notes during a live presentation, think through the words you’re writing down. Ask yourself if you can imagine misreading any of those words when the crowd is in front of you (“darling” for “daring,” for example). Cut out words that could easily be mistaken for others.

2. Watch out for words you regularly stumble over.

During a live presentation, you get just one chance to deliver each line, each word, flawlessly. If you stumble over or mispronounce a word, it can severely disrupt your flow. If it happens more than a few times, it can also make both you and your audience uncomfortable. So monitor yourself for particular words that trip you up and make a point of keeping those words out of your talks.

It’s also a good idea not to use long, complex words. All of us occasionally trip over words like “inexplicable” or “extemporaneously.” So try not to include words like these in your presentations.

3. Avoid words or phrases that might confuse your audience.

Former presidential speechwriter Peggy Noonan, in her book On Speaking Well, tells an interesting story about a foreign policy speech she wrote for President Reagan. After reviewing the draft, Reagan’s chief of staff handed it back to Noonan and told her to change the phrase “muscular altruism.” When Noonan asked why, he said, “It sounds like a disease.”

What the chief of staff realized was that when people hear the word muscular, they think “dystrophy.” Add to that the fact that the second word in Noonan’s phrase is a word most people don’t know and which ends in “ism,” and you can see where the whole phrase could confuse and even frighten the public.

When crafting your presentation, think through any words or phrases that your audience might misconstrue or even hear incorrectly (because they’re so used to hearing those words in different contexts). Then find different words to make the same points.

An excerpt from an article by ROBBIE HYMAN http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/3-tips-make-you-feel-confident-when-giving-presentation.html

Member Musings What keeps me in Toastmasters after 14 years

It’s no longer about me at all these days. It’s all about inspiring others to become better

speakers and leaders. I get a thrill out of watching others improve and overcoming their fear,

becoming more confident and growing into leaders, not only in Toastmasters but in their every-

day life as well.

I enjoy encouraging others to take on club leadership roles and learning new skills. Some bring

new ideas to the table and enrich our club with these. Others become so self-assured that they

take on District leadership roles and I take pleasure in watching them develop more skills,

knowledge and understanding of Toastmasters as an organisation.

I have held most club officer roles and every district leadership role from Area Governor

through to District Governor. I am still very active in our District holding the role of Chief

Ambassador for the Revitalised Education Program and presenting at TLIs or workshops as

required. Currently I have nominated for the role of International Director for Region 12 and

believe my experiences gained throughout these years began with a mentor encouraging me

to take on the Sergeant At Arms role. My wish is to be that inspiration for Canning Vale

members.

I am very proud of the number of

our members who step up to take

on any new role and believe we

have many more waiting in the

wings. I will always be supportive,

encouraging and empathetic of

your position, willing to mentor or

advise whenever required.

Mark Richards DTM

We meet every Tuesday @ 6.30pm

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