Category: News
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Presentation of our Annual Awards
[custom_frame_center][/custom_frame_center] At last Tuesday’s meeting, Jonathan Fleisch, our president, presented our annual Podium awards for our Toastmaster year: 2011-2012. Every year, Podium presents three awards to deserving recipients. The Stalwart Award-is awarded to the member who attends consistently attends the most meetings throughout the Toastmaster year. The Toastmaster of the Year Award-is awarded to the…
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Our members get in the Hallowe’en spirit!
On Tuesday October 30th, the theme of our meeting was “Feel the Fear and Do it Anyways”. Some of our members certainly had no fear as they dressed up to show off their Halloween spirit. Feel free to share the group photo from our Photo Gallery from the meeting through Facebook or your Twitter account.
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Podium Member Receives Her Majesty Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
[custom_frame_left][/custom_frame_left] On Thursday, October 25th, our very own Tim Kwan was presented with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal by The Honorable Dr. Asha Seth (Canada’s First Indo-Canadian Female Senator) and by local MPP Soo Wong (representing Scarborough-Agincourt). The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal was created to mark the 60th anniversary of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s Accession to the Thorne as…
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Your 2012-2013 Executive Team
[custom_frame_center][/custom_frame_center] In May of this year, the club held it’s elections. The mix of new and seasoned members will bring some renewed ideas, strategies and help keep our membership strong. The following members have been elected to their respective positions: [custom_frame_center][/custom_frame_center] These are your executive members that will serve Podium Toastmasters from July 2012 –…
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Congratulations to all our contestants!
On Tuesday September 25, 2012, Podium Toastmasters held their club contest for the Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contests. We had new club members and some seasoned members in both competitions. In our first competition, Bryan and Derek competed in the Table Topic Contests with the word “Inspiration”. Both gave strong performances with Bryan focusing…
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Yan represents Podium at International
In August 2012, Podium member Yan Li, competed in the semi-finals at the International Speech contest in Orlando, Florida. Yan joined Podium in November 2009 and had barely completed her first 10 speeches in the Competent Communicator manual when she advanced to the world stage. Here she shares what she learned from competing. Q: What…