Recent Banter News
Flirting with Ernest Borgnine
Wed, Sep 8th, 2010
Our September 2nd meeting, chaired by Ben Allison, featured "Practice Makes Perfect" and "Participation" and theme and word of the meeting. An old Russian proverb states that "repetition is the ...
Patiently Waiting
Thu, Aug 26th, 2010
Hello Everyone - I had the pleasure of chairing the August 19th meeting. Because I was patiently awaiting the imminent birth of my step-daughter and son-in-law's first child, I chose ...
Mon, Nov 2nd, 2009
Thursday, October 29 was the third Thursday of the month and in true Bolton Banter tradition, we held a special meeting. This time, Eric Solowka led us through the fundamentals ...
Tue, Oct 20th, 2009
Our meeting of October 15th, chaired by Ben Allison, featured "Attitude of Gratitude" as its theme. Appropriately, Ben chose "Thanksgiving" as the word of the meeting. Ben spoke of the ...
Tue, Oct 6th, 2009
Hello Everyone - We were happy to welcome a number of guests to our October 1st meeting. Hopefully we can turn these guests into members. We offered a special welcome ...
Mon, Sep 21st, 2009
Hello Everyone - We had a full house for our Humourous Speech and Table Topics contest on September 17th plus several welcome guests. They included Corina Simu's children. Her son, Sebastian, ...
Tue, Sep 8th, 2009
Hello Everyone - You may be wondering what happened to the report of the August 20th meeting. We had planned a unique outdoor setting for our meeting at Dick's Dam. ...
Fri, Aug 7th, 2009
Hello Everybody - This past July had a fifth Thursday, July 30th, and that gave Bolton Banter Toastmasters the opportunity to meet three times. As is usual on a fifth Thursday, ...
Mon, Jul 20th, 2009
Greetings - On July 16th, Chair Laurie Stapleton chose "Inspiring Leadership" and "Example" as the theme and word of the meeting respectively. Much of the meeting very nicely dovetailed with ...
Mon, Jul 13th, 2009
Hello Everyone - Chair Laurie Stapleton, our newly elected Vice President Education, chose as theme and word of the July 2nd meeting, "O Canada" and "Pride". Laurie and Heather Taylor-Nanan ...
Tue, Jun 23rd, 2009
Hello Everyone - Our VP Education, Carol Dowell, dreamed up a devilishly good idea for our June 18th meeting. In order to create as many opportunities as possible for club ...
Wed, Jun 10th, 2009
Hello Everyone - First time chair Vince Capicotto chose as the theme of the June 4th meeting "Lotto Toastmasters" and fittingly, chose as the word of the meeting "winning". It ...
Fri, May 22nd, 2009
Hello Everyone - On the marvellously warm spring evening of May 21st, Laurie Stapleton ably chaired our meeting (her first time as chair!) and chose "Discipline Yourself" and "Commitment" as ...
Tue, May 12th, 2009
Greetings all - Effective July 1st, 2009, Bolton Banter will have a new executive. At our meeting on May 7th, at which we had quorum, the membership elected the following slate ...
Wed, Apr 22nd, 2009
Hello Everybody - Congratulations to Ben Allison who chaired his first meeting on April 16th. Ben chose "Change your mind and spirit" as the theme of the meeting. "Courage" was ...
Tue, Apr 7th, 2009
Hello Everyone - At our April 2nd meeting, chair Brendan Dineen chose "what do people want?" as theme of the meeting. The word of the evening was "comfort". Brendan explained ...
Tue, Mar 24th, 2009
Hello Everyone - If you did not have Irishness thrust upon you by birth, you should have been at Bolton Banter's St. Paddy's Day meeting on March 19th. Chair Eric ...
Wed, Mar 11th, 2009
Hello Everyone - The meeting of March 5th was one of "firsts". Sheelagh Rennie and Laurie Stapleton took on, for the first time, the roles of chair and toastmaster respectively. ...
Mon, Feb 23rd, 2009
Hello Everyone - On Thursday, February 19th, Bolton Banter Toastmasters held its third annual International Speech and Evaluation contest. Thank you to all who helped make this a great night. It ...
Tue, Feb 10th, 2009
This past January featured a fifth Thursday and in Bolton Banter, that extra Thursday is used for special meetings. On January 29th, our club's founder, Eric Solowka, led an evaluation ...
Wed, Jan 21st, 2009
Hello and Happy New Year to all - "Fresh Start" was the theme chosen by Chair Brendan Dineen for our first meeting of 2009. It is always a pleasure to ...
Fri, Dec 19th, 2008
Hello Everyone - Our final Bolton Banter Toastmasters meeting of 2008, held December 18, was graced by the presence of guests Vince, Area Governor Theresa Murray and President Brendan Dineen's dad Dan ...