Recent Banter News
A Grateful Universe
Wed, Jan 25th, 2012
January 19, 2012 - First time chair Elena Nistor selected "universe" and "grateful" as theme and word of the meeting and asked us all to be grateful for everything we ...
Happy New Year
Fri, Jan 13th, 2012
Laurie Stapleton chaired the January 5th meeting, the first of 2012, with the theme and word "New Beginnings" and "Start". She welcomed guests Tony, Angela and Marva. Table Topics Chair ...
Mon, Jul 26th, 2010
Hello Everyone - It is my honour to be able to report to the members of Bolton Banter Toastmasters as the Webmaster and now Club President. Our first meeting of ...
Wed, Jun 23rd, 2010
Hello Everyone - We held our final meeting of the 2009/2010 Toastmasters year on June 17th and what a meeting it was! Lorraine Van Wagner chaired and Lesley Webb assumed ...
Fri, Jun 11th, 2010
We are nearing the conclusion of another Toastmasters year. By choosing "Momentum in Action" and "Achieve" as theme and word of the June 3rd meeting, Chair Brendan Dineen reminded us ...
Fri, May 7th, 2010
Did you know that a marathon consists of 42.2 kilometres, the E.P. Taylor track at Woodbine is 1200 feet long or that 1 billion people in the world are overweight? We ...
Mon, Apr 19th, 2010
Our April 15th meeting featured many "firsts". Allan Lee delivered his "icebreaker" speech. New member Kurian Thomas, in his first role, acted as the meeting's humourist and Jim DeCarolis assumed ...
Wed, Apr 7th, 2010
Sargeant at Arms Ben Allison began our April 1st meeting by calling for a moment of silence in tribute to our fellow Toastmaster, Sheelagh Rennie, who passed away unexpectedly on ...
Fri, Mar 19th, 2010
St. Paddy's Day was the theme of our March 18th meeting. Accordingly, members wore their best green outfits and club founder Eric O'Solowka was resplendent in a pair of plus ...
Mon, Mar 8th, 2010
For the March 4th Bolton Banter Toastmasters meeting, chair Catherine Keyes chose "Compassion" and "I Understand" as theme and word of the meeting. The theme of compassion carried through into ...
Fri, Feb 26th, 2010
On February 18th, Bolton Banter held its annual International Speech and Evaluation contest with Minnie Grewal as chair. We were very pleased to welcome several guests to this event. Congratulations ...
Wed, Feb 10th, 2010
First time chair Corina Simu chose "Desire" and "Pull" as theme and word of our February 4th meeting. In her opening remarks, she spoke of the desire to pull away ...
Tue, Jan 26th, 2010
Hello Toastmasters and Guests - Chair Vince Capicotto chose "Schmooze" as word of our January 21st meeting and "Opportunity" as theme. As Vince sees it, schmoozing, simply making chit chat ...
Tue, Jan 12th, 2010
New Year greetings to all. Bolton Banter Toastmasters held its first meeting of 2010 on January 7th and were delighted to welcome no less than 9 guests including the area ...
Fri, Dec 18th, 2009
Hello Everyone - The Bolton Banters decided to make the final meeting of 2009 a festive occasion. Minnie Grewal kindly offered to host a combination meeting/party at her charming country ...
Wed, Dec 9th, 2009
Hello Everyone - Our December 3rd meeting, with Carol Dowell at the helm, featured "Christmas Preparation" and "Stress" as theme and word of the meeting respectively. There was little stress ...
Tue, Nov 24th, 2009
Hello Everyone - We got serious at our November 19th meeting with chair Brendan Dineen choosing "Improvement" as the word of the meeting. He brought along such well-known and thumb ...
Fri, Nov 6th, 2009
Inspired by a comment from Eric Solowka, Chair Laurie Stapleton chose as the theme for our November 5th meeting, "Learn to be comfortable with silence". The word of the evening ...
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, ...