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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tue, Aug 10th, 2010
Every Thursday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. until October, you can shop at our local farmers' market, located on the grounds of the community centre. On your way to ...
Fri, Jul 30th, 2010
Hello Everyone - Our July 29th meeting was ably chaired by Eric Solowka who selected "passion" and "hot" as theme and word of the day respectively. Eric explained that the ...
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 ...