Where: Markland Wood Country Club 245 Markland Drive Etobicoke, M9C 1R1 Fortunately the proximity to a Golf club didn't affect the quality of the humour! Golf jokes were officially banned (Sorry Fred). Great food. Great company. Lots of laughs and memories. Intro Michelle kicked off the evening with good humour and Pierre led us in our Royal and Loyal Toast. Rumour has it that Pierre almost hit his head on the chandellier. Although that rumour may be completely made up.

Our Menu Was:

• Grilled breast of Capon stuffed with Swiss cheese and prosciutto
• Herbed whipped potatoes
• Seasonal vegetables
• Fresh baked bread
• Warm poached pears and a goat cheese crouton on a bed of baby spinach with Sherry-Dijon vinaigrette
• Coffee, tea or milk
• White and dark chocolate Torte with a chocolate swirl, crème Anglaise and fresh seasonal fruit

I was worried the Pears and goat cheese would end up in a flavour mêlée.
To my delight, the combination was amazing! Delicious! For those of you who missed
the dinner I can only say missed out on this one.

I came for the meal. But I stayed for the dessert.
Of course that whole Toastmaster part in the middle was decent too. ;)

Club Awards

Awards Ceremony It was a nice reminder that your hard work at Toastmasters pays off with not only increased confidence, better communication skills, but WAIT! There's more! You also get a darn nice looking trophy as well. Janice was too modest to hand out the award to herself so she got Michelle to do the honours. Awards CTM Lidia Scialdone 6 towards CTM Sandy Luke Gino Scialdone Fred Berni ATM-BRONZE Michelle Warren 6 towards ATM-BRONZE Lisa Booth Pierre Perron Fred Berni CL Janice Basili Success It was good to share in the success of fellow club members. For those of you who hit the six speech mark, congratuations! You are in the home stretch and we look forward to being inspired by the rest of your speeches!

Guest Speaker: Renate Zorn

Who's Renate? She is an accomplished speaker and fellow Toastmaster! Issue #IX of the Division P Newsletter mentions her grabbing third place in the International Speech contest.
Fred, our VP of Membership, reminded me that Renate was one of the speakers at the
officer training we attended soon after joining the club's executive team.
Wow, brings back memories.

Renate reminded us that you only get out of Toastmasters what you put into it.
Renate, thank you for sharing in our club's 25th Anniversary celibration!

Prizes

Yes, we also had door prizes!