Spinnaker Toastmasters Club, Porirua City, NZ #7868/72
Spinnaker Toastmasters Club, Porirua City, NZ #7868/72
This page has News about Spinnaker Toastmasters Club and the activities of our members.
Club President Fiona Cashmore presented Dale Hartle DTM (pictured on right below) with the Spinnaker Toastmasters Club "Toastmaster of the Year Award" at the club's annual prizegiving event on Tuesday 13 December 2011.
Porirua's simple to use Sports Ground Updates website called www.updates.co.nz has won the Excellence in Information Management Award and also came 3rd in the Excellence in Innovation Award at the ALGIM 31st Annual Conference in November 2011. Website Manager and Spinnaker Toastmaster Dale Hartle says Porirua's sports teams, parents and coaches, and Council staff, are all benefiting from the new website. "The Updates website enables the public to receive up-to-date information about whether a sports ground is open or closed for training or weekend games, wherever they may be, on whatever device they choose." She says streamlining a previously time-consuming process into a quick and easy one-click update and notification system has made all the difference for our administrators and users.
Dale Hartle (pictured centre above) receiving the Innovation Award.
Dale Hartle (pictured centre above) receiving the Excellence in Information Management Award.
The speaking opportunities arising out of this award included a 15 minute presentation as a Case Study at the Conference to the judges, and a 15 minute demonstration of the new website to her business unit colleagues at the Porirua City Council.
Dale Hartle DTM, Secretary of the Spinnaker Toastmasters Club, was the Chief Judge at the Annual Parumoana Speech Contest held at Aotea College on Friday 25 November. The contests have the top speakers in Years 5-6 and Years 7-8 from local schools competing for the speech championship, which is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Plimmerton.
Back row: Austen Rangi (Papakowhai), Rebekah Lidgett (Plimmerton), Sayla Southee (Discovery), Chief Judge Dale Hartle, Sarah Jenner. Front row: Phillip Reidy, Rosie O'Hagan (St Theresa's), Emily Drake (Papakowhai), Aimee Freeman (Adventure).
In her address after the contests, Dale told the budding young public speakers that the judges had enjoyed the range of topics, the excellent structure used, and the humorous delivery. It was clear all the contestants had done a lot of research and preparation for their speeches, and this was reflected in their well thought out use of descriptive language, facts, and supporting quotations.
Dale also presented the placegetters and winners with their prizes and trophies.
At Spinnaker's 27 September meeting, the club voted to move its meeting venue to Plimmerton. This move is being forced upon us by the Council's reclaiming of the Bradey Room for use by the Whitby Library from the beginning of 2012.
So Spinnaker will be meeting at the St Andrew's Anglican Parish Centre, Steyne Avenue, Plimmerton from its first meeting in February.
The second big change will be that the club will meet on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month (currently 2nd, 4th and 5th).
Read the Minutes of the Special General Meeting agreeing to these changes.
Early in March 2012, after we've settled in to our new meeting venue, we'll be holding an open meeting, inviting other local clubs and introducing potential Speechcrafters to our new location.
Spinnaker Toastmasters Club at a Special General Meeting on 13 September 2011 voted to raise the club fees from 1 October 2011. This was necessary as the Toastmasters International fees have increased, club expenses have increased, and the club is moving to a new more expensive meeting venue from the 2012 year. This was the first increase in club fees for several years. The new schedule of fees can be viewed on the Join Our Club page. Read the Minutes of the Special General Meeting approving this change.
At the Spinnaker Toastmasters meeting held on Tuesday 13 September, a combined live Radio and Television interview was conducted by Kath and Fiona. Kath was completing an advanced assignment conducting a live television interview, and Fiona was completing her assignment of a live radio interview. They talked about Toastmasters and the benefits of joining a club, promoting Spinnaker Toastmasters as the club of choice. The session was video-taped and audio digitally recorded for later analysis, and verbal and written evaluations were also provided. This was an unusual combination of assignments from the Public Relations Advanced Manual, and gave both speakers and the audience an opportunity to witness an example of how to conduct an interview, or be interviewed live.
Spinnaker Toastmaster Shona Smith won the Area E5 Humorous and Table Topics contests held at Mana College on Saturday 10 September 2011. Shona competed in the Division Contests held on Saturday 8 October in Petone but was unplaced. Congratulations Shona!
Division E Humorous Contest participants: Shona Smith, 6th from right.
Division E Table Topics Contest participants: Shona Smith, 5th from right.
A new Committee for the 2011-12 Toastmasters year starting on 1 July was elected at the Club's May meeting. The committee has already begun planning for the new year with some key goals in mind, including building membership, improving club standards, and providing more educational resources for members.
In her outgoing President's Report, Shona Smith outlined the club's achievements for the current year, and thanked everyone for their efforts in running the club. Special mention was made of the club's 20th Anniversary held in December 2010, acknowledging the members who competed in the Area Contests, and the recently completed Speechcraft Course run by Coordinator Fiona Cashmore.
Two Spinnaker Toastmasters, Malcolm North and Dale Hartle, competed in the Area E5 Evaluation and International Prepared Speech contests on Saturday 26 March at Mana College, run by Area Governor Kath Cherrie.
Malcolm evaluated a test speaker, and was placed second, while Dale delivered a speech about the newly upgraded Porirua Railway Station, but was unplaced.
The photos below show the contestants with their Participation Certificates.
Area E5 Evaluation Contest Participants (Malcolm 2nd from right).
Area E5 International Speech Contest participants (Dale at right).
The Winner of the Evaluation Contest was Neil MacInness from Toastmasters of Waikanae, and Neville Isherwood representing Porirua Central won the International Contest.
Speech Contest Winners: Neil MacInness (left) and Neville Isherwood (right).
Congratulations to all the contestants and winners for a well-fought contest.
Spinnaker Toastmaster Peter Drew completed another advanced manual assignment with a live radio interview. The assignment involved getting another Toastmaster to "interview" the speaker about a topic they knew well. Peter chose to talk about Mana Little Theatre. In this photo, you can see the radio host Kath Cherrie listening to Peter's response.
Kath Cherrie completed an Advanced Manual assignment at Spinnaker Toastmasters by demonstrating how to make and serve "Nana's Pastry" - all in the seven minutes allotted to the speech.
Kath showed us how to prepare the ingredients, roll out the pastry, and prepare it for the oven. At the end, Kath surprised us by uncovering a plate of ready to eat pastry bites she had prepared in advance, and invited us to enjoy them for supper!
Everyone loved them, and we took home Kath's recipe to try it out for ourselves.
Here's Kath demonstrating how to make the pastry.
And here is the recipe for you to enjoy:
Ingredients: 1 cup flour, 250 grams butter, 1 teaspoon vinegar, quarter teaspoon salt, milk to mix
Method: Put flower and salt into a bowl or food processor, cut butter into this. Add vinegar and enough milk to bind together. Roll out 3 times and fold into 3 in each direction in between rolling. Bake in hot oven.