Sunday, June 08, 2008
Toastmasters Club Elects New Officers
Todd Austin was the prepared speaker at the 6-5-08 Tri-County Toastmasters meeting. Austin delivered an informative speech called “Living Dangerously With High Fructose Corn Syrup”.
The Tri-County Toastmasters Club’s new slate of officers for the Toastmasters fiscal year beginning on 7-1-08 were elected at Thursday’s meeting. They are (from left): Les Apps – President; Todd Austin – VP of Public Relations; Billy Watkins – Sergeant at Arms; Jim Blankenship – Secretary / Treasurer. The other officer not pictured is Liz Mollett – VP of Education & Membership.
The Tri-County Toastmasters club met on Thursday 6-5-08 at the Virden Area Community Center. Club members present at Thursday’s meeting were: Les Apps from Girard, Dr. Todd Austin from Virden, Jim Blankenship, John Davidson, Casey Tom and Bill Watkins.
During business, the club elected officers FY 2008/2009. The new officers will be: President Les Apps, VP of Education & Membership Liz Mollett, VP of PR Todd Austin, Secretary & Treasurer Jim Blankenship and Sergeant at Arms Bill Watkins.
Billy Watkins served as the meeting’s master of ceremonies. New Berlin's Jim Blankenship who also serves on the Sangamon County Fair Board conducted a ‘Sangamon County Fair’ themed Tabletopics (the impromptu speaking portion of the program) in honor of the upcoming fair to be held in New Berlin later this month. Each participant was to give a 1 to 2 minute impromptu response to a different fair-related question.
The evening’s prepared speaker was Todd Austin, a Virden Chiropractic Physician, who gave an informative talk about the evils of high fructose corn syrup… a genetically engineered non-food that the food industry giants insist on adding to almost all packaged or processed foods. There is overwhelming scientific evidence that HFCS is a major cause of obesity, diabetes and fatty liver in the U.S. The speech was a project from the basic Toastmasters Communication manual. Les Apps evaluated the speech.
The Toastmasters club will next meet on Thursday June 19, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. at the Virden Area Community Center. For more information about the Toastmasters program, or about joining or attending a club meeting, please call (217) 965-3100 or send e-mail to draustin@royell.net.
