Cherry welcomed everyone to our summer joint meeting,
our theme was: Edmonton Folk Festival. Before introducing TM Rhys D, Grammarian Ashley gave us the WOD: Askance.
TM Rhys asked everyone what our favorite festival in Edmonton was. Our guest Rachael is new in Edmonton and could not pick any. Lochlan's choice was in winter: The Flying Canoe.
We had two speakers: 1st speech "Balcony People" by Peter H. with his Engaging HumourPath Level 2, 'Introduction to Mentoring'. Peter concluded with the protege in the centre ofthe stage and the mentor being the Balcony People. This evening, Peter spoke with extra confidence and the skills we had never seen or heard before.
2nd speech was a 30 minutes Educational by Dan Mc
"Where do we go from here?" Dan took us to a journey from “Why we
joined TM to why we are still with TM” using menti.com questionnaires along with his
power point emphasizing 11 paths and 5 levels from Pathways.
TTM Cherry asked our youngest guest Rachael to tell us some major differences in Folk Fest back in 1980 and 2022, it didn't stumble our guest at all. Best TT speaker was a tie between Harry and Rachael (the Vet and the Rookie)
We had no time to take a break so quickly went into the speech evaluation section by evaluators Miles G and Lynn B, both evaluators provided room for improvement. Table Topics Evaluator Lochlan gave us a general evaluation that all TT speakers had good eye contacts and vocals. He praised our guest Rachael as she was not even nervous as a 1st time TT speaker. As a fairly new Riverbend member, Ashley had triple duties as Timer, Grammarian and TT speaker and she did such a fantastic job on all three counts. Craig was our Ah/um counter who politely reported that he stopped counting after Rhys reached 25.
General Evaluator Harry P's report mentioned Miles G. was a very good speaker and wished he could have looked at his audience more. Lastly Quizmaster Lochlan only asked one question: What was his favorite festival during introduction? Ashley answered almost correctly with winter canoe. (Ans: Flying canoe)
1. Rachael commented that she would complete the membership form and join Riverbend club in the next meeting. (Action: Riverbend to follow up)
2. Harry announced that Golden Mountain will be hosting the next joint meeting on Aug 23rd.
