March 3, 2026 Meeting Minutes

 

Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes

                                                           March 3,2026

Announcements:

Nancy welcomed our guests, Jeff Makita, and Ralph DE Rueda

Our Toastmaster:   Deanna with the theme. "On This Day in History—March 3"

Our Sergeant at Arms Katie, called our meeting to order.

Our President Theresa opened our meeting

Our VPE: Theresa for Nancy provided our Ed minute. She referenced an article “Tips for Helping with Anxiety” These tips were meant to help control nervousness during speeches

GATE Team

Grammarian was Theresa with “Resource. "

Ah Counter was Chirag

Timer: was Deanna

Our 1st Speaker was Alex  with the speech title “What You do After the Fire.” 

Our 2nd Speaker was Bill with the speech title “New Members Don’t Grow on Trees.”

 

Our Evaluator for Alex’s speech was Katie

Our Evaluator for Bill’s  speech was ( a round robin evaluation)

 

Our Table Topics Master was Ravi

 

Our Table Topic Speakers were Alex, Katie, Chirag and Jeff

Our Humorist .  no humorist

 

Members in Attendance were Bill, Deanna, Ravi, Katie, Ram, Theresa and Alex.

Guests in Attendance  Jeff Makita and Ralph DE Rueda

 

Motion to Adjourn: Deanna     Second: Bill

February 24, 2026 Meeting Minutes

  Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

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                                                           February 24,2026

Announcements:

Nancy welcomed our guests: Crystal Dickerson, Jeff Makita, and Indu

Our Toastmaster:   Marcus with the theme. "Yards"

Our Sergeant at Arms was Nancy, filling in for Katie, called our meeting to order.

Our President Pro-Tem Nancy opened our meeting

Our VPE: Nancy provided our Ed minute. She referenced an article  “7 Things I wish all kids knew about confidence.” It listed such things as confidence is a muscle and needs to be exercised and it’s ok to make mistakes as that’s how we learn.

 

GATE Team

Grammarian was Kelly with “Meticulous "

Ah Counter was Deanna

Timer: was Bill

Our 1st Speaker was Ravi with the speech title “Stop Doing Work No One Credits You For.” 

Our 2nd Speaker was Maria S Giving her Ice Breaker with the speech title “From Observer to Participant.”

 

Our Evaluator for Ravi’s speech was Maria C

Our Evaluator for Maria S’s speech was TK

 

Our Table Topics Master was Nancy

 

Our Table Topic Speakers were Amy, Alex, Crystal, Jeff and Maria and TK

Our Humorist was Nancy

 

Members in Attendance were Bill, Deanna, Ravi, Marcus TK, Kelly, Nancy, Maria C, Maria S, Alex,  and Amy

 

Guests in Attendance Crystal Dickerson, Jeff Makita and Indu

 

Motion to Adjourn: Kelly     Second: TK

February 17, 2026 Meeting Minutes

 Meeting Minutes

February 17, 2026

 

Announcements:

President Theresa welcomed our guests: Jathin, James and Cindy.  

Our Toastmaster was Turtle with the theme. “RIP Pennies 1792-2025”

A Brief History of the U.S. Cent

https://www.azquotes.com/quotes/topics/pennies.html

 

 

Our Sergeant at Arms Katie called our meeting to order.

Our VPE: Nancy went over roles for our next meeting. She also provided our Education Minute:

Navigating Feedback on Your Speeches: How to Effectively Use Your Evaluations

https://www.toastmasters.org/magazine/magazine-issues/2025/feb/navigating-feedback-on-your-speeches

Katie reminded about our upcoming Area Contest on February 21, combining 3 areas and held at Brightwater Center.

Our President Theresa opened our meeting.

 

Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian - Maria S

Word of the day was Worth

Ah Counter – Alex

Timer – Katie

General Evaluator – Marcus

 

Our 1st Speaker was Amy with "Spiders at Arms: Preparing My Pet Spiders for Combat"

Our 2nd Speaker was Maria C with "6 7" 

Our Evaluator for Amy was Kelly

Our Evaluator for Maria C was Nancy

Our Table Topics Master was Theresa 

Our Table Topics Speakers were: Nancy, Maria S, Marcus

 

Our Humorist We had no humorist.

 

Members in Attendance were Katie, Maria C, Maria S, TK , Kelly, Amy, Theresa Nancy, Marcus, Alex

Guests in Attendance Jathin, James, Cindy

 

Motion to Adjourn (meeting ended but I saw TK's hand soo...): TK Second: Maria

February 10, 2026 OFFICERS MEETING MINUTES

 

Public Speaking Northwest

Officers Meeting Minutes

                                                                                February 10, 2026

I. Opening

·      Welcome …Members in attendance Maria, Nancy, Katie, Deanna, and Theresa.

·      Unanimous approval of the minutes from the January Officers meetings.

1^st: Nancy 2^nd: Deanna

II. Officer Reports (page 2)

III. Ongoing/Old Business: 

·       [Katie] Planning for Area Contest going well, will send a reminder to Theresa for next meeting.

      

IV. New Business

o [Deanna] Potential Brightwater social gathering: public tour max 25; will share with the club to sign up – Deanna is going March 28^th. Will look into picnic afterward?

 

 

 

V.  Announcements

 

VI.  Motion to Adjourn: Nancy 2nd Katie

 

 

Officer Reports  

VP Education/ Webmaster: Nancy

Webmaster:

 All is well.

VPE: 

I am still researching who has not reported their completed projects and reminding them.

Deanna completed level 5 of Leadership Development and is poised to complete the path! Woohoo!

Ravi’s mentor is Maria C.

DPR: We are now Select Distinguished. D2 has not recorded 2 of us for training. I will follow up.  Our Calendar is also attached and appended.

Club Calendar:

VP Membership: Maria

Anniversaries: Amy - 4 years, Deanna - 3 years, Brian - 2 years, Chirag - 1 year. Congrats!

For January we had the following (rolling in visitors!): 

New Members:  Maria S, Ravi	2
Inquiries	14
Mtg Visitors	16
Member removals	0

 

Jathin has requested the membership application, and I look forward to him joining us this month!

 

VP Public Relations: Kelly

• Social Media.
• Facebook: 540 Followers
• YouTube: 54 subscribers•439 videos
• Google My Business Profile. I will send the link and ask our membership to do a Google Review when I send out your speeches from this week.

Treasurer: Deanna

1.    D2 award dollars submitted 2x via Concur but still awaiting approval by D2 (system/procedural changes going on)

2.    Initial application for Benevity was rejected. I resubmitted using some verification of Club #9406 officers directly from the TI  website. Now awaiting 2nd review for approval.

3.    New member payment collection via Zelle has been going well.

4.    Will start member renewals process in early March.

5.    The PSNW bank account balance is $873.59 on 2/9/2026. 

Secretary/Scribe: Bill

On vacation through Feb 20^th; Maria to take meeting minutes while he’s out.

Sergeant at Arms: Katie

I printed a name tag for new member for Ravi Mantala and Maria Shneerson.

President: Theresa

 

February 10 Meeting Minutes

Meeting Minutes

February 10, 2026

 

Announcements:

President Theresa welcomed our guests: MaryAnn Olson, Jeff Makita, Cindy and Indu (Jathin Manne joined after intros).  

Our Toastmaster was Nancy with the theme. “Growth”

 

Our Sergeant at Arms Katie called our meeting to order.

Our VPE: Kelly for Nancy went over roles for our next meeting. She also provided our Education Minute:

The Courage to Grow: Challenge yourself to broaden your life journey.

January 2026 Toastmaster Magazine Page 14

https://content.toastmasters.org/image/upload/v1765985453/202601-toastmasters.pdf

Kelly talked also talked about our upcoming Area Contest on February 21, combining 3 areas and held at Brightwater Center. She also pointed out all the levels of competition.

Our President Theresa opened our meeting.

 

Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian -Ram

Word of the day was progress

Ah Counter – Ravi

Timer – Deanna

General Evaluator – Maria

 

Our 1st Speaker was Alex with “Why I'm really here” Presentation mastery track

Our Evaluator for Alex was Warren

Our Table Topics Master was Amy, 

Our Table Topics Speakers were: Theresa, Jeff (guest), Marcus, Maria S, Turtle, MaryAnn (guest), Katie, and Nancy

 

Our Humorist We had no humorist.

 

Members in Attendance were Deanna, Katie, Ravi, Maria C, Maria S, Turtle, Alex, Nancy, Theresa, Marcus, Amy, Ram, and Warren 

Guests in Attendance Mary,

 

Motion to Adjourn: Nancy Second: Katie