July 28, 2026 Meeting Minutes

Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters Meeting Minutes July 28, 2026 Announcements: Bill Hinrichs, President, shared an announcement that Toastmasters' hosting service, FreeToastHost, is going to update their software. Nancy Carpenter, VP Education talked about keeping time. Our Toastmaster: Kerry Accola led with the theme. "Road Trip” Jeff Makita, Sergeant at Arms led us through Club Mission statement and Flag Salute. Gate team: Our grammarian was Dhwani Maheshwari with the WORD of the Day “Detour” Ah Counter was Dhwani Maheshwari Our Timer was Nancy Carpenter, VP Education General Evaluator was TK Kasnick Our 1st Speaker was Jeff Makita with an icebreaker speech titled “What Are the Four Things?” PM1, Evaluation and Feedback (4-6min) Our 2nd Speaker was Jessica Colby with a speech titled, “All Gass, No Breaks” (7-9 min) Our Evaluator for Jeff’s speech was Katie Munoz Our Evaluator for Jessica’s speech was Bill Hinrichs, President Our Table Topics Master was Theresa Haynes Our Table Topic Speakers were Kelly, Katie, TK, Alex, and Kerry Members in Attendance were Bill, Kerry, Dhwani, Jeff, Jessica, Katie, Kelly, Nancy, Theresa, Turtle, and Alex No Guests in Attendance Motion to Adjourn: Katie, Second: TK

July 21st, 2026 Meeting notes

Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters Meeting Minutes                                                 July 21, 2026 Announcements: Bill Hinrichs, President shared an opportunity to save on Toastmasters dues by paying ahead of time Bill Hinrichs welcomed guests Eli Jones and Priyanka Badesara Bill Hinrichs, President led induction ceremony for Dhwani Maheshwari and her mentor Katie Minoz Nancy Carpenter, VP Education reminded everyone to complete their Pathways Projects in toastmasters.org Our Toastmaster: Maria Cubacha, VP Membershipwith the theme. "One Small Step” Jeff Makita, Sergeant at Arms led us through Club Mission statement and Flag Salute. Gate team: Our grammarian was Katie Munoz with the WORD of the Day “Verge” Ah Counter was Kelly Falluca, VPPR Our Timer was Maria Cubacha, VP Membership General Evaluator was Bill Hinrichs, President Our 1st Speaker was Maria Shneerson with a speech titled “Hiking to Machu Picchu Guided by Angel” PM1, Evaluation and Feedback (5 – 7 min) Our 2nd Speaker was Turtle Kasnick with a speech titled , “Hello? Can You Hear Me Now?” PI3, Understanding Conflict Management (5 – 7 min) Our Evaluator for Maria’s speech was Nancy Carpenter Our Evaluator for TK’s speech was Theresa Haynes Our Table Topics Master was Dhwani Maheshwari Our Table Topic Speakers were Kelly, Raxit and Theresa Members in Attendance were Bill, Deanna, Dhwani, Jeff, Jessica, Katie, Kelly, Maria C., Maria S, Nancy, Theresa, Turtle, Raxit Guests in Attendance: Eli Jones and Priyanka Badesara Motion to Adjourn: Katie, Second: Theresa

July 14, 2026 Officer's Meeting Minutes Awaiting Final Approval

 Public Speaking Northwest

Officer’s Meeting Notes  Awaiting Final Approval

                                                                  July 14, 2026

             

I. Opening:  Meeting attendees: Bill Hinchichs, Jeff Makita, Kelly Falluca, Maria Cubacha , Nancy Carpenter, Deanna Schroeder, Maria Shneerson

• Approve June 9, 2026 Meeting Minutes with changes to bank balance $1311.68 to correct a previously made typo. Approved unanimously.
• Welcome our newest officers, Jeff Makita, Sergeant at Arms and Maria Shneerson, secretary
• Maria Cubacha will mentor Raxit Jani

II. Ongoing/Old Business

   Plaques/ Awards:  Bill Hinrichs, President 

Plaques for Katie and Jean ordered, and DTM pin for Kelly, upon arrival, to be presented at the September 1, 2026 in-person meeting.

   Agenda Changes discussion:  Maria Cubacha , Nancy Carpenter, and Kelly Falluca

Following up on Katie’s suggestion from May/ June, we have been discussing changes to our PSNW agenda to make it appear more professional. Several ideas have been considered. Maria recently attended a training course on this.

Motion to delay the decision. Approved unanimously.  

III. New Business 

      Name Tags Bill

   With new officers in place name tags can be ordered for those who want them through TI INTL.   (DTM badge for Kelly).

Maria and Jeff agreed to have Public Speaking Northwest on their tag.

      Calendar changes Kelly/ Nancy

Kelly suggested we hold the Halloween party on line date TBD

Discussion to hold Holiday party on Dev 16. Approved by the majority.  This will be in the larger room at Brightwater Center.

 

 IV Officers Reports 

VP Education and Webmaster: Nancy Carpenter

Webmaster: Our intermittent email distribution list outage hit Theresa about a week or so ago. It fixed itself.

 

FreeToastHost agenda function was discussed at my training as well. What VPEs found was that people have to log their speeches in FTH and are loath to log them in Pathways because it seems like they already did it. I have been at meetings that use the FTH agenda and I found them to be cluttered with text and very small print. I like what we have, though I should look at what Katie put together for her recent version. She mentioned using blocks, so the text won't be so squirrely. 

 

VPE:

Our final DPR is attached. We accomplished President's Distinguished. Kelly's DTM counts on this one, not our new year.

 

So far this Toastmaster year, all 2 weeks of it, we have Theresa with a Level 2 in Presentation Mastery.

 

Mentors: Raxit would like to have either Maria C or Theresa as his mentor. I have inquired which one of them is ready for a new protege. I am about to contact Dhwani and get her going on her search for a mentor and get her oriented.

 

Membership: Maria Cubacha 

July Club Anniversaries: None

June Stats: 

New Members	0
Inquiries	3
Mtg Visitors (Mara, Dhwani, Raxit)	5
Member removals	0

 

Since the turn of the month, we have had Raxit join and Dhwani is in the application process.

 

VP Public Relations: Kelly Falluca

• Social Media
• Facebook: 555 followers • 2 following
• YouTube: 60 subscribers•488 videos 
• My DTM is completed and processed. Thank you, Nancy!
• Club Calendar. Sent email regarding additional events for consideration:
• August. I proposed to Bill that if the plaques for Katie and Jean are ready, we could have an in-person awards party on August 4^th then online August 11^th, celebrating Katie, Jean, my DTM, and all of our club’s educational awards.
• Our holiday celebration in December. We plan to meet in person in the larger room at Brightwater Center on December 1^st. We could have the online holiday party December 16^th or earlier.
• Halloween party. I believe we decided last year to hold the Halloween party online only, since the first week of October felt too early. Please correct me if I am mistaken.
• Officer Training. I am taking the D2 Officer Training on Wednesday and teaching social media on the 18^th to acquire the 3 points needed for officer training.

Treasurer: Deanna Schroeder

Public Speaking Northwest #9406– Treasurer’s Report 

 1. If anyone has expense receipts, please submit. Our club has one outstanding D2 award ($40) that I can submit for reimbursement from D2 

 

 2. Reminder of what club funds can & cannot be used for per TI / D2 guidelines: 

 YES: meeting materials, photocopies, food/drinks for club meetings, audiovisual equipment, Zoom for online/hybrid meetings, meeting space rental, promotion (ex: Meetup, Facebook ads), recognition items (ex: pins, badges, TI store items), speechcraft program kits 

 NO: Pathways educational materials, parties/social gatherings, alcohol, scholarships, payment of dues for individuals, donation of money or goods to outside causes 

 3. The PSNW bank account balance is $1347.28 on 7/13/26.   

 

Secretary/Scribe: Maria

Need access to post reports – resolved after the meeting.

Sergeant at Arms: Jeff Makita

No updates

 

VI. Adjourn   Motion to adjourn: Deanna. Second: Kelly.

July 14, 2026 Meeting Minutes

  Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters 

                                                                              Meeting Minutes 

                                                                             July 14, 2026

Announcement:

Bill Hinrichs, President congratulated Kelly Fallucca, VP Marketing for earning DTM reward!

 

Bill led a ceremony to induct a new member, Raxit Jani and his mentor, Maria Cubacha, VP Membership

Nancy Carpenter, VP Education update:  District 4 consumed by District 205

 

Our Toastmaster: Amy Wilson with the theme  "Cows” 

Our Sergeant at Arms Jeff called our meeting to order. 

 

Our grammarian was Maria Shneerson, the Secretary with the WORD of the Day “Ruminate” 

Ah Counter was Katie Munoz

Our Timer was Bill Hinrichs, President

The general evaluator was Kelly  Fallucca, VP Marketing

 

Our 1st Speaker was Maria C with a speech titled “We only won one game”

Engaging Humor (5 – 7 min)

 

Our 2nd Speaker was Nancy with a speech titled “Your Background Singer.”

Presentation Mastery, Presentation Software elective (5 – 7 min)

 

Our Evaluator for Maria’s speech was Theresa Haynes

Our Evaluator for Nancy’s speech was Deanna Schroeder, Treasurer

 

Our Table Topics Master was T.K. 

Our Table Topic Speakers were Jessica, Deanna, and Raxit

 

 Our Humorist.  no humorist 

 

Members in Attendance were Amy, Bill, Deanna, Dhwani, Jeff, Jessica, Katie, Kelly, Maria C., Maria S, Theresa, Turtle, Raxit, Sonal

Guests in Attendance: no guests

Motion to Adjourn: T.K., Second: Katie

 

July Meeting Minutes July 7, 026

        Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters 

                                                                                     Meeting Minutes 

                                                                                     July 7, 2026

We had one guest, Dhwani Maheshwari.

Our Toastmaster: Theresa with the theme.  "Summer Fun” 

Deanna, The Treasurer who substituted for the Sergeant at Arms Jeff called our meeting to order. 

Our past President , Theresa, transitioned the presidency to the new President, Bill. President Bill opened our meeting.

 

Our grammarian was Kerry with the WORD of the Day “Global” 

Ah Counter was Katie Munoz

Our Timer  was Katie Munoz

General Evaluator was Maria Shneerson 

 

Our 1st Speaker was Bill Hinrichs with a speech titled “Just go For it, Especially When you Have No Choice” 5-7 min. 

Our Evaluator for Bill’s speech was Robert

Our Table Topics Master was Deanna

Our Table Topic Speakers were Maria S, Robert,  Katie, Kerry, Raxit and Dhwani 

Our Humorist.  no humorist 

Members in Attendance were Bill, Deanna, Maria S, Robert, Theresa, Katie, Kerry,  Raxit

Guests in Attendance: Dhwani Maheshwari 

Motion to Adjourn: Katie, Second: Robert

June 30, 2026 Meeting Minutes

 Meeting Minutes

June 30, 2026

 

Announcements:

President Theresa welcomed our guests: Raxit Jani, Dhwani Maheshwari.  

Our President Theresa opened our meeting. She announced as a club we are President's distinguished! We recognized that Katie has completed Level 3 of Engaging Humor.

Our Toastmaster was Nancy with the theme. “Independence Day”

 

Our Sergeant at Arms Katie called our meeting to order.

Our VPE: Nancy over roles for our next meeting. She also provided our Education Minute: Maximize Your Speech’s Beginnings and Endings. Research reveals the most memorable parts of a message.

https://www.toastmasters.org/magazine/magazine-issues/2025/april/maximize-your-speechs-beginnings-and-endings

 

Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian - Katie

Word of the day was independent.

Ah Counter – Kerry

Timer – Amy

General Evaluator – Sonal

 

Our 1st Speaker was Theresa with “Start. Stop. Lead: What I Learned from Being the President of Public

Speaking Northwest”, Effective Body Language

Our 2nd Speaker was Kelly with ““Stepping Back into the Story”, Level 4 Q&A from Engaging Humor Path

 

Our Evaluator for Theresa was TK

Our Evaluator for Kelly was Deanna

 

Our Table Topics Master was Maria C

Our Table Topics Speakers were: Kerry, Katie, Raxit, and Jeff

 

Our Humorist We had no humorist.

 

Members in Attendance were Theresa, Katie, Nancy, Amy, Deanna, Jeff, Kelly, Kerry, Maria C, Sonal, and TK.

Guests in Attendance were Raxit Jani and Dhwani Maheshwari.

Motion to Adjourn: Deanna Second: TK

June 23, 2026 Meeting Minutes

 Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters 

Meeting Minutes 

                                                                 June 23, 2026

Announcements: Theresa advised, and put into chat the results of the  election. 6/16/26 

We had one guest Raxit Jani for his second visit.

Our Toastmaster: Katie with the theme.  "Cooperation in Nature” 

Our Sergeant at Arms Katie called our meeting to order. 

Our President Theresa opened our meeting  

Our VPE: Nancy filled roles for our meeting next week. Education minute. She also noted to be aware that Pathway Projects after July 1, 2026 will be $35 vs $25 now.  She also called up a pathways screen to show requirements for the level 5 Presentation Mastery Path

Our grammarian was Bill, Secretary/ Scribe  with the WORD of the Day “Foliage” 

Ah Counter was Nancy Carpenter, VP of Education

Our Timer:  was Maria Cubacha, VP Membership

General Evaluator was Theresa Haynes, President 

Our 1st Speaker was Deanna Schroeder with a speech titled “Sing Like a K-Mart Shopper” 5-7 min. 

Our Evaluator for Deanna's speech was Nancy

Our Table Topics Master was Amy

Our Table Topic Speakers were Bill, Nancy, Raxit, Deanna, Maria C, and Katie 

 

Our Humorist.  no humorist 

  

Members in Attendance were Bill, Nancy, Katie, Maria C, Theresa, Amy and Deanna 

Guests in Attendance Raxit Jani

Motion to Adjourn: Bill  Second: Katie