Area events

Three upcoming area Toastmasters events club members and others might want to be part of:

At 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, August 18, the area Humorous Speech Contest will take place. Even if Peace Speakers holds no Humorous Speech contest and sends no representative, it’s useful to watch these contests to see good speakers and other clubs in action and support local Toastmasters. The speech contest will be in Conference Room A in the main Humana Building (pictured above) at 500 West Main Street. Contact Amy Garvin at agarvin@humana.com if you decide to go.

Between 6 and 8 p.m. on Tuesday, August 25, officers from Kentuckiana Toastmasters clubs will participate in a twice-a-year officers’ training. There will be separate training workshops for folks from different area clubs serving in each different office (president, vice president for education, and all other offices). Toastmasters encourages veteran officers, new officers, and even members who think they might want to serve as officers in the future to participate, and hopefully at least three or four Peace Speakers officers will do so. The training will be at the Kentucky Farm Bureau building (pictured below) at 9201 Bunsen Parkway, off of Hurstbourne Parkway just south of Interstate 64.

Between 12 noon and 1 p.m. on Thursday, August 27, club members will get a chance to see how another club implements an activity in Toastmasters International’s Successful Club series: the Moments of Truth program. Humana Speaks Up and guests will participate in this program, on the 25th floor of the 600 West Main Street Humana Building, during a lunchtime meeting. During the first year of Peace Speakers, club members participated in an adapted version of this program, which provides information about club growth and development and gives members a chance to brainstorm about what the club is doing right and how it can improve.

-- Perry