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The District Webmaster Dale Hartle DTM, presented a one hour workshop for the Capital and Coast District Health Board Administration Assistants Professional Development Day on Wednesday 22 September 2010 in Porirua.
Dale's interactive talk outlined the Six Secrets of Public Speaking, which was interspersed with short activities, and finished with three people being chosen to give a one minute table topic style speech about themselves. These lucky volunteers received a recent copy of The Toastmaster Magazine in thanks.
In the first photo below you can see the assembled audience waving, and in the second photo, it is heads down for Exercise 1.


An evening was held at the Kaiapoi Club to celebrate Fay Leonard’s achievement of Distinguished Toastmaster. This is the highest award a Toastmaster can achieve. Fay joined Kaiapoi Toastmasters in 2002 as a charter member and has taken eight years to achieve her goal. She is delighted by her achievement.

Fay Leonard (right) receives her Distinguished Toastmaster award
from Division Governor Penny Coffey (left).
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