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We are now IN PERSON
Oroville Toastmasters “Best By A Dam Site” Club is meeting weekly Wednesdays at noon in person. No more Zoom for now… We hope you can join us and feel free to come visit any time. We’re always welcome to visitors … Continue reading
New Members of Oroville Toastmasters Club
Three new members joined the Oroville “Best By a Dam Site” Toastmasters Club recently on Wednesday, August 24. The three new members that joined the club were Henry Altman, Janet Niemeyer and Dave Niemeyer. Toastmasters is an international organization that … Continue reading
ZOOM MEETING CANCELED
With Oroville now the target of mother nature, Wednesday’s Zoom meeting was cancelled as members are scattered into the abyss of evacuation housekeeping…where web time is more productively used figuring if you should run or you might open your home … Continue reading
OROVILLE TOASTMASTERS CONTINUES ON ZOOM
Toastmasters Oroville club, “Best by a Dam site” has discontinued in person meetings and resumed their efforts on Zoom. The platform provides unique opportunities and challenges to the normal structure of toastmaster meetings but also readies participants for our new … Continue reading
OROVILLE HAS LIVE MEETING AT NEW LOCATION
TODAY! Thanks to our President Cole Garcia’s poor zoom performances, he has found us a new place to conduct meetings with the Butte County offices closed to the public. Lets see how this goes! We will meet at the Monday … Continue reading
TOASTMASTER MASTER…MASTER SERGEANT OF ARMS
James Souci, probably at first look would not be thought of as valedictorian of the senior citizens scrabble club…but first let me tell you, in scrabble you really needed to place limits on Chinese utterances…cheater. Recently I think of him … Continue reading
THE WORLD OF ZOOM
Hello all; We are now in the world of ZOOM…anyway that is how we conduct our meetings these days…there are whispers of meeting in the park with distancing practices in place…but really that is all about we miss our Toastmaster … Continue reading
CORONAVIRUS IMPACTS SCHEDULE
NOTICE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, OROVILLE TOASTMASTERS, “BEST BY A DAM SITE” HAS CANCELLED ALL MEETINGS DUE TO THE IMPACT OF THE CORONAVIRUS. PLEASE MONITOR THIS SITE FOR ANY UPDATES. GENERALLY WE WILL FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES OF THE FEDERAL ,STATE, AND … Continue reading
POET LAUREATE OF OROVILLE MEMORIAL
Growing up, Poetry and the threat, the challenge or the even the suggestion to read, evaluate, contemplate was always a form of cerebral challenge, apparent unearned punishment and/or personal affront….Somehow the transition from a dictated structure poem to free-flow rhetorical … Continue reading
REVISING MEETING REPORTS
In the spirit of transparency please review the below. This is an attempt to recap what really happens at one of our meetings. We do not yet have a secret hand shake or prescribe to ritualistic oddities in some basement…but … Continue reading