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I want to start off today’s blog by saying “Happy Halloween”. Hope all you trick or treaters filled up your Halloween buckets. The ones from McDonalds were always my favorites as a kid. If you got a chance, I hope you watched “It’s the Great Pumpkin 🎃 Charlie Brown. Hopefully your Halloween haul didn’t includeContinue reading “A Look Ahead to November”

Yesterday marked the end of an era. After 13 years as office 3609, we will be splitting into to offices as part of buying our competitior, RGIS. The Dollar office will stay mostly intact with a few coming over from Johnstown and Wheeling. The Traditional crew joins most of the RGIS office with office 551Continue reading “End of an Era”

Back with some real Toastmasters News and Notes after devoting last week to the Fall Symposium awards. Let’s start with the Toastmasters Throwback. Today’s Toastmasters throwback deals with the unexpected loss of the District’s founder, Carroll Freeman. It was up to the new District Governor and his leadership to keep membership in the wake ofContinue reading “Toastmasters News and Notes—10/28/2021”

It’s been a few days since I’ve written any content and I promised a little more Toastmasters News and Notes since I devoted Thursday’s blog to the awards ceremony. That will be coming. After three busy weekends that included a birthday party, family reunion, Ligonier Days, and Slippery Rock Homecoming, a weekend of doing nothingContinue reading “Weekend Update 10/24”

I sure missed a great Fall Symposium last weekend, but I was busy enjoying myself at my Alma mater. Once the rain cleared, it became a nice day albeit somewhat cool. But this is October after all. From what I heard, the 2021 Fall Symposium was a huge success. Both keynote speakers did a greatContinue reading “Toastmasters News and Notes—10/21/2021—Fall Symposium Awards recap”

Another great weekend has come and gone. This weekend I passed up Fall Symposium for my longtime tradition of Homecoming at Slippery Rock University. I seemed to regret it at first because I learned that the parade was cancelled due to rain. Should I have attended the Fall Symposium and give up on Homecoming? AbsolutelyContinue reading “Weekend Update 10/17”

It’s been a few years since I attended Homecoming at Slippery Rock but today I made my return to the green and white school. 2021 even with its hardships (my health scare, my uncle’s passing, uncertainty at work due to the WIS-RGIS merger, fear of some people’s opinions over my being different) has gone wellContinue reading “Slippery Rock Homecoming 2021”

Tomorrow morning is the 2021 District 13 Fall Symposium. Many of my fellow Toastmasters have already signed up and should have a great time via Zoom learning how to be social and find their voice. I have great memories from the past couple of years attending these events. 2019 had me enjoying Aaron Beverly freshContinue reading “Why I’m Going to Slippery Rock Homecoming”

The time has come. It’s Fall Symposium weekend in District 13 Toastmasters. For those of you who signed up, I hope you have a great time Saturday morning. I hope the Tech team does it magic and posts portions of the event to the District 13 Toastmasters YouTube channel. I won’t be in attendance asContinue reading “Toastmasters News and Notes—10/14/2021”

What could be better than yesterday’s stellar Gaffron Family Reunion? How about Ligonier Days? I was there last year during CoVID when Fort Ligonier Days was cancelled but the storefronts remained open. This year, a much different story. My little Stars Hollow was packed. I made my arrival around 11:30. I boarded the shuttle (firstContinue reading “Ligonier Days 2021”