The Evaluation and Tall Tales contests for Areas 61 and 62 will take place on Saturday, October 4th at the Lubbock Power & Light Operations Center at 404 Municipal Drive (see map below & photo of the building).  The contest will begin at 9:30am.

Contestants and judges should arrive at 9:00am for the briefing by the Chief Judge.

Come out and see the Downtown club's winners face off against the winners from the other Area 62 clubs.  The first place winners in each contest and for each area will move on to the Division F contest on October 18th.  It will be at the same location (LP&L Op Center) but at 1:30pm. 

Map to the LP&L Operations Center:


Photo of the LP&L Operations Center:

PARKING INFORMATION: Please do not park in the spaces facing the building.  These are reserved for LP&L employees.  Please park facing the street unless using the handicap parking spaces.

Club members faced off this week during Downtown's Fall Contests.  Douglas Sanford took first place in the Evaluation contest with Darrell Bateman taking second.   First place in the Tall Tales contest went to Renee Witherspoon and Sammy Odom placed second.

Congratulations to all our winners!  We look forward to seeing you compete at the Area 62 contest on Saturday, October 4th from 9:30am to 1:30pm at the LP&L Operations Center (404 Municipal Drive).

Douglas Sanford, Darrell Bateman, Renee Witherspoon and Sammy Odom advance to the Area 62 contest and will represent Downtown Toastmasters.

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Several local Toastmasters volunteered at KTXT-TV (channel 5) last night during the PBS station's semi-annual pledge drive.  Over the course of four hours they took pledges and answered viewer questions. 

Gayle Jordan (of Articulates), Michael Oden (of Downtown) and Cathy Flory (also of Downtown) man the phones during KTXT-TV's semi-annual pledge drive.  Not pictured, but also participating in the pledge drive were Jan d'Orsay (Toasters), Keith Waters (Toasters), Angelia Heare (Articulates and Lubbock Pro) and Tracy Thomason (Downtown and Toasters).

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For his leadership, motivation and long hours of dedicated work, Immediate Past President Tim Evans received the Club President Award today during the Downtown Toastmasters meeting.

Tim (middle) is congratulated by current President Michael Oden and member David Hooten.

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At the District 44 Spring Conference, members of the Downtown Club finally caught up with Gayle, our former Club President who left the club due to her new job which didn't afford her a long enough lunch hour to make the meetings.  We've had a Club President Award to give Gayle, but we hadn't been able to properly present it to her since her term ended.  Fortunately, we were all at the District Conference and Tim, our current Club President, had the foresight to bring the award along.

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Tim and Michael present Gayle her award.

Gayle hugs Tim.

Downtown Members - Past & Present
Front: Steve
Middle: Tim, Gayle, Cathy, Jana
Back: Michael, Renee, Tracy