Tom Long Wins Toastmaster Award

Newtown resident Tom Long, representing Newtown’s only open Toastmaster’s Club, Newtown Toastmasters, won the Toastmaster’s Division D Evaluation Contest on October 26 at Fairfield Public Library.

The competition featured competitors from various Toastmaster’s clubs in Fairfield County. The purpose of the Evaluation contest is to listen to one speech and offer critique of that speech.

The quality of the evaluation provided on is then critiqued by the judges. Mr. Long will now advance to the District 53 Contest to be held at the Fall Conference at the Holiday Inn in Fishkill, N.Y., on November 20.

District 53 encompasses Toastmasters clubs throughout all of Connecticut, western Massachusetts and eastern New York.

Newtown Toastmasters is an open Toastmaster’s Club to the public and meets on the first Wednesday and third Tuesday of each month at the Parks and Recreation Conference Room at 3 Main Street beneath the police station. For information on the club, http://newtowntoastmasters.freetoasthost.cc or John P. O’Leary at 203-913-6074.