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"Deceptive" Victory for Carlisle Club

The annual Gavel Competition for Speakers Clubs in Border Area was held on Thursday 12th May at Morton Community Centre in Carlisle, the home of Carlisle and District SC. It took the form of the panel game "Would I Lie to You?" The Clubs from Annan, Carlisle, Cockermouth, Stranraer and West Coast took part; each entered a team of three players, except Cockermouth who entered two teams to make up three 'heats,' and in the finish the best liars were Carlisle & District. It must have been our honest faces that did it! It is a bit disturbing to find one has such a reprehensible talent, but a win after the lapse of quite a number of years was very welcome. Everyone enjoyed the evening, and this format proved very successful. Especial thanks are due to David Heaton of West Coast SC, the new President of Border Area, who put an immense amount of work into devising untrue but plausible claims for the contestants, to supplement their true but (but unlikely) stories.

Christine Wins at District


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Success for Carlisle & District at Area Competition


Carlisle & District Speakers were hosts to Speakers Clubs from Annan, Cockermouth, Stranraer and West Coast on Sunday 30th January at our venue, Morton Community Centre, for the ASC Border Area Conference . The Conference dealt with essential business and then the main events: competitions in Evaluation, Speech and Topics (impromptu short speeches). The speech to be evaluated by contestants was given by teenaged Jess Longrigg of West Coast SC, who showed impressive maturity and skills.

Picture are the competition winners: (L to R) Margaret Hunt (Carlisle & District), Evaluation; Alec Cairns (Stranraer), Speech; and Christine Shuttleworth (Carlisle & District), Topics.
They and the runners-up, respectively Davidson Bell (Cockermouth), Liz McDonald (Annan) and Anna Wilson (West Coast), now proceed to North West District Conference at Motherwell on 6th March.