June 10, 1935 was the day Alcoholics Anonymous was founded, with the first meeting of Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith. To celebrate Founders Day, we will be holding a picnic and speaker meeting this Saturday June 10, 2023.

Tulare County Central Office
Founders Day Picnic

SATURDAY • JUNE 10, 2023
MOONEY GROVE PARK • VISALIA • ARBOR #9

SPEAKER: Anita B. from Lemoore, CA
Lunch Served from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
LUNCH: Adults: $8.00/Children Under 12: $1.00
BBQ Hamburgers & Hot Dogs with Beans, Salad, Chips & Dessert • Sodas & Waters: $1.00
GATES OPEN: 8:00 AM • Fun, Food & Fellowship • Speaker: 1:00

Basket raffle
50/50
Volleyball
Horseshoes
Cornhole

Mooney Grove Park does charge a $6 per carload entrance fee (Senior discount is $3)

Please take note that the regular location for the Monday Men’s Meeting at the PPAV hall in Visalia has been temporarily shifted. Instead, we kindly ask all attendees to go to Colima’s Restaurant on Noble Avenue near Roller Towne. This change only applies to the meeting on June 12. The PPAV hall is unavailable twice a year, which is why we gather at Colima’s then.

In observance of the holidy, Central Office will not be open today. We will be open tomorrow, Tuesday May 30.

We will reschedule the meeting to June

A long history of A.A. experience has shown that attending meetings regularly is critical. One of the more “slippery” places in the journey to sobriety is between the door of a treatment facility or institution and the nearest A.A. group or meeting.

In order to bridge the gap, A.A. members have volunteered to be temporary contacts and introduce newcomers to Alcoholics Anonymous.

It is suggested that the temporary contact take the newcomer to a variety of A.A. meetings, introduce the newcomer to other members of A.A., insure that he or she has the phone numbers of several A.A. members, and share the experience of sponsorship and a home group.

You too can help by joining our Bridging The Gap committee meeting this Saturday – either at Central Office or via Zoom.

One of the great things about AA is that we get to fundamentally change for the better. What better way to give back to our community than to help with the Founders Day Picnic? Our first planning meeting is this Saturday, May 13th, at 1:30 PM. You too can sign up for a volunteer position for the picnic. You can meet in-person at Tulare County Central Office, 449 E Maple St, Exeter, CA 93221 -or- you can attend via Zoom

Keep it Simple Sunday in Blain Park in Visalia (an outdoor meeting) will be moving to start at 9:00 AM to beat the heat, beginning June 4, 2023. It’s still a 90 minute meeting in the same location. Please let your friends know of the schedule change. It will probably be October or November when it changes back to winter schedule (10:00 AM).

To better serve our members who cannot make it to Central Office during the work week, we will open the office once a month on the last Saturday of the month. Our normal business hours were 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Our new business hours are still that, plus the last Saturday of the month (beginning April 29, 2023).

If you would like to attend our new Bridging The Gap committee meeting, please note that the Zoom information has changed from what was posted before. There are links to three BTG pamphlets too.

Part of Bridging the Gap between a treatment program and A.A. is the Temporary Contact Program, which is designed to help the alcoholic in an alcoholism treatment program make that transition.

As you know, one of the more “slippery” places in the journey to sobriety is between the door of the facility and the nearest A.A. group or meeting. Some of us can tell you that, even though we heard of A.A. in treatment, we were too fearful to go.

A.A. experience suggests that attending meetings regularly is critical. In order to bridge the gap, A.A. members have volunteered to be temporary contacts and introduce newcomers to Alcoholics Anonymous.

It is suggested that the temporary contact take the newcomer to a variety of A.A. meetings; introduce him or her to other A.A.s; insure that he or she has the phone numbers of several A.A. members, and share the experience of sponsorship and a home group.

We’re forming a new committee of people to learn what BTG is, and how to help with this basic Twelfth Step work. Please join us. You too can help.