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There’s a vital need for outside AA members to sponsor AA members in prisons. NorCal H&I (Hospitals and Institutions) (a 9th Tradition service committee) is starting a groundbreaking program called Inside Visiting Sponsorship Service (IVSS). To get started, please attend a 1 hour online informational meeting.

If you happen to live near Baltimore MD, you’d probably like to attend in-person. But for the rest of us, the 2023 National AA Technology Workshop can be attended online – of course! Do you or your group or office have an interest in technology in AA? This is the workshop for you. Topics this year will be:

• Helping Online Intergroup Manage a Meeting Directory at Scale
• Solving Our Common Problems: A Technology Update from TIAA
• Virtual Meetings: Best Practices
• AI in AA – Bringing New Depth to the Meeting List
• AI in AA – The Potential for Generative AI to Enhance and Support AA Activities and Content
• The Pressing Need for Pre-Production Planning in Hybrid and Virtual Events
• DIY Usability Testing for Better AA Websites
• How Australia is Dancing the Digital 12 Step
• How to Most Effectively Use AA Approved Literature in a Virtual Setting
• “Off the Shelf Solutions” for Technology in AA including Code4Recovery, Twelve Step Meeting List (TSML) and the Meeting Guide
• What’s New – 2023 Technology Update from AAWS and Grapevine
• AA’s 12th Concept: Bringing Spiritual Guidance to Our Technology Community
• And back by popular demand: Blasts from the Past, Birds of a Feather, and more!

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).