In observance of the holiday

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. To bridge the gap, A.A. members volunteer to be temporary contacts and introduce newcomers to Alcoholics Anonymous.

We need these volunteers.

One of the efforts of our Bridging The Gap committee is to arrange temporary contact with people coming out of the Tulare County Sheriff’s RSAT program. If you are willing to establish contact with one of these newcomers and meet them at their first meeting, please join us!

Our next Bridging The Gap committee meeting will be July 6, at 11 AM, on Zoom only.

The Tulare County Sheriff inmate programs office has an automatic meeting application form.

You can fill out that application form, for free, using the Firefox web browser. Please send the edited and saved form to Carol Ann at Central Office. Carol Ann will email it to the Tulare County Sheriff inmate programs office.

If you are looking for an opportunity to be of service, please join our Bridging The Gap committee. :-)

Please join us at Mooney’s Grove Park in Visalia this Saturday, June 8. We will have games and fellowship and food for our AA community, celebrating the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous 89 years ago.

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Would you like to volunteer to help with our Founder’s Day Picnic? Our Founder’s Day Picnic will be June 8, 2024. The Founder’s Day Picnic is always an enjoyable event, with food, fun, and fellowship. You can help with that too! :-)

We will have six planning meetings between now and then, every two weeks. The planning meeting will be in-person, at the Central Office, 449 E Maple St in Exeter. But also, you can join via Zoom.

We already have some service positions filled, but many more are still available. Please don’t hesitate to call Carol Ann at the Central Office (559) 592-6999, or David G at (559) 300-9811 (if you aren’t in David G’s contacts list, you’ll have to leave a voicemail) or John W at (559) 281-3744.

5750 Ave 378 Dinuba CA 93618

They meet Mon, Wed, Fri at noon, Tues and Thurs at 5:30!

The Keep It Simple Sunday (K.I.S.S.) meeting in Visalia is an outdoor meeting: we move the time twice a year to warmer or cooler times. Beginning June 2nd, we will meet at 9 AM instead of 10 AM. Please tell your friends.

Would you like to know what will be on the agenda at the General Service Conference in New York? Would you like to be able to give your GSR some informed feedback, as he or she presents your group’s opinion at the Pre-Conference Assembly? Then the District 47 Agenda Item Workshop 2024 is for you. It will be held at the Visalia Alano Club, from 2 PM to 4 PM on Sunday the 24th.

This year, the NorCal and SoCal Hospitals & Institutions Committees are jointly holding their annual conference in Bakersfield. If you are a part of H & I, this is a conference will not want to miss. And if you are not a part of H & I, but would like to find out why H & I is so rewarding, this would be a great opportunity to find out.

The April Bridging The Gap committee meeting would normally be held from 11:00 AM to noon on April 6th. But you may have heard about an event: Spring Into Sobriety 2024. It too, will be held on April 6th, and will include a BTG presentation. We’ll meet again on May 4th.

Saturday, March 23rd, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM our Area 07 Delegate, Mathew L. and other area officers are coming to Clovis, to inform and listen. Items to be worked on at the 2024 General Service Conference in New York will be discussed.