12/02/2011

• Hello to you all,I hope all is well
  It has been a privilege and pleasure to serve as the Central Office Website Webmaster.The four years have flown by but the time has come to move on to other service in AA and the community. The site will be taken over later this month by two great ladies that are very experienced in web work so the Central Office Website will be in good hands. Thank you to all for your great input and support over these past wonderful four years.

• The Traverse City Thanksgiving Roundup was a tremendous success with standing room only for the Keynote speaker on Saturday night. Thank you to Jenie for the super job of puting this thing all together. Thank you Central Office for your vision of this event, and thank you to the AA and Al-Anon groups and each member and hard working volenteer that was involved. Now lets start working on next year soon.

• The Camel Courier is available here for download each new month. Just click on the camel to download the current issue of the Camel Courier and enjoy. The Courier pages are packed with information about Central Office, the AA and Al-Anon community,Events throughout the area and beyond and some great writings from past and present.
  The free issues will be available each month as soon as Art gets them out (should be within the first couple of days of the month) If you would like to contribute your story or have any question for the editor, contact him at: district11centraloffice@yahoo.com

• Back issues of the Courier are now available. Just look on the home page for the past dates, Enjoy!

• Upcoming Open Speaker Meetings at Munson Medical Center (Basement Conference Rooms) Every Saturday - 8:00PM
  SCHEDULED SPEAKERS :
  TBA

  Speaking at AA meetings is an important tool or stepping stone in one's own sobriety, as well as providing a much needed service to other members of the AA community. When individuals with extensive periods of sobriety speak at AA meetings, it often provides a model, or example for other members of the AA community, especially newcomers and those with shorter periods of sobriety. Although there is no clearly - defined method or procedure involved in speaking at this meeting, here's a few suggestions that are fairly common and beneficial to both the speaker and those who are listening: Be Friendly, Be Honest, Inject Humor, Be Relevant – Stay on Topic, Inject Hope Into Your Speech, Be Aware Of The Time – this meeting lasts 60 minutes.

  If you’re interested in being a guest speaker at an upcoming Open Speaker Meeting at Munson, please contact John at (231) 649-5444.

• If members, groups, or districts are interested in participating in Northern Michigan Inter Area, there will be a meeting at 10:30am at the Boyne City Alano Club December 4th.This meeting has a pot luck lunch and then at 1:00pm the Spring Roundup Committee will meet and continue the planing of the 2012 Spring Roundup that will be held in Grayling at the Ramada Inn Conference Center The NMIA will continue to meet on the first Sunday of each month and may meet at different hosting Districts. I’ll try to keep you posted on the locations. Much help is needed for the event and it is a blast to be a part of this. The location of the December meeting is:Boyne City Alano Club, 509 N East St. Boyne City, MI.
  The January meeting will be held on the 8th at the Kalkaska Senior Center on Coral Street in Kalkaska, Michigan.

• The District 11 Meeting is held in the basement conference rooms at Munson (where the Saturday open talk is held) the second Saturday of every month at 9:30 am.

• I have added some downloadable documents on the Home Page that may be helpful for groups and members such as Group Change Forms,AA meeting attendance sheets and such. If you think of anything else that would be helpful to have available there, let me know.

• The Central Office is in need of volunteers in all areas of service, such as call forwarding, rides for people to get to meetings, and Office help. If you would like to help out, this is a great way to do service for our fellows or our future fellows in need. Contact me or Central Office. Click on Contact Us tab for emails.

• I have not been able to add much to the District 11 news section of this web site. I would like to get input from GSRs, DCMs, and Group members and District 11 Committee Chair persons on what information you would like to have included there. Any input or suggestions would be appreciated.

• And, as always, if your group is having an event coming up and you would like to get a flyer on the website, just send it to the Webmaster address.

  Pleas keep your thoughts and ideas comming in and I hope to meet some of you on the road to Happy Destiny. So good bye for now, and may GOD Bless you. .
  

  Rick