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W.S.E.A. 92 NEWS WASHINGTON STATE EAST AREA 92 Panel 61 Issue 11 November 2010 Officer Reports DELEGATE'S REPORT The world has slowed a little in the last few weeks if you don't count the trip to Longview, Washington to help count votes for Area 72's trusted servant election. One of the benefits of being there was the opportunity to talk to some of the trusted servants from Oregon Area 58 about their service structure and workshops I am responsible. that they are presenting in Oregon. One that interested me is a Seventh Tradition When anyone, workshop that they give at the same time they do their GSR School. I have asked for anywhere, reaches the PowerPoint and materials and will work on a program for our Area combining out for help, I want Area 58's information with the information from Terry Bedient, the Treasurer to the General Service Board. the hand of AA always to be there. At the Regional Forum in Torrence in August, I also learned of a workshop And for that: that is presented in a northern California area on working with wet drunks. I will also I am responsible be requesting that information and get it to the DCMs. Inside this issue: On the back table by the literature display, I will put out two proposals from Areas who want to host upcoming PRAASAs in case you would like to look at the lo- Committee and 1-9 cations and facilities. REMEMBER, PRAASA 2011 IS IN HAWAII and the host District Reports committee has secured rooms at the Ala Moana at a nightly rate of just $109 dollars, cheap for Hawaii right on Waikiki. Methow Valley 10 Gratitude Banquet Don't forget that we are hosting a Local Forum in September 2011, the theme District 19 Gratitude 11 of which is "Carrying AA's Message Across Cultural and Language Boundaries". If Banquet you are interested in the becoming a member of the host committee, we are meeting at lunch today. Ladies Luncheon 12 Next, if you haven't completed a Grapevine survey, please take a couple of Spring Assembly 13-14 minutes to do so. If you do or don't subscribe or read the Grapevine, you opinion is very important to the Grapevine Committee. There are only four questions. The sur- January Quarterly 15-16 vey is available on line and the link to that web location is: Flyer Admission to Canada 17-19 http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/J3XVFSG July Qtrly Minutes 19-27 In Love and Service, Jamie S. Area and Newsletter 28 Alt. Delegate Report Good Morning everyone My name is Joanne and I am an alcoholic. As usual I waited until last night to write my report. As soon as I got settled to write Henery decided that he wanted to play. After a while he got bored with me and so I was able to get to my report. In August I went to Torrance CA for the Pacific Regional Fo- rum. Since I am from Long Beach CA I decided to make it a vacation. We went bowling with my 92 year old grandma and she kick our ass with a 123/124/125. Back to the PFR…I was able to reconnect with a lot of the Alt Delegates from the Pacific Region that was able to attend. The following weekend Jeff and I attended the Oregon Area 58 Voting Assembly and as always I felt right at home. They even let me be of service by run- ning the overhead for the elections and the timer for their yearly inventory. On Sept 18th I attended the Com- bined Quarterly in Wenatchee where I was able to participate in the PI Workshop. With only 3 weekends taken up by Area Service I was able to do a lot of hiking and diving. Both activities really strengthen my relationship with my HP. It is really hard to deny there is a HP when I get to see his handiwork both above and below sea level. Over the next quarter I plan on attending the Mt. Baker Round up in Bellingham over the Halloween weekend. I haven’t decided what I am going to be yet. Hummmmmm!!!! I will also be attending the Spokane Central Office Gratitude Dinner on Nov 13. Thank you for letting me be of Service Joanne W. Registrar Report 10/10 Thanks you all for your continued update. I input the changes on Tuesday evening. I have put the current up- dated group information sheets in the boxes with an instruction sheet. I would like to thank Gaby for translat- ing it into Spanish for me. I only need to get back the group info sheets for the groups that have updates. Please fill out the updates completely this means first and last name address with zip code and phone number with area code and e-mail if you have it. I also made some reports for the Area Standing Committee Chairs so that they have the info for the district standing committee chairs. What we found out is that district chairs are not registered with GSO. This means that DCM’s need to get me their committee chairs. As a special just cuz GSO loves the District Chairs they will send a free 3 ring binder to any district chair for Corrections, TX, CPC, PI and Archives who registers with me. I will then forward the new info to the appropriate Area Chair. Thanks to Terry DCM Dist 14 for asking if he could get the district answering service number in the directory. I contacted GSO and they said YES answering services and central office phone numbers can be listed in the Regional Directory. If you would like to have your answering service number listed let me know. I do have a new email address [email protected] or [email protected]. Phone number 509-630- 2444. I did forget to mention that I have registered and just purchased my plane ticket for PRAASA in Hawaii. Since I really cant see flying all that way just for the weekend I get to say for 10 days. Thank you for letting me be of Service Joanne W. Greetings from the Newsletter Editor The Assembly in Bonner’s Ferry was spectacular. The business of A.A. was conducted professionally and ef- ficiently. I am so blessed to be a part of here. The Newsletter is perking along nicely, I am getting the printing down to a science. I have received newsletter subscriptions in the past couple of months, two of them, both are from individuals that had seen an old copy of the newsletter before the subscription price had changed. I am mailing them off a copy of the newsletter with a letter explaining the new cost structure. Please make sure that newer copies are available for your members to view. Thank you for the loyal submissions and please know that I am available to assist any district newsletter editor in the area. I am looking forward to offering a short workshop at the December Quarterly for those interested in producing the news. Thank you for letting me be of service, Carol N. 2 Share from the Chair First, thanks Carol for the extra time past the Assembly, to allow us all to send in our newsletter articles. The extra time allows us to add to our reports the things that happened over the weekend. Thank you! Thank you! Whoa! What a fantastic job you all did at the October Assembly! Maybe, a better word for the whole process would be; “Impressive”! For those of you that were unable to attend, try teaming up with your fellow GSR’s, your DCM’s, or if an Area Officer lives near you, give them a try (don’t forget your bathing suit, the water and fellowship is warm and refreshing). Teaming up saves gas, money, gives you 2 meetings (to and from) and then, there’s taking advantage of the alternative housing! A little bit of effort goes a long, long way in getting you to an Area event. For those of you who didn’t make it, and the Newsletter is the only way you find out what’s going on, you missed my report. Please ask your DCM for a copy of my trip report. If that’s not a viable course of action, or your District needs to save on printing costs, I’d be happy to send it to you via email. Just drop me a note in my email: [email protected]. I’ll send my report from the podium and that long trip report. If you want to go where I go, or when I go, I’m sure that we can make arrangements. See later in my report for my future schedule and we’ll work on it. I can give up to 5 other people a ride to wherever I go, sooooooo, what’s holding you back? The Local Forum shifted gears this weekend. There should be a report out on its’ status from the Local Forum Chair, Dave Mc., Past Delegate of Area 92, Panel 56. Its’ a great honor for Area 92 to host the Local Forum in September, 2011. We will be in the Tri-Cities for the forum and I believe it will be filled with hope, love and information to enable us to better carry AAs’ message across language, cultural and the chal- lenged boundaries. Improve your sobriety and recovery by serving in Unity with the rest of us, fulfilling our Three Legacies.