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Volume 39 # 5 www.leecountyaa.org
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I would be dead today if I had walked into a meeting and heard people introducing themselves as belonging to every part of the addiction spectrum. Never would I have discovered in such a milieu that what I am and always have been is an alcoholic. By that I'm not talking about anything except that my physical makeup is totally unlike that of my husband who is definitely nonalcoholic. I'm alive today only because I was able to identify with every single person in those first meetings I
attended. No other reason.
The understanding that alcoholism was also a spiritual and psychological disease came later. I am alive today because in a blinding flash of understanding, I finally knew what was wrong with me. When I take alcohol into me, my reactions are those of an alcoholic. And I do believe there is a genetic factor to alcoholism, even though the disease does not fully manifest until alcohol is imbibed.
Sure, I used a painkiller and I used marijuana and I tried cocaine--but I could stop the painkiller and the marijuana and the cocaine at will. I could choose whether or not to take more drugs. If I took
a drink? Choice fled. Today I might have one drink,
tomorrow a dozen. I identified with the people in that first meeting because when they talked about
what alcohol did to them, I knew exactly what they were talking about. And because I knew that,
instead of the one to five years of life the medical profession projected for me, I am still alive today, almost twenty-two years later. And this doesn't mean that people who are still struggling with the question of whether or not they are indeed alcoholic don't belong in closed meetings. But that struggle has to be there—even,
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MAY — JUN 2019
STEERING COMMITTEE
All Things to All People? On the 5th Tradition of our Primary Purpose.
Phone calls—Answering Service 105
AA Meeting Info 32
Al-Anon 6
12 Step / Newcomers 20
Office Info/ Misc. 29
Website 5
Spanish/Special Needs 3
Referrals to 12-step programs/ facilities 3
TOTAL 203
Emails 65 Webpage Sessions 7,688 Visitors 126
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50% - Intergroup Lee County Area Intergroup 12734 Kenwood Lane #72 Ft. Myers, FL 33907
10% -S. Florida Area 15 Area 15 Treasurer Panel 69 P.O. Box 1784 Pompano Beach, FL 33061
30% - District #7 District 7 P.O. Box 61732 Ft. Myers, FL 33906-1732
10% - G.S.O. General Service Office P.O. Box 459 Grand Central Station New York, NY 10163
The Third Thursday of Every Month 6:30 PM Next Meeting: THURSDAY JUNE 20TH
Covenant Presbyterian Church 2439 McGregor Blvd, Ft. Myers 33901
New Intergroup Reps Meet at 6:00 PM
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OPEN INTERGROUP POSITIONS
NEWSLETTER COMMITTEE: put out
the monthly Intergroup Express, deciding
on content and distribution.
WEBSITE COMMITTEE: Maintain,
update and upgrade our website and W&W as necessary.
ARCHIVES COMMITTEE: An on-going
process of digitizing and organizing our large media library—speakers going back to the 50’s and 60’s.
CALL THE OFFICE OR ATTEND THE INTERGROUP
MEETING FOR DETAILS (239) 275-5111
CORRECTIONS: 2nd Tuesday quarterly (Mar, Jun, Sept, Dec)
6:30pm @ Dry Palms Contact Janet Q. 239-634-2255
[email protected] TREATMENT:
Meets the 2nd Wednesday, 6:30pm at Salus Care, 2789 Ortiz Ave., bldg. K
Jeremy B. [email protected]: (239) 318-7069
ACCESSIBILITIES COMMITTEE Contact Shawna C (608) 225-2656 PUBLIC INFORMATION/C.P.C.: Meets the 1st Tuesday 10:00 a.m.
at the Intergroup Office Contact Reggie L. (616) 902-2368
GRAPEVINE COMMITTEE Kelly L. [email protected]
(239) 826-3955 ARCHIVES:
Contact: Christine C. (239) 841-4116 [email protected]
WEBSITE: Contact Laurie P. (239) 410-4194
Last Sunday (except Nov/Dec) @ 2:00pm Next Meeting: Sunday, May 19th (early due to holiday) GSR Sharing session at 1:00 pm, followed
by the District meeting at 2:00 pm Y.A.N.A.
1185 Lake McGregor Dr. Ft. Myers
For more District info, check out their new website:
district7area15aa.org
The District 7 treatment committee Bridging the Gap is looking for volunteers to be points of contact for individuals that are just getting out of treatment. If you are interested in helping those who are just getting out of
treatment, please email or call to get more information on how you can help. We especially need folks in South Fort Myers, LaBelle and Bonita! Email [email protected] or call 941-777-5285.
New 2019 address!
HABLA ESPANOL? We are always in need of bi-lingual
A.A.’s, especially women, for our 12 Step
call list.
If you speak Spanish, have 1 year or
more of sobriety and can carry the AA
message, we need you to help!
Call the office for details. (239) 275-5111
Attention AA Members!
It’s That Time of the Year Again! 35th Annual Lee County Intergroup
Gratitude Banquet Committee is meeting.
We Need You!!! Our next meeting is Monday, June 17th, at the Intergroup
office 12734 Kenwood Ln, Fort Myers, FL 33907 @ 5:00pm
Committees will be formed at this meeting
and we can use all the help we can get.
Please call me for more information Jim R. 699-7374
New Book Available (at Intergroup by May 24th)
The first original title released by Alcoholics
Anonymous since Daily Reflections, the book
Our Great Responsibility: A Selection of Bill
W.’s General Service Conference Talks, 1951
–1970 is now available for order in English,
French and Spanish.
Publication of this important volume culminates
years of research and transcription of archived
audio recordings of Bill W. addressing the
General Service Conference. Complementing
the text are more than sixty photographs and
other images from the A.A. Archives — some
never before published. Timeless and timely,
these 16 talks give fresh perspectives on the
A.A. Fellowship in our co-founder’s own words.
"I'm so-and-so and I don't think I am an alcoholic, but the judge ordered me here because I just got my third D.W.I." Hey, that person might be in the right place!
But someone who says, "I am an addict. I have never had problems with alcohol"? When it comes time to talk about what brought us to Alcoholics Anonymous, what experience does that person have that I will be
able to understand as though it were mine? I tried once to sponsor a young woman who attended AA meetings and introduced herself as an alcoholic/addict. She talked briefly to me about what
six beers had done once, and then went on to talk about the horrors of her drug addiction. She was not an alcoholic; she was an addict. Her counselor had
told her to call herself both so that she could attend AA meetings.
When I say I tried to sponsor her, I really did. But I soon realized that I simply did not identify with her
drug experiences. They were not mine. I am an alcoholic, and I identify with alcoholism not with drug
addiction. Sure, the "feelings” may be the same. But they do not spring from the same well, and I find definite differences, sometimes subtle, sometimes
obvious. I feel safe in closed meetings because I know (or should be able to know) that when I talk about the humiliation, the utter degradation, the horrors of
being a woman alcoholic, I am understood at gut
level, that those are share experiences and that nobody will sit in judgment on my past. I will never forget these words of a good friend, a nonalcoholic, who attended an open speaker's meeting. After the speaker had shared the "how it was" part, my friend leaned over and said, "Pretty awful! How can he talk in public about such things! And laugh about them!"
I know that no alcoholic will say that to me about my own sharing. I cannot know for certain that I am understood it depth when the listener has never been
in those spaces. My safety is at stake. Sure, a nonalcoholic addict could say, "Gee, I know how you felt," but I would know that to be untrue. He has not walked that other sloshing mile.
If AA opens to everyone, I suspect AA will go the way of the Washingtonians, who also thought they could be all things to all people. AA has offered sobriety to alcoholics precisely because of its singleness of
purpose. I am an alcoholic who also suffered from brief encounters with drugs. I found my salvation, my coming home, in Alcoholics Anonymous precisely
because its membership consisted of others like me. Dual addiction? Fine, but the primary disease to be
addressed in Alcoholics Anonymous is alcoholism.
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The Intergroup-Express is a monthly publication intended for members of Alcoholics Anonymous and their families only. It is
about, by and for members of the fellowship.
Opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of A.A. as a whole, or Intergroup.
All Things to All People? (cont. from pg. 1)
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The District 7 Corrections Committee is in need of volunteers to
“Carry the Message” into these correctional facilities:
Lee County Jail – Michelle H. (413) 446-0895; The corrections committee currently sponsors meetings in both the facility located on Ortiz Ave. & the downtown jail to both the male & female populations. While meeting days & times vary, the majority of the night time meetings are at 7 pm, on almost every night of the week. Currently, most volunteers attend a meeting twice a month. Due, in part, to our members that are temporary residents returning back “up north”, there is a great NEED to fill meeting times with new volunteers. LCSO has also asked to add meetings, due to increased population; we don’t want to turn them down!
Hendry County Jail – Maggie F. (443) 783-6708; This jail is located 30 miles northeast of Ft Myers, FL in Hendry County. Currently there is a Monday night meeting being taken in weekly to the women, and there are only 2 volunteers on the committee to cover them, so help is badly needed! The male AA volunteers cur-rently bring a meeting on Wednesdays & are in the pro-cess of adding another. Need both males & females willing to fill this need!
Moorehaven Correctional Facility - Mike C. (239-910-5966). Every Tuesday at 6:30 PM, Trusted AA Servants, Carry The Message “behind the walls” of the Moore Haven Correctional Facility (MHCF). About 15 to 20 AA’s incarcerated at MHCF attended the non-mandatory, weekly “Miracles Within” meetings. MHCF is a State of FL medium security prison housing male offenders. The facility is located 70 miles east of Fort Myers, in Glades County. District 7 is responsible for Glades County AA service commitments. If interested in volunteering, please call Mike C.
If the desire is there, please contact the appropriate liaison listed for a committee application, or come to the District 7 Corrections Committee meeting, at 6:30 p.m. every 2nd Tuesday at Dry Palms.
In an effort to have a Big Book in every library in Lee, Hendry and Glades Counties, we asked for
groups to adopt a Library. We had only one response. This has been open now to any
individual and groups that will to adopt a library. The group can purchase the Big Book, 12 & 12,
and our history books to be placed in their reference library. And keep the Where & When's
supplied. We can help you coordinate that.
If you ride the bus, please notice that we have signage on some of them. Text me a picture of the ad. We want to see our success in
advertising.
WINK radio is going to have a few short announcements
following the Memorial Day Holiday. Please let us know if
you hear one.
You can help us by bringing up Tradition 5 in your home group business meeting. Or, you can
just work the last half of Step 12 with us!! Our committee wants to grow more. We meet the 1stTuesday each month at 10:00 at the Intergroup
Office. To find out how you can be of service to others, new comers and long timers....contact
Reggie: 616-902-2368 or email: [email protected].
District 7 Special Events Ad-Hoc Committee Purpose: To spend the overage money from the quarterly in 2017 to benefit the district groups Next meeting June 1st, 9am Lakes Regional Library. Really In Need Of Volunteers!!! In need of suggestions for future events! Please ask your home groups what they would like to have available for our future district events. For more info: Holly R: [email protected]
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If you notice any discrepancies in the group contributions, please call the office and ask for Greg. Please also write your group’s number when sending contr ibutions. 6
GROUP CONTRIBUTIONS
APR YTD
1,2,3, Go 50.00 50.00
12 O’Clock High
1935 Step 90.29
7 & 7
A Day at a Time
A Woman's View ASBSI
AA Freethinkers
After Hours 24.00
Against All Odds 177.00
Alcathon 100.00
Alva AA Way
As Bill Sees It…River
Attitude Adjustment 24.50 93.75
A to Z 200.00
Back to Basics Too 40.00
Back 2 Basics (women)
Bequests 50.00
Bike Night 50.00
Bonita Banyan
Bonita Big Book Steppers 200.00
Bonita Men’s 1000.00 1800.00
Bottom of the Barrel 50.00
Brown Baggers 400.00 800.00
Brunch Bunch 65.00 65.00
Buy the Book 50.00
Calamity Janes 40.00
Came To Believe
Cape Coral Fri Grp
Cape Coral Beg/Wed
Cape Reflections 225.00 375.00
Central Group
Chiquita Bananas
Clean Slate 50.00 50.00
479.00
Courage To Change 345.00 345.00
Daily Reflections (Estero) 150.00
Daily Reflections (cc)
APR YTD
Daily Reprieve 88.00 396.00
Dragon Fly Group 50.12
East Side Caring &Sharing
Exp., Strength & Hope
Eye On Hope 200.00 200.00
Eye Opener (FMB) 1560.00
Fill In The Blank (Dry P.)
First Things First 50.00
Flying Blind (Dry Palms) 53.00
Foxhall 40.00
Friends of Bill 25.00 125.00
Ft. Myers Beach Men’s 248.00
Ft. Myers Group 325.00 325.00
Ft. Myers Shores 50.00
Garden Group
Get Well 300.00
Grapevine 150.00
Faithful Fivers 17.00 191.00
Happy, Joyous, Free
H.O.W. 100.00
Interesting Topic Group
Jaycee Park Groups
Just For Today 150.00
Just Show Up (7:00)
Keep It Real 35.00
Labelle Group 70.00 70.00
Lambda Drummers 250.00 250.00
Language of the Heart
Lehigh Happy Hour 35.00 35.00
75.50 140.50
100.00
Let Go Group 211.60
Light at Heart 100.00
Living Sober 200.00
Living Sober by the River 90.00 90.00
Mad Hatters 200.00 200.00
Maintenance
Meat and Potatoes 243.90
GROUP CONTRIBUTIONS APR YTD
Men’s Recovery 207.00
Mid-Day Miracles 100.00 100.00
Monday Living Sober 150.00
Monday Night Big Book 97.00
Monday Recovery (cc) 100.00
Morning After 100.00
MYANA 150.00
New 7:30 152.00 574.00
Nooners 600.00 600.00
Old-Timer’s Meeting 150.00
One Day at a Time (bs)
One Day at a Time (cc) 142.13 142.13
Open Door 60.08 60.08
Pine Island Big Book 156.00
Pine Island Sat. Night Live 96.00
P.I. Sisters in Sobriety 105.78
P.I. Sunset Group
Plan of Recovery 243.42 405.42
Port LaBelle Group
Precisely How...Recovered 180.50
Primary Purpose 100.00
Promises In Paradise 150.00
Recovery Rocks 200.00
Reflections Group 140.00 140.00
Reflections on the River
River Reflections 157.00
San Carlos Park Group 44.99
Sanibel Friday Night Spkr 150.00
Sanibel Mon AM Big Book 100.00
Sanibel New Life
Sanibel Survivors
Sanibel Wed. Step Meeting 50.00
Sat Night Beginners (Lehigh) 152.50 152.50
Saturday Night Live 150.00
Second Chance
Serenity by the River
Serenity (YANA) 150.00
Shared Gift 150.00 275.00
Singleness of Purpose 224.00 697.00
Sisters In Sobriety (fm)
GROUP CONTRIBUTIONS APR YTD
Snow Bird
Sober on the Shores
Soul Sisters 107.80 209.05
South Side Step
Southern Women 185.00
Spiritual Search 93.00 93.00
Step and Grow
Step Sisters
Step Sisters in Sobriety
Stepping Stones 225.00 375.00
Stepping With The Big Book 325.00
Stepping with the Girls
Steps To Awakening 184.52 324.95
Students of AA
Sugar Sweet
(Sunday) YANA Breakfast 270.00
Sunday Nite Spkeasy (YANA) 148.56 148.56
Sunrise
Support System 150.00
Surviving Sobriety 100.00
Survivors 50.00 150.00
Sweet Steps
The Promises of Cape Coral 200.00 200.00
There is a Solution 165.00 165.00
Tough Love 402.00
Traditions on Tuesdays 109.00
Turning Point 90.00
Unity Group (Dry Palms) 274.00 274.00
Veteran’s 60.00
W.I.S.E. Women
Walk With Purpose
Way of Life 175.15
We Care 180.83 216.43
Wed. Mid-Morning Step
Wed. Morning Feelings
Wed. Night Lehigh 100.00
Woman’s Big Book 200.00 400.00
Woman’s Evening Meditation 100.00 100.00
Women of Worth 101.00
Young At Heart 77.50 127.50
Young Thumpers 60.00 60.00
TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS 7565.34 21744.20
JOIN THE FAITHFUL FIVERS!!
WHAT’S A FAITHFUL FIVER?
Faithful Fivers are A.A. members who graciously pledge to contribute at least
$5 a month to support our local Intergroup.
Intergroup exists solely on contributions of AA groups and AA members.
As a faithful fiver, your personal contribution will help make our vital services possible. This idea
became popular in parts of the U.S. as we looked for ways to keep the phone lines open for the suffering alcoholics in our community. We re-membered that we wasted much more than $5 each month during our drinking days. Call the
office for details!
THANKS TO OUR FAITHFUL FIVERS!
Marjorie S., LuAnn W., Chris D., Ed C., Albe Q., Wally B., Walter Mc., Heather P., Nancy K.,
Jim C., Rick W., L.D., Sarah O., Beverly H., Jeanne Q., Susan P., Joe Mc.,
Allen C., Colleen P., Diana A., Fred W., Arlene L., David K., Sarge V.
(if you believe you are still a Faithful Fiver but are not on this list, please contact the Intergroup Office; we need to update our List. Thanks!)
THANK YOU
To every group and individual
for your contributions to
Intergroup!
Your contributions help this
office carry the message locally
and extend the hand of AA,
whenever anyone in Lee County
asks for help.
We can’t do it without you!
4 “Ever notice that some people get louder when they drink? That’s why alcohol content is listed by volume.” – Anon. 9
On the Lighter Side...
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(Heard at meetings—an old one, but a good one...) One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all. “One is Evil – It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. “The other is Good – It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.” The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: “Which wolf wins?” The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”
Save the Date! 63rd Florida State Convention 2019 Wednesday, July
31st - Sunday, Aug. 4th
Trump National Doral Miami 4400 NW 87th Ave. Doral, FL
33178
To register, go to https://63.floridastateconvention.com
Events are listed as a service for our community. They are not endorsed by A.A. or Intergroup. Visit the Intergroup Office Bulletin Boards for a full listing of events. To list your district or group’s event, send us the information for
inclusion by the 2nd Wednesday of every month. 4 4
SPONSOR: “I Haven't heard from you in over a month! Don’t you know that alcoholism requires daily work on your program? What’s your excuse?” SPONSEE:”I was just doing what you told me.” SPONSOR: ”What are you talking about? I told you to keep in touch.” SPONSEE: “You told me to work the steps every day, and to avoid people who irritate me…” ……………………………………………………………………… My Partner told me that we couldn’t afford beer anymore, and that I’d have to quit. Then I caught her spending $65.00 on makeup. I asked her why I had to give up stuff and she didn’t. she said she needed the makeup to look pretty for me. I told her that was what the beer was for! I don’t think she’s coming back.
Cape Coral Group 53 year Celebration
Friday, May 17th Food provided at 6:30
SPEAKER AT 8:00
2507 Del Prado Blvd Feel free to bring a dessert
The Office will be CLOSED
Memorial Day, Monday May
27th.
LET’S GO PICNIC!
Monday Memorial Day May 27th at 10 AM
Franklin Locks (South Side Pavilion 2) 1660 S. Franklin Locks Road
Fort Myers, FL 33920
Bring a friend, a chair, and a dish to share! There will be hotdogs, drinks, kickball, horseshoes, cornhole, beach
area, and playground for the little ones and lots more!!
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Southern Women Cheryl S 06/08/84 Becky 06/17/05 Cathy T. 06/10/08
Step Sisters Bonnie O 06/30/12 Pat 06/21/92
Stepping with the Girls Hope C. 06/14/77 Sherron S. 06/11/87 Jo 06/27/18
Stepping with the Big Book Brian H. 06/29/82
Steps to Awakening Alice F. 06/11/86 Janice R. 06/08/11 Jamie S. 06/14/94 Maureen E. 06/22/93 Melissa 06/20/15
Sunday Night Speakeasy Andy W. 06/02/18
Sunshine Sisters Melody G 06/07/93
Survivors Bob C 06/10/79
Walk With Purpose Mike “3” 06/28/15 John M. 06/10/94
We Care Tom R. 06/11/15 Rob S. 06/17/17 Allie C. 06/20/14 Ron W. 06/06/03
If you have changed groups over time, please be sure your name is deleted from your old home group rosters so it’s not listed multiple times. Your help is much appreciated in keeping records updated.
Plan Of Recovery Tom R 06/22/80 Paul K 06/30/73
Recovery Group Jay D. 06/25/17 Jeff C. 06/26/17 Holland C. 06/10/16
Recovery Rocks Lesley M. ???
San Carlos Park Group Kathy O 06/25/13 Bob K. 06/18/01 Jeff C. 06/15/15
Sanibel Friday Night Bridgit 06/15/14 Betsy M. 06/17/14
Sanibel H.O.W. Andrew R 06/06/12 Mike B 06/19/08 Peter D 06/22/11
Sanibel Women’s Sally W. 06/06/80 Saturday Night Beginners Bill W 06/24/83 Melissa G. 06/25/16
Singleness of Purpose Barry T. 06/20/12 Bill Mc. 06/18/03 Bonnie V. 06/20/90 C.J. H. 06/03/07 Dave Z. 06/17/13 Jarrod N. 06/02/11 Jay B. 06/13/16 Jim F. 06/06/89 Oren S. 06/12/78 Phyllis C. 06/03/80 Sally 06/10/10
Sisters In Sobriety Janet D 06/02/94 Deigh H 06/08/92 Brenda R. 06/22/12 Patty C. 06/03/86 Jeanine M. 06/22/18
Ft. Myers Group Rob R. 06/02/18
Grapevine John G. 06/11/87 Rob A. 06/16/16
H. O. W. Lynn R 06/15/92
Interesting Topic Brittany S 06/20/15
Just For Today Mark F. 06/03/91
LaBelle Group Marion V 06/01/04 Jim C 06/10/09 Pete S 06/24/08 Liz S. 06/26/16 Matt S. 06/27/88
Lambda Drummers Paige 06/28/17
Living Sober Kathy M 06/17/08
Mad Hatters Mitch M 06/22/02
Meat and Potatoes Elaine L. 06/12/14 Sherri M. 06/25/08 Monica P. 06/20/15 Colette 06/21/05
Men’s Recovery Group Daniel R. 06/22/06
Morning After Charlie F 06/06/13 Dominic L 06/10/95 Fran C 06/08/11 N Ft Myers Sat Nite Speaker Kathy F. 06/01/90
New 7:30 Group Jim G. 06/01/16 Joe T. 06/01/06 Jerry F. 06/04/85 Roy L. 06/05/69 Mary P. 06/09/89 Karen D. 06/11/13 Oran S. 06/12/78 Jamie S. 06/14/94 Dave Z. 06/17/13 Debbie M. 06/17/03 Colleen M. 06/22/81
Noon Lunch Bunch Tom L 06/01/02 Dave B 06/14/03 Robert R 06/16/01 Don L 06/22/81 Tim S 06/25/01
Nooners Ken F. 06/05/90 Ruth N 06/15/82 Mike D. 06/22/78 Rick A. 06/29/14
ODAAT—C.C. Zach P. 06/18/06 Bill C. 06/24/11 Pine Islnd Sisters in Sobriety Deb Z. 06/11/94 Elizabeth H. 06/08/87 Vickie M. 06/??/17 Tina K. 06/01/90
7 & 7 Larry M. 06/04/84
As Bill Sees It Mike S. 06/01/17
Bike Night John C. 06/27/16 Mike H. 06/28/15
Brown Baggers Robert H 06/03/00 Mary P. 06/09/89 Lenny M. 06/01/14
Buckingham Mary S. 06/12/12 Greg S. 06/11/65 Bob G. 06/06/13 John S. 06/20/89
Came to Believe Kelly H. 06/03/18 Mike S. 06/20/16
Cape Coral Group Jason B 06/23/05
Cape Coral Reflections Bill S. 06/10/13
Chiquita Bananas Frank R 06/12/07 Connie F. 06/27/15 Beth S. 06/30/04
Clear the Air Peter C 06/06/89 John M 06/10/95 Kelley F 06/15/13 Mickey Mc 06/18/90 Janet McC 06/24/92
Courage To Change Robbie V 06/22/10 Jodi W. 06/29/15 Tina K. 06/01/90 Sarah B. 06/02/12
Daily Reprieve John C 06/12/89 Brittany S. 06/19/15 Eastside Caring & Sharing
Christine M. 06/08/17 Eye on Hope
Janet D. 06/02/94 Cheryl N. 06/28/12 Erica A. 06/26/13 Ray F. 06/10/02
Fabulous Friday Nite Karyn G. 06/20/17
First Things First Linda S. 06/24/07
Friends of Bill Billy C 06/10/13
NEW MEETINGS:
Bonita Springs - Eleventh Step Meditation 5:30 PM on Wednesday at Cafe of Life, 10540 Childers St. Bonita Springs, FL, 35135 Ft Myers – “Freethinkers Ft. Myers,” ODSe Thurs. 5:30 at the Unity Church, 11120 Ranchette Rd. “Refuge for Recovery” OBBS Tuesdays 8:00 p.m. Refuge Church 1901 Brantley Rd #6 “What It’s Like” - OS/D Tuesdays at 7:00, St John XXII Parish 13060 Palomino Ln Cape Coral— New Freedom Thursdays 6:30 p.m. at AWOL Lehigh—Thirsty Thursday 6:30 p.m. at Rule 62
Charlie A.
Chiquita Bananas
March 27, 2019
33 years sober
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The Spring 2019 Where and When's Are now in the office. Stop by and
pick some up! There were a couple of corrections we’ve found, and a few
new meetings you might not be aware of that can use your support. Check
out the list on this page...
MEETING CHANGES/MISPRINTS: The Sunday night spkr at YANA is now called the Sunday Night Speakeasy meeting. The Tough Love (Tuesday nights Ft. Myers) has disbanded. The ABC Beginners has moved to Gateway Trinity Lutheran Church—11381 Gateway Blvd. “No Cotton” Tuesday nights at AWOL at 5:00 has disbanded. The Language of the Heart in Cape Coral is now Mondays 7:30pm, same location — Faith Presbyterian, 4544 Coronado. The Sunday Night meeting at Dry Palms is now an open Big Book Study. The North Fort Myers Saturday night Speaker meeting is at 368 Herron (2 n’s) for mapping purposes. Monday Living Sober in the Cape is now at 814 Pine Island Rd, Suite 401, no longer at St. Katherine Drexel.
Some folks have had a little difficulty in locating the meetings held at Faith Presbyterian Church in the Cape — the meetings are held in the youth center behind the main buildings. The entrance is off of SE 6th Ct.
Check out the free app—Meeting Guide. It’s a great mobile app that lets
you know the next and nearest A.A. meetings to your location —usable here
and in many places across the country! It’s run by A.A. volunteers; only Intergroups
can enter data, to keep it accurate.
Learn more at meetingguide.org