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1 TREASURE VALLEY INTERGROUP FEBRUARY 2005 Telephone: Web: index.htm IN THIS ISSUE: TVICO Financials Central Office Report Central Office Trustees Report Intergroup Report District 8 Report In Memorium - Dr. William Karg District 4 Report District 3 Report Calendar of Business Meetings Where to send 7th Traditions Events Page Thank You / Subscription Form Meeting Announcements New Open Meeting: Cambridge, Gateway Group Tuesday 8 pm 2904 Bain road at Carl G s house Meeting Info: Cambridge Gateway Group Thursday 8 pm (7th day Advent church) Closed Meeting Coming Events 5, , , , , , 2005 When Chocolate Doesn't Work Anymore - 10am to 3pm Super Bowl ExtravaganzAA 10:am to end of game Cassia (Alano Club) Valentines Day Dance; 9 pm - 1 am; Maple Grove Grange 41st International AA Women s Conference Las Vegas, NV Potluck Speaker Meeting, Mountain Home-Speaker is Marsha T (Boise GSR Attitude Adjustment) Dixie Winterfest Convention - Feb St. George, UT HAPPY VALENTINES DAY! Editor s note: My vision for 2005 is to print articles written by members of our fellowship from Idaho or Oregon. You can write about anything you want as long as it pertains to alcohol. to: rickput@cableone.net An Old Timers Says We Forgot to Duck! THE question of persons, who after two, three, even five or more years of continued sobriety in A.A., "having trouble," came up in a discussion meeting recently. How to avoid the "trouble" is an important question. It seems to boil down to something like Jack Dempsey's reply to a questioner, after Gene Tunney had flattened him, who asked, "What happened?" The "Mauler" answered, "I forgot to duck!" We, too, forget to duck. We get out of practice. We learn early in A.A. that we should practice the Program continuously. That slip doesn't occur when we take the first drink--it may have happened a day, a month or a year before we take the first drink. Indeed, I have observed cases where everyone but the chap himself saw it coming. Strangely enough, no one can talk to the "slipper." Usually he has been on the Program longer--dry longer and has all the answers. However, he has fast grown away from the very simple Program he learned when he first came in. That is kindergarten stuff to him. Through the habit of not drinking, he feels that he is safe. In spite of his knowing, "once an alcoholic always an alcoholic," he is forgetting the 10th Step. Envy has slipped into his thinking. Jealousies and resentments lurk within him--the fellows at the office or shop are picking on him again--the wife doesn't understand him anymore--other A.A.s are running, or trying to run, the group--the speakers are boring--he resented the fact that he couldn't drink with the other fellows at the company outing--people don't appreciate his staying sober. These and a thousand other little things may be the slip he didn't catch soon enough. We are never going to reach perfection. The above-mentioned things are insidious, but we can strive to keep them out of our thinking. They are our weeds. Unless we remove them, they will choke out our correct thinking to a point where we will get into trouble. Years ago I was taught by those who preceded me that I must ever be on guard--that I'd always be an alcoholic-- Thank God I've always remembered it. When we find envy, jealousy, resentments, creeping into our thinking, let's weed them out. The simple way, it seems to me, is to review our actions each day. Check where we could have been a little more understanding, or tolerant to someone else--whether the time we blew up was really as important as we tried to make it. Let us try to recapture the wonderful feeling we had when we first came into A.A. We'll usually find, as always, that the fault is within us. So let's talk the misunderstandings out. Let's give the other fellow the word of encouragement that he needs. It is good to get away by ourselves and think things through, honestly, humbly, as we'd advise a newcomer to do. I'd like to see the ideas of others regarding this subject published in The A.A. Grapevine. It will help you to write it. It may help someone who needs it and certainly it will help the newcomer to realize that this is a continuous Program. To get full benefit out of it we must live it continuously--not just give lip service. Dick S New York, New York Copyright The AA Grapevine, Inc. (September, 1948). Reprinted with permission The First Step: I Can Never Take My Eye Off The Ball As a sober person who has been transformed by the AA program, my first and paramount responsibility is to be grateful for the new life I have found in sobriety but to never, ever take my eye off the ball. For me that means I must never forget that my name is Dick and I am an alcoholic. That no matter how much I have grown or changed for the better through working the steps of the program, that my alcoholism remains a constant. In my life, it is not just an exercise in semantics when I say that sobriety and recovery while intimately intertwined must and still remain two distinctly separate things. I began my AA journey on July 31, 1982 as a garden variety drunk hopelessly mired in the despair and incomprehensible demoralization described in the Big Book. In the years since, the life passageway I found through working the 12 steps of the AA program changed me from the inside out. I can honestly say today that I am not the person I was back then. I don t just act and think different, I am different. The transformation produced through recovery truly is a miracle in my life. I cannot begin to describe the gratitude I feel for the AA program. It has been the design for living that produced in me nothing less than a divine metamorphosis: from hopeless drunk to a productive member of society. It has also been the spiritual pathway to a God of my understanding that has sustained me through every challenge life could throw at me. But one thing I never anticipated is the tendency for me to become so absorbed in and enamored of my spiritual recovery that I can forget I still suffer from the disease of alcoholism. If I take my eye off that ball, then chances are probably pretty darned good that I am going to be one of the most changedfor-the-better alcoholics who ever went back out. I have been blessed to enjoy continuous, unbroken sobriety from my first AA meeting. But over the years I have watched a lot of people start drinking again. Many of them, including one who was my own sponsor, picked up that drink after considerable periods of sobriety. It was pretty easy for me to understand how a person with very little distance from the last drink could go back out. In the beginning -- when the fire of the disease of alcoholism still burns brightly -- it is really tough getting sober and even tougher staying sober. I could even sort of understand why people with longer term sobriety but who were not working the program could end up drinking again. But what I could not imagine was why people who I knew worked a good program would ever again pick up a drink. These were people whose lives I personally had witnessed changing for the better.

2 March 18, 19, 20, 2005 June 30 - July 3, 2005 Puget Sound Jamboree - March 18, 19, 20 - Tacoma, WA International Convention Lets Celebrate! Toronto, Canada People with long term sobriety, whose stories told of their exodus from lives of misery and despair in the face of which my own story paled. They were people for whom the program had worked, whose lives had been restored, for whom the promises had come true. And yet they had picked up a drink which lit the fire that burned their new life down around them. How could that happen? I have come to believe that hidden somewhere in my path of recovery is a terrible period of personal danger, a landmine for which I must always remain vigilant. It is the time when I confuse sobriety with recovery. If I become too enamored with my recovery, I run the risk that I will forget I am an alcoholic, that my problem is the mental obsession and physical allergy associated with the disease of alcoholism. It is not the degree of spiritual enlightenment, emotional growth or personal change I have or have not achieved. Personal and spiritual recovery begins after sobriety is achieved. It can only flourish and grow in an alcohol-free environment of sobriety. It is not the reason why we don t pick up a drink, it is the result of not taking a drink. If the spiritual and emotional growth that flows from recovery could cure our disease, then no one who works a good program would ever go back out. I have the disease of alcoholism. I must keep that fact first and foremost in my consciousness. As I trudge the happy road of recovery, I must be grateful for my new life. But I must never lose focus on not taking the first drink. If I ever forget that my problem is alcohol, I ll be on the path to a drink. That means I need to take a new first step every day. I need to ask my Higher Power to help keep me sober. I need to never forget my last drunk and those feelings of hopelessness, despair, remorse and self loathing I felt at the end of my drinking. I need to go regularly to meetings, to work with newcomers who can help me remember what it was like, to have and work with a sponsor and to stay personally active in the program. I must never, ever begin to believe that the personal and spiritual growth I may have achieved have somehow given me immunity against the disease of alcoholism. My disease is only in remission, I enjoy only a daily reprieve contingent on my doing certain necessary things. When I think about my recovery and my sobriety I always try to remember the World War II saying: Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. Or better yet: First things first. Dick L. Meridian Noon Awakenings Group CENTRAL OFFICE PROFIT & LOSS INCOME Gross Sales Net Sales 3, Sales Tax Collected Tax exempt sales TOTAL Gross Sales 3, TOTAL Group Donations 1, Member Donations TOTAL INCOME 5, EXPENSES TOTAL Newsletter TOTAL Office Equipment Office Expense A-1 Lock & Key Casual Labor Coffe, Etc Misc Postage 3.16 Rent Sound Telecom Supplies Paint TOTAL Supplies TOTAL Office Expense 1, Purchases Creative Arts New Look Publications TOTAL Purchases GROUP DONATIONS Archives (rent payment) $ Booze & God $30.00 District 4 $ Dreamcatchers $ Eagle Friday Nite $50.00 Happy Hour $ Highnooners $74.00 How It Works $65.00 Live and Let Live (Nampa) $50.00 Lunch Bunch $ New Beginnings $ Seekers Serenity Seekers TOTAL Group Donations 1, Member Donations CENTRAL OFFICE REPORT The new AA meeting schedules (Winter 05) are available at the Central Office. We are experimenting with a new format and new pricing policy. However, this is a work in progress as we find the right formula to keep as many groups and members as happy as possible. Mike Mc has worked hard on updating the meetings. However, we have had many problems doing this. We know that no AA meeting schedule is going to be 100% accurate due to the changes in meetings, new ones cropping up and some closing, moving, etc. But for the sake of the newcomer we have to do a better job. Shortly an official meeting schedule form will be mailed out to all the DCM s in the area s serve (District s 3, 4, 5, 7, 9 & 11) as well as some special areas that want to be listed. For the Spring 05 printing (April) we will need these filled out and signed and back to the central office by March 20th to be included in the spring 05 (April) printing. Also, from now on we will not be able to accept changes, deletions or additions to the meeting schedules for various reasons. We will only accept a fully filled out form that is signed by a member of the group. This is what the General Service

3 Taxes Telephone IDT America QWEST TOTAL Telephone Wages Wages (Mike McCormick-s/b $840) Carl Oseen 1, TOTAL Wages 1, Wages - Taxes Employee Medicare 2.32 Employee Social Security 9.92 Employee State Withholding Federal Withholding TOTAL Wages - Taxes TOTAL EXPENSES 3, OVERALL TOTAL 2, Office in New York recommends to put out the most accurate schedule. Another concern is the price we charge for the schedules at the Central Office. This is also a work in progress. However, there is a cost to producing the schedules. We have the cost of the paper, printing cost (copy machine, time & labor folding & set up, etc.) so the schedules do cost money to print. We checked with printers in the area and we found the cost for 500 to 1000 printings to be between $.50 to $.75 per piece when they were cut & stapled. We do not have all the bills in on our recent move. But, our new phone bill with the moving charges on transferring the lines was $ The previous monthly Qwest bill was $ This along with painting, supplies, electrical work and other remodeling puts us in a spot where we need some healthy 7th tradition contributions from the groups, districts and individuals for the next several months. However, we do have a nice Central Office with more room, no stairs to climb and a friendly setting for the fellowship for the next 3-5 years. Yours in love and service, Carl and Mike Open: Serenity Prayer and Twelve Traditions Trustees Attending: Kerry T: Chairman (District 5 Trustee) Kathy H: Alternate Chair (District 4 Trustee) Ron T: Secretary (District 8 Trustee) Mark A: (District 3 Trustee) Carl O: Central Office manager Bill H: (Intergroup Trustee) Visiting: Elaine: Area Archives Committee rep. Secretary: No minutes from December. Financial and Central Office Report: Carl O. Central Office Trustee s Meeting Minutes: January 10, 2005 December Balance $ Group Donations for Dec. were $ , slightly down. Balance on 10 Jan = $ $ of this is H & I money for books Year total for Group donations is $22,105.61; up $5,000 from The rest of the Financial Report is late due to the Central Office move and will be sent out to Trustees and DCM s in a couple of days. Central Office Lease is signed at $500/mo. Archives will rent part of this space and contribute $200/mo to the rent. There will be some extra expenses associated with the Central Office move for phone, fax and electrical set-up, etc. There is a new TVICO Fax machine. The # is There will be a new schedule out soon with recent updates. District 4 has donated $ for Founders Day activities. Intergroup Report: Nothing new. Old Business: No Old Business New Business: The Phone Book has 2 numbers for AA. One is the TVICO number and the other is a number that is a Treatment Center in Texas. Carl called GSO in NYC and they will handle it, but in the meantime spread the word that the 1-800# is NOT Alcoholics Anonymous. Having trouble finding people to take Answering Service. If you do take answering service, be careful to turn the phone back to the Professional Service if you are unable to continue. It is not good to have alcoholics in need calling an answering machine when Central Office is closed. Meeting adjourned at 7:35pm.

4 Proposed Minutes from Intergroup Meeting In attendance: Jacob D. Happy Hour, Barb A. SNL, Darel P. Secretary, Rick P. Meridian Night Group, Steve H. Mountain Home, Gene A. West Boise, Chuck C., John F. SNL, Bill H. Central Office Trustee, Richard B. Midtown Gary C. Serenity Seekers, Keith C. Lunch Bunch, Debbie S. Chairperson, Mike R. Treasurer Debbie opened meeting with serenity prayer. Jacob read Intergroup Statement of Purpose. Secretary (Darel P.) Debbie S. read minutes from Minutes approved as read. Treasurer (Mike R.) Debbie S. presented for Mike R. News Years Solutions was a success. The event was well attended and was financially a success. See financials as presented. Entertainment (Adam) Presented by John F. in Adams absence. John mentioned possible plans for a Valentines dance. No details. Darel P. introduced Barb A. from SNL. Barb is SNL's entertainment person. Barb stated that SNL was interested in planning a Valentine event and wanted to make sure there were no conflicts with Intergroup. Debbie postponed discussion until new business. Newsletter / Slippery When Wet (Rick P.) SWW is late this month due to move of Central Office and other events out of everyone s control. We need assemblers. Problems with stapler caused a delay in assembling. A group of volunteers consisting mostly of West Boise members made arrangements to meet at Central Office at 11:30 on Sunday to finish assembling SWW. Thank you Gene and everyone else from West Boise. Lunch Bunch volunteered to assemble s. Central Office (Bill H.) Bank statement is in the process of being reconciled. See Central Office financials. Central Office signed a 2 year $500.00/month for the new location (On the ground floor of the same building). Archives is sharing space at a rate of $200.00/month. New fax number Mike asked that when meetings update information that they submit a signed copy of the change of meeting request. There is a possible need of a new PC. The new Qwest phone book has 2 numbers for AA. The number is one for a recovery center located back east. Carl is looking into this situation. Hotline is occasionally being canceled. Answering Service (Gary C.) These days are available for individuals or groups to cover. 2nd Sunday, 3rd. 4th. & 5th. Monday and Tuesday. 3rd. Wednesday. Keith mentioned that the Lunch Bunch may be able to cover one of the available dates. Gary stated that he intends to continue to fulfill the position for Asst. Chair (John F.) John will supply us with copies of Bylaws and Statement of purpose, and prepare for further discussion of said documents as per continued postponement of said discussions. PI/CPC (Keith T.) Presented by Darel P. in Keith s absence. Preparing for upcoming workshop during the Super Bowl ExtravaganzAA. H & I (Vacant) There was no H&I meeting in December. H&I is looking for volunteers to take a meeting into the farm at the prison. Web Master (Richard H.) Debbie, John and Darel expressed appreciation for Richards dedication. He continually keeps the site up to date. New Business: Mike R. will submit a detailed report for the News Years Solutions event in. Super bowl ExtravaganzAA plans are continuing on schedule. Valentines Dance. Since Adam was not there to formally submit plans for a valentines dance it was decided that Intergroup and SNL will cooperatively put together a Valentines dance. Barb A. has plans underway and presented Intergroup with a commitment to chair this event. Flyers will be ready to include in Slippery When Wet. Motion was made to raise Intergroup s prudent reserve to $ The current prudent is $ Motion was accepted and approved. Bill motioned for intergroup to write a check to Central Office for $ , keeping a balance over the prudent reserve sense there is 2 pending events in. Motion was approved and accepted. Mike motioned that rent needs to be paid to Happy Hour for rent for the year 2005 ($120.00). Motion approved and accepted. Check was written. Motion was made, approved and accepted, to keep meetings at the Happy Hour Building for ALL of the Intergroup meetings in 2005, due to lack of attendance in Canyon County Meetings. Meeting closed. District 8 Monthly Business Meeting Minutes for January 06, 2005 Rodney N. opened the meeting with the Serenity Prayer and Teri N. read the 12 Traditions. Secretary (Lorri P.) Minutes from December accepted with correction to the meeting date for the Area Assembly bid was the 16th of January instead of January 3rd as reported. Treasurer (John B.) John read the Financial Report and suggested we will be in good shape. There was a discussion as to whether we should disburse funds. A motion was made to wait for two months, motion failed. A motion was made to wait one month, motion passed. A motion was made and passed to accept minutes as written. DCM Report (Rodney N.)- -Rodney reported there were wonderful opportunities for service and fellowship in He also shared an Archives message sent from Jo P., Area Chair. (Message on file). Rodney feels there will be a more detailed discussion on archives at the Area business meeting on Jan. 9th.

5 Old Business: -Bid to host Fall 2006 or Spring 2007 meeting will be held at 2pm at Happy Hour building on January 16th. -When Chocolate Doesn t Work Any More- Workshop, 5th at All Saints Episcopal Church. Groups that were available gave Susan their panel topics to be included on the flyer. Susan will finalize and send to Rodney so it will be available for the Area Business Meeting, and the Newsletters and Area Website. New Business: -Rodney handed out his Budget Request for District 8 to be given to Area 18. The request is for contingency only in the unlikely event that district could not afford to send him to Area business meetings or assemblies. Service Reports: Alternate DCM Candis C.: Absent, no report. Hospitals and Institutions (H&I) Susan T.: There was not a December meeting. -Bridging The Gap They need men to volunteer as more men request this service than women do. They are working on volunteer form so that it won t be so scary. People have been reluctant to volunteer. They hope to put it in the newsletter. Marsha T. asked for clarification about taking meetings into jails. She said there is some inappropriate stuff going on, by AA members, at the Wednesday meeting. She is concerned that this could result in meetings being banned from jails. Susan suggested she take this to the H&I Corrections meeting. Grapevine Position not filled. Rodney suggested we take this back to the groups and announce it. Central Office Trustee Ron T. -Central Office has moved downstairs along with Archives. It has been chaotic there. Cooperation with the Professional Community and Public Information (CPC/PI) John F. Absent no report. Rodney will give John a courtesy call. Marsha has someone interested in service. Archives Ken S.: Absent, no report. Group Reports: -Attitude Adjustment Marsha T.: Marsha handed out the Attitude Adjustment home group list. The meeting attendance is down by about ten. All service positions are still full. Lots of birthdays this month. They are having problems with coffee filters and paper towel stock, which Marsha will take up with Tracy. They are trying to have a monthly gathering for home group members. -Happy Hour Tracy B.: Absent, no report. -Hoot Owls Abraham O: Absent, no report. -Lunch Bunch Lisa S.: Bill, Alt. GSR presented report. Meeting has fine foods and no issues. -Mountain Home Bill T.: Group is doing well, funds are piling up. Madeline P. didn t make it to the speaker potluck due to illness. Instead December Birthday people spoke. Bosco is speaking and Marsha will speak in. -New Beginnings Don T.: Absent, no report. -Puttin Sober -Saturday Night Live Terri N.: All is good. Christmas was not as big as their Thanksgiving dinner. Fish fry went well. -Shoulder to Shoulder Brenda B.: No report. -Seekers Ken S.: Absent, no report. -Step Sisters Cindy H.: Attendance is great and growing. Lots of sobriety and lots of new comers. Cindy reported she is retiring as GSR and introduced Lizz T. as the new GSR. -Speakeasy Angela A.: Not present. -Sundowners Perry C.: Not present. -Turning Point Ron T.: Meeting is doing fine. Attendance is steady and still growing. They did the six month service rotation. They are making contributions, drinking coffee and eating cookies. -Women s Connection Linda H.: A lot of newcomers. The group is going to talk about how they want to be involved in the Spring Assembly. Last Call: Marsha asked for GSO forms. Rodney will send out forms in s. Closed, the next meeting will be Thursday 3rd, 2005 at 7:00 p.m. IN MEMORIAM DR WILLIAM KARG On December 7, 2004, Dr. William Karg, 75, a 39 year member of Alcoholics Anonymous passed away at his residence in Eagle, Idaho. Bill, as he was affectionately know in the A. A. community, was a member of both the Eagle Downtowner Group and the Into Action Group. Upon his arrival in Eagle three and a half years earlier, Bill let it be known that he was the Grapevine representative for the groups. He always had a warm friendly smile, a handshake with one hand and a Grapevine in

6 the other hand for anyone who wanted one. He liked to tell everyone that the Grapevine was an A. A. meeting in itself. Because Dr."Bill" K. was a member of A.A., and feeling so strongly about the issue of substance abuse, he initiated the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Association. Bill was a leader of a small group in Idaho Falls who saw the need to start an alcoholism treatment facility to serve the community. Together they organized the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Association (ARA) in 1967 and Dr. Bill K. was the first Chairman of the Board of Directors and over the years remained a special friend to ARA. He often volunteered to give talks both to the clients and to community groups. He also helped start the Eastern Idaho Mental Health Center and served on that Board. In 1974 he was involved in a leadership position in organizing the CARES group. CARES coordinated a number of community services to assist people with alcohol and/or substance abuse problems. In his spare time Bill assisted the CARES staff in doing numerous family interventions that succeeded in helping many people receive the treatment they needed to live a healthy and productive life. Over the years his good efforts touched many people s lives for their betterment. When Bill's family gathered in Eagle for their bereavement, his wife Norma and daughter Lisa were presented with a 40 year medallion to commemorate his April 9, 2005 A. A. birthday. Bill was a friend to many and also a sponsor. His personal experiences, knowledge and history of the A.A. program was shared without reservation. Bill was one of a kind, and will be missed not only by his family, but the A.A. community throughout Idaho. We'll never forget you Bill! District #4 Business Meeting January 08, 2005 DCM: Ralayne opened the meeting at 4:05 pm with a moment of silence and the Serenity Prayer Secretary: Margie, Minutes accepted as corrected and mailed, motioned and seconded, all in favor. Treasurer: Janet, Please see the enclosed report. Janet made a motion to write a 3rd check to TVICO for $ from founders day. The previous 2 have not been cashed. Motion seconded, all in favor. Report accepted. GROUP GSR REPORTS Margie W.: Friday Night Newcomers: The CHANGE for H&I plan is going great. We average $3 to $5 per meeting. We finally got our new checking account taken care of. Anyone needing info on getting a group checking account please see myself or Brett. Everything else is going great. Thanks to Kathy H. for speaking on New Years Eve and thanks also to Rob AKA AA railroad. The last Friday of every month is our potluck/speaker meeting. Potluck at 7pm and speaker at 8pm. January s speaker will be Keith from How it Works group. Thank You for allowing me to serve. Margie W. Mary A.: How it Works: How it Works group has been given written and verbal notice to move out of our current location. Paul, Phil, Janet and Mary are presently looking for a new location. We need to be out of the current location by April How it Works group will be hosting the Feb. 12, 2005 Dist 4 Birthday Potluck. Mary A. Dave N.: Friday Night Service & Unity: Our Group is finally getting it s business matters together. Our Treasurer is now getting the 7th tradition from almost all of the meetings. She can officially write checks also. We have no splits at this time but our business meeting is on the third Saturday so we will be discussing prudent reserve, expenses and splits at that time. I don t have a full report on attendance but I ve been to several meetings and folks are suiting up and showing up so that s good. We need the forms to dissolve some groups and start another. Thanks, David N. Curt W.: Sunday Hope Group: The holidays went well for our group. Attendance was good. The Christmas tree at the potluck went well. The hand made ornaments from the residents at Port of Hope were silent auctioned and the money generated from that went to purchasing more sobriety chips for them. We have reached our reserve of $ in our account. We are still looking for a meeting place that will allow us to grow. Thanks, Curt W. Pamela M.: Women in Recovery: We meet on Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 7:30. We had 10 ladies last Tuesday evening. That s great for us. New ladies from port of Hope, we welcome them. Pamela AKA Danela Stephanie C.: Welcome Home Group: Ken P. for Stephanie, Group Healthy financially and slightly reduced attendance of late. Once a week for last 4 weeks the girls from Syringa House have dropped in and make a great addition to our group. Ken of the Mountain John G.: New Horizon: We are just getting started and will have a business meeting soon. We ve had a few meetings and the number of people picks up each week, anywhere from 8-12 people. We re passing out fliers and hoping for a larger group. We are located at 994 W. Corporate Lane, which is off of Midland one block south of the Nampa/Caldwell Blvd. Monday night at 9pm. John G. Shari: Y.A.N.A.: The group will officially close on Tuesday December 14, No one is showing and little support for at least 4-5 months. Also the College is building a PUB in the same location as the meetings. Please cancel all website and announcements of this meeting. Thank You, Shari SPECIAL COMMITTEE CHAIR REPORTS DCM: Ralayne: Looking ahead to a sane sober year of service, fun and fellowship is very exciting to this recovering alcoholic and I wish a Happy New Year to everyone. I want to thank all those that volunteered to make the Christmas dinner another successful event. These groups and anyone else that wanted to join in the fun pulled together in unity and love: flyers by the Welcome Home Group; Sunday Hope Group made tree ornaments, donated and decorated the tree; Potatoes were again donated, peeled, cooked and mashed by the Friday Night Newcomers Group; Kitchen by the Women s Group; Decorating by the How it Works Group; Raffle by Paul and Janet W.; Drinks by David N.; Santa again by our friend Russ; the Santa s helpers were coordinated by Margie and her wonderful daughters and friends; and last but not least the clean-up Wes H. Great job everyone! I have been appointed as the Ad Hoc Archives Committee Chair for Idaho Area 18. This is an opportunity

7 to get out among our fellowship and hear their collective views as to what we would like to do with the archives. I have put together a survey questionnaire to be sent out to all the DCM s for feed back from their groups in their districts. Please inform myself or your DCM in your district of your view on what to do about the storage and display of our Idaho Area Archives. I attended the archives meeting on Monday evening this week to obtain what is working now and what the want. I found myself helping to move around boxes to make room for the bookshelves as the move has been made from the upstairs storage to the downstairs. The Central Office has a two to five year lease on the space and is willing to rent out some of the space to the Area Archives for $ per month. Thank you in advance for your help. PRASSA is coming up April 11-13, I plan on attending, therefore the airline tickets, reservations and registration are to be made. I will put this together and submit it to the next business meeting. Let s all get busy on helping the spirit of unity and service grow even more this year. Yours in love and service, Ralayne Alt DCM: Wes H: Absent. Janet gave report. November Birthday dinner raffle $142.00, 7th tradition $25.00 December Birthday dinner raffle $438.00, 7th tradition $50.96 H & I Canyon County: Mike E. Absent. John B. gave report. H & I had over $ in account and spent all but its reserve amount. Paid PRASSA fees, bought 24 hours a day and other literature. Can t remember what all was purchased. But idle is of no good to anyone. The cans at Stepping Stones and Friday Night Newcomers are doing great. I hope the other groups take notice and join in. H & I West donated 5 cases of Big Books to District 4 and 5 inmate to inmate this month. They went to CWC, Canyon County Jail, Port of Hope, Juvenile detention and Women s Crisis Center. Remember 5 cents a meeting per person will keep John away! Happy New Year, John B Central Office Trustee: Kathy H.: Central Office Trustee meeting will be this Monday, so extra report next month. Kathy H. Inter-group Rep: position open- Grapevine Rep: Ken P: Sunday Hope and St. David s Home group now have official GVR s. I sent subscription form in for Port of Hope. I received a display board from Archives but I haven t modified it into Grapevine display board as of yet stay tuned. Grapevine display at Dist. 4 Birthday dinner. Does your group have a GVR? Subscribers are 28% more likely to have a more funner time today. Ken P. Archives: Geoff H: Grace Episcopal Church has given me permission to store our archives here at the church. This should work real well. There was no mention of any storage fee, but it would be nice to make a small donation. Sincerely, Geoff H. CPC/PI: Roger H.: Combined CPC/PI members met at Area 18 West CPC/PI. Was provided more funding for literature etc. Recently chatted with NA CPC/PI. Plan to meet soon to discuss mutual concerns of getting info out to professional Offices. CPC/PI workshop Feb. 6. Hosting Birthday potluck in March. Roger H. 7th Tradition $13.81 OLD BUSINESS 1. Do we have nominations for the Intergroup Chair? Tabled 2. Storage for District 4 Archives. Discussion for either a one time $25.00 donation to the church or upping the rent $10.00 per month for the storage of Dist. 4 Archives in the basement (welcome home group room). Motion made for the rent to be $10.00 per month. Seconded, all in favor. NEW BUSINESS 1. Ralayne, We need to fill the Inter-group position 2. Group updates. Please let Ralayne know when there are group updates. 3. PRASSA registration. Ralayne will let us know cost at next business meeting. 4. Dist. 4 Guideline amendments? Geoff submitted district finances 6.5, please see enclosed and take to your group for discussion. The entire guidelines need to be gone through and many rewritten. 5. John B. asked for $35.00 for Dist. 4 H & I. Motion to give John B. a ONE TIME $35.00 (hush money, he he), seconded, all in favor. 6. Discussion of H & I representation for Dist Janet W. discussion on changing the Dist 4 business meeting to 4:30. No motion was made. The meeting will remain at 4:00pm in case we run long. Ralayne closed the meeting with Lords Prayer at 5:20pm Coming Events in District Caldwell Speaker Meeting 3rd Sat. monthly at The All 12 Step Club Friday Night Newcomers Potluck 7pm & Speaker Meeting 8pm last Friday of every month District 4 Potluck 12, :30 pm Grace Episcopal Church Next meeting will be 4:00pm Grace Episcopal Respectfully submitted: Margie W. Dist. 4 Secretary MINUTES FOR DISTRICT 3 January 2005 Meeting opened with John V leading everyone with the Serenity Prayer. Keith T read the 12 traditions.

8 Present: Janel S: Live and Let Live--gsr, Jim Mc: Twilight Zone--gsr/Alternate DCM John V: district 3 DCM Gary: Midtown,Steve: Secretary, Mark: Trustee, Keith T: Archives, Karen: Treasurer, John: Survivors, Anne: Rule 62, Darrell: CPC/PI, Mark: Living Today Treasurer report: Beg. Bal: 343; Incoming: $70; Outgoing: $0; End. Bal: $413 DCM report: John reported on various upcoming activities in the Treasure Valley Intergroup report: Intergroup website: TVICO.HOMESTEAD.COM CPC/PI report: Superbowl party for Feb the Alano Club to start about 9:30am with a pancake feed. Speakers/workshops through the day. Admission is $5-12. Voted recently at the last meeting to try to get Big Books into area high schools. CPC/PI will host a March Birthday speaker meeting with pot luck. CPC/PI will try to get the courts/p.o. 'si and drug court's to stop sending their addicts to " Alcoholic Anonymous" meetings--good! H & I report: no report. Grapevine report: no report Alt DCM/activities: Nothing new to report. Trustee report: nothing new to report. Archive: Archives is sub-leasing space from TVICO for $250/month. Joe K is willing to replace Barry as chair when needed. He has been to 7 of 9 National Archive assemblies. Old business: DCM wants gsr's to ask their groups to consider District 3 being an H&I "sponsor" at the IDOC(prison) "farm" unit. New Business: where-oh-where are all the District 3 gsr s for our meeting? It was brought up how poorly represented the Grapevine Club gsr's are at the district meeting. It was proposed to return the district meeting back to the grapevine club. A discussion followed on whether this was appropriate and what, if anything, to do to get more participation from the club's gsr's. A motion was made/passed to do a service workshop at the Grapevine Club. GROUP REPORTS Live & Let Live(23 st/woodlawn; Sun 730pm; open; non-smoke; JaneI ) New coffee maker and looking for Alt GSR. Held group inventory recently. Two home group members had birthdays in December-4 and 5 years each. Midtown group(610 N Curtis; Sunday 7-8 pm; open; no smoke; Gary M ) Group has good attendance, many with long-term sobriety. Poor help from group members in service positions. Twilight Zone( 23rd/Woodlawn; Thursday 7:30-8:30 pm; open; no smoke; Jim Mc) --GSR will try to get more members to be involved in service. Living Today (Alano Club; M-SA pm; open; smoking; Mark S ) Group asked for ideas for fellowship activities. Some ideas are bowling or poker. The group secretary recently supplied chips for the group and is being repaid. Rule 62 (2nd/Myrlte; Wed pm; open, smoking; Anne M ) Enough money to be self-supporting. Wet Ones (CLear Creek Lodge: Idaho City; 730; Bud ) Group is still waiting to move back into the Medical Clinic. Survivors(Grapevine Club; M-F pm; open; smoking; John L ) Seasonally low attendance; good core group participation; bills are paid. District 3 Meeting First Tuesday - 6:30 PM Alano Club 1, 2005 March 1, 2005 District 8 Meeting First Thursday - 7:00 PM 200 Myrtle St. (Happy Hour) 3, 2005 March 3, 2005 Monthly Business Meetings Board of Trustees Meeting Monday preceding the 2nd Thursday Central Office - 7:00 PM 1524 Vista, Room 10 7, 2005 March 7, 2005 Treasure Valley Intergroup Second Thursday - 7:00 PM 200 Myrtle St. (Happy Hour) 10, 2005 March 10, 2005 District 4 Meeting Second Saturday - 4:00 PM 4th St. & 10 Ave S., Nampa Grace Episcopal Church Cutoff Date for Newsletter Articles 28, 2005 March 28, 2005 Hospitals and Institutions (H&I) Third Saturday Corrections - 9:00 AM Treatment - 9:45 AM H&I West - 10:00 AM 1524 Vista, Room 9 (Saturday Night Live) 19, 2005 March 19, 2005 District 5 Meeting Third Sunday - 10:00 AM 822 W. Cherry Lane, Meridian 20, 2005 March 20, 2005 PI/CPC Meeting Last Monday - 7:00 PM 2206 N. Cole St. Stephens Episcopal Church 28, 2005 March 28, 2005 District 9 Meeting Second Saturday

9 12, 2005 March 12, 2005 Call Bosco for location 12, 2005 March 12, 2005 Where To Send Your 7th Tradition Contributions Idaho Area 18 Treasurer P.O. Box 296 Middleton, ID District 3 P.O. Box 7892 Boise, ID T.V.I.C.O. (Central Office) P.O. Box 5144 Boise, ID G.S.O. (General Service Office) P.O. Box 459 Grand Central Station New York, NY H & I West (Hospitals & Institutions) P.O. Box 2513 Boise, ID District 4 P.O. Box 1408 Caldwell, ID District 5 P.O. Box Boise, ID District 8 P.O. Box 696 Boise, ID District 9 [Check with Central Office] Thanks to all the volunteers we have had in Central Office - we appreciate you!! Anyone who is interested in volunteering please call Central Office at You can do as much or as little as you want!! Special Thanks to: Kelley M John H Mac Mc The Lunch Bunch Yes!!!! Sign me up for this awesome newsletter!! New Subscription rates starting after 7/1/2004 are prorated as follows for the year (July to June): July - June: $12 Oct. - June: $ 9 Jan - June: $ 6 Apr - June: $ 3 Expiration Date for all current subscribers will be June 30, You will be reminded to renew at that time. Name: Address: City: State: Zip Code: Phone # (Optional): Amount Sent: $ Make checks payable to Donors Club/TVICO Mail to: T.V.I.C.O. PO Box 5144 Boise, Idaho If any AA Group or individual can not afford the suggested donation, please contact the Central Office to arrange a free subscription.