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June 2020

A publication of the Inland Empire Central Office Serving the Inland Empire

Inland Empire

Newsletter aainlandempire.org

Step Were entirely ready to have God

remove all these defects of character.

Tradition An A.A. group ought never endorse,

finance or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside

enterprise, lest problems of money, property and

prestige divert us from our primary purpose.

Concept The Conference recognizes that the chief initiative and active responsi-bility in most World Service matters should be exercised by the Trustee Members of the Conference acting

as the General Service Board.

Willingness – Were entirely ready to have God remove all

these defects of character.

Inland Empire Central Office

P.O. Box 189 897 Via Lata Suite A

Colton, CA 92324 (Mail to P.O. Box 189)

Open 8 AM to 4 PM, Mon.-Fri.

9 AM to 1 PM, Sat. 909-825-4700

*We are now back to our regular

hours and are covid19 compliant*

Web site:www.aainlandempire.org [email protected]

Intergroup Meeting 1st Wednesday of the month 7:00 PM

670 Carreon, Colton

Board of Directors Meeting 3rd Thursday of the month

7:00 PM

General Service, District 8 GSR

3rd Wednesday of the month 6:00 PM GSR School

7:00 PM Meeting 5770 Arlington, Riverside

District 11 GSR

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District 14 GSR 3rd Wednesday of the month

6:00 PM GSR School 7:00 PM Meeting

Church of the Good Shepherd 308 E. Acacia, Hemet

District 17 GSR

1st Tues. of the month, 6:30 PM 41735 Winchester #C

Temecula

Hospitals & Institutions 3rd Sunday of the month, 3:00 PM

Redlands Unity Club 1307 Brookside, Redlands

Area 9 Msca09aa.org

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June Central Office Activity Report

AA Calls 623 12 Step Calls 17

Other Calls 47

Visitors n/a

TOTAL: 687

Web Site

Visitors 29,243

Countries 65

Subscribers 699

TOTAL: 29,707

June Newsletter 2020

Letters to the Editor or Articles for the Newsletter must be received by the 15th of the month for consideration of

publication in the following month’s issue.

Please submit your material for The Inland Empire Newsletter to:

Inland Empire Central Office P.O. Box 189

Colton, Ca., 92324 E-mail: [email protected]

Central Intergroup Office of the Inland Empire

Board of Directors

Chairman: Dennis H. Vice Chairman: Ashley P.

Treasurer: Tim D. Secretary: Diane L.

Members At Large

Duke W. Jay L.

Rich G.

Inland Empire Editor: Carolyn V. Office Manager: Carolyn V.

Thanks to all who are of service. It makes a difference!

Kathy T. 13 Joe D. 30 Yvonne Z. 3

In Loving Memory

Dale & Cathy J. Les M.

Take a Look at This

The office is now open and Covid-19 compliant.

Picnic Committee Meetings- Committee needs Volunteers. Please come be of service. Meets every 2nd Wednesday at 7pm at the Central Office. IEAA Convention Committee needs Volunteers. Please come be of service. Meets every 2nd Thursday at 7pm at the Arc Church. (on Zoom for now). Thank you all for the support during the pandemic closure of the office. Faithfully Yours in Service,

The Board Members

Please contact Central Office if you would like your AA Birthday listed in the Newsletter.

We thank all of the birthday celebrants for their contributions to the Central Office Birthday Club.

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Please submit all of your events and / or letters. We would love to put them in the Newsletter.

THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS!! Thanks to these volunteers for keeping Central Office run-

ning smoothly for the past month:

Mike B. Lisa H. Tim M. Cheryl D. Chris S.

Patti M. Jeff W. Mario Misti S. Lynn

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Picnic Planning Committee meeting is held on every 2nd Wednesday of the month via zoom at 7pm.

We are taking donations for water and sodas. Please drop off at Central Office. We are asking meetings to donate baskets as raffle prizes.

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Please check the web site (www.aainlandempire.org) for any changes since the printing of the newsletter.


The Central Office Picnic Committee

Would like to ask your groups for basket donations for the raffle prizes. We would also

like to ask you to donate cases of water or soda.

You may drop donations off at the Central Office (call first) or the park on the day

of the picnic.

Thank You for your support!

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Many Zoom Meetings are now accepting 7th Tradition contributions to pay for their Zoom subscriptions and to dis-tribute to the various areas of A.A. service. If you attend Zoom meetings that are not collecting for the 7th Tradition,

please consider supporting your Central Office individually. We have a PayPal link on the website home page for di-rect digital donations. Please consider this to help us retain as much of our Prudent Reserve as we can during this

time when many regular meetings must reduce or suspend their support. Of course, regular checks can be sent via Postal Mail as well. Our April Financials were -$4460.00.

With so many inquiries to Central Office regarding how to keep the 7th Tradition, please note

the following:

ZOOM is now requiring your group's zoom meetings to have passwords to secure your meetings. Please email your meeting password to [email protected], so that we may update the remote meetings list on our a ainlandempire.org website "home page." Also, please communicate this message to others. Thank you.

After Hours

Central Office and I would like to extend an immense gratitude to all of our After Hours Volunteers who, in normal times, but especially in this pandemic time, have continued to do an outstanding job in helping newcomers, middle timers and old timers find their way into staying connected, helping them into ZOOM, connecting to another member just to talk, and keeping AA live, personal and always OPEN via the Hot Line! THANK YOU!! I would like to name them: Angeles, Kristina, Gerald (who take 3-4 shifts per month), Martha, AJ, Diane (all Saturday mornings & a weekday night), Lynn (all Tuesdays 8-4, plus her regular commitment), Debbe (who will continue after she moves to Ha-waii!), Dave (has 5-6 regular days/nights), Jeff, Amy, Wilson, Debra (2-3 days), Elizabeth, Denisa, Glen, Jeri, Valerie (long distant volunteers), Ann, Sylvia, Will H., Michael, Connie (long distant volunteers), Doug, Julie, Jen and the Intergroup ladies, Juanita, Craig (extra-long shift each month), Carl and Darnell. Patti continues to answer the phones every Friday, only from home, and of course Carolyn, whose help and support we couldn't do without!! I would like to mention that their attitudes are spectacular!!!! THANK YOU ALL for a job well done...up and beyond the call of duty!!

☎ In service and love,

Lisa -- ~~be the light that helps others see~~

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Physically Distanced but Digitally Connected The Alcoholics Anonymous Message Carries On Amid Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Reprinted with permission

https://www.aa.org/pages/en_US/meeting-guide

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IN ATTENDANCE

Diane L. Lisa H. Duke W.

Ashley P. Wilson W. Walt B.

Jay L. Carolyn V. Richard G.

Duke W. Tim D.

July 31, August 1 & 2, 2020

46th Annual MAAD Dog Daze Convention with Al-Anon and DCYPAA participation

DOUBLE TREE BY HILTON RESORT 67967 Vista Chino Cathedral City, CA 92234

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101 out of approximately 1100 groups contributed to Central Office so far this fiscal year. That represents roughly 13% of the meetings in the Inland Empire

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