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THE WESTWORD July 2020
I am responsible. When anyone, anywhere reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there. And for that I am responsible.
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To receive a digital copy of the WestWord please email [email protected]
[email protected] www.calgaryaa.org
As of July 20, 2020 Central Office will be open for regular office hours, Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.
THE WESTWORD July 2020
I am responsible. When anyone, anywhere reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there. And for that I am responsible.
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INTERGROUP CONTACTS:
CGSC CONTACTS:
MEETING CHANGES:
NEW MEETINGS Weekend Serenity Continued, Starting June 1, 2020 at Forest Lawn Fellowship Room – located at 1830 – 52 Street S.E. Unit 208, Monday, Wednesday and Friday @ 12 noon. New Meeting, Starting August 2, 2020 at the Forest Lawn Fellowship Room – Clayburn Centre: 1830 52 Street SE, Sundays @ 9:00 am, topics and discussion from the book ‘Came to Believe’. MEETING CHANGES Garnet Block, has recommenced with their Friday and Saturday Midnight-er meetings. Forest Lawn Fellowship Room, effective June 1, 2020 all meetings held in the Forest Lawn Fellowship Room will be moving from 1840 – 38 street S.E. to 1830 – 52 Street S. E. at the Clayburn Centre in Suite 208. (Located at north side, closer to 17 Ave S.E.) Steps, Stories & Beyond has moved to the Forest Lawn Fellowship rooms at the Clayburn Centre (1830–52 St. S.E.). (7:00pm Mondays) Beautiful Hope Women’s Group, which had been meeting at the Clayburn Centre, Mondays, 7:00pm, is temporarily cancelled. Sundre Towne & Country Group has moved to the Church of the Nazarene at 402 Main Ave. W., Sundre. (Wednesdays, 8:30pm) Noon Oasis Group (Canmore) has temporarily moved to the Canmore Opera House at 400 Spring Creek Dr., Canmore. (Tuesdays, 12 Noon) until August 25, 2020. Rule 62, is resuming in person meetings up to a maximum of 15 people, they will be following AHS guidelines for social distancing and cleaning. All who wish to enter will be asked a few simple questions as a screening process, and may have their temperature taken.
Intergroup Chairperson [email protected] Intergroup Alternate Chair [email protected]
Intergroup Archives Chair [email protected] Telephone Monitoring Chair [email protected]
Public Information Chair [email protected] 12 Step Chair List [email protected]
WestWord Editor [email protected] Intergroup Secretary [email protected]
Calgary Central Office [email protected] Intergroup Treasurer [email protected]
Banff Roundup Chair [email protected] Intergroup Special Events [email protected]
Sunday AM Breakfast Chair [email protected] Intergroup/CGSC Liaison [email protected]
Chairperson [email protected] Alternate Chairperson [email protected]
Treasurer [email protected] Secretary [email protected]
Treatment Chair [email protected] Corrections Chair [email protected]
C.P.C. Chair [email protected] Grapevine Chair [email protected]
Records & Registration Chair [email protected] Intro to Service Chair [email protected]
Bridging the Gap Chair [email protected] Intergroup/CGSC Liaison [email protected]
THE WESTWORD July 2020
I am responsible. When anyone, anywhere reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there. And for that I am responsible.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
All birthdays are entered as received. Birthdays ar posted for the month past, and the current month of issue.
June July
ABC Group Garnet Block Marlborough Park ABC Group MAAT Group
Diane M. 1 Year Jamie 1 Year Tyler 1 Year Michael S. 2 Years Audrey C 28 Years
Airdrie Country Group Ben 1 Year Marilyn 7 Years Cindy P. 23 Years Marlborough Park
Meghan
2 Years Autumn 1 Year Rob D. 7 Years Awakenings Group Rick B. 28 Years
Keith R. 5 Years Charn 2 Years Brian F. 19 Years Ken L. 2 Years Jacques 34 Years
Ute B. 10 Years Krystle 2 Years New Beginnings Garry B. 6 Years Ogden Group
Ken R. 12 Years Stella 2 Years James S. 7 Years Amanda H. 26 Years David I. 2 Years
Bert G. 37 Years Jonnelle 2 Years Ogden Group Les K. 30 Years Beau H. 5 Years
Awakenings Group Mike D. 2 Years Kirby L. 3 Years Back to the Book Karl J. 6 Years
Graham M. 1 Year Cameron 4 Years Deb D. 9 Years Mary R. 4 Years Ken S. 21 Years
Chris M. 3 Years Ralph 6 Years Donnie B. 10 Years Deer Ridge Alain L. 21 Years
Lynda B. 20 Years Ronny Mac 8 Years Tony K. 12 Years Holly S. 4 Years Jenn S. 28 Years
Jerry A. 41 Years Dennis D. 17 Years Shannon T. 14 Years Jack W. 14 Years Rule 62
Back From Hell Ron O. 20 Years Maryan Mc. 22 Years Edgemont Group Steve H. 4 Years
Candice W. 3 Years Jason 20 Years Recovery Group Richard K. 2 Years Vanessa S 7 Years
Brad H. 6 Years Debbie 25 Years James S. 7 Years Marco A. 3 Years Jesi D. 10 Years
Angela C. 11 Years Ivan 37 Years Rule 62 Ken P. 10 Years Thursday Night Ladies Group Candlelight Lori 39 Years Sarah M. 6 Years Chad H. 12 Years
Betty H. 9 Years Jim L. 49 Years Thursday Night Ladies Group
Joanne M. 16 Years Ali G. 3 Years
Deer Ridge Glenmore Group Linda G. 27 Years Judy D. 24 Years
Paul C. 8 Years James S. 7 Years Robin J. 2 Years Friday Night Fellowship group
West End Step & Tradition Nancy P. 16 Years Harvest Hills Big Book Erica F. 6 Years
Tammy G. 28 Years Stuart C. 4 Years Unity Group Adrian 4 Years Pam B. 8 Years
Denny B. 30 Years Shaelee S. 5 Years Jim H. 19 Years Tera B. 14 Years Dale S. 9 Years
Margot C. 37 Years Brent E. 5 Years Walking Eagle Group Harvest Hills Big Book Group
Edgemont Group Sandra B. 7 Years Leanne F. 14 Years
Brent M. 22 Years Bo H. 9 Years Tuxephoni W.
1 Year
Kincora Group Ken L. 2 Years
David M. 31 Years Bob H. 30 Years
Emilian D. 33 Years Kincora Group
MAAT Group Lucas S. 1 Year
Grant C. 35 Years Rob H. 3 Years
Kaidon N. 5 Years
Adam M. 12 Years
THE WESTWORD July 2020
I am responsible. When anyone, anywhere reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there. And for that I am responsible.
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Service Opportunities Upcoming CGSC Service Commitments
Upcoming Intergroup Service Commitments
Calls for service
Treatment Facility AA Group March AA Group April
Renfrew Tuesday CANCELLED CANCELLED
Renfrew Thursday CANCELLED CANCELLED
Renfrew Sunday CANCELLED CANCELLED
Sunrise CANCELLED CANCELLED
Alpha House CANCELLED CANCELLED
Dream Centre CANCELLED CANCELLED
Centre of Hope CANCELLED CANCELLED
Sunday Morning (9:30am) Intergroup Zoom Meeting
ID: 639 139 785 Password: 531069
(Ramada Breakfast Meeting)
AA Group
July 05, 2020 Thursday Night Ladies Group
July 12, 2020 McKenzie Towne
July 19, 2020 Haddon Road
July 26, 2020 Shipwreck at Sunset
August 02, 2020
Phone Monitoring
Dates AA Group
July 06 – July 12 Garnet Block
July 13 – July 19 Edgemont Group
July 20 – July 26 Unity Group
July 27 – August 2 Daily Reflections
August 3 – August 9 Knox Nooner
August 10 – August 16 Regal
August 17 – August 23 New Beginnings
Phone monitors are needed! If you can help by taking a regular morning or afternoon shift, please contact Callista at [email protected]
CGSC is looking for people to fill service positions. Treatment Committee Meeting: Treatment Chairs and members that would like to help. Meetings will be held on the 3rd Saturday of each month, July Meeting is July 18, 2020 @ 4 pm. Contact: [email protected]
‘Intro to Service’ is forming a new Committee as of February 6, first Thursday of every month. Meetings will be held at @ 7:00PM. We will be working with All Calgary Districts, DCM, GSR, Intergroup Reps, and over the next 2 years will involve all forms of our Service Body. This will be the hottest New Committee out there. If you are Interested in service Please Attend! [email protected]
Bridging the Gap needs: Temporary Contacts, Committee members, Speakers for Detox centres. Interested? BTG meets every 3rd Thursday of the month. Zoom Meeting ID: 985 155 6437 or Email: [email protected]
THE WESTWORD July 2020
I am responsible. When anyone, anywhere reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there. And for that I am responsible.
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LIST OF EVENTS DATE EVENT DETAILS Saturday, July 11, 2020 Better Days Group – Speaker Meeting Online room opens at 7:30 pm and
starting at 8:00 pm Len B. from Spruce Grove, Alberta will be sharing his experience, strength and hope. You can join virtually through the Gotomeeting app. Access code: 858-492-805 or call in at 1-888-455-1389
Saturday, July 11, 2020 Garnet Block - Alcathon From 10 am to 11 pm there will be meetings held at 1609 Centre Street NW, Calgary, AB, T2E 2S2.
Thursday, August 06, 2020 Rule 62 – Birthday Extravaganza Rule 62 will be having a birthday extravaganza for birthdays that were unable to be celebrated since the beginning of March. The celebration will be held outside, near their church location (1212 1st Street NW) at 8:00 pm to help accommodate social distancing.
Saturday, August 08, 2020 Better Days Group – Speaker Meeting Online room opens at 7:30 pm and at 8:00 pm Kesho S. from Grinnell, Iowa will be sharing her experience, strength and hope. You can join virtually through the Gotomeeting app. Access code: 858-492-805 or call in at 1-888-455-1389
THE WESTWORD July 2020
I am responsible. When anyone, anywhere reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there. And for that I am responsible.
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THE WESTWORD July 2020
I am responsible. When anyone, anywhere reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there. And for that I am responsible.
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The July 2020 Issue of GRAPEVINE is here!
On the Cover: No Matter What
To view the Table of Contents, click here.
Some stories include:
The Committee
Last Thursday was my day off. Home alone…no car… the kids at school. My wife and stepson had
each taken a vehicle.
A Full Heart One evening a while back, a sponsee of mine relapsed. In spite of all his efforts, he was unable to stay
sober.
Rambling On
I was recently rereading our AA book Dr. Bob and the Good Old-Timers and got to an interesting
passage...
Love From Dust till Dawn
The room sits quietly waiting for the first group of the day to take it over. The final conversations of
last night’s late AA meeting drifted off hours ago. A new day starts.
The Grapevine Daily Quote Book With a beautiful new cover. Now available in English, French, and Spanish! Start each day with an inspiring quote from the pages of Grapevine. The quotes—contributed by AA members, with many written by our co-founders—were selected by the Grapevine staff. Makes a great gift for a sober friend. To learn more or to order, visit: store.aagrapevine.org
THE WESTWORD July 2020
I am responsible. When anyone, anywhere reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there. And for that I am responsible.
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THE WESTWORD July 2020
I am responsible. When anyone, anywhere reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there. And for that I am responsible.
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THE WESTWORD July 2020
I am responsible. When anyone, anywhere reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there. And for that I am responsible.
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Step 7 & Tradition 7
Step 7 – Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
SINCE this Step so specifically concerns itself with humility, we should pause here to consider what humility is and what the practice of it can mean to us.
Indeed, the attainment of greater humility is the foundation principle of each of A.A.'s Twelve Steps. For without some degree of humility, no alcoholic can stay sober at all. Nearly all A.A.'s have found, too, that unless they develop much more of this precious quality than may be required just for sobriety, they still haven't much chance of becoming truly happy. Without it, they cannot live to much useful purpose, or, in adversity, be able to summon the faith that can meet any emergency.
Humility, as a word and as an ideal, has a very bad time of it in our world. Not only is the idea misunderstood; the word itself is often intensely disliked. Many people haven't even a nodding acquaintance with humility as a way of life…
The chief activator of our defects has been self-centered fear—primarily fear that we would lose something we already possessed or would fail to get something we demanded. Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore, no peace was to be had unless we could find a means of reducing these demands. The difference between a demand and a simple request is plain to anyone.
The Seventh Step is where we make the change in our attitude which permits us, with humility as our guide, to move out from ourselves toward others and toward God. The whole emphasis of Step Seven is on humility. It is really saying to us that we now ought to be willing to try humility in seeking the removal of our other shortcomings just as we did when we admitted that we were powerless over alcohol, and came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. If that degree of humility could enable us to find the grace by which such a deadly obsession could be banished, then there must be hope of the same result respecting any other problem we could possibly have.
From Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p.70, 76.
Tradition 7 – Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
SELF-SUPPORTING alcoholics? Who ever heard of such a thing? Yet we find that's what we have to be. This principle is telling evidence of the profound change that A.A. has wrought in all of us. Everybody knows that active alcoholics scream that they have no troubles money can't cure. Always, we've had our hands out. Time out of mind we've been dependent upon somebody, usually moneywise. When a society composed entirely of alcoholics says it's going to pay its bills, that's really news.
Probably no A.A. Tradition had the labor pains this one did. In early times, we were all broke. When you add to this the habitual supposition that people ought to give money to alcoholics trying to stay sober, it can be understood why we thought we deserved a pile of folding money. What great things A.A. would be able to do with it! But oddly enough, people who had money thought otherwise. They figured that it was high time we now—sober—paid our own way. So our Fellowship stayed poor because it had to.
There was another reason for our collective poverty. It was soon apparent that while alcoholics would spend lavishly on Twelfth Step cases, they had a terrific aversion to dropping money into a meeting-place hat for group purposes. We were astounded to find that we were as tight as the bark on a tree. So A.A., the movement, started and stayed broke, while its individual members waxed prosperous…
Despite these misgivings, we had to recognize the fact that A.A. had to function. Meeting places cost something. To save whole areas from turmoil, small offices had to be set up, telephones installed, and a few full-time secretaries hired. Over many protests, these things were accomplished. We saw that if they weren't, the man coming in the door couldn't get a break. These simple services would require small sums of money which we could and would pay ourselves. At last the pendulum stopped swinging and pointed straight at Tradition Seven as it reads today.
From Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p.160-162.