District 17 Newsletter July 2010

The district monthly GSR meeting was held on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at the District 17 Central Office, located at 373 Woodward Ave. in Kingsford.  The meeting opened with a moment of silence followed by the Serenity Prayer.  In attendance were Debbie G., Cliff W., Joanne B., John L., Aaron H., John R., Marion H., Joe L., Bruce L, Brian G., Ken W., Darrel N., Dennis S., Gary N., Gordie P., Dave G.  and Erica H.

If you want to receive the monthly GSR district minutes, please send Erica H. your e-mail address… (muchomarleylove@live.com)

Financial Report:  

Treasurer report read and accepted.

Balance from June 2010 report                    $815.87

 

Deposits:

    Fri. a.m. Iron Mtn.            69.30

    New Hope Group            100.00

    Group #000144318           60.00

 

Withdrawals:

    6/29/10 ck #1257 B. Lange

        Area Committee Mtg. Exp.    $25.50

    7/24/10 ck #1268 B. Lange

        Reimb. for AT&T phone           34.16

 

Balance July 2010                                   $985.51

 

We are self-supporting through our own contributions

Joanne B., Treas. Dist. 17

 Corrections Report:

Ken stated he still needs people to volunteer to help w/jail meetings.  Dennis stated he brought a can of coffee in and has 5 cans left. 

Webmaster/0900 Report:

On Thursday, July 1, replaced the listing of option #8 live contact #’s to the AA hotline 0900 phone service.

On Friday, July 2, at the Daily News office updated the AA meeting & Al-Anon meetings for the lifestyle editor of the Daily News for publication in the newspaper. This service should be turned over to the PI/CPC committee for future consideration.

On Friday, July 16, was requested to remove contact phone # Iron Mtn area from the 0900 AA Hotline service option #8. Replaced the removed phone # with another # for Iron Mountain area.

On Tuesday, July 27 made changes to the website adding the announcements of next Traveling Intergroup, posting the Intergroup newsletter, and as coordinator of 0900 AA Hotline made changes with option #9.

The District Central Office has _____0_____ meeting cards in drawer.

The 0900 AA Hotline ___100____ hits, including __19____ calls w/no option pressed.

The District website ___85___ hits the past month.  mailto:dcm@district17a74.org).

 

Now that the 0900 AA Hotline software has caller ID activated, of the 19 calls with no option pressed: 5 calls were from actual people names, 3 calls were unknown, 3 calls were toll free calls, 3 calls were cellular calls with local #'s, 2 calls from Utah, 1 call from Nevada, 1 call from out of the area, 1 call from VoiceStar, Inc, and 1 call with only a set of numbers in the caller name field.

Of the 81 calls pressing an option, many calls from actual people, unknown, cellular, and calls from Motel 6, VA Hospital, and Verso Paper Mill.

I must train people (female/male) the operation as coordinator of the 0900 AA Hotline and as webmaster of the district website. If interested in getting involved with being webmaster or coordinator for 0900 AA Hotline please call Cliff W at 906-779-0915, contact a District 17 committee member, or show up at the monthly GSR district meeting the last Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at District 17 Office in Kingsford.

Living my life 1-day at a time,

Cliff W. (Webmaster/coordinator, District17)

 

Archives Report:

John R. filed last month’s meeting & written cabinet it up to date.  Still looking for group histories. 

Public Information:

PI/CPC looking for more members to join committee and the PI/CPC chair will be filled by someone from the committee.  Aug. 11 is next meeting.

DCM Report:

Bruce contacted the CPC but was refused books trying to contact Larry for correction books.  At the L’Anse district meeting Bruce was trying to get the area more involved.

Aug 28, 2010 Gwinn Intergroup.

Aug 21, 2010 Randville Picnic

.Other News:

We decided how many meeting cards to buy and the New Hope group donated $100.00 towards meeting cards. 

$193.00 for 2,000 cards and we have to make up a proof first.

Thanks Darrell for finding out group number for early bird Iron Mountain meeting.

GSR’s of district are allowed to go to committee and assemblies. 

The meeting closed with the Lord’s Prayer.

 Respectfully submitted,

 by Erica H. your district 17 secretary.