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October 18th 2024
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Unity
Tradition 11- Long Form
Our relations with the general public should be characterized by personal anonymity. We think A.A. ought to avoid sensational advertising. Our names and pictures as A.A. members ought not be broadcast, filmed, or publicly printed. Our public relations should be guided by the principle of attraction rather than promotion. There is never need to praise ourselves. We feel it better to let our friends recommend us.
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Group Anniversaries
Wed. Oct. 30th Fall River WED. NIGHT– St Anthony of the Desert, 300 No Eastern Ave., 7:30PM. 81st Anniversary
Sun. Nov. 3rd So. Kingstown- SUN. NIGHT WOMENS STEP– Wakefield Baptist Ch., 236 Main St., 6PM. 36th Anniversary
Wed. Nov. 6th Narragansett- JUST FOR TODAY– Anchor Christian Fellowship, 32 Avice St., 12:30PM 6th Anniversary
Tue. Nov. 12th No. Kingstown- AGE DOESN’T MATTER– United Methodist Ch., 450 Boston Neck Rd., 7:30PM 24th Anniversary
Fri. Nov. 15th Hope Valley- LIVING SOBER– First Baptist Church, 1059 Main St., 6PM , 31st Anniversary.
Tue. Nov. 19th Cranston-WASHINGTON PARK– Edgewood Cong. Church, 1788 Broad St. 7PM 77th Anniversary.
Fri. Nov. 29th Woonsocket-ST JAMES– St James Church, 24 Hamlet Ave., 8PM. 56th Anniversary
Thu. Dec. 5th Pawtucket- PAWTUCKET #1– Epworth Methodist Church, 915 Newport Ave. 75th Anniversary
Sat. Dec 7th Lincoln- PEACE OF MIND– St James Parish Hall, 57 Division St. 10:30 AM 52nd Anniversary
Sun. Dec 15th Coventry – SIMPLE– Cornerstone of Faith UMC, 1081 Main St., 7PM. 44th Anniversary
NEEDS SUPPORT
Cranston-DO THE WORK– St Matthews Church, 15 Frances St., Wednesdays at 7PM
East Providence- BETTER LATE THAN NEVER– Bethany Church of the Nazarene,1275 Pawtucket Ave., Saturdays at 8:30PM
Attleboro, MA-SPARTANS OF SOBRIETY– Cameron Recovery Center- 68 Falmouth St. Tuesdays at 7PM
DISBANDED
Charlestown-RED ROAD TO RECOVERY– Narragansett Indian Longhouse, 4425 South County Trail, Wednesdays at 7PM
BOOKIES MEETING
The WE WANT TO LIVE group will host a Bookies Meeting Kingston Congregational Church, 2610 Kingstown Rd., Kingston Thursday, October 24th, 7:30PM to 8:30PM
The DESIRE TO STOP group will host a Bookies Exchange Session the last Saturday of each month at 11:30AM (Prior to the OLD TIMERS MEETING) Cameron Recovery Center, 68 Falmouth St., Attleboro, MA
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THANKSGIVING ALKATHONS/MEETINGS- Thursday, Nov. 28th
Woonsocket- District One will host a Thanksgiving Day Alkathon– Holy Family Church, 414 South Main St., 9AM to 9PM. – Meetings every hour. Food and literature donations are welcome!
Warwick- So RI Intergroup will host Thanksgiving Day Alkathon– So. RI Intergroup Office, 2845 Post Rd. Warwick 9AM till 7PM. To Volunteer your group to host a meet call So RI Intergroup 401-739-8777
Middletown-DISTRICT 5– will host Thanksgiving Day Alkathon – Y.A.N.A. Club, 770 Aquidneck Ave., 12Noon to 4PM. Food Fellowship, & Fun – Bring a dish if you wish !
Narragansett-Avice St. groups will host 4th Annual Thanksgiving Day Alkathon– Anchor Church, 32 Avice St., 2PM- 6PM Join us for meetings, food & fellowship. Bring a dish if you wish !
Attleboro, MA- DESIRE TO STOP will host Thanksgiving Day Alkathon- Cameron Recovery Center, 68 Falmouth St., 9AM to 6PM. Join us for meetings every hour, food & fellowship. Bring a dish if you wish !
Providence- DAY AT A TIME will host a Thanksgiving Day Meeting- Butler Hosp. (Ray Hall), 345 Blackstone Blvd.,10AM
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FRIENDLY REMINDER NOVEMBER IS GRATITUDE MONTH
Many AA members express gratitude for their sobriety with an Anniversary Contribution to any/all the different AA Entities. Some members customarily contribute a dollar for each year or a penny for each day-some give more, some give less, all contributions are valuable. It is the still suffering alcoholic who benefits from your generous spirit.
ATTENTION ALL GROUPS and INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS
RI CENTRAL SERVICE Treatment & ACCESSIBILITIES Committee will once again provide AA meetings for both the Detox Unit and the Dual Diagnosis Unit at Roger Willams Hospital. Any Groups or Individual member willing to provide AA Speakers for a monthly commitment please contact Hebert G. by email at hfgri99@aol.com
RI Central Service is always in the process of up-dating our 12-STEP LIST. Anyone willing to be added to the list should contact their Group Secretary or call Central Service. “When anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help, I want the hand of AA always to be there and for that I am responsible
The next regular meeting for Central Service Delegates will be held Via Zoom on Wednesday, November 20th , 2024, at 7:00 PM Zoom Meeting ID: 312 255 2726 – Password : RICS1. Meeting ID and links will be sent to all registered Central Service Delegates and will also be available on website
We need volunteers to help with our monthly mailing – takes less than one hour. The next mailing will take place at Central Service, 1005 Waterman Ave, E. Providence on Wed., November 27th , at 9AM.
RI AREA GRAPEVINE COMMITTEE will host a Grapevine Writing Worshop. Area 61 Office, 3649 Post Rd., Sunday October 27 at 4PMLight Refreshments and analog writing supplies will be provided
“The Area 61 Treatment and Accessibilities Committee (TAC) is looking for groups to share their experience, strength and hope across RI in various treatment and detox facilities. Please visit the “Treatment and Accessibilities” sub-committee page on AAinRI.com (found under the “Area 61 Subcommittees” button in the main navigation bar) and click the “Submit Group Interest in Facility Commitment” button to see facilities in need of commitments. Please complete the required fields in the form and submit. A TAC member will respond within 72 hours with available day/time openings for the facility.”
So RI Intergroup is always looking for members willing to volunteer to do 12 Step Work. Manning the Office, Answering Phones, Rides, as well as people wanting to become involved in Committee Work. There are several Opportunities for Service Available Contact So RI Intergroup at 401-739-8777 for more information
***Please note the deadline for submitting any information for the next today is Friday, Nov.22nd, 2025
**Please note the RI Central Service Office will be closed on Monday, November 11th to Observe Veterans Day & Thursday November 28th, 2025 To Observe Thanksgiving Day**
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RECOVERY
RI Central Service will sponsor a monthly virtual “OPEN MIC NIGHT NITE” Saturday, October 26th – Starting at 8PM. Zoom Meeting ID: 856 8703 0297 Passcode:891419 Anyone interested in performing or needing more information should contact Austin D Email: 1wholestep@gmail.com
The May Day group will host a Halloween Party Saturday Oct 26th. Woodridge Congregational Church, 30 Jackson Rd., Cranston Meeting at 6PM With Party to Follow $5 Suggested Contribution- Bring a Dish if you wish. Food/Refreshments, Raffles, Costume Contest, & Fellowship
S.E.M.R.U will host the Annual Spaghetti Dinner Smithfield Cong. Church, 514 Smithfield Ave **NEW ADDRESS**, Saturday November 23rd , 20247PM –10PM doors open at 6:30PM$25.00 per person- Seating Limited to 150For More Information, contact Hebert G. at hfgri99@aol.com orsemru89@gmail.com
RI CENTRAL SERVICE will host an Open House Celebrating Gratitude at your Central Office, 1005 Waterman Ave, East Providence, Saturday December14th from 9AM to 1PM Continental Breakfast at 9AM and AA Speaker meeting at 11AM. Come and See your Central Service Office and tell us how We Can Better Serve the Groups
Come one, Come all! Our 49th Annual RI State Convention will take place at the Newport Marriott Feb 7th- 9th, 2025. A wonderful weekend of Unity, Recovery and Service with great speakers from around the country, entertainment, marathon meetings and so much more. Don’t miss out! Register today at aainri.com – you can also buy meals and book rooms through the registration page.
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I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
Bill W
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On the 11th Tradition BY: BILL W.
Our relations with the general public should be characterized by personal anonymity. We think A.A. ought to avoid sensational advertising. Our names and pictures as A.A. members ought not be broadcast, filmed, or publicly printed. Our public relations should be guided by the principle of attraction rather than promotion. There is never need to praise ourselves. We feel it better to let our friends recommend us.
Providence has been looking after the public relations of Alcoholics Anonymous. It can scarcely have been otherwise. Though more than a dozen years old, hardly a syllable of criticism or ridicule has ever been spoken of A.A. Somehow, we have been spared all the pains of medical or religious controversy and we have good friends both wet and dry, right and left. Like most societies, we are sometimes scandalous–but never yet in public. From all over the world, naught comes but keen sympathy and downright admiration. Our friends of the press and radio have outdone themselves. Anyone can see that we are in a fair way to be spoiled. Our reputation is already so much better than our actual character!
Surely these phenomenal blessings must have a deep purpose. Who doubts that this purpose wishes to let every alcoholic in the world know that A.A. is truly for him, can he only want his liberation enough. Hence, our messages through public channels have never been seriously discolored, nor has the searing breath of prejudice ever issued from anywhere.
Good public relations are A.A. lifelines reaching out to the brother alcoholic who still does not know us. For years to come, our growth is sure to depend upon the strength and number of these lifelines. One serious public relations calamity could always turn thousands away from us to perish–a matter of life and death indeed!
The future poses no greater problem or challenge to A.A. than how best to preserve a friendly and vital relation to all the world about us. Success will heavily rest upon right principles, a wise vigilance and the deepest personal responsibility on the part of every man jack of us. Nothing less will do. Else our brother may again turn his face to the wall because we did not care enough.
So, the 11th Tradition stands sentinel over the lifelines, announcing that there is no need for self-praise, that it is better to let our friends recommend us, and that our whole public relations policy, contrary to usual customs, should be based upon the principle of attraction rather than promotion. Shot in the arm methods are not for us–no press agents, no promotional devices, no big names. The hazards are too great. Immediate results will always be illusive because easy shortcuts to notoriety can generate permanent and smothering liabilities.
More and more, therefore, are we emphasizing the principle of personal anonymity as it applies to our public relations. We ask of each other the highest degree of personal responsibility in this respect. As a movement, we have been, before now, tempted to exploit the names of our well-known public characters. We have rationalized that other societies, even the best, do the same. As individuals, we have sometimes believed that the public use of our names could demonstrate our personal courage in the face of stigma, so lending power and conviction to news stories and magazine articles.
But these are not the allures they once were. Vividly, we are becoming aware that no member ought to describe himself in full view of the general public as an A.A., even for the most worthy purpose, lest a perilous precedent be set which would tempt others to do likewise for purposes not so worthy.
We see that on breaking anonymity by press, radio or pictures, anyone of us could easily transfer the valuable name of Alcoholics Anonymous over onto any enterprise or into the midst of any controversy.
So, it is becoming our code that there are things that no A.A. ever does, lest he divert A.A. from its sole purpose and injure our public relations. And thereby the chances of those sick ones yet to come.
To the million alcoholics who have not yet heard our A.A. story we should ever say, “Greetings and welcome. Be assured that we shall never weaken the lifelines which we float out to you. In our public relations, we shall, God willing, keep the faith.”
Copyright © AA. Grapevine, Inc October 1948. Reprinted with permission
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