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SOUTHERN MARYLAND INTERGROUP 1-800-492-0209

www.somdintergroup.org

Southern Maryland Intergroup Association, Inc. Tri-County Area: Calvert, Charles & St. Mary’s Counties

RESPONSIBILITY DECLARATION

I am responsible when anyone, anywhere, reaches out for help,

I want the hand of A.A. always to be there; And for that I am responsible.

“The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.”

Made a decision to turn our will and

our lives over to the care of

God as we understood Him. 2018

One night, a newcomer took his daughter

to dinner at a downtown restaurant. As

they walked in the door, the first thing

they saw was an enormous sign advertis-

ing what used to be his favorite beer. The

man’s eyes immediately widened and he

began remembering just how good the old

brew tasted. Then his daughter interrupt-

ed. “Oh, look Daddy,” she said, pointing to

the sign. “THEY HAVE YOUR-LIFE’S IN

THE TOILET ON TAP.”

Doug R. New York, New York

January 2001 © Grapevine

LIFELINE

SMIA needs

Nominations at

the March 10th

meeting for

SMIA Chair

& Secretary

“It’s about twelve steps from here. We can

make it!” Dee D. Louisville, Ky.

© Grapevine

March 2018

Volume 42

No. 3

November 2013



The 60th ICYPAA Host

Committee Presents Summer

Party in The Winter March 3, St.

Johns Episcopal Church 9120

Frederick Rd. Ellicott City Md.

60th ICYPAA.ORG

District 35 Fourth Step Workshop Saturday April 22nd

11:00am. –3:00pm Good Samaritan Church 13025 Good

Samaritan Dr. Waldorf, Md.

Announcing

Welcome to the 48th Annual

Area State Convention

“Our Kit of Spiritual Tools”

June 29 to July 1 2018

Clarion Inn Frederick Event

Center Frederick Md.

The 60th ICYPAA

Hilton Baltimore

401 W. Pratt St.

Aug. 30—Sept. 2, 2018

Register now at

ICYPAA.ORG

Southern Maryland Serenity Camping Trip Spring Fling

at Smallwood State Park May 18-20, 2018 For more info

[email protected]

District 36 Workshop

The Three Legacies Unity; Service; Recovery

March 24th 10:00am to 2:00pm. 46855 South

Shangri La Dr. Lexington Park Md. 20653

one speaker for unity one speaker for service

and one speaker for Recovery

COME ON OUT AND ATTEND!

Clean Air has changed Their meeting format see flyer Pg. 14



Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 25 26

Mark T. 1yrs. @ More Will Be Revealed

27

28 Carole W. 2yrs. @ Do Drop In

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2 Brian B. 11yrs. @ Cove Point

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4 Ben (Mad Dog) L. 4yrs. Charlie D. 21yrs. @ Kiss Group

5 David H. 4yrs. @ Monday Night Traditions

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8 Dan W. 21yrs. @ St. Charles Step

9 10 Jimmy V. 1yrs. @ Waldorf Group

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13 John O. 10yrs. @ Lexington Park Big Book

14 Dan H. 24yrs. @ Brown Bag

15 Jake P. 3yrs. @ Daily Reprieve

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Tim S. 21yrs. @ Early Risers Doug S. 6yrs. @ Early Bird

18 Dan L. 2yrs. @ Bedouin Group Terri C. 8yrs. @ Kiss Group

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24 Tricia D. 1yrs. @ Saturday Serenity Diana M. 9yrs. @ Living Sober Mike C. 29yrs. Jeff U. 17yrs. @ North Beach

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Little Joe 10yrs. @ Tracey’s Landing

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28 Valerine S. 20yrs. @ Turn It Over Group

29 Pat S. 6yrs. @ Poplar Hill

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31 Candy L. 32yrs. @ We Wuz Wruz Roger M. 9yrs. @ Living Sober

March 2018



April 2018 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT

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2 Michele M. 2yrs. Charles B. 19yrs. @ Monday Night Traditions

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12 Gisela R. 27yrs. @ Almost Normal

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16 Donald R. 18yrs. @ Lusby Group Big Book Meeting

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18 19 Joe O. 15yrs. @ Basic Text

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23 Joe B. 28yrs. @ Brown Bag.

24 Chelsea B. 5yrs. @ Tuesday Night Big Book

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26 Josh J. 4yrs. @ Poplar Hill

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February 10 Meeting Minutes Opening: 10:03 by Wally with the Responsibility Pledge New Members and Visitors: None. Board Members Present: Wally – Chair, John L. - Vice Chair, T Bill L. – Treasurer, Bruce 0. - Parliamentarian, Tressie F. - Secretary Committee Chairs and District Reps: Bill L. – Calvert District Rep. and Website, SMIA Rep., John W. – St. Mary’s P&I, Becky – St. Mary’s C&T, Dee – Charles P&I and Charles District Rep; Emme J. – Telephone, Keenan – Bookstall, Buddy F. – District 36 Secretary, Keith – Lifeline, Pat S. – District 36 Alt. DCM Groups represented: Bruce O. – Waldorf, Bill L. – Sunderland, Rev – Early Bird, Pat P. – North Beach, Buddy F. – Basic Text, Bob E. – Solomon’s, Chuck M. – Sobriety First & Inspirations, Emme J. – Graceful Sobriety, Becky B. – Poplar Hill Previous month’s Minutes: . Accepted as read with corrections Treasurer’s Report: Bill - As of 1/27/2017 our operating fund is at a surplus for the first time this fiscal year - See report. If operating budget exceeds prudent reserve than we will make donations to MGS and GSO. Fiscal year ends April 30th. Report accepted. Where and When: Bryan G. unavailable at meeting; however will continue to be Where and When chair. Accepting corrections / updates through 2/15. Updated Where and Whens will be delivered in March. Dee requested emphasis to remove meetings no longer in existence and get in corrections. Bookstall: Keenan – sales totaled $756.30 and expenses totaled 418.96. Telephone: Emme – 23 calls total. Reviewing emails for each call that is received. Emme is working with the company on call results for calls that are not answered. Emme needs to forward telephone report to Keith. Keith bought up call rotation forwarding. Service needs to ensure call is for SMIA area. We have received calls from CA and KY. There is a volunteer list on the website. There is a field for email. Lifeline: Keith – working with Rev to transition. Keith suggested moving date up to receive reports to either the 15th or 20th. This will be discussed next month. Web Committee: There were 3243 visits. Corrections and Institutions: Calvert County: No report. Charles County: Dee – need women to take meeting into jail. St. Mary’s County: Becky – everything is running smoothly. Public Information: Calvert County: Bill for Roger – updating the racks. Tri county memory walk 5/16 and AA will have a table.ens. Charles County: Dee - in good shape. St. Mary’s County: John – there are 4000 pieces of materials and John has picked up racks and filled them. Gratitude Dinner: Suzie F. will chair next year. Still need a formal report. Serenity Breakfast: John - flyers have been prepared. John has tickets available at $10 per ticket for up to 120 people. Picnic: Keenan – in planning phases. Keenan has assistant chair in training. Old Business: Telephone script changed tabled. New Business: SMIA board jobs up for rotation are the chair person (preferably St. Marys in rotation), secretary and parliamentarian positions. Nominating committee should be appointed in January which did not happen. Formed nomination committee today (Wally, Bruce, and Bill). Bruce read the bylaws from section 5.3. The body discussed if Bruce can be re-elected. Since Bruce was appointed and did not serve a full term, a point of was made he could be nominated because he will not serve two full consecutive terms. He was subsequently nominated for the position. Online meeting guide not sanctioned by Maryland General Services. Dee is going to check with her contact. Some districts and intergroups are feeding information to these apps (for example District One is sharing information). Meetingguide.org\contact) to send the information For the Good of Order: Adjourned at 11:30.



Treasurer’s Report March 2018

The SMIA continues to be on solid financial footing going into March 2018. Our net income for the last 30 days

was $817, which brought out FY ‘17 net income to $1793. Our total expenses for this fiscal year have

been $18,432. We can expect large expenditures from the Where and When and the Bookstall over the next

couple of months, which will likely bring us closer to a balanced budget, yet there are no genuine predictors of

donations or other expenses for March. In any event, the SMIA has been good stewards of the funds we

have received from our kind and generous groups.



Telephone Report January 2018 Telephone Report submitted to THE lifeline

Where & when Corner

Please Send any information changes to the Where & When Chair [email protected] The Newest Where

and Whens will be available for pick-up at the March monthly SMIA meeting

Southern Maryland Intergroup Association On-Line One of the most important things we will do in our recovery is to help the still suffering

alcoholic. The SMIA is committed to this principle and provides a 24x7 Telephone Service . But phone support is of no benefit if we do not have service committed people to call . We are providing a simple and secure method for you to add your name to the SMIA 12 Step Call List. This information will only be shared with the

Phone Committee Chair. Go online to the intergroup website somdintergroup.org ( the 12 step Phone list link is on this page. Click it to access the form) Fill out the

form on site if you are Interested in this valuable service opportunity

County Want to

Talk

Meeting

Location

Request

Meeting List/

Literature

Ride to

Meeting

Hang-ups

Alanon, Na,

Oa, Etc./non aa

Total

Calls

Twelve

step

Other

Calvert 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0

Charles 0 0 0 6 0 8 2 0

St. Mary’s 0 0 4 2 0 6 0 0

PG 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Out of Ar-

ea

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Other 0 0 5 0 0 6 1 0

Total Calls 0 0 9 8 0 23 6 0

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.somdintergroup.org



District 1

Calvert County District Meeting: 7 PM, 3rd Monday

@ St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Prince Frederick, MD

New meeting “As Bill Sees It” Thursday 10:00am to 11:00am.

9463 H.G. Trueman Rd. Lusby Md. 20657

Southern Maryland Serenity Camping Trip Spring Fling at

Smallwood State Park May 18-20 2018

Mailing Address: District 1 Trust Fund, PO Box 234, Barstow,

MD 20610

www.calvertaa.org

District 35

Charles County

District Meeting: 7 PM, 1st Thursday

@ Peace Lutheran Church, Waldorf

Looking for Men & Women to take meetings

into the Detention Center step up for these

rewarding service positions.

Mailing Address: District 35, PO Box 1981,

La Plata, MD 20646

District 36

St. Mary’s County

District Meeting: 6:30 PM, 2nd Tuesday

@ Hollywood Rescue Squad Bldg., Hollywood Md.

C & T committee is looking for women to sign up to take

meetings into the Detention Center. District 36 Workshop “The

Three Lagacies” Unity : Service and Recovery March 24th see

flyer on page 12

Mailing Address: District 36, PO Box 1334,

Southern Maryland

Intergroup Association (SMIA)

Mailing Address: Post Office Box 767

Charlotte Hall, MD 20622

Meeting Location: Mt. Olive Methodist Church (old bldg.)

SMIA is Looking for nominations at the March meeting

for SMIA Chair: Secretary The Chair should come from

district 36. Elections on March 10th.

811 Dares Beach Road

Prince Frederick, MD

Meetings: 2nd Saturday @ 10:00 AM

Bookstall opens: 9:00 AM

1-800-492-0209

WWW.SOMDINTERGROUP.ORG

It Happened

in March

March 1, 1939– Readers Digest Declined

to write article

March 3, 1947- Neil, Bill’s secretary

and first archivist of AA, began her career

at Lexington Alcoholic Foundation Office

at 415 Avenue.

March 1, 1941– Saturday Evening

Post article Jack Alexander created

national sensation . AA membership

quadrupled in one year from 2000 to 8000

March 4, 1891– Lois Wilson was born.

March 7, 1941–Boston newspaper reported

that any drunk who wanted to get well was

more than welcome at the AA meeting at 115

Newbury St., at 8 pm. Wednesday

March 12, 1940– Ebby

Thatcher, Bill Wilson’s

boyhood friend and sponsor,

was reported sober again.

March 16,1940– Bill moved the

Alcoholic Foundation office to 30 Vesey

St., NY (Which was nearly destroyed on

September 11, 2001.)

March 23, 1936– Bill & Lois Wilson visited

Fitz Mayo, “Our Southern Friend,” in Maryland

March 22, 1984– The Clarence Snyder,

Founder of Cleveland AA and author of

“Home Brewmeister, “died at 81, 46 years

sober.

March 22, 1951– Dr. William Duncan

Silkworth died at Towns Hospital.

March 21, 1966– Ebby Thatcher, Bill Wilson’s

sponsor, died sober



“Our leaders are but trusted

servants, they do not govern”.

SMIA BOARD OF DIRECTORS CHAIR: Wally S. [email protected]

VICE CHAIR: John L. [email protected] SECRETARY: Tressie F. [email protected] TREASURER: Bill L.. [email protected]

PARLIAMENTARIAN: Bruce O. [email protected]

Where & When: Bryan G. [email protected] Lifeline: Keith H. [email protected] Telephone: Emme J. [email protected] Website: Bill L. [email protected] Bookstall: Keenan W. [email protected] The Lifeline is an unofficial newsletter published by Southern Maryland Intergroup Associa-tion, Inc. Any opinions expressed are those of the writers. They are not endorsed by SMIA, any group or AA as a whole. Group secretaries and individuals are encouraged to send group news, anniversaries and events. Material may be edited for space and content. Please send email to: [email protected] , or mail to SMIA at the above address.

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