District 50/51

The district meeting for Feb. was cancelled because of Ice Storm.

Birthdays

Oak Ridge:

March
3-16-05 Mark L
3-6-05 Karen H
3-23-07 Troy S
3-1-05 Sandy W
9-28-02 John W
3-8-08 Nicola L
3-28-08 Donald B
3-17-08 Kerry C
3-24-08 Allen W

Blount County Group:

Feb.

Diana D. 7yrs

Brian M. 9 yrs

Bob M. 11 yrs

Bill R. 13 yrs

Hank R. 13 yrs

Brian T. 15 yrs

Ken C. 23 yrs

March

celebrated last tues of month

Eugene D. 2002

Bill C. 1995

Mary C. 1995

Johnelle J. 1990

Bob H. 1987

Tellico Village Birthdays

Feb.

Ken M. 22 yrs

Jean C. 16 yrs

March

celebrated 1st monday after sober date

Jim P. 03-08-96

DECATUR: TELLICO PLAINS:

BILL K 3 YRS MARK 24 YRS

JIM C 18 YRS JIM E 18 YRS

ROCKFORD

JAN. BOBBY D 8 YRS FEB. JOHNATHAN D 4 YRS

JIM Y 15 YRS KENNY W 8 YRS

SHARRON W 2 YRS TONJA W 8 YRS

CLAIRA C 4 YRS SHERMAN W 12 YRS

JOHN H 9 YRS TIFF D 3 YRS

DIANA D 7 YRS

BRENT M 11 YRS

FRIDAY PRIMARY PURPOSE
JOHN L 15 YRS

MONROE COUNTY

Feb.

Ron C. 22 yrs.

Jean C. 21 yrs.

March
Celebrated the last Thursday of the month in Madisonville.

Todd V. - 3-15-98

State Assembly

The Second Quarter Assembly will be April 3-5 2009 at

the Clarion Hotel in Murfreesboro. See your General Service

Representative for more information.

International and State Conventions

It is never to early to plan ahead. Last year in Feb. we started preparing for the South East Regional Forum held in Nov. Before we knew it was over.

We can plan ahead this year for 2 events.

The 1st would be the 75th International Convention to be held in San Antonio, Texas, July 4th weekend 2010. Yes, 2010. Long way off - however, Our General Service Office will be reserving rooms starting in August this year and since their are only 35,000 available you better plan early.

Our 2nd event is the Tennessee State Convention hosted by District 4. Your Convention will be held Sept. 4 - Sept. 6 (Labor Day Weekend) at the Glenstone Lodge in Gatlinburg.

For more information on this event see your Group G. S. R. or contact Holly at 865-681-6426 or Debbie 865-696-9162.

Don't be shut out of either of these events.

Peter O'n.

Chairman's Message

Have you seen our on-line edition yet? It is available at ETIAA.BLOGSPOT.COM any local information is available there. However the information we get has to come from you.

We are going to start up the Bridging The Gap program again. Too do this we need your help. We need to form a Committee to figure a way to make it work in East Tennessee. Any one can help just contact me at my e-mail address pon1023256@aol.com using inter-group as subject and I will get your information to our Committee head Lee. T. Remember our 5th Tradition and 12th step.

At our last meeting the inter-group reps present (was yours there?) recommended that the birthdays could be listed in 2 different ways. In keeping with our 4th Tradition each group has it's own choice. You can list them with years of sobriety for the previous month or actual birth day for the current month. (See this months birthday list). Listing them for the current month lets other area members know when people they haven't seen are celebrating and they might want to show up to join in the celebration or just give a call.

Our next meeting will be Sunday, March 1st at the ROCKFORD Fellowship hall 1:30 p.m.

Our 7th Tradition tells us we are self-supporting. Inter-group is supported from Group donations.

In this time of a bad economy We are also affected by donations.

Since our fiscal year started in July the following groups have contributed financially

to Inter-group. I am not putting the amounts if you want to know how much YOUR group contributed e-mail me. Also if your group is not listed we have received no donation from July to December.

Back Door ,Back to Basics, Big Book

Study, Blount County Group, Clinton, Colonial , Danridge Unity,

Friday Night Primary Purpose, Gateway AA, High Nooners, Kodak Group,

Lafollette Group, Kodak Big Book Study, Pigeon River Club, Maryville Unity,

Maryville 12 Step, Metro Group, Monday Nights Men's , Morristown Group, New Beginnings, Newport Group, North Gatlinburg , North Station, Northside , Our Group,

Pathfinders, Primary Purpose, Rockford Fellowship, Sat. Morning Serenity at Sequoyah, Serenity Seekers, Sevierville, Seymour Sharing,St. Mary's-Oak Ridge, Suburban West AA Group,Sunday at Seven, Tellico Village , Tri-State , West Knoxville , West Knoxville Morning , Women's 12 & 12Unity Group, Kodak 66 Group,

Topside , Phoenix Group, Park 40.

Thank you for your ongoing contributions and support of Inter-Group.

Peter O'N.

Chairman

March

Tradition 3 : The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.

If you need to get in touch with the East Tennessee Intergroup Central office our phone number is : 865-974-9888 or you can send us an email at etiaa@msn.com.

If you think you have a problem with alcohol you can call our Hotlineat 865-522-9667

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.

Intergroup Meeting Time Change

The next Intergroup meeting will be at 1:30 PM on Sunday, March 1st instead of 2:00 PM.

We will meet upstairs.