The Primary Purpose Group (Thursday, Fellowship Hall, 7:00pm) has a colorful history. The meeting was started as a Big Book Study around 1986 with 3 to 7 members headed by Minnesota Bill at the old Dirks Field location. Minnesota Bill delighted in sharing about his sponsor, Joe of the Joe and Charley tapes. Bill returned to his home state of … Read More

I knew I had an addiction that I couldn’t escape. I had tried, a myriad of permutations, to stop of my own accord. There was a true experience of awe and terror when that realization began to drown me like the tide coming in. I was going to die, slowly, and I was so vastly underequipped to address the addiction … Read More

This is an open meeting that gathers 5 days a week, Monday through Friday. Readings from chapters 3 & 5 out of the “Big Book” are followed by celebrating certain lengths of sobriety. A different person chairs each day who calls on people to share on a topic they have chosen. This is the story of how this meeting came … Read More

I first experimented with alcohol at twelve years of age. One hot summer day, my dad gave me a beer at Dummer’s Beach. I didn’t like it at all. But, I do remember how it made me feel. I knew that big people drank alcohol. For the first time in my life, I felt like a big person. I began … Read More

When I celebrated forty years of sobriety, a friend of mine suggested I write my story. I rejected that suggestion with the rationale “I don’t think I have the attention span to write my story.” My friend countered by asking if I would consider writing down some of my shorter stories. I agreed to write a few short stories. As … Read More