Meeting Changes

In 1998, Nancy and I were living on Rose Street in Dartmouth, up behind Sullivan's Pond. It was a long climb up Oak Street, up a long flight of stairs to get in the building, then 2 more flights up to our flat. When you looked out the living room window you could see Break Heart hill. Or was that Brake Hard hill. It was quite a view either way.

We started an AA group there called the Hilltop Group. We met at our place for a while, then moved it to the Starr Room at the Alderney library and from there it went to the church on Hawthorne & Portland, the same church we met and were later married in. The group lasted eight years.

We moved to Woodside, up on Chadwick Street, another killer hill. In there, we opened the Woodside Group in 2000. We moved that to the North Woodside Community Center but eventually it came back to our home.

During that time frame, I opened a third group at the Hawthorne church. That was a Saturday night group called Serenity Corner. That group lasted eight years.

The Woodside Group shut down in 2006 when we moved to the trailer park in Woodlawn. Well it didn't completely close. We just moved it and changed the name. It became the Trailer Park 12 and 12 Group.

For about seven years we met on Wednesday evenings. A little over a year ago we switched to Thursday.

Those groups were all registered AA groups. We also started a sponsorship meeting which was not part of any registered group. We held that on the weekends. Unfortunately, this job I have now requires me to work every weekend. We tried having it on different nights but it's never worked for long.

So Nancy and I had a talk. The group on Thursday isn't very big. Almost all the members belong to other groups so if it wasn't there anymore, those people would still have a home group. So we decided to close the Trailer Park Group and move the sponsorship meeting to Thursday night.

So there is still a meeting there on Thursday nights. It's just not a registered meeting. It won't be in the meeting list. Format is pretty much the same. We will still have cheesecake or Apple pie. We will still study the big book. The only real difference is that it's only for the people we sponsor or for people who are sponsored by the people we sponsor.

So now you know the password.