When we last communicated, my wife and I were in Sioux Falls South Dakota. Since, we’ve headed west to Oregon and Washington. The good news is we will be wintering in Winter Haven CA which is right on the Arizona border next to Yuma. That’s where Mickey W. hangs out and we will be working with him all winter on SIS stuff. There also will be a meeting of SIS worker bees in Yuma sometime in October. As of now Chris S., Mickey W., I, and hopefully one or more of the 2019 planning committee members will get together to discuss SIS organizational issues and more of the details of the 2019 (and maybe 2021) conferences.
I’ve already let the cat out of the bag a bit already, but the current state of 2019 is that their new Planning Committee chair is Kit B. (Applause) and he is moving forward with organizing the effort. Tentative date will be sometime in May 2019 and the venue will be in the Sparks/Reno area of Nevada. Although there’s no formal report from the committee to post yet, I have been in contact with Kit and am working to make archived information available to him and his committee. Also, a set of job descriptions and other event planning documents have been handed over from the September 2017 California Conference.
Travel-wise we discovered another great AA meeting place- The Hut- in La Pine Oregon where seniors abound (The Sun River Resort area outside Bend Oregon is a well-known retirement community anyway and there’s also a great meeting there at the Nature Center on Monday evenings from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.) Fascinating to me was the metal “A” on the door, which when the sun is shining throws a second shadow “A” behind it.
In Love and Service,
Colin M. – webservant