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Owing to rotation of service and other factors, 10 vacancies out of 17 positions existed on the Board of Trustees as delegates gathered for the conference. Six candidates stood for election, and all were elected. One of the vacancies materialized because Beth B., La Région 6 syndic, reached the end of her term and chose not…
One set of proposals would have changed the Steps(!!) by removing references to “Him.” For example, Étape 11 would have changed to read, “…to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God….” I think it is fair to say that many delegates expected these proposals to be among the most controversial this week….
A proposal submitted by the National Service Board of Greece asked that no conferences be scheduled three days before or three days after major religious holidays. Their recent experience was that the start of the conference overlapped Easter Monday for those following the Christian Orthodox religion, and they need more time to get here than…
The conference started with 188 voting delegates. By the last session Saturday morning, that number was down to 170. That shrinkage happens every year — because people have to leave early, for example. But this year, two people were reported to have tested positive for Covid on Thursday afternoon, and they were not isolated incidents,…
“Abstinence is the action of refraining from compulsive eater and compulsive food behaviors while working toward or maintaining a healthy body weight.” Surely you’ve heard this before; it’s OA’s definition of abstinence. At the World Service Business Conference in Albuquerque, a delegate proposed removing the word “weight.” Plenty of delegates rose to speak for and…
Et M., présidente du conseil d'administration, a raconté que la fraternité est partie à un procès demandant des dommages-intérêts parce qu'un intergroupe avait utilisé une image protégée par le droit d'auteur sur son site Web. Elle a demandé à tous les organismes de service de revoir leurs sites Web pour se prémunir contre de tels problèmes.. Si vous avez un rôle sur le site Web de votre organisme de service,…