A. A.'s Country-wide News Circuit

San Francisco's first neighborhood A.A. Group, the Mission, celebrated its first anniversary recently with an open house for the city's members and their families. On the same night the second neighborhood Group to be formed, The Midtown Marina, became the first to divide because it had become too large. The new Groups, Midtown and Marina, adjourned to attend Mission's party. The second picnic of 1946 for the San Francisco Group was held recently at Sonoma Golf Club with more than 300 members and their families present. The same Group's second annual fish fry at the central club house drew more than 500 A.A.s and their guests.