A.A.'s Country-wide News Circuit

Montclair, N.J., will celebrate the fifth anniversary as a group on March 28. Starting with ten, the group now numbers 90, though many have left to form new groups. Five of the original eight remain. One of the members spoke recently before the Baptist Ministerial Association of Northern New Jersey with 50 members present. At Tampa, Fla., the third annual banquet was held at the Bayshore Hotel with Jacksonville, Atlanta, and Cleveland, Ohio, speakers on the program and 300 attending. A fish fry with 97 A.A.s from the various groups in Northwestern Ohio was staged as the third anniversary of the Port Clinton Group recently, members being present from Sandusky, Fremont, Bellevue, Norwalk, Milan, Bowling Green and Toledo. A solitary A.A. in Oak Harbor reports prospects of a group there. First anniversary of the Tallahassee, Fla., Group was celebrated at the Cherokee Hotel with a speaker from Jacksonville. An offshoot of this group, Thomasville, Ga., is using the Detroit WWJ records after which they will go to the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee. The group founded there a year ago is functioning with seven members. A two-year observance is reported from Springfield, Mo., while Columbia, Mo., had the first anniversary party at the Daniel Boone Tavern in Columbia. This group has also gotten a new club room. Council Bluffs, Ia., with the cooperation of the parent Omaha, Nebr., Group celebrated its first year recently with several hundred members and guests from Iowa and Nebraska attending the banquet at the Hotel Chieftain to hear three Iowa A.A.s. A breakfast in the clubrooms and a two-day open house followed. About 200, including delegations from Minneapolis, Des Moines, Pocohontas, Marshalltown, Waterloo, Boone, Dubuque, Sioux Falls, Chicago, Carroll, Algona Kanwha, Britt, Spencer, Spirit Lake, Fonda, Rockwell City, Alden, Paton and Ogden attended the second anniversary at Ft. Dodge, Ia.