The From the Heart Group Meeting has moved to:

180 Percy Street
McNabb Community Centre
Meeting Room B
Day: Thursday (same)
Time: 8:00 PM (same)

Due to damage incurred at École secondaire de l’ile, 255, rue St-Rédempteur in Gatineau, three French meetings have been affected.

Two will be held at alternate addresses as shown below:

Hull Central – Mondays at 8:00 PM, 17, rue des Groseilliers, Église St-Pierre-Chanel (Coin Mont-Bleu)
Sagesse – Tuesdays at 8:00 PM, 13, rue Sainte-Bernadette, Église Sainte Bernadette (as of October 23rd)

The third meeting will be cancelled until further notice:

La belle étoile – Saturdays at 8:00 PM

Attention young people and people who are young at heart!

Click the link below for a printable pre-registration form for the OSYPAA Conference being held from November 30th to December 2nd at the Double Tree Hotel, 1000 NE Multnomah Street, Portland, Oregon. Visit osypaa6.com for more details.

Printable form.

To make a Group Contribution via credit card to the Ottawa Area Intergroup of Alcoholics Anonymous please click “Contribute” below to make a secure credit card contribution enabled through Paypal.

Your contributions support the following Intergroup Functions:

• maintain a central office with a postal address, and a telephone listing in the Ottawa-Hull telephone directory
• maintain a telephone answering service
• publish a meeting list
• publish a newsletter
• stock and sell medallions and A.A. conference approved literature
• sponsor a Spring Conference
• sponsor a Fall Conference known as the Eastern Ontario Conference of Alcoholics Anonymous
• sponsor a Sunday morning open meeting (McNabb)
• maintain a website
• assist and advise in the formation of new groups or meetings

The Fellowship Group meeting, normally held at 8:00 PM at the Parkdale United Church, 429 Parkdale Avenue is temporarily cancelled for 2 weeks. There will be no meetings on October 13th or October 20th. The meeting will resume on October 27th.

Looking for a great service opportunity? The Alkathon Committee is being formed for the 2018 Holiday Season so come on out and join the team!

Committee meetings will be held at 1:00 PM at the Bronson Center (211 Bronson Avenue), Room 109 on the following dates: Sept 23rd, Oct 7th, Oct 21st, Nov 4th, Nov 18th, Dec 2nd, Dec 9th, Dec 16th, Dec 23rd at 1:00 pm in the Bronson Centre, Room 109.

For more information, along with an online volunteer sign-up form, visit alkathon.ottawaaa.org

Ottawa Area Intergroup has negotiated the renewal of this valuable program for our groups. If you had to purchase a similar policy for your group on an individual basis, the minimum premium would be $540.

Please note, that the $100 premium for $2,000,000 Liability is an annual minimum premium and cannot be pro-rated. The Master Policy runs from November to November, and certificates are issued for that term.

FOR THIS YEAR ONLY, if a group needs coverage between now and November, the insurer has agreed to charge only $50 plus tax to issue a certificate of insurance.

Insurance premiums are GST exempt, but PST is still charged. When writing your cheque, please make it out for $108, including the 8% PST, or $54 if you are taking a short-term policy.

PLEASE DO NOT SEND THE APPLICATION TO THE INTERGROUP OFFICE! The address is to be found on the attached form. Click here to download it.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email Harry B at vicechair@ottawaaa.org

Effective July 18th, Change We Must, previously held on Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. at Rothwell United Church, 42 Sumac Street in Beacon Hill has closed. A note has been added to the online meeting list as well.

* Announcement Reissued August 17th* Rothwell United Church staff reached out to let us know that people have continued to arrive on Wednesday nights expecting a meeting.

The Ottawa Area Intergroup of AA is looking for a Newsletter Coordinator. Monthly editions of “Our Primary Purpose” are to be compiled and published by a committee of volunteers to be set up by the Newsletter Coordinator.

Requirements:
– Working knowledge of Adobe Acrobat
– Basic working knowledge of Word Press
– Strong grammar and writing skills
– Clear understanding of AA Traditions and Concepts and how they apply in publishing AA material
– An ability to work with others
– Ability to establish and act as Chair for a Newsletter Committee that reports to the Board
– Legal capacity to sit as a member of the Board
– A Home Group
– A Sponsor
– Minimum of 5 years of sobriety

In keeping with AA Traditions, anyone can put their name forward for a position at an election. The person running has to be able to convey to the membership that they have the skills necessary to do the job.

If you are interested in standing for the Newsletter Coordinator position, please email chair@ottawaaa.org and/or attend the next Intergroup Meeting on Wednesday, July 11th at 7:00 p.m. at the Bronson Centre (Mac Hall).

Ottawa West District 62 will be facilitating a 12 Concepts Study/Workshop starting in July. We hear about them, we might have even seen them, but do we know what they are all about? Here’s an opportunity to find out in a Group setting.

2nd Monday of every month until the end of the year at 6:00 pm
The Ottawa West District 62 hall
All Saints Church, 347 Richmond Road – Westboro
Parking on Madison Ave. behind the Church

First meeting: Monday, July 9th

Bring a Service manual if you have one. ALL MEMBERS WELCOME!!!

Click here for a printable flyer to bring to your groups.

We would love to boost attendance at the Richmond 11th Step Meeting so we wanted to let you know that the detour on the entrance road is now gone making it easier for you to come out and see us.

We meet Sunday evenings at 8:00 p.m. at St. John the Baptist Anglican Church, 67 Fowler Street, Richmond.

We’d also like to let you know that the meeting will be cancelled on June 24th as the hall will be in use for St. John’s birthday.

See you soon!

To all members of Home Groups hosting AA Meetings at the Ottawa Withdrawal Management Centre this announcement is for you!

It is very important that the meeting guidelines are followed carefully and we’d like to advise you that an updated document has been posted here (click link to open).

Please print it for distribution and discussion at your business meetings.

For more information, or how you or your group can get involved, contact the OWMC Coordinator via email at owmc@ottawaaa.org

Engraved AA Medallion found on Thursday May 10, 2018 at Hurdman OC Transpo.

If you lost a medallion, please email info@ottawaaa.org with details.

The Voyageur group will hold their first Closed Discussion meeting on

Thursday, March 8th
7:00 p.m.

1900 St. Joseph (near Orleans Blvd), Orleans
Ample parking and wheelchair accessible 

Click here for printable poster for distribution to your home groups

As we neatly tie a bow around another year at Intergroup, we wanted to share how you, “the fellowship”, thought we did this year and what you identified as Intergroup’s Opportunities and Challenges moving forward in 2018.

Click here to view the 2017 Intergroup Inventory Results

Thanks again for your input, support, dedication and indeed direction of this past year.

Wishing you and your family much Peace, Love, Friendship and Health.

2017 Board of Directors
Ottawa Area Intergroup of Alcoholics Anonymous

Credit cards are now accepted at the Intergroup Office for Literature purchases

Call before heading down to the office to make sure a volunteer is on-site

Temporary Meeting Closure

Welcome Home Group
Tuesday – 7:30 PM
3955 Old Richmond Road
Bells Corners United Church
(Shalom Room)

The meeting will be closed effective January 1, 2018 and will re-open when a new venue is secured.