The past month has been about making service at the District as attractive as possible. We returned to the venue that we were at prior to Covid. It felt great to be back there. We filled our Corrections Chair position and have a hopeful candidate for Webmaster. That leaves our Accessibility Chair vacant.
Our Alt. DCM, Lee R., had worked as our Registrar to get everyone registered at the Area.
I visited a couple of meetings and introduced myself, I plan to continue this trend.
We have worked together with the Eastern Districts to coordinate a venue for the Pre- Conference and had a great turnout at the GSR School with the Central Districts held at the Seattle Intergroup office.
District 18 has a bit of an identity crisis between Central and Eastern Districts and the confusion of being served by Seattle Intergroup rather than Eastside Intergroup, but it’s a good lesson that the categorization of Districts has nothing to do with Intergroups necessarily because General Service is not the same as Intergroup Service, it is parallel to it.
We know this, but there is often a learning curve for people new to service. Quite honestly, as someone who holds Seattle Intergroup near and dear to my heart, I have been resistant to being categorized as an Eastern District, but, alas, I have surrendered to logic and left my bleeding heart to the side.
We have a great Area and we are proud to belong wherever we can to serve this awesome fellowship and Alcoholics Anonymous.
I continue to be humbled by this service and am more in love with AA than ever.
Lara Randolph
DCM
District 18
Renton, Kent, Tukwila
