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Why collect 7th Tradition for an online meeting? Our regular meeting locations still have operating expenses. Our meetings facilities may rely on our regular rent to help pay their rent, utilities, and employees.Meeting supplies will still be needed when our meetings reopen. Coffee, paper products, literature, refreshments, and after an extended closure, we may experience a large influx of people who are motivated to re-join the fellowship in person. PLEASE PASS THIS ON AND DISCUSS 7TH TRADITION WITH YOUR GROUPS. WE CANNOT LET AA FAIL DUE TO LACK OF FUNDS! What is the value of your sobriety? Gratitude, expressed through contributions, reaches the still suffering alcoholic! -All the facilities that have allowed AA meetings to function in the past, still have operating expenses and we should endeavor to keep good relationships with ALL of them.…

Members & Friends, There has been a few inquiries about the re-opening of the Alano Club of Joliet, and with the Governor’s new “Restore Illinois” 5-Phase Plan, this is a note to keep you updated.For clarification, we are still closed until our Region / sub-region [Northeast / 7] is moved into ‘Phase 3’ by State directive, and even then it will be a ‘limited’ re-opening.[according to current Phase 3 guidelines, and/or unless the State ‘upgrades’ the Phases, giving us wider latitude].It is still early in the month, with much uncertainty & many mixed messages - and as the official document states, "This is an initial framework that will likely be updated as research and science develop and as the potential for treatments or vaccines is realized."So it will probably be…