Delegate’s Corner

*Area 56 held its 3rd Assembly of the year today. In addition toOfficer Reports, DCM Reports, Committee Chair Reports anddiscussion on the Budget and Calendar for 2025, we also tookinventory. We did this by the ‘divide and conquer’ method.We broke up into small groups, addressed one question pergroup and then had a spokesperson share our…

February 2026

Now is the time to register for the Area 56 Mini-Conference: the 41st Annual Mini-Conference! Go to our website, aaarea56.org, to register and for additional details.Registration is free! With the QR Code you can register from your phone. The form also appears on Page 6 of this issue of Unity.The Agenda Items for this year…

It’s finally here! After years in development THE PLAIN LANGUAGE BIGBOOK – A Tool for Reading Alcoholics Anonymous has been published. Thebook is available at Central Office, or you can order directly from aa.org.This is the First Edition, First Printing of the PLBB, as it is commonly called.I purchased one for myself for personal use…

Publication of The Plain Language Big Book, A Tool for Reading Alcoholics Anonymous became an Advisory Action at the 74th General Service Conference. We can expect it to be ready by the end of the year. What follows is a 1-minute speech from the floor of the 74th General Service Conference presented by a Delegate…

February 25, 2023, Area 56 Assembly On Thursday, January 26, 2023, I flew to New York to attend the General Service Board Weekend.  This is an honor given only to Delegate Conference Committee Chairs.  The other chairs came from California, Wyoming, Tennessee, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Kansas City and three from Canada.   We stayed at…