Alcoholics Anonymous in the Columbia River Basin

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Telephone Hotline (509) 735-4086
There are two ways to reach us through the phone number above. By activating the pager and leaving your contact information you will receive a call back from a volunteer within 30 minutes. By leaving a message and not activating the pager, you will receive a call back from a volunteer within 4-6 hours. If for some reason your message is not returned within the time frame explained here, it is most likely because the volunteer could not understand the message. Please call the number again. We want to help.

AA's Twelve Traditions

Alcoholics Anonymous, Appendix I, 'The A.A. Tradition', p 564. Reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.
1.	Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
2.	For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority -- a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.
3.	The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking.
4.	Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.
5.	Each group has but one primary purpose -- to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
6.	An A.A. group ought never endorse, finance or lend the A.A. name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.
7.	Every A.A. group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.
8.	Alcoholics Anonymous should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.
9.	A.A., as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.
10.	Alcoholics Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the A.A. name ought never be drawn into public controversy.
11.	Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films.
12.	Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.

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	Alcoholics Anonymous in the Columbia River Basin
Home • Central Office • Meeting Codes • Download Schedule • Service Committees Events • Links • Guest Book • Our History • Humor • From The Author
Locate a meeting by week day	Quick jump to directions and a map for any meeting
Telephone Hotline (509) 735-4086 There are two ways to reach us through the phone number above. By activating the pager and leaving your contact information you will receive a call back from a volunteer within 30 minutes. By leaving a message and not activating the pager, you will receive a call back from a volunteer within 4-6 hours. If for some reason your message is not returned within the time frame explained here, it is most likely because the volunteer could not understand the message. Please call the number again. We want to help.