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T. Whitehead Recovery Center Fundraiser

T. Whitehead Fundraiser

2nd Annual Recovery Center Fundraiser

When:
Saturday September 16, 2017 – 12:00 pm – ???

Where:
T. Whitehead Recovery Center
2044 Genesee St
Toledo, Ohio 43605
419-691-8882

Venue:

  • BBQ Chicken dinner with all of the fixin’s.
  • Music and Fun
  • 50/50 raffles
  • Auctions
  • Door prizes
  • Guest Speakers
  • Motorcycle Poker Run – Includes meal, poker run, T-shirt.  $25.00 driver / $15.00 rider – T-shirts ordered at registration. Call 419-691-8882 for registration information for this great fundraiser.

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“How Can You Roll with a Punch?”

On the day that the calamity of Pearl Harbor fell upon our country, a great friend of A.A. was walking alone a St. Louis street. Father Edward Dowling was not an alcoholic, but he had been one of the founders of the struggling A.A. group in his city. Because many of his usually sober friends had already taken to their bottles that they might blot out the implications of the Pearl Harbor Disaster, Father Ed was anguished by the thought that his cherished A.A. group would probably do the same.

Then a member, sober less than a year, stepped alongside and engaged Father Ed in a spirited conversation — mostly about A.A. Father Ed saw, with relief, that his companion was perfectly sober.

“How is it that you have nothing to say about Pearl Harbor? How can you roll with a punch like that?”

“Well,” replied the yearling, “each of us in A.A. has already had his own private Pearl Harbor. So why should we drunks crack up over this one?”

Grapevine, January 1962