by Arthur Barrett, LA Regional Councilor
The Los Angeles Center has approximately 90 members who attend at least once per month. We have 4 male & 2 lady helpers, 2 male & 1 lady helpers who are regional helpers now. 2 younger ladies are now testing to be helpers.
We have Latihan on Monday, Tuesday (Topanga), Thursday evenings and Saturday morning. Our Latihans are well attended with: Monday Men 14 / Women 10; Tuesday Men 7 / Women 4; Thursday Men 12 / Women 10; Saturday Men 28 / Women 19
Over the last year 14 men were opened and it seems 7 are continuing to come to Latihan. And God willing, we will soon welcome 4 men and women candidates.
Our committee is complete will all positions filled. We have a donation button on our website… It is being used too! About 25% of members contribute to the general fund. Please see the attached flyer that is being used for the LA Hall donation campaign. The 3rd Saturday of the month is usually our general meeting and birthday celebrations. Our members are always making these monthly gatherings fun.
We have a subcommittee that is now in the process of developing a sign(s) for our building to let the city know what our building is and to hopefully draw interest. Our rentals are continuing with ‘CHANGE R US’ and a total of 14 AA groups renting. We have added a few small rentals and continue to seek more.
Our committee has been continuing to keep an ‘eye’ on the building and had made lots of progress with the library, getting bids on the roof repair, working with our tenants.
We continue to support our brothers and sisters in Claremont, CA. There are 6 active women and 2 men who do Latihan at least once a week.
In regards to the regions campaign to fund raise, our Chair Person, Luqman Katz feels that our continued effort to raise our local donations and thus have us send more money to the region is a good way to go. By the region continuing to communicate with the local groups and have a good presence and support by having the regional helpers visit and communicate will assist the region’s image. As always, the ‘them vs Us’ attitude is problematic and having the RHs be fully supported by the Region will go a long way to alleviate any attitudes of division. A local So Cal (Santa Barbara to San Diego) Kedjiwaan is under consideration. This type of group participation of course will create bonding and trickle up to support the region as well.