Happy Hour Group

The Happy Hour Group meets three times a day Monday through Friday, at 6:30 am, noon, and 6:00 pm. They have a noon meeting on Saturdays, and a noon and a 6 pm meeting on Sundays. They have an open speaker meeting at 8 pm on the first Friday of every month. The Happy Hour Group also houses the District 8 Archives.

History:

In January or February, 2006, a group of about 15 men from the Fellowship Group met on a Wednesday evening at 6 pm at the Oak Grove Community Center because there was no meeting on Wednesday night at the Fellowship Group. They would walk through the twelve steps together using the Big Book. They decided that it would be great if they had their own meeting place. Thus the seed was planted, and Dan K. started to look for a place.

He found the storefront where Happy Hour still meets in the Eastdale Mall area. The founding members of the group were Dennis R., Sean H., Brian W., Richard A., Mike G., Dan K., Paul I., Matt, Randal, and Christy H. The first meeting was held sometime at the end of May, 2006, attended by five or six people. After a host of work fixing the place, a Grand Opening speaker meeting was held during the middle of June, 2006.  The speakers were Don T. and Joe “Hollywood” S. Over 150 people attended, with a closed-circuit television bringing the speakers to the back room.

From that core group of eight to ten members when the group started they have grown to over 100 members on their phone list. They hold up to three meetings a day, 365 days a year.  In the beginning they were lucky if three people came to the noon meetings. Today there are as many as fifty.

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