I remain down in the Southwestern part of the United States and continue to attend live, in-person, meetings.
Green Valley is located due South of Tucson, Arizona, on Interstate Highway 19 (I-19). Click onto the below link to see its location. While you are looking at the below map, look to the right (to the East) on Interstate Highway 10 (I-10) and find Benson, Arizona. At the end of this post I will also show a few photos of the Benson Sobriety House as well.
With regard to following the current Covid-19 guidelines, for the most part the members wore masks and social distancing was, if not perfect, acceptable.
Over a period of several days I attended 5 meetings. Each were excellent because of long time members who have retired here or are Winter Snow Birds combined with a good population of newcomers and local members.
Below are photos of the Green Valley Alano Club, a very pleasant and well managed facility.
Now we will enter the Green Valley Alano Club.
Nice, very very nice.
The Benson, Arizona Sobriety House.
In March of 1988 (yes some 33 years ago) I was attending A.A. Meetings in each of the lower 48 States. One night I pulled into Benson and found a meeting. One man was sitting quietly at a table, all by himself, keeping the meeting room doors open as he read his Big Book. I will never forget how touched I was by his dedication to sobriety and how happy I was to have attended a meeting in Benson.
While staying in Green Valley, I took a day-trip over to Benson, and with some help from a local community medical clinic, I found the Benson Sobriety House. I was 30 minutes early for a 12 noon meeting and visited with three long time members who showed me an enormous scrap book chronicling the history of the Sobriety House. I told them about my visit in 1988 and 'Big Jim' told me that the man I mentioned seeing was still alive and active in the local fellowship.
I did not do a complete photo shoot of the Sobriety House but did manage to shoot the below photos.
What a pleasure it was for me to re-visit the Benson Arizona Sobriety House after 33 years.