WCNA 35 Hospitality Committee Get Together:

Come spend a couple hours and meet members of NA World Services and the WCNA 35 Workgroup members!

Get involved and be a part of the Hospitality Committee for the upcoming 35th World Convention of NA. The hospitality committee can:

• Take members to local meetings
• Pick up members from the airport
• Direct members to local restaurants and attractions

When: Saturday 1 June 2013
Time: 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Where: Marriott Downtown Hotel
1201 Market St Philadelphia, PA 19107
Conference Room 304-306

We are pleased to announcethat the East Coast Convention of Narcotics Anonymous will be held inChestertown, MD on June 14-16, 2013 at Washington College. The convention isbeing hosted by the Bay Area and the East of the Bay Area of Narcotics Anonymous,both located in the Free State Region.

The convention will have dailyworkshops, nightly speaker meetings, marathon meetings, dances, a comedy show,karaoke, and an NA auction.

You can register by mail bydownloading a registration flyer at www.eccna.org.You can also register on line at www.eccna.org.

All proceeds from thisconvention go to buy basic texts for inmates in institutions located in the 22 NARegions on the East Coast. Last year the convention was able to purchase 3444Basic Texts, 98 went to each region, and the rest went to institutions in theTri-State Area (the hosting area).

Western Service Learning Days (WSLD) is an annual conference that focuses on Narcotics Anonymous services in Public Information (PI)/Public Relations (PR), Phonelines, Web Pages, Outreach, and Hospitals and Institutions (H&I). Thus, giving NA members an opportunity to learn and share about issues and solutions. The event is hosted each year by a different Area or Region within thirteen western United States, two western Provinces of Canada, and Mexico.

Western Service Learning Days (WSLD), formerly called the Western States Public Information Learning Days Convention (WSPILD), started in Fife Washington in 1987 and has continued on an annual basis since then. The event was originally conceived to help inform interested addicts about Public Information, to improve their skills and knowledge base for implementing PI projects in their areas and regions.

As Phonelines was included with PI on a world level, in 1991 the event evolved to include Phonelines workshops. In 1997 Northern California hosted the first (and last) Western States Hospitals and Institutions Learning Days (WSH&ILD) planned as a coordinated event with WSPILD 11. In 1996 a motion was made and unanimously passed to expand the scope to include H&I beginning in 1999. Beginning with WSLD 12 in 1998, British Columbia began fulfilling the spirit of that motion a year earlier than required.