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I am sad to say Kath has lost her battle in life. I will always remember Kath for her wonderful smile and you may remember her for all the pies and cakes she used to make for all of us from Lightning Ridge, Mitchell, and Morven. Kath will be greatly missed by us all who knew her, may God Bless Her. We are looking forward to seeing Sam at the Ridge and maybe Mitchell and Morven too, where we can share some time as distance does not allow us to be with him know. May he find all the help he needs now.
Hi big d.Thank you for your kind words ,regarding my wife Kath, I miss her very much,we traveled around Australia for a lot years,thanks to the AA programme ,meeting people, and meetings like lighting ridge Mitchell morgen and the people who run them, I hope to be back on the road in 2017 looking forward to see you all again soon. Sam the rock
it is sad to see this page not being used to communicate with each other. It is coming up to tag-a-long time, we have had a few calls to ask what is happening at Mitchell.
I can tell you all that what we do will be fun and fellowship, we are looking forward to you all coming. A program for your time here at Mitchell will be written up.
On a sad note we have got Sam’s Wife Kath, in the last stages of her life, all we can do is pray for Sam.
VALE
It is with deep regret that we announce the passing of Keith B., a very valuable member of Outback Queensland.
Keith passed away on the 12th February 2016 at the age of 81, after a 3 month battle with cancer. Keith was born in the small country town of Taroom, got sober in Vanuatu where he spent numerous years carrying the message before moving back to Taroom to take over the family farm. He then became the contact member for Taroom.
Keith always loved the get togethers with other members and many a fellowship weekend has been held in Taroom on his farm as well as in the community of Taroom.
He had a very lively sense of humour and plenty of yarns to share about his escapades. He will be sadly missed by all members who knew him.
Your site is beautiful Please keep upgrade
Hello to all and Welcome to the new year, 2016. It’s time to get back to business for many, (including myself) in 2016.
Just wanted to drop in a quick note from the Website admin, John, from JCH Computers.
Ron, Linda and I set about upgrading this site for Outback AA late last year. The old one we agreed just didn’t really cut the mustard for this day and age, and I believed we could do much better for you all.
We knew it needed to be easy to get around, make sense, look pretty/easy on the eye, and most of all, easy for Ron to add events and keep updated.
I hope you agree this has been achieved.
Ron and Linda have been terrific to get along with and have made the whole process very easy to do with their input and assistance getting all the assorted information together.
Personally, I am very happy to help and support this very worthwhile organisation.
Please contact either Ron or myself if you have any suggestions for the site, or notice a problem with it. Thank you.
John Haddock
G’day John thanks for you article it was interesting
I’d like to thank all people who have visited us over the year. I know Rose and I loved the fellow-ship you have shared with us. Reflecting on Christmas, This is a time for receiving and giving. I know as members of both fellowships we have been given gifts all year. I would also wish all those travellers that can’t be with us on the Tag-a-long, best wishes for Christmas and the coming year. One of our special memories for this year was back to Alpha, and to see Brett wheeling Snow down the street to the Meeting. Also having the camp fire with Snow and Bushy all singing. It was great to see Daphne from Al-Anon in full flight with all the people she hadn’t seen for awhile and the smile on her face. If Pete from Wollongong is coming to the Tag-a-long we may have to start collecting wood 2 months early. I hope that everyone in AA & Al-Anon & their families have the best Christmas possible and may you all be happy one day at a time. May God Bless you all and you all are in our prayers. It has been great to read the messages on the web. God Bless You All.
What a great website. Congratulations. I can see how it must improve communications in the bush. My wife and I met Daryl and Rose and Ron and Linda around 2004 when we travelled in that area with our caravan. Since then I have done some contract work throughout Queensland and made sure that we got to the Mitchel and Morven Meetings while we were in that area. We were fortunate to have been up that way again in August and had some wonderful fellowship and sharing with Ron and Linda. It is fantastic to be able to travel in retirement and find people to share with. Thank you so much, Outback Queensland, for your hospitality and the security of knowing the doors are always open. Rod from Bolton Point Big Book, Steps and Topics meeting NSW
Thank you Rod for your comment. Rest assured that we get a lot from your sharing and it helps us to know what is going on elswhere.
I’m not that much of a internet reader to be honest but your sites really nice, keep it up!
I’ll go ahead and bookmark your site to come back later.
Many thanks
Hi fellow members and those that would view this sight. I job well done on the web site, looks really good and heaps informative. I have been to Lightening Ridge Weekend AA rally now for 20 years and have always seen this weekend and the tag-along as the greatest part of my AA yearly Calendar. If you’r are an Alki and haven’t done this before you are really missing out on this great outback getaway. The last 10 years or so I have expanded the tag-along to include Mitchell and Morven and on two occasions I have continued on to Darwin. Last year 2015 was a great trip with the recent Ruby Vale and Safire and Emerald inclusion. Daryl and Rosie at Mitchell and Ron and Linda at Morven do a great job for those that travel to these meeting destinations and beyond. I have always felt very much part of their AA family and I believe it is up to us to carry the message to those in the outback that have a tough time in more ways than one, we in suburbia don’t know how lucky we are when we can go to as many meetings as we need. These tag-alongs are great for those that have a fear of the vast outback distances, or those that haven’t been into the outback before and those that are not confident to travel alone. We look out for one another, free camp together on the way, caravan parks, meetings under the stars, moving from one destination to another. You will never see the outback in the same way with your AA traveling group, meeting new and old AA members travelling from afar to attend these meetings and the friendships you will make on the way at the campfire meetings and meals we share. I am already getting excited to attend the 2016 rally and Tag along. See you there next year God willing. Burke Rogge (Home group: Glenbrooke Blue Mountains NSW)
I am sad to say that one our old time Members has passed away. Vale Brickie Jack.
Brickie Jack was one of the members who drove from Sydney to Mitchell to carry the message to the suffering alcoholic, This was when the Mitchell Meeting was started
in the late 50’s. Jack will be sadly missed
The trip to Tambo was welcomed by the new member and a great day was had by all, thankfully the trip up and back was uneventful so we arrived home in one piece with no extra dints. The new member also attended the Morven meeting on the 18/10/2015, this was a great response from him.
This weekend a group of members from Mitchell, Morven &Charleville will be travelling to Tambo to fellowship with a lone member out there who has attended meetings at Morven recently. There is also a possibility of another prospect attending our BBQ and fellowship.
Hi everyone. We have just come back from the Gympie Al-Anon & AA weekend. It was a great Weekend and did you know this only the last of yearly weekend that are still being held between Gympie and Townsville which is sad as we used to have at least 7 more weekends. We hope this weekend does’nt die ,as if it does we will have to go to one of the bigger Cities. It was great to have a travelling Member come to the meetings here . It was also great to see a young man in Roma Meeting bring his Granfather to the meeting who is 56 yrs sober. love in fellowship
It was lovely to see a member on the way back from Darwin, it has been lovely to see other visitors on their way back to. Love to hear from more members out there. One day at a time, by the grace of god.
Morven group had the pleasure of a member and his wife from NSW call through our town and spend a couple of days fellow-shipping with us & stayed for our Sunday meeting on the 2/08/2015.