Posts by The Chief

The growing LifeRing presence in Dublin, Ireland, has increased with the start of a new meeting at the Blanchardstown library (Room 3) in the Roselawn Shopping Centre. The meeting will be held on Saturdays at 1 p.m., starting on March 5th. James M. will be the convenor. It’s the sixth LifeRing meeting in Dublin. Dennis…

LifeRing Canada’s Executive Director Michael Walsh was a speaker yesterday, Feb. 25, at Victoria’s innovative IdeaWave Conference, a five day gathering in which dozens of speakers give ten minute presentations on a wide variety of topics, from Mideast peace to solar power, and from “Modernizing the B.C. [British Columbia] liquor system” to Michael’s presentation on…

The LifeRing Board of Directors has approved the dates and venues for the 2011 Annual Meeting: June 3, 4 and 5 primarily at a meeting room in the Kaiser Hospital in Oakland, CA, at Howe St. and MacArthur. The room, on the 12th floor, has a lovely view of Lake Merritt. The event this year…

The World Health Organization has just released a “Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health” which finds that 2.5 million people worldwide die each year from alcohol use. “Alcohol consumption is the world’s third largest risk factor for disease and disability; in middle-income countries, it is the greatest risk. Alcohol is a causal factor in…