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Recovery in the News
Letter to the Editor
Kornerstone Club important to alcoholics' recovery
George Lehl
Oshkosh Northwestern
December 13, 2007
In regards to the new Kornerstone Club, it's time some people opened their eyes. I am a recovering alcoholic of 17 plus years and have not seen trouble outside or inside of meeting rooms around any town that I have attended meetings in. If you think that they need more police patrolling, maybe you should contact the police department and see how many disturbance calls, around these clubs, that they have had to respond to over the last twenty years or so.
It's time that people realize that we have a disease, an allergic reaction to alcohol. When we drink or use drugs, we end up in jails, institutions, dead, or at times cause death. And these, my friends, cost the taxpayer grief and pain and money (cost of incarceration).
These clubs help in the recovery of alcoholism and drug addiction. The people that come into these clubs only have to have a desire to quit using mood-altering chemicals. And may I point out that some of those people are people that are very prominent members of your community and other communities. That's where the term Alcoholics Anonymous comes from.
I am very grateful that I have these meetings to go to around town. Because if I did not, and you can ask my kids, I would more than likely be drinking and you would not want me in or around your town. We are people who want to get help, we are not drinking or using in your neighborhood.
By the way, if I had the disease of cancer, would you not want me parking or walking around your streets?