The following was posted to the ISO List today:

Greetings to all who are attending the upcoming ISO
Conference!

COUNTDOWN:

The countdown is on! April 20, 2012 is the date!

http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/customcounter.html?msg=Toronto+2012+ISO+Annual+Conference+&month=4&day=20&year=2012&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p0=250

Please remember the deadlines:

Registration
forms to be returned by Wednesday, March 14, 2012.

http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/customcounter.html?msg=Registration+Form+Deadline&month=3&day=14&year=2012&hour=23&min=59&sec=59&p0=250

Hotel room
reservations to be made by Wednesday, March 21, 2012.

http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/customcounter.html?msg=Hotel+Room+Reservation+Deadline&month=03&day=21&year=2012&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p0=250

RESTAURANTS:

Friday,
April 20, 2012, 4:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. – Trattoria Mercatto,
Eaton Centre, 220 Yonge Street, Toronto (Self-pay):

http://trattoriamercatto.ca/

As we will be pressed for time on the Friday evening,
please take a few moments to review the menu before the day, to speed up the
ordering process and help us keep on schedule for the 6:00 p.m. start-time of
the conference proper. Click on “Food” at top right of the Home Page, then
“Cibo Menu” at bottom left of the next page. Please note the menu may change somewhat
in March. On arrival, ask for the ISO
Group. We have reserved the Harvest Table on the ground floor at the back.

Saturday,
April 21, 2012, 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. – Market Garden
Restaurant, Delta Chelsea Hotel, 33 Gerrard Street West, Toronto
(Hosted/complimentary):

http://www.deltahotels.com/en/hotels/ontario/delta-chelsea/restaurants-and-dining/market-garden/

Lunch vouchers will be provided by ISO.

Saturday,
April 21, 2012, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. – Pi Tom’s Thai Cuisine, 6A
Alexander Street, Toronto (Hosted/complimentary):

http://www.pi-tom.com/index.php

Fixed menu dinner will be provided by SCA Toronto.

Sunday,
April 22, 2012, 1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. – Le Commensal, 39 Elm
Street, Toronto (Self-pay):

http://www.commensal.ca/

Groups receive a 30% discount on Sundays at this buffet-style
restaurant. Specify that you are with the
ISO Group when paying to receive the discount.

Breakfasts,
beverages and snacks will be catered to the Baker Room during the conference.

AREA MAP:

Downtown Toronto (including conference locations):             

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=205123194091200925702.0004b00056661129b9196&msa=0

You can click on the
various entries and locations for additional details and street view pictures.
In some cases, you may have to scroll around, as the image or address is
approximate.

REMOTE PARTICIPATION:

For anyone who is unable to attend the ISO conference in
person this year, remote participation is once again possible via the
Calliflower Conference Call system we have been using for the past few years. Details
for participating remotely and Calliflower invitations will be sent out by ISO
before the conference.

http://vimeo.com/32397612 J

IN-PERSON ATTENDEES:

Your
co-operation in returning conference registration forms and making hotel reservations
by the due dates will be appreciated. We have to commit to food orders which
become non-refundable once made, and the hotel is only holding rooms for us at
the special rate until the cut-off deadline!

Looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible in
Toronto!

Yours in recovery,

Kevin
– SCA Toronto

ISO
Host Committee

The following was posted to
the ISO List today:

Greetings all,

A registration form for the 2012 SCA ISO
Conference, April 20 – 22, 2012 has been sent out by email to the ISO List separately.
If you are attending the conference, please complete and return the
registration form as soon as possible, and by no later than Wednesday, March 14, 2012.

All main ISO Conference meetings will take
place in the “Baker Room” at the Delta Chelsea Hotel, 33 Gerrard Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1Z4, Canada. Telephone 1-800-243-5732 or (416) 595-1975.

Please note that room reservations must be
made by calling the hotel by telephone at the above numbers and quoting the group name “SCA Conference” and/or group
code “GLDSCA.” Special rate room reservations cannot be
made online.

If needed, subway stations serving the
Delta Chelsea Hotel are either College (walk
south on Yonge Street one block to Gerrard Street) or Dundas (walk north on Yonge Street one block to Gerrard Street).

The meeting room booked for literature
development committee or other use from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Friday, April
20, 2012 is Room 303 on the 3^rd Floor at the 519 Church Street
Community Centre, 519 Church Street, Toronto, Ontario, M4Y 2C9. The meeting
room is equipped with wireless internet access. There is a café on the ground
floor of the community centre serving food, snacks and beverages if needed, or
there are a number of other restaurants and coffee shops nearby.

http://www.the519.org/

http://www.the519.org/programsservices/fabarnakrestaurantandcatering

There will be optional self-pay meals at
nearby restaurants on Friday April 20, 2012 from 4:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. before
the conference, and on Sunday, April 22, 2012 from 1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. after
the conference, for those who wish to attend. Firm times and details of
restaurant locations will follow.

The SCA Toronto ISO Host Committee will
provide a catered dinner on Saturday, April 21, 2012  at 7:00 p.m. 
This dinner is free for delegates who complete and return the registration
form by March 14, 2012. There will be a charge of approximately $20 for guests
of delegates. There will be an SCA meeting at a nearby meeting room immediately
after the dinner, commencing at approximately 8:30 p.m.

We plan to have some recovery activities
on Sunday, April 22, 2012  from
approximately 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. 
following the adjournment of the conference, depending on demand. These
activities may include SCA long-share meetings, workshops, and other forms of
fellowship and socializing.  Please
indicate whether you plan to stay for these activities.

A few other items to note:

The guest rooms at the Delta Chelsea Hotel have wired internet
connection, not wireless. The ethernet cable required to connect is provided
in all guest rooms. Unfortunately, guests will not be able to use devices such
as the iPad or iPhone to connect with the internet in their guestroom with the
access provided by the hotel. The hotel’s lobby and meeting space floors are,
however, equipped with wireless internet, and that is provided at no charge for
guest use. This includes the
Baker Room, business centre, restaurant and bar areas. There are no time
restrictions on use. If you need more details, or have queries about using
specific devices at the hotel, please check with the reservations staff when
booking your room.

As
advised previously, the standard internet connection fee in guestrooms has been
waived for SCA ISO conference attendees. This is normally $13.95 plus taxes per
night. However, the hotel advises that when the internet is used in rooms, a
standard screen will appear and guests will still be prompted to accept the standard
charge. The hotel unfortunately has no way to remove the standard charge screen
when internet charges are waived. Although you
will need to accept the charges to use the internet, the reservations information
has been set up so that no internet charges
should appear on final bills.

For
anyone who requires wireless internet access at all times, there is a 6 square
kilometre continuous wireless hotspot service in the downtown Toronto core
(including coverage for iPhones and iPads), for which short term registration
and fees are available:

http://www.onezone.ca/

All
ISO conference locations, including meeting rooms and restaurants, are within
the One Zone wireless network area.

Where
telephone calls are concerned, delegates
may want to consider purchasing a telephone calling card/prepaid phone card in
order to save on long distance and roaming charges from guestrooms or cell
phones. Different types of card are available from local convenience stores and
the hotel’s gift shop, and at least some of them should work for cell phones.
Please check with the hotel and your individual service provider for details
about telephone charges.    

If
you plan to attend the conference and are reading this on the SCAnner, but are
not yet signed up on the ISO List for some reason, or you know of someone this
applies to, please forward us an appropriate email address, and we will send out
the ISO conference registration form and information directly.

Please
contact us by email at scatoronto@hotmail.com with any questions or
special requests.

Yours
in recovery,

Kevin – SCA Toronto

ISO Host Committee

The following
was posted to the ISO List today:

We are now
in the final few months before the ISO Annual Conference on April 20 – 22,
2012. If you are attending, please remember that to qualify for the discounted
rate, hotel bookings need to be made by
the deadline of March 21, 2012 at the latest.

For details
about the conference, please see previous email announcements and SCAnner
postings on July 24, 2011 and September 5, 2011:

http://www.scanneronline.org/2011/07/iso-annual-conference—toronto-april-20—22-2012.html

http://www.scanneronline.org/2011/09/toronto-2012-iso-conference-information.html

Please let
us know by email at scatoronto@hotmail.com when you have made your reservations.
Please also let us know if you plan to attend either or both of the optional
self-pay meals on Friday evening, April 20, 2012 immediately before the
conference, or Sunday lunchtime, April 22, 2012 immediately after the
conference so we have an idea of the numbers. We anticipate that a self-pay
meal will cost somewhere in the region of $20 to $25 per head.

We have
booked a room at a local community centre within walking distance of the Delta
Chelsea Hotel which will be available for Literature Development Committee
purposes from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Friday April 20, 2012 if needed. The
room seats 8 people around a table comfortably, and has a capacity of up to 12
people in total. This can be used for working on any new literature that is in
the pipeline, or translations, or indeed the redesign of existing literature
that has been raised as a possibility in the past. If not needed for
literature, the room can be used for general purposes, such as perhaps work on
the planned remodeling of the ISO website, or similar projects. If you are
interested in using the room, please coordinate with us by email before the
day.

The Delta
Chelsea hotel has also confirmed that we have the use of the meeting room we
have hired at the hotel on Sunday April 22, 2012 until 5:00 p.m. if needed.
This means we can use the same room for a meeting after the official ending of
the conference at no extra charge if we wish.

For those
travelling to Toronto from New York or Chicago who may be interested, we have
been advised by a member that Porter Airlines currently has a 50% sale on base
fares for tickets for travel before April 30, 2012. Bookings must be made by
midnight on January 6, 2012. Travel by April 30, 2012. Use Promo Code BOX50.
For details, please see Porter Airlines’ website:

https://www.flyporter.com/Flight/Tickets?culture=en-CA

We are
providing this information as a courtesy only, not as a recommendation or
endorsement. Travel arrangements are entirely up to individuals to decide on.

We have been
having an exceptionally mild winter so far, so if this continues we may have
some unexpectedly good weather at conference time in the spring. A bulletin on the
actual weather conditions will follow towards the date.

Happy New
Year to all!

Yours in
recovery,

Kevin – SCA Toronto

ISO Host
Committee

Beginning in 2012, New York Intergroup meetings will occur bi-monthly rather
than monthly.  Meetings are normally on the first Sunday of the month,
but the first Sunday in January is New Year’s Day, so the January
Intergroup Meeting will occur on January 8, 2012, from 3:00 pm to 5:00
pm at the NYC LGBT Community Center on West 13th Street.

All SCA NY members are welcome to attend Intergroup Meetings, whether or
not you are an Intergroup Representative.  Please join us if you can.

Best regards,
Michael W. for info@scany.org

Thanks to the combined efforts of Frank H. in New York and the Intergroup in Los Angeles, we have tracked down all but one of the back issues of the SCAnner. This nearly complete archive can be reached through the “Print Archive” link on every page.

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