Learn more about our club's history and the legacy of those who came before us.
Learn more about our club's history and the legacy of those who came before us.
They wanted to start AA in the Osseo area, so they split off and started meetings in the members’ homes.
When the present club property came on the market in foreclosure, the founders purchased it from the lien holder for the amount of the mortgage, about $7500.00.
The original group consisted of Lyle Swanson, Fritz Tuftedal, Clarence and Ann Born, Bob Sparks, Paul Zophi, and two or three others.
The building was originally a two room elementary school in the Village of Maple Grove. The school was vacated in the 1950’s and students were bused to Osseo. An Investor purchased the property and made it into two apartments.
In 1887, a new District 42 school house was built and still stands. It was moved back from the road in 1923 and a basement was added. It was used as a private residence until it was purchased by the Osseo Alcoholics Anonymous in the early 1960s. They incorporated as Suburban North Alano, Inc., established their bylaws, and obtained non-profit status (501c3). At some point, they added an addition to the back. We are still using the site today.
The purpose of this Corporation shall be: To aide and assist alcoholics, without compensation, to attain
complete and lasting sobriety through the Alcoholics Anonymous program and philosophy by teaching
and practicing that program, and by explaining it through the medium of interviews, classes, lectures and
meetings, to assist members and prospective members in moral and spiritual guidance and training,
social activities, and in all other ways to promote the physical, intellectual, social and spiritual welfare of
alcoholics
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