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Cazenovia holding town meetings to fight underage drinking
Updated: 04/01/2008 06:21 AM
By: Ryan Dean
CAZENOVIA, N.Y. -- "When did kids start drinking so aggressively? How did we land here? In this place?"
A movie on underage drinking meant to stir emotion.
"You can't stop everybody from doing that stuff but you can help people who go too far," said Cazenovia resident Doc Sinster.
And a discussion among teens and adults.
It's the second town hall meeting on underage drinking in Cazenovia.
"We had continually heard about the need for more strategies to reduce underage drinking so we wanted to bring the community together to focus on that issue," said BRiDGES prevention coordinator, Maureen Campanie.
The goal is not to discuss underage drinking as a national issue, but a local one -- what prevention techniques can Cazenovia implement.
Cazenovia holding town meetings to fight underage drinking
Underage drinking is no minor problem. That's why one Madison County village is taking action. News 10 Now's Ryan Dean reports.
"What makes us unique is we are a small knit community with a lot of resources and we have a lot of options of great things we can be doing to help our kids avoid alcohol to the age of 21," said event moderator, Britt Zumpano.The first town hall meeting was last year, just months after a local woman was arrested for serving alcohol to 20 Cazenovia teens. Organizers say that incident is not the reason for the meetings, but is used as an educational tool.
"I think that really served as a great opportunity to lay it all out on the table and talk about what our kids in community do, what the misconceptions of the law were," Zumpano said.
People leading the movement hope to develop a task force comprised of people of all ages. They will work in the village trying to steer teens from alcohol.
Organizers say their goal is to target local retailers, such as gas stations, to see how they're advertising alcohol. They want to see if stores have proper warnings in place in attempts to prohibit underage drinking.
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2. Bullying, Topic of Meeting
The presentation is free and open to the public. Sara Coulthart, the coordinator of MCP, said experts from schools and area police departments will talk about the problem of bullying and what parents can do to protect their children. The audience is encouraged to ask questions, Coulthart said in a release.
For more information or to get directions, call 697-3947., November 2007.
3. Top Stories, November 09, 2007
| 5. MADISON COUNTY Students stick out underage drinking Oneida High School students stuck out for a good reason at Price Chopper Monday. The group called, "Students Working for Alcohol Truths," otherwise known as SWAT, put stickers on every case of alcohol. FULL STORY >> Updated: 6/19/2007 6:52 AM |
7. MCP/BRiDGES "A Community Issue" The Post Standard, April 2007.
Photo credit: Angela Madonia / P-S
Andrew Docherty, 22, of Cazenovia, and goes to school at Onondaga Community College expresses his concerns of teen drinking at the meeting Wednesday evening at the Cazenovia Library
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9. Priorities Council 'Pinwheels For Prevention' in the Oneida Daily Dispatch, April 2007.
10. MCP Partner presents "BOOT CAMP" promotional video on YouTube (click play in the box below to view the video):
11. Oneida Daily Dispatch (Reality Check- partner), "Teens want smoking ban in city parks, 'Cancer Corner' 2007"
12. Jesus Street (partner), Oneida Daily Dispatch, "City Helps Underwrite Jesus Street" 2007
13. America's Promise (Windows Media Player clip from Good Morning America), Alma Powell on Good Morning America
14. MCP Youth Bully Skit (click play in the box below to view),
15. Scouting.org, Fact Sheet on America's Promise , no date.
16. BRiDGES, Mini-MCPsite on BRiDGES webpage , no date.
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