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BUSINESS PEOPLE TAKE THE LEAD RESPONSIBILITY IN SELLING ALCOHOL SUBJECT OF EVENTS.


Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer

PALMDALE - Owners, managers and employees of Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming.

The Antelope Valley
 businesses that sell alcoholic beverages

Main article: Alcoholic beverage
Fermented beverages
  • Beer
  • Ale
  • Barleywine
  • Bitter ale
 can attend free training seminars on alcohol responsibility and laws.

The Licensee Education on Alcohol and Drugs, or LEAD, session will provide information on how to prevent sales of alcohol to minors, keep intoxicated in·tox·i·cate  
v. in·tox·i·cat·ed, in·tox·i·cat·ing, in·tox·i·cates

v.tr.
1. To stupefy or excite by the action of a chemical substance such as alcohol.

2.
 people from driving and prevent drug use at businesses.

``These are family-oriented communities,'' said Diana Brown of Pueblo y Salud, the community organization helping sponsor the sessions. ``We're all just trying to improve the safety of our communities. This training is the next step toward preventing minors from getting alcohol.''

The first event will run from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday at the Chimbole Cultural Center, 38350 Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling , in Palmdale. The second will be from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. June 30 at the Lancaster sheriff's station's Community Training Room, 501 W. Lancaster Blvd.

To attend, call Brown at (661) 266-7445.

The program was initially funded in 1991 with a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety before being taken over by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control Alcoholic Beverage Control may refer to:
  • Alcoholic beverage control states
  • The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control



Alcoholic Beverage Control may refer to:
  • alcoholic beverage control states
. Since its inception, the program has trained more than 100,000 people.

The program is aimed at familiarizing fa·mil·iar·ize  
tr.v. fa·mil·iar·ized, fa·mil·iar·iz·ing, fa·mil·iar·iz·es
1. To make known, recognized, or familiar.

2. To make acquainted with.
 alcohol licensees and their employees with laws and responsibilities associated with their liquor license Noun 1. liquor license - a license authorizing the holder to sell alcoholic beverages
liquor licence

license, permit, licence - a legal document giving official permission to do something
.

The sessions offer training on areas including how to detect a false identification, what to do in situations in which an adult is making alcohol purchases for minors and how to deal with and prevent people from using or selling drugs in areas around bars, stores and other businesses.

So far, the Thursday event is expected to draw about 50 people. Some business have already begun to request special on-site training.

The program is a partnership between Pueblo y Salud, the Palmdale and Lancaster sheriff's stations, the Antelope Valley Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Policy Coalition, and the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.

An investigator for the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control will lead the training.
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