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As part of Alcohol Awareness Month, state Liquor Commission’s Enforcement and Licensing Division is hosting its annual Alcohol Awareness Poster Contest in April.
Now in its 10th year, the contest was designed to empower students to tackle alcohol awareness through art. Students often focus their creative works on the consequences of underage drinking. In 2017, the commission received 382 poster entries from every grade level — kindergarten through grade 12.
Students from all grade levels may submit posters by May 4 to: NHLC Division of Enforcement and Licensing, 50 Storrs Street, Concord, NH 03301, Attn: Greg Gagnon.
Judges will select winners for each grade level in addition to overall winners. Winning artwork will be adapted into an official alcohol awareness poster to be returned to the artists’ schools. Along with a series of prizes, winners will be honored at a New Hampshire Fisher Cats game later this year. Winning posters will be displayed at NHLC headquarters and in select NH Liquor & Wine Outlets.
The division will host a series of free trainings in April designed to ensure lounge and restaurant owners, managers and servers, along with NH Liquor & Wine Outlet staff members, have the tools they need to help ensure customers do not abuse alcohol.
The division will also be hosting “Sticker Shock” events during New Hampshire Fisher Cats home games in April. “Buyers Beware” stickers will appear on draft beer cups to help raise awareness that adults should not supply alcohol to minors.
Additionally, the division will host driver education/fatal choices events for aspiring drivers utilizing an impaired driver simulator to ensure new drivers understand the laws surrounding unlawful possession of alcohol and driving while intoxicated.
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