MN MADD Youth in Action Members Perform Crime Re-Enactment

EDINA, Minn., May 11 -- Minnesota Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Youth In Action (YIA) members will demonstrate against adults providing alcohol to minors on Thursday, May 1, 20043, 2004, from 4:30 to 5:00 p.m. at the Edina Municipal Liquor Store in Edina, MN. As graduation season draws near, YIA members are concerned about adults providing alcohol to students at graduation.

All spring, YIA members have been asking liquor stores and businesses in their communities to display MADD's "Dad in Jail" poster. In addition, the Minnesota Municipal Beverage Association encouraged all Municipal Liquor stores in the state to join the campaign against adult providers. At the event in Edina, YIA members will re-create the image of MADD's "Dad in Jail" poster and perform a skit that sends the message, "Providing alcohol to minors doesn't make them adults. It makes you a criminal."

Over the last few years, YIA was instrumental in passing three new laws that get tough on adult providers of alcohol to youth. These include keg registration and increased civil and criminal penalties on adults who provide alcohol to minors. YIA members, Edina Municipal Liquor stores and students from Edina High School are speaking at the event to raise awareness of the laws and to deter adults from serving alcohol to this year's graduating seniors.