The Weekly Newspaper of Manhattan Beach H e r a l d P u b l i c a t i o n s - E l S e g u n d o , M a n h a t t a n B e a c h , H a w t h o r n e , L a w n d a l e , & I n g l e w o o d C o m m u n i t y N e w s p a p e r s S i n c e 1 9 1 1 - C i r c u l a t i o n 3 0 , 0 0 0 - R e a d e r s h i p 6 0 , 0 0 0 ( 3 1 0 ) 3 2 2 - 1 8 3 0 V o l . 5 , N o . 1 2 O c t o b e r 4 , 2 0 1 2 Inside Minor’s at Grocery Store’s Self-CheckoutCommunity Protests Sale of Alcohol to This Issue Business & Professional.......................9 Calendar............................. 3 Classifieds .........................8 Crime Reports................... 2 Directory of Advertisers..8 Donation Station .............. 2 Faith .................................... 3 Frankly Plank .................... 6 Politically Speaking......... 4 machines has been banned in California. Activists argue that Fresh & Easy’s latest citation would have been prevented if the company had obeyed the new law. Seen here, Fresh & Easy storeFresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets have received multiple citations for selling alcohol to minors through their self-checkout machines. Since January, the sale of alcohol through self-checkout manager Laurie receives a community petition asking Fresh & Easy to do its part to prevent underage drinking. Photos courtesy of Alcohol Justice. Sports ................................. 6 Clergy, Lawmakers to Fresh & Easy Stores: Stop Selling Alcohol to Minors Courtesy of Alcohol Justice ensured all alcohol sales involved a face-to- & Easy is not an entity that concerns itself Weekend groups came together to pass a new law, The ban was broadly supported by Mothers others who shouldn’t, purchase alcohol atwith community safety, but instead feelsthey are above the law. Young people, andface interaction with a clerk by banning thesale of alcohol through self-checkout registers.Last year, a diverse coalition of lawmakers,law enforcement, clergy, and community Forecast of this coalition gathered again to confront a groups, clergy, and community organizations. & Easy’s choice to not be a law-abidingFresh & Easy, and do so with impunity.Today we are raising awareness of FreshAlthough the ban has been in effect sinceAgainst Drunk Driving, law enforcementdesigned to prevent underage drinking. Onthe morning of Wednesday, Sept. 19, members grocery store that has been cited for selling January, Fresh & Easy continues to conduct all corporation.” alcohol to minors while refusing to comply alcohol sales through self-checkout machines. More than 200 members of the clergy Friday with the new law. Lawmakers, clergy, and The company’s lobby group, the California signed on to the petition calling on Fresh Partly of the Fresh & Easy store in Manhattan the California Department of Alcoholic to prevent underage drinking. “Protectingmembers of the community gathered in front& Easy to obey the law and do its partGrocers Association filed a lawsuit against Cloudy Beach to call on the company to do its part Beverage Control that has postponed the our children from the dangers of underage 72˚/64˚ to prevent underage drinking. law’s enforcement. community - including the grocery storesdrinking is the responsibility of the entireAssemblywoman Betsy Butler, a sponsorFresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets have received multiple citations for selling of the original legislation, said, “In passing who hold the privilege of selling alcohol. By alcohol to minors through their self-checkout AB 183 last year, we came together to ensure abdicating this moral responsibility, Fresh machines. Since January, the sale of alcohol that unregulated self-checkout machines are & Easy is putting profits ahead of people,” Saturday through self-checkout machines has been no longer a danger to the community. It is said Rabbi Jonathon Klein. Partly Fresh & Easy’s latest citation would have prove they are responsible business owners included Rev. John Miller, Rev. GloriaOther religious leaders at today’s eventtime for Fresh & Easy to do their part andbanned in California. Activists argue that Cloudy been prevented if the company had obeyed in our communities.” Castillo from Mission Presbyteriana, Rev. 73˚/63˚ the new law. from Alcohol Justice and Clergy and Laity San Francisco NAACP, Archbishop FranzoArnold Townsend, the Vice President of theAssemblywoman Butler joined activistsIn January, California became the first state in the nation to regulate the sale of alcohol United for Economic Justice (CLUE) at the King of the African Orthodox Church, Bishop through self-checkout machines. Fresh & Easy store in Manhattan Beach to Aurea Lewis of the California Council of Sunday have shown that it is substantially easier for by more than 6,000 of the store’s neighbors. the United Methodist Church, Bishop DeanStudies by UCLA and San Diego StateChurches, Bishop Beverly J. Shaman ofpresent the company with a petition signed Mostly minors and inebriated persons to illegally The petition called on Fresh & Easy to obey Nelson of Southwest California Synod, purchase alcohol through these self-checkout the new law and do its part to keep alcohol Director Mark Carlson of the Lutheran Office Sunny machines than through a traditionally staffed out of the hands of teens. of Public Policy, Rev. Walter Contreras of 70˚/62˚ register. In a UCLA study, minors were able Former child actor and current board LA RED and the Hispanic Ministries for to purchase alcohol through the self-checkout member of Alcohol Justice, John Whitaker, Jr. the Evangelical Covenant Church. register in one out of every five attempts. is a recovering drug addict who understands Concerned citizens can contact Alcohol AB 183 was a common sense solution that the danger of early alcohol abuse: “Fresh Justice at www.marininstitute.org. •
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