Project Sticker Shock starts Thursday

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PRINCETON — Bureau County law enforcement agencies are working with the Community Partners Against Substance Abuse (CPASA), as well as area teens, to promote alcohol awareness through a Project Sticker Shock program.

Dawn Conerton, chairman of the CPASA, said Project Sticker Shock will be conducted Thursday in both Bureau and Putnam counties. The CPASA is an outreach of the Bureau/Putnam County Health Department.

Working in Princeton will be Sheriff John Thompson, Princeton Deputy Chief Allan Beaber, Princeton Police Officers Rob Jensen and Alex Arauza, and Claudia Bachman, representing the CPASA. The community leaders and teens will meet at 3:30 p.m. at the police station to go to Princeton businesses that sell alcohol. The group will then place yellow warning stickers on alcohol products in the participating businesses.

The purpose of the project is to remind adults it is illegal to provide alcohol to minors and for minors to use take identifications to get alcohol.

Around the county, Walnut Police Chief Tom Ptasnik and area teens will go to Walnut businesses. Ladd Officer Brian Turpen is heading Project Sticker Shock in Ladd, while Marshall Ric Beach is leading the program in DePue.

Among those participating today with the Putnam County Program will be Conerton, and Terry Madsen and Tricia Both, members of the CPASA.

Project Sticker Shock is the statewide kick-off to April as Alcohol Awareness Month, Conerton said. More than 1,000 community volunteers will visit liquor establishments today throughout the state. Project Sticker Shock was developed by the Illinois Liquor Control Commission.

This is the second Project Sticker Shock project sponsored locally by the CPASA.