Youth and Adults Working Together for a
Safe and Healthy Community

Partnership Teams with SADD Club for Sticker Shock Campaign

 

On Friday, April 23, 2010, Saratoga Springs High School students met after school to collect their T-shirts and stickers and participate in a regional Sticker Shock Campaign. Sticker Shock is a program where teens and their adult advisors go to grocery, convenience and beverage stores and put stickers on six packs and cases of beer to remind adults that providing alcohol to minors is against the law.

Local stores that agreed to participate were the Price Chopper markets on Railroad Place and Ballston Avenue, and the Stewart’s shops on Church Street, Lake Avenue and West Avenue. The 30 students who participated split up, and among them stuck hundreds of bright green circles on six-packs and cases of beer. Their goal was to remind anyone who plans to buy beer for teenagers - or parents who keep beer in their refrigerators - to prevent underage consumption.

The initiative is part of the regional Parents Who Host Lose the Most campaign, whose goal is to let adults know that providing alcohol to minors can result in a $1,000 fine and a year in jail.