John Elliott on far right

Kroger, a grocery chain based in Cincinnati, Ohio, is now taking the forefront in pushing for expanded alcohol sales in Indiana. To those who have been watching headlines across the country, this isn't new. And Kroger will likely be just as aggressive as Walgreens has been in expanding its alcohol base of sales.
 
Here's a November 2009 article from Dallas (where Kroger is also taking the lead to expand alcohol sales via a ballot referendum there).
 
In the CBS news segment, the company was able to convince city leaders to grant a store an exception in state law that sets a distance limit of 300 feet between schools and alcohol retailers. Kroger's exception was approved by a council committee to sell alcohol near Spence Middle School.

 

To hear more about Kroger's plans in Indiana, here's an archived podcast featuring John Elliott of Kroger in an interview with WOWO Radio in Fort Wayne.

A brief in The Elkhart Truth recently reported that police were called to a home in Middlebury at 4:30 p.m. in the afternoon after a young boy "was found intoxicated and stumbling around inside in a neighbor's home." The child's blood alcohol level was 0.12 percent-above the legal limit for an intoxicated adult. He had apparently been drinking vodka. When the father was notified, he said he thought his son had been playing outdoors.

Project RAD partner Lisa Hutcheson with the Indiana Coalition to Reduce Underage Drinking weighs in on Pendleton's new social host ordinance. It's the most recent example of a long-standing and dangerous problem: A family in Lebanon was arrested for furnishing alcohol to a 15-year-old relative. Click here for the story posted by WTHR in Indianapolis (Channel 13).

HazingPrevention.Org is offering a free Webinar on August 11, 2010, at 2:00 p.m. (ET) to assist college campuses in planning an effective week of hazing prevention education and activities. The webinar is for student affairs professionals, chapter and student organization advisers, student leaders, and inter/national organization volunteers and staff.
 
HazingPrevention.Org sets aside a week in September each year to make sure campuses are aware of the dangers of hazing. Activities range from brown bag lunch discussions among faculty to movie or book discussions with students to training for organizational and team leaders to the signing of anti-hazing pledges.

 

More information, and planning materials, can be viewed on the National Hazing Prevention Week Web page.

 

More information and registration can be viewed here.

New York Sen. Charles Schumer is urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the marketing of flavored alcoholic beverages with caffeine that appear to be explicitly designed to attract underage drinkers. Schumer said the colorful cans are also designed to befuddle parents and police with labels that resemble nonalcoholic energy drinks. He said popular drinks such as Joose and Four Loko also use very small print to disclose alcohol content of up to 12 percent, about twice that of beer.

 

Click here for the full article.

Former Police Chief Jerry Oliver is the newest member of the Center for Alcohol Policy's Advisory Council in Virginia. As part of the Council, Oliver will work with fellow advisors and the foundation's trustees to direct the work of the Center and provide advice and counsel about a variety of issues related to alcohol policy.
 
Oliver brings more than 35 years of experience in the public service and law enforcement sectors. In his many years of service, Oliver has served as the Assistant Chief of Police in his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona; the Director of Drug Policy in Memphis, Tennessee; and Chief of Police in three cities: Pasadena, California; Richmond, Virginia; and Detroit, Michigan.

 

Click here to read more.

A number of our partners have asked for Web buttons and logos to add to their websites so they can link directly to us as a partner group. If you wish to do so, please send a note to editor@projectRAD.com. And thanks for your continuing support.

Social media are changing the way we work, hire and communicate in the workplace. A couple of recent surveys give a glimpse into just how much.

62 percent of companies have corporate LinkedIn and Facebook accounts.

83 percent of firms use or are planning to use social media for recruiting.

58 percent of companies have made successful hires through a social network.

46 percent of companies plan to spend more on social recruiting in 2010 than in 2009.

77 percent of workers have a Facebook account.

61 percent of workers with Facebook accounts access the network during work hours.

1.5 percent of total employee productivity is lost to on-the-job use of Facebook.

SOURCES: Jobvite 2010 Social Recruiting Survey; Nucleus Research

 

Read more here.