NEWRY — River Valley Healthy Communities invites local area businesses to attend retail beverage service training. The training will be conducted from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, July 1, at the Newry Grange Hall.

The “Seller Server Training for On-premise Licensees” is designed to better equip management, wait staff and licensees on identifying and preventing violations of certain liquor laws with an emphasis on underage and high risk drinkers. Along with learning about the laws, training will be provided on some ways to identify minors and visibly intoxicated persons and the importance of having good policy to refer to when dealing with them.

The training often leads to reduced insurance rates. More importantly however, it may help reduce the risk of making costly or tragic unlawful sales.

The key points in the training will include: identifying minors and visibly intoxicated persons, intervention to prevent a visibly intoxicated patron from driving, how alcohol is ingested and metabolized by the body, what alcoholism is and how alcohol affects the body, false identification detection and carding policy, the importance of good written policies and the Liquor Liability Act.

It is a State of Maine Approved Program. Registration is required and lunch will be provided. For more information, contact Sandy Palmer at 364-7408 or [email protected].