Alcohol Server Training will be offered from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m., Monday, June 18 at Cascade Lodge and from 10 a.m. – noon Tuesday, June 19 at Windigo Lodge on the Gunflint Trail. Bartenders, wait staff and owners/operators of alcohol-dispensing establishments are encouraged to attend. Cost is $5 per person.
Instructors are Cook County Sheriff Mark Falk and Brian Kringen, law enforcement liaison officer with the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Division of Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement. Cook County Higher Education is the training sponsor.
During the two-hour training sessions, attendees will learn Minnesota statutes relating to the sale and service of alcohol; procedures for checking identification; how to identify minors; how to manage customer drinking; methods for intervening with intoxicated persons; and factors and signs of intoxication.
Attendees will receive certificates from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety that can aid with liability insurance. The training also helps owners and alcohol servers avoid potential liability under Minnesota’s dram shop law. That law makes it illegal to serve alcohol to an intoxicated person and holds servers and establishment owners legally liable for damage caused if they do.
To register, call Cook County Higher Education at 218-387-3411 or email highered@northshorecampus.org. The $5 fee may be paid at the door.
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