WINONA, Minn. – The new director of the Winona chapter of the Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention, Amber Ziegler, hopes to resume ASAP’s role soon in police compliance cheeks on bars and liquor stores. In recent years the Alliance had arranged with police for volunteers to go into licensed liquor establishments as under-age decoys and attempt a purchase. Typically there were three such checks a year, each on a dozen or so establishments. But ASAP, with the director’s position vacant until Ziegler’s recent appointment, hasn’t participated lately.  Police, short-handed and without ASAP volunteers, have scaled back compliance checks. The most recent check, last weekend, focused on only one liquor license-holder, the downtown bar Port 507.

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Ziegler. Plans for things back up and running in near future.