It appears that the disturbances at the Dan Jansen Family Fest over Memorial Day weekend has spooked the Greenfield Common Council.
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
The Common Council will hold a special meeting Wednesday night to decide how late beer can be served at the annual St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church festival.
In the past, beer sales ended at 11 p.m. on the Friday and Saturday of the festival.
But last week, the council voted, 3-2, to cut off beer sales at 10 p.m. for those nights at this year's festival, which runs July 24-26.
No one from the festival was at last week's council meeting to answer questions about the beer sales, so the special meeting was scheduled to reconsider the cutoff time.
Why the change?
It seems that there's an effort to avoid the violence and rowdyism that plagued the Dan Jansen event this year.
Cutting off beer sales an hour earlier makes sense if there has been trouble at the festival in the past. If not, I don't see why the church should lose money because the council has arbitrarily decided to take away an hour of beer sales.
Is drunkenness an issue at this church festival? I don't think it's fair to assume there will be problems.
2 comments:
Booze is Satan's nectar!
I don't think so.
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