Comments on: Businesses ask for expanded liquor-sales hours http://elburnherald.com/12454/2010/07/23/businesses-ask-for-expanded-liquor-sales-hours/ Over 100 Years of Dedicated Service Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Elburnite http://elburnherald.com/12454/2010/07/23/businesses-ask-for-expanded-liquor-sales-hours/comment-page-1/#comment-463 Elburnite Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:56:36 +0000 http://elburnherald.com/?p=12454#comment-463 For Kevin, It must be nice to have his father Jerry Schmidt as a trustee… Seems to push things through the approval process a little quicker. IMO I think Kevin is pushing his luck since his bar has just been busted by the Illinois Liquor Commission for selling alcohol to minors. It’s strange we haven’t heard of any reprocussions for this offense (which is the responsibility of Dave Anderson). It seems that Dave Anderson and the Village board are more interested in catoring to the bars than protecting our youth from underage drinking.

Quote from E.H. Article June 11th:
“Village Liquor Commissioner Dave Anderson said he is not sure if the village will penalize three Elburn businesses that violated the village liquor code by selling alcohol to minors on May 20.”

Not only will there apparently be no concequences, Kevin will be possibly rewarded with extended liquor-selling hours. This is messed up! I know others have commented on how the bar owner should not be responsible for a bartenders mistake, but atleast some sort of fine would encourage better training and protocol for identifying age. With any license comes responsibility. If there were no conditions to the issuance of a license, the license would mean nothing.

I can almost guarantee that the approval will go through, watch the E.H. future articles. These guys wash each others hands.

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