The Lewiston Youth Advisory Council (LYAC) will formally launch their new U BOOZE U LOOZE (UBUL) web site at a press conference scheduled for Wednesday, May 30, 2007. The event will be held at 2:45 p.m. in the first-floor Council Chambers at Lewiston City Hall, 27 Pine Street. Members of the press and public are welcome to attend. At the event, UBUL posters will also be unveiled, the artwork of which has been donated by GSM Group of Lewiston.

Advanced Microsystems has been working with LYAC to develop the site and will also host the site on behalf of the group. The site is a creative combination of information about underage drinking and provides an on-line opportunity for students nationwide to "join" the UBUL "stand." Youth will be able to sign-on to the campaign and then print their own membership certificate.

The U BOOZE U LOOZE web site will be reviewed on the Chambers' drop-down screen, and members of the youth council will share details of their ongoing underage drinking youth-to-youth awareness initiative. Ally Beaucage, Chair of LYAC, will lead the event's agenda, which will also feature comments by Mayor Laurent F. Gilbert, Sr.

U BOOZE U LOOZE was established by LYAC following Ashley Morgan, Vice-Chair, expressing to the group in the fall of 2006 her concerns about underage drinking. After much discussion and meetings with the Maine Attorney General’s Office; Healthy Androscoggin; Lewiston High School substance abuse counselor; and Lewiston Middle School principal & health teacher, LYAC decided to move forward with a youth-to-youth initiative encouraging young people to talk with each other about the health dangers & consequences of underage drinking.

Since then, LYAC has filmed an underage drinking video which has been shown to 8th grade health classes at Lewiston Middle School; made public presentations, to include the State Capitol in response to the US Surgeon General's recent "Call to Action" to prevent and reduce underage drinking; have been distributing UBUL pens and keychains sponsored by Northeast Bank, and will be featuring UBUL at the June 2007 All-America City competition in Anaheim, California. In the very near future, their outreach will also be featured on the National League of Cities web site.

For further information contact: Ally Beaucage, Chair Lewiston Youth Advisory Council City of Lewiston, 784-2951, X110 - TTY/TDD: 784-5999

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dottie@ci.lewiston.me.us