Terrace Standard, Wednesday, Septentber 2, 1992 — Page A3

Drinking-driving laws changing habits ©

Local pubs
feel the
effect

“By CRIS LEYKAUF
opbRRACE — If the 80s were a
‘hedonistic decade of materialism
“and ° ‘designer drugs, then the
“nineties ‘are being billed as safer,
saner, more responsible times (at
“least so far),
Making. do with less is better,
 Pedple are using sunscreen and
recycling.
And in B.C. it looks like a -new

pattern is emerging. We're drink-

ing less —at least in bars.

First to go was was the three - |.
“martini or liquid lunch, and now,
pounding. back the drinks at the ©
bar alter‘ work or on weekends” :

has also apparently lost its aura of
desirability.”

“More and more people: are:

concerned: about: drinking and
driving,’ said Debbie McIntyre,
- Coast Inn of the West manager.
The hotel has a lounge, bar and a
cald beer and wine store. “Young
people are much more educated
about the effects of alcohol and
drugs,” she said.

“Drinking habits have. changed
because of drinking and driving
laws,’ agrees Norm Zloklikovits,
Skeena Hotel pub manager. No
one can afford to drink and drive,
he added.

People still like to get away
from home and come to the bar
for the ‘almospherc, — said
Mclulyre. ‘‘But wheri they come
lo the bar they only buy one
(drink) and they. nurse it all
night.”

The cost of alcohol has in-
creasingly become a factor in
peopile’s decision to drink at
home.

“The last few years the prices
have kept going up,” said anolher
local pub manager who doesn’t
want to be named. ‘People are
going to wine and beer stores and
then going home to drink,”

“Ten years ago a glass of draft
beer was-60 cents and a bighball
was $1.25,” said (he manager.
“The govenimecut’s taxing every-
one fo death.”

The effect of tax increas¢s: ‘in

aa

be and focal bar and lounge managers say even when peaple to
some out, they're not spending as much as they used to on al-

A NIGHT OUT at a local hostelry is not as popular as it used to

coholic beverages. Above, (not in order) Ron, Lynn and Terry
Corbeii, Monique Gartland and Darren Pritchett were enticed out
by the entertainment offered at a Karioke night,

alcohol is being felt province-

wide in the hotel industry. Busi-

ness in hotel bars and lounges is:

down by 25 per cent over the last
few years, and McIntyre confirms
that figure in her hotel.

“Six years ago (owning a bar or
pub) used to be a license to print

_money,”” she said. ‘Not
anymore.”
. Twenty-five per cent is proba-
‘bly a conservative estimate,”’ said
Jim Chase, executive — vice-
president of the B.C. & Yukon
Hotel Association. ‘In some
areas (che fi figure is) probably a lot
higher.’’

He emphasizes that the associa-
tion fully supports tough drinking
and driving laws, but thinks there
are ways the government could
help hotels to keep their bars aud
lounges open.

Pubs and bars have to purchase
alcohol at retail prices. In other
words, pub owners pay as much
for a case of beer as you do.

Ps order tg ‘tp- make -a;, pprogit and rea owners fight to remain compeli- ;
epay overhead and labour : costs; | :

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the price of a bottle -of your
favourite brew in the neighbour-
hood pub rises substantially.

“Tt just doesn’t make sense if a
hotel or any licensed operator has

to buy the product at the same .

price as the consumer,’ said
Chase.

**¥ou’re probably going to fiud
as people’s discretionary spend-
ing gets tighter some hotels will

shut down their lounge or their |

' pub, or they'll onty be open, say,
three days a week,” he said.

Ziloklikovits agrees. *‘They’ll
take.a dozen (beer) home with
them before they’! go to the ©
bar,”’ he said.

‘The hotel association. is lobby-
ing the provincial government to
allow licensed operators to buy
alcohol at wholesale prices.

In the meantime the people who
do go to bars and pubs will have
an increasingly greater selection
of food available to them, wilh an
emphasis ou good service, as bar

tive.

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Millions still spent

CV In the 1991 fiscal year, Ter-
racites spent $6,012,086 at the
provincial liquor store on
their’ favourite brand — of
cheer. That translates to a to-
tal of 1,012,521 litres being
quaffed,

Across the province, J3ritish
Columbians spent nearly one
billion dollars on 168,751,050
litres of alcohul.

(J Beer is best, judging by
what we buy. Almost 66% of
liquor store purchases in fis-
cal 1991 were heer.

This was followed by spirits at
14.1%, wine at 12.6% und
ciders and coolers at 7.3%,

J Beer got better in the last -

half of 1991 and the first half
of 1992.

Province-wide,: -beer was the-:
brew of choice 80.2% ‘of the °

time at liquor stores — as
long as it was domestic. Sales
of imported beer fell from
19,611,118 litres in 1991 to
8,226,557 litres in ‘92.

CJ Over the last 10 years tax
increases have contributed to
sharp declines in the sales of
wine and spirits. Wine sales
peaked in *83 at-40 million
litres. and have held steady
since 1988 at 34 million litres.
The sale of spirits has fallen
steadily from 30 million litres
in 19$2 to just under 20 mik
lion litres in ‘92,

(J Though we're still buying
alcohol at the liquor store,
we're not getting as drunk.
Sales of absolute alcohol have
fallen from just over 28 mil-
liowlitres‘in ‘82 to 24.7 mil |
lion litres in-1992.

Stow it
away,
or pay

TERRACE — You're sitting
at home, having a glass of
wine after dinner, when you
decide it might taste better if
you were al your favourite
beach,

But wait.

Don’t stuff the cork in-and
loss the bottle on the passenger
seal. ,

According to a July 13
amendment ta the Liquor Con-
trol and Licensing Act, un-
sealed liquor must be carried in
a slorage arca of a vehicle,

Tn other words, not in casy
grabbing range.

Prior to this amendment, po-
lice could only scize open al-

cohol or alcohol inmproperly

stored.

Nowthey can also hand out a
$50 violation tickel, said Lynn
Tryon, an inspector at the liq-
vor control branch.

Since ignorance of the law is

no excuse, here’s an update.

you on all the current do’s and
dont’s,

* unsealed liquor _ that i is 1.

any beer, coolers, wine, spirits
etc. that has -been opened,
whether or not it has been par-:
tially drunk — may be carried
in a-car trunk, or an extcrior
compartment of a pickup truck.

* other permissable ‘storage
areas are a (ruck baggage com-
partment, cabinet of a recrea-
tion vehicle which. is away
from the driver’s area, or, in.
the case of a motorcycle, an

‘| area where. the liquor Is not
readily acccssible to ihe operas

tor.

* liquor can be carried in any:
part of a vehicle if it-is.in.an |)
‘unopened container and bas an

unbroken seal.

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