Anheuser-Busch To Train Fair Saint Louis Workers 
Safe Serving Practices Aimed At Helping Prevent Underage Drinking

ST. LOUIS, May 29, 2002 -- Fair Saint Louis is still a month away, but Anheuser-Busch and its local distributor, Lohr Distributing, are already hard at work to help make sure this year's event is safe and fun for everyone.  The local brewer is once again supplying each concession stand with an ID book featuring color photographs of valid driver's licenses from all 50 states and Canada to help identify those of legal purchase age and stop sales to minors. In addition, Anheuser-Busch and Lohr are providing server "We ID" buttons as well as TIPS training for every concessionaire who will be selling beer. 

TIPS (Training for Intervention Procedures by Servers) is a nationally recognized program developed in 1982 by Morris Chafetz, M.D., founding director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.  The program is designed to help beer servers at the event quickly and accurately assess Fair patrons to prevent sales to anyone who may have consumed too much alcohol and to anyone who is underage.  To date, more than one million people have been TIPS trained.

"Anheuser-Busch has been involved with helping train the concessionaires at Fair Saint Louis for about the last twenty years," says John Kaestner, Senior Group Director of Consumer Awareness and Education at Anheuser-Busch.  "Server training programs, such as TIPS, as well as the efforts of law enforcement officials and the good practices of drinkers who exercise personal responsibility, designate a driver or call a cab, all make a difference.  As a major sponsor of the Fair, this is part of our way of giving back to the community." 

The Fair St. Louis TIPS training will take place at the Anheuser-Busch corporate offices at One Busch Place from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on the following dates:

			Wednesday, June 5

			Thursday, June 6

			Wednesday, June 12
		
			Thursday, June 13
		
			Wednesday, June 19
			
			Thursday, June 20

According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, in the last twenty years, drunk-driving fatalities during the 4th of July holiday have fallen by 61 percent.

Since 1982, Anheuser-Busch and its wholesalers have invested more than $375 million in alcohol awareness and education efforts to help fight underage drinking and drunk driving and to promote personal responsibility.  For more information on these efforts and the progress being made, visit the website at www.beeresponsible.com.