This week’s Salt Lake City Weekly has an article about the recent protest by senior citizens over being i.d.’d for alochol at the Utah Arts Festival.
Seems a group from Mesquite took a bus trip to Salt Lake to attend the Arts Festival, most being in their 70’s and above. Some of them left their valuables on the bus and just carried their cash around with them. But when they went to purchase a beer, they were denied since they didn’t have i.d. – even though some of them were told they looked like they were 90. They still have to “prove” they were over 21.
So the seniors protested – by juming in the fountain at Library Plaza.
Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson even showed up later with a case of Cutthroat and joined the senior fountain splashers. Anderson publicly recognized the ridulous-ness of the state’s liquor laws.
Apparently this garnered national media attention. Where was it in the Utah media?
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 