CAZENOVIA, N.Y. -- "When did kids start drinking so aggressively? How did we land here? In this place?"
A movie on underage drinking meant to stir emotion.
"You can't stop everybody from doing that stuff but you can help people who go too far," said Cazenovia resident Doc Sinster.
And a discussion among teens and adults.
It's the second town hall meeting on underage drinking in Cazenovia.
"We had continually heard about the need for more strategies to reduce underage drinking so we wanted to bring the community together to focus on that issue," said BRiDGES prevention coordinator, Maureen Campanie.
The goal is not to discuss underage drinking as a national issue, but a local one -- what prevention techniques can Cazenovia implement.
Underage drinking is no minor problem. That's why one Madison County village is taking action. News 10 Now's Ryan Dean reports.
"What makes us unique is we are a small knit community with a lot of resources and we have a lot of options of great things we can be doing to help our kids avoid alcohol to the age of 21," said event moderator, Britt Zumpano.
The first town hall meeting was last year, just months after a local woman was arrested for serving alcohol to 20 Cazenovia teens. Organizers say that incident is not the reason for the meetings, but is used as an educational tool.
"I think that really served as a great opportunity to lay it all out on the table and talk about what our kids in community do, what the misconceptions of the law were," Zumpano said.
People leading the movement hope to develop a task force comprised of people of all ages. They will work in the village trying to steer teens from alcohol.
Organizers say their goal is to target local retailers, such as gas stations, to see how they're advertising alcohol. They want to see if stores have proper warnings in place in attempts to prohibit underage drinking.