Local nursing homes favor 'grandpa and grandma happy hour’

Local nursing homes favor 'grandpa and grandma happy hour’

While Minnesota lawmakers debate whether to allow the consumption and display of alcoholic beverages in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, it’s a no-brainer for area facilities. It’s been a decades-long practice, they say. The bill, SF4256, authored by Sen. John Hoffman, DFL-Champlin, would create an exemption to existing law to allow “basically happy hour for grandpa and grandma,” he said. The companion bill in the House is HF4145. …