Operation Red Nose Hits The Road
Prince George, BC – Along with shopping come parties to mark the holiday season…
Operation Red Nose got underway last night, with 12 road teams providing 52 safe rides home to early season revellers between 9pm last night and 3am this morning.
Spokesperson, Andrea Johnson, says that compares to 40 rides provided on the first night of last year's campaign, but she says tonight will help finalize the tale on how this first weekend stacks up against previous years. "On the opening weekend of 2012, we provided a record 122 rides."
"It was great to see a lot of new, first-time volunteers," says Johnson. "They had a lot of fun. At this time, I don't have the number of kilometres the 12 teams travelled."
In total, there were 50 volunteers involved in last night's efforts. Johnson says there is still lots of time for others to help out with Operation Red Nose this season. So far, 227 people have registered, but the goal is 350 volunteers.
To find out more, or to apply, go to www.ornpg.ca
To use Operation Red Nose as your safe ride home, call 250-964-RIDE (7433)
Comments
This whole Operation Red Nose seems bizarre.
Seems people want to go out and get **drunk** and then they want to have volunteers drive them home and they may or may not give them a contribution.
This way they can get drunk and avoid driving, getting charged with impaired, or injuring someone in a car accident. That all seems well and good, however why the need to get **inebriated**?
Remember. No pizza on the way home.
Palopu … Unfortunate judgmental twist you put on it … as you are free to make choices, so are others … the only “need” I read into the article was for community safety.
It is more like – Caring volunteers acknowledge people will drink, especially over the Christmas season, and want to provide a service to the ENTIRE community by providing these party folks with a safe ride home.
Much like caring parents will offer to provide a safe ride anytime, any place, to their children (and children’s friends) should they choose to indulge.
Merry Christmas to all and to all safe travels.
Palopu try it and maybe your question will get an answer – that is if you can remember it the next day. ;)
Anotherside. I understand the concept of caring parents, however it seems to me that we are dealing with adults, who are making a decision to get inebriated, and then have other members of the community (volunteers) drive them home.
I’m not against the concept, from a safety point of view, however I do think that its strange that we would go to these lengths so that someone could get inebriated .
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