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Frank McGwire
The Best Way to Get Home Safe This Holiday Season
After a 2-year hiatus, Operation Red Nose’s safe ride service is available again through this holiday season. This service that ensures safer roads during the festive season is now available in more than 100 communities across Canada.
Operation Red Nose, which operates a service where one simple phone call sets up a team of volunteers to drive impaired people – and their cars – home, has been running since 1984. It began in Quebec, where it was founded by mathematics professor Jean-Marie De Koninck as a way to raise funds for the university swim team and reduce drunk driving. Since then, the organization has begun operating in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick.
Operation Red Nose Manitoba has been helping prevent impaired driving by arranging for volunteers to get motorists home safely since 1995. It has since grown to serve nearly a dozen communities across Manitoba: Winnipeg, Portage la Prairie, Brandon, Steinbach and La Broquerie, Selkirk, Thompson, Gimli, Flin Flon, St. Malo, Shilo, and The Pas.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
We are still in need of volunteer teams to enable the program to be a success. If you or a group of people in your workplace sign up this year your business or company you represent will get mentions in our radio advertising we’ve set up with the following local stations: 94.7 Star FM, Q Country 91.5 FM. Bounce 96.1 FM, 101.1 FM Pure Country and www.sparkwebradio.com. You will also be entered into various prize draws. If you’d like to sign up as a volunteer or book a corporate party please call 204-728-NOSE (6673) or click this link to book a corporate party.
To help make sure Manitobans arrive home safely, Operation Red Nose 2022 is available 9:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m. on the following nights:
- November 26, 2022
- December 2 & 3, 2022
- December 9, 10, 2022
- December 16, 17, 2022
- December 31, 2022
If you're going to be out celebrating this yuletide season, have this number handy 204-728-NOSE (6673).
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