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Twas The Last Weekend Before Christmas for Operation Red Nose

Pat Matthews
By Pat Matthews

 

It was another good and busy weekend for the 45 volunteers of Operation Red Nose in Williams Lake.

They gave a total of 95 rides to 180 people over the course of this past Friday and Saturday evenings.

Dave Dickson, Manager of Community Safety for the City of Williams Lake, says this is going to be their busiest year since they started ten years ago.

“We’ve given 337 rides, total of 702 people, we traveled 64-hundred and 37 kilometers and we’ve had 175 volunteers out to help us.”

Dickson says it’s good to see that people are going out and having a good time then making good choices in getting a safe ride home for themselves and their vehicle.

Operation Red Nose will be back one last time from 9 pm to 3am on New Years Eve.

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Pat Matthews
Pat Matthews
Pat started working in the Cariboo in 1989 after spending several years in radio in Terrace. He worked in the creative department until 2017 when he switched over to news covering Williams Lake and the South Cariboo as well as being the afternoon host on Country 840 in 100 Mile House.

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