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Good weekend for Red Nose volunteers

The second weekend for Operation Red Nose getting people and their vehicles home safely in the lakecity is now in the books.

Manager of Community Safety for the City of Williams Lake, Dave Dickson said it was another good weekend.

“We’ve done four nights now and we’ve been successful,” he said.

“It’s been well used. This weekend we transported 147 people; we had 24 rides on Friday night and 50 rides on Saturday night”.

Dickson said compared to this time last year Operation Red Nose is up slightly in ridership.

Safe rides home will be provided for two more full weekends before Christmas on December 14th and 15th and December 21st and 22nd between 9 pm and 3 am.

In total since Nov. 29, 133 rides have been given and over five thousand dollars in donations have been raised.

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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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