It was a typically slow first weekend for Operation Red Nose in Williams Lake.
Now in her 3rd year as Program Coordinator Deborah Pickering said in her experience it’s usually slower but picks up as the Holiday Season parties start to increase.
“On our first night this past Friday (November 29) we had 9 rides and I was pretty happy about that. The first year I was doing this on the first night we had 2 rides and I was really worried thinking what’s going on don’t people know about us? But it was just that parties hadn’t started that much yet. On Saturday night (November 30) we did 16 rides.”
Even though Operation Red Nose takes calls for safe rides home from 9 pm to 3 pm Pickering said if they haven’t received any calls for at least an hour between 1 am and 2 am they will close early.
“Actually the drivers will go out physically to all the venues in town to see if anything is happening there and if they’re all shut down, the parties are over, the bars are closed, then we will close early because there’s nobody obvious to us left needing rides.”
Operation Red Nose will be back on the roads in Williams Lake giving motorists and their vehicles safe rides home again this Friday and Saturday night, then every Friday and Saturday evening until December 21st and one last time on New Years Eve December 31.
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