After many weeks of preparation, it is tomorrow that 55,000 volunteers, from 100 host communities, will begin to wear Operation Red Nose’s red vest, a true symbol of a safe holiday season on Canadian roads and highways.
In collaboration with its provincial partner, SGI, Operation Red Nose will bring you home for the holidays beginning Nov. 25 and up to Dec. 31.
Requesting a ride has never been easier.
It is now easier than ever to reach an Operation Red Nose phone operator and request a safe ride home. The Operation Red Nose mobile application is now available, for free, on the App Store and on Google Play, and allows one to contact the closest Operation Red Nose headquarters. One can also set an alarm to remind them to call Operation Red Nose later in the evening. The OperationRedNose.com website contains local information for service users as well as volunteers.
Local numbers to call are 306-446-7177 (landline) or 306-480-9876 (cell).
The free service will run on weekends starting Nov. 25 and 26 and will continue each weekend on Dec. 2, 3, 9, 10, 16 and 17 and Dec. 31, New Year's Eve, which is its final night of operation.
Motorists who will decide to safely get home with the help of Operation Red Nose volunteers will not only help make roads safer in their community, but they will also help contribute to the well-being of youth and amateur sport by making a donation at the end of their ride. Even if the Operation Red Nose service is free, donations are accepted and entirely handed over to local youth organizations. In Canada, 1.5 million dollars are raised this way, every year.
The North Battleford Lions Club’s Red Nose operation will be supporting KidSport.
Offered to the community, by the community, Operation Red Nose would be nothing without the commitment of thousands of volunteers who come for one or more nights in order to ensure the holiday season remains a happy one for everyone in their community. Whether they are alone, with friends, with work colleagues, or with family members, Operation Red Nose helps make volunteer registration easy by making its volunteer application form available on OperationRedNose.com. The recruitment of volunteers will continue throughout the entire campaign.
Operation Red Nose is a non-profit organization whose mission is to encourage behaviour with regards to any impaired situation through unbiased actions, namely by enabling Canadian communities to put together the easily accessible citizen-led safe-drive service and provide safer roads while reaping the benefits for local youth or amateur sports organizations, and implementing other year round awareness programs on the consequences of being impaired.
