Durham’s third annual “Think of Me” bag campaign will be launched in Oshawa on Tuesday December 3 — ahead of the holiday season.
The campaign is a partnership between the Durham Regional Police Servuce (DRPS), the LCBO and local school boards.
The program has more than 40,000 students from across Durham Region decorating brown paper bags with powerful anti-drinking and driving messages. Customers at the LCBO will see their holiday purchases wrapped in these powerful messages in hopes they think twice about getting behind the wheel of a car while intoxicated, said a DRPS media release.
In the campaign’s first year in 2016, DRPS Whitby School Liaison Officer Cst. Jason Cockburn worked with an LCBO Store Manager, Don Oliver, to distribute blank brown paper bags to schools and more than 5,000 bags were created. The program has grown over the years and this year, more than 40,000 decorated bags will be in circulation in Durham Region, it added.
Each school picked their favourite bag and the best 10 bags–five from elementary and five from secondary schools–were chosen by DRPS and the LCBO for display at the launch and win prizes. One of the finalists will be chosen as the winning entry and that student will win prizes and their school will be the host school for next year’s launch.
DRPS Chief Paul Martin will be on hand at the launch where students from St. John Bosco Catholic School will be presenting their bags to the LCBO for distribution this holiday season.
- Where: St. John Bosco Catholic School, 1600 Clearbrook Dr, Oshawa
- When: Tuesday, December 3
- Time: 12 noon
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