Just another WordPress site
Municipal officials have come up with a novel way to encourage smokers to stop littering.
CBRM has started installing so-called “Butt Stops” across the region. The metal containers offer smokers chance to vote Yes or No on fun and educational questions by placing their cigarette butts in the appropriate slot. The goal is to reduce litter and keep butts out of the wastewater collection system.
The R-C-M-P in New Brunswick will be pulling over drivers across the province today as part of National Impaired Driving Enforcement Day.
Staff Sergeant Gilles Blinn says alcohol or drugs have been a factor in 20 of the 55 fatal crashes this year on R-C-M-P-patrolled roads in New Brunswick.
Sixty people have died in those crashes.
And on the weekend of November 12th and 13th — no less than seven people were arrested for impaired driving.