Media Advisory: Candlelight Vigil Honours Victims of Impaired Driving
June 20 2024 - 6:00AM
MADD Canada will honour victims killed in impaired driving related
crashes at a special Ceremony of Hope and Dedication at MADD
Canada’s New Brunswick Memorial Monument this Saturday.
The beautiful granite Monument, located at Fairhaven Memorial
Gardens in Moncton, is etched with the names of 58 people who died
as a result of someone’s choice to drive after consuming alcohol
and/or drugs.
Media are invited to attend the New
Brunswick Memorial Monument Ceremony: |
Date: |
Saturday, June
22, 2024 |
Time: |
1 p.m. |
Location: |
Fairhaven Memorial Gardens, 1177 Salisbury Rd., Moncton, New
Brunswick |
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The ceremony will include a special video greeting from MADD
Canada National President, Tanya Hansen Pratt. Tanya’s mother,
Beryl, is included on the Manitoba Provincial Monument. “I know
what it means to my family that our mother is remembered in this
way and I am honoured that we are able to honour other
families.”
“With our New Brunswick Memorial Monument and Ceremony of Hope
and Dedication, we honour the lives lost as a result of impaired
driving related crashes, and acknowledge the ongoing grief and pain
suffered by their loved ones,” said Meg Wetmore, MADD Canada’s
Atlantic Region Victim Services Manager. “We also illustrate the
very real consequences and impact of impaired driving to the
general public and urge them to make the commitment to always drive
sober, so that other individuals and families never have to suffer
this terrible and senseless tragedy.”
MADD Canada has provincial Memorial Monuments in Newfoundland
and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan,
Alberta, Quebec and Ontario. We looking forward to unveiling a
Monument in Prince Edward Island this fall and we are working
towards establishing a monument in British Columbia.
For more information: Meghann Wetmore, MADD
Canada Atlantic Region Victim Services Manager at 1-800-665-6233
ext.225 or mwetmore@madd.ca