Back on Canada Day 2015, the Positive Ticketing initiative kicked off in our city. The RCMP teamed up with Synergy, Stepping Stones to Mental Health, and Chestermere Addictions and Mental Health, with the support of Chestermere FCSS to bring the Chestermere Positive Youth Ticketing Campaign where youth ‘caught’ doing amazing things were ticketed.
While out in the community, RCMP officers were ticketing positive youth behaviour with gift cards to local businesses. Some of the things our youth were ticketed for were obeying traffic laws while driving, wearing a helmet while on their bikes and picking up litter in our public spaces. Youth who received a ticket and then went online to participate in a survey were then entered into a draw to win some major prizes, like tickets to this year’s X-fest, an iPad mini, pre-paid VISAs, and more!!
On March 18th, this amazing campaign wrapped up and a celebration was held at the Waiting Room Café. Over 250 tickets were handed out since the July 1st kick off which shows that our youth do amazing things in our community.
The wrap up celebration had games, draw prizes, yummy treats and even a visit from members of the RCMP that played an important role handing out the tickets.
Three awesome prizes were drawn from the positive ticketing winners and door prizes were available for those in attendance. Congratulations to winners: Waseem Al-Nouamani, Noah Abdul Rahman and Jessica Anton.
But just because the campaign is over, doesn’t mean you still can’t recommend a youth for a positive ticket. If you know a young person in our community, in the schools or in your neighbourhood that is doing something amazing, you can contact the RCMP detachment and ‘report’ them and they are still eligible to receive a positive ticket.
Congratulations to all of those amazing youth that were awarded a positive ticket and keep up the good work! You never know who might be watching and ‘report’ you for being an awesome member of our city!
