Countywide : Phone Companies Join MADD Effort

For the first time, Pacific Bell and AT&T; are allowing company trucks to promote something other than telephone calls.

Phone company employees will be able to join Mothers Against Drunk Driving’s annual campaign to keep drunk drivers off the road during the holidays by tying red ribbons to vehicle door handles or radio antennas.

On Thursday, a brief ceremony was held in front of the Pacific Bell operations building in Tustin. Several employees decked their trucks with red ribbons, and the Telephone Pioneers, a volunteer group with members from both phone companies, presented more than 100,000 information cards and red ribbons to Sandy Gaar, vice president of the Orange County chapter of MADD.

Pioneer volunteers worked for several weeks to cut the ribbons and attach them to the information cards. The ribbons are intended to remind anyone entering a vehicle not to drink and drive and will be distributed and used between the Thanksgiving and New Year’s holidays.