More than 1,200 kids came through our booth at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair this year to play a game and learn about electric and natural gas safety.
“I lost my voice the first day I was talking so much. There were lineups at our booth all day,” said Tara Kendzierski, our community and public safety specialist, who was running the Manitoba Hydro booth all week.
We’re a long-running sponsor of the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair. Our community investment teams leverage this sponsorship to educate children and their families about electrical and natural gas safety through interactive games.
Tara leans down to talk to a kid about electrical and natural gas safety.
Enlarge image: An adult crouches to talk to a kid in front of a colourful wheel of cartoons.
“I had a great moment this year where I asked one teenager what to do if a power line were to land on your car, and he nailed the answer,” said Tara. “I asked how he knew that and he said, ‘You guys have a billboard over on the number 10 (highway)!’” Read the answer for yourself.
“It’s always awesome to hear that our public safety messaging outside the Fair is sticking with kids.”
Louie the Lightning Bug is a repeat fixture at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair.
Jeff Betker (VP, External, Indigenous Relations and Communications) rides a wagon pulled by a team of draft horses in the Four-Horse Hitch competition.
Enlarge image: Two people on a wagon pulled by black horses inside an arena.
If you missed the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair, you can still learn how to educate your children (and yourself) on electrical and natural gas safety.
