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The mortgage broker has become well known in the Kingston community as the man behind the popular Make It Home YGK traffic account, which has more than 23,000 followers on Twitter and almost 21,000 likes on Facebook.
Make It Home YGK has become a useful tool for Kingston drivers. People see traffic jams or accidents and tweet about it to @YGKTraffic. Mr. Vilela then retweets so all his followers know what routes to avoid.
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Mr. Vilela is amazed at how popular Make It Home YGK has become since he started it five years ago.
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Mr. Vilela started the account after a frustrating day in traffic. He thought there should be a way for drivers to warn each other about traffic, so he created the Twitter account that night.
Mr. Vilela estimates he spends 10 to 15 hours a week updating the account. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s not as simple as hitting the retweet button. Sometimes he receives many messages at once, so he has to do research to find out if people are reporting the same accident or if there is more than one accident.
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The Padre Laverty and Jim Bennett Award Dinner takes place on June 1 in Kingston.
Past Jim Bennett Award recipients include former Kingston General Hospital CEO Leslee Thompson, NSc카지노 게임 컬렉션84, United Way KFL&A President and CEO Bhavana Varma, and former Gaels football coach Doug Hargreaves, Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션55.
