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ACCESS TRANSIT IN ITS 22ND YEAR IN IROQUOIS FALLS

A volunteer-run accessible bus service in Iroquois Falls is in its 22nd year of service.

Access Transit president Jackie Rivest (REE-veh) says her organization recently received its annual two-thousand-dollar grant… from United Way of Northeast Ontario.

”That helps our needs, but it does not meet our needs,” Rivest tells My Cochrane Now Dot Com. “Right now, our operating cost is close to $100,000 a year.”

“Our clients are people that are  in need, not just financially but also their motor skills.  Anybody that has an impediment can use the bus.”

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There is a $10.00 application fee to be on the list of clients.  Once on the list, you can make an appointment for a ride on the accessible bus to wherever you need to go in town, and then pay five dollars each way.

Rivest says those fees and the annual $2,000.00  grant from the United Way are far from enough to cover the $100,000 cost of running the service.  So her army of volunteers puts on fundraising events all year round,  and gratefully accepts in memoriam donations.

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