Youth Commission allows vans to be used for rural transportation during the day

A new program out of Lincoln County is here to help get you where you need to go.

“(It) gives rides towards appointments, doctors, pharmacy pickups, grocery pickups, even offer rides towards CSI, it’s a great service to our community that hasn’t been offered,” said Payson Reese, who is on the board.

The vans were purchased with grant money to transport students to the Lincoln County Youth Center, but the director realized the vans weren’t being used for much of the day.

“Until we need them at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, they are just sitting, and so they are federally taxpayer-supported vans, and I don’t like it when my tax dollars are sitting not doing anything, so we decided to do this,” said Fitzgerald.