Chatham Council on Aging provides seniors with rides

By Angel Dennison
Posted Friday, June 27, 2008

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Pittsboro, NC - The Council on Aging provides approximately 21,000 rides each year for Chatham's elderly citizens. These include trips from all parts of the county to the two Senior Centers for wellness and nutrition programs, with stops during the week for grocery shopping and to pick up medicines. We also provide individual medical transportation to Chapel Hill, Durham, Sanford and other sites.

In serving our mission to assist people who choose to live at home and avoid institutionalization, transportation is critical to our programs and services. Many of you have family, friends and neighbors who come to the senior centers for our delicious noontime meals and for the socialization and exercise programs the centers offer.

Our service needs are specific to the population we serve and we currently contract with two non-profit transportation providers. One is Chatham Transit Network (CTN), the NC DOT grant-seeking authority for Chatham County as conveyed by the County Commissioners. More information is available on their website www.chathamtransit.org.

We also contract with Sister-2-Sister transportation. A family-run non-profit with offices in Siler City, Sister-2-Sister provides a full range of daily transportation services as well as weekend routes for church-goers and limited on-call overnight medical transportation.

Both organizations are governed by volunteers serving on the Boards of Directors. If you want to make an impact on the future of transportation in our rural county, I encourage you get to involved with these two non-profit organizations.