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Each month Castle Country Radio likes to highlight a non-profit organization as the monthly Charity of the Month. For the month of July, PERKIE Travels has been selected for their amazing services.

The PERKIE Travels program came about in 1994 as Lisa-Perla Martinez was driving her aunt, Perena Marzo aka “Aunt Perkie” to and from radiation treatments to Utah Valley. She noticed during that time of transporting Aunt Perkie that there were many other people from Carbon and Emery counties were also making the 180-mile drive. She contacted Active Re-entry to suggest that some type of coordination of rides be looked at to assist people to get to their treatments.

The effort for coordination began where Four Corners Mental Health, Carbon Senior Citizens Center, Active Re-Entry, Emery County along with the Senior Citizen Center each donated the use of their vans, gasoline, insurance and maintenance for one day a week.

Since that time Carbon County Senior Citizens Center and Four Corner Mental Health have dropped out and Active Re-entry uses a mini-van provided by Carbon County Recreation and Transportation Special Service District. Emery County valiantly continues to provide use of their vehicles.

Trips are made to the Utah Valley Medical Center as well as the Central Utah Multi-Specialty Clinic in Provo. The drivers will drop patients off at which ever facility their physicians and treatments are located.

The schedule for this transportation service leaves the Active Re-entry facility on 10 North Fairgrounds Road at 11:30 am and depending on the number of riders, they generally return to Price between 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Any Helper residents needing a ride will leave from Swifts Stop & Shop. As space is available for the days that the Emery County vehicle is used, those residents can either be picked up in Castle Dale or Huntington.

To learn more about the PERKIE Travel program or to arrange transportation call the Active Re-Entry office at (435) 637-4950.

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