After a local grocery store and a Walmart Express closed in Oriental, free transportation service for residents without cars has been announced. The ride service will begin February 3rd at 9:30 am and will take anyone in the Oriental area to grocery stores or pharmacies in the Bayboro/Grantsboro area. Transportation is provided by Primetime Ministries Transportation Program at Oriental Methodist Church, volunteers and town Commissioner Allen Price.
“It’s limited to people who were walking or riding their bike or golf cart to get their groceries or pharmacy at the Town and Country or Walmart , or somebody was being driven there and now that person doesn’t want to pay for the gas or something.”
Three people have expressed interest in the free service. Price says 20 volunteers are available to pick up prescriptions and take people to the closest grocery store 10 miles away in Arapahoe.
