A donation to the city from the Breakfast Exchange Club will provide taxi vouchers to keep seniors moving this spring.
City councilors last week accepted the organization’s donation of $1,500 to the Haverhill Council on Aging for its “Happy Rides” initiative to provide taxi vouchers for city seniors. Mayor Melinda E. Barrett explained how the donation helps.
“The Breakfast Exchange Club has come through again with this $1,500 for Happy Rides, which are critically important to some of our older adults that no longer drive, that need rides to appointments to see their doctors and to get to and from different things they need to attend. This will be well used and very much appreciated by the Council on Aging.”
The Club, founded in 1997, aims to support older adults with basic needs and services such as transportation, food and heating assistance. According to the group’s website, it has already distributed $600 worth of taxi vouchers.
The City Council unanimously approved the donation, with Council President Thomas J. Sullivan saying, it’s “wonderful to see them stepping up.”
The Breakfast Exchange Club also donated $250 to the Council on Aging for the St. Patrick’s Day Party at the Citizen’s Center.