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Show Community Services Wants Names, County Handicapped Several organizations who serve the handicapped and elderly citizens of Utah County are trying to obtain a census of the names, addresses, phone numbers, and transportation needs of all handicapped citizens who live within the county, for the purpose of obtaining a transit system which would serve these individuals in-dividuals daily, six days per seek. Through cooperation from the federal government's transportation funds, private grants and donations and assistance from the Utah County Commission, a bus equipped with a wheelchair lift, public address system, twelve seats and space for five wheelchairs would become available to Utah County handicapped and elderly in 1977. The Department of Transportation Tran-sportation estimates that there are 10,000 handicapped citizens who live in Utah County. Please call one of the following numbers if you have a disability that does not permit you to use the present Provo-Orem Provo-Orem bus route or if you do not have your own transportation. Unless many of these "transportation "tran-sportation stranded" citizens call the Utah County Community Com-munity Services Agency or the Helpline or the Senior Citizen Centers and report their transportation needs before Friday, Sept. 3, at 3:00 p.m., the Utah County Com missioners may not endorse the vehicle grant and the county's transportation system for the handicapped will remain as archaic and or non-existent as it is at the present time. Cone on, handicaps and elderly, here is a chance for your voice to make a difference. dif-ference. Please call one these numbers: Utah County Community Com-munity Service Agency: 374-5151. 374-5151. North Utah County Helpline: 785-6060. South Utah County Helpline: 798-8618. Senior Citizen Centers in Utah County, in this area: Pleasant Grove, American Fork, Lehi. Submitted by Lana Brown, Handicap Outreach Coordinator, Coor-dinator, phone 374-5151 or 377-3272 |