Senior Center receives loaner 4-wheel-drive bus in time for winter

The Wrangell Senior Center is receiving a loaner bus from Juneau, equipped to handle transporting passengers in winter weather.

The loaner bus arrived early Thanksgiving morning on the Kennicott ferry, part of the Catholic Community Service fleet. “It’s one of the newer ones,” said Solvay Gillen, site manager. “It has all the bells and whistles: A chairlift, four-wheel-drive.”

Catholic Community Service operates the Wrangell Senior Center.

April Huber, nutrition and transportation regional coordinator at Southeast Senior Services, a division of CSS, said the nonprofit has a few extra buses in...