‘This is a blessing’: Anchorage shuttle connects Fairview residents to food and prescriptions

Will Campos boarded the new Fairview shuttle one Sunday afternoon, headed to the grocery store. He was hoping to get three weeks worth of food.

“I’ll just get what I could fit in this bag,” he said, laughing wryly and gesturing to a duffel on the seat beside him.

Campos is a security guard and works 12-hour night shifts. He used to go to the Carrs in the neighborhood once or twice a day. But then it closed. The nearest grocery stores are about a mile away. Campos doesn’t have a car, so in the couple months after the store shut down, he walked, which took a lot more time, and a lot more planning…

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