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Western-Washtenaw Area Value Express (WAVE) recently announced significant updates to its service schedule, prompted by rising costs and ongoing reductions in federal and state funding. Thanks to some creative support from Chelsea Retirement Community, WAVE will temporarily reinstate the weekend Chelsea Community Ride starting August 30, 2025. This service will remain in place through September 30, 2025, the end of WAVE’s current fiscal year. Continuation beyond that date is dependent on receiving a pending grant from a community foundation as well as the Washtenaw County Older Persons Millage funding in Fiscal Year 2026.
Chelsea Retirement Community (CRC) Executive Director Kathy Russell said, “We are grateful for WAVE and see firsthand how important WAVE services are to support the quality of life for older adults who no longer drive, both those in the community as well as our residents at CRC. Working with WAVE on a short-term solution, we have decided to reallocate nine hours of our monthly Life Enrichment outing hours to the weekend Community Ride share hours. This will allow WAVE to reinstate its weekend Community Ride share hours through September 30.”…