At Canton’s Stark Area Regional Transit Authority headquarters, nonprofit leaders and SARTA executives meet around a table. Outside, visible through a window, is a large bus, adorned with “Forever R Children” on the side.
SARTA interim executive director and CEO Ralph Lee is discussing donating decommissioned SARTA buses to Forever R Children, a nonprofit that retrofits the vehicles to include shower facilities for those in need. The Akron area is already being served by one finished bus, complete with two showers. Now, the city of Canton and SARTA are helping create two more.
“I love the concept of what it gives to a person,” Lee says. “It gives them back a sense of hope and a sense of pride.”…