CENTRAL — Josh Parker felt like he was living every day on repeat. For the last six months or so, he’s been walking three miles to and from his job at the Central Walmart.
“It felt like I’ve been living in the loop,” Parker said. “I felt like I was gonna be doing the same thing, and nothing is going to ever happen good in my life.”
But all of that changed thanks to a social media post.
Making a difference
It all started when Teal Dicharry saw Parker walking to work in the mornings, and posted about it on Facebook. State Representative Lauren Ventrella and her legislative assistant saw Dicharry’s post and decided to do something about it.
“We said, ‘Well, let’s get involved. Let’s help him. Let’s share the post, and let’s make a GoFundMe’,” Ventrella said. “So Teal and my assistant spoke, and they said, ‘Look, let’s just do a Venmo. We’re probably going to just get a couple hundred bucks, enough to get him a bike, and we’ll try to make his day a little bit easier so he’s not walking to work every day.’”…