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Free MAX Bus Service for Thanksgiving Dinner

Free MAX Bus Service for Thanksgiving Dinner

Modesto Area Express (MAX) will provide limited bus service free of charge on Thanksgiving Day (November 22) to and from the Salvation Army Free Thanksgiving Dinner served at Modesto Centre Plaza. The bus service will be provided on the three routes shown at http://modestoareaexpress.com/announcements/.

Only one trip to the Modesto Centre Plaza will be made on each route at the times shown. All buses are scheduled to arrive at the Modesto Centre Plaza around 12:35 p.m. If a bus reaches passenger capacity enroute to the Modesto Centre Plaza, another bus will come back for those not able to board the first bus.

Buses will depart the Modesto Centre Plaza after the dinner at 2:30 p.m. and make one return trip for each of the same routes. Additional return trips will be made if all passengers cannot be accommodated on the first trip.

Multi-Agency Partnership in First Ever Equine Initiative for California Probationers

Multi-Agency Partnership in First Ever Equine Initiative for California Probationers

MODESTO, CA, November 13, 2012: In a move to provide an alternative to rehabilitation services for probationers, Dependent Ranch, Unbridled Hope and the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department have partnered to introduce the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation’s (TRF) Second Chances Vocational Program to the area. The emphasis of the Northern California initiative will be to provide EAGALA Model Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) and the nationally accredited Groom Elite™ Horsemen’s Education Program. TRF will be moving retired Thoroughbred racehorses to the 10-acre facility in Modesto where probationers will learn how to care for and bond with the horses and receive mental health counseling. The Program will launch with a Ribbon Tying Ceremony December 1, 2012 at 2:00 p.m , 250 E. Hackett Road, Modesto.