07/30/2026
Our CART Volunteers!
Wow, we just tallied the volunteer hours for CART's 4th Quarter of the '25-'26 Fiscal year, and 5 individuals tallied an amazing number of total hours—165.5 hours—helping CART do its important work!
Thanks to drivers Grant Barnard and Scott Malone who ably fill in for CART quite regularly, taking driving duties off of Karen and myself so we can concentrate on other administrative things. Over 100 hours of driving time!
Thanks to newcomer Keith McNally who has volunteered a couple of times riding along on Friday mornings when we take a whole group up to Walmart in Laurel to go shopping. It's quite a job helping our passengers load and unload groceries and supplies, and riders have responded so positively to his help!
And finally, thanks to TAC member Barbara Marquardt, and rider Wanda Venegas, who have amassed over 50 hours helping us enter passenger ride data into the computer for reporting to MDT.
Again, for a grand total of 165.5 hours of volunteer service to CART and the transit-using community in Carbon County!
You may not know this, but every hour volunteers work, gets converted to a dollar value and reported to the Montana Department of Transportation. The Red Lodge Area Community Foundation and CART have to fundraise and match the dollars we get from the MDT Grant that ensures that we can operate. Your valuable time therefore subtracts from the dollar amount RLACF must raise to keep CART moving! That's a significant number of dollars saved!
On behalf of all of us here at CART, we thank you many times over!
