{"id":8673,"date":"2025-05-08T16:14:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=8673"},"modified":"2025-05-08T16:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:14:27","slug":"queens-county-transit-fundraiser-huge-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/05\/08\/queens-county-transit-fundraiser-huge-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens County Transit fundraiser ‘huge success’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Queens County Transit says the success of a recent fundraiser will help them keep their vans running. (Rick Conrad)<\/p><\/div>\n

A recent fundraiser for Queens County Transit roared past all the group\u2019s expectations.<\/span><\/p>\n

The rural transit charity based in Liverpool held its first major fundraiser last Saturday. They teamed up with the Yuk Yuk\u2019s standup comedy tour for a show at the Astor Theatre.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gil Johnson, chairman of the Queens County Transit board, said it was a “huge success.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a good turnout and everybody seemed to enjoy the show and now the end result was is that we made a little over $13,000.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Organizers were hoping to raise $10,000 from the show and a 50\/50 draw. Johnson thanked the sponsors and community for their support. And he credited fellow board member Tara Smith with making it all happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Tara Smith has been the driving force behind this fundraiser and if it wouldn’t have been for her, it wouldn’t have happened. She put a team together of volunteers and made this the success that it is, so the rest of us were just along for the ride.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The service began seven years ago with one used accessible van and a team of volunteers. Its fleet has grown to eight vans, five of which are accessible. It also employs 11 people. Nine of those are drivers.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of 23 rural transit services in Nova Scotia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Johnson says the success of the fundraiser shows people appreciate the services that Queens County Transit provides.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is now part of the infrastructure of Queens County. That service of moving people, keeping people connected one ride at a time. And people are starting to understand that we are there to serve.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Johnson says the money raised will go toward their vehicle replacement fund.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Right now, we have an immediate need to replace one of our older vehicles that\u2019s costing us as much in the garage as it does to get it down the road.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200b\u200bIf you need a ride on Queens County Transit, they ask that you contact them at least 24 hours in advance by contacting them at 902-356-2670, by email at info@queenscountytransit.ca<\/a> or <\/span>message them on Facebook<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to the audio version of this story below<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/queenscountytransitfundraiserfolomay825.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent fundraiser for Queens County Transit roared past all the group\u2019s expectations. The rural transit charity based in Liverpool held its first major fundraiser last Saturday. They teamed up with the Yuk Yuk\u2019s standup comedy tour for a show at the Astor Theatre. Gil Johnson, chairman of the Queens County Transit board, said it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[215,2947,39,49,133,3060,3059,1041,3080,3061],"class_list":["post-8673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-fundraiser","tag-gil-johnson","tag-liverpool","tag-queens-county","tag-queens-county-transit","tag-rural-transit","tag-rural-transportation","tag-tara-smith","tag-transit-service","tag-yuk-yuks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8675,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673\/revisions\/8675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}