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Commissioners allocate $50,000 from opioid settlement fund to local recovery house for transportation and services
Summary
The board voted to earmark $50,000 from county opioid-settlement funds for Path of Ease Association to purchase a transport van and cover initial operating expenses for a recovery house in Fort Scott.
Bourbon County commissioners approved a $50,000 allocation from local opioid-settlement funds on Monday for Path of Ease Association, a newly formed Fort Scott nonprofit that operates a women-and-children recovery house.
Founder Jennifer Simhiser told the board that transportation is a major gap for recovery services in Fort Scott. "We don't have transportation for recovery in Fort Scott. All of our transportation services end at 6PM," she said, explaining that the house cannot reliably get…
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