FALL FESTIVAL 2018
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Church offers shuttle service again this year
One of the most popular attrac-
tions at the Plymouth Fall Festival
year will operate every 20 minutes or
so from the time the event opens on
Friday until after it closes onSunday.
More than 1,000 visitors to the
event have discovered the convenient
parking and shuttle service offered by
Praise Baptist Church, which pro-
vides free parking at the church,
located at 45000 North Territorial
Road, about a quarter mile west of
SheldonRoad. From there, visitors to
the festival can ride in a comfortable
shuttle which will transport them
right to the center of the action with-
out having to start their visit with the
stress of trying to find a parking place
downtown.
Most of the public parking lots in
the community will be manned by
various service clubs who will charge
$5 or so to park. Those funds are used
to support the community service
projects of the clubs like Special
Olympics, Lions, Rotary and Civitans.
Without the volunteers' efforts to con-
trol the parking flow in the lots, park-
ing in the public lots could experi-
ence serious traffic jams and even
fender benders. The popularity of
that paid parking is one of the moti-
vating factors in the shuttles offered
by the church.
Parking at the church is free, as are
the shuttles, and there is nowaiting in
line or concern about heavy traffic
getting in or out of the lots.
Last year, James Hooper, the chair-
person of the missions and outreach
at Praise Baptist Church said that the
shuttle service has been without any
untoward incidents during the past
five years the church has offered the
service. This is the seventh year the
church has provided the service dur-
ing the event.
“Many of the folks we shuttle are
families who return every year once
they discover how easy and conven-
ient the service is,” Hooper said in an
earlier interview.
He added that many of the volun-
teers at various booths and events of
the civic groups park at the church
anduse the shuttle service.
The shuttle picks passengers up at
the church and transports them to the
drop-off location, adjacent to
Plymouth City Hall downtown.
Passengers enter and exit right on
MainStreet.
The shuttles pick-up about every
20-minutes or so and there is rarely, if
ever, a wait for service. They will
operate for a half hour before the fes-
tival opens and for a half hour after
closing time each day during the
weekend.
