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Community help requested to replace Honor Guard van

GREENVILLE – “We have two options,” said Veterans Honor Guard member Fred Dean. “We can get a retired transit bus owned by the City of Greenville or we can get a new one.” Either way, the old one has to be replaced.

Dean was referring to the van he drives to carry Honor Guard members in parades and to ceremonies for veterans who have passed away. “It looks great inside; it looks great outside,” he said, but the undercarriage is rusting out badly. “It’s too old… the undercarriage has a bad case of cancer and the van needs to be replaced.”

The current van is a ‘95 bus with a ’94 chassis. Because of seating capacity, only a commercially licensed (CDL) person can drive it.

The Greenville Transit bus will likely be around an ’06, Dean said, and it will be well-maintained. At the same time, it has to have 106,000 to 110,000 miles on it before it can be released. “There are two coming up. We can probably get one of those in the spring,” Dean added...

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