FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Had it been around in 2022, Wesley Armstrong, 37, might have been a passenger on the Rotary Connection, the free bus service that launched in Fort Lauderdale this week.

Armstrong was homeless at the time, an ex-con, unwanted by family who had frankly had enough of his cycle of addiction and the illegal conduct that accompanied it. Just three years later, Armstrong is clean. He has a job and a permanent place to stay. And he volunteers as a driver for the Rotary Connection bus, operated by Fellowship Recovery Community Organization, the outreach group he credits with rescuing him from despair.

The bus service started operating on Monday, offering rides to homeless people from downtown Fort Lauderdale to 40 locations, each designed to provide needed services to peop

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