Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands - Part 11
From: WCAI / WNAN
Series: Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands
Length: 05:00
Those who serve Cape Cod's poor are the first to point out that behind the veil of the affluent summer paradise we all recognize, hides a community that continually struggles to make ends meet. This duPont-Columbia Award-winning series examines the unique factors that contribute to persistent and hidden poverty throughout the Cape and Islands region.
Each story is set in one of the fifteen towns on Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
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Those who serve Cape Cod's poor are the first to point out that behind the veil of the affluent summer paradise we all recognize, hides a community that continually struggles to make ends meet. This duPont-Columbia Award-winning series examines the unique factors that contribute to persistent and hidden poverty throughout the Cape and Islands region. Each story is set in one of the fifteen towns on Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
Transcript
Much of the world knows Martha's Vineyard for shark movies and celebrity sitings, a place for Kennedys and vacationing Clintons. But the Vineyard has a large class of locals just barely getting by. Last year, for example, a meals program operated by Elder Services of the Cape and Islands, distributed more than 17,000 lunches to people who couldn't cook or leave their homes to shop, and probably couldn't afford many of the groceries the island stores shelf anyway.
It's just past 10:30 in the morning, and cook Steve Lungerbardy is packing up about 350 lunches in the kitchen at Martha's Vineyard Hospital.
Steve Lungerbardy: "They're in the oven, they're warming as we speak. Today we have Sweedish meatballs, egg noodles, spinach, I'm going to put out my coolers now, we pack cold coolers, we put ice in them. Desserts."
In about an hour most of the lunches will find their way into the...
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