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Speaker 1: The Mathuin Central fire Station is one of eight locations

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Speaker 1: around the city collecting food. Already, two large cardboard boxes

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Speaker 1: contain food like dry mac and cheese, baking, mixed apple, juice,

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Speaker 1: and other non perishables. Jason lives in Methuin and as

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Speaker 1: glad the city is stepping up as it looks like

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Speaker 1: SNAP assistance will be cut off soon.

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Speaker 2: I did not know that they were doing that. That

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Speaker 2: actually makes me a lot happier knowing that my e

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Speaker 2: least the community I live in, somebody is stepping up

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Speaker 2: and doing the job that they're supposed to be doing.

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Speaker 1: The donated food will be distributed starting November first to

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Speaker 1: anyone who can show they were receiving Snap assistants or

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Speaker 1: veterans benefits. The city says over ten thousand residents depend

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Speaker 1: on SNAP, nearly twenty percent of its population. In Methuin.

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Speaker 1: James Rojas w b Z, Boston's news radio