Article: Free lunches lag this week Summer recreation programs over, and school hasn't started

At 11:45 a.m. Thursday, the Columbia playground at N. 13th and W. Chambers streets is nearly deserted. Six youths play basketball, but otherwise it is an empty concrete expanse the size of a city block.

Then kids start to arrive. A few minutes before noon, Alonzo Miller, a summer worker for the Milwaukee Public Schools recreation department, opens the doors of the small, aging building at the northwest corner of the playground.

He has sixteen crates of bag lunches inside -- a couple of pieces of processed meat, a hamburger bun, a granola bar, and an apple or a small box of raisins. Miller takes small milk cartons from an old refrigerator and adds them to the bags.

On Wednesday, he had 160 ...

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