 Cape Cod is an arm-shaped peninsula forming the Easternmost portion of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Like Cape Cod itself, the islands south of Cape Cod have turned from being whaling and trading areas to resort destinations for the Northeast, attracting old, wealthy families, celebrities, and prosperous tourists alike. The islands include Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, as well as the Elizabeth Island chain, which includes the Forbes family-owned Naushon Island, which was purchased by John Murray Forbes with profits from opium dealing in the China trade during the Opium War. Several prominent families have established compounds or estates on the larger islands, making these Cape Cod offshore islands some of the wealthiest resorts in the Northeast, yet they retain much of the early merchant trading and whaling culture. (Information provided by Wikipedia .)
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You are Basically Working in Battlefield Conditions |
'You're Basically Working in Battlefield Conditions'
Physical and occupational therapists from Cape Cod's Rehabilitation Hospital of the Cape and Islands help Haitian earthquake survivors.
Sandwich, MA (PRWEB) May 6, 2010 -- Matthew Keilty, Nora Kenneway and Gordon Smith are no strangers to health care crises in Third World countries. The therapists from the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Cape and Islands (RHCI) have worked in Africa, Central and South America.
But nothing prepared them for their mission trip to Haiti.
"The first thing you notice when you come in from the airport is the rubble," Smith said. "It's everywhere. Four months after the earthquake and nothing's been cleaned up. There's just this mass of humanity with no place to go."
Added Kenneway, "You're basically working in battlefield conditions."
The three just returned to RHCI after treating earthquake survivors in the capital city of Port-au-Prince.
On Jan 12, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake leveled the island nation, killing 250,000 and leaving millions homeless.
Keilty, 38, an inpatient occupational therapist from Mashpee, Kenneway, 38, an outpatient occupational supervisor from Marstons Mills, and Smith, 51, an outpatient physical therapist from East Falmouth, volunteered for a program created by Partners in Health, a Boston-based non-profit health care organization which provides care in areas of extreme poverty.
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CCC WINS OUTSTANDING PLANNING AWARD |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - December 2, 2009
County Seal
For further information, contact:
Paul Niedzwiecki, Executive Director
Sharon Rooney, AICP, RLA, Chief Planner
Phil Dascombe, AICP, Senior Community Design Planner
Sarah Korjeff, Historic Preservation Specialist
Cape Cod Commission
(508) 362-3828
CCC WINS OUTSTANDING PLANNING AWARD FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION
"Contextual Design on Cape Cod" Earns 2009 Award for Planning Project
BARNSTABLE COUNTY, MA -- The Cape Cod Commission's newest manual, "Contextual Design on Cape Cod: Design Guidelines for Large-scale Development," has just received the 2009 Outstanding Award for a Planning Project, awarded by the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Planning Association.
Executive Director Paul Niedzwiecki received notice of the award on November 30. "We are pleased to receive this recognition for the excellent work of our planning staff," he says. "The new design manual is a valuable resource for Cape Cod's developers of large projects and for municipalities managing their review. It will help the region retain what is best suited for -- and best loved about -- Cape Cod buildings and sites."
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