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Huntington Township Chamber of Commerce offers links and info. Kings Park Cares - Community Rallies to Send Relief to WTC Volunteers
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September 16, 2001
Saturday, Girl Scout Troup 56 held a candlelight vigil at West Meadow Beach, asking people to bring a teddy bear for a child who lost a parent last Tuesday.
Near the pavilion several hundred gathered, some spoke, prayed or sang - but mostly people just milled about. There were tapered candles, votives, flashlights, and pillars. The evening air was chilly and the sun was setting in the west, across the water. An American Flag standing in the sand became a memorial as people who were leaving placed their still burning candles around its base. Candles were carried by children, teens, adults across the entire span of the beach. Snippets of conversation could be overheard, telling stories of those who were lost, those who made it home and those still missing. For more than two hours these lights burned and even when they were gone the people remained. They were talking, listening and sometimes just there for one another. There was a high cloud cover which blackened the stars, but made the sunset spectacular. But looking up, into the grey sky at almost any given time you could see the lights of five or six airplanes - at different altitudes and flying in different directions. The sky was full again and the lights from the candles flickered below as the lights on the planes blinked above. This little light of mine,
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Services
for St. Paraskevi Greek Orthodox Shrine Church were held at Centerport
Beach on 9/16 where a special prayer was said for the fire fighters
and all who helped, as well as the victims and their families who were
killed/injured. Father John Heropoulos, Father Ryan from Our
Lady Queen of Martyrs Church and Huntington Supervisor Frank Petrone
address the congregants. (Photo by Denise Bocchio)