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Perfecting Faith Church honors mayor, officials “Basically, it’s an outreach for the people who don’t come to the church building,” said McClurLast Sunday, the Rev. Donnie kin’s sister, Marlene Mason, who McClurkin invited officials from is part of the Perfecting Faith F ree por t, Hempministry team. stead and Roosevelt Those who to his weekly outreceived plaques on reach, the Church Sunday were repreWi t h o u t Wa l l s , sentatives of the where he recognized police and fire the officials for outdepartments of the standing service three communities, during the pandemas well as medical ic. service representaThe Church Withtives from Mount out Walls is a minisSinai South Nassau try of Perfecting in Oceanside, NYU Faith Church, which Langone in Mineola, McClurkin founded Nassau University in 2001. Each sum- DoNNiE Medical Center in mer, from the first MCCluRkiN East Meadow and S u n d ay o f Ju l y Northwell Health. Senior pastor, through the first After the awards Sunday of Septem- Perfecting Faith ceremony, McClurber, the Perfecting Church kin admonished the Faith team holds an crowd concerning outdoor worship serthe Covid-19 vacvice on a large cines. “Do not believe the selfmobile stage with a 40-foot-tall appointed epidemiologists on scrim set up in the parking lot of Facebook and Instagram,” he Roosevelt Mall, on Nassau Road said. “They are self-proclaimed in Roosevelt. ‘experts’ that have no experience Service organizations set up whatsoever. Please get your tents and tables during these ser- infor mation from the right vices. Health screenings, insur- sources . . . I’m not getting into ance signups and access to social services are made available. Continued on page 15
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ToMMy FaMiGliETTi oN the dock of the mint-green bay house that he co-constructed with Sue Lyons on Meadow Island.
New bay house continues a Long Island tradition By REiNE BEThaNy rbethany@liherald.com
Where Hempstead Bay meets Jones Bay, on the southeastern edge of marshy Meadowbrook Island, five houses sit. They are off the grid and accessible only by boat. Their existence has a complex history. Their occupants are people whose lives are inseparable from Long Island’s shores and waters. Hitching a boat ride to one bay house with its co-
owner, Freeport resident Sue Lyons, takes a passenger to a universe quite apart from the bustle of today’s Long Island villages. “I grew up on the water in Baldwin and lived on the South Shore my whole life — 65 years now,” Lyons said. One of her brothers had leased a bay house when he was first married, which Lyons often visited. “I have searched for a bay house on Meadow Island for at least 40 years,” Lyons said.
Her father, who owned a construction business, trained her and her siblings in all the necessary waterrelated skills — “tides, channels, navigation, fishing, clamming, erosion,” Lyons said as she piloted her centerconsole outboard boat into a stiff wind. The steel-gray waves appeared low, but their frequent jolts against the boat bottom made the ride reminiscent of driving the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in a Continued on page 14
he mayor of Freeport is more important to Freeport than the president of the United States.