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Food pantry thankful for heat, at least

Wally Merna stands next to the recently fixed

Photo credit: Steve Pfost | Wally Merna stands next to the recently fixed sinks in the woman's bathroom inside the The LI Council of Churches food pantry in Freeport. (Dec. 5, 2011)

Joye Brown

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Wally Merna, a United Church of Christ chaplain who runs the LI Council of Churches emergency food pantry for Nassau County in Freeport, was pleased when he got to work Monday morning.

There was heat.

That was no small thing in a county-owned building where there'd been none until then.

The lack of heat isn't the only thing wrong with the building.

There's a hole -- you can...

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