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Town lends a hand to boating safety reform

August 11, 2012 7:46 PM By JOYE BROWN joye.brown@newsday.com

Police tow in the Kandi Won, a 34-foot

Photo credit: Kevin P Coughlin | Police tow in the Kandi Won, a 34-foot Silverton cabin-cruiser that capsized on July 4 to the Oyster Bay Marine Center where it was taken out of the water. Three children on board the vessel died when the boat overturned after returning from viewing a fireworks display. (July 11, 2012)

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'I don't think I've ever seen so much pain on somebody's face," Pamela Setchell, president of the Huntington Lighthouse Preservation Society, said last week.

She was referring to Lisa Gaines, mother of Victoria, one of three children who died July 4 when the Kandi Won capsized after a fireworks display in Oyster Bay Harbor.

Last week, Gaines sat in the meeting room of Huntington Town...

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