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After tragic deaths, camp seeks sense of normality

Quick ReadOn Wednesday, leaders at Camp Anchor sought to return a sense of normality.

Kevin Richman, a team leader at Camp Anchor

Photo credit: Kevin P. Coughlin | Kevin Richman, a team leader at Camp Anchor in Lido Beach, looks up at a sign in a camp tent renamed in the honor of camp counselor Paige Malone, who died July 15, 2010, in a car crash. (July 21, 2010)

Funerals, wakes and church services remembering the three young counselors at a Lido Beach special-needs camp who died last week in a Meadowbrook State Parkway crash dominated the previous four days.

On Wednesday, leaders at Camp Anchor sought to return a sense of normality to a community of children, young counselors and parents still grieving.

Anchor director Joe Lentini huddled with...

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