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Carpenter helps after girl's wheelchair ramp is stolen

A Ronkonkoma carpenter and his son helped out

A Ronkonkoma carpenter and his son helped out a mother and her 5-year-old disabled daughter by building a temporary wheelchair ramp to replace one that had been stolen from their Mastic home. Videojournalist: James Carbone (Dec. 6, 2012) (December 6, 2012 8:10 PM)

When David Lohr heard someone had stolen a Mastic home's portable wheelchair ramp -- one used daily by a disabled 5-year-old girl -- he did more than shake his head.

The Ronkonkoma carpenter and his son went to the Carleton Avenue house loaded with spare wood and spent 90 minutes Thursday making a temporary replacement ramp for Evelynn Biondo.

"Some people are really bad, so we had to...

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