Community Corner
Correction: Lenten Service Offerings at Five Churches to Help Bakanic Family Rebuild
Local churches announce various Lenten service fundraisers, including a gift certificate from Riverhead Building Supply for the Bakanic family of Southold.
Beginning March 16, members of churches in the Mattituck-Cutchogue Clergy Association will donate offerings received at Lenten services this week to two worthy causes: for their Camp Good Grief, and a gift certificate to Riverhead Building Supply to help the Bakanic family of Southold rebuild following a fire that destroyed their home two weeks ago.
Lenten services will be held at the following churches for the next five Wednesdays: , , , , and .
John and Janine Bakanic and their daughter Jessie were not home at 3:45 p.m. on Feb. 25, when an completely gutted their home on North Bayview Road. Several on North Fork Patch and on Facebook to offer help to the Bakanics, and Agway in Southold created a fund to help take care of the family's horses and chickens.
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If you would like to help, please make your check out to The Mattituck-Cutchogue Clergy Assoc., and mail it to the Mattituck Presbyterian Church, P O Box 1411, Mattituck, NY 11952, attn: Caren.
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