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Chapter 12The train from Huntington left a littleearlier, but I always got a seat and the train wasusually waiting. I didn't have to stand on afreezing platform. There was, however, oneproblem. Matthew and Shannon had grown veryattached to their PAL track team. Huntington, amuch larger township, didn’t have a track team.When I suggested to Lyn that we form our owntrack team, she thought I was nuts. I sat down atthe typewriter and wrote a press release about achildren's track team being organized inHuntington and sent it to the Long Islandnewspaper, Newsday. We needed to set up ameeting place, and once again I turned to thechurch. The local Presbyterian church offered itsfacilities for an organizational meeting. Newsdayprinted the press release and about eighty peopleshowed up at the church for the meeting,including parents and members of other racingassociations that wanted to help. We formed ateam and called it "The Huntington Flash." BoxOne donated T-shirts and I wanted the name tohave some relationship to photography. We hadsixteen members ranging from six to twelve yearsold. Lyn became the team manager; sheorganized and communicated. We participated inevents held all over Long Island. We did this tomake our kids happy, but made a lot of other247