WESTCHESTER SENIORS GATHER WITH PEERS FROM ACROSS THE STATE TO DISCUSS CRITICAL ISSUES FOR SENIORS
WITH STATE LEGISLATORS

MEDIA ADVISORY: May 3, 2005

WHO: Three busloads of the County’s seniors, accompanied by Westchester County Legislators Bernice Spreckman (R-I-C-WF, Yonkers), Chair of the Board’s Committee on Seniors, José Alvarado (D-I-WF, Yonkers), Vito Pinto (D-I-WF, Eastchester) and Lois Bronz (D-I-WF, White Plains), will travel to Albany to lobby Westchester’s state delegation.

WHAT: Grassroots Senior Citizens Day is an organized statewide effort that gives seniors a forum to discuss critical issues impacting seniors with state representatives. The Albany program will begin at 10:30 AM in Hearing Room B, Legislative Office Building and concludes at 2:30 PM.

WHERE: Yonkers busload of seniors, accompanied by Legislators Spreckman and Alvarado, will depart from the Coyne Park Seniors Center, 777 McClean Avenue, Yonkers, at 7:30 AM.

WHEN: Wednesday, May 4 at 7:30 AM from three Westchester locations in Yonkers, White Plains and Mt. Vernon; return buses will depart from Albany at the program’s conclusion at approximately 2:30 PM.

WHY: Senior citizens from across the state are gathering to voice their positions on a variety of issues of particular concern to seniors. Each group will meet with its area’s state delegation.

Topics include the future of EPIC and the Medicare drug benefit; the privatization of Social Security; Family Health Care Decisions Act; and, Grandparents Rights.

Westchester’s legislators will present the state delegation with a Resolution passed by the County’s Board of Legislators calling upon the Governor and state representatives to preserve the EPIC program.