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Senior Spotlight By John Toscano
Mayor's Senior Services Changes Threatened By Assembly-Passed Bill
      The controversial plan by the city's Department for the Aging which proposes changes in home meal delivery and senior center operations would be stopped dead in its tracks under a bill passed by the Democrat-controlled Assembly in the waning hours of the legislative session last
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Medicare Improvement Passed In House By Wide Margin
      A bipartisan bill outlining improvements in the Medicare program passed the House last week by a whopping 355- 59 vote.
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Hanac Senior Housing Facility Gets $600G Fed Funding Infusion
      Officials from HANAC, an Astoria based social services organization, received a grant of $600,000 in federal funds last week to help finance construction of a 93-unit senior residence on the site now occupied by the Presbyterian Church of Astoria at 31-30 33rd St., Astoria.
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