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Friday, July 8, 2016
Vol. 76, No. 28
LIVING 50 plus
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3rd track foe backs Phillips’ Senate bid Bill Corbett Sr. says Dem Senate would support Cuomo on plan By N o a h M a n s k a r The leader of a group opposing the Long Island Rail Road’s proposed third track has thrown his support behind Republican Elaine Phillips for state Senate, saying a GOP majority is key to blocking the project. Floral Park attorney Bill Corbett, head of the coalition group Citizens Against Rail Expansion, or CARE, said he thinks a Democrat replacing state Sen. Jack Martins (R-Old Westbury), a staunch opponent of the $1.5 billion project, would likely bend to political pressure from Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo to fund it. “We know that a Democratic Assembly will give him whatever he wants and we know that a Democratic Senate will do the same, so it’s important that the Republican Party keep control of the Senate,” Corbett said. Phillips, mayor of the Village of Flower Hill, and Democrat Adam
Haber of East Hills, a Roslyn school board trustee and former Nassau Interim Finance Authority board member, are running to replace Martins in the 7th Senate District as he runs for Congress. Corbett, a registered Republican, said Phillips assured him in three meetings that she would block state funding for the plan Cuomo announced in January for a third track along the LIRR’s Main Line between Floral Park and Hicksville. Corbett sent an email June 29 encouraging CARE supporters to attend Phillips’ campaign launch event June 30. About half a dozen showed up, he said. Corbett only speaks for himself in endorsing Phillips, he said, but CARE could agree to support her collectively after its dozens of members meet later this summer. Several other members have told Corbett they think it’s important to keep Martins’ seat Republican, he said. Continued on Page 58
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Tasting the Willistons The Chamber of Commerce of the Willistons held its inaugural Flavor of the Willistons event June 29. See story on page 3.
Disability no obstacle to fulfilling dream by G a b r i e ll e D e o n at h
becoming high school valedictorian. “People underestimate me,” Four years ago, when Chris said Alvarez, 18. “Doctors told Alvarez started ninth grade at me I would die at age 5, but I’m the Henry Viscardi School, he still here. I want to continue to already had his sights set on show people that they shouldn’t
underestimate me because of my disability.” Alvarez began his journey at the Viscardi School, a school for students with severe physical disabilities in Albertson, in pre-K. Continued on Page 57
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