Brooklyn Borough President

BOROUGH PRESIDENT TO WARMLY WELCOME HOME BROOKLYN'S ANTARCTICA EXPLORER

Sunset Park teen environmentalist returns from two-week South Pole sojourn

THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2004
6:00PM – 8:00PM
BROOKLYN BOROUGH HALL
BOROUGH PRESIDENT'S CONFERENCE ROOM
209 JORALEMON STREET
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN

On January 22nd, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez will welcome home Crystal Domenech, the Sunset Park teen who recently returned from a two-week exhibition to Antarctica. The temperature in Brooklyn may not be much higher than at the South Pole, but Domenech will certainly receive a warm Borough Hall reception.

Selected by Congresswoman Velazaquez as one of five New York City teenagers (representing each borough) to head south, Domenech joined 75 students from the U.S., Great Britain, Australia, South Africa and Argentina on the Polar Star icebreaker ship. From December 16th to 30th, the young explorers studied the environment and climate change, played with whales and visited penguin colonies on the frigid continent. The expedition was sponsored by the Canadian organization Students on Ice, and the trips of the five New York City students were funded by philanthropist Harold Snyder.