August 21, 2003
August 20, 2003
ROSELEEN GETS THE SHOT!
Rain or shine...the job must get done! Here, Roseleen composes her photographs under the safety of an umbrella, being careful to keep the digital camera dry. The photos that the girls have been taking will be seen in the next "Girls Out Loud" environmental issue.
STORM IS COMING!
Brian continues the tour of his farm inspite of the ominous clouds brewing. I guess one has to be tough out here in the country. We all know that soon we will be soaked!
BEATRICE GETS THE SHOT!
Beatrice begins photographing Brian's lovely tomato plants with the digital Olympus 5.0 megapixel camera donated by world renown photojournalist, Susan Meiselas.
RENEE GETS THE INTERVIEW!
Brian agrees to be interviewed by the very persuasive Renee, for our newspaper, "Girls Out Loud". This next issue covers the enviorment. Call for your copy!
LOOK CLOSELY AT THIS!
Brian gave us lots of information about tomatoes and answered all questions.
We were very engaged.
I LOVE MY FARM!
Brian proudly showed us around his many vegetable fields. We had to keep up with his fast pace!
BOYFRIEND
This is Brian, owner of the Brian-Gajeski Produce/Family Farm in Long Island.
He is holding up a Tshirt that says "NOVIO" which means boyfriend in Spanish.
He welcomed us warmly and gave us a tour of his family farm.
August 19, 2003
Castle on the Hudson
We had seen a castle and it was very old and had caught on fire a long time ago.
photographer & text Lisette
The Scenic Hudson
This is a picture of the Hudson River I took when we were boating.
photographer & text lisette
The Chart of the Hudson
This is Captain's Johns map to show us where we are and how deep and shallow the river is.
photographer & text Lisette
Captain John Drives the Boat
This is Captain John. He’s driving the boat to show us the Hudson River. He taught us how the river works and what it is used for.
photographer& text Lisette
This is Me!
This is me driving the boat up the Hudson River.
photo by June
text Lisette
The Riverkeepers's Hudson River Boat Trip August 6
This is Jennifer. She is driving the boat and had a lot of fun that day. She has on a yellow safety jacket of case she falls in the Hudson river.
photographer & text by Lisette
The River Project by Jennifer Suggs
The River Project is a private, non-profit marine biology field station for the protection and restoration of wildlife through research, education, and hands-on programs in urban ecology. Located at Pier 26 in downtown Manhattan, it is an excellent site to include in our Hudson River (Source to Sister Project). On this visit to the River Project the GALA girls toured the indoor facility, which contains a lot of small aquariums with fish, crabs, eels, and other wildlife from the Hudson River. This wildlife is used in the research to test for water quality of the lower Hudson River (and examine the quality of the city’s drinking water supply). The River Project interns were the leaders of this small tour, which was neat because it was teenagers teaching teenagers, and the girls paid attention. Late the River Project Staff, let small experiments out on the pier, these series of experiments were also testing water quality, level, etc. The girls were particularly interested in this activity because it put their chemistry skills to the test! They were able to see the real life applications of the chemistry experiments in school. From the tour, the girls learned about the Super Fund and how the Hudson River has been undergoing a serious clean up for over twenty years, since the days of heavy pollution in the 1960’s and before. Though the waters are cleaner today they still will not be safe for swimming and or fishing for many years to come.
August 12, 2003
The Two of Us
Here’s a picture of me and Lisette showing off Puerto Rican pride in front of the farmers market mural painted by the famous CHICO!
"Honey Bun" the Dog
Here’s a picture of "Honey" the girls club dog.
photographer Letasha
HIP HOP FRUIT & VEGGIE VIDEO!!!
Here’s Nancy and Lisette looking at our public service video announcement.
photographer Letasha
Fashion Expert
Here’s one of our fashion experts Roseleen modeling some of her newest fashion.
LOOK AT THOSE EYES!
Here’s a picture of my eyes. Aren’t they cool! I took this self portrait at the Farmers Market.
Bye Bye Governors Island! Hello New York City! N.Y.C.
We enjoyed our visit to Governors Island, but we are always happy to come back home! That's Renee doing a piorette!!!
The Statue of Liberty
Here we are on the ferry returning to New York City. That's the Statue of Liberty in the background.
We Make Friends!!
Everywhere we go the Girls Club makes new friends! I enjoyed taking their picture.
photographer Shadae
Let's Live Here!!!
Here we are posing in front of one of the largest mansions on the island.
Eve Interviews Valerie
The question of the day was, "What would you do with Governors Island?"
Monument
Here we are, along with other visitors to the island, entering a huge, majestic monument.
photographer Shadae
View from Governors Island
This is the view from Governors Island, NYC buildings in the background and greenery in the foreground.
photographer Shadae
Governer’s Island by Jennifer Suggs
Governor’s Island is a small island just south of Manhattan Island in New York City. The Girls Club is in Manhattan one of five boroughs or sections of New York City. The other sections are the Bronx, Staten Island, Queens, and Brooklyn. Most of the girls live in Manhattan, but some girls live in the Bronx.
To get to Governors Island, which has just recently been opened to the public,
we took the trains downtown, and then a ferry to the island. The ferry trip was short and upon arriving on the island we promptly started our tour. The 2 hour tour was directed by park rangers. The tour of the island took us through a history from the 16’s to the present. Historical Governors lived there in there colonial days. In the Revolutionary War it served as important military fort, which it remained until the 1940’s when the Coast Guard took it over. The Coast Guard left the island to the city in 1997. We saw two forts, all of the officer’s housing, churches, offices, etc. It was interesting to see the transition in the architecture. It was a beautiful day, and the island was so peaceful, you felt far away from NYC. We got lots of great pictures, and caught the 3pm ferry back across the Hudson to go home.
Subway to Ferry
We take the subway to the ferry to reach Governors Island.
photographer Shadae
Shadae Covers the Storey!
That's me taking my portrait in the subway station with the train speeding by.
That's a portrait of me with the digital camera on the ferry to Governors Island.
Eve Leads the Way to Governor's Island
Eve , our writing teacher, leads the way to Governor's Island the first day it is open to the public!
photographer Shadae
The trip to Governors Island
Our trip to Governors Island was a boring but cool learning experience. Our day was long but interesting.Llike most New Yorkers, our day started of with a train ride to the Governors Island ferry. Once we got to Governors Island we learned about what it was used for. Long ago at one time, it was a fort used for war then it was a housing quarters for the governor and other important government officials. Then it was used as a regular community and now it’s vacant and has no use. On the trip to Governors Island , I made a new friend. His name was James and he was one of the rangers on the island. I think that Governors Island can be put to use in so many ways. For example it could be used as housing for the homeless or for a really important matter we may face and do face, why not use the island to help decrease the population in the city which is why we have such a problem with homelessness now because we are over populated and over crowded.
By Letasha .k. Betancourt
August 09, 2003
Through the Window
I framed this photo of Jessica holding a baby chick through a window at Quail Hill Farm.
photo by Renee
Find Paloma
I was looking for unusual ways to frame my photographs. That's Paloma through the trees.
photographer Rene
Eeco Farm
We visited Eeco farm on Long Island.
photographer Valerie
EECO FARM (East End Community Organic Farm) by Jennifer
Suggs
The EECO farm also has a close relation with the Ross School. This is a new farm with an innovative approach to community farming! The farm rents 42 acres from the town of East Hampton, which is then parceled out to town residents. Each of the parcels is a garden in it of itself, where the “owners” can grow their own choice of vegetables, herbs, flowers. The food grown is consumed by the gardeners and much of it is also given to local food pantries and the Ross School. The EECO farm is starting various youth employment programs which seem to be succeeding thus far. Moreover, EECO farm is eager to educate visiting youth (such as the Girls Club) about their mission and overarching vision. The Girls really loved our short visit to the farm, when were told “if you pick it you can keep it” the girls picked tons of garlic, string beans, and squash blossoms! The ride home was quite funky with all the garlic, but the girls were surprisingly excited to harvest to vegetables.
August 08, 2003
Washington DC Demonstration
In the first picture we where in a rally with other programs. That's the Capital in the background. In the second picture we where walking around demonstrating for child tax laws. In the last picture we all where posing for a photo with Congresswoman Ms. Maloni.
photographer Letasha
Text Yahaira
Why we went to Washington DC
By letasha betancourt
The reason we went to dc was to demonstrate for the new tax law being passed . The reason the law is unfair is that it’s taking money from poor family’s and children who really need it and putting it into rich people and politicians pockets. In my opinion we had a great demonstration we had over 1,000 people from over 20 different non- profit organizations from all over Ny. I firmly believe the leave no child behind law should not be passed.
D C CREW "We Love the Photos!"
Here we are looking at the pictures I took on our trip to Washington D.C. with the Childrens' Defense Fund. We use the ibook to edit our pictures taken with Sony digital cameras.
text by letasha
The Best Job!
I have worked at The LES Girls Club for 6 months in the "Sweetthings" entrepenurial baking program. We make granola cereal and bars, cookies, soap, sofrito, pesto, dried fruits and lemonade. This is the best job that I have had.
I have found my profession!
photo by Lisette
text by Valerie
Neighborhood Guy
I stopped this man in the middle of the street because of his T shirt. He made it himself to honor the musician "Big Pun"
photo & text Renee
Lets Play Ball!!!
This is a picture of Kayann in her softball uniform. She is a member of the Girls Club and stopped by the Farmers market to say hello!
photographer & text Renee
August 07, 2003
Proyecto Story Teller
Neighborhood kids enjoyed making stories at the Farmers market, with Gerardo.
photographer Renee
Painted Body Tatoos
These are examples of different body/face paintings that we do at the Farmer’s Market. The kids loved to come!!
Learning to Knit
This is a picture of Roseleen, Melanie, and Beatrice. They are learning how to knit in the Lower Eastside Girls Club Farmer’s Market. Everyone had trouble starting out but succeeded with practice.
photographer Rene
Texy Melanie
Thank you RIVER KEEPER
Thankyou River Keeper friends for showing us the beauty of the Hudson River and teaching us how important it is to protect it.
photographer Paloma
We Made It!
Here we are with Craig and his assistant in front of the River Keeper Mountain that we had just climbed.
photographer Paloma
text Roselleen
Searching for Ticks
In this photo, Craig is teaching us how to check ourselves for ticks. If there was a tick on us and we did not find it, we could become infected with the painful Lyme disease.
photographer Paloma
text by Melanie
August 06, 2003
Hiking Down the Mountain
It is cool and shady in the heart of the forest, but that does not prevent the girls from feeling as if they are in the midst of a heatwave! Fortunately, the cool breeze coming from the Hudson River helps a little in cooling them down.
photographer Paloma
text Shadae