Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Highland Way: Leadership To Rebuild - Rep Nydia Velazquez and Rep Ed Towns Visit Highland Park and Ridgewood Reservoir...

Rep Nydia Velazquez and Rep Ed Towns visited Highland Park and the Ridgewood Reservoir with community leaders, residents, environmentalists, education/school advocates and Parks Dept officials...




Rep Nydia Velazquez speaks to the tour participants...(from left Rep Ed Towns, Dennis Moore, Rep Velazquez, me, Roger, William McDonald and Alphonso Cater)


Rep Ed Towns talking to the crowd...from left Paul Kerzner, Rep Ed Towns, Debbie Kuha, me & Rep Velazquez....



Photo from left Ed Kampermann, Ed Town, Carlos Bristol, me, Dennis Moore and Nydia Velazquez...



From left...Gene Burch -Senator Serphin Maltese Community Laison -, me and Randy LaFargue - Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum Community Laison...


Darma Diaz - Assemblyman Darryl Towns - Community Laison


Tony Mammita, Ed Towns and Dennis Moore...


Repelling into the Reservoir basin...


Within Basin 3 confines..from left Mike Feller - Parks Dept Chief Naturalist -, Joel Kupferman (Attorney, New York Environmental Law and Justice Project), Rep Velazquez, Gary Comorau, Rob Jett and Darma Diaz...


Group photo at the end of the tour...


You Tube Video by Samihighlander...
Photos by William McDonald and Evelyn Cruz (date-stamped pics)...