NYC Empire Dragon Boat Team

Accolades for Angelo Merendino

Angelo Merendino, loving husband of founding member Jennifer Merendino, has received several recognitions of his photographic work documenting Jennifer's heroic battle with cancer. The Empire community wishes to congratulate Angelo on capturing the well-deserved attention to their sharing of such an inspiring story.

CNN.com: "A Battle We Didn't Choose" (1/18/2012)
Named one of the Top 15 exhibits of 2011 submitted to SocialDocumentary.net
"A Husband's Love" featured in WKYC-NBC Channel 3 News Cleveland by Eric Mansfield (November 2011)
Featured in The Cleveland Plain Dealer by Angela Townsend (11/14/2011)

Captain Donna featured in MSK Life

Empire's team Captain, Donna Wilson, is feaured in the September 2011 issue of MSK Life, a quarterly publication for the staff of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Read all about our Captain on page 10!

Empire in MSKCC Bridges Summer 2011 Issue

Read Diane Miller's (founding member of the Empire Dragon Boat Team) article in Memorial Sloan-Kettering's Bridges Summer 2011 issue. She recounts Empire’s first win at the Mercer County Dragon Boat Festival in September 2010, by just half a second.

Sotheby's fundraiser for EDBT!

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FRIDAY, 12 AUGUST 2011 09:31

NEW YORK - On Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011, Sotheby’s will host a reception and fundraiser for the Empire Dragon Boat Team of New York, the city’s first team comprised exclusively of women who have suvived cancer.

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EDBT helps clean up Flushing Bay!!

"With the understanding that our health and future are intricately linked to the condition of our environment, Jennifer Merendino spearheaded a community clean-up of the Flushing Bay promenade shoreline, which then gave rise to the Oyster Gardening Project.

Oyster Gardening is an estuary restoration and stewardship project coordinated by the NY/NJ Baykeeper organization. Oyster Reefs were once commonplace throughout NY estuaries, filtering our waterways, providing protective habitat for wildlife and shorelines. Each adult oyster filters 50 gallons of water each day.

On June 27, members of the Empire Dragon Boat Team (Akila, Risa, Alex, & Ana) a representative from the NYC Parks Dept.(York) and Gustavo traveled to Governor's Island to participate in an Oyster Gardening training provided by NY/NJ Baykeepers. We were then given 500 baby oysters which we transported and placed in Flushing Bay close to where we paddle. For the next year we will be monitoring their condition and growth and compile the data with other envoronmentalists assessing the state of our water ways. It is our hope that this project brings attention to the need to RESTORE Flushing Bay."

Living Beyond Cancer - Empire Dragon Boat Team

Go to page 5 to read about The Empire Dragon Boat team in Memorial Sloan Kettering's Living Beyond Cancer publication!!