LyondellBasell Volunteers Make a Difference

LyondellBasell Volunteers Make a Difference in Houston Area on Global Care Day

Star of Hope Gets Facelift; Partnering with Trees for Houston & La Porte; lean-Up Preps for 175th Anny at San Jacinto Battleground

HOUSTON (April 6, 2011) – The 12th annual LyondellBasell Global Care Day is a worldwide community service initiative involving thousands of volunteers at 64 sites in 24 countries where the company has operations.

LyondellBasell’s Houston-area volunteers will lend a hand to the Star of Hope Mission with interior painting and improvements; maintenance for the gazebo, park benches and children’s play areas; and a donation of items to help shelter residents.

Volunteers also will join Trees for Houston and the city of La Porte by transforming an overgrown La Porte lot into a tree farm, including the seeding of 2,500 trees that will be used in the future in public areas and green spaces throughout the greater Houston area. At the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site, volunteers will continue Hurricane Ike clean-up and improve wildlife areas in preparation for its 175th anniversary celebration.

WHO

Over 1,500 volunteers from LyondellBasell, including employees, family members and friends; and volunteers and staff from the Star of Hope, Trees for Houston, San Jacinto Battleground and other organizationsbeing helped by 14 projects in greater Houston.

WHEN

Saturday, April 9, 2011; 8:30 a.m. - noon 
Best photo op time: 9-11 a.m.

WHERE 

Star of Hope – 419 Dowling St, Houston 77003
Tree Farm – behind La Porte Recreation Fitness Center, 1322 S. Broadway, La Porte 77571
San Jacinto Battleground Park – 3523 Independence Parkway,
La Porte, 77571
Other Houston-area sites - see attached list

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ADDITIONAL HOUSTON AREA PROJECTS:

• Alvin City Hall --  30+ volunteers from Chocolate Bayou Polymers will be working at City Hall to improve the grounds with new plants, improved and raised flower beds and general cleanup. A statue of Alvin’s favorite citizen, Nolan Ryan, will be stabilized to ensure it will be there for the long term.
• Channelview Children’s Project: LyondellBasell Channelview Complex volunteers and their children will paint and decorate coffee mugs as gifts for local senior residents.
• Sheldon Lake Estates: 50+ volunteers from the Channelview Complex will partner with residents to plant native grass in the neighborhood common areas; refurbish garden areas used for student education projects and help landscape.
• Channelview Senior Citizen Home Repair Projects: 50+ volunteers from LyondellBasell Channelview Complex will work with local faith-based groups to help area seniors with projects around their home and yards that need attention.
• Galena Park’s Evelyn Churchill Community Center: Houston Refining volunteers will give this active community center a much deserved facelift with new doors, new park benches and a landscape redesign for an inviting new look.
• La Porte Animal Shelter: While the shelter does its very best to place needy animals with families, it lacks a welcoming environment for prospective pet owners to interact with the abandoned animals and see them as loving pets. The Bayport Polymers Plant volunteers will build an inviting area for future “best friends” to interact, which shelter employees say will increase an animal’s adoptability. The area also will be used to exercise animals and as an educational and presentation area.
• La Porte Kids Count Foundation: Bayport Underwood Plant volunteers will help children at the St. John’s After-School Program have a safer, brighter playground by building a fence, painting playground equipment, landscaping and performing carpentry.
• La Porte, Morgan’s Point, Shoreacres LEPC Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day: Volunteers from LyondellBasell’s Bayport and La Porte plants will help the Local Emergency Planning Committee collect and sort household hazardous waste.
• Pasadena’s Vermillion Park: Houston Refining volunteers will team up to refurbish Vermillion Park in Pasadena. TLC efforts will include painting playground equipment and picnic tables; installing new bollards, a privacy fence and two barbecue pits; and landscaping the front entrance.
• Rio Villa Neighborhood: 50+ volunteers from LyondellBasell’s Channelview Complex will pitch in to clear debris, remove trash and help residents clean alongside Wallisville Road in the Rio Villa neighborhood area.
• Seabrook’s Bay Elementary (Clear Creek ISD): An outdoor classroom built as a 2006 Global Care Day project will grow this Saturday with six raised vegetable beds, a new storage shed for gardening tools, a crushed granite pathway to make the area handicap-accessible, new composters and an irrigation system. Approximately 150 volunteers from the Bayport Choate Plant will work with the school on this environmental project to teach schoolchildren the wonders of nature.