Shoreacres declares April 24 as LyondellBasell Day in honor of Global Care Day - City honors company for tremendous help after Hurricane Ike
SHOREACRES (April 15, 2010) – In a proclamation issued last Tuesday (April 13) during the City of Shoreacres City Council meeting, Mayor Jayo Washington declared April 24, LyondellBasell’s Global Care Day, as LyondellBasell Day in the city of Shoreacres.
“This award is in recognition and appreciation of the tremendous support received from LyondellBasell and its volunteers over several years, but especially after Hurricane Ike,” the mayor said. April 24 is LyondellBasell’s annual Global Care Day during which employee volunteers at facilities circling the globe take on projects in their communities in order to make that community a better place to live and work. This year, 65 communities in 20 countries where the company operates will benefit from Global Care Day. This will be the third year that LyondellBasell has worked in Shoreacres. In 2008, LyondellBasell volunteers built a garden, fence and irrigation system for the city of Shoreacres’ City Hall during Global Care Day, but Hurricane Ike devastated the city and the project. Employees decided to go back in 2009 to restore the garden and help give the city its beauty -- and hope -- back.
This year, LyondellBasell employees, along with family members, contractors and friends, will re-plant trees destroyed by Ike in Shoreacres’ Circle Park, a project originally planted in 2006 by company volunteers who used a company grant to purchase the trees. Other projects in the greater Houston area will include work at San Jacinto Battleground & Battleship Texas Park, Bayshore Elementary in La Porte, North Pointe Elementary in Houston’s Clear Lake Area, a Pasadena homeless shelter, Rebuilding Together projects (repairing homes of elderly residents) in Pasadena, Cloverleaf and Highlands, Armand Bayou Nature Center in Pasadena, baseball fields in Galena Park; an east Houston city park in the Oak Meadows neighborhood, Sheldon Elementary, Crenshaw Elementary in Channelview, Hermann Park in Houston and landscaping the new Liverpool City Hall.
Global Care Day began 10 years ago as a way to reach out to local communities where the company operates. Global Care Day challenges employees worldwide to participate in community service above and beyond ongoing community involvement activities with a special project on the same day. Each participating site selects a project that meets the following criteria: It addresses a community need, it is aligned with one of the company’s community-relations focus-areas of education, environmental quality or community sustainability and the result will be a visible improvement because of employee involvement. More information can be found at: http://www.lyondellbasell.com/globalcareday or find us on Facebook. Search for LyondellBasell Global Care Day.
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Mayor Jayo Washington of the city of Shoreacres (right) presents Gayden Cooper and Mike Wagner, both of LyondellBasell, with a proclamation naming April 24 (Global Care Day) as LyondellBasell Day in Shoreacres. The honor was given because of the many ways the company and its employees helped the city before and after Hurricane Ike, including several Global Care Day projects. This year, LyondellBasell will re-plant trees in Shoreacres Circle Park. The original trees, planted by LyondellBasell in 2006, were destroyed by Hurricane Ike in 2008.