LyondellBasell employees help community with Global Care Day

lyondellbasell-global-care-day-volunteering-01 — LYONDELLBASELL employees from the Channelview plant, including plant manager Todd Monette, at the center, cleaned and rebuilt a walking trail and memorial planting bed to remember and honor student James Brown, who died 10 years ago.

GALENA PARK: left to right: Raul Mejia the President of the Parks and Recreation Board & the Galena Park Baseball Little League, Ernesto Paredes the Parks and Recreation Director for the City of Galena Park, Maria D. Rodriguez Parks and Recreation Board member, Jerome Mauvigney, Houston Refinery Site Manager, Eric Broussard Parks and Recreation Commissioner for the City of Galena Park, Denise Jennings, Houston Refinery Facilities Services Leader, and John Finck, Houston Refinery Development Leader.

Hundreds clean up, fix up local public facilities

The 17th annual LyondellBasell Global Care Day is a worldwide community service initiative involving thousands of volunteers where the company has operations. Workers from 69 sites in 23 countries are participating.

Employees from several LyondellBasell facilities in this area participated in Global Care projects. These included North Shore Middle School, Thomas Bell Foster Park, Galena Park sports complex, Sheldon Lake Park, and general clean-up around the Channelview plant site.

NORTH SHORE

LYONDELLBASELL employees from the Channelview plant, including plant manager Todd Monette, at the center, cleaned and rebuilt a walking trail and memorial planting bed to remember and honor student James Brown, who died 10 years ago.

Last Saturday approximately 100 volunteers from LyondellBasell’s Houston Engineering Center rebuilt an existing walking trail and memorial that was built for James Brown, a North Shore Middle School student who died 10 years ago. There was a rededication with the Brown family, volunteers, students and North Shore Middle School staff.

GALENA PARK

Eric Broussard, Parks and Recreation Commissioner and the Members of the Parks and Recreation Board, Thank LYONDELLBASELL-HOUSTON REFINERY For doing a project at the Cities Sports Complex for the GLOBAL CARE DAY-2016 on Saturday September 10.

Upgrades to the sport complex with over 200 volunteers included: replacing damage sheet metal and painting chain link fence with silver paint as need at the two baseball fields, use wood/materials to repair bleachers, and repair baseball dugouts, planted native plants, and spreading of dirt to level the area by the concession stand and trimming trees, and placing new picnic tables and benches. All this at no cost to the city Parks and Recreation Department.

Broussard said that the City of Galena Park, Parks and Recreation Department will strive to continue to improve community resources and develop public/private partnerships with non-profit organizations, local corporations and citizens that contribute to favorable environment and encourage high quality park and recreation facilities development for the benefit of the city’s residents, businesses, schools and community alike.

THOMAS BELL FOSTER PARK

Volunteers revitalized a local park along Greens Bayou. Employees and friends gave back on the 17th Annual LyondellBasell Global Care Day.

LyondellBasell Channelview Complex volunteers partnered with the Greens Bayou Corridor Coalition on various projects benefitting Thomas Bell Park.

Some of the projects include planting trees and shrubs at the park, making improvements to a canoe launch from last year’s project along the Greens Bayou and performing maintenance on hiking trails within the park.

Other projects included cleaning county roadways of trash and debris along Wallisville and Sheldon Roads that the site adopted from Harris County and cleaning litter at Sheldon Lake, installing benches and boat tie-offs at Sheldon Lake Park.

Over 300 volunteers from LyondellBasell’s Channelview Complex Including employees, family members and friends; and volunteers were at the two parks.