For Immediate Release
Contact: Robin Blut
Keep Houston Beautiful
713-839-8855
MAYOR BROWN
and KEEP HOUSTON BEAUTIFUL
HOUSTON (October 15, 2002) . . . Houston Mayor Lee P. Brown and Keep Houston Beautiful will honor The Redstone Companies as the Outstanding Proud Partner of the Year. The company feels environmental stewardship is not only the right thing to do for the community, but also makes good business sense. It maintains a notable track record of setting high standards for recycling programs at The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa and water conservation, wetland preservation, pollution control and habitat protection at its many golf courses.
J.W. “Jack” Bowen will receive the first Lifetime Achievement Award. Twelve other Proud Partners recipients will be recognized at the 18th Annual Mayor’s Proud Partners Luncheon. The winners will be recognized on Monday, October 21 at Noon at the Doubletree Hotel on Post Oak Blvd.
“I never fail to be amazed by what a group of dedicated volunteers can do to transform our wonderful city,” said Mayor Brown. “Projects that truly enhance daily life for all of us in Houston have no trouble attracting our city’s many fine volunteers and the support they need to get the job done.”
For eighteen years, Keep Houston Beautiful has recognized individuals and organizations who help make Houston a cleaner and more beautiful city. The award winners are honored for their efforts to improve the environment, enhance quality of life and build community pride.
This year, Penny and John Butler, are chairing the luncheon. Penny Butler has been involved with Keep Houston Beautiful as a Houston Clean City Commissioner for 10 years.
Contact: Seliece Caldwell
Vice President, Marketing
Redstone Golf Management
2200 Post Oak Blvd., Ste. 707
Houston, Texas 77056
(713) 622-2090
Receiving the 2002 Outstanding Proud Partner Award is The Redstone Companies. David Shindeldecker, President and Co-CEO will accept the award on behalf the investment firm. The Redstone Companies, a Houston based firm, has long maintained high standards for ecological enhancement. The company practices responsible environmental stewardship while conducting its three primary business lines: financial services, private equity investment and golf course development.
2002 Lifetime Achievement Award
Contact: Annabella Sahakian
Williams
2800 Post Oak Blvd.
Houston, Texas 77056
(713) 215-3136
The 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award will be given to J.W. “Jack” Bowen for his longtime commitment to Keep Houston Beautiful. Bowen was one of the KHB’s founders, earliest supporters and a guardian angel for the organization. The one-time CEO and Board Chairman of Transco Energy Company encouraged Houston Civic leadership to get involved in cleaning up the city. Along with Howard Rambin and Bob Horton, they created HALT (Houston Anti-Litter Team), which eventually over the years evolved into Keep Houston Beautiful.
Other Proud Partner Award recipients:
Contact: Tom Knudson
ConocoPhillips
600 N. Dairy Ashford
Houston, Texas 77079
(281) 293-2685
Tom Knudson, Senior Vice President of Government Relations and Communications, will be accepting the award on behalf of ConocoPhillips for their clean up efforts after Tropical Storm Allison in the Fifth Ward. ConocoPhillips has long been connected to the area through the Keep 5 Alive program and, as a result, was able to move quickly to alleviate suffering despite dangerous conditions. Packets of information were distributed to each resident on disaster relief assistance resources, tips for drying out belongings, and other recovery instructions and disposable cameras for documenting damage for government assistance purposes.
Contact: James R. Murphy
General Manager
Westchase District
10375 Richmond, Ste. 1175
Houston, Texas 77042
(713) 780-9434
The Westchase District in partnership with Tishman Speyer Properties, Moody Rambin Interests, Griffin Juban Properties and BMC Software landscaped five esplanades on Briar Forest west of Beltway 8. The design of the esplanades coordinated with the District’s landscaping projects on Gessner, Harwin, Westpark and Rogerdale. New berms were added along with hundreds of bushes, flowers, groundcover and dozens of trees including Bradford Pears, Live Oaks and Drake Elms.
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and Outdoor Science Lab
Condit Elementary School PTO
Contact: Karen Erwin
Co-chair Outdoor Science Lab/Condit Kids for Clean Air
Condit Elementary
7000 So. Third Street
Bellaire, Texas 77401
(713) 666-6539
Despite having the smallest campus of any HISD elementary school with no room for an indoor science lab, Condit Elementary now has an outdoor science lab where students can learn far more in a hands-on environment. The PTO raised $20,000 in donations and created a small pond for studying aquatic plants and animals, a butterfly and bird garden to observe lifecycles and migration, a weather station for learning meteorology, an ozone monitoring system for tracking pollution, and a geologic garden for examining rock formation.
Crescent Real Estate Gives Trees a New Home
Crescent Real Estate Equities, Inc.
Contact: Jane Page
Senior Vice President
Crescent Real Estate Equities, Inc.
2000 Post Oak Blvd., Ste. 1950
Houston, Texas 77056
In preparing to construct 5 Houston Center, Crescent Real Estate Equities saved 15 mature trees on site from destruction by finding the trees new homes instead. Working with Maplewood South/North Civic Association, Trees for Houston and the City of Houston’s Forestry Department the 25 and 30-foot tall trees were moved to an esplanade across form Fondren Middle School. The project took a week to complete.
Global IMPACT Day
Northside Village Super
Neighborhood
Northside Redevelopment Center
Deloitte Consulting
Contacts: Vincent Marquez
Executive Director
Northside Redevelopment Center
2223 N. Main
Houston, Texas 77009
(713) 228-3778
Susan Sample
Deloitte Consulting
333 Clay, Ste. 2300
Houston, Texas 77002
(713) 982-4858
Designs developed by children from the Northside area were used to install a playground in just one day in Moody Park. This project was a part of Deloitte Consulting’s Global IMPACT Day Initiative. Nearly 200 volunteers, with 150 from Deloitte, were involved building this much needed and colorful play area for children ages two to five.
ArtworkZ Public Art and Design Program
Reginald Adams/MOCAH
Contact: Reginald Adams
MOCAH
2500 Summer St.
3rd Floor Suite C
Houston, TX 77007
(713) 864-2780
Over the last seven years, artist Reginald Adams has instructed thousands of school children and painted dozens of murals through unique community enhancement projects. As a result, he has created the Museum of Cultural Arts Houston which includes the ArtworkZ public art program. To date, 23 public art projects in Houston have been completed with the involvement of hundreds of youth. The youth involved in these projects undergo a transformation in the way they view their schools and neighborhoods. They develop a sense of pride and ownership while giving to their communities.
Houston’s Debris Management Plan
City of Houston Solid Waste Management Department
Contact: Daniel M. Gutierrez
Deputy Director of Support Services
Solid Waste Management Department
611 Walker
Houston, Texas 77002
(713) 837-9156
The City of Houston’s Debris Management Plan provides a unified and coordinated approach in responding to any major debris producing disaster such as hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and explosions. Developed over a number of years, the Debris Management Plan was put to an extreme test in the aftermath of the devastating Tropical Storm Allison. The plan succeeded. Without interruption to normal trash, an additional 650,000 cubic yards of debris or a routine year’s worth of trash, was removed in just two months. The plan also protects the City from price gouging by contractors, provides quality control and the ability to measure the amount of debris moved.
Keep 5 Alive/Sims Bayou Trash Bash
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Contact: Terrell Hunt
The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
2147 Kipling Street
Houston, Texas 77098
(832) 594-5505
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has provided immense volunteer manpower for nine years to Keep 5 Alive and for three years to the Sims Bayou Trash Bash. Second only to ConocoPhillip’s involvement, the number of church volunteers has ranged from 90 to 425 to help in the annual Fifth Ward cleanup. In particular, the Church has made a special effort to recruit its youth for the project.
Long Point Esplanade Beautification Project
Spring Branch Medical Center
Contact: Kim Long
Spring Branch Medical Center
8850 Long Point
Houston, Texas 77035
(713) 722-3785
When the City of Houston widened Long Point between Campbell and Hollister, esplanades were created down the middle of the expanded roadway. Spring Branch Medical Center decided to make sure that their stretch of Long Point was as beautiful and cheerful as it could be by adopting the esplanades in front of the hospital and professional buildings. More than $130,000 was spent to install irrigation systems and landscaping materials including trees for the four esplanades.
Spring Shadows Esplanades
MetroNational and Spring Shadows Civic Association
Contact: Jim Jard
President
MetroNational
820 Gessner, Ste. 1800
Houston, Texas 77024
(713) 973-3523
Since 1980, more than three miles of 32 landscaped and irrigated esplanades, and another three miles of turfed berms with live oak trees have been created by MetroNational for the Spring Shadows community. In fact, MetroNational created an in-house landscape services division to undertake this extraordinary and unprecedented civic enhancement project along parts of Gessner and Clay Roads, Kempwood Drive, CentrePark Boulevard, Shadowdale and Durban. MetroNational also provides ongoing maintenance of the esplanades as a part of the deed of gift agreement with the City of Houston.
The Cool Green Corridor
ChevronTexaco and The Houston Parks Board, Inc.
Contacts: Mickey Driver
Public Affairs Manager
ChevronTexaco
1111 Bagby, Room 2472
Houston, Texas 77002
(713) 752-6458
Deborah Rule
Houston Parks Board, Inc.
2002 Kirby
Houston, Texas 77019
(713) 942-8500
The Cool Green Corridor is a vital land connection between Hunting Bayou and the Greens Bayou watersheds. It was created from land that was assembled by a 23-acre purchase by the Houston Parks Board, a seven-acre donation from Chevron Texaco and other smaller donations of land from local owners. This project not only increased the size of wildlife habitat, it also enables the wide variety of animals to move about freely without human contact.
United Way Kids’ Way
Williams
Contact: Charlene Floyd
Manager, Community Relations
Williams
2800 Post Oak Blvd., Level 4
Houston, Texas 77056
(713) 215-3132
The United Way’s Kids Way program is designed to instill in youth a sense of responsibility for the welfare of others. The 2001 Kids’ Way Park Project focused on Dominion Park in Acres Homes, which was selected by the Kids’ Way Youth Advisory Committee after an extensive review process and site visits. More than 100 volunteers from Williams, churches, students and the United Way braved inclement weather and devoted hours of work into constructing the park. The youth saw first-hand the problems and needs other youth face and how diverse groups can come together for the benefit of the community.