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Community Creating a real community involves more than building concrete structures. Lehigh Southwest Cement believes in contributing to communities at all levels and we are very proud to have helped many important and deserving organizations. Lehigh Southwest Cement and their employees have contributed funds, time, products and support to many humanitarian, sports and community organizations. Concord Office The Human Race Concord office employees (and their dogs) participate each year in the three mile "Human Race" walk around Lafayette Reservoir. Pledge money for this state-wide community fund-raising event supports over 101 non-profit agencies. Adopt-A-Family Program Concord employees have participated in the "Holiday Adopt-A-Family" program organized by the Volunteer Center of Contra Costa, buying and wrapping gifts and practical items for each member of a designated family and a senior citizen. Angel Tree Program Christmas Tree wish lists, completed by children from families in need in the Concord area, decorate the lunchroom at the Concord office. Employees select one or several children, buying and wrapping the gifts on the wish lists. Concord employees have provided gifts for as many as 30 children each year under this program. Also as part of the Angel Campaign, during December volunteers from the Concord office participated in a 20-day program at Barnes & Noble, gift wrapping for customers in exchange for donations to the Las Trampas organization for developmentally disabled adults. Battered Women's Alternatives Employees from the Concord office have donated several cartons of shampoos, soaps and other toiletries to the Battered Women's Center in Concord. The Center desperately needs supplies for these women, who often arrive with only the clothes they wear. Salvation Army All of the proceeds from the very successful 75th Anniversary Casino Night Dinner Dance organized by the Concord Office Events Committee, at the Claremont Hotel in June 2000, were donated to the Salvation Army. Redding Cement Plant The Redding plant offers plant tours to elementary and high school groups, Cal State Chico engineering student groups and retirement groups, in addition to annual Open-to-the-Public tours. The Redding plant has also made its on-site meeting facility, the Shasta House, available for local civic groups. Donations of money and materials, concrete and cement, have been made to many local groups and associations, including the Living Memorial Sculpture Garden, local schools, Rotary Club fund raisers, Shasta County Search & Rescue and the American Cancer Society. Redding employees have volunteered and participated in many community services, including, Lake Shasta Thrash the Trash Cleanup Day, local blood drives, the Annual Multiple Sclerosis Walkathon, the Channel 9 Academic Challenge, local high school scholarship programs and the Lehigh Southwest Classic Basketball Tournament. Tehachapi Cement Plant Lehigh Southwest Tehachapi plant regularly holds plant tours for local schools, businesses and related industries. The plant financially supports the Tehachapi High School's participation in NASA's International Space Settlement Design Competition. For the past four years, the team from Tehachapi has been selected as one of the eight finalists in the competition. Funds provided by the Lehigh Southwest plant have helped send the team to Florida for the Finalist Competition. Donations from Lehigh Southwest have helped support the Mojave Movement Arts Center, which sponsors and pays for ballet lessons for underprivileged children. Standard Concrete Products Employees from Standard support and participate in many local charitable functions, including the Orange County AIDS Walk, the Children's Hospital of Orange County/Disneyland Community Walk, Cancer Research Walkathon and the KLOS (local radio station) blood drive. Employees from the Santa Ana office and the plants participated in the Santa Monica Beach Clean-Up 2000. Standard has donated loads of concrete to a beautification project at a local Alternative School and sand for a playground at the Women's Transitional Living Center. Employees from the sales department participated in a project for Home Aid in which they helped renovate a home for a family in need, including pouring and finishing a concrete patio. Office and plant employees adopted a family in need through the Orange County Child Abuse Prevention Center, buying Christmas gifts for a mother and her seven children, and contributed clothing to a local organization, "Sheepfold". Standard Concrete encourages employee participation in our communities through matching contributions to these organizations. Calaveras Materials Inc. CMI has been nominated by U.S. Representative George Radonivich to receive The Points of Light Foundation's 2000 Awards for Excellence in Corporate Community Service. CMI offers rewards and matching contributions for community involvement by its employees. This program is consistent with CMI's vision of "working together to build our communities" and its goal to "increase involvement in our communities". |
