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Acclaim and a Shame for Oct. 12, 2009
Published October 12, 2009
BASF school supply drive fills important need.
Thanks to the employees at BASF’s Freeport site, many local kids will have all the tools they need to do well at school.
The 20-plus employees staged a remarkable three-day school supply drive benefiting students in Brazosport ISD recently. The workers generously contributed thousands of items, including pens, pencils, crayons, folders, glue, notebook paper and spiral notebooks. BASF sweetened the pot by donating another 2,000 colored pencils on top of what the employees were able to raise.
BISD Media Services Coordinator Karla Christman said the supplies are needed and will be put to good use because she said more than 50 percent of the 13,025 students in the district are classified as economically disadvantaged and all 19 BISD campuses have students who need assistance with basic school supplies every year.
“BISD is grateful for BASF’s generous donations of school supplies,” Christman said. “We would like to thank all of the BASF employees who gave so graciously from their hearts for our students in BISD.”
The folks at BASF and all others across the county who donated school supplies in this drive or various others throughout the area all deserve a big pat on the back. Now students have a better chance to succeed.
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Group hopes project isn’t fur in the future
An Alvin animal society has big plans that it hopes will soon be making things better for both pets and animal lovers.
The city has long been in need of a replacement for its cramped and aging animal shelter. A former gas station more than 40 years old, the facility can hold a maximum of 40 animals.
“It’s small and the city has outgrown it,” City Councilman Jim Landriault said. “We are going to have to do something eventually.”
A proposed Alvin animal shelter facility would be 9,000 to 12,000 square feet at the current 4.5-acre site, and also would include a dog park and rooms for pet training, said Robert Noerr, president of the Animal Welfare League of Alvin. Noerr said the organization also would like to have areas where folks could groom their pets, and the animals could have privacy.
The animal welfare league is hoping for a $2.2 million grant from a private donor to rebuild the animal shelter, and hopeful that construction can begin by June.
“We are excited right now — we got the initial drawings last week,” Noerr said.
“If we’re not building then, something’s wrong.”
The Animal Welfare League of Alvin deserves praise and support for its plans for a bigger, modern and more people- and animal-friendly shelter.
It not only targets a dire need in Alvin, but improved facilities also could lead to more adoptions and more animals saved.
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