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efforts such as the Houston Hispanic Forum’s Career and
Education Day, Junior Achievement and National Scholars
Initiative. The Houston Independent School District
recognized our 24-year partnership with the district by
inducting CenterPoint Energy into the HISD Hall of Fame.
In Mississippi, the Ridgeland Chamber of Commerce
recognized district manager Tina Lakey for her work with
the Junior Diplomat program, which prepares future leaders.
Stuart Mouton, a senior service technician in Abbeville, La.,
taught fourth graders that recognizing the odor of natural
gas could save their lives.
CenterPoint Energy’s sense of community stretches beyond
our service territory. Our company and employees donated
$135,000 to aid tsunami victims in southeast Asia. Our
employees spent weeks away from home helping restore
power to hurricane-ravaged Florida and Alabama. And the
children of the Destino del Reino orphanage in Honduras
will remember their CenterPoint Energy friends who built
the power lines that brought them electricity.
Caring for the environment
CenterPoint Energy cares about the environment in the
communities where we live. Several organizations recognized
us in 2004 for the work we have done to preserve our
environment. In Minnesota, employees are helping restore
indigenous species of plants at the Dakota Peak Shaving
Station in the Minnesota River Valley.
“Trees make our communities more livable,” wrote The
National Arbor Day Foundation when it named CenterPoint
Energy a Tree Line USA Utility in recognition of our “national
leadership in caring for trees while meeting service
objectives.” Tree Line USA is sponsored in cooperation with
the National Association of State Foresters.
CenterPoint Energy received the Mayor’s Proud Partners
award from Houston Mayor Bill White and the Keep
Houston Beautiful program after our volunteers helped
remove 11 tons of trash from a two-plus mile stretch of
Galveston Bay shoreline.
The National Pollution Prevention Roundtable presented
CenterPoint Energy’s ENERGY STAR program a national
award for helping prevent pollution through the construction
of more energy efficient homes.
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WE SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL
EFFORTS THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITIES
WHERE WE PROVIDE SERVICE