VOICE OF ASIA 6 FRIDAY, November 25, 2016

COMMUNITY

SUGAR LAND - Team Industrial Services Inc. has announced plans

to expand their current corpo-rate headquarters in the city of Sugar Land as part of its recent acquisition of the Furmanite Corporation.

An incentive package was created by the City’s Office of Economic Development and was approved by the Sugar Land Development Corpora-tion to secure the retention of 100 jobs and expansion of an additional 113 jobs in Sugar Land.

“The City of Sugar Land is proud to be the home of Team Industrial’s corporate head-quarters,” said SLDC President Steve Porter. “Sugar Land con-tinues to be an economic pow-erhouse in the region thanks to our pro-business climate and family-oriented quality of life. We look forward to a continued partnership with Team.”

Team’s merger with Fur-manite approximately doubles the size of Team’s mechanical services capabilities and estab-lishes a deeper, broader talent and resource pool that better supports customers across stan-dard and specialty mechanical services. With the recent acqui-sition, senior management ex-plored options for consolidation of their corporate headquarters operations and decided to in-crease their existing footprint in Sugar Land.

SUGAR LAND - On November 20, 2016 CRY (Child Rights &

You) hosted its 13th Walk-athon at Lost Creek Park in Sugar Land. CRY Walk was organized across 16 cities this year. CRY America supports organizations in India and the USA and has transformed the life of over 618,915 children across 3084 villages and slums so far.

Mousumi Banerjee, 2016 walk lead, asked Pandit Su-man Ghosh to inaugurate the walk. Guddi Shah and Ravali Bhavaraju did a great job in-troducing the entertainers and keeping things on schedule. Children from Tagore Soci-ety enthralled the audience with their singing and musical talents. Dance numbers cho-reographed by Ruchika Dias of Bollywood Shake kept the crowd entertained. A video showing CRY’s efforts in help-ing children in Sunderbans, West Bengal was played. US Desi Girls danced to the latest Bollywood songs. This was followed by a talk by esteemed guest Dr. Nik Nikam M.D Car-diologist, author & talk show host who also answered ques-tions. Pawan Sonti, Mohan Kothapally & Arushi Banerjee were the top 3 finishers of the 5K run.

Great W’kana café, Madras Pavilion and Kurrywallah pro-vided amazing food for the run-ners and walkers. Murali San-thana and Dr Nik Nikam helped

CRY’s 13th Annual Walkathon – A Step forward for Children

Team Ind. to ex-pand corporate headquarters in Sugar Land

Pandit Suman Ghosh inaugurated the walk, cutting the start ribbon.

Audience watching dance performances by Ruchika Dias.

with photography for social me-dia and print. Indira Bhavaraju, a CRY volunteer and Dharam Bali, national advisor for CRY helped with the logistics of the event. Student volunteers helped with registration, face painting and other tasks at the event.

CRY America thanks all the sponsors, media and volunteers

who helped make this event a big success. People can donate by going to www.cryamerica.org and finding “CRY Walk for Child Rights” under the Events tab. Find Houston walk 2016 to donate for a great cause.

CRY(Child Rights & You) America Inc, a 501(c)(3) non-profit that works towards ensur- Inaugural Sugar

Land Legacy Award nominations soughtIn recognition of the con-

tinued growth and com-mitment by the Sugar

Land business community, the City of Sugar Land - Office of Economic Development in partnership with the Sugar Land Legacy Foundation is seeking nominations for the Sugar Land Legacy Award.

The Sugar Land Legacy Award will honor outstand-ing individuals and organiza-tions whose efforts have made a significant, lasting impact on economic development and the overall economic prosperity in the City of Sugar Land.

The Sugar Land Legacy Foundation Board of Direc-tors will select recipients from nominations based on their commitment, business experi-ence, tenure, service and lead-ership in Sugar Land.

The Sugar Land Office of Economic Development is partnering with the Sugar Land Legacy Foundation to recog-nize individuals and businesses that have made a significant, lasting impact on economic de-velopment and overall prosper-ity in the city.

The nomination deadline for the first-ever Sugar Land Leg-

acy Awards is Nov. 30. Recipi-ents will be honored during a business appreciation luncheon on Dec. 16 at the Smart Fi-nancial Centre at Sugar Land, one of the first such events at the iconic live entertainment venue.

For more information on the event or to make a nomination, visit www.sugarlandecodev.com/legacy or contact the Of-fice of Economic Development at 281-275-2229 or ecodev@sugarlandtx.gov.

ing children their basic rights to live, learn, play and grow hosted the 13th CRY Walk across 16 cities this year. CRY America supports organiza-tions in India and the USA and

has transformed the life of over 618,915 children across 3084 villages and slums so far.

For more information about contact Dharam Bali 832-341-1142

5651 Hillcroft, Houston, TX 77036 • Tel: 713-783-1480 • 713-783-1481

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