Kingsland Community Park gets "Fluored"

November 12, 2012, 9:00 pm by Christy Clardy

Courtesy Photo Approximately 150 volunteers from the Fluor Cares program met at the Kingsland Community Park on Saturday, Nov. 10, as part of a group effort to beautify and improve the park with help from the park committee and LCRA. Several vendors also donated supplies such as paint, nails and bolts for the project. The park’s improvements plan is a long-range plan set up by committee members to create a park for the community.

Less than a year ago, the Kingsland Community Park was virtually unknown to most residents. However LCRA and the park’s committee contacted the program, Fluor Cares, and improvements started this past weekend.

Larry Vaughan, Site Manager for the Fluor Corporation, stated that around 150 employees who are currently working on the Ferguson plant replacement project in Horseshoe Bay are living in nearby communities for the duration of the project.

"Over 30 volunteers came out to work at the park today,” Vaughan said Saturday. "We will continue to help the surrounding communities like Kingsland, Marble Falls and Llano until the completion of the replacement project in 2014. What we lack in money, we can make up for with physical labor."

Fluor Site Project Controls Manager Elaine Ellison added, "Typically, we are in a community for at least two years. We want to make a difference by becoming a part of that community."

For more of this story, see Tuesday's Highlander.