text: To help cultivate an appreciation for the great outdoors, in 2010 
  Chesapeake provided $25,000 to REAL School Gardens, a Fort Worth- 
  based organization that establishes gardens at approximately 70 lower 
  income elementary schools in North Texas. At I.M. Terrell Elementary 
  School, students, parents, teachers and volunteers from Chesapeake and 
  other groups worked together to prepare vegetable gardens and flower 
  beds. In addition to teamwork skills and gardening, students learned 
  about nutrition and took home food from the garden’s bounty. 
  
  **Community Impact**
  Chesapeake employees have been enriching their hometowns as volun- 
  teers for many years. We formalized those efforts in 2009 by establishing 
  an official employee volunteer program, the H.E.L.P. (Helping Energize 
  Local Progress) Initiative, wherein employees are invited to volunteer 
  each month for a variety of organizations from food pantries to animal 
  shelters. Through that program, employees donated more than 26,000 
  hours to their communities in 2009. 
  
  We supported servicemen and servicewomen by partnering with the 
  Shreveport Chapter of Operation Support Our Troops, Inc. Our contribution 
  helped offset the postage to send more than 100 care packages to troops 
  overseas. The shipment was the largest in the organization’s history and 
  included Christmas cards, games and nonperishable food items. 