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Enviva partnered with Smart Beginnings Western Tidewater to sponsor an Early Educator Appreciation Lunch for pre-K teachers and child care providers in the City of Franklin and Southampton County. Serve Restaurant prepared a delicious to-go meal for 184 essential early educators. Enviva, Celebration Church, Child Care Aware of Virginia and Smart Beginnings Western Tidewater Board and staff assisted with distribution and delivery. From right, Tessa Blow, Franklin Castillo, Nikki Robertson, Diane Zeigler, Rosalind Cutchins, Nick Agreste, Victoria Bailey, Orange Greene, Mark Vick, Clint Walters, Lorraine Greene Whitehead, Lori White, Anthony Rawlings, Elizabeth South, Patricia Scoggins, Mary Bradshaw and Stephanie Ricks. Kneeling, Jeannette Green and Chris Brown. We commend Enviva, Smart Beginnings Western Tidewater, Serve Restaurant, Celebration Church, Child Care Aware of Virginia and the pre-K teachers and child care providers for the good works. (Send “Way to Go!” photos with a description and names to editor@TheTidewaterNews.com.)