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Students at Victoria Elementary School received water bottles from Dominion Energy Virginia on Friday, Sept. 24. Above are, front row, from left, Emma Fitzgerald, Janiya Desouza, Ja’Layah Brogdon, Cristian Tomas-Domingo; second row, Colton Joyner, Nasir Jones, Jacob Ramirez, Rylee Jones, Makayla Eanes, Edyn Moore; back row, Charles Berkley, LCPS superintendent; Dawn Bacon, director of elementary curriculum and instruction; Julie Dalton, VES principal; Kristin Peebles, VES assistant principal; Ed Baine, president of Dominion Energy Virginia; Derrick Argro, Dominion Energy employee and LCPS parent; Earnest Greene, external affairs manager with Dominion Energy Virginia. (Photo by Meri Page Spencer)

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Ed Baine with Victoria Elementary School student Janiya Desouza. (Photo by Meri Page Spencer)

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Students at Kenbridge Elementary School received water bottles from Dominion Energy Virginia on Friday, Sept. 24. Above are, front row, from left, Anthony Elliott, Daniel Gee, Elijah Argro, Kevin Tomas-Perez; middle row, Shane Reese, DaMirah Woods, Ariana Herandez-Becerra, Ariadna Hernandez-Leon, Estrella Ramirez and Alyssa Stokes. Back row are Charles Berkley, LCPS superintendent; Andrea Shell, KES principal; Tammy Matthews, KES assistant principal; Derrick Argro, Dominion Energy employee and LCPS parent; Ed Baine, president of Dominion Energy Virginia; Earnest Greene, external affairs manager with Dominion Energy Virginia; Tracy Gee, Lunenburg county administrator; Dawn Bacon, director of elementary curriculum and instruction. (Photo by Meri Page Spencer)

Derrick Argro, a Dominion Energy Virginia service helper, saw that there was a need, and he worked hard to fill that need.

Argro, the Minister of Mt. Bethel Baptist Church in Kenbridge and the parent of four Lunenburg County Public Schools (LCPS) students, coordinated the donation of water bottles to all elementary school students in Lunenburg County.

The water bottles will be available for students to fill at the school’s water filling stations.

“I just wanted to do something not only for my children but for my community; this is just something that’ll help our kids get through this pandemic,” Argro said.

On Friday, Sept. 24, Argro was joined by Dominion Energy Virginia President Ed Baine, the first African American president to lead a business segment at the fortune 500 company, a native of Lunenburg County and also a graduate of Central High School.

Baine and Argro made their first stop to deliver 450 bottles at Kenbridge Elementary. Bane attended the school as a child, and three of Argro’s children attend the school today.

“I am more than grateful for the values my family and my community have instilled in me.  Any opportunity I have to be an example and give back to my hometown is a blessing for me,” Baine said.

In addition, Baine and Argro visited Victoria Elementary School where another 450 bottles were delivered. “This will be a day our children will never forget,” Charles Berkley Jr., superintendent of LCPS, said. These two men show our children that you don’t have to be a professional athlete or a music celebrity to be a star and a service to the community.”