THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Thursday, January 23, 1997            TAG: 9701220119
SECTION: SUFFOLK SUN             PAGE: 13   EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: COMMUNITY NEWS 
DATELINE: SUFFOLK                           LENGTH:   23 lines

CHAMBER DINNER

Thomas J. Lipton Inc. will be honored as Outstanding Partner-in-Education of the Year by the Suffolk Division of the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce.

Planters Peanuts' will present the award at the Chamber's annual dinner today at the National Guard Armory, Godwin Boulevard. A reception will be held at 6 p.m. followed by dinner at 7 p.m.

Also to be recognized with Certificates of Appreciation are the following award nominees: Applebee's Restaurant, Driver; Bennetts Creek Wholesale Nursery, Northern Shores; Duke Oldsmobile, J.F. Kennedy; Dutch Market, Southwestern; Links Inc., B.T. Washington; Monticello Foods, Nansemond Parkway; Nestle Beverage, Forest Glen; Obici Hospital, Lakeland; P.D. Pruden Vo-Tech Center, Mount Zion; Penn Engineering & Manufacturing, Nansemond River; Pic 'N Pay, John Yeates; Saunders Supply, Oakland; Suffolk Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, Robertson; and Western Tidewater Regional Jail, Elephant's Fork.