Residents at the Drop Inn Center Shelter House will get help from 25 to 30 employees of the Miller Brewing Co. of Trenton on Jan. 18.

        The employees will be there from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.,to perform community service under the corporation's PM Cares Day program. The Miller Brewing Co. is owned by Phillip Morris.

        The company has identified the Drop Inn Center as its recipient organization. Miller employees will be volunteering on company time to perform community service nationwide.

        The employees will assemble shelves for storage and sort, catalog and store donations. They will help serve lunch for about 150 to 200 people at the center.

        They will also help write thank you notes to donors who helped the center.

        “We always have a need for volunteers,” said Lisa Bridges, volunteer coordinator. “We usually average about five groups a week.”

        The center also needs more donations for its fund drive, which has fallen short in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.

        To donate or to serve as a volunteer at the center, call 721-0643.

        The University of Cincinnati's Ropes Series 2002, dealing with Race and Culture: Lines of Color, Lines of Demarcation, starts at 8 p.m. Jan. 29 in Room 127 in McMicken Hall.

        Noel Ignatiev, a Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University, will start the series, speaking on the topic: “Abolish The White Race.”

        Mr. Ignatiev is an associate professor of history and American studies at Massachusetts College of Art. He is the author of How The Irish Became White.

        The series continues at 2 p.m. Jan. 30 in the Elliston Room of the Langsam Library with Mr Ignatiev joining Caryl Phillips and Reggie Boyd in a public dialogue on Blackness and Whiteness: Race as a Social/Anti-Social Category.

        Mr. Phillips is a professor of English and Henry R. Luce Professor of Migration and Social Order at Barnard College, Columbia University.

        Mr. Boyd is a project manager at Inner City Health Care in Walnut Hills.

        The Wal-Mart Foundation is giving support to local literacy efforts through two grants of $1,000 each to the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.

        One grant, awarded through the Tri-County Wal-Mart, will be used to supplement the Adult New Reader and English as a Second Language collections in the Literature & Languages Department.

        A second grant, awarded through the Colerain Wal-Mart, will be used to purchase testing materials for the GED practice testing program at all library locations.

        Allen Howard's “Some Good News” column runs Monday-Friday and Sundays. If you have suggestions about outstanding achievements, or people who are committing random acts of kindness that are uplifting to the Tristate, let him know at (513) 768-8362; at ahoward@enquirer.com; or by fax at (513) 768-8340.
       

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