The Three Square Music Foundation, a nonprofit organization that runs after-school programs to help at-risk children, will get a big boost from the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks in the agency's efforts to raise $186,000 as matching funds for an Empowerment Zone Grant.

        When the Ducks play the Rochester Americans at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Cincinnati Gardens, $3 of every ticket sold will go to the foundation.

        “We have been approved for a grant to run a youth project, titled Project Rap, through the Cincinnati Empowerment Zone,” said Kimberly Southerland, executive director. “Along with our collaborative partners, the Talbert House and SUMA (Services United for Mothers and Adolescents) we are committed to supporting positive development of youth.”

        The three agencies will share a $377,000 Empowerment Zone grant to assist in its after-school program.

        Ms. Southerland said her agency will set up space in churches, schools and community centers in the nine Empowerment Zone communities: Over-the-Rhine, Queensgate, West End, Avondale, Evanston, Corryville, Mount Auburn, Walnut Hills and Clifton.

        In nine years, the agency has touched the lives of about 30,000 children in an effort to reduce violence, drug abuse, teen pregnancy and illiteracy by directing them toward positive educational programs.

        For more information, call Ms. Southerland at 731-3227.

        Children and parents will get a chance to brush up on oral health this weekend, when the Crest Healthy Smile 2010 Tour comes to Cincinnati.

        It will be at the Cincinnati Museum Center, 1301 Western Ave., West End, at 11:30 a.m., 1 and 3 p.m. Saturday and from noon to 1:30 p.m. Sunday.

        Television personality J.D. Roth, who appears on such kids shows as Moolah Beach, Double Up, Fun House and Animal Planet's Zooventure, will be with the tour.

        The Crest Healthy Smiles 2010 is a 10-year initiative developed in partnership with Time Warner to help fight the oral health crisis. The program at the museum will include information about oral health, using games — such as kids becoming giant toothbrushes and brushing plaque off their parents, and filling cavities using peanut butter and jelly beans. There will be free dental screening for children.

        A former Cincinnati schoolteacher, Edna Farley, will be honored at noon Saturday at the Vernon Manor Hotel, 400 Oak St., Avondale, as the Zeta Phi Beta sorority's Woman of the Year, 2002.

        Mrs. Farley taught in public schools in Greensboro, N.C., and in Cincinnati for 46 years. She established a library at her church, Mount Zion United Methodist in Walnut Hills.

        The library has a large collection of black history.

       Allen Howard's “Some Good News” column runs Sunday-Friday. If you have suggestions about outstanding achievements, or people who are uplifting to the Tristate, let him know at 768-8362, at ahoward@enquirer.com or by fax at 768-8340.

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