OK, so there were cheers after the Bengals won their first game, but not much beyond that.

Their best hope of reaching any kind of Super Bowl this year rest on the shoulders of a 60-year-old quarterback.

He is Robert S. Edwards, who received the 2002 Bengals Community Quarterback Award last month and will compete among the 32 local winners for the national Community Quarterback Award, called the Community Quarterback Super Bowl.

"I am in training,'' Mr. Edwards said, jokingly.

"It sure would be great if we won because the FreeStore sure could use the money.''

For winning the local award, his charity, FreeStore/FoodBank, will receive $10,000.

A national winner will be selected by an NFL panel. NFL Charities will donate $25,000 to the charity where the national winner volunteers.

Mr. Edwards has been a member of FreeStore/BoodBank's board of trustees for 11 years.

He brought the Rubber Duck Regatta to Cincinnati eight years ago to benefit the charity.

He has chaired the event each year as it became one of the largest in the country and second-largest in the world.

It has raised about $1.6 million for the charity.

Runners-up in the Bengals Community Quarterback awards were Patricia Stewart, representing the Salvation Army, and Edward D. Diller, representing Family Service. Each of those charities received $2,500.

Final for registration for the Ken-Sil Basketball Program is Friday.

Walter P. Maupin, director, said they need kids from kindergarten through eighth grade.

"I would like the community to know we are doing something positive with our youth of Kennedy Heights, Silverton and Pleasant Ridge," Mr. Maupin said.

To register, call Mr. Maupin at 307-0649 or fax 351-8188.

Second-graders at St. Vivian School are working with Olympic marathoner Julie Isphording folding, labeling and stuffing 8,000 envelopes for the Thanksgiving Day 10K race.

The race benefits the FreeStore/FoodBank, Leukemia-Lymphoma Society and the Anthony Munoz Foundation.

Dr. Charles M. Myer III, who practices pediatric otolaryngology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, has won the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Distinguished Service Award.

The academy presents the award to medical professionals in recognition of extensive meritorious service through the presentation of courses, scientific papers, participation on a continuing education committee or academy position.

Dr. Myer lives in Wyoming with wife, Virginia, and sons Charlie and David.

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.