Lee and Shannon Carter of Hyde Park have received the 2002 Alexis de Tocqueville Award from United Way & Community Chest for their philanthropy and legacy of service to Cincinnati.

The award was presented during a dinner at the Cincinnati Club last week, sponsored by General Electric Aircraft Engines.

Lee Carter is chairman of the board of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and executive committee member of Every Child Succeeds.

He is particularly proud of his service with that group.

"Every Child Succeeds is absolutely vital to the future of this city," he said. "We know that abused and neglected children lose brain function. If we do prevention instead of catch-up, we can make a big difference."

In 1997, Shannon Carter started Crayons to Computers, a free store for teachers in impoverished schools.

The store collects individual and corporate donations and distributes the supplies such as pens, paper, markers and computers to more than 300 Tristate schools.

She has chaired the Antiques Festival Steeplechase Ball, Taft Museum Gala, Cincinnati Ballet's Best Kept Secret and the dedication of Children's Hospital's Patient Tower.

She was an Enquirer woman of the year in 1997.

Kindergartners through sixth-graders at the Waycross Elementary School, 825 Waycross Road, Forest Park, have collected $450 for the Pennies For Patients program to help the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society.

The campaign is a national initiative and operates through schools as a youth program that encourages students to collect spare change to support the society's mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma.

The campaign runs through Feb. 14.

Free dental screenings will be offered to children who cannot afford them from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday at the Cincinnati Museum Center in Union Terminal, 1301 Western Ave., West End.

The program is sponsored by the Cincinnati Dental Society. Children who require further treatment will be referred to dentists who have volunteered to participate in the program.

For more information, call 923-3388 or 314-1879.

For those who missed the premiere screening of Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave NarrativesWednesday at Memorial Hall, the documentary will be shown again from 2-4 p.m. Sunday at the Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Walnut Hills.

The screenings is sponsored by the Citizen Committee on Youth and HBO.

Dorothy Jordan, executive director of CCY, said those who wish to attend should call today. The film will debut on HBO at 8 p.m. Monday.

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.