Kiwi and Shout are giving away prize packs on Fridays in May.

Unfortunately, they’re only offering up 350 each day, which means the odds aren’t the greatest. But at least you don’t have to try to snag one at a particular time on Friday. I was able to submit my entry on Wednesday.

Go to www.facebook.com/kiwishoecare and click on the “Game On Sweepstakes” to enter for a chance to win a Clean Team Prize Pack. From the looks of the site, the prize pack contains a bottle of Shout cleaner, a can of Kiwi cleaner and a pair of shoe laces.

Don’t forget, I’m giving away a book this week. You have until noon tomorrow to enter the drawing.

The title is “MOMumental: Adventures in the Messy Art of Raising a Family” by Jennifer Grant.

For a chance at the book, send your full name, address, city, ZIP and the keyword “MOMumental” in an e-mail to dana.massing@timesnews.com.

Entries must be received by noon on Thursday, May 17. (Come back later that day to see if you’re the winner.) You’re only allowed one entry per person and you must live in the U.S.

The 2012 Edinboro Art & Music Festival gets under way on Thursday and continues through Saturday.

The free festival at various sites around Edinboro showcases grassroots art and music in the spirit of the Appalachian culture and tradition, according to the event website at www.edinboroartandmusic.com.

Features include performances by various bands, an art gallery, crafts for children and workshops on topics like square dancing and fiddle.

Visit the website or call (814) 734-3777 to learn more.

“Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.”

That was the message little Ralphie discovered with his Orphan Annie decoder pin in one of my favorite holiday movies, “A Christmas Story.”

If you want to drink Ovaltine for free, stop by its Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ovaltine and click on “free ovaltine” for a sample pack.

When shopping at a local grocery store recently, I spotted what looked like a deal on berries.

The sale offered two containers for a total of $3. I had picked out two and put them in my cart before moving to the next aisle. There, I noticed a larger container of the same berries for $2.89.

So I compared the sizes. The small containers were each 6 ounces. The larger one was 12 ounces.

Turned out the better deal was to buy one bigger container. I got the same amount of berries for 11 cents less.

A free program tonight will examine “Women’s History Through the Eyes of Quilts.”

Quilt historian Marilyn Stern will speak at 7 p.m. at 5451 Merwin Lane in Knowledge Park, Harborcreek Township.

The program is presented by the Harborcreek Historical Society. Call (814) 899-4447 to learn more.

If you missed Theatre on the Move’s presentation of “An O. Henry Chocolate Box” at Blasco Library last week, you’re in luck. The performance based on the stories of O. Henry will be offered today at 7 p.m. at the Millcreek Branch Library, 2088 Interchange Road. Admission is free. Call (814) 451-7084 or visit www.erielibrary.org to learn more.

It’s National Women’s Health Week and Curves is celebrating by giving away 1 million free 30-day memberships to the women’s gyms.

The offer is available to nonmembers who visit a participating Curves club through Saturday, according to an e-mail I received. Some sites also will have special programs on Thursday, National Curves Day.

Curves locations in the Erie area include:

1511 W. 38th St., Erie, (814) 866-8668

3330 W. 26th St., Millcreek Township, (814) 833-2533

141 Randall Ave., Girard, (814) 774-8600

10170-C W. Main Road, North East, (814) 725-1142

To learn more about Curves or find a site near you, visit www.curves.com or call (800) 848-1096.

In case you missed it yesterday, below is a link to David Bruce’s Here to Help column. His topic this week was gas-saving tips for summer.

www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012305139988

High school sophomores and juniors who excel in the sciences can apply to attend a Regional Summer School of Excellence for free.

The program for students from Erie, Crawford and Warren counties will run July 9-13 and 16-20 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., according to a news release from Gannon University.  There is no cost for students to participate and they receive a free lunch, according to the release.

The program — sponsored by Gannon, the Pennsylvania Governor’s Schools of Excellence and the Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit — includes intensive laboratory and field site study in the life sciences. Students will have a chance to work aboard the Environaut, Gannon’s research vessel, while studying Lake Erie and Presque Isle Bay.

For more information, including an application, call program director Stan Zagorski at (814) 871-7641 or the IU at (814) 734-5610.