Woodworkers club
The Brown County Woodworkers Club will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1 at Kent McPherson‘s Quarter Sawn Flooring business, 2082 State Road 45, Building 3A, Helmsburg.
Rotary club
The Brown County Rotary Club will meet at 7:15 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 2 at Nashville’s Artists Colony Inn, 105 S. Van Buren St.
Journalist and author Douglas Wissing will be the speaker. Wissing has written about the war in Afghanistan, a Tibetan explorer, beer brewing in Indiana, traveling the Ohio River Valley, Bloomington through the paintings of local artists, and Indianapolis through the residents of Crown Hill Cemetery. He is a graduate of IU and a Hoosier through and through.
Member of the community are invited to attend, especially those interested in exploring opportunities to participate in projects and to be of service.
Weight loss group
COLUMBUS — National nonprofit weight-loss group, Take Off Pounds Sensibly, also known as TOPS, meets in the MainSource Bank meeting room, 2310 W. Jonathan Moore Pike. Monday meetings begin with weigh-ins at 10:30 a.m. followed by the meeting at 11:30 a.m.
All are welcome to try the club for free. For more information, call Jacky Harmon at 812-603-4667 or visit the national site at tops.org/tops.
WRAPS
The Writers, Readers and Poets Society meets from 7 to 9 p.m. first and third Thursdays each month to read and discuss the literary compositions of those present. The next meeting is Nov. 2. Meetings are at the Brown County Public Library, 205 N. Locust Lane. All are welcome.
Patty’s Paper Pals
The members of a St. Agnes Catholic Church stamping and paper crafts group have been working all year making projects for the holiday bazaar Nov. 4 and 5.
Items they will sell include tea and chocolate treats wrapped in decorative designs, gift card holders, desktop memo pads and calendars (with Brown County sites photographed by Brenda Sisson), holiday keepsake boxes (pumpkins, turkeys and Santas), greeting cards for all occasions and a limited number of paper cactus gardens.
Many members of the group honed their skills attending Stampin’ Up classes taught by Melissa Buchanon at the fairgrounds. Buchanon provided ideas, taught techniques for working with paper and sold stamps, paper, embellishments and other products.
Patty Hays inspired the group, donating supplies and sharing ideas learned through years of crafting in cities around the country where she lived and participated in craft groups. The group is now called “Patty’s Paper Pals” in memory of Hays, who passed away Oct. 11 after battling cancer.
Cemetery preservation society
The Brown County Cemetery Preservation Society, a committee of the Peaceful Valley Heritage group, has changed its meeting dates and times to 1 and 4:15 p.m. on the second Tuesday of the month. The cemetery preservation committee will meet in the archives room at the Brown County History Center, 90 E. Gould St.
A class, “Symbolism in the Cemetery” will be offered at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9 in a lower-level meeting room of the Brown County Public Library. The class will be led by DNR Director of Special Initiatives Jeannie Regan-Dinius.
The public is welcome at all events.
Peaceful Valley group
Peaceful Valley Heritage Inc. is a preservation group which meets at 6:30 p.m the second Tuesday of each month in the Brown County Community Foundation (Howard F. Hughes) Building, 209 N. Van Buren St. Meetings are open to the public. The next meeting is Nov. 14.
