Pop-up food pantry coming to Spearsville
SPEARSVILLE — Unity Baptist Church, 7361 Spearsville Road, will host the next Pop-up Food Pantry on Wednesday, Jan. 20 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
This will be a drive-thru service. Volunteers from Brown County COAD, the Brown County Community Foundation, Society of St. Vincent de Paul of Brown County, TRIAD, the YMCA, Midwest Food Bank and Brown County Food Alliance will be providing an assortment of food while supplies last.
Follow the signs for traffic flow and wear your mask at the event when interacting with volunteers.
With questions, call the COAD hotline at 812-988-0001.
Blood drive happening in Nashville next week
The American Red Cross will host a blood drive at Parkview Church of the Nazarene, 1850 State Road 46 East, on Wednesday, Jan. 27 from noon to 5 p.m.
For more information, download the American Red Cross blood donor app, visit RedCrossBlood.org or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767).
A blood donor card or driver’s license or two other forms of identification are required at check-in. Donors who are 17, weigh at least 110 pounds and are in generally good health may be eligible to donate.
IU Center for Rural Engagement offers workshops
The IU Center for Rural Engagement and IU Sustainable Food Systems Science will host the second annual Indiana Uplands Winter Food Conference, examining best practices for increasing local food access, adaptations during the pandemic, strengthening the value chain and community-led initiatives, in January and February.
The schedule will include three weeks of virtual sessions from Monday, Jan. 25 through Friday, Feb. 12 each weekday at noon via Zoom. The conference is designed for residents who work, volunteer or have an interest in local food issues and food system sectors, from agriculture and production to the consumer experience. For more information and to register visit https://bit.ly/2021-winter-food-conference.
The center is also offering a virtual writing workshop called “Cold Comfort: Writing Our Lives in Troubled Times, Part Two,” on Tuesday nights via Zoom.
Indiana University Provost Professor and award-winning poet Catherine Bowman will lead the six-week workshop. There will be weekly optional writing suggestions, exercises, experiments and readings. This is a class for all genres, poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, and the class is open to all levels, from beginners to seasoned pros, from all walks of life. The workshop will take place Tuesdays Feb. 2 through March 9 from 6:30-8 p.m.
Register for either event with the IU Center for Rural Engagement at https://rural.indiana.edu/events.
Local bluebird club selling nesting boxes
The Brown County Bluebird Club’s annual bluebird nest box sale is underway. Boxes are all cedar and fully assembled. One box is $15 and two boxes are $25. If interested, call Dan Sparks at 812-200-5700.
