Free legal aid phone clinic set for this week
Legal Aid will conduct a free legal service phone clinic on Tuesday, Feb. 9 for low-income residents of eight Indiana counties, including Brown County.
The clinic will take place from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Callers can expect a 10-minute phone consultation where legal professionals will answer general questions and offer legal information.
Individuals seeking consultation must register by calling Legal Aid at 812-378-0358 on Tuesday, Feb. 9 between noon and 1:30 p.m. A volunteer attorney will return a call to registered individuals between 3 and 5:30 p.m.
Woodland management program coming soon
Purdue Extension educators from Brown, Bartholomew and Ripley counties, along with state and private sector foresters, are partnering to offer a short course about techniques for managing woodland for wildlife, timber harvest and other pursuits.
The workshop will run eight consecutive weeks on Thursday evenings from 6 to 9 p.m. beginning March 4 to April 22 at the CYO Camp Rancho Framasa, 2230 Clay Lick Road. The course will also include a Saturday Field Day, on April 10 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Southeast Purdue Ag Center (SEPAC) in Butlerville.
Course topics include content such as forest resource and tree ID, forest biology and ecology, forest management, marketing timber, wildlife management, revenue generation from your woodlands and more.
Registration is $50, which will include a thumb drive of all publications and a tree measuring stick. For couples or family registrations, the first person is at the regular rate of $50 with one set of materials and each additional attendee is $30. Class size is limited to 20 participants on a first-come, first-served basis. Advance registration is required and due by March 1.
For more information or to get a copy of the registration form, contact Kara Hammes at 812-988-5495 or [email protected].
Annual father-daughter dance canceled
Brown County Parks and Recreation has canceled its annual Daddy-Daughter Dance, which normally occurs around Valentine’s Day. They plan to have it in 2022.
Blood drive happening in Nashville this 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.
