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.
Pop-up food pantry happening this week
On Friday, Feb. 12, the parking lot at Parkview Church of the Nazarene, 1750 State Road 46 East, will transform into another drive-thru pop-up food pantry.
The pantry will go from 3 to 5 p.m., or while supplies last. People are advised to enter the parking lot from State Road 46 East.
Masks will be required.
Anyone with questions can call the Brown County COAD hotline at 812-988-0001.
The pantry is sponsored by Brown County COAD, St. Vincent de Paul, St. Agnes Catholic Church, the Brown County YMCA, the Brown County Food Alliance, the Brown County Community Foundation, TRIAD and God’s Grace.
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.
IU Center for Rural Engagement offers workshop
The IU Center for Rural Engagement is 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.
Virtual laughter yoga available through YMCA
YMCA yoga instructor Sarah Lyttle will host Lunchtime Laughter Yoga sessions on Zoom Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:30 a.m. to noon.
Laughter yoga is a breathing-stretching exercise and an aerobic and cardio workout as well, according to a press release from the YMCA. “Laughter yoga releases endorphins and oxytocin, our natural painkillers and feel-good hormones,” the release said.
Participants can try classes for free until April 3. Find a link at https://browncountyymca.org/healthy-living-classes.
The regular non-member price is $35 for a six-week session or $8 per class.
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].
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.
