St. Agnes Guild
Some members of the St Agnes Guild traveled to Westport to peruse unique designs by Dorothy Kramer and selected this year’s design for the patchwork quilt that will be raffled at the church’s annual bazaar.
Guild members Dolores Francis, Donna Gray, Toni Page, Paulette Brester, Jean Wawrzyniak and Joann Garreaux hand-quilted the selected pattern. These women have worked together for many years, spending over 200 hours each year to complete a quilt.
The Brown County Stars quilt pattern is made of 26 blocks of stars, arranged in a window pane style, divided by brown sashing with yellow corners. The quilt has two borders: an outer border in green with an orange print, and an inner border in yellow with a delicate pink flower print. Leaves were stitched in the open area of the quilt. The 8-point stars are each on a cream background and vary in size and color.
[sc:text-divider text-divider-title=”Story continues below gallery” ]St. Agnes Catholic Church will raffle the queen-sized quilt during its annual bazaar, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 2 and 3, in the church basement, 1008 McLary Road. A winner will be drawn at 4 p.m. Saturday and need not be present to win. The quilt raffle is a charity-gaming-exempt event approved by the Indiana Gaming Commission.
Pioneer Women
The Pioneer Women’s Club meets each Wednesday at 9 a.m. at the History Center, 90 E. Gould St. Interested women are welcome.
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 website at tops.org/tops.
Garden club
The Brown County Garden Club meets at 10:30 a.m. the first Thursday of each month at various locations. The next meeting will be Nov. 1. For more information, visit Brown County Garden Club on Facebook.
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 meetings will be Nov. 1 and 15 at the Brown County Public Library, 205 N. Locust Lane. All are welcome.
Woodworkers club
The Brown County Woodworkers Club will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7 at the Brown County Library. Kip May will present the program, “Photography and Your Woodworking Projects.”
Genealogy group
The Brown County Genealogical Society meets from 1 to 3 p.m. the second Thursday of the month in Brown County Public Library. The next meeting will be Nov. 8.
League of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters of Brown County has a monthly board meeting from 10 a.m. to noon the second Monday of each month. Meetings are conducted in lower-level meeting room A of the Brown County Public Library, 205 Locust Lane. The next meeting will be Nov. 12. The public is welcome.
Cemetery society
The Brown County Cemetery Preservation Society, a committee of the Peaceful Valley Heritage group, meets at 4:15 p.m. on the second Tuesday of the month in the archives room at the Brown County History Center, 90 E. Gould St. The next meeting will be Nov. 13. The public is welcome.
Preservation group
The Peaceful Valley Heritage Inc. preservation group meets the second Tuesday of each month. The next meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 13 in the Howard F. Hughes Community Building, 209 N. Van Buren St. All are welcome.
Art alliance
Art Alliance Brown County is a club open to all area artists, including musicians, poets, thespians, textile artists and others creating two- and three-dimensional art. Focused on supporting and encouraging the arts in Brown County, the club has become a social networking group. The alliance meets every other month.
Current board members include Lory Winford, president; M.K. Watkins, vice president; Theresa Shadley, treasurer; and Heather Nicholson, secretary.
For more information, visit artalliancebrowncounty.org, email Winford at [email protected] or call her at 816-804-2484.
Herb society
The Brown County Herb Society has changed its meeting time from 6:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Meetings are still the third Monday of each month in a lower-level room at the Brown County Public Library. The next meeting will be Nov. 19, featuring the herb bay leaf. The public is welcome.
