• NEW ALBANY

BPW hosts presentation about former slave and Civil War veteran

In recognition of Black History Month, The Business & Professional Women of New Albany will host local historian, Vic Megenity, discussing the story of Lucy Higgins Nichols, a former slave and Civil War veteran, at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 15, at the Carnegie Center for Art & History, 201 East Spring St., New Albany.

Nichols was a former slave who served as a nurse with the Indiana 23rd Regiment during the Civil War and is likely the only slave to have received a pension for her war-time service. She escaped and sought protection with the Regiment while they were encamped in Bolivar, Tenn., and remained with the Regiment through many well-known battles such as Vicksburg and Sherman’s March to the Sea. At their urging, she returned with them to New Albany after the War and became a much-admired citizen of our community. The Carnegie Center is presently developing an exhibit on Lucy.

Cost $10 per person and includes a light supper.

Contact Suellen Wilkinson at suellen@insightbb.com or 812-948-9844 by Feb. 12 for reservations and information.

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DePauw Methodist hosts dinner

The DePauw Methodist Church, across from New Albany High School, will be holding a Tailgate Dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. Feb. 19, before the NAHS basketball game.

The menu will include pot roast, biscuits, corn pudding, garden salad, homemade dessert and a drink.

Cost is $7 for adults; $3 for children 6 to 12 years old; and free for children 5 and younger.

Call 812-945-6537 for more information or for carry-out orders.

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Little League hosts pancake breakfast at Sam’s

The New Albany Softball Little League and Little League are hosting a Pancake Breakfast from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Feb. 20 at Sam’s Food & Spirits, 3800 Payne-Koehler and Charlestown Roads, New Albany.

Attendees can enjoy a hot breakfast, served by a former coach or board member, and register their child for Spring softball or baseball.

Cost is $5 per person.

Visit eteamz.com/newalbany for more information.

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• GEORGETOWN

Optimists host Valentine Dance

The Georgetown Optimist Club will host a Valentine’s Day Dance for kids of middle school-age from 7 to 10 p.m. Feb. 13 at the Club, 8260 Highway 64, Georgetown.

Tickets are $4 per person or $6 per couple.

Call 812-951-1910 for more information.

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• CLARK COUNTY

Learn Spanish starting next month

The Greater Clark County School Adult and Continuing Education department is offering a beginning Spanish class for adults from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. every Wednesday, March 3 through May 26, at River Valley Middle School, 2220 Veterans Parkway, Jeffersonville.

Attendees will learn to read, construct simple phases, vocabulary and use of verbs. Classes will be small so individual instruction can be given.

The cost is $45 per person. For registration or additional information, call 812-288-4821, ext. 51107.

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• JEFFERSONVILLE

Sewer board accepting comments

The Jeffersonville Sanitary Sewer Board is accepting public comment on its draft Combined Sewer Overflow Long Term Control Plan through March . Copies of the draft are available during regular business hours at the following locations:

• City Engineer’s Office, City Hall, 500 Quartermaster Court; Wastewater Treatment Plant, 1420 Pennsylvania Ave.; and Jeffersonville Township Library, 211 E. Court Ave.

Comments may be presented to the Sanitary Sewer Board in writing on or before March 3, sent to the following address:

Wastewater Department

Attention: Len Ashack, Director

1420 Pennsylvania Ave.

Jeffersonville, IN 47130

The Sanitary Sewer Board will host a public meeting to present the plan at 5 p.m. Feb. 18 in the Mayor’s Conference Room at City Hall, 500 Quartermaster Court.

The long term control plan is being developed in accordance with a legal agreement, known as the consent decree, between the Sanitary Sewer Board, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. The sewer board ratified the consent decree in August 2009 and it was later filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.

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