Schneck offering Safe Sitter program

Today’s babysitters need to know more than just the basics about keeping kids safe.

Schneck Medical Center’s Safe Sitter program offers young adults an up-to-date and well-rounded youth development program with a medical basis.

For boys and girls in grades 6 through 8, this class teaches babysitters the life and safety skills they need and equips them with the tools to handle emergencies when caring for younger children.

A two-day class and a one-day class are being offered.

Dates for the two-day program include are June 13 and 14, June 27 and 28, July 11 and 12 and and July 25 and 26. The class will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Schneck Simulation Lab in the Jackson Medical Building in Seymour.

A one-day class will be offered June 8 and July 6. It will go from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Family Life Center at Schneck Medical Center in Seymour.

For information or to register, call 812-523-4770 or 812-522-0421.

Button program planned at library

Got buttons? The Brownstown Public Library does, and the public is invited to join staff for some button fun and make their own initial wall art from 6 to 7:30 p.m. June 20 at the library, 120 E. Spring St., Brownstown.

The cost of the class is $5.

Registration is required. The class is limited to 10, as supplies and space are limited.

Information: 812-358-2853

Pardieck graduates from medical school

Zachary Dierk Pardieck, M.D., graduated May 10 from the Indiana University School of Medicine at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis along with more than 330 other physician graduates.

He plans to specialize in the field of neurology and will begin his four-year residency in June at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois.

Pardieck is the son of Gregory Pardieck of Seymour and Julie and Tim Clark of Lebanon, Kentucky. He is the grandson of Marian Ruth Pardieck and the late Ralph E. Pardieck and the late Robert L. and Mary Jane Goodin.

University releases dean’s list

University of the Cumberlands recently announced its dean’s list for the spring 2019 semester.

Abigail Criswell of Brownstown was among those earning the honor at the Williamsburg, Kentucky, university.

Students named to the dean’s list have achieved academic distinction by earning a semester 3.5 grade-point average or above.

Baptist men planning cookout in Seymour

The American Baptist Men’s Brotherhood of the Brownstown Association plans to conduct is First Hands on Mission cookout at 5:30 p.m. June 10 at Todd’s Place, 4990 N. U.S. 31, Seymour.

Anyone with questions or wanting to donate or help may contact Pastor Troy Burns at 812-525-2442.

Library closing for Crothersville festival

Due to the Crothersville Red White and Blue Festival, the Jackson County Public Library in Crothersville will close June 8.

Customers may visit the Seymour Library from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. or the Medora Library from 1 to 5 p.m. or return items in the library book and audio/video returns while the library is closed.

They also may use their Evergreen Indiana library card to visit the Scott County Public Library in Austin, Scottsburg or Lexington.

The Crothersville Library will reopen with a regular schedule June 10 with the A Universe of Stories summer learning program continuing through July 31.