Leaders of Douglas County’s three smaller communities have made clear their intentions of remaining in office.

The mayors of Eudora and Lecompton made their re-election bids official in the last week by filing with the Douglas County Clerk’s Office, while Baldwin City Mayor Marilyn Pearse said she, too, intended to seek another four years in office although she hasn’t made the trek to the courthouse to make her candidacy official.

“There are a lot of things that are in the works I’d like to see completed,” Pearse said. “I think we did get a lot of things done that I wanted, like getting gigabit fiber, the sewer line to the industrial park and buying back the right to supply power for the industrial park from KCP&L. There’s still things we need to get done. Quite frankly, Steve (Bauer) was going to be a part of that, and now he’s not going to be there at all. I don’t want to see what we’ve done overturned or for us to go backward.”

Councilman Bauer and his wife were killed in a car accident last weekend in Anderson County.

Eudora Mayor Tim Reazin announced in January his intention to run for re-election, saying he wanted to continue to work on such things as the redevelopment of the Nottingham property and city infrastructure improvements. Reazin didn’t actually file for mayor but for re-election to one of two Eudora City Commission seats to be on this year’s ballot. Under Eudora’s commission-city manager form of government, the five commissioners annually elect one of their own to serve as mayor.

Lecompton Mayor Sandra Jacquot filed Wednesday for another two-year term. She said serving as mayor is a way to give back to a community she loves.

“I enjoy it,” she said. “I enjoy working with the council. I’m retired, and it seems like a way to give back. I was in public service my entire career.”

As of Thursday, Jacquot was the only candidate to file for the Lecompton mayoral position, and no one had officially filed for the Baldwin City mayor. Reazin was the lone official candidate for the Eudora City Commission. The filing deadline for this year’s city/school board elections is noon June 1.

The Clinton Lake Historical Society has scheduled two public meetings to solicit public comment on its proposed update of its master plan for the property associated with the Wakarusa River Valley Heritage Museum at Clinton Lake’s Bloomington Park East. The meetings will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 4, at Kanwaka Township Hall, 776 Highway 40, and 1 p.m. Sunday, June 25, at Stull United Methodist Church, 1596 East 250 Road.

The property’s proposed master plan includes the existing Wakarusa River Valley Heritage Museum and the Freedom Rings sculpture and the proposed meeting house, parking lot, cabins, Kansas Avenue interpretive walk, log cabin and Bloomington interpretive center, agricultural museum, educational museum and Clinton Lake watchtower.

The municipal pools of Baldwin City and Eudora are scheduled to open this weekend.

The Eudora pool will open Saturday with regular hours of 1 to 7 p.m. The water may be a bit cool. Eudora Parks and Recreation Director Gary Scott said the pool’s water temperature was 65 on Monday and the sun hasn’t warmed the pool much.

The Baldwin City pool will have two more days to warm up before it opens with regular hours from 1 to 7 p.m. Monday, Baldwin City Recreation Commission Director Steve Friend said. Admission will be free for the holiday opening, he said.

The Baldwin City American Legion will have its annual Memorial Day celebration at 10 a.m. Monday at Oakwood Cemetery in Baldwin City.

The observance will include short speeches from veterans, the traditional bell ringing in memory of departed veterans and a 21-gun salute. In the event of rain, the observance will be moved to the American Legion Post, 803 High St.