It was noted in this column two weeks ago how fortunate Baldwin City was when Baldwin Medical Clinic replaced Dr. Dara Lowe with Dr. Cristina Goodwin with just a two-week transition. The quick turnaround is in stark contrast to the difficult task many smaller Kansas communities have in recruiting and retaining physicians.

The opening of Medical Home Family Practice at 101 West 10th St. in Eudora offers another example of the good fortune area cities enjoy in that regard. Regina Heidner has opened a clinic at the site, which was once home of Lawrence Memorial Hospital’s Eudora clinic. (LMH continues to operate a medical office in Eudora, but in a newer space on the south side of the community.)

Heidner said she graduated from Kansas University Medical Center with a master’s degree in nursing with a family nurse practitioner tract in 2002. She is currently working to complete her doctorate in nursing practice.

She practiced for four years at the Lawrence Memorial Hospital Mount Oread facility and “floated” at the Eudora clinic, Heidner said. She now has a practice on State Avenue in Kansas City, Kan., Heidner said.

“That’s where the bulk of my client base is located,” she said. “Quite frankly, I’d like to stay closer to home and have another nurse practitioner run that office.”

That goal must wait until Heidner establishes a client base in Eudora and gets all insurance companies to approve payments for visits to the new clinic, she said. Until then, the clinic’s hours are 9 a.m. to noon on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday. Appointments can be made by calling 913-333-6582.

“I certainly like being back in Eudora,” Heidner said. “The clinic is just adorable. I was really happy it was available.”

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Local history lovers should take note of an event at 2 p.m. Sunday as the 20th annual Bleeding Kansas Lecture Series continues at Lecompton’s Constitutional Hall State Historic Site, 319 Elmore St. Sunday’s fourth of six lectures in the series will be a presentation from Monica Davis, a volunteer researcher with the Watkins Museum of History in Lawrence, and Jan Elder, a Lecompton reenactor portraying Matilda Barber, on “Free Stand Families of Kanwaka: Profile of the 1855 Ohio Immigrant Party.” The suggested donation is $3 for adults.

The two following programs will be “Border Wars Ballads: Territorial and Civil War Songs of Kansas and Missouri” by historian Dr. Carl Graves on Feb. 28 and “Colonel Henry Titus: The Osama Bin Laden of the Abolitionist Press” by Antonio de la Cova of the University of South Carolina at Columbia on March 6.

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The Ives Chapel United Methodist Church will have its monthly free community meal from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, at the church, 1018 Miami St.

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The Worden United Methodist Church will have its annual ham-and-bean dinner and taco feed from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, at the church, 294 E. 900 Road. Free-will donations will be accepted with the money raised donated to the Habitat for Humanity House to be built this year in Baldwin City. The evening will also include a crafts fair.