The Douglas County Food Policy Council will host a number of public comment meetings in the coming days as it prepares to draft and adopt its recommendations on food system policy for the updated Horizon 2020 plan.

Helen Schnoes, food systems coordinator for the Douglas County Sustainability Department, said recommendations for a food system plan will be included in the updated comprehensive plan for the first time, just as those for the arts and parks were when the document was first adopted. Local food policies includes such things as ordinances that allow urban agriculture, zoning for agriculture production, economic development incentives to support new food and farm businesses and zoning to allow farm worker housing, she said.

The public input meetings will be at 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday at the Lawrence Union Pacific Depot, 402 N. Second St.; 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Meeting Hall at the Douglas County Fairgrounds; 6:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Eudora Community Building, 1630 Elm St.; and 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Lumberyard Arts Center, 718 High St., in Baldwin City.

Schnoes said the food system plan would be written this winter from ideas shared at the meeting and a recommended plan presented for inclusion in Horizon 2020 in spring 2017. Ultimately, city and county commissioners would have to approve any recommendations before they could become part of Horizon 2020.

Baker University Theatre will present “The Journey of Everyman” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at Rice Auditorium on the school’s Baldwin City campus. Admission is free.

Baker will feature two pre-holiday free musical events next week. The Baker University Orchestra will perform the Beethoven Egmont Overture, Faure Élegié for cello and orchestra, and the Schubert Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished.” Music faculty member Ed Laut is the featured soloist in the Élegié, and Mark Pretzel, director of orchestral activities, conducts the performance.

The 19th annual Baker Jazz Concert and Festival will be Nov. 17 and 18 on Baker’s Baldwin City campus. Guest artist and jazz percussionist Michael Mixtacki will join the Baker Jazz Ensemble for the concert at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 17 at Rice Auditorium. The daylong Baker High School Jazz Festival will be Nov. 18 on the campus.

Representatives from the Douglas County Community Foundation will present a seminar on funding for non-profits from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Baldwin Academy of Dance and Voice, 711 High St.

Ives Chapel United Methodist Church in Baldwin City will have its free Thanksgiving community meal from 6 to 7 p.m. Nov. 17 at the church, 1018 Miami St.

The November Eudora Chamber of Commerce meeting will be at noon Thursday at the chamber office, 1402 Church St. The speakers with be Helen Schnoes and Jason Rohloff. Those planning to attend are asked to send notice to Chamber Director Mary Kirkendoll by Monday at 785-542-1212 or eudorachamber.com.

Lecompton Community Pride will perform “First Annual Boughs of Holly Country Club Christmas” at 3 and 7 p.m. Nov. 19 and a dinner theater presentation at 1 p.m. Nov. 20 at the Lecompton Pride Building, 640 Woodson Ave. For more information, contact Brenda Hestart at 785-887-6182.