Lecompton Community Pride has the prescription for bargain hunters aching for the full start of the garage sale season. The group will have its annual rummage sale Friday and Saturday in the city’s Community Center, 620 Woodson Ave.

Kathy Paslay, Lecompton Community Pride member heading up her fifth-straight rummage sale, said the sale will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. to noon Saturday. It would conclude with a bag sale from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, she said.

“Saturday morning will be half-price, and then we’ll bag everything up and hope to get it gone,” she said. “It’s a big sale. We have two floors of the old high school building. We have an autographed KU basketball someone donated. It’s from the 2009-2010 team. We have antiques, collectibles and lots of variety. We usually have a couple of estates donated, so that gives us the big variety.”

The sale will include a silent auction, and breakfast and lunch are to be served both days, Paslay said.

The proceeds from the sale are used to pay utilities and maintain the old high school Lecompton Community Pride started renovating four years ago as the city’s Community Center, Paslay said. Last year, the sale raised $5,000, which was right on the mark for recent years, she said.

“That’s pretty good,” she said. “That big of a building has a lot of utility expenses.”

While Lecompton residents will be looking after the upkeep of their Community Center, those in Eudora will be invited to pay attention to their own well-being with the Eudora school district’s Wild Over Wellness community health fair. The event will be from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the Eudora Public Safety Building, 10th and Main streets.

Linda Troutfetter, Eudora school district social worker, said Lawrence Memorial Hospital will offer a variety of free health screenings at the event, including those for blood pressure, vision, hearing and cholesterol. There will be an emphasis on senior services with the Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging and people from Operation Red File, which advocates seniors keep critical medical information available in accessible and noticeable red files. Other businesses or organizations attending the event include Eudora’s Parents as Teachers, staff with the Eudora LMH office and other health care professionals in the community, she said.

Children also will be a focus with games and treats. Troutfetter said there will be a bicycle rodeo for children starting at 10 a.m., with many of the contestants wearing new helmets they will receive free at the fair. There will be helmets available for adults, too, she said.

Children and parents will also be able to get close-up looks at Eudora Fire Department equipment and that of the new Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical ambulance stationed last month in Eudora, Troutfetter said.

A 5K walk/run the Eudora Lions Club is sponsoring will start the day. Participants should be at the Public Safety Building at 8:45 to register and the race starts at 9 a.m., Troutfetter said.

The Baldwin City Chamber of Commerce will host the second of its Coffee and Conversation civic engagement programs from 8 to 9 a.m. Wednesday at Homestead Kitchen and Bakery. The program will feature Baldwin City Community Development Director Ed Courton, who will speak on the use of incentives to help boost economic development in the city.

Chamber Director Jeannette Blackmar said April will be filled with Chamber events, including the downtown mural project that is slated to be painted the weekend of April 28 through 30, weather permitting, on the west side of the storefront at 608 High St. To prepare for that, the Chamber is inviting the community to help create the design for the mural.

That will be done through a planned public forum, during which residents will be encouraged to share their ideas for the mural. From that meeting, a design team of 10 to 15 community members will be selected to review ideas developed at the forum to develop a final design.

“We’re looking for broad community participation,” Blackmar said. “You don’t have to be artistic to participate but just bring your ideas about the community’s values, its history, what we are and what we want to be. We want community members from 9 to 90.”

For more information on the project, call Blackmar at 785-594-3200.