Over the next two days, a weak upper level disturbance will slowly drift southwest from east central NE across north central Kansas and into southwest KS. As the upper level disturbance passes southwest across north central Kansas, scattered showers and perhaps an isolated thunderstorm may develop Today through Friday.

Tonight: Mostly cloudy with chance of showers and isolated thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds up to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.

Friday: Partly sunny. Chance of showers and slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning. Highs in the upper 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds up to 10 mph.

Saturday: Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. East winds up to 10 mph.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.

Sunday: Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear. Lows around 60.

Monday: Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.

Monday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.

Tuesday: Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.

The set up work for the blues and barbecue festival, “Jammin In JC,” is scheduled to begin on Thursday.

Coordinator Bob Cevera explained barricades blocking off streets around the Heritage Park area will be set up Thursday morning. “We’re going to have 6th Street from Washington to Jefferson, 5th Street from Washington to Jefferson, and then Jefferson from 5th to 6th will all be blocked off.”

The actual celebration is Friday night and Saturday.

The Office of U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom issued a release Wednesday of federal grand jury indictiments.  One of those involved a recent case on Fort Riley.

Juwuan D. Jackson, 18, who lives on the Fort Riley Army base, is charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter. The indictment alleges that on Sept. 11, 2015, he handled a firearm in a reckless manner resulting in the death of 16-year-old Kenyon Givens, who also lived on Fort Riley.

Jackson initially was charged in a criminal complaint filed Sept. 16, 2015, in U.S. District Court in Topeka.

If convicted, Jackson faces a maximum penalty of eight years in federal prison. Army Criminal Investigations Division and the FBI investigated. Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Robin Graham and Assistant U.S. Attorney Tony Mattivi are prosecuting.

The Junction City Little Theater will present the murder-mystery comedy Death by Design on stage at the C. L. Hoover Opera House Nov. 6, 7, and 8. Hall Keller will serve as the director, Jan Cumro is stage manager and Laura Seals assists.

Rob Urbinati’s Death by Design features performances by Lynn Wright, Brent Seals, Britain Stites, Mica Stites, Tom Brungardt, Simon Englehardt, Marie Gazelle, and Kadi Lorentzson.

Death by Design is a hilarious “mash-up” of two of the greatest English writers of all time, combining the brilliant wit of Noel Coward with the intricate plotting of Agatha Christie. Set during a weekend in an English country manor in 1932, Edward Bennett, a playwright, and his wife Sorel Bennett, an actress, flee London and head to Cookham after a disastrous opening night. But various guests arrive unexpectedly – a conservative politician, a fiery socialist, a nearsighted ingenue, a zany modern dancer – each with a long-held secret. When one of the guests is murdered, it’s left to Bridgit, the feisty Irish maid with a macabre interest in homicide to solve the crime.

Showtimes are November 6 and 7 at 7:30 p.m., with a 2 p.m. matinee on November 8. Tickets are $18 for adults, $16 for military, and $11 for children under 18.

For ticket reservations, call the box office at 238-3906, or order online at www.jclt.info.

The Miller Chemotherapy Unit at Geary Community Hospital recently went through a renovation project in order to upgrade the unit for the patients and staff.

The upgrades include new chairs for the patients, a new refrigerator with an ice maker, new paint, new artwork, a new big screen television, and some convenience upgrades to the bathroom and nurses station. It was funded through the Miller Chemotherapy Trust Fund managed by the Geary Community Healthcare Foundation.

“That’s what Maureen Miller put the dollars aside for with us, I’m going to say about 17 or 18 years ago, and it was her desire because she lost her husband and two of her three sons to cancer that we are able to treat our patients here in Junction City and not have them go anywhere else,” said Jolana Montgomery-Matney, Executive Director of the Geary Community Healthcare Foundation.

The renovation of the Miller Chemotherapy Unit is only the beginning of a larger plan to upgrade all of Medical Arts Building I at GCH. The Hospital is currently in the planning stages for the upgrades to MAB I, and work is expected to begin sometime around the first of the year with a completion date sometime by next spring and summer.

The new CEO of the Junction City Area Chamber of Commerce is heading up the recently created Membership Enhancement Division, which does replace the former Activities Division.

Dennis Beson updated the Chamber Executive Board Tuesday on his efforts to make some slight changes to the Membership Enhancement Division.

“What we’re trying to focus on is bringing the activities portion more in-house, so that I would be driving those, organizing those, along with my staff, but still reaching out for volunteers whether that be members or specifically ambassadors,” said Beson.

He also added that they will be tweaking the ambassador group just a bit as well,”and focusing our ambassadors on reaching out to members and just talking to people trying to build a little bit better community here of members.”

Communication with all members has been an issue in the past and has cost the Chamber members, but Beson is wanting to turn that around and hopefully grow the Chamber substantially over the next year and a half. Currently the Chamber has 308 members.

“I think my goal, my personal goal, would be by the end of 2016 to us actually being up towards 500.”

Part of Beson’s plan to grow the membership is to in part grow the events put on by the Chamber, such as the MAC Breakfast, Chamber Breakfast and Business After Hours. But one of the major things he will be working on is the Chambers 101 Class that will be available to all members.

“Driven by our staff where someone can actually see all of the different points that they can take advantage of in their membership.”

Beson will continue to manage the entire Chamber as a whole but will be taking the lead on the Membership Enhancement Division as well.

WABAUNSEE – A Kansas man was injured in an accident just before 9a.m. on Wednesday in Wabaunsee County.

The Kansas Highway reported a 2012 Ford van driven by Aaron Lloyd Bathgate, 30, Garden City, was westbound on Interstate 70 at the Kansas 185-McFarland exit.

The van struck a KDOT tractor and mower that were crossing the lanes.

Bathgate was transported to Wamego Hospital. He was wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.

The tractor driver James D. Roth, 55, Paxico, was not injured.