The Saint Xavier Marching Band performed during Band Day at Kansas State University. 
The band was one of 17 high school marching bands that performed at halftime of the Kansas State – Louisiana Tech football game.
The Junction City High School marching band also performed.
One of the community highlights of the past weekend was the Ice Cream Social sponsored by the Geary County Historical Society on the grounds of the Geary County Historical Museum at 530 North Adams.
The director of the Historical Museum Jamie Martin noted there was a great turnout for the musical groups that performed. Exhibits were also on display inside the Museum. Overall the estimated attendance totaled approximately 100.
“We almost sold out of pie and cake. We sold out of chocolate ice cream. ”
Funds raised during the event support the general operating expenses for the Museum and for general collections care.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center wants to hear directly from veterans and their families about their experiences with their services.
The facility has scheduled a town hall from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday in the facility’s auditorium. The agency VA’s regional office in Wichita also will be holding a benefits claim clinic from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Representatives from the Dole VA Medical Center will be available to provide one-on-one assistance to veterans during the town hall. Senior staff and medical experts will be in a move to improve communications with veterans, their families, and other beneficiaries.
Veterans can get help for their benefits claims at the clinic, and the VA says staff will be on hand to finalize their claims as appropriate.
The Geary USd 475 Board of Education has approved the sale of the Junction City High School construction house at 1220 North Eisenhower for $120,500.
The house was built during the last school year by JCHS students.
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The Boe approved the disposal of playground equipment from the old Fort Riley Elementary School, plus Milford, Washington, and Franklin Elementary Schools to the City of Milford and the Apostolic Academy. Those entities will remove the equipment at no cost to USD 475.
The district was unable to re-purpose the items because the cost of moving and bringing it up to ADA standards at a new site would have been more expensive than purchasing new equipment.
Father Al Brungardt died this past Sunday. He had served the Saint Frances Xavier Parish for 16 years before retiring in June of 2013.
The Vigil will be at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 24. The Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 25. Both events will be held at the Basilica of St. Fidelis in Victoria.
Former members of the U.S. Army who are now in the Kiwanis South Club of Junction City were honored Monday evening with the presentation of Quilts of Valor.
Central Flint Hills Quilt of Valor representative Phyllis Sanders spoke during the presentation. “The goal of the Quilts of Valor Foundation is to honor and comfort service men and veterans who were touched by war with comforting and healing quilts of valor.”
“A Quilt of Valor is a lifetime award made to a military service member or veteran by grateful civilians. ”
The program dates its’ history nationally back to 2003, and since then more than 123,000 quilts have been awarded. The Central Flint Hills area Quilt of Valor will award more than 100 this year.
MANHATTAN – Law enforcement authorities in Riley County are investigating after a woman was arrested with an explosive device.
The Riley County Police Department reported Heather Spiller, 35, Manhattan, was arrested just after 9:30p.m. on Friday in the 500 block of Vattier Street in Manhattan for the criminal use of an explosive (possession, manufacture, or transport commercial explosives) which was listed on a warrant originating in Riley County.
In August, police found that Spiller was in possession of a military explosive fuse assembly.
She is being held in the Riley County jail on a bond of $5,000.00.
FORT RILEY, Kansas – The 1st Infantry Division and Fort Riley will bid farewell to Command Sgt. Maj. Michael A. Grinston, the division’s senior
noncommissioned officer, during a Victory with Honors ceremony Sept. 25.
The ceremony, which will include the 1st Infantry Division Band, the Commanding General’s Mounted Color Guard and the firing of ceremonial
cannons, will also serve as a change of responsibility ceremony as the “Big
Red One” welcomes Command Sgt. Maj. Joseph Cornelison, who will assume Grinston’s responsibilities as part of the 1st Inf. Div. command team.
Grinston is the 1st Inf. Div.’s 23rd senior noncommissioned officer,
assuming responsibility on Oct. 25, 2013. He previously served with the Big
Red One as a first sergeant in the 1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery
Regiment, deploying in 2004 with his company for 12 months in support of
Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Grinston joined Maj. Gen. Paul E. Funk II to deploy with the division
headquarters, which formed the core of Combined Joint Forces Land Component
Command-Iraq, from October 2014 to July. The command was responsible for
advising and assisting Iraq’s security forces and providing training to
newly built Iraqi army units as part of Operation Inherent Resolve. The Big
Red One handed over command of CJFLCC-I to the 82nd Airborne Division in
June in Baghdad, Iraq.
Cornelison is from Tunnel Hill, Georgia, and previously served as the top
enlisted Soldier of the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry
Division, at Fort Hood, Texas.
Update:
Specific numbers revealed Monday show that overall enrollment for 2015 is 24,212, down 554 students from Fall 2014.
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Expect fall semester enrollment at Kansas State University to be down.
That’s according to KSU President Dr. Kirk Schulz.
During his State of the University remarks on Friday, Schulz noted K-State was not yet at the official 20th day enrollment numbers, “We are going to be down in enrollment this fall for the first time over the last several years by several hundred students. This is sort of across the board in international students, on graduate students, undergraduates and so on and so forth.”
Schulz stated the University will have the official numbers out. “But know that our enrollment will be somewhere still above 24,000 but we’ll have those numbers out there.”
He stated officials will dialogue about this topic on campus over the next several weeks and months as an enrollment management task force is formed to set some enrollment goals, and determine how the University would like to grow, in what particular areas, the necessary resources that are needed, and how there can be more effective support for those growing areas on campus.
Schulz noted K-State is still the number one choice for Kansas high school graduates, and will have the most diverse and most academically gifted entering class in K-State history.
The annual Fly Kansas Air Tour will kick off on Tuesday, Sept. 29, and will visit 12 Kansas communities in five days, including Freeman Field in Junction City, promoting aviation in Kansas.
“The tour is a chance to see the state and learn about general aviation up close, ” KDOT Aviation Director Tiffany Brown said. “We hope to connect with both students and members of the community to demonstrate the important role their airport plays in their community.”
At stops along the tour, students will be invited to learn about topics including basic flight principles and aviation education opportunities as well as discuss careers in aviation with air ambulance operations, airport managers, aerial applicators, engineers, airline pilots and meet the 1st Aviation Combat Brigade from Fort Riley.
The stop at Freeman Field in Junction City is scheduled at 1 p.m. on Oct. 1.