The Geary Community Healthcare Foundations annual Fall Classic golf tournament raised $27,153. at Rolling Meadows had a full field of golfers participating this year.

Jolana Montgomery-Matney, Executive Director of the Geary Community Healthcare Foundation explained that this year they had 144 golfers in the tournament at Rolling Meadows Golf Course.

The money raised will go towards the upgrade of Medical Arts I at Geary Community Hospital.

“That’s the original Doctors building that was built back in the early ’70s. We need to make it more reflective of the rest of the hospital. It helps in recruiting Doctors to Geary Community and also in retention of the Doctors that we do have.”

This is the 16th year the Montgomery-Matney and the Healthcare foundation have put on the Fall Classic, and each year the proceeds go towards improving healthcare in Junction City/Geary County.

Two bids have been submitted for lots advertised for sale by the new Land Bank in Junction City.

David Yearout, Zoning and Planning Administrator for Junction City and Geary County, stated that the bids are being copied for presentation to the Land Bank Board of Trustees next Tuesday ( Sept. 15 ), “with a recommendation to accept and allow us to move forward to close on the sales. Then we’ll figure out what we’re going to do with the remaining lots, and we’re looking at others as well. So there’s just a lot of stuff happening with them, but at least we got some bids.”

Yearout reported that the two bids were submitted by New Horizon Homes LLC of Manhattan. The bids were $6,180 apiece for two  side-by-side lots in the Sutter Highlands Addition north of K-18 Highway and west of U.S. 77 and Spring Valley Road.  The bid amounts did exceed the $5,000 minimum set for the lots.

The Land Bank had advertised 25 lots for sale, but bids were only received on the two lots mentioned. No bids were received on the other 23 lots.

More than 900 undeveloped housing lots are on the west and northwest side of Junction City, and could be put up for potential sale in the Land Bank in the future.

There was a glimmer of optimism at the Military Affairs Council meeting in Junction City on Thursday that relief in the Defense Department sequestration cuts could be possible.

The Army has already been forced to reduce down to a total troop strength of 450,000 soldiers due to sequestration.

A Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army, Mark Edwards, Junction City, informed the MAC Council following the recent Congressional recess there might be some movement after the next three weeks. He told JC Post, “We’ve all been hoping that there would be some defense relief from defense sequestration. Over the break there’s indications that really the logjam might break. I’m very optimistic that in the next three weeks, maybe four weeks we’ll actually get some relief for the Defense Department.”

Without any relief, it’s possible if future sequestration cuts did occur the Army could be forced to reduce its’ troop numbers down to 420,000.

 

Junction City police have reported the arrest of three people on drug related allegations. They include Gaquan Marquese Smith, 20, Tymarlis Rayshawn Phillips, 21, and Rashard Javon Evans, 23, all from Junction City.

They were arrested on suspicion of Possession of Marijuana, Felony Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, and Misdemeanor Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.

The arrests were reported at 5:16 a.m. Friday at 540 West 8th Street.

 

17 school bands participating in university’s annual Band Day

MANHATTAN — Bill Snyder Family Stadium will be filled with the sound of music from Kansas State University’s annual Band Day performance Saturday, Sept. 19, at halftime of the Wildcats’ football game against Louisiana Tech.

“The best part of hosting an event such as Band Day is the excitement of having so many high school students and potential K-State students on campus to experience band, the campus and the K-State Way,” said Frank Tracz, director of bands at Kansas State University.

This year’s Band Day also will be Sudler Day in recognition of the Kansas State University Marching Band receiving the 2015 Sudler Trophy, a biannual award that recognizes a college marching band of special merit. The trophy honors the close historical relationship and outstanding contribution of college marching bands to the American way of life.

Seventeen schools and 250 alumni band members will participate in the Band Day halftime performance. Because of construction on around the campus, the traditional Band Day parade has been canceled.

For the halftime performance, the schools will join the Kansas State University Marching Band in “Happy” by Pharrell Williams, the university’s alma mater and the traditional Band Day performances of the “1812 Overture,” “Wabash Cannonball” and “Wildcat Victory.”

The following junior and senior high schools are participating in Band Day:

Wabaunsee High School, Alma; Ell-Saline High School, Brookville; Great Bend High School, Great Bend; Halstead High School, Halstead; Herington Junior-Senior High, Herington; Junction City High School and St. Xavier Catholic High School, both in Junction City; Linn High School, Linn; Manhattan High School,Manhattan; Jayhawk-Linn High School, Mound City; Mulvane High School,Mulvane; Rossville High School, Rossville; Scott Community High School,Scott City; Nemaha Central High School, Seneca; Silver Lake High School,Silver Lake; Riverside USD 114, Wathena; and Jefferson County North High School, Winchester.

 

 

According to the National Weater Service of Topeka, high pressure will usher cooler temperatures and drier air into northeast Kansas through the weekend. Temperatures will be in the 70s with warmer air poised to make a return for the start of next week. Lows are expected to fall into the mid 40s to lower 50s Saturday morning and into the upper 40s to mid 50s Sunday morning. Rain chances return to the area Tuesday night through Thursday.

Today: Cooler…sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 5 to 15 mph.

Tonight: Cooler. Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds up to 10 mph.

Saturday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds up to 5 mph shifting to the east in the afternoon.

Saturday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows around 50. South winds up to 5 mph.

Sunday: Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to 20 mph.

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

Monday: Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy with slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.

Tuesday: Breezy. Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.

Tuesday Night: Breezy. Partly cloudy with slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny with slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s.

Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 60s.

Thursday: Mostly sunny with slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s.

LENEXA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State is getting a $20,000 federal grant for a green infrastructure project.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a release Thursday the university is getting the grant to create “living laboratories” to conduct green infrastructure monitoring at the rain garden at the university’s International Student Center and at art museum’s meadow.

The EPA says the grant is aimed at encouraging sustainable storm water management by educating scientists, designers and engineers about green infrastructure and protecting water quality.

The EPA says is award builds on the agency’s Campus RainWorks Challenge, in which faculty and student teams design green infrastructure campus projects.

Kansas State won a $2,000 first-place prize in 2013.

FT. RILEY – A Manhattan woman and 3 children were injured in an accident just before 6:30 p.m. on Thursday in Geary County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2001 Freightliner semi driven by Abdelhadi Sweiti, 36, Chicago Ridge, IL., was westbound on Interstate 70 in front of Marshall Airfield.

The truck drove on to the north shoulder and struck a 2011 Town and Country Van driven by Anderson, Jennifer M. Anderson, 39, Manhattan, which was parked on the shoulder.

After the collision, the semi travelled across the median into the eastbound lanes and struck a Jeep driven by Steve Holler, 49, Lees Summit, MO.,

The semi continued into the south ditch and overturned.

Anderson and three children Braydon Anderson, 11, Ashton Dyer, 9, and Kennedy Dyer, 7, all of Manhattan, were transported to Geary County Hospital.

Sweiti and Holler were not injured. All were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.

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An accident involving a semi on Interstate 70 occurred around 6:30 pm near mile marker 302 in Geary County Thursday.

According to Garry Berges, Geary County Emergency Management Director a semi rear ended a car, pushing it through the ditch.

“The semi overturned, it clipped another vehicle and went across all four lanes of traffic, losing one of its diesel tanks in the process, and so we’ve got diesel and debris across all four lanes of the highway,” said Berges.

Berges confirmed four people were transported to the hospital with minor injuries.

At 8:30 pm both lanes of westbound traffic were open, and only one lane of eastbound traffic was open.

Emergency personnel from Fort Riley, Manhattan Hazmat, Kansas Highway Patrol, Geary County Sheriff’s Department and Geary County Fire responded.