The Geary Community Hospital Auxiliary has donated $800 toward the Safe Sleep Take Home Program initiated by Delivering Change: Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies and the Martha K. Hoover Women’s Center.

The safe sleep sack is a wearable blanket for newborn babies replacing blankets that can cover a baby’s face and interfere with breathing when swaddled.

Currently, the safe sleep sack is used with every newborn at the Martha K. Hoover Women’s Center, but with recent funding, every new mother will now receive a safe sleep sack to take home as their departing gift. New mothers will also receive educational materials on sleep safety.

Jill Nelson, Program Coordinator of Delivering Change stated “We’re really excited to expand our in-hospital program. We’ve been demonstrating the steps of safe sleep but now we are actually giving the parents the tools to go home and utilize them. These sleep sacks have been increasingly popular in hospitals and most have made the transition toward using them as well.”

The safe sleep sack can transition and grow with the baby until 24 months.

According to the Junction City/Milford/Geary County Metropolitan Planning Commission agenda for Thursday night the commission will be considering special use permits to allow the proposed construction of a veterinary clinic and to allow the establishment of a church.

The proposed veterinary clinic would be located on the northwest corner at the intersection of Strauss Boulevard and south Spring Valley Road. David Yearout, Zoning and Planning Administrator explained that Dr. Theresa McCreath submitted a plan to build a new building at that location.

“She was curious as to whether or not it would be a permitted use at that location. She submitted a plan showing a new building at that location and it will be for small animals only,” said Yearout.

Currently the lot is zoned neighborhood Commercial District, which does not permit veterinary clinics in that district without a special use permit.

The Junction City Baptist Church also applied for a special use permit to allow the establishment of a church off of Ecord Drive on Junction City’s west side, just north of Armour Eckrich.

“The Baptist Church has got a contract to acquire the property owned by Bruce Johnson that’s immediately north of Armour Eckrich. It’s proposing to plat that into a single lot and requesting to get a special use permit to allow a church.”

That lot is zoned Suburban Residential, and a small portion is also zoned Duplex Residential District.

The Metropolitan Planning Commission will meet Thursday night at 7 p.m. in the Commission Room of the Municipal Building in downtown Junction City.

Phase two of the terminal expansion project at Manhattan Regional Airport was expected to wrap up by the end of this summer, but due to delays during phase one the second phase has yet to begin.

Substantial completion of phase one occurred in early March, and Airport Staff have been working with the project’s prime contractor, Mead and Hunt, to officially wrap up phase one to move on to phase two ever since.

Jesse Romo, Airport Director explained Monday morning to members of the Airport Advisory Board that they are getting closer each day to issuing a notice to proceed to the General Contractor Weitz Company,”unfortunately we just haven’t been able to.”

“One of the last things we are waiting for is from the U.S. Department of Labor. With these projects and efforts, with as much coordination that it takes, especially with the larger federal agencies, it can get bogged down in a lot of different places quite easily,” said Romo.

Romo didn’t want to make any false promises by saying a date for when he felt construction would begin, but he did say that they are getting close.

WAMEGO, Kan. (AP) – Former tea party-backed candidate Dr. Milton Wolf has confronted Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran at a town hall meeting over the state medical board’s past investigation of Wolf’s license as Wolf was running for office.

Wolf declined to say Monday whether he plans to run in next year’s Republican primary against Moran. Wolf is a Leawood radiologist and gave Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts a tougher-than-expected challenge in last year’s GOP primary.

Wolf asked Moran at a town hall in Wamego what Moran knew about the medical board’s investigation of Wolf over his postings on Facebook in 2010 of X-ray images of fatal gunshot wounds. Moran said he didn’t know anything until he saw news reports last year.

Wolf said last week that the board closed its investigation without finding wrongdoing.

The monthly Milford Lake bird walk will be Saturday at 8 a.m.

Participants should meet at the parking lot on the south end of Milford Lake Dam, just across the highway from the Corps of Engineers office.

The coordinator of the walks, Chuck Otte, said this month’s walk will focus on migrating shorebird species. The walks usually last about two to three hours, and involve moderate walking. If you have binoculars or a bird book bring them.

Milford Lake bird walks are held monthly through November. The September walk is scheduled for September 12.

The Dickinson County Sheriff  has reported that investigators from the Sheriff’s  Department have arrested 50-year old Harold Scrivner of Solomon following the completion of an investigation into alleged aggravated indecent liberties with a child.

Scrivner was incarcerated in the Dickinson County jail. His bond has been set at  $500,000.

Dickinson County Sheriff Gareth Hoffman noted Scrivner will face five felony allegations of Aggravated Indecent Liberties With a Child.

Detectives from the Abilene Police Department assisted the Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office investigators in the case.

According to the Natioanl Weather Service of Topeka, chances for a few showers and thunderstorms will persist today, primarily in the morning, as a frontal system exits the area. The remainder of the work week looks dry with high temperatures through the week from the middle 80s to around 90

Tonight: Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. North winds up to 10 mph.

Tuesday: Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Northeast winds up to 5 mph.

Tuesday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds up to 5 mph.

Wednesday: Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds up to 5 mph.

Wednesday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.

Thursday: Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.

Thursday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.

Friday: Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.

Friday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.

Saturday: Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 60s.

Sunday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.

Junction City police reported the arrest of three people at 126 North East Street on suspicion of Possession of Marijuana and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, and a fourth on suspicion of Possession of Cocaine.

On the Possession of Marijuana and Drug Paraphernalia allegations they included Jeanette Flores, 42,  and Patricia Lozano, 43,  both of San Antonio, Texas and a juvenile.  Arrested on the Possession of Cocaine allegation was Joe Louis Herrera, 42, also of San Antonio, Texas.

The arrests occurred on Saturday afternoon.

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Junction City police reported the arrest of Benjamin A. Laeli, 25, Junction City and the issuance of a Notice to Appear to Melissa Jordan, 29, Junction City on suspicion of Possession of Marijuana and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.  That occurred at 140 West 1st Street Saturday night.

Junction City police have reported four cases of damage to property that were received on Saturday morning.  Three of them involved a broken car window, and in one case at 2226 Ponca Drive  authorities said it appeared to be an attempt to pry open a tailgate.

The broken window cases were reported at 1931 Lacy Drive, 914 Hickory Lane, and 1118 Hickory Lane.

No arrests have been reported in those cases.