Junction City Area Chamber of Commerce officials continue to move forward on the effort to fill the vacant CEO position with the Chamber.
Mayor Mick McCallister updated the City Commission Tuesday night, telling them interviews were conducted last week. The Chamber is prepared to make an effort, perhaps later this week.
The Chamber is seeking to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Tom Weigand.
The JC Breakfast Optimist Club will have a fundraiser at Ike’s Place, 416 Goldenbelt Boulevard, Saturday, June 20 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
A percentage of the cost of each meal purchased will go to the Optomist Club for supporting youth activities in Geary County. Some of those activities include a JCHS Scholarship for a graduating senior who will attend a vocational / technical school, Court Appointed Special Advocates, the JCHS Debate / Forensics Team, Fort Riley Special Needs Rode, and others.
The second program in the Ike 125 Lecture series commemorating the 125th anniversary of the birth of Dwight David Eisenhower will be presented by Dominique Francis. The French military historian will speak about “Women During World War Ii: Substitutes, Soldiers, or Scapegoats?”
Women were essential to the outcome of World War Ii, but little is known about their role. In the U.S.and Britain they volunteered en masse, serving in non-combat roles. Soviet women joined the front-line troops.
Women in the U.S. moved into the workforce. Thousands of women in America and other allied countries enlisted as nurses and served on the front lines.
Francois will present the program both in Abilene and Kansas. The Abilene event will be Wednesday, June 24 at noon as part of the Brown Bag Lunch program at the Eisenhower Presidential Library Visitors Center Auditorium. The Kansas City event will begin with a reception at 6 p.m. and the program at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 23 at the Plaza Branch-Kansas City Public Library.
The City of Junction City will seek loans from the state on two major projects involving phase one improvements to the water plant and the two wastewater treatment plants.
The total project cost for the water plant project is $13,477,000 with $242,000 funded through an EPA grant, and for the combined two wastewater treatment plants the total project cost is $11,094,000.
The City Commission has authorized the loan applications.
Projected utility rate increases through the year 2024 will be determined as the project goes forward. The number range of 4% to 6.5% given during the Tuesday night City Commission meeting are utility rate increase projections for all three phases of the projects….if all three are completed in the future. Those numbers are not interest rate increases on the loans as reported in an earlier story. JC Post apologizes for the inconvenience.
The schedule is set for Jammin in JC September 25 and 26.
This fifth annual Blues music festival will feature:
September 25:
–Lonnie Ray Band…..5p – 6:15p
–Lauren Anderson….6:35p to 7:55p
–Samantha Fish……..8:15p to 9:40p
September 26:
–Pina Brothers……….1p to 2:10p
–Blue 88………………..2:35p to 3:55p
–BBQ Contest Announcements…..3:55p to 4:25p
–Noah Wotherspoon..4:25p to 5:50p
–Nick Schnebelen……6:15p to 7:45p
–Mr. Sipp……………….8:05p to 9:35p
Jammin in JC is held in the Heritage Park – downtown Junction City area. The concerts are free.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has declared an emergency throughout its Kansas City District because of high river levels and a rainy forecast in northwest Missouri.
The Level III emergency allows sponsors of levees to obtain technical assistance for damage to
qualifying levees caused by the high water.
Judd Kneuvean, emergency management director for the Kansas City District, says the corps has delivered 43,000 sandbags for use in the Blue River Basin. The corps also sent 1,000 sandbags to Manhattan, Kansas.
Kneuvean told The St. Joseph News-Press (https://bit.ly/1GYEdRt ) that rivers throughout the district are “prime” for flooding after weeks of intermittent rains. He says part of the problem is water backing up into streams and rivers because of high waters in the Missouri River.
According to the National Weather Service of Topeka, slight chances for showers and thunderstorms will continue for portions of the area periodically from tonight through Thursday night. At this time, precipitation from tropical system “Bill” should stay predominantly southeast of the 
outlook area, but may clip portions of east central and southeast Kansas around mid-week. Conditions should dry out for Friday through Saturday with high temperatures in the 80s and 90s. Look for very warm and humid weather for the start of the first full week of summer next week with highs in the lower to middle 90s.
Today: Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 87. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Lows around 67. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday: Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms. Highs around 83. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday Night: Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. East winds up to 10 mph.
Friday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph.
Friday Night: Mostly clear. Lows around 70.
Saturday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms. Lows around 70.
Sunday And Sunday Night: Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. Lows in the lower 70s.
Monday: Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
Monday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s.
Tuesday: Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.
Live entertainment, carnival rides and a new and improved fireworks show are just a few of the highlights of the upcoming Sundown Salute in Junction City.
Sundown Salute runs July 1-4 in downtown Junction City at Heritage Park. This years
musical enteratiners include Stateline Drive “Country Boy Band”, Shawn Gerhard “Tribute to Garth Brooks”, Revelation “A Tribute to Journey, and Saturday nights headliner Loverboy.
Sharon Glessner, Sundown Salute Coordinator explained that this year will be similiar to years past in the sense that a lot of the same food vendors will be returning and Ottaway Amusements is back again this year to put on the carnival. But this years firework show is expected to be bigger, longer and better.
“We’re going to have a longer and bigger fireworks show than we had last year, similar to but there’s going to be more of an impact and there will be music involed, I know a lot of people were disappointed in that last year,” said Glessner.
The show is expected to last between 15-20 minutes.
Volunteers are still needed for the event, especially the Coors Freedom Run on the morning of July 4th.
“Specifically we need volunteers for the five different water stops and the registration that morning. Anybody that wants to come out we will probably need 15-20 total.”
Set up for Sundown Salute will begin June 29th with the setup of the stage and the carnival. Vendors will begin setting up Wednesday afternoon in time for the kick off of the event Wednesday evening. As many as 20,000 people are expected to turn out for the four day event.
The Junction City/Geary County Convention and Visitors Bureau has released the figures from an Economic Survey turned in by anglers participating in the Cabela’s National Team Walleye Tournament at Milford Lake May 28-30.
Connie Hall, CVB Director explained that 71 anglers of the roughly 360 on hand for 
the tournament turned in a survey reporting how many days they spent at Milford Lake, how much they spent on gas/oil, tackle/bait, food, lodging including cabins and camping.
“It showed that on the average $1,236.28 was spent per angler over a 7.5 day duration,” said Hall. “Within that of course using the numbers and a test market of 185 teams it came out to $228,711.80 in direct cash spent in the community.”
Those figures did not show how much was spent by the Cabela’s staff, as well as, the staff from the National Walleye Federation. It was estimated that the average staff expenditures on site at the event was $13,059.63.
Lodging facilities across the lake reported having good numbers the week of the tournament including Flagstop Resort and RV Park.
“We had our cabins full all week and boats all over the campground. Our restaurant was busy, the folks ate in there and had a good time,” said Ty Arneson, Owner of Flagstop Resort and RV Park.
Though it didn’t hinder the fishing tournament much, the weather wasn’t the best, which normally could have hurt business according to Mike Harris, Owner of Acorns Resort at Milford Lake.
“The whole time frame that they were out, it was not weather that was going to be conducive for recreational boating and other type fishing out there. Had it not been for those folks we would have had a really down over all week and weekend in about a two to three-week time period. However because they were here we were basically at or above were we would normally be,” said Harris.
Harris, Arneson and Hall all reported hearing nothing but positive feedback from the anglers with a number of them saying they would be back.
National coverage of the tournament can be seen later this fall on NBC Sports.
MANHATTAN – A former Kansas State University student Derek Miller was sentenced in Riley County Court on Monday for stealing from the K-State Credit Union.
Miller was charged with 6 counts of theft while an employee of the K-State Credit Union in 2014.
State prosecutor Barry Disney agreed to a plea deal for Miller of just one charge.
Miller was ordered to serve seven months with community corrections. He is also to serve 30 days in 48-hour weekend increments starting this week.
Miller paid restitution in full at the time of the plea agreement after procurement of loans.
Fifteen days were also set-aside for February 1, 2016 and May 9, 2016 to be served if there were any problems with Miller’s probation and work release.
Restitution for any additional penalties the K-State Federal Credit Union received was also ordered.