The Honor Network paid a visit to Westwood Elementary School in Junction City on Thursday.
Since September 2001, the U.S. Honor Flag has paid tribute to those who have lost their lives in the line of duty protecting our lives, homes, country, and those who currently serve our communities and nation.
The Honor Flag was presented and shown at Westwood Elementary School.
The Geary County Sheriff’s Department has reported the arrest of Mohib Popal, Herndon, Virginia at Interstate 70 mile marker 304 east of Junction City on suspicion of Possession of Marijuana, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Driving While Suspended, and Speeding.
The arrest occurred Thursday afternoon just before 1:30 p.m.
WASHINGTON – On Thursday Congressman Tim Huelskamp (KS-01) visited an Indoor Shooting and Archery Ranges in Junction City. Equipped with his custom-made targets for the occasion, he borrowed an AR-15 and shot the target. It said “BACK DOOR BULLET BANS.” This is a reference to any kind of ban on ammunitions promulgated by Washington D.C. bureaucrats, like the attempt to ban a popular bullet for gun enthusiasts. Several weeks ago, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms proposed a ban on 223-derived, 5.56x45mm NATO ‘green tip’ rounds, commonly used on the AR-15 rifle.
The Ammunition and Firearms Protection Act, which ensures that popular rifle ammunition is still available for citizens to exercise their Second Amendment rights. This legislation would prevent the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) from classifying M855 ammunition as armor-piercing and from instituting any ban on the sale and manufacture of ammunition that is intended, marketed, and sold for rifle use.
Huelskamp has supported legislation to defend the Second Amendment in the 114th Session including:
MANHATTAN -K-State president Kirk Schulz released a statement on Friday about the proposed tuition freeze in Kansas discussed during a joint House and Senate committee meeting.
“We have pledged to keep the K-State family updated throughout the development of the higher education budget during the 2015 legislative session. In the early part of the session, the Kansas Senate proposal for higher education had a proposed cut for K-State for the next two years, while the Kansas House proposal had a flat budget with no cuts,”
Schulz said in the release. “During a recent joint House and Senate committee meeting to work through the differences in higher education funding between the two chambers, a proposal was presented that would prevent budget cuts to K-State but would impose a tuition freeze for the next two years. It has been widely reported in the media that we agreed with such a proposal. Please be assured that we have not endorsed this current proposal. We were unaware of this proposed tuition freeze until yesterday, and believe that such an action would have a devastating effect on our ability to continue to meet the educational needs of Kansas citizens. The budget is still in deliberation and debate will continue when the Legislature returns to session in late April.”
What do you think? Would a tuition freeze actually have a devastating effect on our ability to meet education needs, or is K-State simply afraid of losing the ability to raise tuition rates again?
Rain showers exit this morning with mostly sunny skies and cool temps today in the 50s. Drier air increasing as a result of gusty north winds at 15 to 25 mph will bring very high fire danger conditions during the afternoon. Humidity falls much lower on Saturday as southerly winds return
at 15 to 20 mph. Very high to extreme fire danger conditions are likely in the afternoon. A Fire Weather Watch is in effect Saturday for portions of north central Kansas. An unsettled pattern increases thunderstorm chances late Sunday into next week with temps warming back into the 70s.
Fire Weather Watch
Hazardous Weather Outlook
Today: Breezy. Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain in the morning…then sunny in the afternoon. Highs around 54. North winds 15 to 25 mph.
Tonight: Clear. Lows around 30. Northwest winds up to 5 mph shifting to the southwest after midnight.
Saturday: Warmer…sunny. Highs around 65. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph shifting to the south 15 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph in the afternoon.
Saturday Night: Not as cool. Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 40s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
Sunday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. South winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
Sunday Night And Monday: Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 40s. Highs in the mid 70s.
Monday Night: Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 50s.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 70s.
Tuesday Night: Colder. Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 40s.
Wednesday And Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows in the lower 40s.
Thursday: Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 60s.
A one vehicle accident on Interstate 70 on the east edge of the Junction City limits resulted in one person being sent to Geary Community Hospital Thursday.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Rafael A. Pevy, 28, Junction City was taken to GCH following the accident which occurred about 7:15 p.m. Thursday.
He was driving eastbound in a Pontiac Grand Prix when for unknown reasons, the vehicle swerved to the right, the driver over corrected by swerving back to the left. That caused the car to leave the highway and enter the median where it rolled three times, striking the guardrail during the roll.
The vehicle came to rest on its top facing northeast in the median.
Pevy was wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident.
WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION FOR WATCH 18
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
918 PM CDT THU APR 2 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
18 IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM CDT FRIDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN KANSAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 6 COUNTIES
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
ANDERSON COFFEY LYON
MORRIS
IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
DICKINSON OTTAWA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF…ABILENE AND EMPORIA.
There will be a change in the leadership for Saint Xavier School.
Principal Russell Swisher is stepping down after the current school year ends to become the principal at Northern Heights in Allen, Kansas. He will leave Saint Xavier after the end of the current school year. He has served four years at Saint Xavier, including the last three as principal.
Swisher will be succeeded in the principal’s job at Saint Xavier by Shawn Augustine, who has been serving as Assistant Principal and Athletic Director the last three years.
Augustine will be assume the principal’s post and also continue as athletic director, but he is quick to add with “support from staff.” He also stated, “So it will be a big undertaking. The nice thing is I would say that I already have a 75-percent idea of what’s going on in that Mr. Swisher is doing. There’s a few things that I’m going to have to learn as with any new undertaking.”
The assistant principal position at Saint Xavier School will not be filled.
The 1st Infantry Division and Fort Riley said goodbye Thursday to the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team.
The 4th IBCT cased it’s colors Thursday during a casing ceremony
on the Calvary Parade Field on post. COL Peter Minalga, 4th IBCT Commander addressed the brigade for the final time during the ceremony. He said that their involvement in support of the nations national interests in the global war on terrorism was unparalleled.
“We were a brigade that was formed out of a necessity for combat,” said COL Minalga. “In our short nine year existence this brigade proved itself time and again, through multiple combat deployments, training exercises and a myriad of diverse mission sets.”
The brigade was activated on January 12th, 2006, and deployed twice to Iraq, once to Afghanistan, and just recently returned from the continent of Africa where the brigade served as the regionally aligned force.
Fort Riley will lose about 800 soldiers due to the inactivation of the brigade but the remaining soldiers in the brigade will be transferred to other units within the 1st Infantry Division.
The anticipated step by the Kansas Legislature to consider moving city and school board elections from the spring to November of even numbered years is not drawing a positive reaction from Geary County Clerk Rebecca Bossemeyer.
Bossemeyer told JC Post, “I think it’s a terrible piece of legislation. I think it’s going to lead to a lot of voter confusion. The ballots are going to be very long, and we already have instances, especially in Presidential years, where we have lines at the polling places so that’s going to force me to open up more polling places which is going to mean more equipment, and more poll workers.” Bossemeyer added that means higher costs for the election.
And there is the addition time that will be required on election night to count the votes.
A conference committee of House and Senate members has agreed to shift the city and school board elections from the spring to the fall. Final approval is still needed from the full House and Senate, and the approval of Governor Brownback will be necessary as well.