The Corps of Engineers announced on Monday that just when they were approaching target for the Milford Lake and Tuttle Creek outflows they had to be decreased due to flooding on the Missouri River at Waverly.
Releases will be increased again as soon as hydrologic conditions allow. Milford Lake is currently at low flow.
The Geary County Rural Fire Department presented two firefighters with awards during the fifth annual Firefighter Appreciation Supper at the 4-H/Senior Citizen Center on Sunday evening. More than 80 firefighters and their families attended the event.
According to Rural Fire Chief Garry Berges, the Volunteer of the Year award for 2018 was presented to Chris Ross. He works for Propane Central and is assigned to the Spring Valley Fire Station.
Nate Clement was presented the Deputy / Firefighter of the Year award for 2018. Clement is a Deputy with the Geary County Sheriff’s Office and is also firefighter for Geary County. He has been employed by the county for nine years.
( Photo courtesy of USD 475 ConnectEd page )
The first of three candidates for the Superintendent of Schools position in Geary USD 475, Dr. Reginald Eggleston, will meet the public and participate in a question and answer session Tuesday evening at Junction City Middle School from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
According to an Alabama News Network report Eggleston is a former Chief Administrative Officer for Montgomery, Alabama public schools and was later designated to head a team that assisted struggling school systems in Alabama. He is also a former assistant superintendent in Mobile, Alabama.
Two other candidates will meet the public this week, one from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday and the other from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Junction City Middle School. Those candidates will be identified by the school district at a later time.
All three candidates will be interviewed by the USD 475 Board of Education at the Devin Center following their respective public sessions.
Fort Riley has announced via social media that in honor of the memory of former President George H.W. Bush, the cannon at Division headquarters will be fired every half hour beginning at reveille and ending at retreat. The flag will also be flown at half staff until sunset on Dec. 30th.
( Photo courtesy of Fort Riley Facebook page ).
There is a Red Cross blood drive open to the public today ( Monday ) at the Cloud County Community College Geary County campus from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Appointments are preferred by calling 1-800-RED-CROSS or going to www.redcrossblood.org but walk-in’s are welcome.
By Dewey Terrill
JC Post
Members of the Greater Geary Community Foundation celebrated the second year of existence for the Foundation Friday evening. There was an announcement that Central Charities has joined.
On that announcement, Foundation Board Member Calvin Pottberg noted it makes the foundation much stronger. “We’re always here to support the community. It gives a chance for people that want to leave some money, that maybe have earned and made their living here, and they can leave some dollars here and depend on the Board that it will be well taken care of and go for community activities.”
Ed J. Rolfs, Bob Weary, Merrill Werts and John Montgomery were also recognized for their past leadership, and encouragement to get the foundation started.
Board member and Central National Bank Trust officer Duane Blythe said Central Charities was initially established in 1968 with “a sole purpose as a private foundation to receive contributions from Central National Bank and then make gifts, charitable distributions to local charities serving Geary County.”
Blythe credited the late E.J. Rolfs for his efforts to bring Central Charities into the foundation. he told the gathering Friday evening, “At the end of 2018 Central Charities will become a subsidiary of the Greater Geary Community Foundation. Through E.J. ‘s vision, efforts and persistence we now have the beginnings of the Greater Geary Community Foundation. Please join me in thanking the current Central Charities Board for their continued support.”
The Dorothy Bramlage Public Library will host a Classic Christmas Story Day, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, on Friday.
Activities are planned from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. They will include Pin the Heart on the grinch, creating a grinch ornament, making your own reindeer antler like Max the dog, try some Grinch puzzles, and guess how many Christmas candies are in the jar.
At 4 p.m. there will be a library big-screen movie showing the Jim Carrey film version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
From 6:30 – 8 p.m. you can stop by take part in a Family ( Stolen ) Christmas Party. There will be a scavenger hunt to find out where the Grinch hid Christmas. And the Grinch himself will be there.
These activities are a part of the Junction City Hometown Christmas Celebration.
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MANHATTAN, Kan. – Bill Snyder, architect of the greatest turnaround in the history of college football and arguably one of the best college football coaches of all time, announced his retirement today as the head football coach at Kansas State.
The winningest coach in the history of K-State football with a 215-117-1 record, Snyder will transition to a special ambassador role for the University as stated in his current employment agreement.
He will leave as the 20th winningest coach in FBS history and currently ranks second among active FBS coaches in wins. Under Snyder, K-State is the third-winningest program in the Big 12 with 104 total league wins since the league was formed in 1996.
In all, Snyder led K-State to 19 of the school’s 21 all-time bowl appearances, won two conference titles, achieved two No. 1 national rankings, coached players who received a total of 214 All-America honors, 13 Academic All-Americans, was a five-time national coach of the year and seven-time conference coach of the year and also became just the fourth active coach to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame (2015).
“Coach Snyder has had an immeasurable impact on our football program, Kansas State University, the Manhattan community and the entire state of Kansas, and it has been an honor and a privilege to get to know and work with him the past two years,” said Athletics Director Gene Taylor. “He and his family have touched the lives of so many people, from student-athletes, coaches, staff and fans, and he is truly one of the greatest coaches and leaders in college football history. His impact on college football is unmatched and legacy is one that will last a lifetime.”
Snyder’s impact at K-State reached far beyond the football field. In addition to rekindling an overwhelming sense of pride in K-State alumni and supporters from coast to coast, the winning culture he ushered in helped spark a University and community-wide revitalization as K-State’s enrollment blossomed from 18,120 when he was hired to a record of more than 24,000.
“This university, this community and this state are deeply indebted to Coach Bill Snyder. Since arriving on campus in 1989, coach has delivered on all his promises — and more. He brought Kansas State University football to the national stage and built a program on the bedrock of integrity, honor and his famed 16 goals for success,” said Richard Myers, Kansas State University president.
“He came here, and stayed here, because of the people. He made us a family — a proud purple family who travel in record numbers to watch him lead the Wildcats to victories, bowls and rankings never achieved before. Coach Snyder has always taken the time and care to turn his players into college graduates, community leaders, successful businessmen and leaders of strong families. Bill Snyder is a legend and his legacy is one that K-Staters for generations will value and cherish,” Myers said.
Following a three-year retirement from 2006-2008, Snyder returned to the sidelines in 2009 with hopes of revitalizing a program that he once built, piece by piece, into a national force. And, after nine seasons back in charge, he did just that – and then some.
Over the past 10 years under Snyder, K-State has totaled 79 victories, advanced to eight bowl games, won a conference championship in 2012 and finished third or better in the ultra-competitive Big 12 Conference in four of the last seven seasons.
Act Two of his renowned career started in 2009 when the Wildcats played for a berth in the Big 12 Championship on the last week of the season and went 6-6 prior to a 7-5 campaign in 2010 and a berth in the inaugural Pinstripe Bowl.
K-State’s climb back into the nation picture continued in 2011 as the Cats went 10-3, finished No. 8 in the BCS standings and earned their first Cotton Bowl invitation in 10 years
The bar was raised again in 2012 as Snyder led the Cats to their third conference championship in school history and first since 2003. Kansas State, which won its first 10 games of the season and finished the regular season at 11-1 with an 8-1 mark in Big 12 play, tied the school record for overall wins and conference victories while also ascending to No. 1 in the BCS rankings following its 10-0 start.
Snyder went on to win the Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award as well as top Big 12 coach honors for the second straight season following the Cats’ memorable 2012 season that culminated with a berth in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl and quarterback Collin Klein being named a finalist for the Heisman Trophy.
From 2013-2018, K-State won an average of almost eight games a year and included a 2014 season that saw the Cats ranked once again in the Top 10 and compete for a Big 12 Championship in the final week of the season.
When Snyder was named the Wildcats’ head football coach in 1988, he inherited a team that had just suffered through its second-consecutive winless season and was on a current 0-26-1 stretch. It was a program that had been through 14 different head coaches and won just 24 percent of its games – going 137-455-18 – between Lynn “Pappy” Waldorf’s 1934 Big Six championship team and his hiring.
But it did not take long for Snyder to change the entire culture of the program. In just his third year, he guided the 1991 Wildcats to a 7-4 record to give K-State just its second winning season since 1970. For his efforts, Snyder was named ESPN’s National Coach of the Year.
Just two seasons later, Snyder would guide Kansas State to a 9-2-1 record and a berth in the 1993 Copper Bowl, marking just the second bowl appearance ever by the Wildcats.
The trip to Tucson was the first of 11-straight postseason appearances for Snyder’s Wildcats, who quickly became a fixture on the Big 8/12 bowl circuit.
Along the way, Kansas State would become just the second team in the history of college football to win 11 games in six of seven seasons from 1997 and 2003.
The 11-win campaign in 2003 brought more firsts for Kansas State as Snyder guided the Wildcats to an unforgettable upset of No. 1 Oklahoma in the 2003 Big 12 Championship game that not only gave the Wildcats their first Big 12 title and BCS bowl berth, but captivated the imagination of the nation’s college football fans.
In his first tenure, Snyder guided Kansas State to 11 winning seasons, four Big 12 North Division titles and three Big 12 Championship games as the Wildcats recorded the eighth-most wins in Division I-A from 1993-2004.
In addition to the team accomplishments, Snyder’s players were also some of the most decorated in the country. In his first 16 years, he produced three national award winners, 45 All-America selections and 68 first team all-conference honorees.
The rebuilding effort and subsequent success engineered at Kansas State by Snyder clearly stands as one of the most amazing in all of college football.
A national search is underway to identify K-State’s next football coach. The department will utilize Ventura Partners to assist with the search.
RYAN LACKEY
Director of Football and Golf Communications | K-State Athletics
You can get a photo taken with Santa Claus on Saturday, December 8th during a Geary County Historical Society event at the Starcke House at 5th & Adams in Junction City.
The hours will be 1-4 p.m. The cost will be $10 per photo with all proceeds supporting the Geary County Historical Society.
