The Junction City Arts Council will host their annual Fall Art Walk on Friday, Oct. 11 from 5-7 p.m.
Artists will be placed in eleven different shops along 7th Street and the 600 and 700 blocks of North Washington Street. The business hosts will stay open and will offer light refreshments to the visiting public
Corvias, in partnership with Fort Riley, will host a groundbreaking on Tuesday ( Oct. 1 ) to kick off major upgrades in Fort Riley housing that will reduce energy and water consumption, and deliver 128 new or newly renovated homes to the post community. The Army said the improvements are part of Corvias’ $325 million investment into its Department of Defense portfolio to fund strategic modernization and resiliency improvements to U.S. Army base housing infrastructure.
Heath Burleson, Corvias’ Partnership Adviser and Col. Stephen Shrader, Fort Riley Garrison Commander, will speak about the improvements at Fort Riley, the benefits to residents and cost savings for the Army. The groundbreaking will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday at Longstreet Drive between Ashby & Jackson on Fort Riley.
Children’s Mercy Junction City is now offering weekend Urgent Care services. The hours on both Saturday and Sunday will be noon to 6 p.m. at the Children’s Mercy location at Geary Community Hospital.
Pediatric specialists will provide care for patients that require prompt medical treatment when their primary care provider’s offices may be closed. The Urgent Care Center is designed for pediatric patients up to their 18th birthday, and specializes in illnesses and injuries that are not life threatening. They can treat conditions such as ear aches, fever, flu, skin rashes, stomach ache, sprains and minor cuts and burns.
Children’s Mercy noted that the Urgent Care team communicates back to the child’s primary care provider, as well as sending labs and radiology results, for the best continuity of care and appropriate follow up.
You can check in online with Save My Spot. Visit childrensmercy.org/junctioncity.
Geary County Sheriff Daniel Jackson informed the JC Breakfast Optimist Club this week that he wants to build confidence and trust, not only among his law enforcement team, but also to the public. Quarterly town hall meetings have been scheduled, with the next one being in October. The information on the place, date and time will be announced at a later date.
Jackson also updated the club on improvements to the jail, work space and Sheriff’s Department facilities since he took office. The improvements have been paid for by asset forfeiture money rather than taxpayer funds. Some of those improvements include boats and equipment for the new water rescue team, a work out space for officers to maintain their fitness, computers in all cars, less lethal force pepper ball guns and updates to the jail, office area work space and the elevator in the building.
The Geary County Health Department has announced that Housing and Credit Counseling, Inc. ( HCCI ) will be offered. HCCI is a service offered to anyone interested in achieving their personal housing and / or financial goals. They offer educational programs that cover topics related to home ownership, renting, finances and credit,
Other services offered include financial review, questions about budgeting, credit building, debt payment, student loans and bankruptcy. The public can call the Health Department at 785-762-5788 to schedule an appointment with an HCCI counselor.
The 2019 United Way Junction City / Geary County Fishing Tournament that was scheduled this Sunday at Milford Lake has been postponed until Oct. 20th due to the possibility of inclement weather this weekend. The announcement was made by United Way Executive Director Nichole Mader.
There is a $100 entry fee for the tournament with an 80/20 cash split. The Rush Creek Boat Ramp will be the starting location for the tournament.
GEARY COUNTY — The Kansas Highway Patrol has identified the victim in a fiery accident Thursday afternoon on K-177 in Geary County as Nancy C. Barnaby, 72, Manhattan.
KHP said Barnaby was northbound on K-177 in a Ford Explorer, the vehicle crossed over center and went into the west ditch. The Explorer hit a culvert and went airbound. After striking the ground, the Explorer rolled and caught fire.
The Geary County Emergency Management Office issued a press release that said authorities need to talk to anyone who was on K-177 Thursday afternoon about 3 p.m. and observed the accident scene approximately three miles south of Interstate 70.
Anyone who was in the area or knows anything about the accident is encouraged to contact the Kansas Highway Patrol at 1-785-827-4437 or *47 on your cell phone.
Agencies responding to the accident scene included the Kansas Highway Patrol, Geary County Sheriff’s Department, Geary County Fire Department, Geary County Emergency Management, Junction City Fire / EMS and KDOT.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on the criminal case involving an Army solider charged with distributing explosives information online (all times local):
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A prosecutor says an Army soldier charged with distributing information about making explosives online is a Satanist who wanted to overthrow the U.S. government.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony Mattivi said during a federal court hearing Thursday in Kansas that 24-year-old Jarrett William Smith had a specific plan to overthrow the government and told the FBI he was distributing information on explosives “for the glory of his Satanist religion.”
But an attorney for Smith said he is only an internet “troll” who was “spouting off online” and sharing widely available information.
Smith pleaded not guilty to two federal charges of distributing explosives information and a third alleging he threatened to set fire to the home owned by a far-left-leaning “antifa” member. A federal magistrate ordered him detained until his trial.
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The indictment charged Jarrett William Smith with two counts related to the explosives and one count linked to trying to gain entry to a home and injure someone listed only as D.H. The indictment alleges he made the threat from Kansas to Michigan.
The 24-year-old private first class and infantry soldier from South Carolina is stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas. He was initially charged in a criminal complaint on Monday. He remains in custody pending a detention hearing Thursday afternoon.
His defense attorney, Rich Federico, declined to comment.
An FBI affidavit filed in support of the initial charges alleged Smith discussed his plan to kill far-left-leaning “antifa” activists and described how to build a bomb that could be triggered by calling a cellphone. It accuses him of posting on Facebook that he was interested in traveling to Ukraine to fight with a paramilitary group known as Azov Batallion. That affidavit had also alleged Smith suggested targeting an unidentified major news network with a car bomb.
Smith has been assigned to Fort Riley since June after serving at Fort Bliss, Texas, beginning in November 2017. He entered the Army from Conway, South Carolina, as an infantryman and completed training at Fort Benning, Georgia. He has not deployed.
Television station WPDE reported that when Smith was a 15-year-old student, he appeared on the “hit list” of another teenager who tried in September 2010 to blow up a high school in Socastee, South Carolina. The indictment makes no reference to that incident.
The station reported that Christian Helms, then 14, brought a gun and other weapons to the school, firing a shot at the school resource officer. Helms had also brought pipe bombs to the school in his backpack and had a list of 13 students who were his intended targets. Smith was among them.
WPDE-TV released a video interview recorded in 2011 in which they interviewed Smith and his father after Helms was sentenced to six years. In it, Smith said he was often bullied at school because of his cleft pallet.
His father, Chris Smith, told the station that the teenager who targeted his son idolized the two killers in the Columbine high school attack in 1999.
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