There will be a Sundown Salute fundraiser on Friday, May 18th at the Mud Bogg location in the1000 block of Grant Avenue. The event will be a Cornhole tournament, which involves a bean bag or bean sack toss in a lawn game in which players take turns throwing bags of corn ( or bean bags ) at a raised platform with a hole in the far end. A bag in the hole scores three points, while one on the platform scores one point.
Registration will be at 6 p.m. and the tournament will begin at 6;30 p.m.
This is National Tourism Week. As part of the events for the Geary County Convention and Tourism Bureau, the CVB is sponsoring a “Find the Coin” Hunt. Each day at 5 p.m. beginning on Tuesday they will post a clue on the CVB Facebook page.
The Facebook address is www.facebook.com/GearyCountyCVB
The Geary County 4-H Interstate Exchange Group is hosting a fundraiser in conjunction with Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers in Junction City on Tuesday, May 8th from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. The restaurant is located at 802 E. Chestnut Street in Junction City and 4-H Interstate Exchange participants will be there and will receive a portion of the proceeds for the evening.
4-H Interstate Exchange programs are an exciting opportunity for teenage youth in which individuals from the county visit in the homes of 4-H members in another geographical area, and are visited by them in return. Geary County visited Douglas County, Oregon last July and will host the group from Oregon this summer. For more information about this event or about Geary County 4-H, contact Ginger Kopfer at the Geary County Extension Office, 238-4161.
Geary USD 475 has announced on their connectED web page that district staff will seek approval from the Board of Education on Tuesday to purchase the Munson property, plus its real property, including a metal building and 95 acres of wheat for $717,000. The District court process set the value of the land sans wheat and real property at approximately $3,900 per acre.
The Munson property site is north of K-18 Highway and just west of Junction City. The school district plans to build the new Junction City High School at that location.
The Board of Education will be in session at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Devin Center.
Fort Riley is one of the installations being considered for a new U.s. Army armored brigade combat team. That would comprise approximately 5,200 Soldiers.
During a visit to Fort Riley this past week the Secretary of the Army, Mark T. Esper, addressed that subject.
Esper stated, “We are going to convert an infantry brigade combat team to an armored brigade combat team. That is consistent with the direction the Army is heading with regard to returning capacity capability to fight the high end fight. There are a handful of posts, units if you will, that are in that running and Fort Riley is in that running. A decision will be made later this summer.”
During his visit to the installation Esper visited with 1st Infantry Division leadership, viewed Soldiers training, met with area community leaders and participated in a town hall meeting with Soldiers, spouses and Department of Defense civilians.
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The annual Mother’s Day Tea at the Eisenhower Presidential Library will feature America’s First Ladies Man Andrew Och.
Och is an award-winning television producer and author. He returns to Abilene to present Volume Two of his book documenting the stories of our country’s First Ladies titled Unusual for their Time. In this visit he will provide insight about Mamie Eisenhower and about a number of the First Ladies as mothers on this upcoming Mother’s Day weekend. “It’s hard enough just to be a mother in every-day life but to be a mother in the White House and on the world stage you’re under a microscope that’s really not understood by anyone who hasn’t been there, this unique sorority of women. And how each mother First Lady in the White House raised her children is a unique story in and of itself.”
Och noted Mamie Eisenhower was unusual because she was a military wife. “There’s a few other military wives that are First Ladies but she really ran the show, similar to a First Lady that was spoken a lot about recently because of her recent passing, Barbara Bush. What Mamie said went. She ruled with an iron fist, a gentle iron fist, and set the tone for entertaining in the White House. And even before as a military wife one of the things Mamie excelled at and like to do was to entertain.”
In 2012 Och began a historical journey as he traversed America for more than a year documenting the lives of every First Lady for the C-SPAN series “First Ladies: Influence & Image.”
Tickets are $15 each. Purchase them online at https://bit.ly/2mpUSEA or mail a check to the Eisenhower Foundatiion, PO Box 295, Abilene, Kan. 67410.
Approximately 625 Geary USD 475 third-grade students paid a visit to the county 4-H Center for the annual Agriculture Day event.
Extension Agent Ginger Kopfer said there was an attempt to teach the students what animals produce different types of foods. “So like bacon comes from a pig, your hamburger comes from a cow, that sort of thing as well as byproducts. Thinks like leather that makes footballs, or just anything like soap has tallow in it which comes from the animals.”
There were both classroom and livestock presentations, and the students had a chance to spend time at a dairy station.
Kansas farmers are expected to bring in the smallest winter wheat harvest in nearly three decades this year amid the ongoing drought that has stunted wheat fields across the state.
The Kansas Wheat Quality Council has estimated that growers will likely harvest 243.3 million bushels this season. That’s the lowest wheat production since 1989.
In Geary County, Extension Agent Chuck Otte agreed with the low crop production forecast. “Long term county average wheat yield is around 45, 50 bushels per acre. In 1989 we had a 12-bushel county average yield. 1989 was bad. The wheat crop right now is looking better than it did in 1989, but we’re still six weeks from harvest.”
Otte addressed the topic with JCPost.com during a Geary County Agriculture Day event for third grade students.
