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Junction City Hometown Christmas coming up Dec. 8

Posted on December 1, 2017December 2, 2017

Celebrate the holiday season with friends and family on Friday, December 8 during the Junction City Hometown Christmas.

Enjoy art during the annual Junction City Arts Council’s “Winter Gallery Walk.” The walk will begin at the C.L. Hoover Opera House and extend down 7th St. and Washington St. in the historic downtown district. There will also be music and carolers at the Opera House, free carriage rides, Santa at the Bartell House, treats and more!

This is the first combined effort between the City and Opera House to bring the event together. Junction City Mayor Phyllis Fitzgerald described the process on JC Now.

“Honestly it just kind of came to me one day,” Fitzgerald said. “The Christmas season, the holiday season is coming up and we have that small town feel about us. I thought it would be really great if we could come together with something to give back to our community and to the citizens here because we really do have a lot of good, caring folks here.”

The event will run from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Junction City Arts Council located at 135 W. 7^th Street.

Eisenhower Elementary to showcase new gym Dec. 5

Posted on December 1, 2017

USD 475 and Eisenhower Elementary School are inviting the community to a ceremony to mark the completion of the Eisenhower New Gym Addition.

The ceremony will take place on Tuesday, December 5 at 10:30 AM at Eisenhower Elementary School located at 1624 St. Mary’s Road in Junction CIty.

Attendees of the event will see the reveal of the new construction and hear from USD 475 speakers who include Dr. Corbin Witt, Superintendent of Schools for USD 475.

Holiday Tree of Memories

Posted on December 1, 2017

The annual tradition sponsored by the Geary Community Healthcare Foundation continued Thursday evening at Geary Community Hospital. It was time for the Holiday Tree of Memories in the Tribute Garden at the hospital.

Healthcare Foundation Executive Director Jolana Montgomery – Matney began the program which remembered those who have passed away. “Family members whose earthly bodies have passed away from us, but whose spirit and memories remain with us, therefore it is only fitting that this Tribute Garden provide a place of solitude, a place of remembrance, a place to honor the memory of those whose names are inscribed here.

Chuck Otte then read the names of loved ones that were submitted by family members while family members in the audience held a lighted candle.

Deputies Respond to Non-injury Accident

Posted on December 1, 2017

The Geary County Sheriff’s Department has reported that Deputies responded to U.S. 77 Highway mile marker 155 for a car vs. deer non-injury accident.

Kimberly Gfeller, Junction City, was driving her 2018 Chevrolet Equinox northbound when a deer ran out in front of her and caused damage to the front end of the vehicle.

Geary County 4-H Interstate Exchange Freddy’s Fundraiser

Posted on December 1, 2017

The Geary County 4-H Interstate Exchange Group is hosting a fundraiser in conjunction with Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers in Junction City on Monday from 5-8 p.m. The restaurant is located at 802 East Chestnut Street in Junction City.

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of food will go to support 4-H Interstate Exchange participants.

4-H Interstate Exchange programs are an opportunity for teenage youth where individuals from the county will visit in the homes of 4-H members in another geographical area, and are visited by them in return. Geary County 4-H members visited Douglas County, Oregon last July and will host the group from Oregon next summer.

Friday Weather Forecast

Posted on December 1, 2017November 30, 2017

High

60°

Sunny. Highs around 60. South winds 5 to 15 mph.

State Representative Lonnie Clark honored Thursday at Geary Community Hospital

Posted on November 30, 2017November 30, 2017

Geary Community Hospital hosted an event Thursday afternoon to formally thank State Representative Lonnie Clark of Junction City for his support of health care issues during the 2017 Kansas legislative session.

During the 2017 legislative session, Clark support health care in Kansas and in the local community. He voted in support of every high-priority health care issue and improvements that were addressed this year. Those legislative issues included KanCare Reform. Medicaid expansion and the reversal of the 2016 medicaid provider cuts.

“He gets the picture to what’s needed in healthcare in this district here in Junction City and Geary Community Hospital, and for that matter in the state of Kansas,” said Geary Community Hospital CEO Dr. Joseph Stratton. “He knows that a healthy hospital and a strong hospital and schools and roads and bridges make a good community and a possitive community. He understands those things and he gets behind us and supports us in many way.”

This event was held in the Martha K. Hoover Women’s Health Center Conference Room at the hospital.

Kansas Auto Racing Museum shares history in Chapman

Posted on November 30, 2017

The Kansas Auto Racing Museum in Chapman was a topic of discussion this week on JC Now.

The museum is home to the first NASCAR trophy. The first NASCAR event was won by Jim Roper of Halstead, Kansas on June 17th, 1949 at Charlotte Speedway.

Museum owner Doug Thompson was on JC Now to talk about how he got into the sport of racing cars.

“The way it started was our dad got killed in an accident when I was six and my mom remarried eventually and we wound up a farm by Junction City,” Thompson said. “My older brother Roger and I, he always had some sort of an old car, and so at the end of working on the farm all day we would get in that old car and we would drive around that section as fast as the old car could go.”

Opened in November of 1999, the museum is located a half mile south of Exit 286 off Interstate 70 in Chapman.

Christkindl Holiday Craft Market

Posted on November 30, 2017

Fort Riley’s annual Christkindl holiday craft market takes place Saturday, Dec. 2, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Riley’s Conference Center.

The event, which is in its ninth year, features more than 50 vendors selling handmade items, holiday décor, gifts and more. The event is free. Family activities like sugar cookie decorating, face painting and pictures with Santa will be available for a small fee. German food and beverages will also be available for purchase.

Christkindl holiday craft market is open to the public; however, those without a Department of Defense ID card need to stop at the Henry Gate visitor center to get a pass. Details can be found online at
https://www.riley.army.mil.

On the same day, Trees For Troops is scheduled to distribute 400 free, farm-grown Christmas trees to Fort Riley active-duty Soldiers near Riley’s Conference Center. Priority distribution is to Blue Star and Gold Star families.