Project Graduation has been held in Junction City for more than 30 years.
The event follows commencement activities at Junction City High School, and allows graduates to celebrate with one another.
The first fundraiser of the year for Project Graduation will be a Fall Festival Craft Vendor event Saturday, october 28th, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Freshman Success Academy Main Gymnasium. There will be various direct sales consultants and craft vendors that shoppers can purchase products from.
There will be 18 direct sales companies and vendors who will be in attendance that shoppers can purchase them.
The National Weather Service says Junction City and Geary County are included in a freeze watch from late Friday night through Saturday morning. Temperatures are expected to dip down in the mid 20’s to low 30’s range.
The impacts of a freeze could result in unprotected cold-sensitive plants may be damaged or killed by the sub-freezing temperatures.
A freeze watch means sub-freezing temperatures are possible.
Other counties included in the watch area are Riley, Pottawatomie, Morris, Marshall, Nemaha, Brown, Douglas, Shawnee, Jackson, Jefferson, Wabaunsee, Lyon, Osage, Franklin, Coffey and Anderson. Manhattan, Wamego, Council Grove, and Alma are among many other cities included in the watch area.
The Historical and Archaeological Society of Fort Riley will offer their 21st annual Ghost Tour Oct. 29 between 4 and 7:40 p.m. Tours will depart from the west side of Cavalry Parade Field every 20 minutes with the last tour departing at 7:20 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Costumed storytellers will guide visitors around historic main while narrating iconic classics like The Lady in Chains and The Custer House Teddy Bear Ghost, as well as stories from the most recent 2014 Ghost Book. This is a walking tour, covering just over a mile in about 45 to 60 minutes.
Guests may purchase a Fast Pass for $5 to move to the front of the line. Books that tell the stories of ghosts at Fort Riley will also be available for purchase. All proceeds will support the Historical and Archaeological Society of Fort Riley.
Methamphetamine….there has been an influx of this illegal drug.
Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf stated now authorities are starting to see an upswing in meth in this part of the country. “In my very humble opinion a lot of it has to do with the legalization of marijuana in the states such as Colorado. The drug cartels out of Mexico have felt that it is no longer fiscally…well they’re not making enough money off marijuana because there is so much of it here already.”
Wolf added the cartels are not concentrating on marijuana. They are manufacturing methamphetamine, shipping it across the border. He stated that they are making “a lot more money off a smaller quantity of product.”
Methamphetamine is highly addictive. The sheriff said, “From people I have spoken with who have been a user of methamphetamines, they get a very very intense high, and it’s rather short lived. They’re full of energy.”
Wolf addressed the topic during an interview on the JC Now show on 1420 KJCK AM. That show is up on podcast at JC Post under the More category at the top of the front page.
Filipino veterans of World War II have been awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, 75 years after they joined with the United States to Defeat Japan.
At a ceremony Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol, a group of veterans family members of those who died belatedly received the medals, the nation’s highest civilian award.
More than 250,000 Filipino soldiers served alongside U.S. soldiers in World War II, including more than 57,000 who died. After the war ended, President Harry Truman signed laws that stripped away promises of benefits and citizenship for Filipino veterans. Only recently have the veterans won back some concessions and acknowledgment, including the gold medal.
Nita Miller of Junction City attended the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony, representing her late father, Juan R. Fabia, who survived the Bataan Death March in the Philippines during the war, and later served as a Filipino scout for the U.S. Army.
Later Wednesday evening veterans and family members will receive replicas of the Congressional Gold Medal at a formal celebration at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
Miller provided photos for JC Post.
U..S. Senator Nancy Pelosi speaking at the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony.
Congressional Gold medal
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Paul Ryan at the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony.
You can join the staff at the Central National Bank main bank at 8th and Washington in Junction City today ( Wednesday ) for a chili and cinnamon roll feed.
This will run from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and it will benefit the Junction City / Geary County United Way.
The cost is $6 for a bowl of chili and $1 for seconds. The drinks and cinnamon rolls will be provided by Rick Springs 4-H center.
The Geary County Veterans Alliance will host a Veterans Day program at 11 a.m. Saturday, November 11th at the C.L. Hoover Opera House in Junction City.
The Alliance has announced that the keynote speaker will be CSM Richard E. Hearron.
Mayor Phyllis Fitzgerald and the ‘100 Veterans of the Big Red One’ series she wrote will be part of the program, and there will be a presentation of Quilts of Valor to three nominees. That part of the program is conducted by Quilts of Valor Chair Donna Martinson.
CSM ( ret. ) Curtis Shanklin will serve as the Master of Ceremonies.
The Junction City Police Department has announced that beginning October 30th and continuing through November 3rd, the JCPD will join other Kansas law enforcement agencies to stop what has been compared to an epidemic in Kansas. In 2016, 44 children ages infant to 19 lost their lives due to car crashes in Kansas. Almost half of those children were not wearing seat belts.
In the health field they talk about making sure children have received their immunizations to prevent deadly diseases. Wearing a seat belt properly is also a key prevention of serious injury or death in a vehicle.
According to the 2017 Kansas observational seat belt survey, children are much more likely to be buckled up if the driver is wearing their seat belt. If the driver is buckled, about 98% of the children are restrained. If the driver is not buckled, only about 29% of the observed children were buckled.
Starting on October 30th through November 3rd, law enforcement across Kansas will be extra vigilant when patrolling around schools. Officers will issue citations to anyone who does not obey Kansas law.
Project Graduation has been held in Junction City for more than 30 years.
