The Riley County Police Department (RCPD) is investigating an injury accident.

On Sunday, July 30th officers reported a black 2008 Harley Davidson motorcycle driven by 21 year old Christopher Stover, Junction City, was found on its side at the intersection of Fort Riley Blvd and Pillsbury Drive.

Stover reported that an unknown vehicle attempted to merge into his lane, causing him to hit the curb and lose control of his motorcycle. He was transported by EMS to Via Christi hospital.

No citations were issued at the scene. Police ask anyone with information to contact the RCPD or the Manhattan Riley County Crime Stoppers. Using the Crime Stoppers service can allow you to remain anonymous and could qualify you for a cash reward of up to $1000.

Flint Hills ATA Bus is hosting a job fair on Tuesday, August 1st.

The job fair will take place at the Junction City Workforce Center located at 1012 West 6th Street. The hours of the fair are 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.

Those interested in positions with the Flint Hills ATA Bus must be at least 25 year of age, and a drug test is required before being hired.

A CDL license is preferred, but not mandatory; paid training will be offered for those without a CDL.

Full time jobs with benefits are available.

The Geary County Historical Society will be the site for a traveling Smithsonian exhibit in January.

Heather Hagedorn, Museum Curator, said the exhibit is traveling throughout the state of Kansas to seven locations. “It’s called waterways. We’ll get it on January 3rd. It will open on January 6th. ”

In conjunction with the Smithsonian exhibit the Geary County Historical Museum is creating their own exhibit, “which we’ve called submerged, which will talk about Geary County’s specific relationship with water.” In this case that will involve the past floods of 1903, 1936, 1951 and 1993.

The smell! That was a prominent memory of past floods in Geary County from those attending a Memories at the Museum session Sunday in Junction City. As flood waters linger and then recede there can be a bad odor left behind.

Local residents provided their thoughts and memories primarily of the floods that hit the county in 1951 and 1993.

Dave Walker remembered challenges created by the flood of 1993 at Milford Lake. The regular spillway at the outlet channel washed out so that had to be closed. That meant more water was pushed across the emergency spillway on the south side of the reservoir. “And then it went down in the fields south of 57 highway, down to 77. They were afraid it was going to take out 77 or the 77 bridge. So that’s when they cut 57 to let the water back over into the channel ( Republican River channel ).”

That highly unusual K-57 highway cut prevented nearby U.S. 77 Highway from being washed out.

Walker remembered the Corps of Engineers officials from Oklahoma who were at the lake were concerned about different aspects of erosion affecting the dam or the emergency spillway. “That’s why they were hauling those big rocks by Chinook helicopters to try to stop some of the erosion in the emergency spillway channel.” Walked added holes were drilled in the rocks, the helicopters hauled them to the emergency spillway site, but they were never used.

The Memories at the Museum involved members of the public talking about their memories of different floods in Geary County history. Information gathered during that session will be used to help develop an exhibit dealing with Geary County’s relationship with water. That exhibit will go up at the Geary County Historical Museum in January.