The Junction City Area Chamber of Commerce will host a reception from 5-7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 14 at the AUSA convention in Washington D.C.
One goal of the reception is to inform businesses attending the AUSA convention about Junction City and Geary County.
This is the second year for the Chamber to host the reception.
The Geary County Extension Office will host an informational meeting on the 2018 Farm Bill on Tuesday, Aug. 27 at 7 p.m. at the 4-H/Senior Citizens Center.
There will be information on how PLC and ARC-CO did for Geary County farm producers in the last farm bill. There will be discussion about some of the bigger changes in the 2018 Farm Bill, and then some considerations for producers decisions for sign-up.
Geary County Extension Agent Chuck Otte will present the informational portion of the meeting. Jennifer Sensley, County Executive Director for the Geary / Riley County Farm Service Agency office will be in attendance to help answer questions from producers.
By Dewey Terrill
JC Post
There are a lot of assets available when it comes to marketing Junction City.
Chamber of Commerce President Mickey Fornaro-Dean and the Economic Development Commission Advisory Committee discussed that topic on Thursday. Fornaro-Dean said, “There is an absolute embarrassment of assets and opportunities. We just need to get it out there.”
City Manager Allen Dinkel said to grow the community there should always be a look at when new Soldiers come in. “What advantages do we have to bring them to live here vs. neighboring communities.” DInkel added that’s not just including Manhattan, but other communities and how they can be attracted to be in Junction City.
Dinkel said the EDC discussed housing costs in Junction City vs. Manhattan. “That a house here brand new is valued at a little less money, so how can we leverage to get people here.”
Board member Steve Struebing noted there are many assets that haven’t been exploited to the extent that they should have been. “We’ve got this constant stream of retiring or transitioning Soldiers, great labor pool, right on I-70, housing is very affordable here particularly compared to our neighbor to the northeast, we’ve got a good quality of life, Milford Lake, just a number of assets. And I don’t think over the years we’ve fully marketed that.”
One future asset that was considered huge in future marketing of Junction City was the new high school that is being built. It is considered a great marketing tool. The goal is to have the new high school open and in use by August of 2021.
The Geary County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau has confirmed that the Mudd Bogg that was scheduled on Sept. 14th has been cancelled due to a conflict with other community activities.
In some years in the past Mudd Bogg served as a fundraiser for Sundown Salute.
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa-based grocery store chain is warning customers about what it says is a security incident involving payment card systems.
Hy-Vee said in a news release Wednesday that it launched an investigation after it detected unauthorized activity on some of its payment processing systems — activity that the company thinks has stopped.
The investigation focused on card payments at Hy-vee restaurants, fuel pumps and drive-thru coffee shops. Company officials think the problem doesn’t involved payments systems used inside its grocery stores, drugstores and convenience stores. They use encryption technology for processing card transactions.
Hy-vee intends to notify customers when it can share specific timeframes and locations that may have been involved.
The company is based in West Des Moines and operates more than 240 retail stores in eight Midwestern states: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
Joe Handlos will continue to serve as the chairman for the Live Well Geary County organization.
During the coalition’s monthly meeting on Wednesday Shelly Hoyle-Kite was reelected secretary and Susan Moyer treasurer for the next 12 months.
The coalition has helped with a number of wellness and healthy living projects in the community.
There will be a cardboard boat race competition on Saturday at the Custer Hill Aquatic Center on Fort Riley. The boats can be built using only duct tape.
This is an idea developed by Melissa Phelps of Fort Riley Family, Morale, Welfare and Recreation. “So it’s going to be just cardboard and duct tape. You can’t have any styrofoam or nails or staples or anything like that. It has to be just cardboard and duct tape.”
This event will be held in a 100 foot long pool with judging by time and distance. There will be registration at 9 a.m.and the competition begins at 10 a.m. with prizes in different categories. The admission is $5, which is the cost of admission to the pool, so once the cardboard races are complete participants may remain at the pool afterwards.
Phelps said this is the first time they have tried something like this. “We wanted to give Fort Riley a new opportunity to try something different, and of course we want all of our local guests to come in as well. It’s going to be a really good time.”
This event is similar to the Float Your Boat cardboard boat races held in recent years at Milford Lake.
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By Dewey Terrill
JC Post
The total number of meals served to children in the community through the Summer Picnic Parties in Geary County has been calculated at 8,584. The numbers were released at the monthly Live Well Coalition meeting on Wednesday.
Coordinator Shannon Rosauer said Live Well served freshly made lunches all summer at Grandview Community Center and at the 5th Street Playground Park. They also served lunches for a week-long Junction City High School marching band camp. “We started off the summer serving lunches at the library but then the school district took over and provided the food for the rest of the summer at the library, and we provided the volunteer labor. ” That occurred at the Dorothy Bramlage Public Library, the 12th Street Community Center and Franklin Elementary School.
For the summer more than 70 people combined efforts and gave at least 1,332 hours. Donors provided everything from gift cards totaling $1,000 to bread from Jason Budinas and 177 half-gallon bottles of milk. Numerous churches provided volunteers including the First Presbyterian, First United Methodist, St. Francis Xavier, Episcopal Church of the Covenant, Zion UCC, Second Missionary Baptist and First Baptist Church.
Additional community support was provided by FroYo Junction, Dorothy Bramlage Public Library, the City of Junction City, City of Grandview Plaza, USD 475, Cloud County Community College, JC CrossFit, Junction City High School, I.C.A.R.E., Food Pantry of Geary County and Breaking Bread of JC.
MANHATTAN — Donations to Kansas State University reached an all-time high in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, with more than $212 million in private gifts through the Kansas State University Foundation.
“This was the most successful fundraising year in K-State history,” said Greg Willems, president and CEO of the KSU Foundation.
Of the $212 million raised in fiscal year 2019, donors gave 53% of those dollars through endowed gifts, pledges and deferred gifts. Giving to the university’s endowment was the highest in five years, and the value of K-State’s long-term investment pool grew to $613.4 million. Endowment growth is key to K-State’s goal of becoming a Top 50 public research university by the year 2025, as it directly correlates to the university’s capacity to serve future generations of K-Staters.
“It is an honor to thank all of our donors — alumni, friends, corporate partners, faculty, staff and students — who expressed their support of K-State so generously this year,” K-State President Richard B. Myers said. “This new milestone in fundraising will have a great impact on students, faculty and facilities at K-State. There’s no question that this level of support from the K-State family will help advance the university this year and for many years to come.”
Other key philanthropic achievements for the 2019 fiscal year included:
• Donors established 208 new scholarships, up from 170 the previous year. A total of $47.7 million was raised for scholarships and student success overall, up from $37 million from the previous year.
• A record 39 gifts and commitments of $1 million or more were made, totaling more than $129 million.
• More than $156 million was raised for academic purposes.
• Gift commitments through estate planning, including wills, trusts and annuities, reached $72 million.
• Fundraising for the Innovation and Inspiration Campaign exceeded the fundraising target of $1.4 billion. The campaign, which surpassed its original $1 billion goal in April 2017, will continue to raise funds for K-State priorities until its scheduled end on June 30, 2020.
Giving totals for Kansas counties fiscal year 2019, including county, number of donors and amount:
Allen, 72, $95,584.00
Anderson, 64, $18,369.50
Atchison, 129, $95,029.50
Barber, 51, $16,977.00
Barton, 365, $2,025,329.82
Bourbon, 43, $13,750.00
Brown, 179, $235,887.54
Butler, 522, $572,344.14
Chase, 41, $17,677.00
Chautauqua, 12, $870.00
Cherokee, 38, $58,102.36
Cheyenne, 23, $8,750.00
Clark, 40, $229,949.00
Clay, 249, $147,046.49
Cloud, 162, $183,167.80
Coffey, 101, $111,887.00
Comanche, 16, $7,475.00
Cowley, 174, $70,071.67
Crawford, 114, $162,916.00
Decatur, 40, $20,679.35
Dickinson, 390, $469,792.99
Doniphan, 85, $68,839.97
Douglas, 585, $5,841,417.33
Edwards, 46, $154,000.00
Elk,12, $4,984.00
Ellis, 237, $109,862.81
Ellsworth, 90, $260,267.00
Finney, 331, $683,089.03
Ford, 245, $226,184.00
Franklin, 184, $318,840.00
Geary, 332, $226,808.84
Gove, 37, $38,122.00
Graham, 19, $14,932.00
Grant, 50, $8,225.00
Gray, 87, $112,786.00
Greeley, 25, $15,272.00
Greenwood, 78, $23,513.00
Hamilton, 27, $9,922.50
Harper, 36, $16,844.00
Harvey, 324, $2,858,595.01
Haskell, 47, $20,765.00
Hodgeman, 27, $9,700.00
Jackson, 160, $49,083.29
Jefferson, 190, $56,916.13
Jewell, 58, $24,757.98
Johnson, 6,661, $9,712,382.53
Kearny, 37, $63,504.25
Kingman, 75, $35,191.68
Kiowa, 42, $17,308.00
Labette, 61, $161,897.00
Lane, 44, $21,711.00
Leavenworth, 375, $119,521.50
Lincoln, 52, $22,372.00
Linn, 30, $7,564.00
Logan, 35, $8,224.00
Lyon, 207, $115,461.57
Marion, 133, $28,155.00
Marshall, 234, $556,353.75
McPherson, 434, $225,800.00
Meade, 37, $4,338.00
Miami, 272, $128,053.48
Mitchell, 173, $197,041.25
Montgomery, 140, $40,214.00
Morris, 142, $1,173,440.00
Morton, 15, $870.00
Nemaha, 221, $983,232.15
Neosho, 71, $1,086,202.00
Ness, 53, $70,070.00
Norton, 50, $188,174.00
Osage, 127, $39,063.00
Osborne, 56, $528,967.40
Ottawa, 108, $40,827.93
Pawnee, 84, $397,926.00
Phillips, 112, $952,973.04
Pottawatomie, 1,119, $605,053.41
Pratt, 152, $217,522.25
Rawlins, 40, $6,794.00
Reno, 557, $513,524.41
Republic, 132, $110,158.00
Rice, 105, $117,041.00
Riley, 6,443, $14,146,227.07
Rooks, 52, $16,692.51
Rush, 40, $134,618.07
Russell, 75, $76,445.30
Saline, 941, $16,365,024.30
Scott, 108, $181,557.12
Sedgwick, 3,108, $6,312,134.87
Seward, 55, $24,398.00
Shawnee, 2,081, $4,536,737.56
Sheridan, 27, $14,444.50
Sherman, 56, $27,035.00
Smith, 46, $10,701.00
Stafford, 100, $22,456.50
Stanton, 23, $3,931.00
Stevens, 32, $3,893.00
Sumner, 141, $69,082.00
Thomas, 124, $130,336.04
Trego, 24, $8,215.00
Wabaunsee, 190, $50,155.54
Wallace, 33, $5,765.00
Washington, 158, $153,293.00
Wichita, 33, $4,944.00
Wilson, 44, $28,520.00
Woodson, 17, $4,335.00
Wyandotte, 396, $92,168.43
