Orchestra Parents Night in Geary USD 475 is scheduled Tuesday, Aug. 9 at the Junction City Middle School Auditorium and Commons area.
All incoming 6th grade parents from Fort Riley and Junction City Middle Schools can learn about opportunities for students who are interested in orchestra.
There will be a performance by the Flint Hills Community Orchestra at 6 p.m., information about the program from the instructors, an instrument rental presentation by Glenn’s Music at 6:30, and a question and answer – meet and greet with orchestra instructors from 7-8 p.m.
The Army has reported that the Red Cross will sponsor a blood drive at Fort Riley on Aug. 9-10.
There blood drive is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Aug. 9 at the 1st Infantry Division Headquarters at 580 1st Division Road, conference room 110 and on Aug. 10 at In & Out Processing at 210 Custer, conference room from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Donors will receive a $5 Amazon Gift Card.
Go to redcross.org/give-blood to schedule an appointment.
One woman was transported to Geary Community Hospital for treatment after an accident this past Sunday in the area of 10th and Washington in Junction City.
A check with police revealed that Jennifer Ondra Shek was northbound when her vehicle hit the back end of a car. She was taken to GCH for treatment. Police confirmed she was later arrested on suspicion of DUI and Transporting an Open Container.
First responders work at the scene of Wednesday afternoon’s accident at Crawford Street and Burma Road -Photo by Terry Tebrugge
SALINE COUNTY –Two people were injured in accident just before 1p.m. on Wednesday in Saline County.
The driver of a semi Joe P. Grimes, 69, Junction City, was northbound on Burma Road and failed to stop at the stop sign at Crawford, according to Saline County Sheriff’s Lt. Mike Smith.
The semi struck an eastbound 2008 Cadillac Escalade driven by Terrah May Martin, 34, Ellsworth.
Both vehicles rolled into the northeast ditch at the intersection.
The top and driver’s compartment of the Cadillac also impacted a utility pole.
Both drivers were pinned inside their vehicles, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
Grimes was transported to Salina Regional Health Center. He remains in critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit, according to Smith.
It took first responders more than an hour to extricate Martin from her vehicle. She was flown from the scene to Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, where she remains in critical condition.
Burma Road and Crawford Street remained closed overnight as crews worked to clean up the accident scene.
Smith said investigators have not yet been able to determine what caused Grimes to run the stop sign.
Junction City police are reporting the arrest of a suspect identified as Daniel Genson, 22, Junction City, in connection with the stabbing of two people on Wednesday.
According to the Geary County Booking Photo report released Thursday morning Genson was arrested on suspicion of two counts of Attempted Murder in the 1st Degree, seven counts of Aggravated Assault on a Law Enforcement Officer, and two counts of Aggravated Battery on a Law Enforcement Officer.
Police Detective Lieutenant Jeff Childs reported that officers were dispatched to the area of the 900 block of East 4th Street. They found Charles Stebbins, 22, Junction City, who had received multiple injuries from being stabbed or cut, and Ester Fink, 69, Junction City, also was cut during the altercation. Stebbins was transported to Geary Community Hospital where he underwent surgery, while Fink refused to be transported and sought medical treatment on her own.
Childs told JC Post that when officers arrived on the scene they located the suspect in the case, “who still had the knife in his hand, wouldn’t follow directions, ended up had to be tased and forced to the ground, and taken into custody.” Genson is expected to have a first appearance in Geary County District Court on Thursday.
July, typically our hottest month of the year, was slightly above normal in
temperatures and slightly warmer than our very warm June was. The big
difference this month was that as much as June was below normal in rainfall,
July was above normal!
The average daily high during July was 87.9 which is 2.2 degrees below
normal. However, the average overnight low was 72.9, 5.4 degrees above
normal. This led to a monthly mean temperature of 80.4, 1.6 degrees above normal. While we were above normal we were quite a ways from being record hot. The hottest July on record is the hottest month this region has every experienced. July of 1954 had a monthly mean temperature of 87.0 degrees. July 2012 was right behind that with a mean temperature of 86.1.
The coldest July on record was in 1950, and again in 1967, with a chilly
monthly mean temperature of 73.8 degrees. Surprisingly, the highest
temperature during July was only 99 degrees on the 22nd. The lowest
temperature for the month was 64 degrees on the morning of July 2nd. It felt much hotter many days during July thanks to the high relative humidity which routinely pushed the heat index over 105. There were two temperature records set in July and one tied. The overnight lows of 78 on the 4th and 82 on the 21st set new record high low temperatures for those dates. The old record high low on the 4th was 77 in 1963, and for the 21st also 77 set in 1952 and 1964. The overnight low of 78 on the 10th tied the record high low for that date first reached in 1955 and then three other times since then.
The average rainfall for July is 4.07 inches. The area saw nearly double that with 7.09 inches recorded in Junction City and 8.03 inches at Milford Lake.
The rain was well spaced through the month with accommodating rains early in the month, again mid month and then again at the end of the month. These well spaced rains, after a very dry June, have left area crops and pastures in very good conditions as we head into August. Normal year to date precipitation from January through July is 20.72 inches. Year to date Milford Lake has received 22.81 inches and Junction City 21.97 inches. While the monthly rainfall was well above normal, it was well below being a record. The wettest July on record was NOT 1951 (3rd wettest with 12.43 inches of rain) or 1993 (5th wettest with 11.53 inches), but 1950 when 13.65 inches of rain flooded the area. The 2nd and 4th wettest July’s were 1948 – 12.99 inches and 1992 – 12.32 inches of rain.
With July, the hottest month of the year, now behind us we will normally start to see temperatures cooling off as we move through August. Average daily highs begin August around 91 degrees and by the end of the month they are down to 88 degrees. Overnight lows begin the month at 67 and end the month around 64. Rainfall shows a slight decrease from July with normal rainfall coming in just under 4 inches at 3.96 inches.
Manhattan will be among several stops in Kansas by U.S. Senator Pat Roberts next week.
He will hold a roundtable discussion with Kansas agriculture leaders at noon on Tuesday at 2627 Kansas Farm Bureau Plaza,
During his trip across the state Roberts will hold town hall meetings, read to pre-K students at the Children’s Campus of Kansas City and tour the KC Startup Village. He will address the Leavenworth and Atchison Rotary Clubs, and return to YMCA Camp Wood in Elmdale where he attended as a youth for a tour and visit with campers who are from military families.
Super pacs, billionaires and more – Congressman Tim Huelskamp speaks out on the smear campaign and big money investors that contributed to his defeat in in the August 2nd primary election.
Huelskamp attended a telephonic media press conference where no subject was off limits and his frustration was evident.
Congressman Tim Huelskamp
“Roger Marshall attacked me for not getting anything done, and that’s a lie and a smear if I guess you don’t count the Veterans and count the military,” said Huelskamp.
Huelskamp says that his work for Veterans and the military will continue until he leaves office.
Many times Huelskamp noted that he was a “5th generation farmer” and stated that Marshall – “an OBGYN” doesn’t care about farmers, as he has famously campaigned for.
“3 million dollars spent against me, much of it from outside the state of Kansas – super pacs and billionaires from Chicago, and Florida and Washington, D.C. insiders put in an incredible amount of money….I’m very confident that if the super pacs that wanted to control my vote and tell us how to vote hadn’t put in money then we would have won this race,” said Huelskamp.
Huelskamp added that his votes for or against various things always were made while keeping Kansans in mind, and that these controlling money pots, or so to speak, became upset with him for not going along with their agendas.
“It’s a sad indictment of Washington [D.C.] where you have a Speaker [of the House], now a former Speaker who decides he’s going to tell members how to vote; and I didn’t vote the way John Boehner told me how to vote and he punished me and three other members,” said Huelskamp referencing why he was kicked of the House Agriculture Committee.
Huelskamp said that he couldn’t hurt Kansans in order to support “big money guys”.
“These guys don’t care about the AG Committee, you know the U.S. Chamber of Commerce never did score the vote on the AG Committee and if that was such an important vote – why did they support Pat Roberts? And if the Kansas Farm Bureau thinks the Farm Bill vote is so important why have they endorsed Pat Roberts…why did they endorse Kevin Yoder, Lynn Jenkins, Mike Pompeo and say it was all about the Farm Bill…that was just an excuse to use against me,” said Huelskamp who doesn’t know why such intense efforts were made by outside investors to get him out of office.
Huelskamp adds, “At the end of the day, they don’t want a principled conservative, they don’t want a principled anything actually – they want someone who will do exactly what they say, and I’m pretty confident they’ll get that in Roger Marshall because they bought his seat for him.”
Huelskamp alleges that this is one of the top, if not the most money spent on a primary election in Kansas history.
“Call Marlene Ricketts and say ‘What’s your interest in Kansas?’; call this Christopher Saddler whoever he is, you can go to the FEC and look up his contributions….his corporate office is in London, England. All I know is, they weren’t from Kansas, their interests were not agriculture – my guess is that the Wall Street folks want to continue to get bail outs…I’m not up there to look out for the Wall Street guys, the big money guys – at the end of the day I’m worried about ‘main street’, that’s where we have problems here in America.”
In addition to the Ricketts family, Huelskamp name dropped “uber billionaires” like Paul Singer, the U.S. Chamber and “corporate cronyism types” backing Roger Marshall with some sort of underlying special interest in Kansas.
Huelskamp added that there are no sour grapes, saying that he received more votes this election that the ones previously won; but he is frustrated that the people of the 1st Congressional District in Kansas fed in to the “smear campaign” and “flat-out lies”.
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The Junction City Commission has approved the proposed 2017 budget for publication.
There would be a slight increase in the property tax levy, approximately three-tenths of one mill, or point-375.
There will be a public hearing on the proposed spending plan August 16th after which the commission can consider approval of the budget.
The tax levy proposed for 2017 is 48.09 mills. The general fund is calculated at $20,267,081 and the entire budget factoring in all funds has been proposed at $70,714,840.
Keith Ascher was the winner in the Geary County Commission Third District Republican primary election on Tuesday.
Ascher received 220 votes to 199 for John Moyer.
Ascher said he was relieved. “But I’m very honored and humbled by the confidence the voters showed in this race in me. I’d really like to say thank you to John. I think he did a wonderful job, obviously as close as it was, he was just as qualified as I was.
Moyer’s post-relection reaction: “Oh we worked pretty hard on this, like my opponent did. So which ever one of us loses, we’re a little disappointed, but I’m glad we got a good person that’s going to serve in that seat to.”
No Democrat filed for election to the third district seat.
In the 68th House Republican primary election Dave Baker was the winner with 1,795 votes. Nicholas Allbritton received 768 and Vance Donahue II 291. Baker will advance to the November general election to face Laura Blevins of White City.
Baker stated, “Well I’m pretty thankful for all the people that helped in my campaign and make this a success. We worked hard and it was a great night. ”
The 68th District is spread over all or parts of four counties, Morris, Geary, Dickinson, and Chase.
Orchestra Parents Night in Geary USD 475 is scheduled Tuesday, Aug. 9 at the Junction City Middle School Auditorium and Commons area.
