Ryan Wilson

Oct 26, 2023 | usparatf.org | Ryan Wilson

Heading into the Parapan American Games, Max Rohn is as confident as he’s ever been. “My expectations are to win (gold),” Rohn said. “(I’m just) going to do everything that I’ve trained.”Rohn is now three months into his prep to throw the discus at Parapans, which will take place Nov. 17-26 in Santiago, Chile. Rohn is putting in four to six hours of training four days a week at the Chula Vista Elite Training Center in California.

Apr 26, 2023 | junctioncityunion.com | Ryan Wilson

Students enrolled in art classes at the Geary County campus of CCCC showed the community last week in a Business After Hours art show the wide range of talents and abilities across a multitude of mediums from photography and painting and drawing to cake baking and repurposing found items as artwork.

Apr 19, 2023 | junctioncityunion.com | Ryan Wilson

Junction City’s new representative in the US Congress stopped by last week to see what he could do for voters who are now in his district as of January because of redistricting. Junction CIty Manager Allen Dinkel, Chamber president Mickey Dean, County Commissioner Keith Ascher and others encouraged Rep. Jake LaTurner to do what he could to support Fort Riley, as the fort and the soldiers who come with it have more impact on the community than anything else.

Apr 12, 2023 | junctioncityunion.com | Ryan Wilson

The neat thing about Twitch’s Gallery and Gifts is that it’s actually several stores in one, owners of the business said at the open house celebrating their fifth anniversary last week. Ken Robinson, one of the owners said that their goal is to become of “one-stop shop” for the kinds of gifts soldiers buy for each other when they have a permanent change of station (PCS), and that has resulted in the business expanding into other areas.

Apr 8, 2023 | junctioncityunion.com | Ryan Wilson

Last week members of the Geary County Commission, USD 475 school board and Junction City City Commission gathered for a round-table discussion on where they are on joint projects and how they could help each other on projects that impact more than one entity. Neighborhood Revitalization Program could become a boonOne of the exciting opportunities that came up in the discussion is the city’s efforts to promote downtown revitalization through incentives.