Junction City Community Service Organization

10/19/2025

Friends of Historical Junction City/Geary County,
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On Tuesday, October 21, 2025, the Black History Trail of Geary County will take part in the Geary County Match Day, a special day which supports local organizations to increase their donations.
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Geary Community Match Day holds incredible opportunity for our Black History Trail of Geary County when the Greater Geary Community Foundation will provide a 50% match on gifts to our fund.

Our trail offers visitors a variety of opportunities to learn and experience the rich African American contributions to Junction City and the surrounding region. Visitors and locals alike can interpret local African American history, culture, education, and awareness of this history in our area. With your help we can secure additional matching funds during the Geary Community Match Day, October 21st, 2025.
Here’s how it works:
To make a donation:
In Person:
When: October 21, 2025
Where: Junction City Municipal Building Auditorium, 700 N Jefferson St.
Time: 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM

Gifts made in person at the event will qualify for prize money incentives for Black History Trail of Geary County.

Mail In:

Online gifts can be made with a credit card between 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM October 21 by
visiting www.GearyMatchDay.com.


Write only ONE check made payable to GGCF for your entire gift. Complete the donation form to indicate amounts you would like to give to participating organizations. Donations can be mailed to the Greater Geary Community Foundation at P.O. Box 411, Junction City, KS 66441 postmarked on
or before October 21, 2025. Must be received by 10/24 to qualify for the match. The form can be downloaded from GearyMatchDay.com
Gifts between $25 & $1,000 per agency will be eligible for a match up to a maximum of $7,500 per organization until the match money is depleted. For example, if a donor gives a $1,000 gift to a participating fund during match day, they are eligible to receive a 50% match of $500.

Sincerely,

THE BLACK HISTORY TRAIL OF GEARY COUNTY
JIM SANDS, PRESIDENT
MARGY STEWART, VICE PRESIDENT

Geary Community Match Day

06/14/2024

Junction City Juneteenth Community Association (JCJCA) Celebration

03/08/2024

This is from the Kansas Volksmarching Club, and this weekend there is a Volksmarch in Lawrence, Kansas.

Hello walkers:

Just wanted to remind our volkssporters about our walk this Sunday in Lawrence, starting at the original Johnny's in North Lawrence. The leaflet is attached for your usage.

Also wanted to inform you that there is major road construction on 6th Street, on the south side of the Kansas River. Water lines and road repairs.
This construction changed the route for the walkers this weekend! The 10km trail will be some of the old and some new. The 5km can be a choice.

Also, if you walk the 10km Lawrence YRE, prior to my arrival on Sunday am, you will need to make some adjustments on your own around the stadium. Part of the stadium is gone and fencing is up which interferes with the older route.

I wanted to thank the following walkers who joined the club &/or made a contribution to the Sod Stompers. The contributions have helped! Please let me know if I inadvertently left off your name. My list just disappeared! 😏

Leon Graves, Romona Ward, Cynthia Hines, Trudy & Jerry Duffman, Karen Heady & Rod Smith, Barbara Kline, Anne Grenier,Cathy Childress, Susasn Medlin, DeAnne & Gordon Brown, Jeanne Miller, Lori Anderson

Hope to see you on Sunday! So far a good forecast for walking. ☘️☘️☘️

Terri
[email protected]
Sunflower Sod Stompers 🌻🌻🌻

01/23/2024

The library will be holding its first Community Conversation on February 9 featuring Letters to Martin by Professor Randall Jelks. We hope you will be able to attend. Please share as possible. Thank you!

Susan

Susan Moyer, Director
Dorothy Bramlage Public Library
230 W. 7th Street
Junction City, KS 66441
785-238-4311
785-238-7873 (fax)
www.jclib.org

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From: Susan Moyer
To: "deweyterrill", "Editor"
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:48:13 -0600
Subject: Press release
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Dorothy Bramlage Public Library
230 West Seventh Street
Junction City, KS 66441
Contact: Donna Porter, Assistant Director
Telephone: 785-238-4311

Dorothy Bramlage Public Library Presents 2024 Community Conversation featuring Letters to Martin by Professor Randall Jelks

The Dorothy Bramlage Public Library will hold its first Community Conversation of 2024 on Friday, February 9 at the library at 6:00 p.m. Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America by Professor Randall Jelks will be the featured title.
Copies of the book are available now at the library at the Circulation Desk including twelve signed by the author for the first registrants. Professor Jelks will also participate in the discussion via Zoom.
Evoking Dr. King’s “Letters from Birmingham Jail,” these meditations speak specifically to the many public issues we presently confront in the Unites States including economic inequality, freedom of assembly, police brutality, ongoing social class conflicts, and geopolitics. Written in the form of letters to Dr. King, Professor Jelks invites readers to reflect on U.S. history by centering on questions of democracy that we must grapple with as a society.
Jelks is an award-winning author, documentary film producer and professor. He is the author of four books and his writings have appeared in the Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and many blogs, journals, and periodicals. He and Letters to Martin were recently honored when it was named one 2023’s Kansas Notable Books by the State Library of Kansas.
For more information about this program and how you can participate, contact Donna Porter at the library at 785-238-4311 or [email protected].

Turn to Dorothy Bramlage Public Library in Junction City, KS if you need access to books and other learning resources.

01/18/2024

Join us for the next Big Idea on February 9 at noon

Donna Rae Pearson, Collection Development and Museum Specialist at the Kansas Historical Society, will discuss the 12 Black women who were plaintiffs in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka case. Their contributions to the Civil Rights Movement have often been overlooked.


Register https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Mzcm1JmxQe6tx2p4r6YxdA?blm_aid=31407 #/registration

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01/17/2024

Please eat at FREDDY'S on February 5th between 5-9PM to help support our shelter! We LOVE their food and now we get to eat for a great cause?? Count us in!

01/16/2024

Junction City Food Pantry

IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Tomorrow night’s food distribution is being moved to Wednesday evening from 5:30-6:30 pm, due to extreme windchill temperatures.
Appointments made for last Tuesday and/or this Tuesday evening will be honored during the Wednesday, January 17th distribution.
Staff will be in the office tomorrow morning if you have questions, and the answering machine is back in operation. (785-762-8830)

01/14/2024

09/16/2023

Went to the Junction City Farmers Market, Saturday a week or two ago; it was so good with so many great deals, good conversations, great people. One of my personal best finds was mango salsa. This salsa is so good on big spicy sausages, like a Chicago dog. Posting pics for your preview, check them ALL OUT!!!