Click HERE to read comments from USD 475 Superintendent Ron Walker. Links to legislative e-mails are at right.

The Junction City High School Performing Arts Department will present Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at 7 p.m., this Thursday-Saturday, March 11-13 in the JCHS Settles Auditorium. Tickets are $4 and may be reserved by calling 717-4263 or by e-mail to jodieriche@usd475.org.

Mary Schmutz, Junction City Middle School 7th Grade Language Arts teacher, has been appointed to serve as a judge in the Promising Young Writers Program for the National Council of Teachers of English. This program is designed to honor eighth-grade students in the U.S., Canada and American schools abroad for excellence in writing.

Congratulations to Coach Randall Zimmerman, Junction City High School,  on his selection as the Kansas Coaches Association and National Federation Coaches Association, Kansas 11-Man Football Coach of the Year. This honor put Zimmerman in consideration for and he was selected as the 2009 National Federation Coaches Association Section 5 (Midwest) 11-man Football Coach of the Year. NFHS section 5 is representative of coaches in Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.

The art teachers of Geary County USD 475, in cooperation with the Junction City Arts Council, invite students, parents and patrons of the community to a USD 475 K-5 Art Exhibition to be held from March 5 – 25, at the Junction City Arts Council Gallery, 107 W. Seventh Street. March is “Youth Arts Month” and student work will also be on display from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday-Friday, and from noon until 4 p.m. on Saturdays.

Congratulations to Judy Beemer, Literacy Coach at Junction City High School, whose essay “No Child Left Behind” is the featured piece in the National Writing Project Gallery. View her essay at http://galleryofwriting.org/galleries/gallery_pieces.php?galleryid-54066.