{"id":506227,"date":"2026-03-06T00:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506227\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T00:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:46:08","slug":"rick-dykstra-sounds-a-wake-up-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/506227\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Dykstra sounds a wake up call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Dewey Terrill<\/p>\n<p>JC Post<\/p>\n<p>Outdoor enthusiast Rick Dykstra told the Junction City Commission this week that our potential is being ignored.&#8221;Now Junction City has a North Star to guide us. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just gave you one, a massive one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Corps recently announced that approximately 1.37 million visitors came to Milford Lake this past year. &#8220;We are a great outdoor destination with outstanding history, said Dykstra. &#8220;New soldiers do not see our world class back yard.&#8221; He pointed out that Milford Lake is the number one quality of life factor, and why they stay.<\/p>\n<p>Dykstra also supports military hardware and monuments at the entrance ways to Junction City. &#8220;So no one can drive in the city without knowing we&#8217;re the home of the Big Red One.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the numbers provided by the Corps are the &#8220;gold standard for fedeal funding and infrastructure.\u00a0 They prove that Junction City sits on the doorstep of a massive active market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be bold. Let&#8217;s transform\u00a0 our entrance way to reflect our pride.&#8221; Let&#8217;s become a base camp for our great outdoors and finally look like the hometown of Fort Riley.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Dewey Terrill JC Post Outdoor enthusiast Rick Dykstra told the Junction City Commission this week that our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-506227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}