Junction City Commissioners have approved a request from the Sundown Salute Committee to move that celebration to Heritage Park over the Labor Day weekend in 2024. The dates would be Friday Aug. 30 through Sunday Sept. 1.
City leaders have been informed in writing that there will not be a Sundown Salute event this year. The celebration was last held in 2022 during the Fourth of July time period in the Milford City Park.
Tricia Verschage, Chair of the Sundown Salute Committee, noted it would be like past Sundown Salute events, except it would move to Labor Day. "We moved it to Labor Day so we could work in conjunction with the Freedom Fest, because they're rocking the Fourth of July, so why not bring in a second event to Junction City for everyone in the county."
Verschage noted that there would not be activities on Monday, Labor Day, allowing people who are traveling to have that day off for travel. "And then we would have music events, working on a carnival right now, vendors - food vendors, basically everything that we've had in the past for the last 50 years."