LARNED — The Larned Juvenile Correctional Facility (LJCF) recently formally recognized three newly-promoted staff at the Town Hall meeting May 6 — Charles Perez, Juvenile Corrections Officer II (sergeant); and Justin Veeder, Juvenile Corrections Officer III (lieutenant); and Sam Sullivan, Juvenile Corrections Officer II sergeant); Charlie Perez first started his employment at LJCF in May of 2012 as a Juvenile Corrections Officer I. He and his wife married in June of 2013, and they moved to Hutchinson where he worked for a surveying and electrical company. In October 2013, he was hired as a corrections officer at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility, but moved approximately five months later to work for the city of Meade. After deciding that such work wasn’t what he wanted to do, he moved his family back to Larned, returning to LJCF in July of 2014.