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CSi Weather…
JAMESTOWN AREA
WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING…
.LATE THIS AFTERNOON…WINDY. RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY. NORTH WINDS
AROUND 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 45 MPH. CHANCE OF SHOWERS
60 PERCENT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA A 90 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.
.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS IN
THE EVENING IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, A 70 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. BREEZY. LOWS IN THE MID 30S. NORTHWEST WINDS 15 TO
25 MPH.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. BREEZY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS IN
THE AFTERNOON IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. HIGHS IN THE MID 50S. NORTHWEST
WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 30S. NORTHWEST
WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH. GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH IN THE EVENING.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 50S. NORTHWEST WINDS
5 TO 15 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S.
NORTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 50S.
LOWS IN THE MID 30S.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE
LOWER 40S. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S.
.SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS.
HIGHS IN THE MID 60S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S.
.MONDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS. HIGHS
IN THE MID 60S.
STUTSMAN…
MONDAY….AN AREA OF SHOWERS MAINLY FROM
SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA EAST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER TO THE JAMES
AND DEVILS LAKE BASINS…MAINLY SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM LINTON
TO HARVEY AND CARRINGTON. THERE MAY BE A RAIN/SNOW MIX ON THE FAR
WESTERN EDGE OF THE PRECIPITATION – BUT WOULD BE VERY LIGHT.
BARNES…
EXPECT WIDESPREAD RAIN SHOWERS MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. TOTAL RAINFALL
AMOUNTS WILL RANGE FROM ONE HALF TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH.
LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS ARE POSSIBLE. NORTH WINDS WILL ALSO BE
BREEZY MONDAY ALONG AND WEST OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY. WINDS WILL
BE STRONGEST ACROSS THE DEVILS LAKE BASIN FROM 25 TO 35 MPH WITH
GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH.
Weather related announcements.
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown High School Blue Jay baseball versus Bismarck today (Monday May 12, 2014) at Jack Brown Stadium has been rained out.The Blue Jays and Demons play Tuesday at Bismarck’s, Shiloh Christian and starts at 5 p.m.
The JV team will play Bismarck High on Tuesday in Jamestown (Jack Brown Stadium) @ 4:30 PM
Jamestown High School’s track and field triangular in Valley City also on Monday has been cancelled because of bad weather.
The meet will not be made up.
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Police wants to warn Jamestown residents regarding a convicted sex offender living with city limits.
50 year old Timothy Alan Taxis is a white male, five feet six inches tall, weighing 140 pounds with hazel eyes and blond hair.
He currently resides at the Starlight Motel, 1610 Business Loop East #2, Jamestown.
His vehicles are a 1992 Chrysler New Yorker ND Lic. JZR252 and a 1985 Dodge Ram 2 door, ND Lic. GEA590.
Taxis was assigned a high risk assessment by the North Dakota Risk Level Committee of the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office.
On July 25, 2001 he was convicted of indecent exposure in Stutsman County in connection with an incident involving two 11 year old girls in a park, and then following them in a vehicle. Disposition 30 days.
On April 29, 1998 he was convicted in Stutsman County, of indecent exposure involving two female employees of a video store. Disposition 30 days in jail, 24 days suspended.
On May 2, 1994 he was convicted in Stutsman County of gross sexual imposition on three occasions in one week, exposing himself to young girls in the area of a tennis court, on one occasion forcing one of the girls into a sexual act. Disposition 7 years, with 3 years, 6 months suspended.
Taxis is not wanted by police at this time, and is currently serving the sentence imposed by the court.
This notification is meant for public safety and not to increase fear in the community, nor should this information be used to threaten, assault, or intimidate the offender. Attempts to harass, intimidate or threaten these offenders or their families, landlords, or employers will be turned over for prosecution.
Printed hand outs of Taxis’ demographics and photo are available at the Jamestown Police Department.
More information on registered offenders is available at the Attorney General’s web site www.sexoffender.nd.gov
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corporation (JSDC) held an Executive Committee meeting Monday, followed by the full board meeting.
JSDC’s Marketing/Workforce Developer, Holly Miller says, at the Executive Committee meeting the panel discussed funding from the Economic Development Incentive fund to pay for extending the rail spur at the Spiritwood Energy Park to the new adjacent purchase of the Klose property.
She added the amount is not to exceed $150,000. The work with DMVB will include earth moving and other work, as the project will include improvements to the infrastructure.
Following that meeting the JSDC’s full Board of Director’s met.
Ms. Miller says the board heard a request from Buffalo City Diesel to change their request from a pace to a flex pace incentive funding package.
The request of funding from the Incentive Fund was approved.
The action will move to the Jamestown City Council and Stutsman County Commission for consideration.
She points out the JSDC’s Strategic Plan is still in the process of being worked on in the area of priorities and the role of JSDC. Developers at the meeting provided input. The JSDC board members will attend the May 21, 2014 Housing meeting from 1-4-p.m., at the Center For Economic Development, a the lower level conference room. When completed the plan will move forward to the Jamestown City Council and Stutsman County Commission for consideration.
The topic will then be brought up at the next JSDC Executive Committee meeting, on May 27th.
In other business, “Sight Selector” Magazine, a top publication for sight selectors has named JSDC one of the top ten micropolitian economic groups of the year, in the United States.
She pointed out, the University of Jamestown will hold a Day Camp July7-11, 2014
with 20 students on hand, who will from their own “town” including forming a town council, and build and operate virtual businesses. The JSDC and Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce is developing the camp in conjunction with Barry Striegel, the Director of the North Dakota Entrepreneurship Education Program with the IDEA Center in Business. During the camp entrepreneurs and community leaders will be invited to attend and listen the people involved.
More information will be forthcoming.
Ms. Miller summarizes the meeting on Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show at 8:25 a.m., on CSi Cable 2.
In local sports…
Jamestown (CSi) University of Jamestown men’s Jimmie Men’s Basketball Head Coach Justin Wieck has accepted an assistant position at Minnesota State-Moorhead under Chad Walthhall.
Wieck has coach the Jimmie men’s team the past two seasons,at the University of Jamestown including an appearance at the NAIA National tournament.
Wieck and Walthhall were teamed at Iowa when Wieck played in Iowa City.
VALLEY CITY (VCSU CSi) – Valley City State University men’s basketball coach Jeff Kaminsky announced today that Riley West has signed a letter of intent to attend VCSU and play basketball for the Vikings this fall.
A 6-foot point guard, West is a native of Lakeville, Minn., and just completed his second year of collegiate basketball at St. Cloud Technical and Community College (Minn.).
West was a 2-year starter at St. Cloud Tech. and helped lead the team to a 22-6 record this past season. He averaged 14.5 points and 4.5 assists per game while shooting 34 percent on 3-pointers and 78 percent on free throws.
Kaminsky says, “We are impressed by Riley’s approach to things both on and off the court. We were especially impressed by Riley’s competitive toughness. We are looking forward to the leadership that he will bring to our program.”
West leaves St. Cloud with eight school records to his name, including most points in a game (36) and most assists in a game (13). He also holds career records for assists, 3-pointers made and free throws made.
St. Cloud Tech., Head Coach, Andrew Cone says, “Riley was always a player that I could count on to bring great effort everyday he was on the court. He is a solid leader, and an outstanding young man. I am excited for him as he takes this next step in his basketball career.”
West played his high school basketball at Lakeville South High School (Minn.). He is the son of Jason and Susan West.
West is VCSU’s first signed transfer for the 2014-15 season.
He joins high school seniors Briton Bussman (G, Milnor, N.D.), Jayden Ferguson (F, Williston, N.D.) and Alex Quist (G, Bismarck, N.D.) as signed recruits for next season.
Valley City State University posted a 14-14 record in 2013-14. Under Jeff Kaminsky, the Vikings are 149-115 and have posted 20-win seasons in four of the past seven years. In 2012-13, Kaminsky led the Vikings to their first NAIA National Tournament appearance since 1987.
In state news…
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – More than 60 North Dakota lawmakers want to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that overturns a state law banning abortions when a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland ruled last month that the law is “invalid and unconstitutional.”
In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, Republican Rep. Bette Grande urged Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem to appeal Hovland’s ruling. The letter was signed by 61 GOP lawmakers and two Democrats.
The state’s only abortion clinic in Fargo filed a lawsuit in July against the measure that would ban abortions before many women know they’re pregnant.
Grande says most North Dakotans support the law, which was among four anti-abortion bills Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed into law last year with overwhelming support from the state’s GOP-led Legislature.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Bismarck police have a suspect in custody after a report of an armed man at a pharmacy.
Officers responded to The Medicine Shoppe about 10:15 a.m. Thursday after calls about a man threatening an employee with a knife. The man fled on foot into a nearby apartment building but was arrested after leaving the building.
It was not immediately clear if the suspect took anything from the drug store.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Health Department says one more person has been linked to the hepatitis C outbreak at a nursing home in the Minot area.
State epidemiologist Tracy Miller says the case count is now at 45, all being current or former residents of ManorCare.
At least 500 people have been tested since last year. State officials continue to contact individuals that could have been exposed to the virus and urge them to undergo testing.
ManorCare Health Services-Minot offers long-term care services, but most of its patients come directly from a hospital for rehabilitation before returning home.
Miller says the cases have been associated with receiving phlebotomy, podiatry and toenail care services at the facility.
Hepatitis C is a viral infection that can cause serious liver damage or even death.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – The country’s largest labor federation says North Dakota’s death rate in the oil, gas and mining sector was more than six times the national average in 2012.
AFL-CIO says North Dakota had 104 deaths per 100,000 workers in the oil, gas and mining industry that year. The national rate for the industry was 15.9 deaths per 100,000.
North Dakota’s construction fatality rate was nearly 10 times the national rate for that industry, at 97.4 deaths per 100,000 workers.
AFL-CIO says North Dakota also had the highest overall worker fatality rate in the nation in 2012, with 17.7 deaths per 100,000 workers. The national rate was 3.4 deaths per 100,000.
The sharp growth in worker death rates in the state correlates with its oil boom in recent years.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Minot State University President David Fuller is getting ready to call it a career.
Fuller is retiring at the end of June. The school held a retirement party for him last week, and he will oversee his final graduation ceremony on Friday.
Fuller was named the school’s eighth president in 2004. He says it’s been a fun 10 years and he’s proud of where he leaves the school. He also says he’s confident that the school will be in good hands with incoming president Steven Shirley, the current president at Valley City State.
Fuller says he plans to work on various projects in his retirement, including research and writing, and working with groups that help animals and homeless people.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s winter wheat crop is expected to be up dramatically over last year.
The Agriculture department pegs this year’s crop at 33.1 million bushels, more than double last year’s crop, thanks mostly to a big jump in acres. The North Dakota Wheat Commission says a large number of prevented planting acres in spring 2013 and favorable fall planting conditions were reasons for the jump in acres.
Spring wheat is North Dakota’s staple crop. Farmers are expected to plant 5.9 million acres of spring wheat this year. They’re expected to harvest about 720,000 acres of winter wheat.
MANKATO, Minn. (AP) – A former Minnesota Gophers quarterback is charged with assault, for allegedly kicking another man in the head after an altercation in downtown Mankato, leaving him gravely injured.
Philip Robert Nelson is charged with one count of first-degree assault and one count of third-degree assault.
Authorities say he kicked 24-year-old Isaac Dallas Kolstad in the head early Sunday as bars were closing in Mankato.
The kick came after Kolstad had been punched and knocked to the ground by another man, who remains at-large.
Kolstad is a former linebacker at Minnesota State, Mankato. He is in critical condition. According to the criminal complaint, doctors are not sure he will survive.
Police released surveillance video of events surrounding the altercation and they are asking for the public’s help.
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House says the United States does not recognize the results of a twin sovereignty referendum in eastern Ukraine. Spokesman Jay Carney says it is also “disappointing” that Russia did not use its influence to stop the vote from happening. Russian President Vladimir Putin had previously said the referendum should be postponed, but the pro-Russian insurgents in eastern Ukraine still moved forward with the votes. The insurgents said voters overwhelmingly backed sovereignty. But no international election monitors were there.
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) – Some of the Nigerian schoolgirls who were kidnapped last month by Islamic extremists have apparently been seen today in a video released by the Boko Haram (BOH’-koh hah-RAHM’) terrorist network. The girls appear frightened, and sit huddled together, wearing gray Muslim veils. They are seen chanting verses from the Quran in Arabic. Some Christians among them say they have converted to Islam. In the video, a leader of the group warns that the girls won’t be seen again unless authorities release members of the group who are being held in prison.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Dozens of gay couples — including some who waited in line overnight — have been getting marriage licenses from county clerks in Arkansas Monday. They’ve been wasting no time, because lawyers for the state are asking its highest court to suspend a judge’s order allowing the marriages to take place. The judge Friday tossed out a state ban on same-sex weddings.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The nation’s budget deficit remains on track to finish the year at its lowest level in six years. The Treasury Department says the government ran a big surplus in April, thanks to a flood of tax payments. Through the first seven months of the budget year, the deficit totals $306 billion. That’s down 37 percent from the same period last year.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – A state elections board in Kansas is rejecting a claim that U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts is not truly a Kansas resident, allowing the three-term Republican to seek re-election this year. Four northeast Kansas residents had objected to the ballot listing, arguing that Roberts lives in Alexandria, Virginia, and not Dodge City, Kansas. Roberts owns a home in Alexandria but is registered to vote at the Dodge City address of a couple who supports him and rents him a room and bathroom. He and his wife also own a duplex unit in Dodge City but rent it out.