CSi Weather…
REST OF TODAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF
SHOWERS IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA A 60 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY cITY AREA. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO
15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTH 10 TO 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. NORTHEAST
WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. SOUTHEAST WINDS
5 TO 15 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S.
.SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
.LABOR DAY THROUGH TUESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.
LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ON FRIDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE
EXPECTED AGAIN SATURDAY…BECOMING NUMEROUS SATURDAY NIGHT. WIDELY
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED SUNDAY AND MONDAY.
THEN A SLIGHT THREAT FOR THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY.
Jamestown (CSi) Effective Thursday August 28, 2014, the 400-500 block of 17 Street Southwest is partially close to eastbound traffic. This partial closure may delay traffic to Frontier Village.
This partial lane closure is for a water valve replacement. Seventeenth Street will be reopen by Friday.
Additionally, 37Street Southeast is now reopen after a closure on Monday.
For more information, contact Jim Hubbard with Interstate Engineering at (701) 252-0234.
Jamestown (CSi) The 2014 Community Block Party “Rock the Block” will be
Thursday, August 28, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in Downtown Jamestown.
At the annual event, booths from businesses, organizations and University groups help welcome to the community, new and returning University of Jamestown students. Over 250 freshmen are required to participate, but many upper-class students will join as well.
This year the students and staff will come down the hill earlier, at about 5:15-p.m., with about 220 freshman class members expected to participate.
This is the first year that the Jimmies will have a football game the same evening as the block party, with a 7-p.m., kickoff at Valley City State.
On Friday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce, Executive, Lisa Hicks pointed out, there will be about 100 booths set up.
In addition to a few blocks of First Avenue are being closed north to the railroad tracks, this year entire block First Street South, between Second Avenue West and Second Avenue East will be closed as well.
Closing some of the streets in the downtown area allows booths to be set up by local businesses, charities, churches and other organizations.
The event features free food, job postings, coupons and activities for adults and children.
22 sponsors have signed up, that’s up from 12 last year. She said the sponsor contributions allow the purchase of addtional signage.
Local sponsors support the event costs at about $4,000 that helps pay for name badges, printing, postage, permits for closing the streets and more.
Generally only businesses with a local presence can participate.
Ms. Hicks added that Cavendish Farms gives out free, freshly-made french fries at its booth, and R.M. Stoudt gives away hot dogs.
Some new businesses have also signed up for the party.
Those attending will also be able to purchase food from vendors, when the free offerings run out, offering brats, ice cream and similar fairlike fare.
There will also be a dunk tank, inflatable games, a barrel train and other activities are also planned.
Glassblower, Jon Offutt from Fargo will be on hand with demonstrations, following demonstrations that day at 1-p.m., 2-p.m., and 3-p.m., at the Jamestown Arts Center.
Businesses and clubs use the fair for a variety of purposes, including giving away samples and promoting services but also recruiting new employees and inviting students to join them.
Jamestown (CSi) The James River Family YMCA becomes James River Family Fitness, effective September 1, 2014.
The organization’s board of directors voted recently to disaffiliate from the National Council of YMCAs.
On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Frank Conlin said the organization’s group-fitness and program offerings for children, families and seniors, will be unchanged, from offerings at the Y.
The organization will remain family-focused, and financial assistance will continue to be available to those who cannot afford to pay full membership fees.
The YMCA has rented the Larson Center from the University of Jametown since the building was constructed in 1980.
The university has hired a consultant to conduct a study of its athletic facilities that will include the addition of a new arena and potential renovation of the Larson Center as well as additional outdoor practice space for football, soccer, baseball and softball.
Conlin pointed out that with plans being developed over the past few years for a new Two Rivers Activity Center, (TRAC), an affiliation has been planned involving Jamestown Public Schools, Jamestown Parks and Recreation, Jamestown Tennis, and Jamestown Gymnastics, along with the James River Family Fitness Center.
The Fitness Center’s staff would become employees of Jamestown Parks and Recreation.
The planned facility would be located at the 7.5-8-acres of land north of Gussner Elementary School, in Northeast Jamestown, that was previously used for JPS 9th grade football.
TRAC would include an aquatic center with an indoor water park and outdoor water features.
The center would include space for the child care facility currently operated by the James River Family YMCA in the Larson Center, an indoor playground, an indoor turfed surface facility and an indoor fieldhouse that would have multiple-use courts and a running track.
Conlin added that possible funding for the Two Rivers Activity Center, could come in part from a ¾ cent City Sales tax, that is presently being used toward paying off the costs of Jamestown High School, which was approved by voters in the early 2000’s.
Conlin says the high school portion of the City Sales Tax will expire at the end of 2014. At that time, if approved by voters, the ¾ cent City Sales Tax portion would go toward funding the TRAC facility. The two would not over lap.
He said it’s possible that a vote by Jamestown residents could come in a Jamestown Special Election in either January of February of 2015.
As a reminder, Conlin pointed out that the facility’s extended hours resume starting on Tuesday September 2, 2014.
M-F open 5-a.m., till 10-p.m.
Saturday’s 5-a.m., to 7-p.m.
Sunday’s 1-p.m., to 7-p.m.
Sign up is being taken for the Fall I Session, with brochures available at the front desk. The phone number stays the same at 701-253-4101.
Offerings include: Battle Ropes, Zumba-with various levels, Water Aerobics, Yoga, and a new dance/exercise class.
The new web address is : www.JrFamilyFit.org
Jamestown (CSi) Stutsman County Housing Authority (SCHA) will host a Landlord Training Event on Thursday, October 30. 2014 from 8-a.m., to 4-p.m., at the Gladstone Inn & Suites inJamestown. The event’s purpose is to help educate landlords, owners, property managers, civic leaders, tenants and others about various landlord do’s and don’ts.
SCHA Executive Director, David Klein says, “As we see changes happening across the state with new landlords, new rental units, and new tenants, we feel it is a good time to review what landlords should know.”
The all-day event will include speakers from the North Dakota Apartments Association, High Plains Fair Housing, ND Department of Labor, Ottmar & Ottmar Law Firm, Freedom Resource, Jamestown Police Department and Safe Shelter. Speakers will cover screening tenants, eviction processes and small claims courts, domestic violence, criminal activity, discrimination, fair housing, and accessibility issues. The training event will be at the Gladstone Inn in Jamestown and there is a $10 registration fee.
For more information, complete agenda, and online registration, go to http://www.stutsmancountyhousing.com. Stutsman County Housing Authority administers the Section 8 Voucher programs for Stutsman, Logan, Foster, Dickey and Sargent Counties and a HOME grant program for North Dakota Region 6. It is the mission of the Stutsman County Housing Authority to provide safe, affordable housing opportunities for persons with low and moderate income and to promote economic self-sufficiency of families.
Jamestown (CSi) The Stutsman County Water Resource Board has approved a storm water management plan for the proposed CHS nitrogen fertilizer plant, that defines the storage ponds and drainage system to control the flow of water off a property after a storm or during snow melt in the spring.
The plan also must show that storm water runoff from the property will not exceed levels of runoff that occurred previous to the construction.
The storm water management plan is one of the last approvals necessary before the start of construction.
In other business the Board has denied an allegation of unauthorized drainage on Section 35 of Nogosek Township.
Jamestown (CSi) The South Central Dakota Regional Council has established a goal to assist members in the nine county region, to adopt a building code in their communities.
SCDRC received a $121,500 grant from the Bush Foundation Innovation program that will be used to fund research and gather community input.
SDRC Executive Director, Deb Kantrud, will meet with the Regional Council’s Attonrey, Joe Larson, and officials with the North Dakota Department of Commerce to determine what protections the regional council needs to have in place, if it decides to move forward with establishing a building code for its member communities.
MANDAN, N.D. (AP) – A Mandan man accused of shaking and injuring his toddler son has pleaded guilty to a felony child abuse charge.
Jeremy Young was to go on trial this week. He instead changed the not guilty plea he had entered earlier.
Court documents indicate that doctors believe Young’s 16-month-old son will have permanent problems with his eyes and brain functions because of Young’s actions.
Young faces up to 10 years in prison. A sentencing date was not immediately scheduled.
HILLSBORO, N.D. (AP) – Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a Hatton woman who was involved in a fatal crash on Interstate 29 near Hillsboro in May.
Twenty-year-old Abby Sletten is charged with negligent homicide, a felony that carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. Court documents do not list an attorney for her, and a telephone listing for her could not immediately be found.
KFGO radio reports that Sletten is accused of being on Facebook on her cellphone when she rear-ended a vehicle, killing 89-year-old Phyllis Gordon, of Ada. Three others were hurt in the crash.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A man accused of running an illegal gambling operation in North Dakota says the case should be dismissed because the charges conflict with a plea agreement in a separate money laundering case.
Gerald Greenfield, of Bloomington, Minnesota, is charged in federal court with three counts, including conducting sports betting business and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Greenfield allegedly ran the gambling operation for four years and made an annual profit of between $500,000 and $600,000.
Greenfield pleaded guilty to money laundering in 2010 and was sentenced in Minnesota state court to more than four years in prison. His attorney says the plea agreement in that case can be interpreted to show that separate gambling charges would not be brought against Greenfield.
Federal prosecutors were not available for comment.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The U.S. Agriculture Department has announced new supplemental coverage for North Dakota crops through the federal crop insurance program.
U.S. Sen. John Hoeven said Wednesday the department’s Supplemental Coverage Option will include corn and barley for all North Dakota counties in the 2015 crop year. It covers soybeans for 33 of the state’s counties.
The Republican senator had previously announced coverage would be available for spring and durum wheat in all counties.
The Supplemental Coverage Option was included in the 2014 farm bill to let farmers purchase an extra insurance policy beyond their individual farm-based policy.
Hoeven says he’s looking forward to other counties being included in the future.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota and a port in the state of Washington have signed an agreement that will increase the shipments of ag commodities from North Dakota to the West Coast. Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring says the agreement signed yesterday with Port of Vancouver USA located in Vancouver, Washington, will provide a major opportunity to commodity handlers, particularly small and mid-sized companies.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The Bismarck Civic Center might be getting a new name – the Bismarck Event Center. The City Commission has approved seeking offers for a second marquee and also has accepted the concept of renaming the building that’s undergoing a $27 million expansion. A decision on a new name isn’t final.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Health care and marijuana-related public policy experts are set to speak at a behavioral health conference hosted by the North Dakota Department of Human Services.
They’ll join mental health and addiction treatment professionals at the September conference in Bismarck.
The agency says speakers will share information about child traumatic stress, prescription opioid addiction, prescription drug overdose, mental health advance directives and gambling disorders.
The department says psychiatrist David Mee-Lee will discuss how the cost of chronic illnesses can be reduced by switching to a system that focuses on wellness and health.
The event is geared toward councilors, social workers, nurses, therapists, psychologists and others in the health care field, but the general public is also allowed to attend.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The expansion of North Dakota’s state museum is resulting in a boost in visitors.
Two of three new galleries have opened at the Heritage Center on the Capitol grounds in Bismarck. The third gallery is to open on Nov. 2, the 125th anniversary of North Dakota statehood.
The museum was closed in the fall of 2012 for the $52 million, 97,000-square-foot expansion. The first two new galleries opened in late May.
State Historical Society Director Merle Paaverud (PAW’-vur-ood) says visitation in the past four months has surpassed 85,000 people. Before the expansion, the museum drew between 100,000 and 125,000 annually. Paaverud says officials hope to double that this year.
In sports…
VCSU hosts the University of Jamestown in the football season opener at 7 p.m. Thursday at Shelly Ellig Field in Valley City.
Valley City State University and the VCSU Booster Board hosts tailgating and the free, Nodak Mutual Fan Zone before Thursday’s game, starting at 4 p.m., until kickoff.
The Viking Booster Board will be serving food for a free-will donation.
The Nodak Mutal Fan Zone, a family-friendly event, has games and prizes for all ages, including a football toss and inflatable games.
FARGO KVRR-TV in Fargo’s Sports Director, Jim Nelson has been placed on leave for a week after pleading guilty Monday to obstructing police.
The 28 year old Nelson, read a prepared apology on-air during the 9 p.m. broadcast Tuesday. The anchors said Nelson was suspended for a week and would return Monday.
Fargo police say, Nelson was arrested just before 6-a.m., Sunday for obstructing police officers who were responding to an apparent assault in south Fargo.,
Nelson was not involved in the assault.
Court records indicate that Nelson was charged with physical obstruction of a government function, a Class A misdemeanor, and pleaded guilty Monday.
Judge Steven Marquart sentenced him to one year of unsupervised probation and $300 in fees.
Nelson was hired as KVRR’s sports director in September 2011.
AA…
Fargo-Moorhead 6, Kansas City 3
MLB…
INTERLEAGUE
Final L.A. Angels 6 Miami 1
AMERICAN LEAGUE
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Nori Aoki drove in the go-ahead run during a six-run eighth inning last night to send the Kansas City Royals to a 6-1 victory over the Minnesota Twins. Billy Butler and Salvador Perez each drove in a pair of runs during the surge. Wade Davis pitched a perfect eighth to earn his second straight win.
Final Texas 12 Seattle 4
Final Tampa Bay 3 Baltimore 1
Final Toronto 5 Boston 2
Final N-Y Yankees 8 Detroit 4
Final Chi White Sox 3 Cleveland 2
Final Oakland 5 Houston 4
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final Pittsburgh 3 St. Louis 1
Final Philadelphia 8 Washington 4
Final Atlanta 3 N-Y Mets 2
Final Cincinnati 7 Chi Cubs 5
Final San Diego 3 Milwaukee 2, 10 Innings
Final L.A. Dodgers 3 Arizona 1
Final San Francisco 4 Colorado 2
SUSPENSION…
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Southern California cornerback Josh Shaw has been suspended by the team after admitting he lied to school officials about how he sprained his ankles last weekend, retracting his story about jumping off a balcony to save his drowning nephew. The school didn’t explain how Shaw actually was injured in its statement, but USC officials say they regret posting a story lauding Shaw’s tale on their website Monday. Shaw is a fifth-year senior, a team captain and a key starter in USC’s defensive secondary.
NFL…
UNDATED (AP) – Cleveland Browns receiver Josh Gordon has been suspended indefinitely by the NFL for violating the league’s substance abuse policy again. He missed two games last season due to another violation of the policy but still led the team with 1,646 yards in receptions. Gordon will have to apply for reinstatement following the season.
TENNIS…
NEW YORK (AP) – Sixth seed Thomas Berdych (BUR’-dihch) won his opening-round match at the U.S. Open yesterday before third seed Stan Wawrinka advanced to the third round. Second-round winners on the women’s side include second seed Simona Halep (HAH’-lehp), fifth seed Maria Sharapova, sixth seed Angelique Kerber, No. 9 Jelena Jankovic (yeh-LAY’-nah YANK’-uh-vihhk) and No. 19 Venus Williams. Fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska (ag-nee-EHS’-kah rahd-WAHN’-skah) and No. 21 Sloane Stephens dropped their second-round matches.
NBA…
LOS ANGELES (AP) – In his first big move since taking over ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, Steve Ballmer has worked out a new contract with coach Doc Rivers. The pact keeps the former Boston bench boss in L.A. for another five years, through 2019.
Rivers joined the team in June 2013 and added president of basketball operations to his responsibilities two months ago.
He guided the Clippers to the best record in franchise history at 57-25 and a second straight Pacific Division title last season.
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. officials say they’re checking reports that a second American was killed in Syria while fighting alongside the militant group Islamic State. The U.S. already has confirmed that American Douglas McAuthur McCain was killed while fighting with militants. But now there are reports that two Americans were killed in a battle last week with Islamic State fighters.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Does the White House need permission from Congress to launch airstrikes over Syria? The Obama administration is suggesting that it doesn’t. Last summer Congress balked at President Barack Obama’s request for a vote to attack Syria’s government in retaliation for chemical weapons use. But White House spokesman Josh Earnest suggests that attacking the militant group Islamic State in Syria would be different. Earlier this month, Obama authorized U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State in Iraq.
GENEVA (AP) – The World Health Organization says nearly 3,060 cases of the Ebola virus have been reported, and more than 1,550 of them have died. But the U.N. health agency says eventually, the number of cases in West Africa could exceed 20,000.
DEERFIELD, Va. (AP) – Virginia State Police say rescuers are continuing their search today for a pilot who went missing after an F-15 fighter jet crashed in a remote, heavily wooded area in the western part of the state. More than 100 people and several helicopters searched throughout the day Wednesday. Officials haven’t yet said what caused the crash or whether the pilot ejected. Officials say the pilot and jet are with the 104th Fighter Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Despite many signs of a business recovery including improved hiring, Americans are more worried about the economy than they were right after the Great Recession. Seventy-one percent of Americans surveyed by researchers at Rutgers University say the recession put a permanent drag on the economy. In contrast, Rutgers researchers found in a similar survey in November 2009 that only 49 percent thought the downturn would have lasting damage.