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REST OF TODAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.TONIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AFTER
MIDNIGHT IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. LOWS IN THE MID 50S. SOUTHEAST
WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. SOUTHEAST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH AROUND 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. LOWS AROUND 60. SOUTH WINDS
5 TO 15 MPH.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. SOUTH WINDS 10 TO
15 MPH.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND INDEPENDENCE DAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT
CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S. HIGHS
IN THE LOWER 80S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 60S.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 30 PERCENT CHANCE
OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S. LOWS IN THE
MID 60S.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S.
.THURSDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS AROUND 80.
THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THERE
IS A MARGINAL POTENTIAL FOR STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS SUNDAY.
Jamestown (CSi) In an effort to freshen the James River through Jamestown, and for mosquito control, residents will see a six inch increase in the river level, starting on Friday.
Pipestem Dam Manager, Bob Martin says the Pipestem Dam will make a release of 100 cfs on Friday only between 8-a.m., and 4-p.m., and then the release will be completely shut off.
He points out that Pipestem Reservoir is only four and a half feet above conservation pool. If the release remained at 100 cfs, the lake would be drawn down to conservation pool in 25 days, given current weather conditions.
At Jamestown Reservoir the 5 cfs release was stopped on Monday this week,
so after 4-p.m., Friday no releases will be made from either dam, for the foreseeable future, depending on rainfall amounts, and runoff that may occur.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Fire Department’s Annual Pancake Breakfast will be served on Saturday, July 9, 2016, at the fire hall, beginning a 7- a.m., going until noon.
Jamestown City Fire Chief Reuther says funds raised will help offset the cost of new leather fire boots.
Tickets are $7 for a single ticket or $20 for a family.
Tickets can be purchased at the City Fire Department, from a firefighter or at the door.
While at the breakfast, Chief Reuther added that it will give the community the opportunity to thank firefighter Gordy Christianson, marking 50 years of service with the fire department.
Update…
Jamestown (CSi) The Mrs. North Dakota /America Pageant Weekend will be held on July 8-10, 2016 in Jamestown, North Dakota.
Mary Schwartzkopf, Mrs. North Dakota-America 2011 is the state director. The current Mrs. NDA 2015, Christine Jorissen will be joined by 2 Local Titleholders, Mrs. West Fargo- Kerry Faine and Mrs. Bismarck- Shayna Griffiths Jordan are competing for the 2016 Mrs. NDA title. The pageant show is scheduled for Sunday at 3:00 pm, July 10, 2016 at the Jamestown’s Quality Inn & Suites.
This year’s Pageant Entertainer is Cissi Marie from Phoenix, Arizona. During the pageant, Cissi Marie will open the pageant with the “Star Spangle Banner.” She will also incorporate her songs to sing with the local titleholders “Evening Gown” category. Inspired by Jazz, Ballads, Gospel, Broadway and Inspirational Music, Cissi has a smooth, calming, confident yet warm spirited style. She has cultivated her love for music since early childhood and has performed at community events, weddings, small parties, memorials and conferences. A former Mrs. Washington/America 1999, She is also a voiceover artist. For more information on this entertainer, go to: http://www.cissimarie.com/
Special guests this year are former Mrs. NDA 1987 – Mary Dawn Christophersen and Mrs. NDA 2008- Tricia Seckerson.
Another Special feature that will be in place during the Mrs. ND/America state pageant is the “Princess in the Mirror” Mini Pageant that each contestant will be crowned a star tiara by Mrs. North Dakota/ Amer., 2015, Christine Jorissen. Applications can be found and downloaded on the state pageant website: www.mrsnd.com and click at the button labeled, Princess in the Mirror. Deadline is: July 1st. BUT those interested, can download an application from the pageant website and notify the director asap at the email address below.
The new Mrs. NDA 2016 will be competing in the Mrs. America National pageant that will be held in Las Vegas, NV., at the Westgate Resort. Keep watching for future pageant developments with state winners and First Runner-up delegates Fabulous Face Contests on the Mrs. America’s national pageant website.
For more information on the 2016 Mrs. ND-America state pageant, Please email your questions to:
mrsndamerica2011@hotmail.com and visit the Mrs. NDA State Pageant Website at: www.mrsnd.com
You can view the Mrs. America website at:
www.mrs.america.com and read more about Mrs. America, the national pageant and this year’s official cause of choice for Mrs. America, “Victoria’s Voice” that all of the state pageants for Mrs. America are supporting.
Valley City (CSi) The Valley City Area Chamber of Commerce reminds residents of upcoming events and activities.
The Chamber’s Event Coordinator, Jerilyn Beckman says on Saturday July 2nd the community is invited to watch the public fireworks display at Lake Ashtabula, beginning at dusk. In the event of rain it will be postponed to July 3rd at dusk.
Also on July 2nd the Independence Day Musical Jamboree will be held 1-4-p.m. at the Barnes County Museum.
Courhouse on the Lawn on July 6th, Music on the Courthouse lawn features “Tucker’d Out,” at 7:15 p.m.
July 7-9, it’s the North Dakota Winter Show hosting the Horse Show/Clinic.
Call the Barnes County Extension Service for more information at 945-8538.
Wednesday July 27th is Crazy Daze in Valley City from 7-a.m., to 6:45 p.m., as merchants will have bargains downtown, plus food, games crafts, a water slide and more.
Merchants not along Central Avenue and still participating should notify the Chamber so they can be included in advertising.
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown will host another visit with students who have completed first through fifth grade invited to participate in the Missoula Children’s Theater.
There is no charge for participation, with Theater Week July 18 through July 22nd.
Auditions will be held at Washington School on Monday July 18th starting at 9-a.m. The remainder of the week, rehearsals and performances will be held at the Jamestown High School Theater.
Those interested in auditioning can call Kerrie at 701-952-3210 to register.
The production will be the musical, “Aladdin,” with two public performances, on Friday July 22, 2016, at 3-p.m., and 5:30-p.m.
The summer MOST Program, along with SEEC and the North Dakota Council on the Arts is sponsoring the children’s summer theater.
(Conceived and written by Michael McGill, music and lyrics by Michael McGill.)
Bismarck (CSi) The North Dakota Game & Fish Department reminds residents to practice water safety over the holiday weekend and the summer.
The National Safe Boating Council says most drowning victims had a life jacket available, but entered the water without one.
Game & Fish Biologist Doug Leier encourages individuals to outfit themselves and kids with life vests and keep a watchful eye on children at all times.
More safe boating information online at www.gf.nd.gov
ELLENDALE, N.D. (AP) – An 18-month old boy who was reported lost in a cornfield near the North Dakota and South Dakota border has been found unharmed.
Dickey County Emergency Management Director Charles Russell says the boy was found Thursday afternoon, about four hours after he went missing. Russell says the toddler, who was only wearing a diaper, is fine and “just got some sunburn.”
The search for the toddler was challenging because the corn on the farm is about 6 feet tall. The search party included a drone from the sheriff’s office in Brown County, South Dakota, and two civilian airplanes.
The farm is located south of Ellendale.
MEDORA, N.D. (AP) – Law enforcement authorities say a 64-year-old North Dakota man has died in a vehicle crash on an Interstate 94 exit ramp near Medora.
The North Dakota Highway Patrol says the Belfield resident died Wednesday.
Authorities say the man, who was driving a truck trailer, failed to negotiate a curve as he was exiting the interstate. A report from the Highway Patrol states that the vehicle tipped onto its side, traveled through the guardrail just before the I-94 overpass and came to rest upside down.
The Highway Patrol did not release the man’s name Thursday. The agency says the crash remains under investigation.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota man says he will plead guilty to assaulting and injuring a Three Affiliated Tribes officer.
Arlon Smith is charged with assaulting and resisting a federal officer. Authorities say the incident happened in August 2015 on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.
Smith faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
A sentencing hearing has not been scheduled.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota parents who are behind on their child support payments are getting more time to catch up.
The Child Support Division of the Department of Human Services is again granting amnesty and returning suspended driver’s licenses to anyone who sets up a payment plan. For every $2 a person pays toward past-due support, the agency will credit $1 toward accrued interest or money owed to the state.
The project was started in June and has been extended through July.
The agency says $259 million is owed in past-due support.
The agency says more than 2,000 North Dakotans have their driver’s licenses suspended for failing to pay child support, and more than 600 have warrants for their arrest.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Figures from a survey of supply managers in nine Midwest and Plains states have dropped slightly but still suggest economic growth ahead.
A report issued Friday says the Mid-American Business Conditions index hit 50.1 in June, compared with 52.1 in May.
Creighton University economist Ernie Goss oversees the survey, and he says gains for nondurable-goods producers more than offset continuing losses for regional durable-goods manufacturers.
The survey results are compiled into a collection of indexes ranging from zero to 100. Survey organizers say any score above 50 suggests economic growth. A score below that suggests decline. The survey covers Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Fargo police have established a place for people buying and selling goods online to exchange them.
The exchange area is on the west side of the department’s substation.
Crime Prevention Officer Jessica Schindeldecker says the exchange location is meant to give people wary of online transactions a safe place to go.
She says the building’s surveillance, the possibility of a police officer being present and the high-traffic intersection will serve as a “good deterrent.”
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – A Minot city committee is suggesting wage hikes next year for city employees that would increase salaries 4.21 percent over 2016. The Minot Daily News reports that the proposal would cost nearly $1 million in additional funds. The Minot Civil Service Commission took public input on the plan Wednesday. The group’s recommendation will go to the Minot City Council.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – The old clock tower from Dakota Square Mall in Minot has been put up for sale.
The clock had stood in the mall for 35 years, since it opened in 1980, and was an integral part of the shopping center’s identity. It was a meeting point for many shopping families.
Mall management removed it a year ago as part of remodeling and had hoped to bring it back in a new, outdoor location once a mall addition was constructed.
General Manager Chuck Massey says those plans didn’t work out because the clock couldn’t be weatherized.
The mall donated the clock to Craft Builders, which had done construction work at the mall. The company is now selling it, hoping to get $3,000.
GRENORA, N.D. (AP) – The small city of Grenora in northwestern North Dakota expects to see an influx of visitors celebrating its centennial anniversary.
The city’s historic celebration runs through the weekend. More than 2,000 people are expected to attend a barbecue Saturday on Main Street.
Carlyle Norby is helping to organize the gathering. He says the highlight will be the former Grenora residents who come back to visit and share memories.
Country group Sawyer Brown is performing Saturday, and there will be a parade before the barbecue. Historic tours of the town will also be held.
Norby, who was principal of Grenora schools for over four decades, says there will be signs explaining what’s been there over the past century.
The 2010 census pegged Grenora’s population at about 240.
In sports…
UND…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – The men’s golf program at the University of North Dakota might be spared if it can raise enough money.
The school announced in April that it was cutting men’s golf and baseball from its athletic offerings due to state budget cuts.
The golf program submitted a funding plan that Interim UND President Ed Schafer approved on Wednesday.
The team will be allowed to compete next season if it can raise enough money by August 30th. The fundraising deadline for the 2017 to 2018 season is June 1st, 2017. Schafer says the plan also provides for an endowment to sustain the golf program beyond 2018.
Coach Tim Swanson says he’s confident the money can be raised.
Marathon…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – Organizers of the Sioux Falls Marathon are changing the course for this year’s event, after attending the marathon in Fargo, North Dakota.
Fargo’s annual race starts and ends at the same spot – the Fargodome. The Argus Leader reports that this September’s Sioux Falls Marathon also will start and end at the same spot – the Sioux Falls Arena.
Last year’s race started at the Denny Sanford Premier Center and ended at Howard Wood Field.
Much of this year’s marathon and half-marathon courses also will be moved away from busy thoroughfares and into more residential areas.
The marathon is September 11th.
AA…
Sioux City 4, Fargo-Moorhead 1
MLB…
INTERLEAGUE
Final Kansas City 4 St. Louis 2
Final San Francisco 12 Oakland 6
AMERICAN LEAGUE
CHICAGO (AP) – J.B. Shuck’s two-out single scored the tiebreaking run in the eighth inning, Todd Frazier hit his 23rd home run and the Chicago White Sox beat the Minnesota Twins 6-5 Thursday.
Final N-Y Yankees 2 Texas 1
Final Cleveland 4 Toronto 1
Final Detroit 10 Tampa Bay 7
Final Seattle 5 Baltimore 3
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final L.A. Dodgers 8 Milwaukee 1
Final Washington 13 Cincinnati 4
Final Atlanta 8 Miami 5
Final N-Y Mets 4 Chi Cubs 3
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Final L.A. Sparks 84 Atlanta 75
Final Dallas 83 Seattle 78
WIMBLEDON…
LONDON (AP) – There is tennis being played at Wimbledon – on one court, anyway.
Stan Wawrinka and Juan Martin del Potro have started their second-round match at Centre Court, with the retractable roof closed.
Action is being delayed on other courts because of rain.
Only a few points were played before rain interrupted the action on Day 5 at Wimbledon.
Dustin Brown of Germany took a 30-15 lead over Nick Kyrgios of Australia on Court No. 2, with play lasting for only 1 minute.
Annika Beck of Germany took an early lead on Court 7. She won the first point and leads Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus 15-0.
T.V. SPORTS…
PARIS (AP) – Longtime ESPN personality Mike Tirico has signed off from the network for the last time as he prepares to move to NBC Sports.
Tirico’s final appearance on the network Thursday came 25 years to the day of his first. He appeared alongside longtime ESPN anchor Bob Ley from Paris, where they are covering the Euro soccer tournament.
Tirico notes that he’s worked “with everyone from ‘Downtown’ Julie Brown to Hubie Brown on camera at ESPN.” He says he’ll continue to be a fan of the network.
Tirico had hosted ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” since 2006. NBC says he’ll be involved with NFL and golf coverage for the network, but hasn’t offered specifics. He will be taking part in NBC’s coverage of next month’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Attorney General Loretta Lynch is expected to discuss the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails today and a Justice Department official says Lynch “expects to accept” whatever recommendation career prosecutors make. This revelation comes amid a controversy surrounding a private discussion Lynch had aboard her plane on the tarmac at a Phoenix airport Monday with Clinton’s husband.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The latest analysis once again shows the rich getting richer at a much faster pace and continuing to pull away from everyone else. The analysis by Emmanuel Saez, an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, finds average income for the top 1 percent of households surging 7.7 percent to $1.36 million. That growth is twice as fast as everyone else, though households outside the top 1 percent now appear to be recovering too.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – The only Atlantic City casino unable to make a deal with unionized workers has a strike to deal with today. About 1,000 members of Atlantic City’s main casino workers union went on strike against the Trump Taj Mahal casino, now owned by billionaire Carl Icahn (EYE’-kahn). Trump hasn’t owned it for some time. Union members are still seething from the cancellation of its members’ health insurance and pension benefits nearly two years ago.
ISTANBUL (AP) – Swedish authorities say an ethnic Chechen identified as the organizer of the Istanbul airport bombing has a past criminal history. They say Akhmed Chatayev has a weapons smuggling conviction from 2008. Tuesday’s attack in Turkey killed 44 people. Chatayev’s whereabouts are unclear.
CAIRO (AP) – Libya is being characterized by an international rights group as an epicenter for exploitation of migrants trying to get to Europe, including sexual abuse and gang rape. The allegations are contained in a report today from Amnesty International, entitled “Libya is full of cruelty.” It includes testimony from 15 women who were among 90 migrants, interviewed in reception centers in Italy and Sicily.
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