wbAM2CSi  Weather…

REST OF TODAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE
MID 70S. NORTH WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 50S. NORTH WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. NORTHEAST WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S. EAST
WINDS AROUND 5 MPH.
.FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 60.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE
OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. LOWS IN THE
LOWER 60S.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 60S. HIGHS IN THE
UPPER 80S.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 60S. HIGHS IN THE
UPPER 80S.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES INCREASE LATE THIS WEEKEND OR EARLY NEXT
 WEEK.  SEVERE POSSIBLE EARLY NEXT WEEK.

 

Valley City (CSi) Tuesday afternoon in the midst of severe weather that tracked through North Dakota, at 2:40-p.m., the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for Barnes County.

A tornado funnel was reported near Lake Ashtabula, which touched down in the rural area.

WDAY Chief Meterologist John Wheeler says it was a tornado and not a cold air funnel.

He beleives that the small twister had wind speeds of about 70 mph, and would have likely caused minor damage to structures if it had touched down in town.

 

 

 

Jamestown (CSi) Authorities are trying to determine the identity and location of a male subject who fled from law enforcement on foot after a traffic stop Tuesday evening.

Jamestown Police Lt. Justin Blinsky reported that the Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office was involved, bringing the K-9 Unit, as just before 8-p.m., the man fled from the scene in the 100 block of 10th Street Northeast.

Authorities established a perimeter but were unable to locate him, as the search ended about 9:15-p.m.

Tuesday evening the other occupants of the car were being interviewed by authorities in order to determine the driver’s identity, as the investigation continues.

 

 

Jamestown (CSi) Fogging operations in the City of Jamestown for adult mosquitoes will continue throughout the rest of the week, July 26th – July 30th.

All fogging operations are contingent upon weather conditions.

All fogging operations will take place between approximately 8:30 PM (dusk) until approximately 6:00 AM.

Parents are advised to keep children out of the streets and away from the fogging machines.

Motorists are urged to use caution when traveling in the vicinity of the fogging units.

 

Valley City (CSi-Valley City Chamber) The Valley City Area Chamber of Commerce will host an open forum for the Valley City mayoral candidates on Thursday, August 25, at 7 p.m. in the Valley City High School Hi-Liner Activity Center.

Dave Carlsrud, Janice Clark Klein and Scott Sandvik are the three candidates running for mayor. Please submit forum questions for the candidates to the Valley City Chamber by email at  chamber@valleycitychamber.com  or call  845-1891.

The mayoral special election will be held Sept. 15, 2016. Voting will take place at City Hall in the City Commission Chambers.

 

 

Jamestown (CSi) Thursday afternoon, July 28, 2016, Senator John Hoeven will honor the service of two North Dakota veterans at military medal presentations in Carrington and Jamestown, and later in the day deliver remarks at the Jamestown Regional Medical Center’s 5th Anniversary Celebration.

In Carrington, the senator will present a Purple Heart to James Laurie, who served in the Vietnam War.

In Jamestown, Hoeven will present the Silver Star, the third-highest military decoration, posthumously to the family of Reinholdt Hofmann, who was killed in action during World War II.

Military Medal Presentation – Awarded to James Laurie – Carrington

WHEN:

Thursday, July 28

2:00 p.m. CT

WHERE:

Foster County Courthouse

1000 5th Street N (community room basement)

Carrington

Military Medal Presentation – Awarded to the Family of Reinholdt Hofmann – Jamestown

WHEN:

Thursday, July 28

4:00 p.m. CT

WHERE:

All Vets Club

116 1st Street E

Jamestown

Jamestown Regional Medical Center 5th Anniversary Celebration

Thursday evening, Senator Hoeven will deliver remarks commemorating the 5th Anniversary of the Jamestown Regional Medical Center’s (JRMC) facilities. In 2009, then Governor Hoeven attended the groundbreaking for JRMC’s building, which he then toured in 2011.

JRMC is a Critical Access Hospital with 345 employees that serves the south central region of the state. JRMC provides inpatient and outpatient care, has a 24-hour emergency department that serves more than 9,000 patients per year and has the region’s only birthing center.

WHEN:

Thursday, July 28

5:30 p.m. CT

WHERE:

2422 20th Street SW

Jamestown

Washington (CSi)

U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp will speak with health care professionals, community leaders, and supporters for the 5th Anniversary of the Jamestown Regional Medical Center, on Thursday July 28, 2016, at 5:15 p.m., at

Jamestown Regional Medical Center’s 5th Anniversary Celebration, at the JRMC cafeteria.

A news release from her office says,

Heitkamp has been a long-time champion for rural health care and she will highlight the role the new campus plays in delivering primary and specialty health care services to the folks in south central North Dakota.

Heitkamp will thank the dedicated health care professionals for their tireless work as she continues to highlight the needs for rural America.

 

Jamestown (CSi) – Sen. Heidi Heitkamp will be the keynote speaker at a steak fry event slated for Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016, at 5:15 p.m. at The Bunker in Jamestown. Food will be served prior to her speaking at 6 p.m.

Dist. 12 Dem-NPL Democrats are hosting the event, which is open to the public.

Tickets are available at Grabinger’s Marine (252-4824) and Park Plaza Barber Shop (252-6001) in Jamestown. Cost is $25 per ticket, if purchased before Aug. 3, or $30 at the door.

Heitkamp took office in January 2013. She is the first female senator to be elected from North Dakota. She currently serves on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and is a member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and the committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. She is also the ranking member of the Senate’s Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management.

She previously served North Dakotans as the state’s attorney general and tax commissioner.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A 63-year-old man is dead after crashing into a bridge guard rail on Interstate 29 in southeastern North Dakota. The Highway Patrol says the man was traveling south in the northbound lanes, and his car drifted onto the shoulder and hit the guard rail about 6 miles south of Fargo. The man died at the scene shortly after 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. The patrol did not immediately release his name.

 

  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple has signaled that $100 million may be taken from Bank of North Dakota profits to help address shortfalls to the state treasury.
 
     Dalrymple has called a special session of the North Dakota Legislature to address a $310 million budget shortfall due to low oil and farm commodity prices.
 
     Dalrymple and Republican legislative leaders have not given specifics on how to solve the budget problem when the Legislature returns next week for a three-day special session.
 
     But the governor on Tuesday hinted that about a third of the shortfall may come from the state-owned bank. He didn’t elaborate during the meeting at the state Industrial Commission, which he chairs.
 
     Bank president Eric Hardmeyer told the governor that the bank is “extremely strong, capital-wise.”

 

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s state Mill and Elevator says its profits were down more than 40 percent due to depressed wheat prices.
 
     The Grand Forks mill on Tuesday reported making $9.3 million during its last budget year, which ended in June.
 
     That’s down from a record $16.7 million profit set last year. The mill has posted a profit each year since 2009.
 
     The mill sells most of its flour in bulk to bakery customers. It also sells small, family-sized bags of flour through grocery stores.
 
     Most of the mill’s profits go into North Dakota’s general fund, which finances a variety of state programs.
 
     The state Industrial Commission is the mill’s board of directors. Its members are Gov. Jack Dalrymple, Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem and Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring.

 

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The Army Corps of Engineers has approved most of the final permits needed for the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois. The 1,172-mile pipeline planned by Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners will pass through the Dakotas and Iowa on its way to Illinois. Corps spokeswoman Eileen Williamson says the agency has approved crossings of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A new housing study predicts North Dakota’s population will grow to 891,000 people by 2029. North Dakota Housing Finance Agency Executive Director Jolene Kline told the state Industrial Commission on Tuesday that the 20 percent population increase will continue to put pressure on affordable housing for low-income residents. Kline told the panel that North Dakota’s economy is still strong, despite a downturn in oil and crop prices.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota State Library is holding a special event based on the popular “Pokemon Go” smartphone game.
 
     The so-called “Pokemon Safari” is slated Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the state library, which is located in the Liberty Memorial Building on the North Dakota Capitol grounds.
 
     Library officials say there also will be coloring and costume contests based on the game.
 
     The library says it will also offer free charging stations for smartphones.

 

In sports…

 WATFORD CITY, N.D. (AP) – The board that oversees the golf course in Watford City is expanding the facility from nine holes to 18.
 
     The  cost of transforming the city-owned Fox Hills Golf Course is estimated at $8 million.
 
     The first phase will include 12 holes on new land. The second phase will consist of digging up the current nine holes and building six new holes, a practice green and a maintenance facility.
 
     The project will be paid for with city money and private fundraising. The course has about 400 members.
 
     Construction is to get underway yet this summer. The first phase is expected to be completed next year, with the full 18-hole course done in 2018.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Roger Maris isn’t the only professional athlete with a Fargo connection to win a prize belt awarded to the country’s top professional athletes. And he’s not the only one to have it stolen. Los Angeles Dodgers great Maury Wills, who has been an occasional radio commentator and coach for the Fargo-Moorhead Redhawks minor league baseball team, won a Hickok Belt in 1962. Wills says his belt was stolen 35 years ago and never recovered.

 

MLB…

INTERLEAGUE
 

 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Lucas Harrell pitched six innings, Adonis Garcia homered and the Atlanta Braves beat the Minnesota Twins 2-0 on Tuesday night in a matchup of the worst teams in the majors.
 
     This untimely meeting came nearly 25 years after the Twins beat the Braves in a World Series that’s often been mentioned among the most dramatic in history. The 1991 anniversary celebration was marked by Gene Larkin, who had the winning hit in the 10th inning of Game 7, throwing the ceremonial first pitch.
 
     A.J. Pierzynski doubled and scored against his original team. Behind the plate, he helped guide Harrell (2-2) to his first scoreless start in the majors since June 9, 2013.
   Final    Colorado                6    Baltimore        3
   Final    Seattle                  7    Pittsburgh      4
   Final    Toronto                  7    San  Diego        6,  12  Innings
   Final    Chi  White  Sox      3    Chi  Cubs          0
   Final    Cleveland              7    Washington      6
   Final    L.A.  Dodgers        3    Tampa  Bay        2
 
 
             AMERICAN  LEAGUE
 
   Final    Detroit              9    Boston                8
   Final    Oakland              6    Texas                  3
   Final    N-Y  Yankees      6    Houston              3
   Final    L.A.  Angels    13    Kansas  City      0
 
 
              NATIONAL  LEAGUE
 
   Final    St.  Louis              3    N-Y  Mets              2
   Final    Miami                      5    Philadelphia      0
   Final    N-Y  Mets                3    St.  Louis            1
   Final    Milwaukee              9    Arizona                4
   Final    San  Francisco      9    Cincinnati          7
 

NBA…

Amare Stoudemire has formally retired from the NBA after signing his final contract with the New York Knicks. The six-time All-Star averaged 18.9 points and 7.8 rebounds in a 14-year career spent with the Knicks, Suns, Heat and Mavericks. Stoudemire’s greatest team success came in Phoenix as Steve Nash’s pick-and-roll partner.
 

 

TENNIS…

 NEW YORK (AP) – Roger Federer says he will miss the rest of the 2016 tennis season. The 17-time Grand Slam singles champion says he needs to protect his surgically repaired left knee. Federer wrote on his Facebook page that he will also skip the Rio Olympics.
 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama comes full circle today as he addresses the Democratic National Convention on behalf of Hillary Clinton, the first woman ever nominated for president by a major party. Twelve years ago to the day, Obama made a rousing speech as an obscure Senate candidate from Illinois catapulting himself to the center of American political consciousness. Aides say his speech will combine an affirmation of Clinton with a rebuke of the scare tactics he accuses Donald Trump of deploying.
 
     KRAKOW, Poland (AP) – Poland is ready to greet Pope Francis with enthusiasm and high security today. Tens of thousands of optimistic youth from around the world have gathered in Krakow in southern Poland for World Youth Day, a major gathering of Catholics. The Catholic clergy in Poland, however, have been more in tune with the government’s resistance to the migrant crisis than Francis’ calls for compassion.
 
     DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) – The Islamic State group claims responsibility for deadly twin bombings in a mostly Kurdish town in northern Syria. The blasts killed at least 44 people and wounded dozens. Media reports said a truck loaded with large quantities of explosives blew up first, followed by an explosives-packed motorcycle a few minutes later.
 
     MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – The al-Shabab extremist group says one of the two suicide car bombers who struck in Somalia’s capital on Tuesday was a former legislator. Al-Shabab’s radio Andalus is reporting that 57-year-old Salah Badbado, who defected to the extremist group in 2010, carried out one of the bombings near a United Nations de-mining agency office. Thirteen people were killed.
 
     LONDON (AP) – One group of Russian Olympians has survived the doping purge. The International Fencing Federation has announced that Russian fencers has been cleared to compete in Rio. The IFF says 197 tests taken from Russian athletes in 35 countries over the last two years were all negative. Sixteen Russian fencers have qualified for the Rio Games and there are four reserves.