wbPM3CSi Weather…

REST OF TODAY… PARTLY SUNNY  HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S. SOUTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.

.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT  CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND

THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EVENING…THEN MOSTLY CLEAR AFTER MIDNIGHT.

LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. SOUTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.

.FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, 20 PERCENT IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.  HIGHS IN THE MID 60S.

NORTHWEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S. NORTHWEST

WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.

.SATURDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 70. WEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.

.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S.

HIGHS IN THE 70S.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S.

.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S.

LOWS IN THE MID 40S TO LOWER 50S.

.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S.

.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 40S.

HIGHS IN THE 60S.

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON FRIDAY.

AND  AGAIN EARLY NEXT WEEK.

 

This is a non-emergency message from Barnes County Dispatch. Several agencies from Barnes County and Valley City Area will be conducting an emergency preparedness EXERCISE today, September 8th, 2016 from approximately 3pm to 8pm. This exercise will take place in the general areas of: Main St W, 8th Ave SW, 9th Ave NW, Washington School, Cenex, and Pucklich Chevrolet. This should not affect your normal daily routine.
THIS IS ONLY AN EXERCISE! During the exercise, you may see Fire Departments, Rescue, First Responders, Ambulance, Law Enforcement, and citizens participating in the exercise. There will be a perimeter established around the exercise areas, please DO NOT CROSS THE PERIMETER.
I repeat, there will be an Emergency Preparedness Exercise occurring in your area TODAY September 8th, 2016 from approximately 3pm to 8pm. THIS IS ONY AN EXERCISE! During the exercise, you may see Fire Departments, Rescue, First Responders, Ambulance, Law Enforcement, and citizens participating in the exercise.
Any questions or concerns, please contact Barnes County Dispatch at 701-845-8181.701-845-8181. Thank you!

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown Public School Board is accepting nominations to fill an unexpired term. Applications will be accepted at the district’s Central Office at 207 2nd Ave SE, until Friday, September 30th, 2016, 4:00 p.m. The school board will appoint a person to serve the unexpired term for Mindi Schmitz until June of 2018.

The appointment is for a rural position. Eligible candidates must be 18 years of age, a rural resident of Jamestown Public School District and be able to attend the new member training conducted by the North Dakota School Boards Association in Bismarck on October 27, 2016.

Persons interested in the position should complete a Statement of Intent, a Statement of Interest form and a Biographical Information Sheet, which is available on-line at www.jamestown.k12.nd.us or can be picked up at the Central Office. Any questions about the application process should be directed to Sally Ost, Business Manager at 252-1950 or by e-mail at sally.ost@k12.nd.us

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  Help for Hope and Healing in Jamestown will host their Second Annual Quarter Craze fundraiser, on September 14, 2016.

On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Laurel Haroldson said, the event helps funding and purchasing more gas gift cards for travelers needing cancer care.

The nonprofit volunteer organization was formed eight years ago, and is an extension of the Jamestown Area Grief Support Team.(JAGST).

Contact Laurel Haroldson in Jamestown, for more information at 701-269-9543.

The Quarter Craze fundraiser will be held on Wednesday September 14, 2016, at 5-p.m., at the

Knights of Columbus Hall, at 519 1st Aveneu, South in Jamestown.

Admission is  $10 to receive an auction paddle and auction number

The evening starts with  a social at 5-p.m., with appetizers and shopping with vendors and a raffle of the larger items.

The auction starts at 6-p.m., until all items are won.

Also on our show, Beth Dewald pointed out that all auction items are donated, and all the dollars raised go specifically for the purchase of the gas cards.

Laurel explained that the  $10 ticket gets the participants a paddle with a number.  Auction items will be announced and described.  Those wanting to bid on an items place up to four quarters in the bucket at the table, the number of quarters corresponds to the value of the auction item.

Then raise the paddle.  If the number drawn is the number on the paddle, the individual wins the item.  Extra quarters will be available for change.

Beth pointed out that examples of auction items are: Several Wine Baskets, flower arrangements, gift cards, a Dakota Store Basket, Jamestown Tourism Basket, Thirty One, Napkins, Norwegian Basket, Sunflower Basket, Coffee Baskets, plaques, wool mittens and a scarf.

Other items include University of Jamestown gear, a Minnesota Vikings BBQ Grilling Set, a Pamper Yourself Basket, embroidered dish towels and more items are being added.

It was pointed out that Ben Pesek, a franchisee with Snap On Tools, sold pink socks, and requested that the gas gift cards be distributed in his trade area, that includes, Valley City, Oakes, Ellendale, and New Rockford.

Laurel said that since 2013 there have been over 100 gas gift cards distributed, over all, including 38 each in 2015 and so far in 2016.

A few tickets remained available at last report, and advance ticket purchases are preferred as 120 tickets are available.

Tickets are available from committee members:  Barb Togstad, Kim Weyer, Mary Klundt, Cindy Willey, Carol Stahlhut, Beth Dewald, and Laurel Haroldson.  Call Laurel at 701-269-9543 for tickets and referrals of those in cancer care, needing the gas cards.

They thank the Knights of Columbus Hall for donating their facility, and appetizers, along with the vendors and those donating auction items.  Two Rivers Printing donated the poster and ticket printing.

Jamestown (CSi)  Fort Seward in Jamestown will host “Big Guns of the Old West,” Saturday September 10, 2016.

The Gattling Gun Demonstration is at 1-p.m., the Howitzer Cannon Deomonstration is at 2-p.m.

There will be a Springfield Rifle Display, along with open fire cooking and encampment from 2:30-p.m., to 4-p.m.

For more information call 701-251-1875.

 

Jamestown (CSi)  Fort Seward in Jamestown will host “Big Guns of the Old West,” Saturday September 10, 2016.

The Gattling Gun Demonstration is at 1-p.m., the Howitzer Cannon Demonstration is at 2-p.m.

There will be a Springfield Rifle Display, along with open fire cooking and encampment from 2:30-p.m., to 4-p.m.

For more information call 701-251-1875.

 

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — A South Dakota man accused of sexually abusing two women in the 1990s while living in North Dakota has been ordered to serve two years of probation.

56-year-old Robert Pagan, of Rapid City, South Dakota, was sentenced Wednesday in Williston after he entered Alford pleas to two counts of child neglect. That means he acknowledged there was sufficient evidence to convict him but did not admit guilt.

Northwest Judicial District Judge Joshua Rustad handed down a two-year deferred sentence that calls for two years of supervised probation.

Pagan was charged with three counts of gross sexual imposition in 2014 after two women told police that Pagan sexually abused them when they were children. As part of a plea agreement, one of the three counts was dropped. The remaining two were amended to child neglect.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Gov. Jack Dalrymple is activating the North Dakota National Guard ahead of a federal judge’s impending ruling on a request by the Standing Rock Sioux to stop the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline.

Dalrymple says a handful of Guard members will help provide security at traffic checkpoints near the site of a large protest.

Maj. Gen. Alan Dohrmann, the head of the Guard, says another 100 Guard members will be on standby if needed to respond to any incidents.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg is expected to rule by Friday on the tribe’s request to temporarily stop construction on the Dakota Access pipeline.

The tribe has been leading a protest for weeks at a site where the route passes near its reservation near the North Dakota-South Dakota border. The protest has included tense confrontations at times, and violence broke out Saturday between private security guards and protesters.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Highway Patrol is reopening a state highway that has been closed for about three weeks because of an oil pipeline protest.

Patrol Superintendent Col. Michael Gerhart says state Highway 1806 was to reopen late Thursday afternoon. He says speeds will be reduced to 25 mph in some areas and troopers will be performing extra patrols on the road.

A several-mile stretch of the highway that runs through the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in southern North Dakota had been closed since Aug. 17. Opponents of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline are protesting near a construction zone just north of the reservation.

Gov. Jack Dalrymple said Thursday that North Dakota National Guard members will help provide security at traffic checkpoints along the highway.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s chief archaeologist plans to inspect an area along the route of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline where Standing Rock Sioux officials say they’ve identified cultural artifacts.

Paul Picha (PEE’-kuh) told The Associated Press that the trip likely won’t happen until next week. If any artifacts are found, pipeline work would cease.

Picha says state officials earlier surveyed the route, but not the disputed site, which is on private land west of State Highway 1806.

Last weekend, tribal officials said crews bulldozed several sites of “significant cultural and historic value” in that area, which Texas-based pipeline company Energy Transfer Partners denies.

A federal judge allowed construction to continue there earlier this week, but is expected to rule by Friday on the tribe’s lawsuit challenging federal permits.

The pipeline starts in western North Dakota and crosses through South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois.

 

NEW YORK (AP) — Regulators are fining Wells Fargo $185 million for illegally opening millions of unauthorized accounts for their customers in order to meet aggressive sales goals.

The San Francisco-based bank will pay $100 million to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency created five years ago; $35 million to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and $50 million to the City and County of Los Angeles. It will also pay restitution to affected customers.

The CFPB says Wells Fargo sales staff opened more than 2 million bank and credit card accounts that may have not been authorized by customers.

In a statement, Wells Fargo said: “We regret and take responsibility for any instances where customers may have received a product that they did not request.”

 

In sports…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Pheasant numbers in North Dakota have dropped 10 percent from a year ago, but as the hunting season nears wildlife officials are confident of another decent harvest of at least half a million birds. The Game and Fish Department blames the fall in population on a reduction in habitat and dry early spring conditions in the prime southwestern pheasant territory. Pheasant season runs from Oct. 8 through Jan. 8.

 

In world and national news…

ALPINE, Texas (AP) —  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he’s monitoring developments in the deadly shooting at a West Texas high school and promises to provide support for law enforcement agencies investigating the case.

Paxton released a statement Thursday offering prayers and sympathy for those affected by “this senseless act of violence.”

Authorities say a female student shot and injured another female student Thursday morning at Alpine High School before turning the gun on herself. The shooter died, while the other student was being treated for injuries that weren’t considered life threatening.

A motive in the shooting remains unclear.

Alpine is a town of about 5,900 people some 70 miles from the Mexico border

 

SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a North Carolina police officer on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the stun-gun death of a man apprehended following a high-speed chase.

News media outlets report that the Johnston County grand jury returned the indictment this week against Kenly detective Jesse Santifort.

Santifort is accused of using a stun gun on 37-year-old Alexander Warren Thompson on March 3. Thompson died three days later. Santifort is white, as was Thompson.

Santifort faces up to 16 months in prison if convicted.

Town Manager Greg Dunham said Santifort is on “reserve status,” meaning he’s no longer a full-time employee.

 

CLEVELAND (AP) — The head of the Republican National Committee says Donald Trump isn’t endorsing Russian President Vladimir Putin. GOP chairman Reince Priebus (ryns PREE’-bus) says Trump “doesn’t agree with his style of government.” At a candidate forum last night, Trump praised Putin as a strong leader. Hillary Clinton said Trump’s remarks were scary because they suggest he might excuse anything Putin might say. Priebus says Trump’s comments were only about Putin’s leadership in Russia.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Donald Trump has met with a small group of students, teachers and administrators at a Cleveland school that largely serves African-American students. He shook hands with one sixth-grader and said, “He can do anything he wants.” Trump added that there is “a love here that you just don’t get at other schools.”

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say they are moving to drop corruption charges against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. They say they won’t pursue another trial in light of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in June that overturned the former governor’s corruption conviction. The court unanimously held that the actions McDonnell took to benefit a businessman who gave him luxury gifts may have been distasteful but did not cross the line into illegal conduct.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A federal appeals court is giving some people who’ve been convicted of crimes a chance to legally own guns. The court in Pennsylvania said the offenses committed by two men were minor, and that the ban applies to serious crimes. One man had pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of corrupting a minor. The other had pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor handgun possession charge. An attorney for the two men says he expects the Justice Department to appeal.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is going to make further cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. Gov. Jerry Brown is extending by another ten years the nation’s most ambitious climate change law. The Democrat signed the legislation today at a park in Los Angeles amid opposition from the oil industry, business groups and Republicans. It sets a new goal to cut emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030.