wbPM3CSi Weather…

..FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT WEDNESDAY…INCLUDES THE VALLEY CITY AREA…

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A FROST

ADVISORY…WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 8 AM CDT WEDNESDAY.

* TEMPERATURES…33 TO 37.

* TIMING…LATE TONIGHT AND INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

A FROST ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED.

SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED.

 

Forecast….

.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. PATCHY FROST AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE

MID 30S. NORTH WINDS UP TO 10 MPH.

.WEDNESDAY…PATCHY FROST IN THE MORNING SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 60S. NORTHEAST WINDS UP TO

10 MPH.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…CLEAR. LOWS 40 TO 45.

.THURSDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS 65 TO 70.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS 45 TO 50.

.FRIDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS 65 TO 70.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 45 TO 50.

.SATURDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS 65 TO 70.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 45 TO 50.

.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND

THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS 65 TO 70.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND

THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS 50 TO 55.

.MONDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.

HIGHS IN THE MID 60S.

 

PATCHY FROST IS FORECAST FOR TONIGHT.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY AND MONDAY.

 

Jamestown (CSi)  The Jamestown City Council held a budget meeting on Tuesday afternoon, at City Hall.  All members were present.

Tami Dillman from Central Valley Health District spoke concerning the proposed signage in the community to promote safe walking route.  She said funding comes form a grant from Blue Cross/Blue Shield.   She outlined the route, joined by Jamestown Tourism Director Searle Swedlund.  Tami has also met with Harold Sadd concerning posting signs.

The route is a mile and a half, with signage pointing out attractions, including the Hansen Arts Park and the Basilica of St James.  Searle pointed out the route will include the  tourismTalking Trail signs.

The committee recommends approved the proposal.

The City Council then considered the renewal of the Jamestown Tourism agreement and the Jamestown Public Site lease.  The council moved to allow Pam Phillips to vote, being a member of the tourism board.

With the agreement, Swedlund asked to return to the formula of a percentage of funds received in tax revenues.  The projection for 2017 is $359,500 in hospitality funds.

The committee recommends moving the item to the City Council without recommendation.

Discussion was also held on curbside recycling in Jamestown.

Renaissance Recycling in Jamestown, and Dakota Sanitation of Bismarck, have submitted proposals, and was discussed  before revisiting the 2017 city Sanitation Budget.    http://csinewsnow.com/?p=106268

City Administrator Jeff Fuchs explained the logistics, and costs of automated collections, pointing out the use of two dual-arm trucks, with no backup unit in the event a unit goes down.

Two rear loading trucks will be used, and three roll off trucks.  Funds exist for the purchase of one automated truck, with the other truck and carts purchases to be funding by loans.  The carts will varying in size.

The automated recycling program would eliminate six positions.

The recycling is estimated to totally collect 1300 to 2000 tons, annually, at an estimated cost of $4.65 per month, for the automated recycling program, including single family homes, mobile homes and apartments.  The cost for carts would be an additional amount.

Fuchs said the costs were determined in order to pay for the anticipated costs.

Under Pay as you Throw, there will be a fee for disposal at the landfill for residents.

Mayor Andersen said that the proposal from Renaissance Recycling is her preferred recycler, based on costs, with a monthly fee of $17.50 per month with implementation in July of 2017, with Pay as you Throw.  A five year contract with a five year renewal.

Rick Anderson from Dakota Sanitation of Bismarck suggested curbside, instead of alley pick ups, due some logistic problems, concerning clearance and utility wires.

Mayor Andersen said 60 percent of Jamestown resident have alley pick up, and the proposal specified alley recycling. She said the city and vendors will work together concerning automated pick ups.

The committee recommends starting contract  negotiations  and contract drafts with Renaissance Recycling of Jamestown.

Joan Morris from the City Beautification Committee has questions on the calculation of the recycling rates, and fees.

Mayor Andersen said the numbers will likely be refined, and that the calculations will be discussed between City Beautification and City Administrator  Jeff Fuchs.

Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce Executive, Becky Thatcher-Keller thanked the city for moving forward with a recycling plan.

The meeting then moved on to the final Review of the 2017, budget.

City Administrator Fuchs said the budget will include recycling when finalized  recycling numbers are reached.

The property tax increase amounts to 3.54% increase, while the Mill Levy actually decreases from 101.92 Mills to 98.38 Mills, based on property valuations.

The budget will be moved to the full City Council for consideration.

 The meeting was shown live on CSi 67.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The North Dakota Highway patrol is urging motorists traveling on I-94 to  use caution at  rest stops along the highway.

Sgt Benjamin Kennelly has received information about two individuals approaching motorists at the rest stops asking for money.

Calls from the public concern  two males in a white Kia asking them for money. One caller was approached twice and reported the man had his arm in a sling. The second time he made contact with her. All incidents were reported as occurring in the evening and early morning hours.

The men left the scene before law enforcement arrived. Anyone with   information, is asked contact the Highway Patrol office in Jamestown at 701-251-6229.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Police Department is warning residents of a convicted sex offender who has changed addresses in the City of Jamestown.

Ramon Martinez, Jr.,is now  living at 1809 4th Ave, SW, Jamestown, ND

His vehicle is a dark green 1997 Mercury Mountaineer, ND license:  684AEK.

He is a 37 year old male, five feet six inches tall, and 150 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair.

He has been assigned a high risk assessment by the North Dakota Risk Level Committee of the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office.

He has been convicted of Corrupt/Solicitation of a minor involving a 15 year old girl at his Fargo residence.

Convicted in December of 2007 in Cass County District Court.

Disposition, five years, one year suspended, 10 years supervised release.

He has been convicted of Corrupt /Solicitation of a minor providing alcohol to a 16 year old girl and then had sex with her.

He was convicted in October of 2001 in Richland County District Court.

Disposition, one year-359 days suspended for one year.

He is currently on probation with North Dakota Parole and Probation, is on GPS monitoring.

Martinez is not wanted by police at this time and has served 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.

Any attempts to harass, intimidate or threaten these offenders, their families, landlords, or employers will be turned over for prosecution.

Printed handouts of the demographics of Ramon Martinez, Jr., are available at the Jamestown Police Department.

More information on registered sex offenders is available at the North Dakota Attorney General’s web site: www.sexoffender.nd.gov

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The 50th Anniversary Lutefisk and Meatball Supper is planned for Wednesday October 5, 2016, from 4-p.m., to 7-p.m., at Trinity Lutheran Church at 4th Avenue and 5th Street Southeast in Jamestown.

Tickets are

Advanced Tickets:

Adults:  $14

At the door: $15

Children: 6-11 years old $4

Pre-Schoolers, Free

Tickets are available at the church or from a Men of Trinity member.

On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Bob Toso a member of  the church’s Men of Trinity said, the proceeds go to projects and the support of organizations in community.

Those include a Boy Scout Troop, along with sending youth to Red Willow Bible Camp, and others.

Bob said the event usually draws between 500 and 550 guests, with about 50 church members the evening of the event helping out.

He added that the menu along with Lutefisk and Meatballs, will include potatoes, lefse,  cole slaw, ice cream, milk and coffee.

 

Valley City  (CSi-VCSU)  Valley City State University freshmen and their upperclass mentors will harvest squash on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, at an area farm for distribution throughout North Dakota via the Great Plains Food Bank.

About 215 VCSU students—as part of their Learning to Live, Living to Learn (L2L) class—will be bused to a farm northwest of Valley City owned by Dan Faust, a retired Lutheran pastor. There they will join with community volunteers organized by Faust to pick squash and other farm produce and load it onto semi-trailers for the Great Plains Food Bank, which will then transport the produce to food shelters and community pantries for use by those in need throughout the state.

This is the sixth year for the annual project; last year the group harvested 61,000 pounds of produce for the Great Plains Food Bank.

CROSBY, N.D. (AP) — A Florida man is facing three felony manslaughter charges in a crash in North Dakota’s oil patch that killed two children and their father.

Forty-nine-year-old William Koehler, of Chiefland, Florida, could face up to 30 years in prison if convicted. The Associated Press requested comment from his attorney.

The Williston Herald reports that Koehler is accused of speeding and using his cellphone moments before rear-ending a car that was stopped for a flagger at a construction zone in Divide County on Aug. 23.

The crash killed 2-year-old Shayleigh Gunderson, 8-year-old Shelly Gunderson and their father, 31-year-old Lesley Gunderson. The family lived in Noonan.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota farmer Tim McLean received a special gift on his 54th birthday — volunteers came from as far as Texas and Kentucky to help his family harvest soybeans.

The work Tuesday also marked a milestone for the Farm Rescue organization — the 400th aid case for the Northern Plains nonprofit.

Bill Gross launched Farm Rescue in North Dakota in 2005. It’s since expanded to South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Montana. Gross told The Associated Press recently that he’d like to widen its geographic reach even more in a year or two.

Farm Rescue does physical labor for farmers in need. McLean says his wife is battling cancer and his father is recovering from a broken leg. He says he’s thankful for the help on his 2,000-acre farm near Wheatland.

 

In sports…

 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Defending NCAA men’s hockey champion North Dakota tops the first preseason poll of the season.

UND received 43 of the 50 first-place votes in the USCHO.com poll. The team the Fighting Hawks beat in last year’s national title game, Quinnipiac, is second in the poll, with one-first place vote.

Boston received five first-place votes and is No. 4 in the poll, and Boston College got one first-place vote and is fifth. Denver is third despite getting no top votes.

The rest of the top 10 is Minnesota-Duluth, St. Cloud State, Massachusetts-Lowell, Notre Dame and Providence.

The USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine preseason poll is to be released on Monday.

UND will raise its eighth national title banner before Saturday’s exhibition game against Manitoba.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Authorities are investigating vehicle vandalism at a municipal golf course in Bismarck.

The Bismarck Tribune reports that several stretches of the Tom O’Leary Golf Course are striped with tire tracks.

Superintendent Mike Page says the course remains open but one putting green will need to be repaired, at a cost of about $2,500.

The course does not have security cameras.

Similar vandalism has occurred in recent months at other courses in the Bismarck-Mandan area.

 

In world and national news…

MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump is describing Monday night’s debate as “an interesting evening.” The Republican presidential nominee briefly addressed his first faceoff with Democrat Hillary Clinton during an appearance near Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood. Trump said he thought he did “very well” and suggested he was the winner in virtually all post-debate polls. That’s despite many voter surveys suggesting that Clinton came out on top.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Hillary Clinton is winning applause from supporters in North Carolina for her performance in Monday night’s debate. Clinton tells a rally crowd she was happy to have the opportunity to lay out her vision for the U.S. She says she has an “old-fashioned idea that if I’m asking for your vote, to actually tell you what I want to do.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats have blocked legislation that would prevent the government from shutting down Friday at midnight, battle the Zika virus and help flood-ravaged Louisiana rebuild. The move is meant to push Republicans to add money to the stopgap spending bill to give Flint, Michigan, immediate help with its water crisis. Top Republicans have promised the city will receive aid after the election.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Ash Carter says legislation that would allow the families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the Saudi Arabian government could be devastating to the U.S. military. In a letter sent to lawmakers as they prepare to override President Barack Obama’s veto of the bill, Carter amplifies the president’s concerns that the legislation would make the U.S. vulnerable to retaliatory lawsuits that could put American troops in legal jeopardy. He says foreign courts could force the U.S. to reveal secrets or suffer adverse rulings for refusing to do so.

POMFRET CENTER, Conn. (AP) — Another elite boarding school is reporting past sexual misconduct by teachers. The Pomfret School in Connecticut says an independent investigation has found four teachers likely engaged in improper conduct with students between the 1970s and 2000s. The school says there were nine other “credible reports” ranging from boundary violations to sexual misconduct, but information was insufficient. Some teachers received positive recommendations when they left the school and some are still working with students.