wbPM2CSi Weather…

…WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT

VALLEY CITY AREA..

FROM MIDNIGHT THURSDAY NIGHT TO NOON CST FRIDAY…

 

JAMESTOWN AREA…

6-P.M. THURSDAY TO NOON FRIDAY…

 

HAZARDOUS WIND CHILLS MAY PRODUCE FROSTBITE ON

EXPOSED SKIN.

WIND CHILL READINGS…AS LOW AS 28 BELOW…

A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG WINDS

WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS. THIS WILL RESULT IN

FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN.

IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUTDOORS…MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES.

 

Forecast….

.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. COLDER. LOWS AROUND 15 BELOW. NORTHWEST

WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH. WIND CHILLS AROUND 30 BELOW.

.FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS NEAR ZERO. NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO

10 MPH. LOWEST WIND CHILLS AROUND 30 BELOW IN THE MORNING.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 15 BELOW. NORTH WINDS

AROUND 5 MPH. WIND CHILLS AROUND 30 BELOW.

.SATURDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGHS ZERO

TO 5 ABOVE. EAST WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW IN

THE EVENING. LOWS AROUND 5 BELOW. NORTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.

.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS 5 TO 10 ABOVE. LOWS

AROUND 5 BELOW.

.MONDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. LOWS AROUND 10 BELOW.

.TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE.

LOWS AROUND 5 BELOW.

 

FRIGID WIND CHILLS AS LOW AS 30 BELOW ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY NIGHT.

DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS AS LOW AS 30 BELOW ARE POSSIBLE INTO EARLY FRIDAY. FRIGID TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE INTO NEXT WEEK.

ACCUMULATING SNOW IS POSSIBLE ON SATURDAY

 

 

Valley City  (CSi)  The Valley City Commission met in Special Session this morning to consider and act upon a resignation agreement with Police Chief Fred Thompson.

Commissioners unanimously  voted to accepted his resignation.

City Administrator David Schelhoph said the agreement between the city and Thompson has been negotiated over the past two weeks, and was settled on Wednesday.

The Commissioner concurred that Thompson brought a higher level of professionalism to the Valley City Police Department during his tenure as Chief.

Lt. Phillip Hatcher will be the Valley City Interim Police Chief.

The search will begin for Thompson’s permanent replacement.

During the meeting, Mayor David Carlsrud said that internal and external investigation into grievances filed against Thompson have been unfounded.

City Attorney Russ Myhre said it was “An honor to know him (Thompson).

Thompson concluded the meeting by saying that it was “An honor and privilege,” to serve as Valley City’s Police Chief, and wished the department well in the future.

He added that when the Supreme Court hands down new rulings that it changes the job.

The meeting was recorded by CSi Cable 68, with replays in addition to Wednesday night’s Regular Valley City Commission meeting.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  Prairie Paws Rescue announces that the Paw-Sta Paw-Looza, and Ventriloquist Show is set for Saturday February 4, 2017, from 5-p.m., to 10-p.m., at the Knights of Columbus Hall, in Downtown Jamestown.

All proceeds will benefit animals in the care of Prairie Paws Rescue.

On a recent Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 Prairie Paws Rescue Founder and President, Kaye John said a spaghetti dinner with a choice of three varieties of sauces will be served from 5-p.m., to 6:30-p.m.

Quick Raffles from 6:30-p.m. to 7:30-p.m., including trips and more.

The Ventriloquist Show at 7:30-p.m.

Raffle Drawings and Silent Auction after the show.

Ventriloquist, James Wedgwood performs an interactive show with the audience.

Advance tickets ONLY:  Adults $25, Youth (5-16) $15, Preschool Free.

Adult tickets include 21+ includes a bottle of Third Edition Private Label Prairie Paws Wine to take home.  Adults under 21 will receive an alternate gift.

Tickets available at Big Dog Radio, Dr. Dawn’s Pet Stop, Country Acres Vets Clinic, Southwood Vet Clinic, or any Prairie Paws Volunteer.  Only 200 tickets were printed and area selling fast.

Event Sponsors:  Prairie Paws Rescue, Maple River Distillery Casselton, Big Dog, Wells Fargo Bank Jamestown, H and H Holdings, Southwood Vet Clinic, Gate City Bank Jamestown, Better Homes Property Management, Buchanan Ag, Otter Tail Power Company, Dardis Realty, Lifestyle Appliance, Jolene and Marv Schulz, Pampered Paws LLC., Doris Hill-Agent at Midstate Realty.

Kaye points out the Prairie Paws Rescue, Meet and Greet is the second Saturday of each month, at the Jamestown TSC Store.

(On Saturday December 10, 2016, there will also be a Bake Sale).

She added that Prairie Paws Rescue was founded in 2003, and  is a 501-C3 organization, for tax deductible contributions, that can be sent to post office box 1114 Jamestown ND 58402.

She said more animal foster homes are needed to care for them before adoption.

For more information on line go to http://www.prairiepawsrescue.com/ E-Mail PrairePawsRescue@hotmail.com

 

Jamestown (CSi-JRMC)   When Jamestown Regional Medical Center built it new location in northwest Jamestown, it dreamed of the day that cancer treatment would be available in Jamestown.

The campaign for cancer care is here.

Each year, the proposed JRMC Cancer Center will provide chemotherapy infusions for more than 100 Jamestown area residents. This will eliminate more than 160,000 miles of travel per year.

The hospital is asking for the community’s support as it continues to recruit an oncologist and raise the money to offer the service. JRMC Foundation has already raised $650,000 of its $1.5 million goal.

To learn more, attend the STRENGTHENING COMMUNITIES. CHANGING LIVES at Knights of Columbus. A free pasta luncheon sponsored by Thrivent Financial® begins at noon, Tuesday, Dec. 13 with presentations from JRMC and Thrivent to follow.

TO RSVP OR ASK QUESTIONS: Contact JRMC Foundation (701) 952-4880.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  Jamestown Public Schools reports that due to a Storm Day on December 6, 2016, Jamestown Public Schools will make up the day on April 17, 2017.

Also due to late start on December 7, 2016, Jamestown Public Schools will now dismiss at 1:00 PM on Wednesday, December 14, 2016 for Professional Development workshops.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  Victory Lutheran Church invites the community of Jamestown to attend its Community Christmas Dinner, Sunday, December 18th, from 11:30am – 1:30pm.    A turkey and dressing meal complete with all the trimmings will be served.  There is no charge. Home delivery will be available for those who are unable to join us in the fellowship hall. To place your request, call the church at 701-251-1570 before 3pm, Friday, December 16th!

Victory Lutheran is located at 510 9th Ave. SW.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault (AR’-sham-boh) is renewing a call for Dakota Access oil pipeline opponents to leave a camp in southern North Dakota.

A blizzard hitting the region has brought snow, wind gusts up to 55 mph and wind chills as low as minus 15 degrees.

Archambault says there’s no reason for people in the camp to put their lives at risk. And he says emergency shelters on the nearby reservation are all full.

Some people at the camp spent the night at shelters that Morton County set up in Flasher and Mandan. Others stayed at the tribe’s casino, about 4 miles from the camp.

Pipeline opponents have vowed to maintain the camp through the winter. They believe the pipeline threatens the tribe’s drinking water, and cultural sites.

 

Devils Lake  (CSi)  About 60 North Dakota Army National Guard Soldiers with the Devils Lake-based 136th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion will be honored at a send-off ceremony at 1 p.m. Dec. 11 at the Devils Lake High School Sports Center. The unit, which will provide command and control structure for logistical units within their area of operation, are deploying early next year for a yearlong mission in Afghanistan.

The unit is led by Lt. Col. Brock Larson, of Bismarck, North Dakota, and Command Sgt. Maj. Cory Everson, of Devils Lake. Soldiers in the unit hail from more than 28 communities across North Dakota, Minnesota and Kentucky.

Among those expected to address the service members and their families during the event are Gov. Jack Dalrymple and Maj. Gen. Alan S. Dohrmann, North Dakota adjutant general. The event is free and open to the public.

 

In sports…

Schedule Changes…

Valley City  (CSi) Due to weather, the  first round of the Girls High School Basketball Barnes County Tournament in Valley City was postponed.

The tournament will now run today, Friday, and Saturday on the campus of Valley City State University.

Thursday, Dec. 8 – Quarterfinals

3:00p.m. – (4) Oakes vs. (5) Enderlin (Time changed from 4:30)

Final

Enderlin    48  
Oakes       31

4:30 p.m. – (1) LaMoure/Litchville-Marion vs. (8) Griggs County Central (Time changed from 3-p.m.)

6 p.m. – (2) Finley-Sharon/Hope-Page vs. (7) Maple Valley

7:30 p.m. – (3) Barnes County North vs. (6) Sargent Central

 

Friday, Dec. 9

Consolation: 10 a.m.

Consolation: 11:30 a.m.

Semifinal: 1 p.m.

Semifinal: 2:30 p.m.

 

Saturday, Dec. 10

7th place: 11 a.m.

5th place: 12:30 p.m.

3rd place: 2 p.m.

Championship: 3:30 p.m.

 

Jamestown  (CSi) The start of the Stutsman County girls basketball tournament has been postponed until Friday. The schedule for Friday’s games will be the same as the what was scheduled for Thursday.

On Saturday it’s an anticipated  9am start time and they will play eight games.

Friday schedule:

3pm – Carrington vs. Warwick

4:30pm – South Border vs. Ellendale

6pm – Medina/PB vs. Midkota

7:30pm – EKM vs. Napoleon/GS

In world and national news…

 

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn has died in Ohio. He was 95.

Glenn became a national hero in 1962 when he became the first American to orbit the Earth.

Hank Wilson with the John Glenn School of Public Affairs says Glenn died Thursday afternoon at the James Cancer Hospital in Columbus.

Glenn was the third U.S. astronaut in space and the first of them to get into orbit. He circled the Earth three times. The Soviet Union had put a man into orbit a year earlier in 1961.

Glenn then spent 24 years as a Democrat from Ohio in the Senate and briefly made a run for president in 1984. He returned to space in 1998, at age 77, aboard space shuttle Discovery.

He was the last survivor of the original Mercury 7 astronauts.

 

AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) — Police say a man who was wanted in the fatal shooting of a Georgia police officer and the wounding of another apparently killed himself as authorities arrived at a home where he was hiding. The police chief in Americus says Minquell Lembrick was found dead by a SWAT team and that he died from what “appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.” He added the officers heard a gunshot inside the home before they entered. Lembrick was suspected in the slaying yesterday of Americus police Officer Nicholas Smarr and the shooting of Georgia Southwestern State University police Officer Jody Smith, who remains in critical condition.

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Police Chief James Craig is defending the decision to arrest and charge — and then drop charges against — a suspect in the fatal shooting of a college police officer. He says police and prosecutors had “probable cause” to arrest and charge DeAngelo Davis with murder in the November slaying of Wayne State University officer Collin Rose. Craig says Davis was released Wednesday after the investigation “led us in a different direction.” Police have released grainy videos of an “unknown suspect” riding a bicycle just before the slaying and running away after. Craig says both Davis and the new suspect “have connections” to the bike.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say a 13-year-old boy who was killed by a clerk during an attempted grab-and-run theft at a Las Vegas smoke shop last week was shot seven times in the back and head. The details were disclosed today in reports from police and the Clark County coroner, and from a prosecutor who has seen store video of the slaying. Police say the video shows that Raad Sunna opened fire even though he wasn’t endangered by the teen, Fabriccio Patti, or his two companions, ages 14 and 15. After a court appearance today, Sunna is free on $150,000 bail. He’s expected to plead not guilty to murder.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The international president of the steelworkers union is defending the Indiana union leader who’s been trading barbs with Donald Trump over the president-elect’s deal to save jobs at a Carrier factory in the state. Union President Leo Gerard says Local 1999 leader Chuck Jones was “simply clarifying what happened” in the deal that Trump made with Carrier. Jones says about 800 jobs were saved — 300 fewer than the 1,100 jobs Trump claims. Trump slammed Jones on Twitter this week, saying he “has done a terrible job representing workers.” Jones challenged Trump to back up his claim.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed a stopgap spending bill to keep the government open beyond Friday’s midnight deadline. The bill’s fate in the Senate is uncertain. The measure would fund federal agencies and departments through April 28. It also would expedite the process for confirming President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for defense secretary, retired Gen. James Mattis. Senate Democrats from coal states are threatening to delay quick passage of the bill. They want more for retired coal miners who have been guaranteed lifetime health and retirement benefits.