CSi Weather…

…WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT WEDNESDAY…INCLUDING THE VALLEY CITY AREA..

Snow will develop tonight. A brief wintry mix is  possible.

* SNOW AND ACCUMULATIONS…3 to 5 inches.

* WINDS / VISIBILITIES…Look for reduced visibilities at times.

* IMPACTS…Plan on slippery road conditions…including during
the morning commute on Wednesday.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

A winter weather advisory means that periods of snow, sleet or
freezing rain will cause travel difficulties. Be prepared for
slippery roads and limited visibilities, and use caution while
driving. The latest road conditions for the state you are calling
from can be obtained by calling 5 1 1.

 

Forecast…

TONIGHT…Cloudy. Light snow after midnight in the Valley City area. New snow accumulation up to 2 inches in the Valley City area.. Lows in the upper 20s. North winds 15 to 20 mph.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of light freezing rain

and snow in the morning, then slight chance of rain possibly

mixed with snow in the afternoon.  Snow accumulation up to 3 inches in the Valley City area. Total snow accumulation up to 5 inches.    Highs in the upper 30s. North winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation 30 percent in the Jamestown area, 70 percent in the Valley City area.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY…Mostly cloudy.  A 20 percent chance of light snow in the Valley City area.  Lows in the upper

20s. Highs in the upper 30s to mid 40s. North winds 10 to 15 mph.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.

.FRIDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.

.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the

upper 20s. Highs near 50.

.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.

Lows in the lower 30s.

.MONDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.

 

Wednesday through Monday cool and dry Temperatures will remain well

below normal through the week with readings mainly in the 40s and

low 50s.

 

Jamestown (CSi)  The Jamestown Police Department warns the public about a convicted sex offender who has changed his  Jamestown address.

Nelson Whitetail, Sr., now resides at 505 4th St., NW, Jamestown, ND

He presently has no vehicle.

He has been assigned a high risk assessment by the North Dakota risk level committee of the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office.

Whitetail is a 61 year old American Indian Male, 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighing 258 pounds with brown eyes, and gray hair.

Offense:  Gross sexual imposition, involving two girls age 13 and 11

Conviction Date:  March, 1997 in Mercer County, ND, District Court.

Disposition: 10 years

Offense: Gross Sexual Imposition

Conviction Date:  September 1988, Burleigh County, ND District Court

Disposition:  five years, five years suspended.

Whitetail is currently on GPS Monitoring.

Whitetail 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 Nelson Whitetail, Sr.,  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) Stutsman County Emergency Manager, Jerry Bergquist says, “As part of the awareness week activities, April 24-28, the annual statewide tornado exercise will be conducted. The exercise is scheduled to begin at about 11:15 a.m. Wednesday, April 26, with a simulated tornado warning issued by the National Weather Service.  In response to the simulated warning, a countywide exercise of the emergency operations plan will take place.  The plan is designed to warn the greatest number of people in the least amount of time.”

 

The week of April 24th has been designated, “Severe Summer Weather Awareness Week,” for the entire state of North Dakota.  This annual event is designed to remind the public of the dangers associated with severe summer weather including:  lightning, high winds, large hail, flash floods and tornadoes, all of which can cause severe property damage, personal injury, and even death.

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As part of the exercise, sirens will be activated in many area communities  including the City of Jamestown.  In most communities, sirens will be activated for approximately 3 minutes. In addition, the simulated warning
will be broadcast over the National Weather Service all-hazards weather radio system, local AM/FM radio stations and the CSi cable television interrupt system.

 

The most common reason a community’s warning sirens are activated is to warn the public of a possible tornado.  However, sirens could also be activated to alert the public of other types of events that could be a danger to the
community.  Hearing the sirens is the signal to either tune into a local radio station or turn on the television, CSi Cable subscribers can to listen for official instructions.

Information may also be provided via the CodeRED notification system, which  Stutsman County subscribes to, and the Stutsman County Facebook page.

 

 

Jamestown (CSi)  Jamestown’s very own, Steve Kuykendall and the Jamestown Arts Center will present, a live solo concert by Steve, “For Love of Guitar, at 7pm Thursday April 27, 2017.

Steve will present ‘finger-style,’ renderings of classic favorites, original compositions, Blues, and solo vocal songs from a variety of genres.

During the 90 minute concert, Steve will carry the audience with the beauty of simplicity  and exciting technical intensity as he blends well loved melodies and the excitement of the unexpected, into an intimate and captivating guitar journey.

On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Steve said his love of guitars started at a young age, picking up playing the instrument from his father and grandfather, learning three basic chords and then self-taught after that.

He added that guitars range not only from acoustic to electric, but also in the types of woods used.

During his concert, his wife Nancy will MC the evening introducing various musical selections and narrating.

His concert will feature a total of 24 guitar numbers, 13 will include vocals by Steve.

Tickets in Advance or at the door are  $15 / $10 for Arts Center Members & Students.

Contact the Jamestown Arts Center for more information.

 

Jamestown  (CSi) The Annual City Wide Clean Up in Jamestown is set for the week of May 1-6, 2017.

The week starts on Monday with pick up in the Southeast section, followed on consecutive days in Southwest, Northwest and Northeast Jamestown.

All items must be placed IN THE STREET, close to the curb, at occupied residential dwellings, only. Commercial, Educational and Religious Entities are NOT included.

Certain items will not be picked up, and must be taken to locations listed in the city flyer.

During Clean Up Week, the City Baler will be open from 8-a.m., to 6-p.m., Monday Through Friday, AND 8-a.m., to 12 Noon, Saturday.  Bring proof of city residency such as a utility bill or drivers license.

The Recycling Center will be open normal hours 9-a.m., to 6-p.m., on Tuesday and Thursday AND Saturday from 9-a.m., to 2-p.m.

The City Beautification Committee and Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce urges residents to participate, in the clean up effort, along with  organizations.

More information and questions may be directed to Jamestown City Hall, at 701-252-5900.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Potato stocks in North Dakota are down 22 percent from a year ago.

The Agriculture Department says in its latest report that growers, dealers and processors in the state held 7.2 million hundredweight of potatoes in storage on April 1, down from 9.2 million a year ago.

Current stocks represent 35 percent of production.

Nationally, potato stocks on April 1 stood at 133.3 million hundredweight, up about 6 percent over the year.

 

 

BEULAH, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota city has started construction on a $6.5 million wellness center.

The  Beulah Wellness Center, which is expected to open next year, will offer a gym, a walking track, cardio equipment, weight-lifting facilities, wellness-lifestyle classroom areas, a kitchen and racquetball courts. It will be located on land that housed a crew camp for hundreds of workers during construction of the Dakota Gasification Co. synthetic gas plant in the 1980s.

Park board president Robby Volk says the center has been in the planning stages for several years. He says the project took off after residents approved a dedicated half-cent sales tax in 2014.

Maverick Thompson, president of the center’s foundation, says the facility aims to help the city’s community make a healthy lifestyle change.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Health Department officials are monitoring cleanup of a 1,050-gallon oil pipeline spill in Bowman County that reached a tributary of the Little Missouri River.

No oil reached the river, but a 14-mile stretch of Little Beaver Creek was polluted.

The Health Department says an estimated 756 gallons of oil and 294 gallons of saltwater leaked from a pipeline operated by Continental Resources. The spill was discovered Saturday about 5 miles southwest of Marmarth, and 20 of the 25 barrels of oil and saltwater believed spilled had been cleaned up as of Sunday.

There was no immediate word on the cause of the leak.

The spill was much smaller than a December leak on the Belle Fourche (foosh) Pipeline in Billings County that spilled about 530,000 gallons of oil.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s congressional delegation is praising the Senate’s confirmation of former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue as agriculture secretary.

Perdue has assured nervous farm-state senators that he’ll advocate for rural America, even as President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed deep cuts to some farm programs. His promise to reach across the aisle won him several votes from Democrats, including North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp’s.

Heitkamp says Perdue will be “a strong voice for agricultural trade in the administration.”

Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer touted Perdue’s experience as the governor of a farm state and his understanding of the agriculture industry.

Republican Sen. John Hoeven says Perdue will be a strong leader for the federal Agriculture Department, which has about 100,000 employees and is in charge of the nation’s food and farm programs.

 

In sports…

Valley City  (CSi)  Valley City High School announces changes in the sports schedule for Tuesday April 2, 2017 due to weather.

Varsity Softball at Sheyenne High School has been postponed to Monday

Varsity Baseball at Shanley has been postponed to Monday

Varsity track at Lisbon has been cancelled (no make up)

JH Softball vs Casselton has been moved to May 12th

Varsity Tennis vs Sheyenne has been moved to May 8th

Varsity Golf @ Red River has been moved with makeup date TBD

Also….

Midkota/Dakota Prairie JH Baseball game in Binford Tuesday vs. New Rockford has been postponed.

 

Bismarck  (CSi)  North Dakota Game & Fish announces that North Dakota’s paddlefish snagging season opens May 1, 2017, and is scheduled to continue through the end of May. However, depending on the overall harvest, an early in-season closure may occur with a 24-hour notice issued by the state Game and Fish Department.

Although there are no regulation changes from last year, snaggers should note that North Star Caviar, which in previous years would clean all legally taken paddlefish in exchange for the eggs from the females, is not operating its station at the Confluence this year.

The Game and Fish Department is in the process of trying to establish an alternative fish-cleaning service at the Confluence this year. In addition to providing free cleaning paddlefish cleaning services, the Game and Fish would be able collect important biological information as well as monitor the ongoing harvest.  Game and Fish will let snaggers know prior to the season opener if the fish cleaning station will be in place.

As in past years, snag-and-release of all paddlefish is required on Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays. Since opening day of the 2017 snagging season falls on a Monday, that is a snag-and-release only day.

Mandatory harvest of all snagged paddlefish is required on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. On these days, all paddlefish caught must be kept and tagged immediately.

All paddlefish snagged and tagged must be removed from the river by 9 p.m. of each snagging day.

Those planning to participate during snag-and-release-only days need to have in their possession a current season, unused paddlefish snagging tag. Use or possession of gaffs is prohibited on snag-and-release-only days, and, if it occurs, during the snag-and-release extension period.

Legal snagging hours are from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. One tag per snagger will be issued. Snagging is legal in all areas of the Yellowstone River in North Dakota, and in the area of the Missouri River lying west of the U.S. Highway 85 bridge to the Montana border, excluding that portion from the pipeline crossing (river mile 1,577) downstream to the upper end of the Lewis and Clark Wildlife Management Area (river mile 1,565).

If the season closes early because the harvest cap is reached, an extended snag-and-release-only period will be allowed for up to four days immediately following the early closure, but not to extend beyond May 31. Only snaggers with a current season, unused paddlefish snagging tag are eligible to participate. Only a limited area at the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers is open to this extended season snagging opportunity.

All paddlefish snaggers must possess a paddlefish tag in addition to a valid fishing license. Cost of a paddlefish tag is $10 for residents and $25.50 for nonresidents.

Addresses and phone numbers of vendors selling tags:

 

Bismarck Game and Fish Office

100 N. Bismarck Expressway

Bismarck, ND 58501

701-328-6300

Sportsman’s Warehouse

925 32nd Avenue West

Williston, ND  58801

701-572-2500

Scenic Sports

1201 East Broadway

Williston, ND 58801

701-572-8696

Wal-Mart, Inc.

4001 2nd Avenue West

Williston, ND 58801

701-572-8550

Runnings Farm and Fleet

2003 3rd Avenue West

Dickinson, ND 58601

701-483-1226

Rosie’s Food and Gas

204 South Main

Dickinson, ND 58601

701-483-7860

 

In world and national news….

WASHINGTON (AP) — An attorney for former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn says that his client told the Defense Intelligence Agency that he would be traveling to Moscow to attend a gala for a Russian state-sponsored television network. Attorney Robert Kelner says Flynn also talked with agency staff after he returned and answered any questions they asked. Two top congressmen on a House committee investigating Flynn say he may have violated federal law.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is condemning those who deny the Holocaust and is pledging to confront anti-Semitism. In a speech marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, Trump says anyone who would deny that 6 million Jews were killed by Germany’s Nazi leadership during World War II “are an accomplice of this horrible evil.” Speaking at the U.S. Capitol, Trump said “we will never, ever be silent in the face of evil again.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Republican senator emerged from a dinner with Donald Trump confident the president will not allow North Korea to build a nuclear-tipped missile capable of striking the United States. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told reporters Tuesday that North Korea should “not underestimate President Trump’s resolve to stop them from getting a missile to hit our homeland.” Sen. John McCain joined Graham for the dinner at the White House Monday evening.

BERLIN (AP) — Ivanka Trump has brushed aside groans and hisses over her father’s track record with women as she made her first international outing as a White House adviser at a high-profile meeting in Berlin. Ivanka Trump pledged Tuesday to push for “incremental, positive change” for women in the U.S. economy and told an audience at a conference on women that she’s still “rather unfamiliar” with her role as first daughter and adviser to President Donald Trump.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Extremist groups are joining together with a shared goal of making America great again _ for whites. A consortium of white nationalist groups is marking its first anniversary this month. It plans a gathering this weekend in rural Kentucky. Meanwhile, leaders of a new Ku Klux Klan alliance formed in March say they are uniting chapters around the country. Watchdogs say white extremists typically can’t work together because of infighting. But leaders say their groups are united as never before.