CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms may be severe in the afternoon.

Highs in the upper 80s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. A

40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower

60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the west after midnight.

.SATURDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. West winds 5 to 10 mph

increasing to northwest around 20 mph in the afternoon.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest

winds 5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.

.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 70s.

Lows in the upper 50s.

.MONDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of showers and

thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s.

.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and

thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 80s.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of

showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and

thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of showers

and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 60s.

.THURSDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.

 

Thunderstorms will be possible Thursday  evening. Some storms may become strong, with some isolated severe storms possible. If a storm becomes severe, large hail and damaging wind gusts will be the main threats.

 

 

Jamestown (CSi)  The start of Jamestown’s residential recycling program is delayed until September 2017.

Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, Becky Thatcher-Keller, on The Wayne Byers Show recorded for Friday July 21st said the city has informed her that the delay stems from an equipment issue with the new trucks.  This affects both recycling and automated garbage collection.

The City and Renaissance Recycling have agreed to postpone the start until most likely early September this year.

Meanwhile, Jamestown resident have received a postcard notification to inform officials of their choice of container size.

The information is to be in the mail or notification on the web site listed on the postcard by July 31. 2017.

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Thursday afternoon increased the release at Jamestown Dam to 125 cfs, from 70 cfs.

Pipestem Dam’s release remains at  330 cfs, for a combined release of 455 cfs through the James River in Jamestown.

The increase is expected to raise the James River level in Jamestown by less than six inches.

Pipestem Dam Manager Bob Martin says the Jamestown Dam release in based on higher inflows to the reservoir from rain fall amounts, north.

Jamestown Reservoir is seven-tenths of a foot into the flood storage area.

Pipestem Reservoir is in the flood storage area, and needs to drop 15 feet by September 1st, to be ready for freeze up.

 

 

Jamestown (CSi)  The Jamestown City Fire Department  shortly before 10-a.m., Thursday responded to a single family dwelling at 933 Third Avenue Northwest where the owner stated that  the house contained an odor of malathion insecticide  that was being sprayed outdoors, with the chemical drifting into the house.

Lt. Sheldon Mohr said the city fire department ventilated the home and was on the scene about a half hour.

No injuries to the two occupants of the home, who did not need medical attention.

Two city fire units, the equipment truck and pumper and six fire personnel were on scene and 19 fire fighters were on stand by at the fire hall.

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  Ave Maria  Village is dedicated to the health and well being of their residents and those in the community. And, the announce the  THIRD ANNUAL walk to help promote a healthy lifestyle at any age.  Everyone welcome!

The event is set for Saturday August 5, 2017, at 9-a.m.

 

Ave Maria Residents are FREE!  Children 12 and under are FREE! 

Heritage Center Residents just $10.00!

 

Early Bird Special:  Adults 65 and older just $15.00. All others $20.00.  Registration must be received by July 28th for Early Bird discount. 

 

July 29th – Day of Event: $25.00 registration fee.   

 

*There will be participation awards given for largest family, largest business, and largest church family.

Course: there will be a one mile loop marked out on the north side of Ave Maria Village. Walk the loop 1 – 3 times depending on your fitness level. Please check in no later than 8:45 AM so we can start the walk promptly at 9:00 A.M.  Prize drawings at 10 A.M. Must be present to win.

Registration forms are available at the Ave Maria front desk.

 

All proceeds will go toward the Private Room Campaign Phase One

On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, volunteer, Lisa Wagner said the project entails Ave Maria Village adding 24 private rooms and converting the 24 existing double rooms to single.

 

 

LaMoure  (CSi)  LaMoure County State’s Attorney Tonya Duffy has kept her position, as petition signatures calling for a recall were short of those required.

170 Incomplete addresses were on the petitions, collected of around 613 signatures, that were collected, 98 signatures shy to require a recall election that were turned in on June 20, 2017.

The petition stated that the recall was being initiated due to Duffy, “Lacking the competency and demeanor to hold the office and neglecting to properly perform the duties of the county’s prosecuting attorney.”

 

 Update…

Jamestown  (CSi)  On Tuesday, July 18, 2017  at 4:25 a.m., a 1996 Dodge 3500 rolled on Interstate 94, about 5 miles east of Jamestown. The vehicle was eastbound on I-94 when it entered the median and rolled.

The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports, there were two occupants, 17-year-old Daniel Short, Belcourt, and 54-year-old Wilmer Nadeau, Fargo.

Short was ejected during the crash and died on scene. Nadeau suffered minor injuries and was transported to Jamestown for medical treatment. After his release, Nadeau was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. He is currently held at the Stutsman County Jail.

The Dodge was stolen from a rural residence in the Spiritwood area. The Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office is the lead investigating agency for the stolen vehicle and are assisting the NDHP with crash investigation.

Investigation is ongoing.

 

Lisbon  (CSi)  The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports, on Thursday a 14-year-old girl riding a bike was killed in an accident near Lisbon

The name of the victim was not immediately released.

The report says 75 year old Dennis Reinke Lisbon was operating a vehicle eastbound on 68th Street Southeast in a 2000 Pontiac Montana, approximately a half mile east of Lisbon at about 8:50 a.m.

The vehicle was traveling uphill and around a curve when it struck the bicyclist, who was traveling west on the same highway.

The girl was pronounced dead at the scene.

The crash remains under investigation by the patrol.

 

 

Washington  (CSi)  Senator John Hoeven, chairman of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee and a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Thursday announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has opened additional conservation acres for emergency grazing and haying for areas of North Dakota affected by severe drought.

These are conservation practice (CP) acres, except CP25 and CP42 programs. This authorization allows producers in all North Dakota counties as well as some counties in neighboring states to graze or hay CRP wetland and buffer practices, in addition to previously authorized lands. Specifically, counties experiencing D2 intensity or with any part of their border located within 150 miles of an authorized county are eligible. Interested producers should contact their local Farm Service Agency (FSA) office to access eligible acres.

Hoeven has been pressing USDA to open additional CRP acres and today’s announcement immediately follows Hoeven’s efforts to secure additional support for farmers and ranchers affected by drought in the Fiscal Year 2018 agriculture funding bill, which directs USDA to open additional conservation acres. Further, it builds on USDA’s approval of the senator’s request to allow emergency haying of CRP acres beginning July 16, as well as the delegation letter led by Hoeven that resulted in the opening of emergency grazing.

“It is vital that USDA respond to worsening drought conditions, and we welcome the access to additional grazing and haying on CRP lands,” Hoeven said. “We continue working to ensure that farm bill programs provide a secure safety net for our producers to help them get through this difficult time.”

Hoeven is working to ensure that programs at USDA work well for farmers and ranchers, helping them weather the drought and maintain their operations. This includes:

 

NRCS Wetland Restoration Acres Haying and Grazing

Hoeven also helped secure Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) acres for haying and grazing. Ranchers should visit their county NRCS office to submit paperwork to access these acres, which are lands that farmers have enrolled in 30-year easements with NRCS under the Wetland Restoration Easement program.

 

Livestock Forage Disaster Program

Hoeven recently announced that ranchers in counties experiencing drought in D3 or higher categories are immediately eligible for payments under the Livestock Forage Disaster program. For counties under D2 intensity, eligibility begins after eight consecutive weeks of drought. County information for North Dakota can be found here at the U.S. Drought Monitor.

 

Ensuring Adequate Loss Adjusters

Hoeven secured a commitment from the head of the Risk Management Agency (RMA) to ensure there are loss adjustors to assess drought damage in North Dakota. The senator urged Heather Manzano, Acting RMA Administrator, to hold insurance companies to their contracts and ensure they provide adequate personnel to address claims in a timely fashion, which the she committed to do. This will help prevent delays for producers facing drought and other challenges.

 

FSA Emergency Assistance

The USDA has since designated counties in the state as natural disaster areas due to the drought, making additional assistance available for farm and ranch operators. This includes emergency loans through FSA. Ranchers in affected counties have eight months from the date of the disaster designation to apply.

 

In addition, USDA has provided producers with FSA loans a 12-month exemption from a requirement that they have physical control of their livestock. This exemption will allow ranchers to weather the drought by moving their livestock to feedlots or other states where they have grass before taking back physical control at a later date.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A judge deciding whether to shut down the Dakota Access pipeline while more environmental review is completed says he’ll allow North Dakota’s main energy trade group to weigh in.

Judge James Boasberg might also allow some national energy and manufacturing groups to have a say, though he didn’t immediately rule.

The North Dakota Petroleum Council and other groups maintain their input is important because none of the parties in a lawsuit over the $3.8 billion pipeline to move North Dakota oil to Illinois speaks for the general oil industry.

The Petroleum Council represents about 500 companies, including Texas-based pipeline developer Energy Transfer Partners. It maintains a shutdown “would pull the rug out from under the North Dakota oil industry.” Half of the state’s daily production is being shipped through the pipeline.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota will begin advertising for a new state land commissioner.

Incumbent Lance Gaebe (GAY’-bee) was appointed in 2010 by then-Gov. John Hoeven and his term expires at the end of the year. He says he will re-apply for the position that is being advertised as starting at $8,500 a month.

The commissioner manages the state Land Department. The agency leases rights for grazing rights and rights to produce oil, coal and gravel from state lands.

The Land Department manages several state trust funds, including a fund that benefits public schools. It has $3.8 billion in assets.

The state Board of University and School Lands oversees the Land Department. Gov. Doug Burgum is chairman of the board.

 

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Highway Patrol says they’ve arrested a man for biking while intoxicated.

Troopers say the 58-year-old Fargo man was operating his bicycle on Interstate 94 Wednesday and creating a traffic hazard. The patrol says the man caused a crash between two vehicles as he biked on the interstate. No one was injured.

Troopers say the man was arrested for driving under the influence and impeding traffic.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Drought is continuing to worsen in western North Dakota, with more than 6 percent of the state now listed in “exceptional” drought.

That is the U.S. Drought Monitor’s highest category. The latest weekly map shows areas of exceptional drought in southwestern and northwestern North Dakota.

Much of the rest of western North Dakota is in either severe or extreme drought. And much of eastern North Dakota is in moderate drought or abnormally dry.

Drought is ravaging crops, pastures and hay land, and also impacting wildlife. The federal government has declared numerous North Dakota counties to be disaster areas, paving the way for federal aid.

 

MEDORA, N.D. (AP) — Two small wildfires burning in Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota are 50 percent contained.

Both fires are in remote, rugged territory and are less than a square mile in size. The National Park Service says the Jones Creek Fire is 5 acres and the Halliday Well Fire is 11 acres.

Lightning started both fires. The area is in extreme drought this summer.

Several trails in the area have been closed.

 

 

In sports…

GARRISON, N.D. (AP) — Four new members are slated to be inducted into the North Dakota Fishing Hall of Fame.

They are Paul Haug of Fargo, Clayton Folden of New Town, Richard Fink of Bismarck, and the Lake Region Anglers Association of Devils Lake.

Haug is a 2001 inductee to the Muskies, Inc. Hall of Fame and has served as president and director of the North Dakota Sportfishing Congress. Folden is a longtime competitive angler who led an effort to build a concrete boat ramp and accompanying breakwater at the Van Hook Arm of Lake Sakakawea. Fink has served as president of the Bis-Man Reel & Rec Club and founding member of the “Take a Kid Fishing” program.

The Lake Region Anglers Association was founded in 1975.

The ceremony is scheduled Thursday in Garrison.

 

In world and national news…

LOVELOCK, Nev. (AP)   70-year-old O.J. Simpson  appeared before a Nevada parole board Thursday, and was granted parole with conditions, after serving nine years in prison for a botched bid to retrieve sports memorabilia in Las Vegas..

A Nevada parole board decided Thursday that the 70-year-old former football, TV and movie star will be released in October after serving his minimum term for armed robbery and assault with a weapon.

Simpson responded emotionally, saying, “Thank you, thank you, thank you.”

Four parole commissioners in Carson City questioned Simpson by videoconference from the Lovelock Correctional Center in rural Nevada. He has been held there since he was convicted in 2008.

The conviction came 13 years to the day after he was acquitted of murder in 1995 in the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend in Los Angeles.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Arizona Sen. John McCain says he’s grateful for the outpouring of support after his brain cancer diagnosis. He’s promising to be back soon. In a tweet Thursday, McCain says: “I greatly appreciate the outpouring of support – unfortunately for my sparring partners in Congress, I’ll be back soon, so stand-by!”

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Congressional Budget Office estimates a revised version of the Senate Republican health care bill would increase the number of uninsured people by 22 million by 2026. That’s the same number projected to lose coverage under the first version of the legislation. The huge boost in uninsured people is one reason GOP leaders face an uphill battle in winning over enough Republicans to push their legislation through the Senate.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he has no immediate plans to resign. His comments come the day after President Donald Trump criticized him for recusing himself from the probe of suspected Russian meddling in last year’s campaign. Trump told The New York Times he never would have picked Sessions if he’d known a recusal was coming. Sessions says he’ll stay in the job “as long as that is appropriate.”

ATLANTA (AP) — A 9-year-old girl who survived when her siblings and father were stabbed to death said she saw her mother stab the others and that her mother asked for forgiveness before stabbing her. A report from the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services includes a caseworker’s notes from an interview with Diana Romero. The girl said everyone was asleep when her mother began stabbing the children. She said her father tried to get help, but Martinez stabbed him as he walked toward the door.