CSi Weather…

REST OF TODAY…Increasing clouds. Numerous showers and scattered thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 70s. Southeast winds around 10 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.

.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain showers and slight

chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then slight chance of

rain showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Northwest winds

10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent in the Jamestown area, 40 percent chance in the Valley City area.

.THURSDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds

around 10 mph.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. North

winds around 10 mph.

.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds around

5 mph.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.

.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance

of rain showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 70s. Lows

in the mid 50s.

.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain showers

and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 70s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.

.MONDAY…Sunny. Slight chance of rain showers and thunderstorms

in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 70s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.

.TUESDAY…Sunny. A 20 percent chance of rain showers and

thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 80.

 

Showers and thunderstorms will continue today across west and

central North Dakota. A few stronger storms will be possible in

the afternoon and early evening. Large hail up to quarter size,

gusty winds to 50 mph, and dangerous lightning will be the primary

threats.

 

Chances for thunderstorms return Friday through Saturday. Severe

weather is not expected at this time.

 

Jamestown (CSi)  The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports a 79 year old Jamestown man was injured Tuesday at 3:21-p.m., when the Kenworth he was driving popped a right tire, as he was traveling northbound on Highway 281 five miles south of Jamestown.

The report says, the truck and trailer loaded with corn entered the east ditch and overturned onto the driver’s side coming to rest in a parking lot.

79 year old Thomas Oxtoby of Jamestown was transported by Jamestown Area Ambulance Service to Jamestown Regional Medical Center, for treatment of minor injuries.

The semi was totaled.  The Stutsman County Sheriff’s Department assisted at the scene.

The crash remains under investigation.

 

Jamestown (CSi)  Public Works informs residents that the water main break in SW Jamestown was repaired, and water service restored about noon Tuesday .

Water  Department Superintendent Steve Suko says a sleeve was installed at the break.

On Tuesday morning Public Works informed residents in that affected area to expect a temporary water outage, in the area of 18TH & 19TH St SW between 9th Ave & 12th St SW.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  Plans are set for a community-wide celebration of the Hansen Arts Park in Downtown Jamestown, August 25-26, 2017 in Jamestown, called  “ArtSpark.”

On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 the new Arts Center Director, Larry Kopp said artist, William Fritts has finished his sculpture of the Arts Park’s Stage and Pavillion.

Next the sound and electrical systems will be installed.

Kopp pointed out,the activities start at 5-p.m., on Friday, August 25th with the Arts Park Ribbon Cutting, and continuing through the evening, and then through the day on Saturday the 26th.

On Friday the 25th, at 4:45 p.m., the celebration starts with the Jamestown High School Pep Band performing.

Larry Kopp’s Welcome followed by speakers and the Ribbon Cutting starts at 5-p.m.

Invited speakers will include:

Jamestown Mayor Katie Andersen’s presentation, from the ashes of the Orlady Building, that burned on the site to the present Arts Park, and to acknowledge emergency personnel, who battled the fire.

Former Arts Center Director, Taylor Barnes will talk about the broad vision and ideas and dreams for the space.

Donor Ida-Jo Hansen, will explain why she gave to the project.

The Ribbon Cutting will then be held, led by Jamestown Fine Arts Association Board, Chairman, Bob Toso.

Then Larry Kopp will invite the community to events and activities at the Hansen Arts Park through the weekend.

Wrapping up the program will be the Jamestown High School Band.

Other invitees are schedule to include:

  • Chamber Ambassadors
  • Jamestown Fine Arts Board (new & former)
  • Jamestown City & Rural Fire Fighters, Police, Ambulance
  • King Studio
  • Donors including Ida-Jo Hansen
  • Park Committee & Former Arts Center Director, Cyndi Wish
  • Artist Owen Fritts
  • North Dakota State Legislator, Bernie Satrom
  • Steve from Northern Lights
  • Sharon from Arts Midwest
  • A representative from ArtsPlace
  • A representative from The Bush Foundation
  • Taylor Barnes
  • Cyndi Wish
  • Jamestown City Council Members
  • The Jamestown Downtown Association board
  • Jamestown Tourism board

Also on Saturday August 26th the JFAA Annual Show Reception will be held at the Jamestown Arts Center from 1-p.m., to 3-p.m., with prizes for the show awarded at 1:30-p.m.

Kopp added that the JFAA Annual Show runs from August 19 – October 7, 2017, at the Arts Center.

 

Jamestown  (CSi) The First Annual Barn Dance and BBQ last Saturday at The Boondocks, to raise dollars for SAFE Shelter’s Mary Place brought in nearly $7,500.

Safe Shelter Executive Director Lynne Tally says just over 100 people attended, with donations raising $7,440.

$6,465 was raised from sales and tickets plus a donation of $975 from Newman Signs.

All money will go on to assist with funding Mary’s Place, a living space for domestic violence and sexual abuse victims.

About  $300,000 to $400,000 to finish the project.

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown Patriotic Council sponsors its annual All Vets Indoor Picnic on Sunday, August 13, 2017, starting at noon at the All Vets Club.

There will be music by the Drum and Bugle Corps, bingo, games and a fried chicken picnic lunch with a freewill offering. The event is open to all area veterans, families and friends, and no membership is required.

A special welcome is extended this year to all Gulf War and Afghanistan veterans.

For more information, contact council Chairperson Phyllis Denchfield or the club at 252-8994.

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  Ave Maria Village in Jamestown’s  Bike Run Benefit, is on Sunday August 27, 2017, starting from Stutsman Harley-Davidson.

Registration is from 10-a.m., to 11:45 a.m., with kickstands up at noon.

The cost is $20 per rider, and $10 per passenger.

At the ending location there will be food, drinks, and a silent auction.

Proceeds benefiting Phase One of the Capital Campaign for Private Rooms.

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  Jamestown’s Frontier Village Wild West Players are holding a shoe drive fundraiser through September 5, 2017 to raise funds for updates and repairs to the Pioneer Church at the Village.

The goal is to collect 6,000 shoes.

The Wild West Players will earn funds based on the total weight of the pairs of gently worn, used and new shoes collected, as Funds2Orgs will issue a check for the collected shoes.

Donate gently worn, used and new shoes at Frontier Village Town Hall, First Community Credit Union and S&S Exhaust.

Shoes can also be picked up if necessary.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Authorities say a 71-year-old man from California was arrested with 183 pounds of marijuana in his car when he was pulled over on Interstate 94 in North Dakota.

The North Dakota Highway Patrol says Harold Miller, of Antelope, California, was stopped for traffic violations Monday in a construction zone between Mandan and Bismarck. Troopers say they detected a strong odor of marijuana in the Dodge minivan.

A search of the vehicle discovered drugs with a street value of $700,000.

Miller is charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver and possession of drug paraphernalia. Court documents do not list an attorney for him.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Police have named a man who drowned in the Red River in Fargo.

The Fargo Police Department named him Tuesday as 32-year-old Hari Kumar Pradhan, of Fargo.

Fire Chief Steve Dirksen says he was swimming across the river Monday afternoon when he went under water. Dirksen says the search was complicated by submerged trees and other obstacles in that section of the river.

The search began around 1:30 p.m. His body was recovered about 6 p.m. It’s the third drowning in the Red River this summer in the Fargo area.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Gov. Doug Burgum has asked for a presidential disaster declaration because of severe drought conditions across much of North Dakota.

The governor’s request to President Donald Trump has been made through the regional Federal Emergency Management Agency. It would activate individual and direct federal assistance programs.

Burgum’s office says nearly 94 percent of the state is in some level of drought, directly affecting more than 425,000 residents.

The governor also is asking for additional staff from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other federal agencies to provide assistance with programs available to help those impacted by the drought.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A hay donation lottery program set up in North Dakota to help drought-stricken ranchers is being expanded to producers in South Dakota and Montana.

The effort was launched last week by North Dakota’s Agriculture Department , North Dakota State University and the Michigan-based nonprofit Ag Community Relief. Officials set up a site near the NDSU campus to accept hay donations that will be doled out to needy producers through a lottery process.

North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring on Tuesday said the lottery will be opened to ranchers throughout the tristate area. The application deadline is Aug. 31.

Ag Community Relief is organizing a large hay donation convoy to North Dakota later this month. The first hay drawing will be in early September. More drawings will be held as donations allow.

 

RIVERDALE, N.D. (AP) — A drainage system is being replaced this summer at the Garrison Dam on the Missouri River in North Dakota.

Army Corps of Engineers project manager Todd Lindquist says the system that manages natural seepage at the dam was losing effectiveness.

The project has included drilling a series of wells and pumping water down them to create a dry area for installing drain pipe.

Lindquist says the level of the Lake Sakakawea reservoir behind the dam isn’t affected.

The  work is expected to be completed later this year.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — American Indian tribes fighting the Dakota Access pipeline want a federal judge to shut down the line while more environmental review is done.

Judge James Boasberg in June ordered federal officials to do more study on the pipeline’s impact on the Standing Rock Sioux — even though the $3.8 billion line began moving North Dakota oil to Illinois June 1.

Boasberg is now considering whether to shut down the line while the review is done. Texas-based developer Energy Transfer Partners and the Army Corps of Engineers don’t want that.

Tribal attorney Jan Hasselman says the pipeline should be shut down to ensure tribal safety. He also “reluctantly” proposed “alternative relief” including implementation of a spill response plan at the Missouri River’s Lake Oahe reservoir, from which the tribe draws water.

 

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline are questioning its proposed route through Nebraska in hopes that state regulators will reject the project or impose restrictions.

The proposed pipeline faced another day of scrutiny Tuesday in a hearing before the Nebraska Public Service Commission, which must decide whether the Keystone XL serves the public interest.

Omaha attorney Brian Jorde asked a consultant for pipeline builder TransCanada why the company hadn’t proposed running the pipeline along the original Keystone pipeline, which was finished in 2010.

TransCanada officials have said their preferred route is the most direct way to transport oil from Alberta, Canada, to an existing pipeline in Steele City, Nebraska. They say their preferred route crosses few major bodies of water.

 

In sports…

AA…

Fargo-Moorhead 5, Kansas City 0

 

MLB…

 

INTERLEAGUE

 

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Brian Dozier hit his first career grand slam and Max Kepler and Eddie Rosario each homered twice, powering the Minnesota Twins past the Milwaukee Brewers 11-4 on Tuesday night for a two-game sweep. Matt Garza turned in his shortest and worst start of the season with eight hits and eight runs allowed in 3 1/3 innings for the Brewers.

Final Pittsburgh 6 Detroit 3

Final Cleveland 4 Colorado 1

Final N-Y Mets 5 Texas 4

Final St. Louis 10 Kansas City 3

 

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Final Toronto 4 N-Y Yankees 2

Final Boston 2 Tampa Bay 0

Final Chi White Sox 8 Houston 5

Final Seattle 7 Oakland 6, 10 Innings

Final L.A. Angels 3 Baltimore 2

 

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Final Miami 7 Washington 3

Final San Diego 7 Cincinnati 3

Final Philadelphia 5 Atlanta 2

Final Arizona 6 L.A. Dodgers 3

Final San Francisco 6 Chi Cubs 3

 

WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION

ATLANTA (AP) — Sylvia Fowles had 27 points and 13 rebounds, helping the Minnesota Lynx beat the Atlanta Dream 81-72 on Tuesday night. Fowles became the 10th player in WNBA history to reach 2,500 rebounds. Minnesota had a 66-64 lead entering the fourth quarter and held the Dream to just eight points the rest of the way.

Final Connecticut 84 Seattle 71

Final N-Y Liberty 81 Indiana 76

 

Vikings…

MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings are bidding farewell to Mankato after 52 years. The Vikings held their final training camp practice in the college town about 90 miles south of the Twin Cities on Tuesday. They broke camp to head back home and prepare for the preseason opener in Buffalo on Thursday.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The majority owners of the Minnesota Vikings are joining a group trying to bring a Major League Soccer expansion franchise to Nashville. Mark, Zygi and Leonard Wilf are minority owners in the Nashville project, according to Nashville Soccer Holdings CEO John R. Ingram. Terms of the Wilfs’ investment haven’t been disclosed.

 

COLLEGE FOOTBALL-OBIT-MACPHERSON

 

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Former Syracuse head football coach Dick MacPherson has died at 86.

MacPherson took over a declining program and led Syracuse to a 66-46-4 record from 1981-90 before returning to the NFL as head coach of the New England Patriots. The second all-time winningest coach in school history went to five bowl games with the Orange and had the nation’s fourth-ranked team in the final 1987 AP poll after going 11-0-1.

 

GOLF

 

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The PGA Championship will be the second major of the 2019 golf season.

The PGA of America has confirmed that its major championship is leaving the mid-summer date it has had for some 50 years and will be played a week after Mother’s Day in 2019. That would leave the PGA Championship in between the April Masters and June U.S. Open.

PGA of America chief executive Pete Bevaqua sited a sports landscape that is changing in part because of the Olympics and alterations to the FedEx Cup.

 

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Some of golf’s top players were sporting a new look as they practiced today in preparation for the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow in Charlotte.

Tournament officials are allowing players to wear shorts during practice rounds this week, a first in the tournament’s 99-year history. World No. 1 Zach Johnson showed off his legs, as did Jordan Spieth (speeth) and Rickie Fowler. But on a rain-soaked Tuesday, only about half of the players took advantage of the change, with many like Rory McIlroy choosing to stick with long pants.

 

HIGH SCHOOL SURVEY

NEW YORK (AP) — A high school sports study conducted by the Korey Stringer Institute and sponsored in part by the NFL shows that many individual states are not fully implementing key safety guidelines to protect athletes from potentially life-threatening conditions, including heat stroke.

More than 7.8 million high school students participate in sanctioned sports annually.

The state-by-state survey showed North Carolina with the most comprehensive health and safety policies at 79 percent, followed by Kentucky at 71 percent. At the bottom were Colorado’s 23 percent and California’s 26 percent.

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is urging calm and says Americans should have “no concerns” after North Korea and President Donald Trump traded fiery threats. He’s insisting he doesn’t believe there is “any imminent threat.” Tillerson says that “Americans should sleep well at night.”

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says he doesn’t think a new diplomatic strategy for North Korea is warranted. Tillerson is speaking after President Donald Trump and North Korea exchanged threats that have raised concerns about a potential military confrontation.

PARIS (AP) — France’s interior minister says that a driver intentionally targeted soldiers in a calculated car attack, and that authorities are still searching for the perpetrator. Gerard Collomb told reporters that the attack near Paris Wednesday marks the sixth time that soldiers with the Sentinelle operation have been targeted.

CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — The actions of President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission could go against what commission members are trying to fight. Officials from both parties have said that U.S. elections are so decentralized that it would be impossible for hackers to manipulate ballot counts or voter rolls on a wide scale. But the commission wants to keep information on voters from every state. That would provide one-stop shopping for hackers and hostile foreign governments.

CHAMPLAIN, N.Y. (AP) — Thousands of migrants are fleeing the United States for Canada via a remote back road in upstate New York. The Canadians arrest the migrants as soon as they step across the border from the United States. The migrants prefer to take a chance in Canada rather than risk being deported from the United States.