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CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

.FRIDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Cloudy with chance of rain showers and slight

chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds 5 to

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

.SATURDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain

showers in the morning, in the Jamestown area, 30 percent chance in the Valley City area,l then mostly sunny in the afternoon. Highs

in the mid 70s. North winds around 5 mph.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. North

winds around 5 mph shifting to the west after midnight.

.SUNDAY…Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Clear. Lows in the mid 50s.

.MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Highs around 80.

Lows in the mid 50s.

.THURSDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.

Friday into Saturday, strong to possibly isolated severe thunderstroms in

southern ND Saturday as well.

Early next week a dry and warm forecast with highs in the 80s Monday through Wednesday across western and central ND.

Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Police is warning Jamestown residents regarding a convicted sex offender living in Jamestown.

Sandy Lee Mangelsen resides at 1610 Business Loop East, No. 12, Starlite Motel, Jamestown ND.

He present has no vehicle.

Mangelsen is a 30 year old white male, six feet on inch tall, weighing 185 pounds with green eyes and blond hair.

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

Offense: Gross Sexual Imposition, while he was a registered sex offender, involving a 14 year old gir.

Conviction Date: Novmeber 2007 in Grand Forks, ND District Court.

Disposition: 60 days, 30 days suspended, 5 years supervised probation.

Offense: Sexual Contact with females under 16 years old, when Mangelsen was 18 years old.

The offense was discovered when police investigated Mangelsen touching a 19 year old girl.

Conviction: January 2001, in Codington, SD, District Court.

Disposition: 180 days, suspended for one year.

He is currently on GPS Monitoring, and is on probation with North Dakota Probation and parole.

Mangelsen 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 Sandy Lee Mangelsen 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 Jamestown City Council met in Special Session, Thursday evening at City Hall. All member were present.

The Council considered entering into an agreement with Mark Goehner for the acquisition of Lot 1, Blk 1, Margo 1st Addition, for $5,000.

The city agrees to an exchange of lots and the city deferring for five years, Special Assessments, pending development.

The lots being exchanged will be used for storm water storage in Northeast Jamestown, near the new TRAC building

Immediately following the Council meeting the Jamestown City Council’s Committees met jointly for the August meetings.

FINANCE & LEGAL COMMITTEE BUSINESS:

The committee recommends approval of the Flex PACE Rubric with the same policy used in the Flex PACE Program and allow the JSDC Board of Directors to have the ability to approve up to $86,000.00 in Flex PACE Funds.

The committee recommends approving the request from JSDC for 2018 South Central Dakota Regional Council Dues from Economic Development Funds, in the amount of $35,869.00, with the City Share to be $22,597.00 and paid from the City Sales Tax Fund.

The committee recommends the request from JSDC for Flex PACE Interest Buy down Funds for Witthauer, Inc., in the amount of $86,000.00, with the City Share to be $68,800.00 and paid from the City Sales Tax Fund.

The business has purchased the former Pizza Hut building on 10^th Street Southeast, to move the business to that location.

The committee recommends approving the request from JSDC Economic Development Funds for Jamestown Tourism’s Grant request, in the amount of $75,000.00, with the City Share to be $60,000.00 and paid from the City Sales Tax Fund.

The committee recommends drafting a busking ordinance for the City of Jamestown, a street performer permit.

Local performers have indicated they want to perform at the Hansen Arts Park, downtown.

The committee tabled introducing the first reading of an Ordinance to amend and re-enact Chapter 5, Article III, Section 5-39 of the City Code pertaining to Alcoholic Beverage Temporary Permits.

Departmental and financial reports were presented.

BUILDING, PLANNING & ZONING COMMITTEE BUSINESS:

No agenda items at this time.

CIVIC CENTER AND PROMOTION COMMITTEE

No agenda items at this time.

CIVIC CENTER AND PROMOTION COMMITTEE

No agenda items at this time.

It was noted that the city and the James River Rodeo Association has signed an agreement for continuance of the rodeo performances.

FIRE & POLICE COMMITTEE BUSINESS:

The committee recommends authorizing the demolition of the building destroyed by fire on part of Lots 3 and 4, Block 8, Original Plat to the City of Jamestown. The City has received a quit claim deed on the structure.

Informational: The Second Reading of Ordinance No. 1498, introduced by Council Member Brubakken, to amend and re-enact Section 21-16-04.1 of the City Code pertaining to parking of trailers, motor homes, etc., is scheduled for the September 5, 2017, City Council meeting.

PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE BUSINESS:

The committee recommends authorizing advertising for bids for the installation of Monitoring Well System Upgrades for the Sanitary Landfill. The wells are required by the State Health Department.

The cost estimates for the project is about $150,000.

A brief update was given on the Storm Water Utility Implementation Project.

New accounts will be set up to match 90-95 percent of city properties, with the utility bill system, to be charged a fee.

The city plans to hold public meetings on the issue, in the future.

The meetings were shown live on CSi Cable 67 followed by replays.

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Tourism Grant/Executive Board met Thursday morning at the CSi Technology Center at Historic Franklin School.

Requests were made on behalf of:

Big Guns of the Old West, Fort Seward

Sensory Garden Kiosk, Jamestown Parks and Recreation

Mower purchase, Jamestown Parks and Recreation Foundation.

Declaration of Conflict of Interest.

Financial Report: Mitzi Hager.

Tourism Report: Searle Swedlund.

Ex Officio Report.

New Business:

Grant Request allocation:

Under Events, the Board granted the request from Fort Seward for the Big Guns of the Old West event, on September 9, 2017, in the amount of $1,000 for advertising to promote the Gatling Gun Demonstration.

The estimated economic impact is $5,000 with the attendance around 100 people.

Under Capital Construction Fund allocations:

The board heard a request from the Jamestown Parks and Recreation Foundation of $3,800 to help cover cost of Kiosk signage project at the Sensory Garden Park at Solien DeNault Park, on Parks and Recreation property. The cost installed is $3,680. Maintenance will be by the Parks and Recreation Department.

Other funding sources are: Jamestown Park Foundation in the amount of $10,000, Private Naming Rights $10,500, and the Jamestown Community Foundation in the amount of $5,000.

The board recommends funding in the amount of $3,800.

The Board heard a request from the Stutsman County Trail Builder Group for a commercial grade mower for hiking and biking trails in the amount of $5,699.

The Board recommends funding in the full amount of $5,699.

Parks and Rec will maintain the machine and employ the operator to maintain three of the five signature trails at White Cloud, North Ridge and Pipestem.

The Board reviewed the Event Grant Guidelines, with board members suggesting any changes or additions.

Major areas included in the discussion were:

Advertising, Engaging Community Events, Bringing visitors to the community, and economic impact, and starting something new.

The board also reviewed the community and mission oriented event grants.

No decisions on possible changes or additions were made at the meeting.

Valley City (CSi) The Valley City Public School District invites the public to a tax hearing September 20, 2017, at 6:30-p.m., to receive public input.

According to Valley City Public Schools Superintendent Josh Johnson the school district is possibly increasing the taxable valuation of the district’s property by 1.22 %.

The taxable valuation increase will include 143 properties, as Johnson adds, that it’s not an increase in the mill levy.

Jamestown (Stutsman County Housing Authority) Money Follows the Persons, and High Plains Fair Housing are sponsoring a rental training event on Wednesday, September 13, 2017 from 8-am. – 4- p.m. at Quality Inn in Jamestown.

The rental training event will include an educational session for landlords, and a tenant rights session. Both sessions are free and open to the public.

The landlord session from 8:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. topics will include: landlord legal responsibilities, child protective services, vulnerable adults, fair housing and criminal guidance, service animals, and reasonable accommodations. The tenant rights session from 1:30 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. topics will include: service animals, reasonable accommodations, tenant rights, guide to affordable housing, renter insurance, and applying for assistance.

The training events are meant to help educate the owners, landlords, renters, and service workers of the rental laws and federal regulations, and provide contacts with various agencies. This is the fourth rental education event in the region in the past four years.

Update…

Fargo – Valley News Live has confirmed that a two day old baby has been taken out of a home in an apartment building, in Fargo, the last place Savanna Greywind was believed to be before she went missing. A DNA test is being done to see if the baby is Savanna Greywind’s. A family relative says a couple detectives rushed into the building, kicked in the door of an upstairs unit and took a baby out of the unit.

The relative tells Valley News Live that the baby was allegedly taken in and out of the building in a bag or laundry basket over the past couple days. Two people are now being questioned by police in connection to Savanna’s disappearance.

Reported previously…
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Fargo police have opened a criminal investigation into the disappearance of a 22-year-old pregnant woman.

Savanna Greywind was last seen at her apartment Saturday afternoon. Ground, air and river searches in the Fargo and Grand Forks areas so far have proved unsuccessful.

The Greywind family is offering a $7,000 reward for information that leads to solving the case.

Family and friends gathered Wednesday in downtown Fargo for a vigil and prayer service.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota has its first West Nile virus-related death of the year.

The Health Department says the victim was a central North Dakota woman older than 60. She had underlying medical conditions and died while hospitalized. Officials didn’t release her name.

West Nile virus is transmitted by mosquitoes. Symptoms include fever, headache, body aches and rash. Many people infected with the virus experience mild or no symptoms.

There have been 29 confirmed human West Nile virus cases in the state this year. Last year, North Dakota had 85 cases and two deaths.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Education Fact-Finding Commission is recommending that the Bismarck Public Schools create a new committee to discuss teacher safety concerns.

The commission issued their recommendation Wednesday following a public impasse hearing last week. During the impasse several teachers attested to the violence they’ve encountered in their classrooms.

The commission suggested the school district establish a safety and health committee to look into the incidents in response to the testimonies and the Bismarck Education Association’s proposal to add safe workplace language into teacher contracts.

The teachers union and the district would appoint members to the committee.

Association negotiator Toni Gumeringers says she was pleased with the commission’s recommendation for a committee.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Environmental groups being sued by the developer of the Dakota Access pipeline say the lawsuit is an attack on free speech.

They also say it’s an effort to punish supporters of American Indian tribes that opposed the project over fears of environmental harm.

Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners this week sued Greenpeace, BankTrack and Earth First, alleging they disseminated false and misleading information and damaged the company. ETP seeks money damages that could approach $1 billion.

BankTrack maintains it did nothing wrong in speaking out about potential impacts of the $3.8 billion pipeline to move North Dakota oil to Illinois. Greenpeace says the lawsuit is meritless, harassment and an attempt to silence free speech.

ETP says it has an obligation to its shareholders, partners and stakeholders to file the lawsuit.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Drought has eased over the past week in North Dakota but still blankets the western part of the state.

The latest U.S. Drought Monitor map shows 63 percent of the state in some form of drought, down from 82 percent last week.

Areas of extreme or exceptional drought, the two worst categories, have declined from 44 percent to 22 percent. The only part of North Dakota in exceptional drought is now a small area in the northwestern corner.

The Drought Monitor says precipitation was above normal for much of the Dakotas over the week, but significant long-term dryness still exists. Some ranchers in North Dakota are being forced to drill new water wells, with their existing wells drying up.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is pushing for a comprehensive study of cloud seeding over complaints from farmers and ranchers that the practice may be making drought conditions worse.

Burgum told a meeting of the state Water Commission that a lot of people think the commission is using old and insufficient data to support the program. One of those studies was conducted between 1969 and 1972.

Six counties and a portion of a seventh participate in the state’s weather modification program, which seeds clouds with silver iodide to suppress hail and increase rainfall.

The budget for the cloud seeding program is about $1 million for 2017, with one-third coming from the state and two-thirds from participating counties.

The commission took no action on Burgum’s request.

SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) — Protesters opposing the replacement of Enbridge Energy’s aging Line 3 oil pipeline shut down construction in northern Wisconsin for a brief time.

Enbridge spokeswoman Jennifer Smith says a group of about 20 protesters entered a worksite outside Superior on Monday and vandalized equipment before leaving on their own. She didn’t immediately have a damage estimate.

Video footage posted on social media shows masked protesters locking themselves onto equipment.

Smith says there were no injuries and no arrests. Douglas County Sheriff Tom Dalbec didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Line 3 pipeline carries Canadian crude from Alberta to Wisconsin, clipping the northeastern corner of North Dakota and crossing northern Minnesota. Enbridge is working to replace the line but tribal and environmental groups are fighting the $7.5 billion project.

In sports…

BISMARCK (AP) After their win against the defending Class 9-Man State Champions last week, the Cavalier High football team tops the first 9-Man Football Poll of the 2017 season, as voted on by members of the North Dakota Associated Press Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.

First place votes are in parenthesis, followed by the teams record, and the number of total points received.

Cavalier (7) 1-0 53
2. Bismarck Shiloh Christian (4) 1-0 48
3. Wyndmere Lidgerwood (3) 1-0 43
4. St. John (1) 1-0 38
5. Thompson 0-1 17

Others Receiving Votes: New Salem-Almont (1-0), North Prairie (1-0), May-Port CG (1-0), Linton-HMB (1-0), Mohall-LS (1-1),Divide County (1-0), Napoleon/G-S (1-0), Oakes (1-0)

In world and national news…

BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) — The Massachusetts woman who won the $758.7 million Powerball jackpot has quit her job at the hospital where she worked for three decades and says she wants to relax. Fifty-three-year-old Mavis L. Wanczyk, of Chicopee, worked at Mercy Medical Center for 32 years. She says she used birthdays to choose some of the numbers when she bought the winning Powerball ticket on Wednesday at a store in Chicopee.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — At least two cities along the Texas Gulf Coast are ordering mandatory evacuations as Hurricane Harvey approaches the coastline. The cities of Port Aransas and Aransas Pass issued evacuation orders Thursday, hours before forecasters expect heavy winds and rain from the storm to begin.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye says he’s relieved that that none of the 27 national monuments under review by U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke have been recommended for elimination. Begaye says “it’s good that none of the monuments will be canceled.” He says his tribe that has the largest American Indian reservation is willing to be patient with the monument review.

SINGAPORE (AP) — The U.S. Navy says a multinational search has been suspended in the ocean near Singapore for sailors still missing from a collision between a destroyer and an oil tanker, and that it has identified the remains of one victim. The 7th Fleet said divers will continue to search flooded compartments inside the ship, where some remains have been found. The Navy has not provided specifics.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a disgruntled employee shot one person and is holding hostages in a restaurant in an area of Charleston, South Carolina, that is popular with tourists. Mayor John Tecklenburg said at a news conference that the shooting Thursday at Virginia’s in downtown Charleston was not an act of terrorism or racism.