CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Southeast winds up to 10 mph.

.THURSDAY…Sunny. Highs 75 to 80. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers after midnight in the Jamestown, 20 percent in the Valley City area. Lows 60 to 65.

.FRIDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent  chance of showers in the morning, then mostly sunny.  with a slight chance of showers and

thunderstorms in the afternoon. Breezy. Highs 75 to 80. Chance of

precipitation 40 percent in the Valley City area. Breezy. Highs 75 to 80.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. A chance of showers. Lows in the

mid 50s.

.SATURDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs 80 to 85.

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

.SUNDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.

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

.LABOR DAY…Mostly sunny. Highs 70 to 75.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows 45 to 50.

.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers. Highs 70 to

75.

 

Some thunderstorms are possible Friday. Severe storms are not

expected.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  Jamestown’s Salvation Army and Community Action Region six office in Jamestown have been inundated with requests for shelter and other personal and baby items, as individuals from southeast Texas, devastated by Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey with family make their way to Jamestown.

Deb Carlascio of Jamestown tells CSiNewsNow.com that the Texas refugees in Jamestown are in need of sheltering.  Supplies at the Salvation Army and Community Action food pantries are running short, stemming from requests.  She says the Salvation Army is assisting with shelter as best they can.

She adds that either the Jamestown Salvation Army or Community Action Region Six in Jamestown are drop off points from such items as personal hygiene products, diapers, baby food and formula, and other essential items, along with food and clothing.

She asks churches in Jamestown to give whatever assistance they can to these individuals as well.

 

Revised…

Jamestown (CSi)  Jamestown Public Works announces a revision to the plans for Utility Service Work, WATER OUTAGES.

Now, beginning at approximately 7:00 am – 7:00 PM ON FRIDAY, September 1, 2017, in the following areas will be affected:

 

  • Homes in the 1100 – 1200 Block of 4TH Ave NW

 

  • Homes along 11th St NW between 3rd Ave & 4th Ave NW

 

Water outages will be temporary  – water service will be resumed as soon as is possible.

This announcement is contingent upon changing weather conditions.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown warehouse of Orphan Grain Train is accepting items for several shipments of goods, food and supplies as well as the volunteer village for relief efforts in Texas following the destruction of Hurricane Harvey.

The Jamestown OGT Branch will be coordinating with the main office in Norfolk, Nebraska, to get collected items delivered to Texas.

Orphan Grain Train is collecting hygiene kits (these can contain toothpaste), new underwear and socks, tennis shoes, diapers, formula, nonperishable food, cleaning supplies to include large sponges, large heavy trash bags, brooms, mops, 5-gallon buckets, dust masks, safety glasses, work gloves, cleaning gloves (kitchen latex), tarps, pry bars (for removing Sheetrock), square shovels, wheelbarrows, pressure washers (gas) and gas-powered generators. A cleaning bucket can be prepared which would include a 5-gallon bucket, one large sponge, one roll of paper towels, 2 gallons of liquid cleaner (Mr. Clean, Pine-sol, Lysol), one powder cleanser (Comet, Ajax), one pair of kitchen latex gloves, one broom and one mop.

Any of the items can be delivered to the Jamestown OGT warehouse at 103 4th Ave. SE from 9 a.m. to noon Monday and Saturday. Or call Sue Corwin, 320-3259, or Carmen Larson, 269-6555, to coordinate a different time.

OGT said the cost to transport one truckload is $6,000, so any financial support would be appreciated. Monetary donations can be sent to – Orphan Grain Train, P. O. Box 1466, Norfolk, NE 68702 or donate online at www.ogt.org. Indicate disaster relief – Hurricane Harvey.

 

 

Jamestown   (CSi)  The Jamestown Music Boosters presents, “Music Through the Ages,” Sunday September 17 2017, at 7-p.m., at the Jamestown High School Theater.

Local artists will be featured including:  Jamestown High School Students, and directors; University of Jamestown faculty, and alumni; the Jamestown Choralaires Father Daughter group; and other Jamestown community members.

$10 for adults, $5 for students, and $25 family.

Those unable to  make it to the show, but would like to show support in other ways, consider donating to the Boosters or setting up your Amazon account to purchase through AmazonSmile. A portion of your purchase will be automatically dispersed into the Music Boosters account – and it doesn’t cost you any more than going through the regular Amazon site. Sign up through this link:  http://smile.amazon.com/ch/61-1546028

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The public is invited to attend a free, family-friendly open house at a local U.S. Geological Survey center for ecology research on Saturday, September 16, 2017 from 2-p.m., to 5-p.m.

8711 37th St. Southeast, Jamestown, North Dakota (map)

Take the I-94 Bloom exit (exit 262) and head one mile south, just east of Jamestown.

Attendees will have the opportunity to meet face-to-face with USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center scientists and learn about research conducted at the Jamestown, facility. Wildlife-oriented activities will be available for children, and refreshments, including cookies and lemonade, will be provided.

The USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center has been a member of the Jamestown community since its founding in 1965, and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2015 with an informational open house.

USGS biologist at the center, biologist, Dave Mushet says,   “Our science center enjoys the opportunity to show members of the community what we do, and we hope to make this a regular event.”

 

Jamestown (CSi)  The band Gooding’s Financial Literacy Tour, sponsored by Raymond James Financial, Inc., will perform Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 9-a.m., at the Jamestown High School, theater, as part of an effort to educate teens about making sound financial decisions.

Funding for the Future a nonprofit organization is partnering with the North Dakota Securities Department to have Gooding perform in North Dakota schools.

The event includes a concert, a multimedia presentation and question-and-answer discussions on predatory lending, saving early and the danger of credit card debt.

The band’s Financial Literacy Tour is sponsored by Raymond James Financial Inc.

Fargo (Stutsman Co. Vets Service Office) The Fargo VA Health Care System extends an invitation to attend the upcoming Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony and Open House at the Fargo VA Medical Center on October 6, 2017, at 11 a.m.

The ribbon-cutting will take place in the Fargo VA Healing Garden by the flagpole.

The purpose of the ribbon-cutting is to highlight a number of construction

projects that have recently come to fruition: the new Community Living

Center, Primary Care Department, Imaging Department, Healing Garden, and

Intensive Care Unit. After the ribbon-cutting, those attending are welcome to check outthe new Community Living Center between the hours of 12-3 p.m. Free cake and refreshments will be available.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that the McKenzie County Commission overstepped its authority when it disciplined a lieutenant in its sheriff’s department.

The  Supreme Court ruled that the commission can’t restrict or remove a sheriff’s authority.

The district court previously denied McKenzie County Sheriff Gary Schwartzenberger’s request to prohibit the commission from placing Lt. Michael Schmitz on unpaid administrative leave.

Schmitz was placed on leave following an investigation into bullying allegations. An interim sheriff fired him for an unrelated disciplinary reason.

The commission also had petitioned to remove Schwartzenberger from office. But Schwartzenberger was reinstated as sheriff Aug. 4 after Gov. Doug Burgum dismissed a months-long proceeding.

Schwartzenberger currently faces charges for unauthorized use of county credit cards.

 

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — About 100 people gathered for a prayer circle outside the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office in St. Paul where the body of a slain North Dakota woman was taken for an autopsy.

Police say 22-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind died from homicidal violence this month at an apartment she shared with her parents in Fargo. A couple who lived upstairs is charged with conspiring to kidnap and murder LaFontaine-Greywind, who was eight months pregnant, and steal her baby, who remains in protective custody.

The Star Tribune reports that many in the group that gathered in St. Paul Tuesday night were dressed in green, the victim’s favorite color. LaFontaine-Greywind was a member of the Spirit Lake Dakota tribe. Fargo’s cultural planner, Willard Yellow Bird Jr. says her death has devastated the broader American Indian community.

 

DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — A Dickinson man accused of driving drunk in a fatal hit-and-run on New Year’s Day has pleaded guilty.

Twenty-three-year-old Michael Bracamonte was accused of striking and killing 22-year-old Rudy Garcia with his pickup truck in the early morning hours of Jan. 1, then fleeing. He later returned and surrendered.

Bracamonte pleaded guilty Tuesday to two felony charges related to driving drunk and cause the death of another person. He could face up to 30 years in prison. Sentencing wasn’t immediately scheduled.

 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — A Grand Forks man has been sentenced to serve three years in prison for leading law officers on a chase in a stolen vehicle last spring.

Twenty-nine-year-old Derek Fuglem was accused of leading Grand Forks police and Grand Forks County deputies on a chase April 24 that reached speeds of up to 110 mph.

Court documents show Fuglem pleaded guilty Monday to theft, reckless endangerment and fleeing, and prosecutors dropped drug charges. He was sentenced to five years in prison with two years suspended, and given credit for about four months already spent behind bars.

 

SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) — Authorities have arrested six protesters at an Enbridge Energy pipeline construction site near Superior in northwestern Wisconsin.

Tuesday’s arrests were the first at the site, where Enbridge is building a replacement for its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline from Alberta across North Dakota and Minnesota to Superior. Nobody was arrested in two protests there last week.

Enbridge says the protest interrupted construction, and it can’t continue to tolerate trespassing, vandalism or unlawful actions that put people or the environment at risk.

The six protesters face charges of trespassing and disorderly conduct. Three are from Cloquet, Minnesota; the others are from Michigan, South Dakota, and Saskatchewan.

Environmental and tribal groups oppose the project. Honor the Earth says more protests are planned this weekend at Enbridge sites in Wisconsin and Michigan.

 

 

In sports…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota wildlife officials are reducing the number of bighorn sheep hunting licenses available this year as they continue to see the impacts of disease on the western herd.

The Game and Fish Department is making five of the once-in-a-lifetime licenses available, three fewer than last year. The decision came after the agency’s annual summer survey found 83 rams in the western Badlands, 21 fewer than in 2016.

Big Game Management Biologist Brett Wiedmann says the 20 percent decline in rams is tied to an outbreak of bacterial pneumonia that surfaced in 2014 and killed dozens of sheep.

Bighorn hunting is big in North Dakota. More than 13,200 hunters have applied for a license this year.

The bighorn season opens Nov. 3 and closes Dec. 31.

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Associated Press investigation shows that 9 percent fewer homes and properties in the Houston area have flood insurance than five years ago despite a growing population. The sharp drop in coverage means many residents fleeing Harvey’s floodwaters will have to draw on savings or go into debt to fix up their homes _ or perhaps be forced to sell. Data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency show that Houston’s Harris County has 25,000 fewer flood-insured properties than it did in 2012.

HOUSTON (AP) — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says the threat of flooding in the state’s southwest appears to be diminishing as Harvey pulls away from the region. He says Louisiana remains committed to assisting officials in Texas, where another overnight round of torrential rains stranded many residents in flooded homes. Edwards says 330 people were staying at a Lake Charles shelter as of Wednesday afternoon. He expects that number to grow as more people are rescued from floodwaters in eastern Texas.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says his “heart goes out even more” to Texans after witnessing “first hand” what he calls the “the horror & devastation” caused by Harvey. Trump’s Wednesday tweet comes the day after he traveled to Texas to meet with state and local officials. The damage he saw _ some boarded-up windows, uprooted trees and fences askew _ was through the tinted windows of his SUV as he traveled from the Corpus Christi airport to a firehouse in a city already nearly back to normal.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Food and Drug Administration says “we’re entering a new frontier in medical innovation” with approval of the first drug that genetically engineers patients’ own blood cells into cancer assassins against childhood leukemia. The CAR-T cell therapy is one of a wave of “living drugs” being developed for different cancers. Maker Novartis Pharmaceuticals says the onetime infusion will cost $475,000 but that patients won’t pay if they don’t show a response within a month.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says that “talking is not the answer” when it comes to North Korea. The country upped the stakes in its standoff with Washington by calling for more weapons launches in the Pacific. Trump morning tweet followed a highly provocative North Korean missile test Tuesday that flew over Japan, a close American ally.