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Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown’s 2017 7th Annual, Okotberfest will be Saturday Sept 9, 2017 from 5:30-p.m. to 9:30-p.m. at the Stutsman County Fairgrounds, a celebration of beer, brats and lederhosen.
Tickets are $35 and are available from Cork & Barrel, The Arts Center, Arts Center Board members and at the gate.
All proceeds will go to support programing at The Arts Center.
Oktoberfest is sponsored by Jamestown Tourism, Cork & Barrel, Cargill Malt, Bergseth Brothers, Cavendish Farms, Beverage Wholesalers, and Valley Sales.
There will be a homemade brewing contest with all styles of beer welcome (Not just Okotberfest style, along with beer sampling available.)
Activities
5:30 – 9:30 pm Food, Beer, Games, Music
5:30 – 8:00 pm Hammerschlagen Practice
6:00 – 6:30 pm ND Beer: A Heady History by Alicia Underlee Nelson book talk (15 min presentation and 15 min Q & A)
6:30 – 7:30 pm ND Beer/Oktoberfest Trivia: Teams can be 1 – 4 people. Prizes for the top three trivia teams!
7:30 – 9:30 pm Polk Band & Dancing by: Matt Hodek and the Dakota Dutchmen
8:00 – 9:30 pm Hammerschlagen Tournament ($5 buy-in)
A 50/50 Raffle will be held, so bring some cash to join in!
The Arts Center is proud to welcome the Oktoberfest season with the Seventh Annual Oktoberfest.
They point out that Oktoberfest is a great time of camaraderie, beer, music, costumes, fun. Look for some great mouth-watering Oktoberfest food. Enjoy the Polka Band, games and, of course, there is the beer. As with all Oktoberfest celebrations around the world quaffing great beer, partying with wonderful, enthusiastic members of the community and celebrating life, German style is what it is all about.
Historically the Arts Center reports that the home base of all Oktoberfest celebrations takes place in Munich, Germany each year and spans 16 – 18 days running from late September to the first weekend in October. It is one of the most famous events in Germany and the world’s largest fair, with more than 5 million people attending every year. The Oktoberfest is an important part of Bavarian culture. Other cities across the world also hold Oktoberfest celebrations, modeled after the Munich event.
Jamestown (CSi) The Annual “Guns of the Old West” will be on Saturday September 9, 2017 at Fort Seward in Jamestown. The Gatling Gun and Howitzer Cannon demonstration is set for 1-p.m.
Fort Seward in Jamestown was the place to be last year (2016) for viewing the “Big Guns of the Old West”, with an 1870’s Gatling Gun demonstration by Chuck Keller, with Keith Norman and Dale Marks demonstrating the Howitzer cannon.
Photos by Matt Sheppard for CSiNewsNOW.com – Lots More at Facebook
2016 Fort Seward Gatling’s Battery Gun Photo Album at Facebook
Dale Marks will have a display of Springfield rifles from his personal collection.
A camp scene will set up by the 20th Infantry reenactors and a Dutch oven cooking demonstration.
Jamestown (CSi) The James River Valley Library System is participating in an international celebration of the importance of libraries. The library is one of over 200 libraries world-wide creating a program that illustrates the important role the library plays in their community
The project is to encourage people to write a personal library story.
LENGTH: 300 – 800 words
Send stories to billkennedy0@gmail.com or submit online at
http://www.friendsofjrvl.org & scroll down to JRVLS IS OUTSIDE THE LINE.
The goal is to receive 100 stories before September 30, 2017.
The stories will be posted on Friends Of the Library social media.
Friends Face Book: www.facebook.com/friendsofJRVL/
Friends Web Page: www.friendsofjrvl.org/
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Hundreds of mourners, many of them wearing red shirts, gathered to remember a Fargo woman whose body was found three days after authorities recovered a newborn baby believed to be hers.
The funeral Thursday for 22-year-old Savanah Greywind included Native American songs and prayer and tributes from Spirit Lake Tribal Chairwoman Myra Pearson and Fargo Mayor Tim Mahoney.
Pearson said she couldn’t find the words to express what happened, but says it has brought communities together and she believes “something great is going to come out of this.” Mahoney said the entire community lost a daughter.
The red shirts are meant to honor Greywind and other indigenous women killed or missing.
A private burial ceremony was planned later Thursday.
Two of Greywind’s neighbors are charged with murder and kidnapping.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by a Fargo woman who says police wrongly accused of her of possessing a meth pipe.
Sarah Rhodes filed a civil rights complaint last year that named the city of Fargo, two police officers and the former police chief.
Police said they found the pipe in the backseat of a squad car after Rhodes had been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. Rhodes said the pipe had been thrown on the floor of the squad car by another suspect two days earlier.
Rhodes was originally charged with a felony for possession of drug paraphernalia. The charge was later dropped. She was convicted of DUI and fined $600.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Drought conditions in the Dakotas haven’t changed much over the past week, due to above-normal temperatures and little rain.
The latest U.S. Drought Monitor map shows 66 percent of North Dakota in some stage of drought, unchanged over the week. Twenty-one percent of the state is in extreme or exceptional drought, down slightly from 22 percent.
The Drought Monitor says conditions improved in south central North Dakota but worsened in the north central part of the state.
In South Dakota, 71 percent of the state is in some stage of drought, up from 69 percent. Forty-four percent of the state is in severe or extreme drought, up slightly from 43 percent.
The Drought Monitor says conditions improved in southeastern South Dakota but worsened in the western part of the state.
WAHPETON, N.D. (AP) — Wahpeton Mayor Meryl Hansey has resigned in the midst of his battle with cancer.
The 81-year-old Hansey had been absent from his public duties due to his illness since June. The Daily News reports that the City Council accepted his resignation on Tuesday.
City residents have 15 days to file a petition calling for a special election. If no one files, the council may appoint one of its own members to fill out Hansey’s term, which expires next June.
Council President Steve Dale has been handling the mayoral duties.
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans have almost doubled the size of the disaster relief package for Harvey to more than $15 billion, a first installment to help communities in Texas rebuild from the storm — and stock reserves for looming damage from Hurricane Irma. The must-do legislation is paired with a short-term increase in the government’s borrowing authority and a temporary government funding bill. It’s on track to pass the Senate as early as today.
UNDATED (AP) — Potentially catastrophic structural failures last winter at America’s tallest dam left managers literally in the dark, despite years of federal urging to consider bolstering cameras and other monitors to give them time to alert the public in an emergency. California state records reviewed by The Associated Press reveal for the first time the difficulty Oroville Dam managers had gauging the evolving dangers in February for 188,000 people who had been evacuated downstream.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Pope Francis is telling Colombia’s bishops that they have a unique role to play in helping Colombians heal from a half-century of rebellion, saying they must show a “distinct kind of moral courage” to help Colombians overcome their base instincts of war and fear. Francis also urged the church hierarchy to work for unity and communion in-house — a reference to the divisions even within the Catholic Church over the terms of the peace accord.
UNDATED (AP) — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says any new policy on investigating sexual assault on college campus must balance the rights of victims and the accused. She’s announced plans to replace Obama administration guidance that spelling out schools’ responsibility. She calls that a failed system.
NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York Yankees shortstop, manager and executive Gene Michael has died at 79. The team says he had a heart attack. After his playing career ended in 1976, Michael joined the Yankees’ front office and served as manager and general manager under owner George Steinbrenner. He helped put together the Derek Jeter-led teams that won World Series titles in 1996 and from 1998 to 2000. He then remained a key adviser to current general manager Brian Cashman.
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