CSi Weather…

.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s. Northwest winds

5 to 10 mph shifting to the east in the afternoon.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows in the upper 20s.

Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

.MONDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Decreasing clouds. Lows around 30.

.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Highs in the lower 40s. Lows in the 20s to lower 30s.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The 14th Annual Holiday Dazzle on Main Parade in Jamestown is set for this evening.

The parade lineup at McElroy Park will start at 6 p.m.

The parade starts at 7 p.m. moving from McElroy Park north to  First Avenue to First Street East.

The after parade party will be at the Knights of Columbus Hall.

The Jamestown Choralaires will provide entertainment offering holiday songs, and refreshments will be served.

At the party float award winners will be announced with trophies.

For more information, contact Lambrecht at 320-7217 or email jamestowndowntown@gmail.com

 

Valley City  (CSi)  The Barnes County Salvation Army Red Kettle campaign kicks off today in Valley City.

Bell ringer locations will be at Leveers Foods, Shopko and Marketplace Foods in Valley City.

Volunteer bell ringers are asked to contact Joe Lunde at 845-1974.

Those receiving mail requests should place the donation in the envelope  and place it in a Valley City Red Kettle. All donations stay in the community to help the needy.

 

Valley City  (CSi)  CHI Mercy Health Foundation presents the 22nd Annual Festival of Trees Sat Nov 25 at the Valley City Eagles.

Doors open at 6-p.m., Live Auction at 7:30-p.m., Entertainment at 8:30-p.m.

Featuring the VCHS Show Choir & the VC Hi-lites Dance Team.

There will be an hors d’oeuvre buffet, Silent Auction, Live Auction, Designer Purse Auction, a Mystery Duffle Raffle, a Quilt Raffle, a Deluxe  Trip Raffle, and much more.

This year the money raised will help with X-ray imaging, an updated CR Reader Software that send the X-ray images to an off-site radiologist  for diagnosis and back to the physicians reading their patients charts.

The cost is $20,000.

The hospital performs over 2,200 X-Rays per year.

Call 701-845-6557 for more information.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Epilepsy Awareness group is sponsoring a Bake Sale at the vendor show at the Buffalo Mall on Saturday November 25, 2017. Come see the little purple elves from Team Braelon at work. We would welcome and donations of baked items, cracker mixes or anything else you may want to donate for this cause. Cash donations are always welcome. All proceeds will go to the Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota/North Dakota and The Chelsea Hutchinson Foundation.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger says fewer residents are reporting seven-figure incomes due to a prolonged slump in agriculture and energy prices.

Figures released to The Associated Press show 686 people reported incomes of more than $1 million on their 2016 individual tax returns. That’s a drop of nearly 40 percent from the record 1,120 people in 2014 when the states’ oil boom was at its zenith.

Rauschenberger says most of the people reporting seven-figure incomes are in North Dakota’s 17 oil-producing counties. That income comes largely from royalties paid to mineral owners by oil companies.

In 2006, while North Dakota’s oil boom was in its infancy, there were 339 so-called “income millionaires.”

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Plains farm aid nonprofit that’s grown steadily in size and scope since being launched in North Dakota about a dozen years ago is expanding its services again.

Farm Rescue is adding livestock feeding assistance to its list of services that include crop planting and harvesting, haying, and hay and grain hauling.

The new service will be offered throughout the organization’s territory, which has grown through the years to include North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Montana and Nebraska.

Farm Rescue doesn’t dole out cash. It provides free physical labor for farmers and ranchers dealing with an injury, illness or a natural disaster. It relies on volunteers from around the country, donations and corporate sponsors. It reached a milestone last summer, helping its 500th case.

 

 

MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — An inmate who walked away from the Clay County Jail in Moorhead was recaptured after a foot chase.

A police officer noticed the inmate Thursday afternoon because of his orange jail clothing and ordered the man to stop. He fled, and law officers set up a one-block perimeter and called in a police dog from West Fargo, North Dakota.

The inmate tried to flee again but was taken into custody without further incident.

He was identified as 25-year-old James Wingo. It wasn’t immediately clear how he was able to walk away from the jail.

 

In sports…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Game and Fish Department is holding its annual fall advisory board meetings around the state starting Monday.

The governor appoints eight Game and Fish advisers to each represent a section of the state and serve as a liaison between the department and the public. Meetings are held each spring and fall to give the public a chance to discuss outdoors issues and ask questions of the advisers and department officials.

Meetings are Monday in Lansford and Ashley, Tuesday in Devils Lake and Grand Forks, Dec. 4 in Cogswell and Dickinson, and Dec. 5 in Watford City and Wilton. Full meeting details can be found on the Game and Fish website

 

In world and national news…

EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — The U.N. Security Council and Secretary-General Antonio Guterres have condemned the deadly attack on a mosque in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in “the strongest terms” and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice. The council statement called it a “heinous and cowardly terrorist attack” and reiterated that all acts of terrorism “are criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation.”

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Some international leaders are urging Zimbabwe’s new president to deliver on his promises of inclusiveness, economic reform and free and fair elections. Britain’s minister for Africa, Rory Stewart, says that “this is a country which has suffered terribly and which may be, if we’re patient … at a moment of change.” The group of global leaders known as The Elders says that “upcoming elections in 2018 are a crucial test of Zimbabwe’s new leaders’ commitment to democracy and political reform.”

NEW YORK (AP) — One toy expert says hot toys were hard to find in stores. Jim Silver, editor-in-chief of toy review website TTPM says among the sold-out ones were: Fingerlings robotic monkeys; Luvabella moving dolls; and Pikmi Pops and LOL Surprise Big Surprise, both of which hide dolls or small stuffed animals in plastic balls that are wrapped in several layers of packaging.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Beyond the slick, Hollywood-style cinematics, the Islamic State is targeting Western recruits with videos suggesting they, too, can be heroes like Bruce Willis’ character in “Die Hard.” That’s the conclusion of The Chicago Project on Security and Threats, which analyzed some 1,400 videos released by IS between 2013 and 2016. Researchers who watched and catalogued them all said there is more to the recruitment effort than just sophisticated videography, and it’s not necessarily all about Islam.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wants to end welfare as Bill Clinton knows it. Welfare was one of the defining issues of Clinton’s presidency, starting with his campaign promise to “end welfare as we know it.” His overhaul remains hotly debated 20 years later. Now Trump says “people are taking advantage of the system” and he wants to change it.