CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Mostly clear. Patchy smoke. Lows around 60. South winds around 5 mph.

.SATURDAY…Sunny. Patchy smoke. Highs in the upper 80s. South

winds 5 to 15 mph.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy with slight chance of showers and

thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy with showers

likely and slight chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in

the lower 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the west after

midnight. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.

.SUNDAY…Mostly cloudy with chance of showers and slight chance

of thunderstorms. Cooler. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds

10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows

in the lower 50s.

.MONDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.

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

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.

.WEDNESDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.

.THURSDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.

 

Smoke from wildfires in Canada and the western US will move

across the region, possibly lowering air quality.

Smoke from wildfires in Canada and the western US may continue to

move across the region through Saturday, possibly lowering air

quality.

Chances for thunderstorms return Saturday afternoon into Sunday.

While the majority of thunderstorms are expected to remain below

severe limits, an isolated severe thunderstorm is possible.

 

Jamestown  (IE)  Interstate Engineering informs Jamestown Residents that due to James River tree snagging and cleaning, starting Monday August 20th, there will be activity on the James River from the Jamestown Reservoir to the 1st Street SW Bridge.

This work is expected to be completed by the end of October. Residents should be aware of equipment and personnel in the James River.
Traffic should be aware of construction operations in the areas where trees will be removed from the river.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL BEN AASETH, AT INTERSTATE ENGINEERING, INC. – (701) 252-0234.

 

Jamestown  (JRMC)  — A child who dies in the womb knows only its parents love. He knows no pain.

Those were the words of the Rev. Jeffrey Wald, St. James Basilica, at Jamestown Regional Medical Center’s GOLF “fore” ANGELS event on Aug. 4.

He says, “We will always be a parent to that child – whether in our arms or in our hearts as angels in heaven.”

The 9-hole ANGELS tournament benefits infant bereavement care at JRMC.

Every year, families experience the loss of an infant due to an unexpected circumstance. The Dr. Mandy and Dave Sorlie ANGELS fund helps pay medical bills for those parents through the JRMC Foundation. The fund is available to anyone who experiences infant loss at JRMC at the gestation of 16 weeks or greater up to 4 months of age due to unavoidable circumstances.

ANGELS stands for Advocating for Neonatal Grief and Early Loss Support (ANGELS). ANGELS grant amounts and recipients are determined by the availability of funds. The grant covers the labor and delivery charges after insurance payments. On average, families that have insurance would otherwise have to pay more than $1,500 for these medical services. ANGELS removes this financial burden and helps families grieve.

Since it started three years ago, ANGELS has helped 10 families.

JRMC Foundation Director Lisa Jackson, says, “It is a wonderful feeling to be surrounded by people who care so deeply about others who experience the loss of a child.  GOLF ‘fore’ ANGELS support is in remembrance of our angels.”

In 2017, the tournament raised about $9,000. This year, the tournament raised $12,700 thanks to the support of more than 20 teams – the biggest in the ANGELS event history.

Tournament results:

  • Tourney Winners (Lowest Gross Score)
    1. Ulland Team
    2. Moser Team
    3. Sorlie Team
  • 50/50 Cash Raffle: Mary Meyer. She donated it back to the fund.
  • Dustin Jensen had a hole in one on #12
  • Hole 10: Ladies Longest Drive: Katie Dumphy
  • Hole11: Longest Putt Gary Weis
  • Hole 12: Closest to the Pin: Dustin Jensen
  • Hole 14: Par 3 Speed hole completed by the Wanzek team in 1.28 minutes
  • Hole 15: Men’s Longest Drive: Dustin Jensen
  • Hole 16 Shortest Drive: Sara Odin
  • Hole 17 Longest Drive: Skyler Oberlander
  • Hole 18 Closest in 2: Eric Volk

Sponsors:

  • Angel
    • Mandy and Mr. Dave Sorlie Family
    • Timothy Volk, in memory of Capri
    • Nill Construction, in memory of Adam Lee Nill
  • Advocate
    • Sanford Health
    • Reis Above Aviation
    • Jason & Meghan Braun Family
    • Jamestown Country Club
    • Zen Sleep Consulting Annie Schlecht, in honor of my sleeping angel, Kyan. Auntie loves you.
  • Hole
    • Essentia Health
    • Sue & Jim Matthiesen in loving memory of Tenley Elizabeth Henning; Mike & Erin’s Angel
    • Two Rivers Printing
    • Jory & Missy Hansen Family in memory of Hayden & Kade
    • Collins Family in memory of Julie Ann Collins
    • Collins Family in memory of Claire Karen Patnaude
    • The Medicine Shoppe
    • Triumph Inc.
    • Ryan, Jess & Gavin Skjeret
    • Kent & Jeanne Sortland
    • Dale & Wendy Thompson in memory of Kyan Lauby, # 9

 

  • Not There But Still Care
    • Steve & Amie Aesoph
    • Gary & Marit Petrek
    • Reuben & Clarice Liechty
    • Deb Bitz
    • Cara Schagunn-Lere
    • Wanda Walker in memory of Kami Jo Walker
    • Brandi Dockter in memory of Johanna Rae Dockter
    • Steve and Rosi Suko
    • Sarah Schatz McGale and Mr. Thomas McGale
    • Rory Timm

Learn more at www.jrmcnd.com/giving.

About Jamestown Regional Medical Center

Jamestown Regional Medical Center is located at 2422 20th St. SW, Jamestown, N.D. and serves approximately 55,000 people in nine counties. In 2018, it was named a “Top 100 Critical Access Hospital” as well as a “Best Places to Work in Healthcare.”  For more information, visit www.jrmcnd.com or call (701) 952-1050.

 

 

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The reigning Miss America says she has been bullied, manipulated and silenced by the pageant’s current leadership, including Gretchen Carlson.

In a letter sent Friday to former Miss Americas, Cara Mund says she decided to speak out despite the risk of punishment.

Her letter is reminiscent of the movie “Mean Girls,” in which characters Gretchen and Regina bully the heroine and make her life miserable. That’s what happened to her in real life, Mund wrote. Gretchen Carlson is chairwoman of the Miss America Organization; Regina Hopper is its CEO.

Her letter exponentially increased the turmoil surrounding the pageant three weeks before the next Miss America is to be crowned in Atlantic City.

“Let me be blunt: I strongly believe that my voice is not heard nor wanted by our current leadership; nor do they have any interest in knowing who I am and how my experiences relate to positioning the organization for the future,” Mund wrote. “Our chair and CEO have systematically silenced me, reduced me, marginalized me, and essentially erased me in my role as Miss America in subtle and not-so-subtle ways on a daily basis. After a while, the patterns have clearly emerged, and the sheer accumulation of the disrespect, passive-aggressive behavior, belittlement, and outright exclusion has taken a serious toll.”

Mund said she’s been left out of interviews, not invited to meetings and called the wrong name. When she obliquely hinted at trouble with pageant leadership in an interview earlier this month with The Press of Atlantic City, Mund said she was swiftly punished by having her televised farewell speech cut to 30 seconds, and was told a dress she had been approved to wear in the traditional “show us your shoes” parade cannot be worn.

This year’s competition will not include swimsuits, and pageant officials from at least 19 states have called for the current leadership to resign.

There was no immediate response from The Miss America Organization or from Carlson and CEO Regina Hopper, who were singled out in Mund’s letter.

Mund said she was given three talking points to be made in every appearance: “Miss America is relevant. The #MeToo movement started with a Miss America, Gretchen Carlson. Gretchen Carlson went to Stanford.” (Mund said she was allowed to mention that she went to Brown to show that both women were highly educated.)

“Right away, the new leadership delivered an important message: There will be only one Miss America at a time, and she isn’t me,” Mund wrote.

Mund, who was Miss North Dakota and won the crown on a platform of increasing the number of women elected to political office, said she was treated better by the previous Miss America leadership that was forced from power after sending emails ridiculing the appearance, intellect and sex lives of former Miss Americas.

She cites examples of mistreatment including being excluded from the nationally televised announcement that swimsuits were being eliminated — even though she was with Carlson at the TV studio where it was made. She says pageant handlers ridiculed her clothing choices and chided her for wearing the same outfits too often. When she reached out to former Miss Americas to see if they had been treated similarly, “I was reprimanded by Regina who told me that problems and concerns had to be kept ‘in the family.’ ”

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota State University has created a new training program to teach pharmacists how to spot patients at risk of abusing opioids, as well as increase the number of prescriptions pharmacists write for overdose treatments.

The university’s School of Pharmacy unveiled the program called ONERx on Wednesday in hopes of combating opioid abuse in the state, the Bismarck Tribune reported .

“None of us are out of the reach of this (opioid) epidemic,” said professor Mark Strand. “We need all hands on deck in North Dakota to address this problem.”

ONERx provides training to pharmacists on a tool to assess risk for opioid abuse among patients. The program also teaches the science behind addiction and provides pharmacists with a list of addiction treatment services to which they can refer patients. It also educates them about naloxone, which is often sold as Narcan and can counter the effects of opioid overdose.

The program was developed through a more than $150,000 grant from the state Department of Human Services, the Alex Stern Family Foundation and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota.

Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem commended the program, which is supported by the state Board of Pharmacy and the state Pharmacists Association.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring is cautioning North Dakota farmers about the possibility of people impersonating state employees in order to take photos and samples of grain.Goehring says his office has had calls from farmers about people supposedly acting in an official capacity and taking photos and samples of wheat fields.He says no state government agency or North Dakota State University has authorized any such work. And he says anyone working for the state should be able to provide proper credentials and the reason for their visit.Goehring encourages farmers who encounter suspicious activity to alert the authorities.

 

HALLOCK, Minn. (AP) — Authorities in far northwestern Minnesota are digging on a farm as they investigate a 22-year-old missing person case.

WDAZ-TV reports that the Kittson County Sheriff’s Office is using backhoes and cadaver dogs to search for clues in the disappearance of Becky Jo Look. Authorities believe she was slain in 1995 or 1996.

The sheriff’s office earlier this month said that it had come across some “compelling information” in the case and decided to look into it again.

 

In world and national news…

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The jury in former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s fraud trial has submitted a note to the court asking to stop deliberations half an hour early Friday. Normally they leave at 5:30 p.m., but the note asked to leave at 5 p.m. The judge read the note aloud in court.

The jury deliberated for a second day Friday. On Thursday, the jury ended its first day of deliberations with a series of questions to the judge, including a request to “redefine” reasonable doubt.

Manafort is accused of hiding from the IRS millions that he made advising Russia-backed politicians in Ukraine, and then lying to banks to get loans when the money dried up. He faces 18 felony counts on tax evasion and bank fraud.

 

 

 

GENOA, Italy (AP) — A mayor in southern Italy has ordered the closure of a bridge designed by the same architect who created the collapsed Genoa highway bridge.

The Italian news agency ANSA quoted Benevento Mayor Clemente Mastella as saying Friday about his precautionary measure that it is “better to have inconveniences than trouble” for bridge users.

On Wednesday, the day after Genoa’s Morandi Bridge collapsed, killing at least 38 people, Mastella asked experts to check his city’s San Nicola bridge, which was also designed by architect Riccardo Morandi. That bridge was built in 1955 and had been reinforced in 2016.

Genoa prosecutors are focusing their probe into the cause of the bridge collapse on a possible design flaw or inadequate maintenance.

 

 

 

NEW YORK (AP) — Tesla shares are falling as investors deal with another surprising development surrounding CEO Elon Musk.

Musk admitted in an interview with The New York Times that stress is taking a heavy toll on him. The company has been under pressure to increase production of its Model 3 sedan, and Musk said that he was working up to 120 hours a week and sometimes takes Ambien to get to sleep.

Musk raised a ruckus last week when he tweeted that he might take Tesla private. The tweet reportedly has spurred an investigation by securities regulators.

Tesla shares fell 3.6 percent to $323 in early trading.

Musk is known for odd behavior and controversial statements, but investors have stuck with him and driven Tesla to a higher market value than General Motors.

 

 

 

(AP)  Several prominent evangelical institutions have been rocked in recent weeks by sexual misconduct allegations against pastors and church leaders who exploited the trust they had gained from faithful churchgoers.

The developments are happening as the Roman Catholic church struggles with a new wave of clergy sex abuse cases.

The phenomenon at evangelical denominations is an offshoot of the #MeToo movement, as evidenced by the #ChurchToo hashtag accompanying accounts of church-related abuse that have been shared on Twitter.

The victims are coming forward to expose abuse in the Protestant evangelical world where some say the misdeeds have been just as pervasive, though less publicized, as the acts committed by Catholic clergy.