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CSi Weather…
.TONIGHT…Decreasing clouds. Lows in the upper 40s. Southwest winds around 5 mph.
.WEDNESDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
.THURSDAY…Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. South winds 10 to
15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain
showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s.
.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. Slight chance of rain showers and
thunderstorms in the morning. Highs in the mid 70s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.
.SATURDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
.SUNDAY…Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 50s.
.LABOR DAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.
Widely scattered thunderstorms return Thursday night and Friday.
Thursday will be the warmest day with high in the mid 80s across much the region.
The Labor Day weekend should be relatively mild and dry. Highs Saturday in the 70s, and 75 to 85 Sunday and Labor Day.
Valley City (CSi) Barnes County Treasurer, Vicki Zinck Metcalf informs residents that estimated tax statements are being mailed to all Barnes County property owners who have properties of $100 or more of estimated 2018 property taxes.
The news release goes on to say, PLEASE DO NOT PAY these estimated statements. These are estimated taxes based upon preliminary budget figures and DO NOT include special assessments.
These estimated tax statements are the result of new legislation intended to explain, in dollars, the effect of each entity’s preliminary budget, and to increase taxpayer participation in the budget process by providing the date, time, and location of each taxing district’s final budget hearing.
The cost of these estimated tax statements (estimated at $8,622.50 in Barnes County) will be allocated between the taxing entities that are required to provide notice and will be paid for with property tax collections.
For more information, please contact the specific entity for which you have questions. For example: for school budget questions, contact the school, or, for city budget questions, contact the city.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Area Grief Support Team is offering a grief support group for anyone who is grieving the loss of someone important to them, whether the loss is recent or from years past. The group will meet once a week at 7:00 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 424 1st Ave S in Jamestown beginning on Thursday, September 6th and will run for 6 weeks.
On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, JAGST members Diane Witzig, and Eileen Lisko said, the group is free of charge, however, participants are asked to register to ensure that enough materials are available. Participants should plan to attend all six sessions. For more information, or to register, please call Charlotte at 701-952-9358 or Kathy 701-952-8001 or 701-659-8001.
Also on our show, they pointed out that, The Jamestown Area Grief Support Team is hosting a Widow’s Retreat October 19th to October 21st at Maryvale Retreat Center in Valley City, ND. The weekend will begin at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, October 19th and concludes after a brunch on Sunday, October 21st. The cost of the retreat is $150.00 and includes 2 nights lodging in a private room, 5 meals and all supplies.
Eileen Lisko says the Widow’s Retreat is made possible in part by a grant from the Jamestown Community Foundation.
Women who have experienced the death of their husbands, whether recently or years ago, deal with many emotions, challenges and struggles as they grieve their loss. Although no one can take these struggles away and even though every widow’s experience is unique, spending time with others who have had a similar experience can often help in the journey of grief.
This retreat is an opportunity for widows to immerse themselves in healing with no distractions in a relaxing, supportive and positively charged atmosphere with others who have experienced the loss of a husband. Participants will learn coping skills and about resources that may help during the grieving process.
The weekend will include special guest speaker, Jeanne Putnam, Grief Recovery Specialist and Leah O’Leary, Funeral Director Liaison, both from Wahpeton, ND.
The weekend will also include a panel of Jamestown Area Grief Support Team members who are widows; time for personal sharing and discussion; a Service of Remembrance and workshops on journaling, self-nurturing/pampering and understanding the grief journey. There will be time for informal interaction among those attending and time for private reflection while walking the beautiful Maryvale grounds.
For a brochure and registration form, please call Eileen at 701-269-4521 (you may leave a message that includes your name and mailing address; or you can e-mail to drlisko@csicable.net.) Registrations are due by September 17th and space is limited. Registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first- serve basis. For more information, please call Carol at 701-320-3801 or Eileen at 701-269-4521
The Jamestown Area Grief Support Team is a non-profit organization dedicated to offering support to those who have experienced losses.
Jamestown (CSi) This year’s annual Lutefisk and Meatball Supper is planned for Wednesday October 3rd, 4-p.m. to 7-p.m., at Trinity Lutheran Church at 4th Avenue and 5th Street Southeast in Jamestown.
Tickets in advance…Adults $14, At the door, $15.
Children 6-11 years old, $4, pre-schoolers eat free.
Ticket purchase helps support:
Boy Scout Troop 163
Boy Scouts Northern Lights Council
Red Willow Ministries & Camperships
Salvation Army & Community Action
Dakota Boys/Girls Ranch
Trinity Building & Grounds Expense
Trinity Van & Transportation Expense
Holiday Outreach Food Baskets
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Tourism Board will vote on a recommendation to change the process for nominating members along with a change in size.
At Monday’s Tourism full board meeting, the board approved on a 9-0, vote, with board member, Amanda Thrift not present, to make the grant and executive board the nominating committee for potential members, for consideration by the full board at its annual meeting in January.
Also discussed was reducing membership from ten to nine members, increasing to 11 members along with maintaining its current size.
As it stands now, one board member will complete a second term in December and must step down, and another member who is relocating will serve until a replacement is identified.
Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund says, the board’s consensus was to keep separate the Grant and Executive Board rather than make it the responsibility of the full board.
The full board wants to be more engaged in other areas of Tourism’s purpose to include marketing relative to its message and how to better reach target markets.
Other board ideas included that greeters at tourist attractions to inform visitors about Talking Trail and explain how to use it.
A suggestion contained a cellphone app to alert people when they are in proximity of a Talking Trail site.
Jamestown (CSi) The annual Big Guns of the Old West at Fort Seward in Jamestown is Saturday September 8 from 10-a.m., to 5-p.m.
There will be the demonstration of a gatling gun, along with the cannon shoot, and weapons on display from the 1800’s.
There will be cooking, baking, soap making, butter making, quilting and live exhibits.
A freewill donation will be accepted, to support raising money for planned projects.
Like Fort Seward on Facebook or call 701-251-1875 from more information.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The driver of a ride-hailing company is accused of sexually assaulting a woman using the service in North Dakota. Corey Wickman, of Mandan, is charged with assaulting a woman he picked up at Lonesome Dove bar and grill in Mandan about 1 a.m. Saturday. The woman told police the defendant stopped her from opening the car door when they arrived at her home in Bismarck, then assaulted her.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A New York City woman who suffered a serious arm injury in an explosion while protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota lost a legal battle to obtain evidence she wanted to bolster a civil rights lawsuit against law enforcement.
Sophia Wilansky sued the federal government in February, seeking the return of shrapnel and clothing taken from her while she was hospitalized following her November 2016 injury, or an opportunity to have the items analyzed by a forensic scientist of her hiring.
Her father, Wayne Wilansky, willingly surrendered the evidence, but her lawsuit argued in part that the government was keeping the seized property for an unreasonable length of time and violating her constitutional rights.
U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina Wright said in the Monday ruling that “nothing in the written consent imposes a limitation on the length of time.” She added that Wilansky didn’t provide “any evidence or argument as to why she is unable to commence a timely civil action without first obtaining access to or possession of the seized property.”
Wayne Wilansky told The Associated Press late last year that his daughter planned to sue law enforcement for money damages and that the evidence could bolster her case. Calls to his telephone number on Tuesday were not answered. Sophia Wilansky’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wright’s decision to dismiss the case.
Federal prosecutors had argued the seizures were legally done and the items were evidence in a grand jury investigation into the altercation in which Wilansky was injured. Prosecutors declined comment Tuesday on Wright’s ruling.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Twenty environmental and civil liberties groups are fighting back against lawsuits they believe are aimed at limiting free speech and silencing critics.
The “Protect the Protest” task force announced Tuesday targets what are known as strategic lawsuits against public participation, or SLAPP, which use legal action and the threat of financial risk to deter people and groups from speaking out against something they oppose.
“We know from our own experience that this legal bullying tactic will work if it’s not shut down,” said Katie Redford, co-founder and director of EarthRights International.
The effort is to include billboard advertisements, training sessions for journalists and nonprofits, panel discussions and rallies outside the corporate offices of companies the groups believe use such lawsuits.
Rallies are planned next week in San Francisco, New York City and Dallas. Dallas is the base for Energy Transfer Partners, the company that built the Dakota Access oil pipeline and sued Greenpeace, Earth First and BankTrack for up to $1 billion for allegedly working to undermine the $3.8 billion project to move North Dakota oil to a shipping point in Illinois.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A weed that’s strong enough to stop combines and resist many herbicides has been found in North Dakota for the first time, the state Agriculture Department said Tuesday .
A farmer recently found Palmer amaranth growing in a soybean field in McIntosh County, in the state’s southeast. The finding was confirmed through DNA analysis.
The aggressive pigweed species is native to the desert regions of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico, but it has slowly spread to southeastern and Midwestern states, where it has become a major threat to cotton, corn and soybean crops. In recent years, it has moved into South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa.
It can grow as much as 3 inches per day and as tall as 7 feet, with each plant producing hundreds of thousands of seeds. The threat from Palmer amaranth is so great that North Dakota State University Weed Science officials named it the “weed of the year” in both 2014 and 2015, even though it hadn’t yet been found in the state.
A heavy Palmer amaranth infestation can cut soybean yields by as much as 79 percent and corn yields by up to 91 percent, according to research by Purdue University .
In Iowa, where the weed was first found in 2013, it’s a threat to corn crops, though so far “it hasn’t taken over as some people thought it would,” said Bob Hartzler, a professor and weed expert at Iowa State University.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Construction has begun on a Bismarck facility that will house the chronically homeless, including people with mental illnesses, physical disabilities or chemical addictions.
The Bismarck Tribune reports that the four-story Edwinton Place Apartments building is expected to be ready next fall.
The $10.3 million building will utilize an approach that views housing as the foundation for life improvement and enables access to permanent housing without prerequisites beyond those of a typical renter. The apartments will provide 40 units of stable housing, as well as supportive services, to those experiencing long-term homelessness within the community.
Bismarck Mayor Steve Bakken said Monday that providing affordable housing with permanent supportive services is “a great first step, and a great foothold, for what we’re going to grow in the community.”
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