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.TONIGHT…Rain showers. Lows in the lower 40s. North winds around 20 mph. Chance of rain 100 percent.
.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northwest winds
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.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance of rain
showers after midnight. Lows in the upper 40s.
.MONDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain showers in
the morning. Highs in the lower 60s.
.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain
showers after midnight. Lows in the mid 40s.
.TUESDAY…Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the lower 60s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain
showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs around 60.
Thursday and Thursday night…..Rain amounts in excess of a half inch across most of North Dakota
with a significant area of over an inch or more across south
central into east central ND.
Saturday, will bring small chances of rain
showers across the north with cooler conditions – highs Saturday
in the 60s for southern ND.
Off and on chances of showers to most of North Dakota Sunday through Wednesday. Highs mainly in the 50s to lower 60s this with lows mainly 35 to 45.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council met in Special Session Thursday evening at City Hall.
Council Member Phillips was not present.
The Council members approved awarding the bid for the Inert Landfill Cell 1-4 final cover to On the Level in the amount of $249,350.
The Council then awarded the bid for the purchase of 33 new P-25 portable radios for the Jamestown police department to the low bidder, Jamestown communications in the amount of $57,467.60, with trade in.
The meeting was shown live on CSi 67, followed by replays.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council’s Police & Fire Committee , Public Works Committee met Thursday evening at City Hall.
Council Member Phillips was not present.
POLICE & FIRE COMMITTEE
No items at this time.
PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE:
The committee recommends approving the request for a variance to allow a rollover curb at 1100 5th Ave SE. (West Side of the Old TSC Building), to be the new home of RV Motorsports.
Considered was a request for Change Order No. 2, to Burski Excavating, Inc., on Sanitary Landfill Cell 4A Liner and Cell 2/3 Partial Final Cover, for a time extension on the completion date, to mid to the end of October this year.
A motion recommended approval of the extension, however due to a lack of a second the motion failed.
INFORMATIONAL: Project updates.
Travis Dillman from Interstate Engineering the first phase of the river tree snagging is complete.
He said grant applications will be filed to finish the project, to include river bank restoration.
One item remains to be completed at the Frontier Village wall replacement.
INFORMATIONAL: Update on Recycling Collection.
Recycle North Dakota, Manager, Ralph Friebel said, with the new recycling building at 10th Street Southeast, the architectural review has been completed and approved by the city.
He said the baler portion of the operation may be completed next week.
INFORMATIONAL: Garbage and recycling collection update.
Sanitation Foreman, Roger Mayhew, said after conferring with other cities, he recommends curb side garbage collection. He noted the new garbage trucks are heavier and could cause problems with the soft alleyway soils.
With recycling, Ralph Friebel indicated 12 addresses with no curb access, and 25 addresses have no alley access.
The committee recommends city open houses on the garbage collection issue, including maps, for public access.
The committee considered letter received from Ralph Friebel, of Recycle North Dakota, for permission to remove sidewalk on the north side of property at 1016 10th St SE, the new recycling center in the former Coke Plant.
The committee recommends approval of the request.
INFORMATIONAL:
A Sprint representative spoke regarding antennae for three radios, on the City water tower located at the University of Jamestown.
The request is to add three antennae for cell phone communications, prior to October 1 this year.
Council Member Brubakken pointed out Tuesday’s committee meeting recommended an increase in the annual lease fee, to $1500 with an escalator clause.
He said Sprint would agree to that annual lease fee.
The committee recommends reviewing the information from Sprint, with the city engineer, be presented at the October 1 City Council meeting.
Sprint wants to have the cell antennae operational by October 31.
The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 67 followed by replays.
Jamestown (CSi) Traffic did not take long to back up on Highway 281 South, to 17th street SW from a long load semi carrying a over size propane tank that could not make the corner coming off the I-94 eastbound exit, attempting to turn south onto Highway 281 at 8:30-a.m., Thursday.
The long load rig got hung up on the cement divider, due to restricted turning, in the Highway 281 road construction area.
Jamestown Assistant Police Chief, Major Justin Blinsky on scene reported the backup occurred in both directions, on Highway 281 at the I-94 overpass .
Jamestown Police directed traffic around the hung up semi, to the North bound lane until the rig could be freed.
The scene was cleared about 9-a.m.
Damage occurred to the cement divider, and the truck, along with traffic control poles.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Tourism Grant and Executive Board met Thursday morning at The CSi Technology Center at Historic Franklin School.
Members present were: President Matt Woods, Mitzi Hager, Frank Balak, and Tena Lawrence.
Jamestown Tourism Director Searle Swedlund.
No Ex-Officio Members were present.
Grant request were made by the Jamestown Rural Fire Department for the Annual Ice Fishing Tournament, and 5 Star Bucking Bulls for the Duel in the Dirt Bull Riding.
The Annual Ice Fishing Tournament will be held February 16, 2019 at Jamestown Reservoir.
The Rural Fire Department represented by Travis Lemieux , and Fire Chief Ben Maulding, requested $4,000, for advertising including regional billboards, outside the Jamestown area, along with ads in Dakota County Magazine.
5200 tickets will be available.
The estimated economic impact is $87,500, with a total of anticipated visitors at 1,300.
The projected profit is $31,500.
He said, in 2018 there were 1290 participants, with 940 from outside Stutsman County.
Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund pointed out the tournament continues attract people from outside the Jamestown area.
The board recommended funding the full amount of $4,000, as the tournament continues to grow, and has the opportunity to continue to grow, and Tourism can be a part of its growth, by with adverting support.
With The Duel in the Dirt, Bull Riding Justin the organization requested $5,000 for advertising and promotion of the event to be held November 16 and 17, at the Jamestown Civic Center, along with miniature bull riding for children 9-14 years old.
Funding from sponsors is put at $35,000, rider entry fees at $7,000.
2400 visitors are anticipated, of $252,500 to 333,750.
The board table the request, needing more documentation in the request form.
Swedlund said the event attendance needs clarifying, saying the organization is welcome to resubmit the request at the October meeting.
With the Executive Board Meeting:
With the Tourism Report, Director Searle Swedlund noted possible grant requests for 2019 events in Jamestown. Those possibly include from the National Women’s Wrestling Tournament to be held in March of 2019 at the University of Jamestown. Another possible request may come from organizers of North Dakota Hockey Day, which will include participates necessitating overnight stays in Jamestown.
He noted recent events in Jamestown that included the recent Big Guns of the Old West event at Fort Seward which attracted a good crowd of 170, including out of town visitors.
He added the Fort Seward Interpretive Center’s video presentation is progressing, and that the Louis L’Amour area at the Alfred Dickey Public Library is moving along, with interpretive panels and a kiosk, for visitors.
He added several applications have been submitted for the position of Tourism Office Manager, with interviews starting next week.
The Tourism Nominating Committee proposed individuals for directors.
Swedlund added that the nominations will be forwarded to the full Tourism Board for a final decision at the January 2019 meeting.
Those nominated are: President Matt Woods, Vice President Tena Lawrence, Treasurer Taylor Barnes, Director Frank Balak, and Paulette Ritter.
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown bid a fond farewell to Larry Phillips who passed away on September 12, this year.
Following his funeral on Thursday September 20, at First United Methodist Church in Jamestown, the funeral procession was escorted from Jamestown to his final resting place, with burial at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Fargo.
Jamestown City Fire Department and Rural Fire Department fire fighters honored Larry’s memory with fire trucks in the procession and a dedication on the I-94 Bloom Exit bridge.
Larry was a training officer for the Jamestown Fire Department from 1972 to 1980 before he became a regional seven-state fire/rescue instructor,teaching classes in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana, Wyoming and Nebraska. He started his own company, Signal 10 Group, in Jamestown and was Chief Instructor at Northwest Region Fire/Rescue, where he carried a Level IV instructor rating through the state of Minnesota.
Larry was a member of the Jamestown City Fire Department from 1972 to 1980 and the Jamestown Rural Fire Department beginning in 1982.
VELVA, N.D. (AP) — Some residents of central North Dakota community would welcome a Dollar General store, but city officials want no part of it.
The Velva City Commission recently rejected the lone bid on a land sale after learning the developer planned to lease the property to Dollar General, the Minot Daily News reported. The retailer has about 14,000 stores nationwide.
Velva officials declined the developer’s offer of $100,000 for nearly 1.4 acres (0.6 hectares) on the city’s west side.
Commissioner Mary Liz Davis said officials didn’t want Dollar General to threaten existing businesses in Velva, particularly its grocery and drug stores. She said area businesses are already dealing with a worker shortage and a Dollar General would bring more employment competition to the area.
Davis acknowledged that the developer may find another property for the store.
“It’s not like we are stopping it,” Davis said. “We just don’t want to be a part of the process.”
Velva resident Lori Foley thinks Dollar General would benefit the community by attracting travelers off the highway and giving locals another shopping option. She presented a petition in support of the store to the commission, which wasn’t swayed.
“They are more concerned about protecting each other or their friends instead of doing what’s right for the city of Velva, and that’s what bothers me the most,” Foley said. “They weren’t looking at the big picture of how much revenue it brings into Velva. They are giving up the opportunity of what Dollar General will do for our community.”
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The company that built the Dakota Access oil pipeline says environmental group Greenpeace should be held legally accountable for violating federal racketeering laws.
Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners sued Greenpeace and two other groups for up to $1 billion last year, arguing they worked to undermine the $3.8 billion pipeline that’s now shipping oil from North Dakota to Illinois. Greenpeace recently asked to be dismissed from the case, after a federal judge dismissed the other two groups. But the company argued this week that there was plentiful evidence of “malicious criminal conduct” by Greenpeace.
In court documents filed Tuesday, company attorneys allege that Greenpeace knowingly disseminated false information about the pipeline to obtain donations and incite unrest, including to company lenders and investors to hurt ETP financially. The company also alleges the environmental group organized and funded a violent protest faction in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
“Defendants’ RICO enterprise comprised three related components,” ETP attorney Jennifer Recine wrote in the court filing, arguing that Greenpeace was employing similar tactics against ETP pipeline projects in Pennsylvania and Louisiana.
Greenpeace argued in its dismissal request this month that ETP’s claims were “generalized and implausible.”
ETP filed the lawsuit last year against Earth First, BankTrack and three Greenpeace groups — Greenpeace, Greenpeace International and Greenpeace Fund.
The groups argued the lawsuit was an attack on free speech.
But in the documents filed Tuesday, Recine argued that ETP wasn’t trying “to limit anyone’s exercise of any legally protected conduct.” Rather, the company is seeking “to vindicate its own legal rights in the face of the Greenpeace defendants’ malicious criminal conduct.”
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