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…FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM FRIDAY EVENING TO 9 AM CDT SATURDAY…INCLUDES THE JAMESTOWN, VALLEY CITY AREAS.
A Freeze Warning means sub-freezing temperatures are imminent or highly likely. These conditions will kill crops and other sensitive vegetation.
Forecast…
.TONIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows in the upper 20s. South winds
around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY…Cloudy. Chance of rain possibly mixed with snow in
the morning, then chance of rain in the afternoon, possibly mixed with
snow showers in the morning, then numerous rain showers in the
afternoon. No snow accumulation. Highs in the mid 40s. South
winds 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
Highs in the upper 40s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy.
A 20 percent chance of rain showers in the evening
Lows in the mid 30s. South winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to
the northwest after midnight.
.SUNDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…Cloudy. A 40 percent chance of rain and snow
after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s.
.MONDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
afternoon. Highs in the upper 50s.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain.
Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain in the
morning. Highs in the mid 50s.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Decreasing clouds. Lows in the upper 30s.
.THURSDAY…Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs
in the lower 50s.
Update…
Jamestown (JRMC)— As construction kicks off, the JRMC Cancer Center nears it’s fundraising goal.
The community raised more than $85,000 for local cancer care at the JRMC Cancer Center Mile Marker 256: a Private Debut on Thursday, Sept. 27. That means the JRMC Foundation is about $20,000 shy of it’s $1.5 million goal.
The dream of local cancer care is coming true, said Trisha Jungels, JRMC’s Chief Nursing Officer and Interim Chief Executive Officer. Construction for the Jamestown Regional Medical Center Cancer Center begins next week.
“The community’s support blows us away. At our Mile 256 event, one family named an endowment after their late mother. Another attendee purchased a signed Carson Wentz jersey for $2,500 and then gave it back to sell it again. We are so fortunate,” Jungels said.
Jungels said oncology services were a dream of the Boards and the community when JRMC moved from downtown to southwest Jamestown in 2011.
The JRMC Operating Board made its decision to begin construction at its regular meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 26.
Construction will include eight infusion rooms. Those rooms will serve more than 100 people a month, saving 160,000 miles of travel each year.
In Stutsman County, cancer is the leading cause of death for individuals ages 45-84.
“This community is so generous,” said JRMC Foundation Director Lisa Jackson. “We’re glad to move forward on this Journey to Oncology.”
The public can still eliminate miles in the journey to receive cancer care, Jackson said. The shortest trip to receive chemotherapy costs about $35 in gas, round trip. Over the course of treatment, people will need to make a minimum of 30 trips. This is an expense of more than $1,000 or $88 per month.
Every gift of $1,000 or more will receive recognition (in the donor’s name or in honor or memory of a loved one) in the vestibule entrance of JRMC Cancer Center. This gift will surround patients and their families with support.
The community is also welcome to learn more about the JRMC Cancer Center at the Brunch Out Cancer event on Sunday, Sept. 30.
The event is open from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and includes small tours of the JRMC Cancer Center shell space and a light brunch. Admission is a freewill donation to the JRMC Cancer Center.
To learn more about the JRMC Cancer Center or Brunch Out Cancer, call (701) 952-4880 or visit www.jrmcnd.com/journey.
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.
Jamestown (JRMC) — The dream is coming true, says JRMC’s Chief Nursing Officer and Interim Chief Executive Officer, Trisha Jungels. Construction for the Jamestown Regional Medical Center Cancer begins Monday, Oct. 1, 2018.
She says oncology services were a dream of the Boards and the community when JRMC moved from downtown to southwest Jamestown in 2011.
The JRMC Operating Board made its decision to begin construction at its regular meeting on Wednesday, September 26.
She adds, “This is a great day for Jamestown and the surrounding communities, Miles matter when you’re sick. We thank the community for helping us bring state-of-the-art cancer care close to home.”
JRMC announced its construction plans at the JRMC Cancer Center Mile Marker 256: a Private Debut on Thursday, Sept. 27.
Construction will include eight infusion rooms. Those rooms will serve more than 100 people a month, saving 160,000 miles of travel each year.
In Stutsman County, cancer is the leading cause of death for individuals ages 45-84.
JRMC Foundation Director Lisa Jackson, says, “This is a community of supporters. Whether it was lemonade stands, t-shirt sales or gifting retirement accounts, the community made this happen. The community has supported JRMC since we opened our doors almost 90 years ago.”
JRMC already offers some chemotherapy infusion services in the JRMC Emergency Department. The JRMC Cancer Center will allow the hospital to offer a wider range of treatments.
Photos from Thursday evening’s Cancer Center Mile Marker 256: a Private Debut. courtesy of JRMC…. One depicts the true cancer stories of local individuals that were shared by young actors. The other displays Nenow Auctions auctioning off two Mile Marker 256 signs during the evening.
The community is welcome to learn more about the JRMC Cancer Center at the Brunch Out Cancer event on Sunday, September 30.
The event is open from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and includes small tours of the JRMC Cancer Center shell space and a light brunch. Admission is a freewill donation to the JRMC Cancer Center.
To learn more about the JRMC Cancer Center or Brunch Out Cancer, call (701) 952-4880 or visit www.jrmcnd.com/journey.
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.
Jamestown (CSi) The Stutsman County Wildlife Federation’s Annual Banquet is set for Friday October 5, at the Knights of Columbus Hall, in Jamestown.
On Friday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, spokesperson Cathleen O’Higgins said ticket sales will supporting raising funds for the numerous club activities.
Tickets are $30 per individual, $45 per couple, with membership included in the ticket cost.
Youth participation is capped at 20.
Get more ticket and general information at the Stutsman County Wildlife Federation’s Facebook page.
Later in the month on Sunday October 14, the Ladies Pheasant Hunt will take place, south of Montpelier, starting at 1-p.m.
To sign up and get more information at the Federation’s Facebook page.
Stutsman County Wildlife Federation was organized in March of 1915 under the affiliation with the National Wildlife Federation. The mission of the “Club” is to support Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat. The Club is the oldest organized wildlife club in the state of North Dakota.
SCWF owns property it improves and maintains in support of hunters, bird-watchers, and naturalists. We are currently partially enrolled in the USDA Conservation Reserve Program, and have planted grasses, pollinator plants for bees and other insects and trees for wildlife thermal cover and use. The club endeavors to recruit hunters and fishermen who will one day become the stewards of wildlife and habitat. This is done through Youth Mentored Pheasants hunts each fall, sponsorships to conservation and fishing camps, firearm familiarization and conservation events, birdhouse building and sponsorship of hunter education classes.
They have also purchased archery equipment to support the archery program in the schools. The club has been active in providing winter food for wildlife during times of severe winter weather and enhancing pheasant populations by releasing spring laying hen pheasants, and fall roosters. The Club has installed numerous wood duck houses along the James River. We provide seed for growing winter wildlife food plots and provide land rent compensation to farmers in Stutsman County.
Jamestown (JAGST) Jamestown Area Grief Support Team (JAGST) in conjunction with the Jamestown Regional Medical Center (JRMC) Family Birthplace will hold a candlelight service Monday, October 15, 2018 starting at 6:30 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 424 First Avenue South, Jamestown, for families and loved ones affected by infant loss from infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth or infant death. The evening will begin with a short Walk of Remembrance followed by the candlelight service at the church.
In 1988 the month of October was proclaimed as National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness month. October 15th has been recognized as National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. This day allows families and friends to honor their babies who have died. International Wave of Light ceremonies are held at 7:00 p.m. local time in all time zones. Participants are asked to burn their candles for at least one hour, resulting in a continuous chain of lighted candles throughout the globe on this day.
This will be the seventh annual candle lighting ceremony in Jamestown, joining those around the world to create a Wave of Light in memory of the babies lost. Fellowship and refreshments will follow the candle lighting service. For more information on the event please contact Renae Lunde in the JRMC Family Birthplace at (701) 952-4807.
Update…
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota man was acquitted Friday of helping to kill a pregnant neighbor by tightening a rope around the woman’s neck after his girlfriend cut the baby from her womb.
William Hoehn, 33, was charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the August 2017 death of 22-year-old Savanna Greywind of Fargo. He would have faced life in prison if convicted of the charge.
Hoehn’s former partner, Brooke Crews , admitted earlier this year to cutting Greywind’s baby from her body and is serving life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Hoehn admitted to helping cover up the crime, but denied knowing anything about Crews’ plan to kill Greywind and take her baby. He was earlier ordered to serve 20 years in prison for the cover-up, but the jurors in the conspiracy trial were not informed of that sentence.
The trial turned on dramatic testimony from Crews , who told the court she concocted a phony pregnancy because she was afraid of losing Hoehn, and that when he figured out she was lying, he told her she needed “to produce a baby.” Crews said she believed this was “an ultimatum.”
Hoehn testified that he had believed Crews when she told him she was pregnant and that he had been elated when he returned home and heard a baby crying.
Crews said she never “explicitly” told Hoehn what she planned to do, and that he appeared surprised when he arrived home to find a newborn and a bleeding Greywind in their bathroom. But she said after discovering the bloody scene he fetched a rope and twisted it around Greywind’s neck to make sure she was dead.
She said Hoehn told her: “If she wasn’t dead before, she is now.”
A coroner was unable to determine if the cause of death was strangulation or blood loss.
Judge Tom Olson said Crews’ testimony could be evidence that Hoehn had agreed to participate in the crime.
Asked whether he had an agreement with Crews to kill Greywind and take her baby, Hoehn told the court: “Absolutely not. No, no, no.”
Crews and another of Hoehn’s girlfriends testified that Hoehn put ropes around their necks during sex and fantasized about strangling people. A fellow jail inmate testified that he told Hoehn about his ex-girlfriend’s abortion and Hoehn said he “just would have cut the baby out.”
Hoehn’s attorney, Daniel Borgen, countered with an inmate from a western North Dakota women’s prison who testified that Crews told her she strangled Greywind and cut out the baby in a matter of minutes. Crews denied that claim, as well as assertions that Greywind and Hoehn were having an affair and that she killed Greywind in a fit of jealousy.
Greywind’s body was found several days after she was killed, shrouded in plastic and dumped in the Red River.
Advocates say violence against Native American women is often overlooked . The Greywind case prompted North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp to introduce Savanna’s Act , which aims to improve tribal access to federal crime information databases and create standardized protocols for responding to cases of missing and slain Native American women. A similar bill has been introduced in the House.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A judge said she wants more information before she’ll rule whether a Bismarck addiction counselor illegally hindered police from arresting a patient by refusing them entry to a private drug treatment center.
South Central District Judge Cynthia Feland said Wednesday that she has questions regarding the constitutional protection from unlawful searches and seizures as it relates to the misdemeanor hindering law enforcement charges against Kiki Schatz, the Bismarck Tribune reported. Schatz was charged in June after she barred police from entering an opioid treatment clinic at the Heartview Foundation.
Bismarck police were attempting to arrest Brendan Kapfer for allegedly violating a protection order. Schatz said she spoke to the officers inside the facility and invoked Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations, a federal privacy law to protect patients seeking substance abuse treatment.
Schatz said she’s obligated to protect patients’ confidentiality rights.
Officer Matthew James alleged that Schatz barred them from entering the private facility and pushed the officers away from the clinic door.
“Physically barring a door and not allowing us access to the building to conduct our duties, yes, I believe she hindered law enforcement,” James said.
James said at the hearing that Schatz did invoke federal requirements when she refused police entry, but that police had probable cause for Kapfer’s arrest and a warrant in a separate matter.
The federal privacy law provides confidentiality even in the face of warrants for search and arrest, with the exception that a crime occurred on the premises or a subpoena compels disclosure.
Feland questioned whether law enforcement needed a search warrant in order to force entry into the private facility. Feland has requested post-hearing briefs by Oct. 4.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Industrial Commission has adopted the findings of a Missouri River study that could impact oil and gas mineral ownership.
But an attorney for mineral owners tells the Bismarck Tribune that the final study will lead to more lawsuits
The three-member panel headed by Republican Gov. Doug Burgum voted unanimously Thursday to adopt the final recommendations from Wenck Associates. The study investigated the accuracy of a 1950s survey conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers about the ordinary high water mark of the Missouri River as it existed before the Garrison Dam, which created Lake Sakakawea.
The report found the state owns about 9,500 more acres than the federal survey of the river showed.
Attorney Josh Swanson calls it “a blatant taking” of land from private landowners.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A South Dakota man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for starting a barricade fire on a bridge during protests in North Dakota against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
Authorities say Michael Markus of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, and several others started the fire on Oct. 27, 2016, on a Morton County road bridge. No one was hurt.
The Bismarck Tribune reports Markus reached a plea deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to civil disorder. A more serious charge of using fire to commit a federal felony was dismissed. He’ll receive about two months credit for time served and will be eligible for release after serving 85 percent of his sentence.
The protests drew thousands of people to southern North Dakota and resulted in 761 arrests in a six-month span of 2016 and 2017. Of those arrests, seven people were charged with federal crimes.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A company building a natural gas processing plant in the Bakken oil patch has announced plans for a second plant, doubling the size of the project.
The Bismarck Tribune reports Oneok plans to construct the $410 million Demicks Lake II in McKenzie County, adding 200 million cubic feet per day of processing capacity.
Demicks Lake I will have the same capacity. But Oneok President and CEO Terry Spencer says it’s expected to reach capacity soon after it’s complete.
North Dakota produced 2.4 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas in July, exceeding processing plant capacity. Demicks Lake II is the eighth expansion or new plant expected to be complete in the next 1 ½ years.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — An Iowa firearms company has given the Bismarck Police Department nine AR-15 rifles for school resource officers.
The Bismarck Tribune reports that Iowa-based Brownells Inc. donated the AR-15s after Bismarck police requested funds to buy the rifles and other equipment for resource officers.
Bismarck school resource officers carry handguns, but police deputy chief Jason Stugelmeyer says an AR-15 would help in situations in which officers must shoot from afar.
Brownells spokesman Ryan Repp says company officials heard about the department’s request and wanted to help. Stugelmeyer says the donation is allowing the department to spend more money on medical kits.
Repp estimated the rifles cost about $520 each. The company also donated hundreds of dollars in custom parts and an $1,800 firearm kit.
In Sports…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jose Berrios became the first Minnesota pitcher in eight years to reach 200 strikeouts, throwing seven smooth innings for the Twins in a 2-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Friday in the first game of a day-night doubleheader. Berrios finished his All-Star season with a career-best 3.84 ERA and 202 strikeouts.
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is directing the FBI to launch a supplemental investigation into his Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh at the request of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Trump says in a statement Friday, that the updated investigation, which comes in response to sexual misconduct allegations, “must be limited in scope” and “completed in less than one week.”
The decision marks a reversal for the administration, which had argued that Kavanaugh had already been vetted.
Kavanaugh has adamantly denied the allegations.
Senate Republican leaders agreed Friday to delay a final vote on Kavanaugh to allow time for an investigation by the FBI at the request of Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake.
Kavanaugh says he’s done “everything” the Senate has asked of him and “will continue to cooperate.”
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