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CSi Weather…
.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows around 5 below. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Wind chills around 20 below.
.FRIDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of snow in the morning. Colder. Highs near zero. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Wind chills around 25 below.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows around 15 below. Northeast
winds 5 to 10 mph. Wind chills around 25 below.
.SATURDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs zero to 5 above. East winds
around 5 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Cloudy. Chance of snow in the evening, then
snow likely after midnight. Light snow accumulations. Lows around
5 below. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent in the Jamestown area, 50 percent in the Valley City area.
.SUNDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of snow in the
morning. Highs 5 to 10 above.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 50 percent chance of snow after
midnight. Lows zero to 5 above.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY…Cloudy. Snow likely in the morning,
then chance of snow in the afternoon. Highs 15 to 20. Chance of
snow 70 percent.
.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of snow in the
evening. Lows zero to 5 above.
.TUESDAY…Partly sunny. Highs 5 to 10 above.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows near zero.
.WEDNESDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs 15 to 20.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows near zero.
.THURSDAY…Partly sunny. Highs 10 to 15.
Colder air will arrive Thursday night and even though wind speeds Thursday night into Friday morning will be under 10 mph, wind chills will drop
into the 25 below to 35 below zero range over northeastern North
Dakota, Red River valley and most of northwestern Minnesota.
Thursday night and Friday…
Snow with accumulations up to 2 inches, with local amounts up to
3 inches west central through south central North Dakota.
Dangerous wind chills to 30 below zero are expected east of the
Missouri River each night and through the morning hours, Friday
through Sunday.
Snow accumulations up to 3 inches possible northwest into central
North Dakota Saturday night into Sunday morning.
Another round of snow, with accumulations up to 3 inches, is
possible South central North Dakota Sunday night into Monday.
Update…
Valley City (KFGO) – Police in Valley City are investigating the death of a high school student who’s body was found on Canadian Pacific railroad tracks.
The discovery was made by a railroad crew on tracks along the Hi-Line bridge in northeast Valley City around 2 p.m. Thurs.
Police have identified the body as that of Valley City high school student Chase Jenison. They’re asking that anyone with information on the death call the department at 701-845-3110.
Superintendent Josh Johnson says students and staff will need to pull together in the coming days to cope with his death.
Previously…
Valley City (Valley News Live) – Valley City Police and Barnes County Sheriff’s are conducting a death investigation after responding to a medical issue call in Valley City.
The call came in around 1:30 Thursday afternoon. Officers began an unattended death investigation after responding to a call for an unknown medical issue along the Northeast part of Valley City, near the CP Railway.
No further information has been released. If anyone has information about this case, they’re asked to call Valley City Police at 701-845-3110.
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Police is warning residents regarding a convicted sex offending living in the city.
Michael Allan Nelson has been assigned a High Risk Assessment by the North Dakota Risk Level Committee, of the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office.
Nelson resides at 1018 4th Avenue Southwest, Room 20, Jamestown Motel, Jamestown, ND
Nelson is a 29 year old white male, five feet nine inches tall, weighing 185 pounds with blue eyes and blond hair.
He presently has no vehicle.
Offense:
Corruption/Solicitation of a Minor, involving drinking alcohol with a 14 year old girl and then having intercourse with her. The two had not been dating before the incident.
Conviction Date: December 2009 in Barnes County District Court.
Disposition: 365 days, 121 days credit.
Nelson is currently on probation with North Dakota Probation and Parole.
Nelson is not wanted by police at this time, and has served the sentences imposed by the Court.
This notification is meant for public safety and not to increase fear in the community, nor should this information be used to threaten, assault, or intimidate the offender.
Any attempts to harass, intimidate or threaten these offenders, their families, landlords, or employers will be turned over for prosecution.
Printed handouts of the demographics of Nelson are available at the Jamestown Police Department.
More information on registered sex offenders is available at the North Dakota Attorney General’s web site: www.sexoffender.nd.gov
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Grant/Executive advisory Board met Thursday at the CSi Technology Center at Historic Franklin School.
Members present included: Tourism Director Searle Swedlund, Board President, Matt Woods, and board members Paulette Ritter, and Frank Balak.
At the Grant Board Meeting funding requests were heard from:
The National Buffalo Museum, for staffing.
Fort Seward for staffing.
Stutsman County Museum for summer staffing
Frontier Village for staffing.
Frontier Village for horses and stagecoach funding.
The National Buffalo Museum, represented by Director, Illana Xinos, requested funding for summer staffing from Memorial Day Through Labor Day.
The board granted the request of $10 per hour based on the number of hours provided, equaling $6,562.
Fort Seward represented by Dale Marks, requested funding for summer staffing for two part time employees at the Interpretive Center, Monday Through Sunday.
Th board granted $9,219 in funding based on the number of hours provided at $10 per hour.
The Stutsman County Museum represented by Don Nelson and Alden Kollman requested funding for summer staffing, from May 25 – September 30.
The board granted $8,419 based the number of hours provided, at $10 per hour.
Frontier Village was represented by President Jay Meikelson, and Secretary/Treasurer Tina Busche, requested dollars for summer staffing from April 19 to October 19.
The board granted $14,780 at $10 per hour based on the number of hours provided.
For the horses and stagecoach, the board granted $10,000 the same funding as in 2018 for the boarding of two horses and five ponies for 12 months. The dollars to be used for feeding needs, grooming, vet bills, farrier fees, and transportation, for the period of May 24 through Labor Day.
The board approved the grant, on the recommendation of a declining subsidy scale, over the next three years. Tina Busche added that the two stage coach horse were old due to age issues, and were replaced by different horses that were purchased.
The requests for budgeting for the Executive Director position was deferred to the February meeting for clarification from the Frontier Village. The maintenance budgeting request was also tabled.
The Financial Report was given by Swedlund, and approved by the board.
The Tourism Report was given by Searle Swedlund. He updated the board on the Louis L’Amour Exhibit, and Hockey Day in North Dakota, scheduled this weekend, weather permitting, outdoors at the University of Jamestown Campus.
He introduced Rachael Johnson who is being considered for the Collections Manager at the National Buffalo Museum.
Ex-Officio Report: Pam Phillips, representing the Jamestown City Council, gave an update on the soon to be implemented four day per week residential garbage and recycling collections, and some collections to be moved from alleys to curb side.
She pointed out that the City of Jamestown is mailing letters to residents outlining the changes, which take affect on February 4, 2019.
New Business:
A report was given on credit card cash back, which amounted to $160.
A report was given on the Mill Levy Expenditure for tourism entities.
Swedlund explained Tourism has sent to the county, verification of the dollars requested, in order for the 2018 Mill Levy dollars to be released upon approval by the county.
Jamestown (JRMC) – Congratulations to The Slimsons, the top point earner for New Year, New You challenge week one. The Slimsons includes two participants in the Friends & Family category.
NYNY is an eight-week wellness challenge that encourages participants to develop positive lifestyle changes.
NYNY is about exercising and eating right. It’s also about staying healthy. One way to improve or maintain health is through proper wound care.
JRMC is the first hospital in North Dakota to offer hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). HBOT therapy helps fight infections, heal wounds and treat conditions including diabetic ulcers, bone infections and radiation injuries.
Amanda Lausch, FNP at the JRMC Wound Clinic says, “It is important to take care of a wound right away. Wounds that won’t heal are prone to infection. If not resolved, it can result in amputation or even death.”
Seek medical attention when noticing chronic wound symptoms, like limb swelling, limb weeping, tissue decay and neuropathy. Many times an underlying cause, like constant pressure from being in a wheelchair or poor blood flow is to blame.
Keep moving this week and walk to your next community event. Attending a community activity outside of normal activities will yield each participant five bonus points this week. In addition, attendees can earn extra points for the work-friendly Lose Your Lap exercises and the more intense High-Intensity Interval Training.
Teams points are due by 8 a.m. on Tuesday. To learn more about NYNY or two submit points, visit www.jrmcnd.com/nyny. View the full list of teams at www.jrmcnd.com/nyny/teams-standings/.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A new study indicates it might be economically feasible for North Dakota oil companies to provisionally store natural gas underground instead of burning it off at well sites.
The Bismarck Tribune reports that the University of North Dakota’s Energy and Environmental Research Center study found that inserting natural gas into an underground rock formation and extracting it later could allow companies to produce more oil and meet the state’s gas capture goals.
North Dakota regulators have already amended rules aimed at natural gas flaring after more than a third of the gas went up in smoke, drawing criticism from environmentalists and many residents who said the state was losing revenue from the wasted gas. Critics also contended that it contributed to unnecessary carbon dioxide emissions.
Update…
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Government investigators say many more migrant children may have been separated from their parents than the Trump administration has acknowledged.
A report from the Health and Human Services inspector general’s office finds that family separations were taking place before the spring of last year, when the administration announced its “zero tolerance” policy on the southwest border.
The administration has identified a little more than 2,700 children as part of a court case in which a federal judge ordered families reunited. Investigators concluded that the true number of migrant children separated from their parents is unknown and could be much higher.
President Donald Trump was forced to rescind the family separation policy this summer after an outcry.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani (joo-lee-AH’-nee) has issued a new statement aimed at clarifying earlier comments that appeared to leave open the possibility of collusion between members of Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia.
Giuliani says he represents only Trump and not the campaign, and that there was no collusion by Trump “in any way, shape or form.”
Giuliani also says he has “no knowledge of collusion by any of the thousands of people who worked on the campaign.”
Giuliani on Wednesday night insisted in a CNN interview that he’d never said there wasn’t any collusion between members of the Trump campaign and Russia. Trump has repeatedly denied that there was any collusion.
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s estranged former lawyer is acknowledging that he paid a technology company to rig Trump’s standing in two online polls.
Michael Cohen tweeted Thursday that “what I did was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of” Trump.
Technology company owner John Gauger told The Wall Street Journal that Cohen promised him $50,000 for work including using computers to enter fake votes for Trump in a 2014 CNBC poll asking people to identify top business leaders and a 2015 poll of potential presidential candidates. Gauger says Cohen paid him about a quarter of the money in cash, then stiffed him on the rest.
The Trump Organization later paid a $50,000 reimbursement to Cohen. It didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is calling for an expanded missile defense program to better protect the United States.
During an appearance at the Pentagon, he says “our goal is simple: that we can detect and destroy” any incoming missile.
Part of the new strategy is to create a level of sensors in space.
The president says that America’s adversaries are “increasing their lethal strike capabilities” and that his “first duty is defense of our country.”
The administration’s Missile Defense Review is the first such program since 2010. The strategy pushes for studies. No testing is mandated, and no final decisions have been made.
The goal is to better defend the U.S. against potential adversaries who are developing and fielding a much more expansive range of advanced offensive missiles.
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University faculty members are supporting the appointment of a former dean to lead the university following the resignation of John Engler.
Engler was pushed to step down as interim president after making controversial comments about some victims of former sports doctor and convicted sex abuser Larry Nassar. Engler said Wednesday that he’d resign next week, but the Board of Trustees voted Thursday to make the resignation immediate .
The board appointed Satish Udpa to replace him. Udpa is the school’s executive vice president for administration and spent seven years as the dean of the College of Engineering.
Udpa is being praised by at-large members of Michigan State’s Steering Committee and Faculty Senate. They called Udpa “a respected member of the MSU community” and thanked him for accepting the challenge of leading the school.
The group says Udpa could count on them to “do everything possible” to make the transition to president successful.
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