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CSi Weather…
.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows around 10 below. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Wind chills around 25 below.
.SATURDAY…Cloudy. Highs 5 to 10 above. East winds 10 to 15 mph. Lowest wind chills around 20 below in the morning.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow in the Jamestown area, 30 percent in the Valley City area. Lows zero to 5 above. Northeast winds around 10 mph.
.SUNDAY…Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow in the Jamestown area, 20 percent in the Valley City area. Highs 10 to 15. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow.
Lows around 5 below. North winds 10 to 15 mph.
.WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of
snow in the morning. Highs zero to 5 above.
.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows around 15 below.
.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs zero to 5 above.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows around 10 below.
.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs around 10.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows near zero.
.THURSDAY…Partly sunny. Highs 10 to 15.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows near zero.
.FRIDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs around 10.
A cold and unsettled pattern remains in place with occasional
light snow chances moving through the area from time to time. The
coldest temperatures appear to return early next week in the
Sunday night to Tuesday time frame, with wind chills probably
again becoming a concern.
Update…
Jamestown (CSi) A search for a missing woman was called off Friday afternoon after she was found dead.The Jamestown Police Department and Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office asked for help in finding 58-year-old Ramie Rath. Sgt. Tyler Loven with the Jamestown Police Department reported that authorities were asked to check on her well-being.
Her last known contact was February 14th at 3 AM.
Her vehicle was located Thursday night around the Kensal area. Her body was found early Friday, roughly five miles south of Kensal, along a shelterbelt.
Stutsman County Sheriff Cad Kaiser reported that her body was discovered the after crews were sent to retrieve her mini van, that became stuck in a snowdrift on a little used road.
The investigation will continue until the results of an autopsy are released.
Kaiser says at this point in the investigation, foul play has been ruled out.
Earlier…
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Police tell CSiNewsNow.com that the public’s assistance is no longer being sought in regard to a Jamestown woman that they were trying to locate.
Sgt. Tyler Loven says more information will be released, as the investigation continues.
News Release….
The Jamestown Police Department and Stutsman County Sheriff’s Department no longer need assistance in locating the missing person, Ramie Rath, from Jamestown which was put out on a press release on 2/15/19.
She has been located.
Earlier Friday Morning…
Jamestown (JPD) The Jamestown Police Department and Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office is currently attempting to locate a missing individual.
Jamestown Police Chief Scott Edinger told CSiNewsNow.com that 58 year-old Ramie Rath (is) currently missing and authorities are asking for the public’s assistance in locating.
Sgt. Tyler Loven reports that Rath was last heard from on February 14th at 3 AM. Her vehicle was located around the Kensal area.
Bismarck (CSi) Giving Hearts Day, Feb 14, 2019 raised $16,261,713, from 30,615 contributors from North Dakota and Northwestern Minnesota.
Jamestown Regional Medical Center reports that with the help of major donors and hundreds of community members, Jamestown Regional Medical Center set a new Giving Hearts Day record. And for every $10 donated, JRMC received a match up to $40,000.
Lisa Jackson, JRMC Foundation Director, says, on Giving Hearts Day this year, JRMC raised $213,153 in 2019, thanks to the generosity of 293 donors. Last year, 200 donors helped JRMC raise $75,000. The funds helped purchase R.O.S.I.E.; a germ-zapping robot used to sanitize rooms and reduce surgical site infections.
One of this year’s gifts – $100,000 came from Reuben and Clarice M. Liechty. The gift will help the JRMC Cancer Center provide chemotherapy infusions to area patients, saving them hundreds of miles of travel each year. Those miles matter, Jackson said; no one wants to travel when they are sick.
Clarice says, “It’s so important to not have to travel a long distance. It’s tough enough to be sick.”
The JRMC Cancer Center is set to open this summer.
Jackson adds, “This is a huge win for JRMC and the Jamestown community. Thank you to the Liechtys for their giving hearts. What you’ve done for JRMC and the Jamestown community will make THE difference in patient care.”
JRMC Emergency Department Physician Dr. Kent Diehl, says, in addition to the gift from the Liechty’s, the JRMC Auxiliary donated $10,000. This money helped purchase a Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma Ultrasound for the JRMC Emergency Department. This tool will help doctors diagnose and treat injuries, said The $45,000 machine means patients can count on JRMC for faster results, especially when seconds count and miles matter.
Dr. Diehl says, “We will be able to diagnose things quicker. It will be huge – the difference between life and death in certain situations. The equipment does so many things including guiding IV access and not having to transport patients for x-rays. This equipment puts us equally with higher level trauma centers. Thank you to this community for the support.”
The 50 or so members of the JRMC Auxiliary volunteer their time to raise money for JRMC. Since 1987 the Auxiliary has donated more than $390,000 for patient care.
Cindy Grimm, JRMC Auxiliary past-president, points out that, “Great patient care is important to all of us in the Auxiliary. We’re happy to support these projects,” said This Giving Hearts Day, more than 30,000 individuals gave $16.2 million to nonprofit organizations throughout the Upper Midwest.
Jackson adds, “Every year on Giving Hearts Day, we talk about how gifts ‘double the love.’ When it comes to the JRMC Cancer Center and the JRMC Emergency Department, this is absolutely true. Giving Hearts Day gifts directly affect our current patients; however, the love is doubled because those gifts help future patients too. Thank you to this community for the support. We are humbled.”
To learn more about patient care or giving opportunities at JRMC, visit www.jrmcnd.com or call (701) 952-1050.
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, ND, February 15, 2019 (JRMC) — With gratitude, Jamestown Regional Medical Center Interim CEO, Trisha Jungels, announced Friday that JRMC received its biggest Giving Hearts Day gift in history.
Philanthropists and business owners Clarice and Reuben Liechty donated $100,000 to the upcoming JRMC Cancer Center.
“It’s so important to not have to travel a long distance,” Clarice said. “It’s tough enough to be sick.”
Set to open this summer, the JRMC Cancer Center will offer chemotherapy services to the 55,000 people in JRMC’s nine-county region. Once operational, the cancer center will help more than 100 patients each month, saving more than 160,000 miles of travel each year.
Those miles matter, Jungels said.
“This is a huge win for JRMC and the Jamestown community,” Jungels said. “Thank you to Reuben and Clarice Liechty. This gift will make THE difference in patient care.”
The Reuben and Clarice Liechty have a legacy of giving in the Jamestown area, supporting several nonprofit organizations.
“Reuben and I enjoy giving,” Clarice said. “Thank you to all those who are working to bring more healthcare services to our community.”
JRMC has worked to bring cancer care to Jamestown since it moved to its new location in southwest Jamestown.
“Our community is so fortunate,” Jungels said. “Thank you to the Liechtys for inspiring giving throughout the decades.”
Giving Hearts Day is a 24-hour, online giving event that helps change and save lives. This year, with the support of the Liechtys and about 300 donors, JRMC raised more than $213,000.
To learn more about patient care or giving opportunities at JRMC, visit www.jrmcnd.com.
Jamestown (Chamber) Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, Emily Bivens has announced the recipient of the Ag Woman of the Year.
Julie Michel has been informed her selection, as Emily released the information for immediate release, Friday morning, with awards to been handed out at Friday evening’s Ag Banquet at the Quality Inn & Suites in Jamestown.
Awards will also be given by the Stutsman County Soil Conservation District to be announced at Friday evening’s banquet.
The news release states that Julie Michel is currently office manager, president, and co-owner of Michel Farms Inc., as well as mom to Cody, Kale, and Amanda. She grew up on a dairy farm where she learned a strong work ethic from her parents, Darrel & Vonnie Entzminger.
She then farmed alongside her husband, Jeff Michel, until his sudden death in 2006. Julie was determined to keep the farm going, which meant all of the grain marketing, crop insurance, financials, meeting with the land lords, crop rotation decisions, etc. were now her responsibility.
Since then, her sons Cody and Kale have become full-time farmers, co-owners of Michel Farms Inc., and REA Seed dealers. They make many of the decisions that were once solely hers. Her daughter Amanda came back to the farm in 2015, and they opened Boondocks Venue together in 2016. She is currently Office Manager of Boondocks and hopes to someday take over the role of Office Manager for the farm as well. She is married to Zach Rode.
Over the next several years, Julie plans to transition from manager to mentor, still helping in the fields and lending advice.
In her free time, Julie enjoys baking, gardening, being outdoors, spending time with family, helping others, and camping and riding horse with her fiancé, Travis Guthmiller.
Jamestown (CSi) Dr. Timothy Bratton of Jamestown says if sky conditions cooperate, that around 11:30 p.m. CST on Monday evening, the “Dog Star” Sirius (Alpha Canis Majoris), the brightest star on our skies, may disappear for up to 1.8 seconds as the tiny asteroid 4388 Jurgenstock covers it. As luck would have it, the central path of this occultation (eclipse of the star by the planetoid’s tiny disk) runs almost directly through Jamestown! Your naked eyes, field glasses, or binoculars will be all you need to observe this event.
(The Voyager 4.5.1 (Carina Software) graphic shows the SSW-SW skyline at Jamestown at 11:30 p.m. on Feb. 18 (Monday), 2019. You can’t miss Sirius; it’s the brightest star in the sky, and lies to the lower left of Orion the Hunter. Sirius may disappear for nearly two seconds as asteroid Jurgenstock passes over it.)
At that time, dazzling white Sirius (magnitude -1.44) will be 20½ degrees above our SSW-SW skyline. Although Sirius is both larger and hotter than our own Sun, its brilliance is due mostly to the fact that it lies only 8.581 light-years from our solar system. Jurgenstock is only 2.9 miles wide, but is still close enough to us that its tiny disk might be able to blot out Sirius as it passes over the star. If Sirius is slightly wider than the current estimate of its diameter, or Jurgenstock is slightly smaller than anticipated, we might see a partial occultation; Sirius would dim noticeably, but not vanish entirely.
Because of uncertainties in Jurgenstock’s positions, we can’t predict the exact time when it will occult Sirius. To be on the safe side, look at Sirius for a few minutes on either side of the expected time of the occultation, 11:31 p.m. The star should wink out of sight abruptly for up to 1.8 seconds, although this duration might vary given the unknown shape of the asteroid. If you have a video camera mounted on a tripod that puts time stamps on each frame, you might be able to record this happening, which would be valuable for astronomers.
Jurgenstock, discovered on photographic plates in 1964, is a rather typical main belt asteroid, taking 3 years and 7 months to complete each circuit around the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. At a magnitude of only 16.7, it is too dim to be seen in most amateur telescopes, and is more than 1.8 million times fainter than Sirius! The planetoid was named after the German astronomer Jürgen Stock (1923-2004), who determined that the mountain of Cerro Tololo in Chile was the ideal spot to install giant telescopes in South America. At the time of occultation, the planetoid will be 189,238,718 miles from the Sun and 123,377,059 miles from Earth.
Fargo (NDHP) The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports that since February 4th, there have been six incidents in the southeast portion of North Dakota involving NDDOT snow plows. Five of the incidents occurred on I-94 and one on I-29.
The NDHP would remind motorists to give NDDOT snow plows the space necessary to safely remove the snow and ice from our roadways. Numerous snow plows have been struck statewide this year. NDDOT snow plows and other snow removal equipment have emergency lighting to make traffic aware of their location.Blowing snow and snow fog may obscure these lights and the NDDOT equipment at times. Always slow down when approaching a snow plow and pass safely when you are can clearly see around the snow plow and the snow plow operator would be able see you. If your vision is obscured by the snow fog a plow is creating, stay back, slow your speed, turn on your hazard lights and wait for the plow operator to pull over to allow traffic to pass. Don’t ever blindly drive into a snow fog without slowing down. In addition, do not become distracted while driving and never drink and drive.
Update…
In sports…
BOYS HOCKEY…
Friday’s Loser-out game, State Tournament,West Region. Minot
Jamestown 6, Bottineau-Rugby 1
Saturday’s play-in game at approximately 1:30 p.m.
In world and national news…
AURORA, Ill. (AP) A city spokesman says four police officers were wounded in a shooting at a business in suburban Chicago.
Clayton Muhammad, the director of communications for the city of Aurora, told ABC7 that the officers are in stable condition following the shooting at the Henry Pratt Co. building Friday afternoon.
Muhammad did not say the officers were shot or if anyone else was hurt.
Authorities say a suspect has been apprehended.
Aurora is about 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Chicago.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union says it will file a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border.
The Friday announcement came hours after Trump signed the declaration and said he expected legal challenges. The civil rights group will argue that Trump’s use of emergency powers is unprecedented and can’t be used to build a border wall.
ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero says the declaration is ‘patently illegal.’ Their legal action would be separate from anything Congress may do.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (puh-LOH’-see) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have also raised the possibility of legal action. They say Trump’s decision would “shred the Constitution” by usurping Congress’ power to control spending.
White House officials say some of the money would come from military construction projects.
NEW YORK (AP) — Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid have settled collusion lawsuits against the NFL.
In a three-sentence statement released Friday, the NFL said:
“For the past several months, counsel for Mr. Kaepernick and Mr. Reid have engaged in an ongoing dialogue with representatives of the NFL. As a result of those discussions, the parties have decided to resolve the pending grievances. The resolution of this matter is subject to a confidentiality agreement so there will be no further comment by any party.”
Kaepernick’s lawyer tweeted an identical statement.
Kaepernick and Reid filed collusion grievances against the league, saying they were blacklisted because of protests during the national anthem at games. Kaepernick has not played in the league since 2016, while Reid missed three games last season before signing with Carolina.
CHICAGO (AP) — Attorney Gloria Allred tells The Associated Press she has contacted law enforcement about concerns one of her clients may be the person in a VHS tape recently given to Chicago prosecutors that purportedly shows R&B star R. Kelly having sex with an underage girl.
The Los Angeles-based lawyer said by phone Friday she has “made law enforcement in a different jurisdiction” than Chicago aware of her concerns. Allred represents multiple R. Kelly accusers, some of whom haven’t come forward publicly.
Allred says if her client is on the video, “we will do everything legally possible to protect her and her rights.”
Another attorney, Michael Avenatti, said Thursday he gave Chicago prosecutors the video.
Kelly has been dogged for years with allegations of sexual misconduct. Through his lawyers, he has consistently denied them. His current attorney, Steve Greenberg, told the AP Allred’s comments were “speculative.”
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police spokesman confirms that the two suspects arrested in the reported hate crime involving black actor Jussie Smollett are black.
Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi also says the suspects were arrested on suspicion of assault and battery. He says department policy prohibits him from naming the victim but says that he can say the two Nigerian brothers were arrested in connection with the case involving the “‘Empire’ cast member.” Smollett is an actor on the television drama and has said he was beaten in a racist, anti-gay attack last month.
Guglielmi also says at least one of the men in custody worked on “Empire,” but he does not know in what capacity.
The men are being interrogated Friday by detectives. Police picked them up Wednesday at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport after they flew from Nigeria. On Thursday, police served a search warrant at their Chicago apartment.
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