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CSi Weather…
TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows near zero. West winds around 5 mph.
.FRIDAY…Mostly cloudy. Snow likely in the afternoon. Snow accumulation around 1 inch. Highs around 15. Northwest winds around 5 mph shifting to the east in the afternoon. Chance of
snow 60 percent in the Jamestown area, 70 percent in the Valley City area.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…Cloudy. Snow likely possibly mixed with freezing
rain in the evening, then chance of snow after midnight. Snow
accumulation around 1 to 2 inches. Storm total around 2 -3 inches. Lows
5 to 10 above. Northeast winds around 5 mph. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY…Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of snow in the
morning in the Jamestown area. Highs 15 to 20. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Patchy blowing and drifting snow
after midnight. Lows zero to 5 above. Northwest winds 10 to
15 mph increasing to 15 to 25 mph after midnight.
.SUNDAY…Partly sunny. Patchy blowing and drifting snow. Windy.
Highs 5 to 10 above.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Areas of blowing and drifting snow
in the evening. Lows around 15 below.
.MONDAY…Partly sunny. Highs around 5 below.
.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of snow after
midnight. Lows around 15 below.
.TUESDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs
zero to 5 above.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…Decreasing clouds. Lows around 10 below.
.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs 5 to 10 above.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows around 5 below.
.THURSDAY…Partly sunny. Highs around 10.
On Friday light snow across far southern into
eastern North Dakota. The highest snow totals to be
around 2 to 3 inches across Dickey County.
Friday night a slight chance of freezing drizzle in the forecast
for portions of south central and southeast North Dakota Friday
night into Saturday morning.
Another Arctic air mass will be ushered in with the stronger winds
on Sunday. Monday and Tuesday will be brutally cold, with highs
struggling to climb above zero. Lows Sunday night through Tuesday
night could plummet well below -10. This also means a return of
dangerous wind chills in the -25 to -45 range. The coldest
conditions are expected during the overnight and morning hours
Sunday night through Wednesday morning.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Fire Department was called to a semi fire at 1:13-p.m., Thursday on I-94 east of Exit 260, where the trailer’s rear brake was on fire.
Lt Shedon Mohr said four fire fighters and two units cooled the brake and made sure the fire was out.
The rig then proceeded to the truck stop for repairs.
He said there was no damage to the trailer, and no injuries.
The cause was listed as a mechanical failure.
The fire units were on the scene about 20 minutes.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council’s Police & Fire Committee and Public Works Committee met Thursday evening at City Hall.
All members were present.
POLICE & FIRE COMMITTEE
No agenda items at this time.
PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
The committee recommends approving the 2019 Jamestown Standard Specifications as prepared by the City Engineer.
Travis Dillman with Interstate Engineering said all items are covered for infrastructure improvements, which have been updated, and sent to contractors.
INFORMATIONAL: The Department of Health requirement for the City of Jamestown to develop an Industrial Wastewater Pre-treatment Program was explained.
Marty Haroldson, NPPDES Program Administrator, ND Department of Health gave a presentation outlining the program. He said the Clean Water Act came into being in 1972 and updated in 1977.
He said the program can be expanded, need be, for protection of the city’s assets, with several industrial users waste water entering the system. He added a “fats, oil and grease,” pretreatment helps pretreat the waste water before it enters the waste water treatment plant. He outlined city requirements under the pre-treatment program.
The compliance time line is conjunction with the City permit expiration in 2021, or before, and the pretreatment costs paid by the user. The Health Department will monitor compliance with the city the permitting authority.
No action was taken by the committee.
INFORMATIONAL: A public hearing concerning Seal Coat, Patching, Construction & Reconstruction District 19-41, is scheduled at the March 4, 2019, City Council meeting.
INFORMATIONAL: The 2019 Water main replacement project was updated. Interstate Engineering reported that this summer 10-12 blocks are included, with a three block near the Anne Carlsen Center, eight blocks around the University of Jamestown Taylor Stadium, plus upsizing a water main line at one block along 3rd Street Northwest. Bidding is in April this year, after the areas are survey for utilities.
The city is looking at replacing water meters that will be read remotely, eliminating the need for meter readers.
INFORMATIONAL: The 2019 stormwater utility implementation update was given by Kevin Smith, AE2S, via phone.
He outlined developing a fee structure, and revenue sources, and current city expenses to manage stormwater, with funds coming from other sources and how many properties will be affected with the fee.
The committee tabled approval of a flat fee of $3.00 minimum monthly residential stormwater utility fee for residential properties, including vacant properties and undeveloped properties. Individual storm water utility bills will be sent to affected property owners.
The cost of the program is estimated at $500,000 annually for storm water maintenance.
Letters will be sent to affected property owners in March, along with billing testing, and public meetings will be set.
Implementation is expected in July this year.
The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 67, followed by replays.
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Tourism’s Grant Board Meeting met Thursday at the CSi Technology Center at Historic Franklin School.
Those in attendance included: President Matt Woods, Board Members Paulette Ritter, Frank Balak, and Tena Lawrence, along with Tourism Director Searle Swedlund.
Also in attendance was Ex Offico Member Pam Phillips, representing the Jamestown City Council
A Grant Request allocation was made by Jamestown Drag Racing Association for drag races to be held July 13, 14, 2019 at Jamestown Regional Airport, in the amount of $6,000 for advertising.
Other funds include local business sponsors in the amount of $12,950, Racer Entry Fees, $12, 155, Gate Admissions $9,625, T-Shirt Sales, $3,178.
The economic impact of the event is put at $187,500.
The Grant Request Allocation from Jamestown Drag Racing Association for adverting wa in the full amount of $6,000.
Another grant request by Jamestown Drag Racing was for $6,300 for 15 foot sections of aluminum bleachers. Discussion centered on if this equipment purchase would help Jamestown Drag Racing Association in putting on the event in future years, and would this request be a better fit for requests from the City Promotion Capital Construction fund?
The board’s decision was to fund $3,900 to expend on three sections of bleachers, which are portable and to be used in the future either at the airport site, or eventually at a location earmarked for the drag strip.
Another request from the Fort Seward Reconstruction Committee was for the September 7, 2019 Gatling Gun Demonstration. By Chuck Keller in the amount of $1,100.
The board granted $1,100, siting excellent turnout for the 2018 event. With 25 percent of those in attendance from out of town.
During the Grant Board Meeting:
Declaration of Conflict of Interest… none was made.
The Financial Report was given by Searle Swedlund in the absence of Taylor Barnes
The Tourism Report was given by Searle Swedlund, who noted a change in the March meeting dater to be determined, as he will be in Watford City in connection with his membership in the Rural Leadership program. He added that Tourism now has a “Collections Manager.”
Ex-Officio Report:
Pam Phillips gave and update on the four day per week garbage collection program, now in effect. She pointed out that the City’s website will have a collection map, posted.
She added that those late in paying utility bills will be assessed a late fee.
Utility bills will be assessed a Storm Water Utilities fee, with public meetings set in May and June this year for explanations.
She added that progress is being made in the City’s plan to have Waste Water Treatment Plant gas emissions piped to a location, and sold.
Under OLD BUSINESS
Discussion was held on the City Promotion Capital Construction grant process for March, with a review of specific items addressed by board members to arrive at a decision in making grants.
In NEW BUSINESS
An overview was presented of Anticipated Grant Allocation Requests for 2019. The board gave input on items, or projects they feel need prioritization, but not limited to the list presented.
Approved was a motion to change signatures on Unison, Gate City, and Wells Fargo bank accounts.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Arts Center was named as North Dakota’s, “Arts Organization of the Year.”
As reported previously at CSiNewsNow.com, Art’s Center Education Coordinator, Myra Olson on the Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, pointed out, the Arts Center continues to strive serving the community in several ways, including the arts, and other community involvement.
She added an Artists Luncheon is planned for Wednesday February 27 from Noon to 1-p.m., at the Arts Center.
The public is invited at a cost of $5 per person.
The next Open Mic Night is set for February 28, also at the Arts Center, with signups at the door, featuring local talent.
Myra outlined upcoming classes including Cheese Making, Photography with Troy Gunderson, Jewelry Making , along with regularly scheduled, Home School Classes at the Arts Center.
She thanked the community for its ongoing support, and attendance at the recent Gala event.
For more information contact the Jamestown Arts Center at 701-251-2496.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s first medical marijuana dispensary is set to open next week, the culmination of a nearly two-year effort by the state Health Department to establish a distribution system for the drug.
New York City-based Acreage Holdings plans to open The Botanist in Fargo on Feb. 28, selling drugs produced by a manufacturing facility in Bismarck, the company and state announced Thursday. The dispensary first will need to undergo what amounts to a final state inspection to ensure it meets all security rules, according to state Medical Marijuana Division Director Jason Wahl.
The facility also will offer an educational station, according to Harris Damashek, chief marketing officer for Acreage Holdings, which has operating licenses in 19 states and dispensaries in Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Ohio.
North Dakota voters approved the drug in November 2016. The Health Department has been working on the system since lawmakers crafted rules in early 2017 allowing the use of medical marijuana for 17 medical conditions, along with terminal illnesses. A bill passed by the state House on Monday and sent to the Senate would expand the list of legal conditions to 30.
The state began accepting applications in October from residents for medical marijuana cards and has been issuing them for about a month. Only about 120 have been approved so far, but the state expects as many as 4,000 residents will legally be using the drug by summer 2021. That’s based on the experience in Delaware, which North Dakota officials have cited as a model.
The state hopes to have dispensaries operating in its eight major cities by fall. It already has named operators for facilities in Fargo, Grand Forks, Bismarck and Williston. Applications for dispensaries in Devils Lake, Dickinson, Jamestown and Minot are being accepted through Tuesday.
A second manufacturing facility, in Fargo, has begun growing medical marijuana but is probably “a month or two away” from having product available, according to Wahl.
In world and national news…
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — As President Nicolas Maduro deploys missiles and infantrymen to the border bracing for what he claims is a U.S. coup plot disguised as humanitarian aid, his opponents are rallying their own troops. Nurses, doctors, engineers and homemakers have volunteered by the thousands to distribute the food and medicine in the face of a government ban. The citizen brigades are one of the opposition’s most ambitious undertakings, openly defying Maduro, who considers it a foreign military intervention.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Republican claiming victory in the country’s last undecided congressional election says he believed the word of a local political operative that his incredible vote-collecting results were legal despite multiple warnings from the candidate’s son. Mark Harris said Thursday he never independently confirmed claims by Leslie McCrae Dowless and Bladen County officials who’d used his services that Dowless’ workers never touched ballots.
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