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CSi Weather…
…DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM CDT /10 AM MDT/
WEDNESDAY…
WHERE…South central North Dakota and portions of the James
River Valley.
* WHAT…Dense fog with visibility below one quarter of a mile.
* WHEN…Tuesday night through Wednesday morning.
* IMPACTS…Driving will be difficult. Roads may become slick in
some spots. Slow down. Use caution at uncontrolled
intersections, railroad crossings, and truck entry points as
other vehicles will be difficult to see.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A Dense Fog Advisory means visibilities will frequently be
reduced to less than one quarter mile. If driving…slow down…
use your headlights…and leave plenty of distance ahead of you.
Forecast…
.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Areas of fog through the night. Lows around 30. South winds 5 to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Areas of fog in the morning. Highs
around 50. West winds 5 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s.
Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 30s. North winds
10 to 15 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 20s.
.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 20.
.SATURDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows 15 to 20.
.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows in the lower 20s.
.MONDAY…Partly sunny. Highs around 40.
Areas of fog are possible across much of central and parts of
southwestern North Dakota Tuesday night.
Jamestown (CSi) The City of Jamestown informs residents that effective Monday, April 1, 2019, the City Sanitation crews and the ND Recycling Center crews will no longer be collecting carts in the residential alleys as the changing weather temperatures are causing extremely muddy conditions in the alleyways.
On April 1st, until further notice, please place garbage and recycling carts on the boulevard no further than 3 feet from the curb on your scheduled pick up day.
Please place collection carts out for pick up by 7:00 a.m. Trucks will not return to the area after the scheduled collection routes are completed.
Carts should be placed out for pick up by 7:00 a.m. each morning.
Jamestown (Cassie DuBray) The Jamestown United Way wrapped up its 2019 campaign with a celebration annual meeting luncheon at the North Dakota Farmers Union.
Executive Board Member and Treasurer, Kevin Walker, told the community members and supporters at the event that the organization exceeded its 2019 campaign goal of $200,000 by $857. “Meeting goal is really exciting because we will be able to fully fund all of our agency budget requests,” stated Walker.
Committee members shared campaign highlights and successes and thanked all the campaign volunteers and contributors. Awards were given to the following local businesses thanking them for their support:
100% Participation & Increased Donations: James River Community Center
100% Participation: Lloyd’s Motors
Increased Donations – Over Previous Year : Ave Maria, Cavendish Farms, Cash Wise, City Employees, Dacotah Bank, Farmer’s Union Insurance, RM Stoudt’s, Safe Shelter, South Central Human Service Center, and University of Jamestown
Spirit Awards for Continued Support: Butler Machinery, Hugo’s, Jamestown Regional Medical Center, Newman Signs, Noridian Administrative Services, and Collins Aerospace
Additionally, the Outgoing Board Member Award was given to Cassie DuBray for serving four years with the United Way, as she will be leaving the Board.
The Board also presented the following nominations: new appointees are Rebecca Kercher and Arnell McDonald. Re-appointment to a 2nd term are Dani Helton and Craig Olin. The slate of officers for the 2019/2020 campaign are as follows: President: Katie Mittleider, 1st Vice President: Dani Helton, 2nd Vice Co-Chairs: Lynette Stoddart and Dina Laskowski and Treasurer: Kevin Walker.
The United Way of Stutsman County is part of United Way Worldwide. Its mission is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good. The current impact model emphasizes that 99% of all funds raised stays within in Stutsman County. The local agencies supported are: Alano Society, Boy Scouts – Northern Lights, Camp Rokiwan, Child Care Aware, Community Corrections, Girl Scouts – Dakota Horizons, Imagination Library, James River Transit, MOST/21st Cen. After School, PATH, Safe Shelter, Salvation Army, SANE/SART, Senior Companion Program, and The Arts Center.
Jamestown (CSi) The Annual El Zagal Mystics Fish Friday to benefit Shrine causes and projects will be Friday March 29 from 4:30-p.m., to 7:30-p.m., at Shady’s at the Gladstone Inn & Suites in Jamestown.
On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, spokesperson Craig Mehlhoff said Cod fish will be served, along with buns and butter, coleslaw, baked beans, Yukon Gold potatoes, beverages, and root beer floats for dessert, all donated by local businesses.
He added that Jon Beyer from Jonny B’s Brickhouse is the head Chef, assisted by other top chefs in the community.
Craig pointed out that proceeds raised will go toward supporting transportation to the Shriners Children Hospitals, with 22 hospitals internationally, including 18 orthopedic hospitals, and four children’s burn hospitals, all at no cost to families. Proceeds are also earmarked for the parade unit, and other expenses.
Jim Boatman is the Jamestown contact person for more information or call toll free 1-800-237-5055.
Craig said the El Zagal Mystics, consist of 35 members, the Jamestown Clowns with 130 members and the EZ Wheels Motorcycle Club has around 20 members, supporting Shrine local and area causes.
Craig said this year’s Shrine Circus for Jamestown and Valley City will be at the Jamestown Civic Center, on Tuesday April 9, at 5:30-p.m., with the doors opening at 4:30-p.m.
A select number of elementary school students have received complementary tickets.
Otherwise, Children’s Tickets are $8 each, Adult Tickets are $10 in advance, or $11 at the door, with NO reserved seats.
Many bicycles will be given away from local businesses, with numbers drawn from available coloring books, sold at the circus.
Circus proceeds will go to support the Shriners Hospitals.
Jamestown (CSi) At the Jamestown Tourism monthly full board meeting, another means to draw tourists and local individuals to the 1883 Stutsman County Courthouse and Downtown Jamestown was discussed.
An Escape Room in the basement of the old sheriff’s apartment and jail cell adjacent to the 1883 Courthouse, was again discussed.
Jamestown Tourism is interested in supporting the escape room game, where players compete against each other solving a series of puzzles that will lead to freedom and occasionally, prizes. Jamestown Tourism is interested in supporting starting a game at the courthouse that would then be operated the courthouse staff as outlined by Courthouse Site Supervisor, Steve Reidburn.
The game requires a space, to hold it, along with a book of clues, technical document, and could consist of several puzzles, for possible multiple participating groups.
Individuals acting as historical characters could be included.
Jamestown Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund, pointed out that escape rooms are popular and another means of visiting it.
Tourism President, Matt Woods, and board member Tena Lawrence said, the game could be inclusive of other areas of Jamestown of interest, along with using historical information about the 1883 Stutsman County Courthouse.
Woods added that the goal is to bring tourists and local people to Downtown Jamestown and 1883 Courthouse.
Bismarck (CSi) North Dakota’s 11 public colleges and universities will present at the 2019 Legislative Showcase in the state Capitol Memorial and Legislative Halls Wednesday, March 27.
Representatives of the 11 North Dakota University System institutions as well as its constituent groups of faculty, staff and students will provide displays highlighting some of the high-quality academic experiences and innovative new ventures taking place on its campuses.
Displays are scheduled from 10 a.m. through 3 p.m. and are open to the public.
Lisbon (CSi) – The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports, a 60 year-old Sargent County employee was killed when he was struck by a vehicle early Tuesday morning.
A 2002 Honda Odyssey van driven by 54 year old Sharilyn Summers, of Britton South Dakota, was traveling north on Sargent County Road 10 to Gwinner. The van came upon a parked Sargent County Road Department pickup facing south in the northbound lane. It was not immediately apparent that the GMC was parked in Summers’ lane and she took evasive maneuvers to avoid hitting the vehicle.
Members of the Sargent County Road Department were placing warning signs on the shoulder of the road and were not in the pickup. The van struck the front driver side tire of the GMC pickup and later struck a 60 year-old employee.
The man was transported to the Lisbon Medical Center where he died from his injuries.
His name will be released later by the Highway Patrol.
Summers was not injured in the crash. The incident remains under investigation.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) — Officials say they are unsure when construction of Trinity Health’s new hospital complex in southwestern Minot will resume after a worker accident and propane tank explosions closed the site last week.
The Minot Daily News reports that Trinity Health closed the work site Thursday after a construction worker plummeted four stories. No information has been released about the worker’s condition or what caused the fall.
On Friday, four propane tanks exploded at the closed job site, shooting fireballs into the air. No one was reported injured in the blasts, which shook homes more than five miles away. The cause of the explosions is under investigation.
Trinity Health said in a statement Monday that the site remains closed and the investigations will take some time.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Soil moisture supplies appear in good shape as the spring planting season nears in North Dakota.
The Agriculture Department says in its monthly crop report that topsoil moisture supplies in the state are rated 92 percent adequate to surplus, and subsoil moisture is 82 percent in those categories.
The state’s winter wheat crop also looks to be in good shape, with three-fourths of the crop rated in good condition.
Cattle and calf conditions are rated mostly fair to good. Death loss is mostly average to light.
Stock water and hay supplies are mostly rated adequate.
The March report is the last monthly report. Weekly reports begin next week.
In sports…
Valley City (VCSU) The Valley City State softball team moved up two spots to No. 9 in this week’s NAIA Top 25 Coaches’ Poll released Tuesday.
The Vikings moved inside the Top 10 for the first time in program history, improving upon their program-best No. 11 ranking from two weeks ago.
Valley City State has a 24-1 overall record so far this season after sweeping a four-game series with Dakota State on Sunday and Monday. The Vikings have won their last nine games and have the third-best winning percentage in the nation behind No. 1 Science & Arts (26-0) and No. 5 Marian (16-0).
Through 25 games, VCSU is allowing less than two runs per game and has outscored opponents 186-44.
Up next: Valley City State is scheduled play Dickinson State this weekend. The exact date, time and location of the games are still being determined based on weather forecasts.
In world and national news…
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge has declared unconstitutional a North Carolina law banning women from having abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy except in an urgent medical emergency.
The decision Monday by U.S. District Judge William Osteen in Greensboro gave state legislators 60 days before his ruling takes effect to allow them to amend abortion restrictions or appeal his ruling to a higher court.
The U.S. Supreme Court has protected abortion as a constitutional right until a fetus has developed enough to live outside the mother’s womb. The judge noted that North Carolina’s own medical expert conceded that’s almost never possible until the 22nd week of gestation.
The law was challenged in 2016 shortly after lawmakers narrowed abortions after the 20th week of gestation so that they were only allowable if the mother faces a risk of death or serious and irreversible harm from some urgent medical emergency.
The 2016 changes also “imposed substantial reporting obligations on abortion providers for any abortion performed after sixteen weeks, expanded the universe of medical facilities from which information is collected, restricted the type of doctor who may perform an abortion in the state, and lengthened the informed consent waiting period from 24 to 72 hours,” Osteen wrote in his ruling.
The revised law also meant that abortions were no longer allowed for medical conditions that cause gradual health damage but never reached a specific point to make them immediately necessary, Osteen said.
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the city’s police chief have angrily criticized Jussie Smollett and the decision by prosecutors to drop all charges that alleged the “Empire” actor staged a racial and homophobic attack in the city in January.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday, a visibly angry Emanuel called the decision a “whitewash of justice” and asked, “Where is the accountability in the system?”
Emanuel criticized Smollett for not taking any responsibility despite what he described as overwhelming evidence. He also says Smollett continues to drag Chicago’s reputation through “the mud.” His voice seeming to quiver with anger he said about Smollett, “Is there no decency in this man?”
Police Superintendent Eddie T. Johnson said Smollett still owns the city an apology.
Smollett has not backtracked from his original story, insisting he’d been “truthful and consistent on every single level since day one.”
NEW YORK (AP) — A setback for marijuana advocates in New Jersey may show that the path of legalizing recreational marijuana use doesn’t necessarily run along blue state-red state lines.
Democrat-led New Jersey could still become the 11th state to legalize the drug, though a state Senate vote was abruptly put off Monday because it didn’t have enough support.
The delay is a reminder that the politics of pot legalization aren’t purely partisan. Experts say the key question instead can be whether voters or legislators are making the decision.
Nine of the 10 states that have legalized recreational marijuana did so through voter referendums — not through their legislatures.
Experts say one reason is that voters are usually presented with more general propositions, while legislators likely have to weigh more details — and political considerations.
MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court has accused an American, Mexican and South Korean of an attack on the North Korean Embassy in February, saying the FBI was offered stolen data.
National Court judge Jose de la Mata on Tuesday lifted a secrecy order, announcing it had found evidence of various crimes, including trespassing, injuries, threats and burglary committed by “a criminal organization.”
The investigating magistrate named Adrian Hong Chang, a Mexican national and resident in the United States, as the leader of a gang of 10 people who escaped in broad daylight on Feb. 22 after stealing computers and documents from the embassy, where they shackled and gagged its staff.
The judge says Hong Chang escaped Spanish authorities and flew to the U.S., where he got in touch with the FBI.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An effort by House Democrats to override President Donald Trump’s first veto has failed. That hands him a victory because his declaration of a national emergency at the Southwest border will remain in effect.
The Democratic-controlled chamber has voted 248-181 in favor of overriding Trump’s veto. That fell 38 votes short of the 286 needed for Democrats and their handful of Republican allies to prevail, because a two-thirds majority was needed.
The emergency declaration would let Trump shift an additional $3.6 billion from military construction projects to erecting barriers along the border with Mexico. Building the wall was one of Trump’s most repeated campaign pledges, though he said it would be paid for by Mexico, not taxpayers.
Congress voted to provide less than $1.4 billion for barrier construction. Court challenges may eventually block the extra money Trump wants
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says the outcome of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian election interference “could not have been better.”
Arriving at the Senate to meet with Republicans, Trump falsely claimed Mueller’s report found “no obstruction, no collusion.”
Mueller did not find a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, but he did not make a conclusion about whether Trump obstructed justice. That’s according to a summary of Mueller’s report from Attorney General William Barr.
Republican leaders showed support for the president. Trump was flanked during his remarks by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Roy Blunt, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee. When Trump entered the private weekly lunch, Republicans could be heard applauding.
Mueller concluded his two-year investigation last week.
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