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CSi Weather…
.TONIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows in the upper 30s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
.FRIDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers. Lows in the lower 40s. Northeast winds around 15 mph.
.SATURDAY…Cloudy. Rain showers likely in the morning, then
chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 50s.
Northeast winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of showers 60 percent in the Jamestown area, 50 percent in the Valley City area.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the upper 30s.
.SUNDAY…Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain showers. Highs
around 50.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain
showers in the evening. Patchy frost. Lows in the upper 30s.
.MONDAY…Partly sunny. Highs around 60.
.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.
.TUESDAY…Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs around 60.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the lower 40s.
.WEDNESDAY…Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain showers.
Highs in the upper 50s.
Wednesday evening storm report:
Hail..Valley City reported marble to ping pong ball size.
Hail reported north and south of Valley City
Hail reported south of Jamestown
A half inch of rain reported in Downtown Valley City
With some street flooding
1 1/2 inches of rain south of Valley City
Hail..Spiritwood reported golf ball size.
Looking ahead…
The best chances of widespread rain Friday looks to be across western most of the day and pushing into southern ND Friday evening. Total forecast rainfall (Friday – Monday) across southwest and south central North Dakota is currently greater than one inch.
Cooler, cloudy weather over North Dakota through mid-week.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Rescue Squad responded Thursday afternoon about 2:40 to Gavilon Grain at 3469 80th Avenue, Southeast where an individual was reported trapped an outdoor pile of material.
Lt. Sheldon Mohr reports, the male employee had his foot trapped in a conveyor, and was freed by the Jamestown Area Ambulance crew, with the Stutsman County Sheriff’s office also on scene.
The man was taken to JRMC with unknown injuries at this time.
22 Fire fighters were called to the City Fire Hall, with seven on scene, and the rest on standby.
The rescue squad was on scene about 10 minutes.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Police Department is warning residents about a sex offender who has changed Jamestown addresses. Kyle Greenough has been assigned a high risk assessment by the North Dakota Attorney General’s risk level committee.
He does not have a vehicle.
Greenough is a white male, 5 foot 6 inches tall, weighing 260 pounds. He has blue eyes and blond hair.
Offense: Gross Sexual Imposition, when he was 19 years old engaging in a sexual act with a 14 year old female.
Conviction: July 2015 in Dunn County, District Court.
Disposition: 7 years suspended, 42 days credit, 3 years supervised probation.
Offense: Gross Sexual Imposition. When he was a juvenile he had sexual intercourse with several juvenile females.
Conviction date: November 2012 in Dunn County Juvenile Court.
Disposition: 1.5 years.
Greenough is currently on probation with North Dakots Parole and Probation.
Greenough is not wanted by police at this time and has served the sentence 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 Kyle Greenough, 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) May is Older Americans Month and Lutheran Social Services in Jamestown is hosting and Open House on Tuesday May 21 in the Legacy Center Board Room in Jamestown, located at 419 5th Street Northeast in Jamestown. There will be refreshments and repeat showings of LSSND’s video that commemorates its 100-year history, as well as materials that explain its services.
On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Jim Holben from the LSS Jamestown Office at Legacy Center in Downtown Jamestown said, representatives will be on hand to answer questions and talk about the services specific to Jamestown, which include Respite for primary caregivers of older adults, Community Transition Services, Connect (SMART technology that links older adults with caregiving coaching advice) and Aging Life Care coordination.
He said the recently opened office covers a 100 mile radius of Jamestown.
For more information on the Senior Independence programs, please contact Carmel at carmelf@lssnd.org or Andrea at andreal@lssnd.org. at the Fargo Office.
On our show, we were joined on the phone by ALC Team Lead, Carmel Froemke from the LSS Fargo office, as she explained services available.
She said:
Aging Life Care™ Care Coordination connects older adults (and those with chronic medical or mental health needs) with a trusted advisor/coordinator to help navigate the many complex issues that come with changes in health and/or living situations. A sliding fee scale is available based on income and ability to pay.
ALC Independence offers resources and assistance to elder refugees and other low-income adults who may require a more hands-on-approach to services due to multiple barriers within the community setting. Assistance with medical advocacy, scheduling appointments, transportation, sorting mail, completing paperwork, enhancing social support and more are available…
The goal of ALC Connect (Remote Technology) is to offer support, resources and assistance through the use of SMART technology to reduce isolation and loneliness often experienced by Seniors and/or Caregivers. This service is geared for those living in rural communities who want caregiver coaching advice or simply a listening ear. Supports are available in group or individual formats.
Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Qualified Service Provider consists of :
HCBS Case Management services are now available in Jamestown, which are available through the Medicaid Waiver and Medicaid State Program. This service authorizes funding for Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) (like personal care, homemaking, respite services etc.) to specific adults in Cass County who are frail, elderly, physically ill or otherwise disabled and who meet the state’s financial requirements. The case manager provides specialized support and assistance based on the results of a comprehensive assessment unique to the adult’s needs and wishes.
The HCBS Community Transition program is to assist individuals that are eligible to transition from an institution or other living situation that is operated by a provider to living in a private residence where the individual is responsible for their own living expenses. Community Transition Services include Transition Coordination and one-time transition costs.
Also available through the Jamestown office is ,HCBS Respite that provides (respite) care to an eligible individual on a short-term basis to provide temporary relief to the primary (live-in) caregiver from the stress and demands associated with care. Respite care may be provided in the client’s home or other designated/approved location.
More information by contacting Jim Holben at the Jamestown LSS Office at 701-271-3295, or 701-368-1677.
Valley City (CSi) Valley City Public Works informs residents that hydrant flushing is in progress.
A reminder that water pressure may vary along withdiscolored water conditions when the flushing occurs, however, the water is safe to drink.
Residents are asked to check their water before doing laundry.
Store water for drinking and cooking.
Call the Valley City Public Works Office with any questions at 845-0380.
Horace (Farm Rescue) – Last year, Farm Rescue began raising funds to purchase two John Deere 9620R four-wheel drive tractors to pull its seeding equipment in 2019 and beyond. The first tractor was acquired using grant monies awarded through the Engelstad Foundation. The second tractor purchase was made possible through contributions from many individuals and businesses. The fundraising effort recently came to fruition at John Deere’s Tractor Works facility in Waterloo, IA, as Farm Rescue staff and volunteers had the opportunity to see the new tractors completed.
More than 135 individual and family donors contributed to the tractor fundraiser, which offered supporters a chance to have their name displayed on the tractor with a gift of $250 or more.
In addition to the Engelstad Foundation, several other Farm Rescue business sponsors also increased their annual giving dollars to assist with the tractor purchases. Hess Corporation, CoBank, CHS, Glacial Lakes Energy, Oneok and First International Bank & Trust all contributed to the campaign’s success, helping fulfill a crucial need for the nonprofit’s assistance efforts.
Farm Rescue Founder and President, Bill Gross says, “We wish to thank everyone who supported the tractor fundraiser. The tractors are essential to our planting operations and will allow us to help hundreds of families.”
Farm Rescue, is a nonprofit organization that provides planting, haying, harvesting and livestock feeding assistance free of charge to farm and ranch families who have experienced a major illness, injury or natural disaster, has two new tractors to power its operations and a lot of people to thank for that fact.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) — The niece of two Navy seamen from Minot who were killed in World War II hopes that the recent identification of their remains will bring more attention to their story.
Helene Jensen, niece of Calvin and Wilfred Palmer, told the Minot Daily News that she wants people to learn about the sacrifices the brothers made for the country.
The Palmers were among the 429 crewmen on the USS Oklahoma who died in the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
Their remains were exhumed in 2015 from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. They were identified in March through DNA analysis.
Jensen said she was surprised when she was notified about her uncles, noting that her aunt had provided a positive DNA sample before her death.
The brothers’ names are listed on the cemetery’s Walls of the Missing, and a rosette will be placed next to their names to show they’ve been accounted for.
Jensen said her father, Charles Burns, was also aboard the USS Oklahoma, but he survived the attack and tried to save the Palmer brothers. Burns was forced to jump off the battleship and was able to swim to shore.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Attorneys for oil pipeline opponents are fighting a South Dakota sheriff’s attempt to be dismissed as a defendant in a lawsuit challenging new state laws that aim to prevent disruptive demonstrations against the Keystone XL pipeline.
Pennington County Sheriff Kevin Thom should remain a defendant in the suit spearheaded by the American Civil Liberties Union because he will be enforcing law that amounts to an unconstitutional infringement on free speech, an attorney for the plaintiffs argued in a Tuesday court filing.
The Republican-backed legislation passed in March allows officials to pursue criminal or civil penalties from demonstrators who engage in “riot boosting,” which is defined in part as encouraging violence during a riot.
Supporters of the legislation sought to head off protests of the Keystone XL like those mounted against the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota in 2016 and 2017. North Dakota spent $38 million on policing those protests, which resulted in 761 arrests over a six-month span.
The ACLU is suing South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg and Thom in federal court on behalf of activists. An attorney for Thom last month asked that the sheriff be dismissed from the lawsuit, saying he must enforce state laws but isn’t responsible for defending them. Attorney Rebeca L. Mann also argued that Pennington County shouldn’t have to defend state laws that it doesn’t have the power to change.
Plaintiffs’ attorney Brendan Johnson countered in Tuesday’s court filing that “each time Thom makes a choice about the laws’ meaning, as the highest official in the county for that action, he is doing so as a policymaker for Pennington County.”
Johnson also argued that Thom must use his own discretion when enforcing the law, making him an “appropriate defendant.”
Pennington County is one of eight South Dakota counties along the route of TC Energy’s planned Keystone XL pipeline to move Canadian crude through Montana and South Dakota to Nebraska, where it would connect with lines to Gulf Coast refineries. The $8 billion project has the backing of President Donald Trump but is being fought in the courts by opponents.
The ACLU of South Dakota, North Dakota and Wyoming said it named Thom as a defendant in the lawsuit because he’s sheriff in the county in which the activists are working. Plaintiffs include the Rapid City-based NDN Collective nonprofit, which advocates for indigenous peoples and climate change awareness.
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Montana Supreme Court has ruled the state failed to make a reasonable effort to reunite a woman with the son who was taken away from her after he was born in Billings with methamphetamine in his system.
Justices, in a 7-0 ruling issued Tuesday, overturned the July 2018 termination of the mother’s parental rights and ordered the Division of Child and Family Services to work to reunite the woman with her son.
The court said the state was wrong not to move the infant to a placement in North Dakota, where the mother lived. Officials also failed to create opportunities to allow her to bond with her baby and didn’t arrange adequate services to help her address her substance abuse issues.
The boy has lived with foster parents in Billings since his birth in October 2016.
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