CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Mostly clear. Colder. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.

.SATURDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 40s. North winds

5 to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.

.SUNDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.

.MONDAY…Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of rain showers and

thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 80.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain

showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy

after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s.

.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and

thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.

.WEDNESDAY…Sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain

showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 50s.

.THURSDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.

 

 

On Saturday high temperatures  generally in the 70s.

On Sunday,temperatures warm into upper 70s and low 80s.

For Monday, a warm southerly flow continues.

 

Monday through Friday…

Some chances of showers/thunderstorms each day, but not much in

the way for severe weather at this time.

 

 

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Smoke from large wildfires in Canada’s Alberta province has drifted into five U.S. states and is causing haze and air quality issues.

More than two dozen fires are burning in Alberta and 10,000 people have been forced from their homes.

The smoke has drifted into Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington state and Wyoming.

The government agency Alberta Wildfire reports the largest blaze is out of control about 450 miles (733 kilometers) north of Edmonton and has burned 887 square miles (2,300 square kilometers) of land.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rated Helena’s air quality as unhealthy Friday morning while the air quality in the Montana cities of Great Falls and Lewistown was rated as unhealthy for sensitive groups such as people with asthma or heart disease.

 

 

Valley City  (CSi) The Education Foundation at Valley City Public Schools is selling  raffle ticket for the fundraiser that will raise dollars to support Access for All, VCPS Speech Team and Classroom Enhancement Grants.  The  goal is to sell 2500 tickets at $20/ticket to raise $50,000.

The Education Foundation has partnered with the VCHS Speech Team for the fundraiser.

Those purchasing a raffle ticket have a chance to win one of twelve $1,000 cash prizes.  Drawing will be held October 4, 2019 at Halftime of the Hi liner Homecoming Football Game.

Purchase a ticket, from any Speech Team student or call Shari Larson at 701-845-0483, Ext 1.

 

Valley City  (CSi)  The Sheyenne Valley Community Foundation will hold an Alliance of Nonprofits meeting on Monday June 3, 2019 at the Valley City Town and Country Club at 4-p.m. to 5-p.m. The Guest Speaker  will be Vice Chair of the Alliance of Nonprofits of Minot, Scott Burlingame, The social hour starts at 5-p.m.

For more information, contact Andrea Nelson at 701.490.1596 or foundation@hellovalley.com

 

Jamestown  (Chamber)    Members of the Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors and the Young Professionals of Jamestown held a ribbon cutting ceremony for The Full Monte Salon & Spa to celebrate the opening of their new business in Jamestown.  This business is located at 213 1st Ave N in Jamestown.

The building, which was originally a pharmacy, was completely remodeled by owner Ariel Cole’s dad, Monte. The store offers a variety of products and services such as eyelash extensions, silk peel skin treatments, spray tans, waxing, facials and much more.

They are open from 10:30am to 7:00pm on weekdays and by appointment on weekends. Businesses qualify for a ribbon-cutting ceremony if they open, move, remodel, are under new ownership or change their name.  For more information, contact Emily Bivens by emailing: director@jamestownchamber.com or call the chamber at 701-252-4830.

In Sports…

Friday…

North Dakota Girls State Soccer West Region Tournament

At Jamestown High School Rotary Field

Loser out play…

Bismarck  2 Jamestown 0

Recap pending

 

In world and national news…

PETERSBURG, Mo. (AP) — Officials have issued a mandatory evacuation order for some residents of a central Missouri county where the Missouri River has topped a levee.

KRCG reports Howard County emergency management co-director Bill John said the levee near Petersburg is expected to fail soon.

The evacuation includes residents in Franklin, New Franklin and a stretch along Highway 5 from the Boonville Bridge to New Franklin. The zone essentially covers the Missouri River bottom from Petersburg to Rocheport.

The Red Cross is opening a shelter at the Open Bible Praise Center in Boonville for affected residents.

 

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says Mexico won’t respond to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat of coercive tariffs with desperation, but instead will push for dialogue.

López Obrador says he has dispatched Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard to Washington to show Trump data that Mexico has been taking action to slow illegal immigration.

Trump threatened Thursday to impose tariffs starting at 5% and increasing incrementally if Mexico does not convince him that it’s doing more against illegal immigration.

López Obrador said Friday the Mexican people “don’t deserve this kind of treatment.”

He noted that most migrants passing through Mexico are Central Americans fleeing their countries because they are unable to find work or live safely there.

He says Mexico will not commit human rights violations.

 

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says it’s looking into possible legal action to block President Donald Trump from imposing a 5% tariff on imports from Mexico if the nation doesn’t crack down on Central American immigrants trying to get into the United States.

Chamber spokesman Eric Wohlschlegel says the group is exploring legal action.

Neil Bradley, executive vice president of the Chamber, called the tariff “exactly the wrong move.”

He says it will be paid by American families and businesses without doing anything to remedy problems at the border.

Bradley called on Congress and the president to work together to address the problem.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce represents the interests of more than 3 million businesses.

 

VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. atomic watchdog says Iran continues to stay within the limitations set by the nuclear deal reached in 2015 with major powers, though its stockpiles of low-enriched uranium and heavy water are growing.

In a confidential quarterly report distributed to member states Friday and seen by The Associated Press, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Iran has stayed within key limitations set in the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA.

It’s the first report since Tehran announced it had increased low-enriched uranium production and gave the signatories to the JCPOA 60 days to come up with new economic incentives to compensate for the unilateral withdrawal of the United States last year.

The IAEA says its inspectors had access to all sites in Iran they needed to visit.

 

 

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A judge has issued an order allowing Missouri’s only abortion clinic to continue providing the service.

St. Louis Circuit Judge Michael Stelzer ruled Friday, just hours before the St. Louis Planned Parenthood clinic’s license to perform abortions was set to expire. He issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting Missouri from allowing the license to lapse.

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services had declined to renew the license. It cited concerns with “failed abortions,” compromised patient safety and legal violations at the clinic. Agency officials also wanted to interview additional physicians at the clinic.

Planned Parenthood officials had said that if the license lapsed, Missouri would become the first state without an abortion clinic since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 decision legalizing abortion nationwide.

 

 

PARIS (AP) — France’s counter-terrorism prosecutor says the main suspect in the bombing last week in the French city of Lyon that wounded 14 people had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.

Remy Heitz said in a statement on Friday that the 24-year-old man has admitted making the bomb and will be presented to an investigating judge.

Identified as Mohamed Hichem M., the suspect was arrested on Monday. He arrived in France on a tourist visa in August 2017 and was unknown to police services.

The suspect could be charged with attempted murders, criminal terrorist conspiracy and manufacturing, possessing and carrying an explosive device in relation with a terrorist undertaking.

French President Emmanuel Macron had called the explosion an “attack” but no group has claimed responsibility for the explosion yet.