CSi Weather:   SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the Jamestown area, 50 percent in the Valley City area. Some thunderstorms may be severe. Lows in the upper 60s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight. Gusts up to 25 mph.

.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds around 10 mph.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s.

.MONDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.

.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 80s.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows around 60.

.WEDNESDAY…Partly sunny with chance of showers and slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with chance of rain showers and slight chance of thunderstorms. Lows around 60. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.

.INDEPENDENCE DAY…Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s.

 

Thunderstorms may move across eastern North Dakota into northwest
Minnesota Saturday morning, with winds to 60 mph winds and 1 inch
hail the main threats.

After a lull, more thunderstorm activity is possible midday
Saturday, severe thunderstorms may redevelop Saturday afternoon,
with increasing chances Saturday evening.

This activity may eventually merge into one or more thunderstorm clusters that moves southeast through the night Saturday night into Sunday morning.
The main threats expected with the strongest storms are damaging
wind gusts up to 75 mph, up to 2 inch diameter hail, and possibly
tornadoes.

Additionally, heat index values up to 105 degrees are expected
Saturday afternoon.

 

Jamestown  (National Buffalo Museum)   Friday, June 28, 2019 –  With sadness, the National Buffalo Museum announces the unexpected death of the herd’s white bull, Dakota Miracle, who succumbed to injuries from an accidental fall into a ravine. Dakota Miracle was 13 years old. His health was compromised due to leucism. Leucism is a genetic condition resulting in lack of pigmentation. One of the setbacks Dakota Miracle faced due to his leucism included poor eyesight, a factor believed to have led to his fall. Board President Don Williams and Executive Director Ilana Xinos found him deceased during a routine herd and pasture inspection.

Dakota Miracle is the son of White Cloud, an albino bison who lived with the museum’s herd for almost two decades.

She adds, that with the death of Dakota Miracle, there remains no albino bison in the herd. She adds that another albino, Dakota Legend, born in 2008 was returned to the Shirek Buffalo Ranch near Michigan, North Dakota, a few years ago.

“While we mourn the untimely passing of Dakota Miracle, we know he had a full life as a part of the museum’s herd,” said Ilana Xinos. “He was a rare and beautiful animal, and we feel fortunate that so many people were able to see him roaming with the herd for the past 13 years. In the wild, we do not believe he would have lived this long.”

The National Buffalo Museum’s mission is to educate the public on the cultural and historical significance of the American bison. For more information, contact Ilana Xinos at 701-252-8648 or director@buffalomuseum.com.

 

 

 

Jamestown (CSi)  The Valley City Area Chamber of Commerce announces that Sanford Health has organized the new series,  “Summer Nights, On Central.”

On Friday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, the Valley City Chamber’s, Event Coordinator, Mikayla Gustafson said, the musical entertainment will feature three area bands on July 11, 18, and 25 on Central Avenue, from 6-p.m., to 9-p.m., with vendors setting up at 5:30-p.m.

She also pointed out that Crazy Daze in Valley City is July 24, and the Valley City Chamber office has more information.

 

Jamestown  (Chamber)  The Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce City Beautification Committee is pleased to announce the 5th winner of the Yard of the Week Program for 2019.  Jon Lindberg of 1509 2nd Ave NE.  in Jamestown, has received this award for Week Five.  Join us in congratulating him on his beautiful yard and thank him for his efforts to help beautify Jamestown.  Congratulations, Jon for a job well done!

 

The Yard of the Week program has been established to recognize those within the community that take pride in the appearance of their yard and do their part to beautify the community. The program began June 1st and ends August 31st. Yards will be selected each week from nominations received. Nominated yards must be visible from the street.

 

To nominate a yard for the Yard of the Week program, please contact the Chamber at 701-252-4830 or stop by our office at 120 2nd Street SE, Jamestown for a nomination form.  The completed forms require a valid phone number so we can contact the perspective winner. Forms are also available on our Facebook page or on our website at www.jamestownchamber.com.  Forms can be emailed to director@jamestownchamber.com.

All single family residences within Jamestown are eligible for the program.

 

Jamestown (CSi)  Ramsey Solutions’ Financial Peace University will hold classes in Jamestown beginning Tuesday, July 11, at 6 p.m. at Quality Inn & Suites, at 507 25th St. SW.

Created by financial expert Dave Ramsey, this nine-lesson digital course provides families and individuals with practical tools to gain control of their finances and set themselves up for long-term financial success. Video lessons provide information on budgeting, relationships and money, getting out of debt, saving for emergencies, investing and other topics. Lessons feature Ramsey personalities Rachel Cruze and Chris Hogan teaching alongside Ramsey.On line visit  DaveRamsey.com/FPU for more information or to register.

 

Valley City (CSi) Let’s Walk Valley City a FREE event will be held Monday, July 22 from 5-p.m. to 8- p.m..,  from Hinschberger Park to Chautauqua Park.  The event will include fun activities, games and delicious food for all ages.

There will be drawings for prizes including bikes and tennis shoes for adults and kids!

Let’s Walk Valley City is made possible by grants City County Health District from the Health Resources Service Administration (HRSA) and the ND Department of Health to promote physical activity and healthy eating.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The new 1883 Stutsman County Courthouse’s  Escape room, is accepting registration for the room.  The goal is to bring tourists and local people to Downtown Jamestown and 1883 Courthouse.

On line visit www.escape1883courthouse.com.

At the room players over an hour’s time, compete against each other solving a series of puzzles that will lead to freedom and occasionally, prizes. A book of clues, technical document, and can consist of several puzzles, for possible multiple participating groups.

Individuals acting as historical characters could be included.

The Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce recently reported, Buffalo City Escape has celebrated the opening of their new business in Jamestown.

This business is located at 311 1st Ave S, in Meidinger Square,  in Jamestown.  The business is owned by Shannon and Courtney Wiest who got the idea of starting an escape room from the show Race to Escape.  Up to eight contestants are trapped in a room and must find different clues on how to get out of the room, with hints being provided if asked for.

They are open

  • Thursday 6pm to 11pm
  • Friday 6pm to 11pm
  • Saturday  11am to 11pm
  • Sunday 1pm to 5pm

Or any day of the week by appointment.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s attorney general says a new law that requires that state auditor to get approval from a legislative committee to conduct performance audits is likely unconstitutional.Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem issued the opinion Friday just days before the law was to take effect. Approval of the measure, which came during the legislative session’s final days in April, has drawn widespread criticism and spurred a referral campaign to ask voters to strip the legislation from the books.State Auditor Josh Gallion, who requested the opinion in May, believes it bolsters his authority to conduct audits as he so chooses. Stenehjem says the new law will likely lead a court to determine if it’s unconstitutional under the separation of powers doctrine. 
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say no one was hurt when a small plane landed in a southwest Omaha neighborhood, a few hundred feet short of a runway at a small airport.Pilot Eugene Puttbrese, of Frazee, Minnesota, says he’s sure his single-engine Cessna 150 ran out of fuel around 4 a.m. Friday, and he came down on a residential street.Ground damage was limited to a backyard fence. The front gear was crunched up under the engine as the plane pitched forward onto its nose. The propeller blades were bent and another tire was flat.Puttbrese says he’d intended to land at the nearby Millard Airport, having flown from Fargo, North Dakota, to pick up his son and return to Fargo.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The search is on for the next president of the University of North Dakota.

The new president will succeed Mark Kennedy, who departed in mid-June to become president at the University of Colorado.

The North Dakota State Board of Higher Education appointed Dr. Joshua Wayne as interim president. Wayne is the dean of the university’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

The co-chairmen of the search committee are Dr. Casey Ryan, a medical school member and Dr. Dennis Elbert, a university alumnus.

 

 

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota-based Sanford Health and Iowa’s UnityPoint Health have announced plans to merge in an agreement that would create a sprawling health system in the Upper Great Plains and Midwest.

The two providers announced their plans Friday. The Argus Leader reports if the merger is approved by regulators, it could be finalized by year’s end.

The providers said the merger would place the company among the top 15 largest nonprofit health systems nationwide. The new organization would employ more than 83,000 staff, 2,600 physicians and have more than $11 billion in revenue.

UnityPoint operates 32 hospitals and has relationships with 280 physician clinics throughout Iowa, western Illinois and southern Wisconsin.

Sanford Heath’s organization includes 44 hospitals, 1,400 physicians and more than 200 Good Samaritan Society senior care locations in 26 states and nine countries.

 

In world and national news…

OSAKA, Japan (AP) — Democrats are criticizing an off-handed comment President Donald Trump made about election meddling during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a summit in Japan.

After a reporter asked Trump if he was going to warn Russia not to meddle in the U.S. election, Trump turned to Putin and jokingly said: “Don’t meddle in the election.”

The Senate’s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, says the joke is on America and Putin is the only one laughing. Schumer says Trump is giving Russia a green light to interfere again in 2020.

 

 

VIENNA (AP) — Several European Union countries say they are supporting efforts to keep up a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and world powers aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.

Austria, Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden wrote in a joint statement Friday that “aware of the difficulties to implement the economic part of the agreement, we are working … to establish channels to facilitate legitimate trade and financial operations with Iran.”

The U.S. withdrew from the accord last year and has imposed new sanctions on Iran in hopes of forcing Tehran into negotiating a wider-ranging deal.

The statement comes after Iran’s deputy foreign minister said a meeting with senior officials from Britain, Germany, France, China, Russia and the EU produced some progress but not enough to satisfy Tehran’s demands for economic relief.

 

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will decide whether President Donald Trump can end an Obama-era program shielding young immigrants from deportation.

The justices’ order Friday sets up high-stakes legal arguments in the fall, with a decision likely by June 2020 as Trump seeks re-election.

Trump ordered an end to the program called DACA in 2017, resulting in protests and a failed congressional effort to salvage it.

Federal courts in California, New York, Virginia and Washington, D.C., meanwhile have blocked Trump from ending it immediately. A federal judge in Texas has declared the program is illegal, but refused to order it halted.

The program protects about 700,000 people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children or came with families that overstayed visas.

 

 

OSAKA, Japan (AP) — The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited U.S. President Donald Trump to visit next year and he responded “positively.”

Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters that Putin invited Trump to attend festivities marking the 75th anniversary of the World War II victory.

Peskov said Trump reacted positively to the invitation at their meeting Friday on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, noting that he will wait for an official invitation. Peskov added that it will be sent shortly.

He said the presidents also talked about ways to improve economic ties and had a detailed discussion about arms control issues.

He said they also talked about Syria and mentioned Turkey in that context. Peskov said China also figured in the discussion, but didn’t provide further details.

Leaders of the G-20 nations are gathered in Osaka, Japan, for a two-day summit beginning Friday.

 

 

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The uncle of a missing Utah college student is thanking police for their work during an 11-day search that ended with news of her death.

The uncle of 23-year-old Mackenzie Lueck did not identify himself, but held back tears as he read a statement from her family to reporters at a news conference on Friday.

Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown says the phone call he made giving father Greg Lueck news of her death was one of the most difficult he has ever made.

Prosecutors say they are charging 31-year-old Ayoola A. Ajayi with murder and aggravated kidnapping in her death. They say she was killed shortly after meeting in a park in the early-morning hours of June 17. Investigators are still trying to determine if others were involved.

 

 

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican redistricting expert Tom Hofeller (HAW’-fel-er) often told people in his business to be very careful about keeping the process of their work out of public view.

He said people making political maps should make sure not to leave their computers “exposed.”

But less than a year from his death, information he left behind on hard drives figures into some major legal cases.

Groups contesting GOP-drawn legislative maps in North Carolina and the Census Bureau’s plan to ask everyone in the country their citizenship status have both said in court that documents from Hofeller support their side. Hofeller’s estranged daughter provided the files to lawyers.

Without referencing Hofeller, the Supreme Court rejected, for now, a citizenship question. The North Carolina case is scheduled to go to trial next month.