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CSi Weather…
.TONIGHT…Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. East winds around 5 mph shifting to the southwest around 5 mph after midnight.
.TUESDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds around 5 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds
5 to 10 mph.
WEDNESDAY…Increasing clouds. Highs in the mid 80s. South winds
5 to 15 mph increasing to 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms after midnight in the Jamestown area, 20 percent in the Valley City area. Lows in the mid 60s.
.THURSDAY…Sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.FRIDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.
.SATURDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. A 20 percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s.
.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and
thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.
Showers and storms are likely Wednesday night and into Thursday as the focus shifts east towards the James River Valley.
Quiet weather is expected to return on Friday, with a few
weak disturbances to move through area during the weekend, bringing low thunderstorm chances Saturday and Sunday.
Jamestown (CSi) The Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a rollover on Monday afternoon about 12:45-p.m., where a semi full of corn failed to negotiate the corner of a frontage road at I-94 Exit 248.
The semi blocked most of 74th Avenue, Southeast spilling it’s load of corn on to the roadway.
It was reported that the crash caused a small diesel spill at the scene.
Jamestown Rural Department was also on the scene.
More information when it becomes available.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Public Works Department announces that another mosquito fogging operation in the city of Jamestown will begin at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 24, and continue until 6 a.m. Thursday, July 25.
Parents are advised to keep children inside and away from the fogging machines. Motorists should use caution while traveling around the machinery.
The spraying operation is contingent on weather conditions, the City Engineer’s Office said.
For more information, call 701-320-5503 or visit jamestownnd.org
Valley City (CSi) The Valley City Commission met Monday at 7-a.m., to review the first draft of the 2020 City Budget. Commissioner Erickson was not present.
City Auditor, Avis Richter, presented comments saying the value of a Mill in the 2020 budget is $17,400 and increase of $192 from the 2019 budget. A decrease in Mills was noted by .11 mills.
She added that this is the first budget increase in the Mill Levy since 2010.
That amounts to and increase in the 2020 budget from 2019 of $18,677.
Projected revenues are $30,000, with appropriations of $100,000. State revenue sharing is estimated to increase from $365,000 to $390,000. She noted local sales tax revenue so far this year has decreased from this time in 2018.
Parking revenues are budgeted from $2,000 to $5,000, with Muncipal Court’ budget increased by $2,000 from the 2019 budget.
City Administrator David Schelkoph said the City Commission next month will be approached to increase speeding fines from $10 to $20.
The Reserve Fund wa increased by $46,000 at $965,000 at 30-percent of the General Fund Budget, required by law.
The property tax increase on a home Valued at $150,000 is $33.56, and on a $500,000 commercial property, $125. She pointed out that the figure is for the city budget only.
City salaries include a one step increase, and a cost of living increase of 1.3 percent.
On another topic Schelkoph said the city will need to consider an increase in the two and a half percent city sales tax allocation for the Permanent Flood Protection fund, based on the continued rise in the construction costs.
The meeting was shown on 68 Cable Channel with replays.
The next budget meeting is set for 7-a.m. Tuesday, July 23, at City Hall.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Downtown Association explains more concerning Buffalo Days.
The news release from JDA President, Lynn Lambrecht says:
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Valley City (CSi) The public is invited to the retirement celebration for Barnes County Sheriff’s Deputy Don Fiebiger, to be held on Wednesday July 24, from 1-p.m. to 3-p.m., at the AmericInn in Valley City.
Don served almost 40 years.
Since then, the two ride together, though in a more spiritual way. In Debbie’s honor, Rocky and the Thundering Saints organize an annual motorcycle ride. Proceeds benefit local individuals fighting the battle with cancer, as well as Hospice of the Red River Valley in Valley City.
In 2019, those funds also supported another cause – the cancer center at Jamestown Regional Medical Center.
Bismarck (CSi) – Gov. Doug Burgum has directed all government agencies to fly the United States and North Dakota flags at half-staff on Tuesday, July 23, and encourages North Dakotans to do the same at their homes and businesses, as a sign of respect for the memory and longstanding service of retired U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens on the day of his interment.
Stevens died Tuesday, July 16, at age 99. He had served 34 years on the Supreme Court.
The governor’s directive is in accordance with a proclamation issued by President Donald Trump.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A federal audit says government hospitals have placed Native American patients at increased risk for opioid abuse and overdoses.
The report was released Monday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of Inspector General.
It finds that a handful of Indian Health Service hospitals failed to follow the agency’s protocols for prescribing and dispensing the drugs.
The report doesn’t draw any conclusions about actual abuse or overdoses. But it says the five hospitals it reviewed had patients who were given opioids in amounts that exceeded federal guidelines.
The Indian Health Service agreed with each of the 13 recommendations, including improving its information technology systems. The agency says changes are coming.
The audit covers hospitals in Arizona, New Mexico, Minnesota, Oklahoma and North Dakota.
In sports…
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown American Legion Post 14 baseball team, regular season champions (12-2) will be the Number One Seed July 23, in the Class ”A” West Division Tournament at Corbett Field, in Minot.
If Jamestown wins, they goes to the 4:30-p.m. game on Wednesday.
Jamestown’s region losses came to the Bismarck Capitals and Bismarck Reps.
Tuesday Jul 23
11am: Jamestown vs. Dickinson
1:30pm: Bismarck Capitals vs. Mandan
4:30pm: Bismarck Reps vs. Beulah
7pm: Watford City vs. Minot
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and Monique Lamoureux-Morando, stars of the United States’ gold medal-winning hockey team in South Korea, are hard at work training to make another Olympic team in 2022. But they’re also carving out time to do good off the ice, launching a foundation Monday that seeks to help underserved children and communities.
Photo: Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson, left, and Monique Lamoureux–Morando (AP Photo/Carlo Allegri, File)
The Monique and Jocelyne Lamoureux Foundation will work with groups that support disadvantaged children through education and extracurricular activities, primarily in their home state of North Dakota. It’s an extension of the sisters’ hockey camps for girls and their work with cable and internet provider Comcast, where the twins promote such things as gender equity and internet access for low-income families.
“Sometimes there’s a lack of awareness around the need that the kids need, and so we’re hoping that we’re able to inspire more people to give back,” Lamoureux-Davidson said.
“We want to be part of bringing a solution around issues,” Lamoureux-Morando said.
The 30-year-old Grand Forks natives and University of North Dakota standouts helped the U.S. win the gold medal in South Korea in 2018. Lamoureux-Morando scored the game-tying goal late in the third period of the gold-medal game against Canada, and her sister scored the game-winner in the shootout.
The twins are now training six days a week on the ice to try to earn a spot on a fourth Olympic team in Beijing in 2022. Each gave birth to a baby boy less than a year after the Olympics, and the women’s children will accompany them at a USA Hockey camp next month in Lake Placid, New York.
“It’s a total game-changer being a parent,” Lamoureux-Morando said.
The twins said their mother, Linda, was a champion of the underdog, and taught them a lesson they have come to realize goes beyond the rink. And it has become the heart of their foundation aimed at helping the disadvantaged.
“She would always just cheer for the one that’s behind,” Lamoureux-Davidson said of her mother. “In hindsight, it was meant for sport, but it’s really has really turned into something so much more for us.”
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Game and Fish Department says its workers have just completed one of the largest fish stocking efforts in the history of the agency.
Crews have stocked 140 lakes across the state with more than 11 million walleye fingerlings from the Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery.
Fisheries production leader Jerry Wiegel says the Garrison Dam hatchery had to step up this year because of fish production that couldn’t be used at the Valley City National Fish Hatchery. Its source of water is Lake Ashtabula, where zebra mussels were recently discovered.
Walleye already produced at Valley City where used only to stock Lake Ashtabula. Some were also sent to other states for use in lakes where zebra mussels already exist.
In world and national news…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico is bracing for what many people expect to be one of the biggest protests ever seen in the U.S. territory as irate islanders pledge to drive Gov. Ricardo Rosselló from office.
Hundreds of thousands are expected to take over a busy highway Monday morning to press demands that Rosselló resign over an obscenity-laced leaked online chat the governor had with allies as well as federal corruption charges leveled against his administration.
The anticipated march in the capital of San Juan comes a day after Rosselló announced that he will not quit, but sought to calm the unrest by promising not to seek reelection or continue as head of his pro-statehood political party. That only further angered his critics, who have mounted street demonstrations for more than a week.
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are pledging tough questioning of special counsel Robert Mueller when he testifies before Congress this week as Democrats plan to air evidence of wrongdoing by President Donald Trump in a potentially last-ditch bid to impeach him.
Rep. Doug Collins, the top Republican on House Judiciary Committee, said the American public is growing weary of the Russia investigation three months after the release of the special counsel’s 448-page report. Both sides seemed to agree that Mueller’s testimony could be pivotal in shifting public opinion on the question of “holding the president accountable.”
New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the Judiciary Committee said Mueller’s report lays out “very substantial evidence” that Trump is guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” the constitutional standard for impeachment.
HONG KONG (AP) — President Donald Trump says he thinks China’s Xi Jinping has acted “very responsibly” in allowing extended protests to play out in Hong Kong.
Trump was asked Monday about China’s handling of the protests and said that “China could stop them if they wanted.”
He added that “I think President Xi has acted responsibly, very responsibly.” Trump remarked on the huge size of the protests, saying it looked like 2 million people.
He continued: “I hope that President Xi will do the right thing. But it has been going on a long time.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a decade ago, the maker of OxyContin responded to a growing wave of opioid abuse by making the painkiller harder to snort and inject. But has that reformulation translated into fewer drug overdoses and deaths?
It’s a question that experts like Dr. Raeford Brown of the University of Kentucky are eager to answer. For years, Brown led a government advisory panel that evaluates opioids for the Food and Drug Administration.
There’s just one problem: Neither the company that the makes OxyContin nor the FDA have allowed the experts to see data on gathered to answer the question.
Brown and others say the lack of data makes it nearly impossible to tell whether OxyContin and similar painkillers are actually helping fight the opioid crisis.
The Stamford, Connecticut-based company says it’s still working on the studies.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is meeting with Pakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan, about ending America’s longest war, the conflict in Afghanistan.
Trump and Khan are both unpredictable and have had a rocky relationship. Monday’s visit is meant to smooth tensions and deal with complex problems facing both nations.
The Trump administration wants Pakistan to use its leverage and influence with the Taliban to get a cease fire in neighboring Afghanistan, advance the peace process and create stability so he can end or substantially reduce America’s involvement in the war.
Pakistan, which is suffering economically, wants to reset relations and broaden the relationship in hope of securing more investment, trade and possibly a restoration of the U.S. aid Trump cut.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Negotiations between the Trump administration and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on a critical debt and budget bill are on the cusp of a deal.
That’s according to aides on both sides of the talks, who say the tentative deal would restore the government’s ability to borrow into the next administration and build upon recent large budget gains for both the Pentagon and domestic agencies.
The agreement on an outline for $1.3 trillion in agency spending would represent a win for lawmakers eager to return Washington to a more predictable path amid political tumult and polarization, defense hawks determined to cement big military increases, and Democrats who oppose spending cuts.
The aides who spoke about the emerging deal did so on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly before a deal was final.
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