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Jamestown (JRMC) — Jamestown Regional Medical Center (JRMC) is proud to announce that its own, Dane Grebel, JRMC Support Services manager and emergency preparedness manager, recently completed a training offered by the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP), in Anniston, Ala.
Grebel attended the Healthcare Leadership for Mass Casualty Incidents, a four-day course addressing disaster preparedness at the facility and system levels. Leaders within healthcare need to be prepared for any incident that may result in multiple casualties – natural disasters, releases of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and or explosives, or a disease outbreak resulting in an epidemic or pandemic.
Throughout the course, leaders focused on how to make critical decisions regarding all-hazards disaster emergency preparedness activities. They also learned essential disaster-planning response and recovery functions through lectures and then applied during tabletop exercises and a two-day functional exercise.
Grebel, says, “I have completed two different trainings at the CDP; Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents and Healthcare Leadership for Mass Casualty Incidents. The CDP is able to replicate real-world incidents and then escalate the incident to the point of breakdown, failure and ultimately success. The opportunity to learn and practice with the experts from the CDP was an amazing experience. I’m grateful to take what I have learned and apply it to our own emergency operations plans at JRMC.”
A Valley City native, Grebel joined the JRMC team in 2007 as the Environmental & Linen Services supervisor. He became manager in 2011 and added emergency management to his duties in 2018.
The CDP is operated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency and is the only federally chartered Weapons of Mass Destruction training facility in the nation.
To learn more about JRMC or to schedule an appointment, visit www.jrmcnd.com or call (701) 952-1050.
About Jamestown Regional Medical Center
Jamestown Regional Medical Center is located at 2422 20th Street SW, Jamestown, N.D. and serves approximately 55,000 people in nine counties. In 2019, it was named a “Top 100 Critical Access Hospital” as well as a “Best Places to Work in Healthcare.” For more information, visit www.jrmcnd.com or call 701-952-1050.
Valley City (CSi) The 2019 St. Catherine School Fall Auction in Valley City, raised over $81,00.
Co-event coordinator Dawn Ihry says donations came from raffle tickets, a bake sale, and the KC’s breakfast.
She thanks businesses and individuals that donated items to sell at the auction along with their cash donations, along with thanks to parents, teachers, staff members and friends of the school, for volunteering their time and monetary contributions to make the auction a success, adding “We are extremely grateful and very Blessed.”
$60,000 of the funds raised go into the school budget and another $10,000 for Tuition Assistance. The remaining dollars will go t buy computers and help with the maintenance of the school building.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Police say a Bismarck middle school student who threatened others with a BB gun has been cited for terrorizing and for violating concealed weapon laws.
Lieutenant Luke Gardiner says the student had the pistol-type weapon during Wednesday morning bus ride to Horizon Middle School. Gardiner says the student made threats of harm and pointed the unloaded BB gun at other students while at the bus stop and during the ride to school.
The Bismarck Tribune reports school officials notified law enforcement, took the BB gun and moved the juvenile away from other students as soon as they found out about the weapon.
Bismarck Public Schools’ policy requires a minimum one-year expulsion for a student who brings a firearm on campus, but a BB gun is not considered a firearm under North Dakota law.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Three finalists have been named in the search for the next president at the University of North Dakota.
A search committee announced Friday that Andrew Armacost, Laurie Stenberg-Nichols and David Rosowsky are scheduled for final interviews at the state Board of Higher Education meeting in Grand Forks on Dec. 3.
Armacost is a brigadier general and retired dean of faculty at Air Force Academy. Stenberg-Nichols is interim president at Black Hills State in South Dakota and former president at the University of Wyoming. Rosowsky is a professor of civil engineering and former provost at the University of Vermont.
The search committee interviewed six candidates in the past two weeks.
Former president Mark Kennedy resigned earlier this year to take over as president at the University of Colorado.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Authorities say a pipeline spill in western North Dakota in March was worse than initially estimated by state inspectors, although the liquid did not drain into a nearby river.
The North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality said Friday that about 130,000 gallons of produced water were released in the Oct. 1 spill into a small creek and stock pond located about 1.5 miles north of Manning. The original report said the spill included about 21,000 gallons of the saltwater, which often contains various chemicals and traces of oil.
Inspectors say the initial estimate was based on “observation of surface impacts.” The follow-up investigation included an analysis of meter readings.
The creek discharges into the Knife River about a mile away, but no impacts have been detected in the river.
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Church leaders say Rev. Austin Vetter has become the 11th bishop of the Diocese of Helena after the former bishop was appointed in Las Vegas last year.
The Independent Record reported Wednesday that 52-year-old Vetter was appointed bishop to replace Bishop George Leo Thomas’ leadership of 15 years.
Church leaders say Monsignor Kevin O’Neill has served as diocesan administrator of Helena since Thomas left for Nevada.
Officials say the Diocese of Helena has 57 parishes, 38 mission churches and serves more than 45,000 Catholics.
Vetter says he looks forward to building upon the work of the church and the leaders who came before him.
Vetter grew up near Linton, North Dakota and attended North Dakota State University receiving his degree in philosophy before studying in Rome.
In Sports
VALLEY CITY (VCSU) – The bracket for the 75th annual Barnes County Girls Basketball Tournament has been set.
Eight teams will converge on Valley City State University for the annual tournament in December. The quarterfinals of the tournament will be played on Tuesday, Dec. 10. The semifinals are on Thursday, Dec. 12, and the tournament concludes with the championship and placing games on Saturday, Dec. 14.
All 12 games will be played at Valley City State University’s W.E. Osmon Fieldhouse.Tournament history, records and past results can be found at www.vcsuvikings.com/bct
Defending champion LaMoure/Litchville-Marion has been named the top seed for this year’s tournament and will open with the 3 p.m. game against Griggs County Central on Dec. 10. Sargent Central is the No. 4 seed and plays No. 5 Finley-Sharon/Hope-Page at 4:30 p.m.
Enderlin is the No. 2 seed and takes on No. 7 Barnes County North at 6 p.m. in the first round. No. 3 seed Milnor/North Sargent will play No. 6 seed Maple Valley at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 10.
Games on Dec. 12 begin at 3 p.m., and Saturday’s games will start at noon.
LaMoure/Litchville-Marion has earned the Barnes County Tournament Championship title in the last four consecutive years.
Major tournament sponsors include the Valley City Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Valley City Chamber of Commerce, Valley City State University and VCSU Athletics.
Tuesday, Dec. 10 – Quarterfinals
3 p.m. – (1) LaMoure/Litchville-Marion vs. (8) Griggs County Central
4:30 p.m. – (4) Sargent Central vs. (5) Finley-Sharon/Hope-Page
6 p.m. – (2) Enderlin vs. (7) Barnes County North
7:30 p.m. – (3) Milnor/North Sargent vs. (6) Maple Valley
Thursday, Dec. 12
Consolation Semis
3 p.m. – Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2
4:30 p.m. – Loser Game 3 vs. Loser Game 4
Semifinals
6 p.m. – Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2
7:30 p.m. – Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4
Saturday, Dec. 14
12 p.m. – 7th place
1:30 p.m. – 5th place
3 p.m. – 3rd place
4:30 p.m. – Championship
In world and national news..
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he does not expect to be impeached, claiming Democrats have “absolutely nothing” incriminating, despite days of public testimony by witnesses who said Trump withheld aid from Ukraine to press the country to investigate his political rivals.
Trump told “Fox & Friends” on Friday, “I think it’s very hard to impeach you when they have absolutely nothing.” Trump said if the House did vote to impeach him, he would welcome a trial in the Senate.
Witnesses including State Department officials, current and former U.S. ambassadors and a former White House Russia analyst provided evidence in the House impeachment public hearings.
Testimony indicated Trump explicitly ordered U.S. government officials to work with his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani (joo-lee-AH’-nee) on matters related to Ukraine, a country deeply dependent on Washington’s help to fend off Russian aggression.
But Trump says he was only holding back aid to root out corruption in Ukraine.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former FBI lawyer is being investigated for allegedly altering a document related to surveillance of a Trump campaign adviser in 2016. That’s according to a person familiar with the case and published news reports.
The Associated Press confirmed reports by CNN and The Washington Post that the finding will be in a report Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz releases Dec. 9 on early stages of the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s election meddling.
The news reports cited unidentified individuals.
The conduct of the FBI employee, who was forced out, didn’t alter Horowitz’s finding that the surveillance application of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page had a proper legal and factual basis, an official told the Post.
An FBI spokesman declined comment Friday. An inspector general spokesman didn’t return a message seeking comment
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky has been given the same penalty at his resentencing as before: 30 to 60 years in prison.
Centre County Judge Maureen Skerda sentenced the 75-year-old Sandusky on Friday at the courthouse in Bellefonte (BEL’-fahnt).
Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of child sexual abuse in 2012 and sentenced to 30 to 60 years.
An appeals court said laws mandating sentence minimums in place at the time of his October 2012 sentencing had since changed.
Sandusky again asserted his innocence Friday. He choked up twice in brief remarks to the judge and told his supporters he loves them.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is withholding more than $100 million in U.S. military assistance to Lebanon that has been approved by Congress and is favored by his national security team.
It’s an assertion of control of foreign aid similar to the delay in support for Ukraine that is at the center of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. State Department and Pentagon officials and lawmakers have been complaining about it for weeks, according to officials.
The $105 million in Foreign Military Funding for the Lebanese Armed Forces has languished for months, awaiting approval from the Office of Management and Budget. This is despite the congressional approval, an early September notification to lawmakers that it would be spent and overwhelming support for it from the Pentagon, State Department and National Security Council.
BOSTON (AP) — A former Boston College student has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter in a case accusing her of encouraging her boyfriend to take his life.
Twenty-one-year-old Inyoung You appeared in court Friday morning.
Prosecutors say she sent Alexander Urtula, of Cedar Grove, New Jersey, more than 47,000 text messages in the last two months of the relationship. They say many urged him to “go kill yourself.”
Urtula died in Boston on May 20, the day of his Boston College graduation.
Earlier this week You, through a public relations firm, released text messages suggesting she tried to stop Urtula and alerted Urtula’s brother in the moments before his death.
When You was indicted in October, prosecutors said she was in South Korea.
Urtula’s relatives say they are devastated by his death and won’t comment further.
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