CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Cloudy. A 40 percent chance of snow in the evening in the Jamestown area, 30 percent in the Valley City area . Lows in the lower 20s. Northwest winds 15 to 20 mph.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 30s. North winds 15 to 20 mph.

 

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.

.THURSDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs 40 to 45.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.

.FRIDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs 40 to 45.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.

.SATURDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 20s.

.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of snow showers.

Lows 25 to 30.

.MONDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 40s.

 

Slushy roads will become icy Tuesday night (most are wet, some slushy far northwest and north central) as temperatures drop into the upper teens to

mid 20s. Expect to see scattered light snow here and there

through the night, with cloudy skies continuing. Any accumulations

after midnight are expected to be minimal. The clouds will keep

temperatures from dropping even lower tonight. The strong north

to northwest winds this afternoon will gradually diminish through

the evening, but will remain out of the north to northwest.

 

 

Valley City (CSi) The Barnes County Commission has rescinded the Barnes County burn ban on April 13 after conditions improved this week.

Barnes County Emergency Manager Sue Lloyd said residents will still have to call the dispatch center at 701-845-8181 for any controlled burn they plan to have in the future.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown City Fire Department was called Tuesday at about 10:27 a.m. to 2625 8th Avenue, Southwest, the i-3-G Media building

City Fire Chief Jim Reuther says the caller said there was smoke coming from the heater vent in the building.

The fire department checked for hot spots in the building and roof, using Ladder 1, and none were found. Smoke was evacuated from the building.

He says the cause of the smoke was likely electrical from a ventilation motor.

Four City Fire Units, and 24 firefighters were on the scene, 25 minutes.

 

DDoH

COVID-19 Stats

11am

Tues. Apr. 13, 2021

Barnes

New Positives 1

Total Positives: 1358

Active: 12

Recovered 1312

Stutsman:

New Positives: 15

Total Positives: 3395

Active:  45

Recovered: 3266

COVID-19 Test Results
The results listed are from the previous day. Additional data can be found on the NDDoH website.

 

Please note that from now on the daily news release will be sent Monday – Friday. The NDDoH dashboard will continue to be updated daily.

 

BY THE NUMBERS
261,884 Residents who received at least one dose of vaccine
478,083 Total COVID-19 vaccine doses administered
4,527 Total Tests from yesterday*
1,849,956 Total tests completed since the pandemic began
234 Positive Individuals from yesterday*****
104 PCR Tests
130 Antigen Tests
105,039 Total positive individuals since the pandemic began
6.70% Daily Positivity Rate**
1,119 Total Active Cases
+44 Change in active cases from yesterday
144 Individuals with a recovery date of yesterday****
102,447 Total recovered since the pandemic began
27 Currently hospitalized
-8 Change in hospitalizations from yesterday
2 New death(s)
1,471 Total deaths since the pandemic began

 
INDIVIDUALS WHO DIED WITH COVID-19
Man in his 60s from Ward County
Man in his 70s from Williams County
 

NEW POSITIVE CASES REPORTED TUESDAY BY COUNTY
 
Adams 0 Grant 1 Ransom 0
Barnes 1 Griggs 0 Renville 0
Benson 0 Hettinger 1 Richland 8
Billings 0 Kidder 1 Rolette 0
Bottineau 0 LaMoure 0 Sargent 4
Bowman 0 Logan 0 Sheridan 0
Burke 0 McHenry 0 Sioux 1
Burleigh 26 McIntosh 0 Slope 0
Cass 101 McKenzie 2 Stark 10
Cavalier 0 McLean 3 Steele 1
Dickey 1 Mercer 1 Stutsman 15
Divide 0 Morton 11 Towner 0
Dunn 0 Mountrail 3 Traill 2
Eddy 0 Nelson 0 Walsh 7
Emmons 0 Oliver 0 Ward 9
Foster 0 Pembina 1 Wells 0
Golden Valley 0 Pierce 0 Williams 2
Grand Forks 19 Ramsey 3

 

* Note that this includes PCR and antigen; it does not include individuals from out of state.

**Individuals (PCR or antigen) who tested positive divided by the total number of people tested who have not previously tested positive (susceptible encounters).

*** Number of individuals who tested positive with a PCR or antigen test and died from any cause while infected with COVID-19. Please remember that deaths are reported as they’re reported to us by the facility or through the official death record (up to 10-day delay).


**** The actual date individuals are officially out of isolation and no longer contagious.


*****Daily positive numbers include people who tested with a PCR or antigen test. Totals may be adjusted as individuals are found to live out of state, in another county, or as other information is found during investigation.

For descriptions of these categories, visit the NDDoH dashboard.

For the most updated and timely information and updates related to COVID-19, visit the NDDoH website at www.health.nd.gov/coronavirus, follow on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and visit the CDC website at www.cdc.gov/coronavirus.

 

Bismarck  (CSi)   The North Dakota Department of Health (NDDoH) is strongly urging that vaccine providers in the state pause use of the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) COVID-19 vaccine following a joint statement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued on Tuesday.

Molly Howell, MPH, NDDoH Immunization Program Director, says,  “While Janssen  (J&J) use is paused, individuals seeking COVID-19 vaccination should receive Pfizer or Moderna.  Over 180 million doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have been administered in the United States and the only safety concern that has been identified is anaphylaxis (severe allergic reaction), which is very rare and manageable with immediate treatment. No other concerning safety signals have been associated with either of the mRNA vaccines; vaccination against COVID-19 continues to be safer than risking the disease.”

There are currently no known cases of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis among Janssen COVID-19 vaccine recipients in North Dakota.

 

Valley City  (CCHD)  City/County Health District has listed upcoming COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics.

Wednesday April 14 7:30 a.m. -8:30-a.m

HAC Lobby

Pfizer Vaccine

Friday April 16  9-a.m. -11:30-a.m

CCHD

Moderna Vaccine

 

Monday April 19 10:30 a.m. – 11:30-a.m.

Barnes County North School

Pfizer Vaccine

 

Wednesday April 21  11-a.m. – 1-p.m.

VCSU Student Union

Moderna Vaccine

Individuals can get registered for a vaccination by visiting the CCHD  website www.citycountyhealth.org/covid-19-vaccine. Those  needing registration support should call 845-8518.

 

Jamestown (CVHD)  Central Valley Health District this week will have COVID-19 Testing at the Jamestown Civic Center in April from 11-a.m. to 12 noon,  at the Jamestown Civic Center,  April, 14, 16,19, 21, 23, 26,28, 30, using the Rapid Testing, BinaxNow.

By screening with rapid antigen tests, event attendees will be able to receive their test results within 15 minutes via text notification. The test also is less invasive than a PCR (Polymerase chain reaction) test in that it uses a nasal swab to collect a sample from the lower part of the nostril.

If a person tests positive, they should isolate at home immediately and a case investigator will be in touch with them within 24 hours. If the screening yields a negative result, individuals should continue to monitor for symptoms.

Interested individuals should fill out an online survey at testreg.nd.gov for faster registration.

For more information about rapid antigen tests and North Dakota’s screening strategies, visit https://www.health.nd.gov/rapid-antigen-screening

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2,  Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corporation (JSDC) Business Development Business Manager, Corry Shevlin said the Board of Directors on Monday voted to name the industrial and business park built by the JSDC next  to Jamestown Regional Airport as JMS Aviation Park.

JMS is the abbreviation and Federal Aviation Administration code for the Jamestown Regional Airport.  He said the new name JMS Aviation Park will appear on billboards and other promotional advertising.

The JSDC Board of Directors voted 11 to 3 for the name over  the name Highway-20 Aviation Park that was a recommendation of the JSDC Business Attraction Committee.

Corry said in other business, the JSDC approved refunding $23,700 to Stutsman County and the City of Jamestown. The money was surplus left from the 2020 budget that had not been spent, stemming from the pandemic that put a halt on travel by himself and CEO Connie Ova, and cutting the 2020 travel expenses.  He added that The City of Jamestown will receive 80-percenr of the funds and Stutsman County 20-percent.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A group has submitted a proposed ballot measure that aims to raise the approval threshold for changing the North Dakota Constitution through the state’s citizen-initiative process. The group wants to change voter approval of constitutional amendment from a simple majority to 60%. The petition also seeks to limit ballot measures to a single issue. Retired Maj. Gen. Michael Haugen is co-chairman of the group. He says constitutional amendments have been put before voters in every election cycle for more than a decade. Haugen says they are often backed by out-of-state interests. Backers said they expect to spend up to $1 million on the effort.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — LaDonna Allard, a woman considered a matriarch in the fight against the Dakota Access pipeline, has died at age 64. An online obituary says Allard died April 10 in Fort Yates where she lived. Allard founded the first Dakota Access pipeline protest camp in March 2016. It grew in size over the next few months and inspired others to set up camps where the Cannonball and Missouri rivers meet. Thousands of people from around the world soon arrived to stand with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in its fight against the pipeline.

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — A white Minnesota police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb and the city’s chief of police resigned Tuesday. Officer Kim Potter and Police Chief Tim Gannon both resigned two days after the death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center. Potter was a 26-year veteran. She had been on administrative leave following Sunday’s shooting. Gannon has said he believed Potter mistakenly grabbed her gun when she was going for her Taser. She can be heard on her body camera video shouting “Taser! Taser!”

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Officer Derek Chauvin’s lawyer suggested Tuesday that George Floyd may have suffered from “excited delirium” — a state of agitation and even superhuman strength that can be triggered by drug use, heart disease or mental problems. The defense also seized on a 2019 confrontation between police and George Floyd in which Floyd suffered dangerously high blood pressure and confessed to heavy use of opioid painkillers. Chauvin attorney Eric Nelson is has argued that the now-fired white officer did what he was trained to do and that Floyd died because of his illegal drug use and underlying heart condition, not because of Chauvin pinning him to the pavement last May.

In sports…

Sioux City, Iowa  (GPAC)  – The Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) and Hauff Mid-America Sports are proud to announce the softball player and pitcher-of-the-week for contests played April 5-11, 2021. Hauff Mid-America Sports is the presenting sponsor of the 2020-21 GPAC Players-of-the-Week and Players and Coaches-of-the-Year awards program.

Hauff Mid-America Sports/GPAC Softball Weekly Honors

Pitcher – Kat Miska, University of Jamestown

Kat Miska of the University of Jamestown is this week’s GPAC/Hauff Mid-America Sports pitcher-of-the-week.  Miska, a junior from Pequot Lakes, Minnesota, came within two outs of a perfect game in a 6-0 win over Briar Cliff, but settled for a one-hitter in a 6-0 win. She struck out 11 and did not allow the Chargers to put a ball in play until the fourth inning. Miska allowed one earned run over five innings in a 12-2 win against Dordt (Iowa), finishing the week with a 2-0 record and an ERA of 0.58. She held opponents to a .100 average and struck out 21 in 12 innings. Miska is 11th in the NAIA with her 0.92 ERA and 12th in batting average against (.160).

Player – Morgan Geiszler, University of Jamestown (Infield)

Morgan Geiszler of the University of Jamestown is this week’s GPAC/Hauff Mid-America Sports softball player-of-the-week.  Geiszler, a junior from Horace, North Dakota, hit safely in all four games last week as Jamestown went 4-0. All six of her hits were for extra bases, including three doubles, a triple, and two home runs. She posted a slugging percentage of 1.308 and an on-base percentage of .533.

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say President Joe Biden will withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America that were coordinated from that country. The decision defies a May 1 deadline for full withdrawal under a peace agreement the Trump administration reached with the Taliban last year. Biden has been hinting for weeks that he was going to let the deadline lapse, and as the days went by it became clear that an orderly withdrawal of the remaining 2,500 troops would be difficult and was unlikely. A senior administration official says the drawdown will begin next month.

 

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal court has upheld an Ohio law prohibiting doctors from performing abortions based on a fetal diagnosis of Down syndrome. The ruling Tuesday by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned lower court rulings in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the state health department, state medical board and county prosecutors in 2018 on behalf of Planned Parenthood and several abortion providers. Lower courts ruled the ACLU’s argument that the law infringes on a woman’s constitutional right to make “the ultimate decision” about an abortion would likely succeed. A divided 6th Circuit disagreed.

 

BRUSSELS (AP) — President Joe Biden is calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to “de-escalate tensions” following a Russian military buildup on Ukraine’s border. The White House says Biden told Putin in a phone call Tuesday that the U.S. would “act firmly in defense of its national interests” regarding Russian cyber intrusions and election interference. Biden also proposed a summit meeting in a third country “in the coming months” to discuss the full range of U.S.-Russia issues. There is growing concern in the West about a surge of cease-fire violations in eastern Ukraine, where Russia-baсked separatists and Ukrainian forces have been locked in a conflict since Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula.