CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.

.WEDNESDAY…Partly sunny, with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the Jamestown area,  30 percent in the Valley City area.  Highs in the lower 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT  …Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers

and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 50s. South

winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight.

.THURSDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. West winds around 5 mph

shifting to the south in the afternoon.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.

.FRIDAY…Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.

.SATURDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 60s.

.SUNDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.

.MONDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown City Fire Department was called to a grass fire in the 1500 block of 10th Street SE at about 9:55 a.m., Tuesday.

Lt. Sheldon Mohr says a power line was burning and fell into grass and caused a small amount of grass to be burned.

Three city fire units and 22 city firefighters were on scene about one hour.

Rebecca Michaels with Otter Tail Power Company says, about 2500 customers lost power in far Southeast and far Northeast Jamestown customers were without power, between 9:55-a.m., and 11:45-a.m., Tuesday, as  crews worked on damages.

She reminds residents that see a utility pole fire to call 9-1-1 immediately.

 

The North Dakota Department of Health dashboard is updated daily by 11 am and includes cases reported through the previous day. The investigations are ongoing and information on the website is likely to change as cases are investigated. The information contained in this dashboard is the most up to date and will be different than previous news releases. This dashboard supersedes information from previous news releases or social media postings.

Check out our other dashboards: The COVID-19 Vaccine Dashboard, NDUS Dashboard.

 

NDDoH

COVID-19 Stats

10:30 -a.m.

Tues. Jul 13,  2021

 

Barnes

New Positives  1

Total Positives  1427

Active: 3

Recovered:  1393

 

Jamestown (CVHD)  Upcoming COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics Schedule

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Vaccine Type: PFIZER, JOHNSON & JOHNSON, MODERNA

Event Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm

Event Location: Napoleon Public School

 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER 

Thursday, July 15, 2021

Vaccine Type: MODERNA -or- JOHNSON & JOHNSON

Event Time: 9:00am – 12:00pm

Event Location: Central Valley Health District

 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER 

 

 

Jamestown (CVHD) Central Valley Health District’s COVID-19 testing clinics are on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11-a.m. to noon.  The clinics will be held at the Jamestown Civic Center.   Pre registration is required.

Jamestown  (CVHD)  Central Valley Health District wants the public to know that there will be NO testing scheduled at the Civic Center on July 27, 28, and 29 due to availability of the testing site.

CVHD encourages those with symptoms to seek testing from their medical provider during the week of July 26 to July 30.  Testing is also available in Valley City on Monday July 26 and Friday July 30 at the public health department as an additional opportunity for testing.

 

 

Bismarck  (CSi)  As part of the Biden Administration’s ongoing efforts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tuesday the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is providing North Dakota with $6,717,776 to support COVID response efforts in rural areas.

While vaccinations continue to increase, this funding through the Small Rural Hospital Improvement Program (SHIP) will go to 26 small rural hospitals in North Dakota for COVID-19 testing and mitigation, important parts of the COVID response especially as the country faces new variants.

“The Biden Administration recognizes the important role that small rural hospitals have in closing the equity gap and ensuring that rural Americans can protect themselves and their communities from COVID-19,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. “Today’s funding will help small rural hospitals continue to serve their communities in this critical role by expanding their COVID-19 testing capacity and mitigation efforts.”

State Offices of Rural Health, which work with small rural hospitals to implement quality and operational improvement efforts, will receive the funding announced Tuesday to distribute to eligible small rural hospitals in their state. Small rural hospitals—those with fewer than 50 beds and Critical Access Hospitals—are key health care access points and trusted community resources. Hospitals will use the funds to maintain or increase COVID-19 testing, expand access to testing for rural residents, and tailor mitigation efforts to reflect the needs of local communities.

More information at CSiNewsNow.com

 

 

Jamestown (CSi)  At their July Board Meeting the Jamestown/Stutsman County Development Corporation (JSDC) discussed the updates in the FlexPACE Loan program, and then approved two requests.

On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, JSDC Business Development Director, Corry Shevlin said the board approved a FlexPACE loan for the new owners of the Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy and for the request from Creative Services.

The JSDC approval will go to the Jamestown City Council, and Stutsman County Commission for consideration of approval.

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  Prairie Paws Rescue has partnered with Wild Plum with a Kids “Painting Paw-ty,” on Friday July 16, from 6-p.m. at McElroy Park’s Sertoma Shelter.

The cost is $35 per person, and a portion of the proceeds from each canvass painting will to Prairie Paws Rescue.  Pre-register by calling Wild Plum as space is limited.   Call 701-368-8068/

Prairie Paws will also have a few pets at the event.

 

 

Valley City  (CSi)  The North Dakota Association of Counties (NDACo) and the North Dakota County Commissioners Association (NDCCA) will hold  a  Barnes County Courthouse tour on Wednesday, July 21 at 10-a.m.

The tour includes visiting with commissioners and other elected or appointed officials. This meeting may qualify as an open meeting, so members of the public may be present to observe any interactions with the County Tour. More details are attached below.

Also  the Barnes County Courthouse,  elevator will be out of service for maintenance, intermitenly  in the next few weeks. Those who cannot use the stairs and need to do business with 2nd and 3rd floor offices, will need to call that office and schedule a meeting with that respective office on the 1st floor of the Barnes County Courthouse.

Update

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The attorney for a man charged with killing his mother and a North Dakota police officer during a shootout with law enforcement who were serving eviction papers says his client shouldn’t be found guilty of murder even though he caused both deaths. Defense attorney Steven Mottinger told a jury during his closing arguments Tuesday that Salamah Pendleton was experiencing “extreme emotional disturbance” because officers came to evict him and his mother from their Grand Forks apartment despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and later because he thought the officers had killed his mother. He says manslaughter convictions would be more suitable in the May 2020 killings. Jurors deliberated for about four hours on Tuesday and are scheduled to resume discussions Wednesday.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Officials say North Dakota’s trust fund for oil taxes is realizing hefty earnings due to a rebounding economy and better-than-expected stock investments. Revenue from the Legacy Fund for the two-year budget cycle that ended last month was about $872 million. That’s up from the $736 million that budget writers and the Legislature had forecast. Nearly half of the extra revenue will be used to reimburse a constitutional fund that benefits schools but had been shortchanged in error for about a decade. Money from the Common Schools Trust Fund is distributed to North Dakota’s public schools.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — City commissioners in Fargo have directed the police department to present them with hate crime findings. Police Chief Dave Zibolski says the reports will help determine whether the city’s ordinance on hate crimes is effective. The chief says 11 cases were investigated as potential hate crimes this year, “but through the course of the investigation none of those could be shown to be hate crime related in terms of the ability to prosecute them.

 

In world and national news…

(AP)  A federal judge has agreed to free an Iowa man from jail more than six months after his videotaped confrontation of a police officer inside the U.S. Capitol became one of the most menacing images of the Jan. 6 riots. Douglas Jensen was wearing a T-shirt bearing a symbol of the QAnon conspiracy theory when he joined the mob that approached Capitol police officer Eugene Goodman inside the building and followed the officer up two flights of stairs. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly agreed Tuesday to release the Des Moines resident on house arrest with electronic location monitoring. Prosecutors argued that releasing Jensen would pose a danger to the public.

 

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Justice Department attorney says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will issue an order this week about how migrant children are treated under a public health order that has prevented people from seeking asylum at at the nation’s borders. The comments Tuesday by The comment by Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Stoltz at a court hearing in Fort Worth, Texas, may be the strongest indication to date that changes are imminent on the last major Trump-era restrictions on asylum at the border. The government attorney didn’t offer more details during a hearing on a lawsuit that Texas brought to compel enforcement of the asylum ban. The CDC had no immediate comment.

 

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has strongly warned the United States against deploying its troops in the former Soviet Central Asian nations following their withdrawal from Afghanistan. Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in remarks published on Tuesday that Moscow conveyed the message to Washington during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s summit with U.S. President Joe Biden in Geneva last month. The warning comes as the U.S. military said last week that 90% of the withdrawal of U.S. troops and equipment from Afghanistan is complete. Biden said the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan will conclude on Aug. 31.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prices for U.S. consumers jumped in June by the most in 13 years, signaling that a swift rebound in spending has run up against widespread supply shortages that have escalated the costs of many goods and services. Tuesday’s report from the Labor Department showed that consumer prices in June rose 0.9% from May and 5.4% over the past year — the sharpest 12-month inflation spike since August 2008. Excluding volatile oil and gas prices, so-called core inflation rose 4.5% in the past year, the largest increase since November 1991.

 

ROME (AP) — Italy is banning mammoth cruise liners from sailing into Venice starting Aug. 1. Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said the decision was made at a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. The ban applies to the lagoon basin near St. Mark’s Square and the Giudecca Canal that slices through the city. Franceschini said the government decided to act fast “to avoid the concrete risk” that the U.N. culture agency UNESCO would soon add Venice to its list of “world heritage in danger” sites. UNESCO recommended last month placing Venice on the agency’s list. Before the coronavirus pandemic severely curtailed international travel, cruise ships discharging thousands of day-trippers overwhelmed Venice and its delicate marine environment.

 

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republicans are authorizing law enforcement to find and bring back more than 50 legislators who fled to Washington “under warrant of arrest if necessary” after Democrats left the state to once again block passage of sweeping new voting restrictions. Still, it was not immediately clear Tuesday whether state troopers would actually be sent to Washington, where they would have no jurisdiction to make arrests. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has already threatened Democrats with arrest once they come back home, which may not be until August once the current 30-day session is over. The move by Republicans was expected after most Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives boarded private planes Monday in order to deny GOP the quorum necessary to conduct business

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — A $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal senators struck with President Joe Biden is at risk of stalling out. Republicans are mounting stiff resistance over ways to pay for it. Instead, momentum is shifting to a much more robust Democratic proposal swelling beyond $3.5 trillion. It could come into focus as soon as Tuesday. Biden’s big infrastructure proposals are moving on parallel tracks in Congress in a race against time and political headwinds. Senators from both groups are huddling privately again Tuesday. Biden has proposed raising taxes on corporations and wealthy Americans earning more than $400,000 a year. Republicans reject that approach.