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CSi Weather…
TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. ISOLATED RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
IN THE EVENING. AREAS OF FOG AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE MID 30S.
WEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH. GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH IN THE EVENING.
.FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. AREAS OF FOG IN THE MORNING. HIGHS IN THE
LOWER 60S. NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S. EAST
WINDS AROUND 15 MPH.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH CHANCE OF RAIN AND SLIGHT CHANCE
OF THUNDERSTORMS. WINDY. HIGHS IN THE MID 50S. EAST WINDS 15 TO
25 MPH INCREASING TO 25 TO 30 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 40 PERCENT.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN.
BREEZY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S. EAST WINDS 20 TO 25 MPH.
.SUNDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN. BREEZY. HIGHS
IN THE MID 40S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…RAIN LIKELY. BREEZY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S.
CHANCE OF RAIN 70 PERCENT.
.MONDAY…RAIN LIKELY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 40S. CHANCE OF RAIN
60 PERCENT.
.MONDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY. CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE EVENING…THEN
CHANCE OF RAIN POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN
THE MID 30S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 50 PERCENT.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF RAIN POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SNOW
IN THE MORNING…THEN CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS
AROUND 50. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 30S.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE MID
50S. LOWS IN THE MID 30S.
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY AFTERNOON…BUT NO
SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED.
A MIX OF RAIN AND SNOW IS POSSIBLE ACROSS MOST OF WESTERN AND
CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY.
THROUGH WEDNESDAY ANOTHER
DEVELOPING AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO BRING RAIN
CHANCES TO THE REGION.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council’s Police & Fire, Public Works, Committees met Thursday evening at City Hall.
No items were on the Police & Fire Committees
Public Works Committee
Recommended awarding a bid relating to the 2014 Sidewalk and Curb & Gutter District #14-11 to Strata Corporation in the amount of $90,551.
Recommended approval a request from Jamestown Middle School Omega House relating to the annual storm drain stenciling project.
The committee discussed adding 10th St NE between 5th Ave NE & 12th Ave NE to the Snow Emergency Route. Council Member Gumke said the area is densely populated. Mayor Andersen said the present Emergency Routes should stay as is and no streets or avenues added. Street Department Superintendent, Harold Sad said the area is already “looped” for snow removal. The committee moved the item to the May City Council Meeting without recommendation.
Considered Change Order No. 3 relating to Wastewater lift Station & Force Main Improvements Project, Phase I-Lift Station#9 Replacement. The committee recommends the change order in the amount of $6,149, to add gutters and downspouts to the building.
Considered proposals for replacement of computers and operating software at the Waste Water Treatment Fcility. The committee recommends approving the proposal from AE-2-S.
With Forestry Department Business
Discussion with City Forester Doug Wiles centered around pursuing NDFS grant opportunity that would provide development of a gravel bed nursery in cooperation with the Park & Recreation department. He said the grant will be more cost effective to the city, in addition to in-kind matches. The location is planned at Hillcrest Municipal Golf Course, near the irrigation pound. The committee recommends pursuing the grant and entering into an agreement with the Parks and Recreation Department.
The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 67 followed by replays.
Jamestown (CSi) Senator Heidi Heitkamp’s schedule brought her to Jamesotwn on Thursday April 24, 2014 addressing the North Dakota Community Action Partnership Annual Conference.
The gathering was Thursday morning, at the Quality Inn & Suites in Jamestown,.
Heitkamp was speaking to directors and staff from across the state, as well as board members and partner agencies to highlight the important role they have in helping North Dakotans find access to affordable housing, fighting the war on poverty and serving over 21,000 low-income North Dakotans.
BISMARCK (CSi) Director of pharmacy services at the North Dakota State Hospital, Joan Slusser,, received the N.D. Pharmacists Association’s Excellence in Innovation award for her work leading the Department of Human Services’ telepharmacy project. Participating state pharmacy associations present the national award annually to honor pharmacists who display significant innovation in their practice that improves patient care.
Slusser developed a proposal and led the department’s efforts to adopt confidential, live internet-based video-conferencing technology and standard practices strengthening access to pharmacy services for people receiving behavioral health services at its eight regional human service centers. Lawmakers authorized funding for equipment and software for nine sites.
According to Field Services Director Alex Schweitzer, the program allows the State Hospital’s licensed, registered pharmacists to share their expertise with clients and human service center staffs in a way that promotes proper use of medications and prevents drug interactions. The pharmacists, he said, oversee the dispensing of prescribed medications, assure medications are properly labeled, review medication profiles, and can counsel patients about medications via video or telephone.
Slusser said, “The biggest benefit is that we are working more closely with nurses and pharmacy technicians at remote department sites to reduce interruptions in medication therapy and assure clients receive the medications they need to support their recovery.”
Slusser praised the North Dakota State University College of Pharmacy and the State Board of Pharmacy for their leadership in making telepharmacy services available in the public and private sectors and in helping meet the pharmacy needs of rural residents. She said she worked closely with the state board on implementation steps and licensing.
Slusser also commended her co-workers for making telepharmacy services possible. She and her colleagues handle 700-770 medication orders daily between the State Hospital, the regional human service centers, and the Off Main residential program in Fargo. Slusser has been employed by the State Hospital as a pharmacist since 2000, was named director of pharmacy services in 2006. She has a doctorate of pharmacy degree.
During state fiscal year 2012, the Department of Human Services provided behavioral health treatment services to 26,494 individuals at its eight regional human service centers, and the State Hospital cared for an average of 104 patients per day in its traditional services area.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – The rapidly-growing city of Williston in North Dakota’s oil patch has hired a new fire chief.
The city this week hired 38-year-old Jason Catrambone. He will begin his new job May 19.
Catrambone’s past experience includes fire chief at Spanish Peaks Bon Carbo Fire Protection District in Colorado and captain for fire and emergency services at Colorado’s Fort Carson. He also served as the fire chief for a private contractor company working in Iraq.
Williston’s hasty growth over the past five years has tested the capabilities of the fire department.
The city’s last fire chief resigned in January. Since then, the majority of the city’s paramedics unionized, calling for a new fire chief and additional help from the city.
GRAFTON, N.D. (AP) – A state’s attorney in North Dakota has changed the charges against a Grand Forks lawyer accused of conspiring with two other men to kill a confidential informant.
Walsh County prosecutor Barbara Whelan has amended the murder conspiracy charge against 72-year-old Henry Howe to tampering with a witness or informant.
The maximum punishment for a murder conspiracy charge is life in prison, while conspiring to tamper with a witness is punishable by up to five years in prison.
Whelan could not be reached for comment. Defense attorney David Thompson provided The Associated Press with records showing the amended charges.
Thompson says the case against Howe should be dismissed because the credibility of the prosecutor’s main witness is questionable. He says the witness has lied to police several times in the past.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A state health official says another pile of illegally dumped oil field waste has been found near Crosby, in northwestern North Dakota.
Environmental Health Chief Dave Glatt (glaht) says the radioactive waste was found last week in a field by the local emergency manager.
Oil filter socks are tubular nets that strain liquids during the oil production process.
Glatt says he’s unsure of when the filter socks were dumped or how much is at the site. He says the former landowner is in jail on an unrelated charge but the new owner is cooperating with officials.
State regulators say new rules are being written to track oil field waste, in response to the growing number of illegally tossed filter socks.
NOONAN, N.D. (AP) – A company hired by the state says it has removed the illegally dumped radioactive oil field waste from an abandoned building in Noonan.
Secure Energy Services manager Robert Krumberger told The Associated Press that all of the waste from was removed from the site Wednesday.
Officials reported the illegal dumping of hundreds of radioactive oil filter socks in late February. They said it’s the state’s biggest incident to date of illegal dumping of the tubular nets that strain liquids during the oil production process.
Krumberger says the building contained about 45 cubic yards of filter socks, or more than double that of original estimates.
Authorities don’t know who’s to blame, and the whereabouts of the building’s owner aren’t known.
The state is paying for the cleanup with oil company fees.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – An oil field service company says it’s no longer interested in building a saltwater disposal well near North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Kansas-based Horizon Oilfield Services has withdrawn its permit application for the saltwater disposal well after an objection was filed by the Badlands Conservation Alliance, a citizens’ watch group.
Saltwater is a byproduct of oil and gas production that can be harmful to the environment.
Horizon planned to locate the disposal well near the north unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The park’s north unit is located about 15 miles south of Watford City and stretches over 24,000 acres of badlands and prairies.
The northern section of the park is home to bison herds, prairie dog colonies and long horn steers.
In sports…
Due to poor field conditions the East-West Girls Soccer Crossover for Friday & Saturday in Jamestown are CANCELLED.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – Williston High School’s new coyote-head logo is causing an uproar
The logo of the growling coyote already is in use at a community college in Ridgecrest, Calif.
Cerro Coso Community College spokeswoman Natalie Dorrell says her school was never contacted for permission to use the coyote-head logo, which is their school’s mascot. She says it’s unlikely the California school would have given permission anyway.
Dorrell says the school’s lawyers are reviewing the issue.
Williston Superintendent Viola LaFontaine says the district received permission to use the logo from Cerro Coso’s athletic director.
LaFontaine says the logos are different colors and the shape of the angry-looking animal’s teeth and eyes are not the same.
In world and national news…
SLOVYANSK, Ukraine (AP) – Threats and warnings are escalating between Russia and Ukraine, after Ukrainian forces today launched an operation to drive pro-Russia insurgents from buildings they’ve been occupying in the eastern part of the country. The operation killed at least two of the militants. Within hours, Russia announced new troop exercises near Ukraine’s border. And Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Ukraine would see consequences. Ukraine’s acting president is accusing Russia of backing the separatists in the east. He’s demanding that Russia leave his country alone.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. isn’t ready to write off Mideast peace negotiations just yet, even after Israel broke off talks with Palestinian leaders who are trying to create a coalition government with Hamas. A State Department spokeswoman says the U.S. is “still making the effort.” Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would never negotiate with a Palestinian government that includes people who have called for the destruction of Israel, as Hamas has.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal health regulators are giving their approval to a genetic test for the virus that causes nearly all cases of cervical cancer. The test is the first government-approved alternative to the pap smear, which for decades has been the mainstay of cervical cancer screening. Some women’s health groups had warned that approving the DNA test could lead to confusion, higher costs and overtreatment.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – An advisory panel is recommending that the state of Oregon drop its troubled online health exchange for private policies. Instead, the panel says, Oregonians should shop for the policies on the federal online marketplace. The recommendation comes more than six months after the state’s site was supposed to be running.
NEW YORK (AP) – Postal workers around the country have been protesting Thursday in front of Staples stores. They’re objecting to the Postal Service’s pilot program to open counters in the stores, staffed with retail employees. One protester in Washington said the move is a “back-door way of privatizing the post office” and taking away jobs from postal workers.
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