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TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S. SOUTHWEST WINDS
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.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. WINDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. WEST
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.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS AROUND 60. HIGHS
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Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Art Park, Summer Arts Festival, Saturday July 26, 2014 combines with the Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce’s “Chef’s Challenge,” and an afternoon Farmers Market.
Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce Executive, Lisa Hicks says during the Summer Arts Park Festival that runs from 1-p.m., to 5-p.m., the Chef’s Challenge begins at 4-p.m..
She points out the event is open at 3-p.m., when individuals and teams of not more than three individuals set up.
Rules for the Challenge include, contestants using all the local ingredients provided.
Contestants may bring additional ingredients to complement or enhance the local ingredients.
Contestants need to provide their own grill, preparation equipment and cooking equipment.
Food will be judged on: taste, presentation, and use of fresh ingredients.
The winner receives $50 in Jamestown Chamber Bucks.
The judges for the event are Arts Center Director Taylor Barnes, Jamestown Downtown Association President Nancy Miller and Diane Satrom, who has won three of the last four Chef’s Challenges.
Contact Lisa Hicks at the Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce to sign up, at 701-252-4830, or E-Mail
The street between the Art Park and The Arts Center will be closed. Food vendors, demonstration tables, artists, and organizations to be scattered throughout the park. There will be music, crafts, food, and games.
There will be sampling of homemade preserves, and those in attendance may purchase fresh flowers and herbs and see what the artists are offering.
The Farmers Market will be held from 1-5-p.m. Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce Executive, Lisa Hicks says local gardeners may participate at the park and sell produce as well, and do not have to be a member of the farmers market organization.
Anyone wishing to participate as an artist (visual or musical), or wanting to sell produce, canned goods or flowers, contact Sally Jeppson at 701-251-2496 at the Jamestown Arts Center, or email: sjeppson@jamestownarts.com.
In case of inclement weather the activities will be moved into the Arts Center across the street from the Arts Park
Jamestown (CSi) The focus is kids, this Sunday, July 27, 2014, as the local Harley Owners Group riders Sunday afternoon, ride to support the Community Action Region VI Week End Back Pack for Kids program.
Jamestown HOG Chapter 1955 will host the Bikers for Kids ride starting at 12:30 p.m. from Stutsman Harley-Davidson and return to the dealership for burgers and brats.
Registration for the ride starts at 10 a.m. and is $15 per driver and $10 per rider. Other vehicles are welcome to join as well.
For more information about the Bikers for Kids ride call Stutsman Harley-Davidson at 252-5271.
For more information about Community Action Region VI or the Week End Back Pack for Kids program, call 252-1821.
Valley City (CSi) The Thundering Saint will hold the 6th Annual Debbie Gabel Memorial Cancer Ride/Event, on Saturday July 26, 2014.
All net proceeds will benefit Hospice of the Red River Valley.
Registration for the motorcycle ride begins at 9-a.m., at Boomer’s Corner Keg in Valley City.
The ride is $20 per rider, and $10 per passenger.
The bike blessing will take place at 11:50-.m., with kickstands up at noon.
Riders will return to the same location by approximately 5:30-p.m.
After the ride, food will be served at Boomer’s, followed by a street dance, featuring “8th Hour,” and a raffle.
The raffle drawing will take place at 11:45-p.m. One registered participant rider will win $500. Additional raffle prizes include a Broilmaster grill, Thomsen 30 06 rifle, Napoleon patio flame, $300 meat bundle and Alpen binoculars.
The public is invited to attend for a small fee.
For more information on line visit www.thundersaints.com
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A man who escaped from sheriff’s deputies in Morton County wandered down the wrong street in Bismarck.
Authorities say 19-year-old Dasil Twinn, of Fort Yates, got away from deputies in the Mandan area after being arrested on an alcohol charge Wednesday night.
The Bismarck Tribune reports that two Bismarck police officers taking a break in a restaurant early Thursday spotted Twinn walking by a window, his hands handcuffed in front of him. Officers pursued and eventually cornered him.
Twinn has pleaded not guilty in Morton County to three misdemeanor charges including escape. He also faces a fleeing charge in Bismarck.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Department of Health says saltwater leaked by a pipeline in McKenzie County may have reached a nearby creek.
The department says pipeline owner Statoil’s preliminary estimates put the leak’s volume at 75 barrels. One barrel is 42 gallons.
They say Statoil believes the leak is less than a week old and that the company visually inspected the pipeline by air on July 18 and observed no leak.
The Department of Health says “a small amount” may have entered an oxbow of Timber Creek approximately five miles northwest of Arnegard.
Saltwater is a byproduct of oil production. It has a much higher salt content than seawater and can also contain oil residue. It is considered an environmental hazard by the state.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Game and Fish Director Terry Steinwand says employees identified in an audit who improperly billed the state for meals and other expenses have been told to pay back the money.
The move comes after the attorney general’s office told the agency this week that a civil suit could be initiated to recover the improperly paid funds.
A review last month by the state auditor’s office criticized the agency’s misuse of public money.
The audit found there were more than 4,800 per diem payments made to employees over a nearly three-year period. Auditors reviewed only 20 of the payments and 12 were found to have been billed improperly.
Steinwand says the agency also is doing an internal audit to determine if any other employees were paid improperly.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – A man accused of killing the 2-year-old son of Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has pleaded not guilty for an alleged attack on the boy’s mother.
Twenty-eight-year-old Joseph Patterson was arraigned Thursday in Sioux Falls on charges of aggravated assault and kidnapping. He’s accused of attacking the mother of Tyrese Ruffin and holding her against her will for over an hour.
Patterson is facing second-degree murder, manslaughter and aggravated assault charges for the boy’s death. Trial on those charges is scheduled for October.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The federal government says that four unaccompanied immigrant children have been placed with sponsors in North Dakota.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported Thursday that more than 30,000 children have been released to sponsors around the country this year through July 7.
The report shows that 173 children were placed in Minnesota, 21 in South Dakota, and one in Montana.
Children are placed in government shelters and then released to sponsors who usually are relatives or family friends.
More than 57,000 minors have crossed into the United States since October. Most of them are from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – State Paleontologist John Hoganson is retiring from the North Dakota Geological Survey after 33 years.
An open house for Hoganson was being held Friday afternoon at the state Heritage Center on the Capitol grounds in Bismarck.
Hoganson says his love for earth sciences began at an early age, when he would use his father’s hammer to break open rocks “just to see what was inside of them.”
Hoganson graduated from West Fargo High School and ultimately earned a doctorate in geology with an emphasis in paleontology from the University of North Dakota.
Hoganson is credited with helping grow the state fossil collection to hundreds of thousands of items.
State Geologist Ed Murphy says Hoganson’s greatest attribute was his ability to convey scientific information to the general public, especially to children.
In sports…
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Drag Racing Association’s Annual Drag Races are being held this weekend, at Jamestown Regional Airport’s runways.
The association gets special permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to use the facility each time.
Both days the time trials start at 9 a.m. with eliminators starting at 1 p.m.
Gate and pit admission is $8 for adults with children 6 and under admitted for free.
On hand will be food and ice cream vendors, with R.M. Stoudt providing a large canopy with tables and chairsto allow those in attendance to eat in the shade.
JDRA president, Leon Westerhausen, said about 150 racers are expected for Saturday and about 120 for Sunday.
Also, spectators have the opportunity to a ride in a drag racing car, after spectators fill out a slip and put it in a box that will be under the R.M. Stoudt canopy.
Racers, John Roth and Bob Baumann will take the winners for a ride on the track.
“If you’ve never done it before, it really is something, a lot of fun,” he said.
For more information about the Jamestown Drag Races, go to
In world and national news…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Police say a third child has died after a carjacked SUV plowed into a group of children and adults selling fruit at a Philadelphia street corner.
Police say the victims were 7- and 10-year-old brothers and their 15-year-old sister.
Their mother is in critical condition.
The two men who carjacked the SUV on Friday morning remain at large.
Homicide Capt. James Clark says the children and adults were selling the fruit to raise money for their church.
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israeli media say the country’s Security Cabinet has unanimously rejected a U.S. proposal for a temporary pause in Israel-Hamas fighting. The proposal by Secretary of State John Kerry calls for a temporary truce during which Israel and Hamas would hold indirect talks about easing the border closure of the blockaded Gaza Strip. Hamas has demanded that Gaza’s crossings be opened. Israeli TV says the proposal was rejected mainly because it would mean Israel has to cut short an ongoing effort to destroy Hamas military tunnels under the Gaza-Israel border.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Hopes for peace talks in Afghanistan have suffered a setback. The reclusive leader of the Taliban is warning that a security pact allowing foreign troops to stay in Afghanistan beyond the end of this year will mean more fighting. Mullah Mohammad Omar says in an emailed message that the Islamic militant movement won’t end its war until the last foreigner leaves. The Afghan government has agreed in principle to a security agreement that would allow nearly 10,000 U.S. soldiers to remain in a mainly training and advisory capacity.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama has been meeting Friday with Central American leaders at the White House. He’s looking for them to help limit the flow of unaccompanied children from their countries to the United States. Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers say they’re trying to unite behind a narrow package of changes — including sending National Guard troops to the border, increasing the number of immigration judges and allowing migrant youths to be sent home more quickly. A number of Republicans who met this morning at the Capitol said they have to act before leaving Washington late next week for the annual August recess.
MEDIA, Pa. (AP) – Authorities say a psychiatric patient had dozens of bullets on hand when he killed his caseworker, and that he intended to kill more people at a suburban Philadelphia hospital complex. They say Richard Plotts had a problem with the hospital’s ban on guns, although it’s not clear if that was the direct motive for Thursday’s shooting. Psychiatrist Lee Silverman told police he fired back at Plotts with his own weapon after Plotts opened fire at an office adjacent to Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby. Prosecutors say the psychiatrist routinely carried a gun, and that he didn’t have a specific fear of Plotts — who is expected to be charged with murder. He’s still hospitalized with gunshot wounds.
CAPE CHARLES, Va. (AP) – Virginia’s governor says it’s a blessing that more people didn’t die in the storm that struck a coastal area of the state Thursday. Gov. Terry McAuliffe Friday visited the campground where two people were killed by a tornado that struck on short notice. A married couple from New Jersey died when a tree fell on their tent. Their 13-year-old son is in critical condition.
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