wbPM3CSi Weather…

 TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S. WEST WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.SATURDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S. NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S. SOUTHEAST
WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS IN
THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 15 TO
20 MPH.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN.
LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S. WEST WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH.
.MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN. HIGHS IN
THE MID 50S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE
EVENING…THEN SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SNOW
AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE MID 30S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
20 PERCENT.
.TUESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 40S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER
40S. LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S.
.FRIDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 40S.

PRECIPITATION CHANCES SPREAD OVER THE AREA AND INCREASE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY.

TEMPERATURES ON MONDAY WILL BE QUITE A BIT COOLER…CLOSER TO

AVERAGE.

A SECONDARY SHOT OF COLDER AIR PUSHES INTO THE AREA LATE

MONDAY WHICH MAY LEAD TO SOME SNOW OVER PORTIONS OF THE AREA MONDAY NIGHT

 

Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Police is asking for the public’s help in a search for a runaway teen.

Dylon Janke of Jamestown left home Monday morning, October 20, 2014, and has not returned.

Anyone with information as to his where-abouts is asked to call the Jamestown Law Enforcement Center at 701-252-1000.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Engineer’s Office informs residents, that starting Monday, October 27, 2014, the alley in the 800 Block between 2nd and 3rd Ave SE, will be under construction, due to alley paving. The work is expected to last approximately one week, depending on weather.

Access to the alley will be limited during this time.

Extreme caution should be used when entering road construction areas. The public should consider alternate routes if possible.

 

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Tourism Grant/Executive Advisory Board met Friday at the CSi Technology Center, at Historic Franklin School.

The Jamestown Civic Center, appeared concerning the new basketball court floor.

The total cost of the new floor, is $96,000 and is paid by the City of Jamestown. The Civic Center was requesting $10,000 in the form of a grant, for a tourism corner advertising spot on the floor.

The advisory board did not act on the grant, request, as the consensus was that the request should be acted upon at another time as an advertising expense.

Civic Center, Manager Pam Fosse presented options and costs for floor space, which is being distributed to businesses, including a center court naming rights availability.

In other business, the board approved two requests by the Jamestown Rural Fire Department in connection with an ice fishing derby planned for February 6,7,8, 2015.

Representative Travis Lemieux said, the request of $3,000 is to bring in professional angler, Tom Neustrom, to speak at the Sport and Recreation Show in Jamestown, before the fishing tournament takes place.

The board approved a lesser amount, of $1,700, as moved by Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund.

Another request by the Rural Fire Department for $4,000 in advertising for the tournament was approved. The total cost of thederby is estimated at $75,000 with additional funds stemming from the sale of raffle tickets, and sponsorships.

He added that 4,100 tickets have been printed for the fishing tournament, which includes an entry to prize drawings. He noted an increase in attendance each year.

The Frontier Village Association, President, Charley Tanata requested $2,000 for a drainage project at the west end of the Village, which was approved, pending written permission from the City of Jamestown.

Drainage issues have been causing foundation erosion around Mary’s House and the Eldridge Building (Town Hall.)

The advisory board approved the Jamestown Downtown Association, request for advertising for the 2014 Holiday Dazzle on Main Parade, of $1,000.

Ambassador Charlie Kourajian, and JDA President Nancy Miller indicated that the additional advertising dollars will be used to draw more people from a 60 mile radius of Jamestown to attend the parade, Christmas tree lighting, after the parade this year, and the after parade party, as a package event. It’s possible that some of the out of town guest would spend dollars in Jamestown on such items as lodging and meals etc.

Searle Swedlund’s report to the board included the Frontier Village, this past summer seeing an increase in the stage coach rides, up 40-percent from 2013, at 1,193 rides.

He also pointed out the 2015 budget has been approved by the City of Jamestown.

 

Valley City (CSi) The Valley City Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors has taken a formal position in support of the proposed Valley City Health, Wellness and Physical Education Center.

The statement says, “As a board, we believe investments must be made to ensure that we are a vibrant, growing community. The Wellness Center is expected to offer amenities that will benefit the community and our visitors. It is a significant and progressive investment important to the quality of life in Valley City, including attracting new residents and businesses, and growing existing businesses.”

A public meeting is scheduled on Monday, Oct. 27, at 6 p.m. at the Hi-Liner Activity Center (460 Central Avenue North) to present additional information about the Wellness Center.

Meanwhile….

The Valley City Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors has also taken a formal position against North Dakota Measure 7 in support of our community pharmacies and related businesses.

The Valley City Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors has taken a formal position in support of permanent flood protection.

The Chamber is asking Chamber members and committees to Please vote on November 4, 2014.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Authorities say a South Dakota man has been sentenced in federal court in North Dakota for abusive sexual contact with a minor.
 
     U.S. Attorney Tim Purdon says 60-year-old Peter Spotted Horse was sentenced on Thursday to four years and three months in prison.
 
     Spotted Horse was charged in January 2013 and later pleaded guilty to the charge.
 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A Fort Totten man is accused of putting a woman in the hospital and punching a 4-year-old child in the face in Bismarck.
 
     Authorities allege 34-year-old Lionel Dunn punched the 24-year-old woman in the face and kicked her in the stomach during an argument on Tuesday night. The Bismarck Tribune reports she was taken to a hospital for treatment.
 
     The following night, Dunn allegedly got into another altercation with the woman and another woman, and punched the child when the child attempted to intervene.
 
     Dunn is charged with aggravated assault and child abuse. He could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted. Court documents indicate his bond was set at $5,000 cash on Thursday. He is applying for a public defender.

 

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Minot police say two business robberies this week appear related.
 
     Authorities say a male took an undisclosed amount of cash from Premiere Video on Wednesday evening and from South Broadway Cenex early Thursday, about 6  1/2 hours later.
 
     Police say they believe the same person is responsible for both crimes.
 
     Police say an attempted robbery in the city was reported Thursday night at the North Broadway Pizza Hut.  Police say a man wearing a knit hat and a fake beard demanded money from a clerk but fled without any cash.

 

WATFORD CITY, N.D. (AP) – Dakotas-based Sanford Health is donating $1 million over the next decade to help fund a new hospital in the western North Dakota oil patch community of Watford City.
 
     McKenzie County Healthcare Systems in June broke ground for a $60 million medical complex. It will replace the city’s decades-old hospital and include a new emergency room, clinic and nursing home under one roof.
 
     The project is being funded several ways, including with sales tax revenue. McKenzie County and the energy company Oneok Partners each have also pledged $1 million.
 
     Sanford Health and McKenzie County Healthcare Systems already partner in several areas including physicians and air ambulance services.
 
     Sanford bills itself as the country’s largest not-for-profit rural health care system, with facilities in 126 communities in nine states.

 

  MANDAN, N.D. (AP) – A Bismarck man is accused of biting a corrections officer while being booked into the Morton County jail.
 
     Authorities say 30-year-old David Bad Brave was arrested Thursday on suspicious of driving under the influence and for having a revoked license.
 
     He allegedly threatened to kill Bismarck police officers, unsuccessfully tried to head-butt an officer, punched an officer twice on the shoulder, and bit the wrist of a corrections officer at the Mandan jail.
 
     Bad Brave is charged with assault and preventing arrest. He could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Court documents do not list an attorney for him.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The two primary candidates for North Dakota’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives agree that the race could rest on the short record of Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer.
 
     Cramer was elected two years ago in his third attempt at the job over an 18-year span. He’s trying to ward off a challenge by Democrat George Sinner, the son of a former North Dakota governor.
 
     Cramer says one of the top issues for an incumbent is overall performance in the previous term and believes his record is good. Sinner disagrees and says Cramer has obstructed progress and misled voters about his accomplishments.
 
     Libertarian candidate Jack Seaman says people are tired of hearing both men bicker over old news.
 
     The election is Nov. 4.

 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Tom Erickson has been named director of the University of North Dakota’s Energy and Environmental Research Center.
 
     Erickson has been serving as interim director of the EERC since July. He previous served as the center’s associate director for business, operations and intellectual property.
 
     The EERC has had nearly 1,300 clients in 52 countries in the last 30 years. Over 960 clients have been from the private sector. The center’s research portfolio topped $202 million in fiscal year 2014.
 
     Erickson earned both his bachelors and masters degrees in chemical engineering from UND.

 

In world and national news…

 MARYSVILLE, Wash. (AP) -Police are on the scene of a reported shooting at a high school north of Seattle. The school in Marysville has been locked down, because of what the district describes only as an “emergency situation.” Local TV stations said two people were being airlifted to a hospital. 
 
     VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) – Muslim leaders in Canada say the gunman who shot and killed a soldier this week and then stormed Canada’s Parliament had once complained that the mosque he attended in Vancouver was too liberal, and too inclusive. They say Michael Zehaf-Bibeau (zeh-HAHF’ bih-BOH’) had visited the mosque for several months in 2011 before he was told not to come back. Zehaf-Bibeau was eventually gunned down inside Parliament by the sergeant-at-arms.
 
     ATLANTA (AP) – Officials at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta confirm that tests no longer detect Ebola in a nurse being treated at the hospital. A statement says Amber Vinson is making good progress, but there’s no word yet on when she’ll be released. The other nurse to be infected while treating an Ebola patient in Dallas, Nina Pham, was released from a Maryland hospital today after doctors declared her free of the virus. She went to the White House, where she met with President Barack Obama.
 
     OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Federal authorities in Oklahoma have detained a man who they say admitted to driving a car into a disputed Ten Commandments monument outside the state Capitol building, smashing it to pieces. The Secret Service says the man was detained after he showed up at a federal building in Oklahoma City, rambling and making derogatory statements about the president. An agent says the man admitted to destroying the monument and claimed Satan told him to do it.
 
     TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – A federal judge says he’ll decide this afternoon whether to stop New Jersey from becoming the second state in the country to offer legalized sports betting on individual games. The four major U.S. professional sports leagues and the NCAA are asking the judge to keep the wagering from being allowed starting this weekend. Republican Gov. Chris Christie signed a law this month that effectively repeals the state’s ban on sports wagering and allows it at racetracks and casinos.