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CSi Weather…
REST OF TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA. 50 PERCENT IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. SOME STORMS COULD BE STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH
SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHWEST AROUND 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EVENING…THEN CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AFTER
MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S. NORTH WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE
OF PRECIPITATION 50 PERCENT IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA, 30 PERCENT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY IN THE MORNING THEN CLEARING. COOLER.
HIGHS AROUND 60. NORTH WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. PATCHY FROST AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS
IN THE UPPER 30S. NORTH WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.SATURDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 60. EAST WINDS AROUND 10 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 40S.
.SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS IN THE MORNING…
THEN CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN
THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
50 PERCENT.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND
SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
.MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A
40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE
UPPER 50S. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.
.WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.
FROST IS EXPECTED ACROSS PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH
DAKOTA OVERNIGHT FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING…WITH
LOW TEMPERATURES IN THE 30S.
THERE WILL BE CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.
STRONG STORMS AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE.
Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, Becky Thatcher Keller says the new My Place, 46-room, 3-story Extended Stay Hotel, held its “Soft Grand Opening,” in Jamestown.
The business is located on Interstate 94 and Highway 281 South.
It will be independently owned by MP Jamestown and operated by Legacy Management, LLC.,and offers daily, weekly, and monthly rates and offers on-site laundry facilities, free internet service and a 24-hour store in the hotel lobby.
The motel is now accepting reservations and have several openings.
Valley City (CSi) The official groundbreaking ceremony for the Valley City Health, Wellness & Physical Education Center will be on Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 10am at 755 Viking Drive Southwest.
The community is invited to attend.
Valley City Park Board president Dick Gulmon says “It never ceases to amaze me what can be done to enhance quality of life and quality of place when public-private partnerships work together for a common goal.”
Three major groups are involved with the development of the Valley City Wellness Center, including Valley City Park & Recreation, Valley City State University and the Sheyenne Valley Community Foundation.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Arts Center will host the Robby Vee concert on Saturday May 30, 2015, at 7:30-p.m.
On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show, on CSi Cable 2, Arts Center Director, Cyndi Wish said tickets are sold in advance at $20 for Arts Center members and $25 for non-members. Call 701-251-2496 or stop by at 115 2nd Avenue Southwest in Jamestown.
Robby, the son of Bobby Vee, is in the U.S. and Canadian Rockabilly Hall of Fame, and will be accompanied by his Strings and Things, Rock N Roll Orchestra, on a journey through the 1960’s with stories, videos and music from his father, Bobby Vee’s, career.
Ms. Wish also pointed out that entries are being accepted for the 51st Annual Jamestown Fine Arts Association Show, August 28-October 3, 2015 to be held at the Jamestown Arts Center. The deadline to submit entries is August 1, 2015.
She added that in conjunction with Jamestown’s White Cloud Days, the 2015 Mini-Art Hunt will be Saturday July 11, and ends when all 12 art works are found.
12 unique mini-art works by visual artist, William Hessian will be hidden throughout Jamestown Parks.
Four sets of visual clues in the form of photos to each artwork’s hiding place will be made public on Saturday July 11th at 10-a.m., and 3-p.m., and Sunday the 12th at 10-a.m., and 3-p.m. All art work will be hidden in plain sight.
Anyone finding an art work should post a photo of themselves and the art work to Art Center’s Facebook page, or contact the Arts Center. There is a limit of one artwork per family, to claim which can be kept by the finder.
Visual clues will also be available at the Arts Center’s booth that will be set up at McElroy Park that Saturday and Sunday during White Cloud Days.
On another topic Cyndi said there is a paying employment opportunity beginning this fall, with the Arts Center’s Artist is Residence program, working with students at Jamestown schools. Contact the Arts Center for more information.
The Jamestown Arts Center is open Monday-Friday 9-a.m. to 5-p.m., and Saturdays 10-a.m., to 2-p.m. at 115 2nd Street Southwest.
On line www.jamestownarts.com
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corporation (JSDC), Executive Committee recommends a 5 percent increase to the JSDC budget for 2016, bringing the proposed budget to $457,102
The 5 percent increase maintains the same budget level for marketing and a 12 percent decrease in recruiting.
The recruiting budget, currently at $34,000, would be reduced to $30,000.
The marketing budget will remain at $35,000
JSDC, CEO Connie Ova says the budget includes a 5 percent increase in staff wages and a 62 percent increase in benefits and health insurance because an employee who left the JSDC did not carry health insurance through the JSDC and a new hire may.
The draft budget now moves to the JSDC Board of Directors for discussion during June 8 meeting before action by the Jamestown City Council and Stutsman County Commission.
The JSDC has approved the sale of three lots in the I-94 Business Park to Magnum for use as a 12 door freight terminal, where goods being shipped could be transferred to different trucks for local delivery.
Officials say construction could start later this year, and the freight terminal will create two jobs when it opens and seven jobs within one year.
Bismarck (CSi) The North Dakota Public Service Commission has approved the proposed 150-megawatt wind farm in McIntosh and Dickey counties,on a split vote.
The ruling Wednesday was based on the information from an earlier hearing.
The plan is amended to use 75 2-megawatt turbines rather than 100 1.5-megawatt turbines that were included in the initial plan.
The Merricourt Wind Farm is being developed by San Diego-based EDF Renewable Energy, formerly known as enXco, which had received a site permit from the PSC in 2011 but had not constructed the wind farm.
Commissioners Brian Kalk and Julie Fedorchak voted in favor of the amended order approving the siting plan while Commissioner Randy Christmann opposed the certification.
EDF, received PSC approval of the project in 2011, when Xcel Energy had contracted to purchase the power.
Xcel canceled the contract and was sued by EDF. Xcel received a court ruling in its favor in 2013.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A Fargo man who pleaded not guilty to causing the death of his 2-month-old daughter is scheduled to change his plea.
Thirty-year-old Nicholas Desjarlais (duh-ZHAR’-lay) is accused of falling asleep and smothering the baby after a night of drinking last summer.
He pleaded not guilty in March to a negligent homicide charge that carries a maximum punishment of five years in prison.
Court documents show that a change-of-plea hearing is scheduled July 13.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – The Wal-Mart store in Grand Forks where a U.S. airman killed one worker and injured another before killing himself has reopened after being closed for two days.
Wal-Mart spokesman Brian Nick says the store opened Thursday morning. Dozens of people turned out for a vigil outside the store Wednesday evening.
Authorities say 21-year-old Grand Forks Air Force Base Senior Airman Marcell Willis walked into the store early Tuesday and shot and killed 70-year-old overnight cashier Gregory Weiland. Willis then shot and wounded 47-year-old overnight grocery general manager Lisa Braun, who’s recovering in a hospital. Willis then killed himself. His motive isn’t known.
Weiland’s funeral is scheduled Saturday at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Grand Forks. He’ll be buried at St. Bernard’s Catholic Cemetery in Thief River Falls, Minnesota.
Update…
MANDAN, N.D. (AP) – A company that’s planning North Dakota’s largest-capacity crude oil pipeline to date says it still needs permission from about half of the landowners along the route in North Dakota.
Energy Transfer Partners spokesman Chuck Frey told North Dakota’s Public Service Commission Thursday that 56 percent of the easements needed along the North Dakota route have been obtained.
Frey says the company has a goal of obtaining permission from all landowners along the route. But says the company would seek eminent domain authority to access the land if it’s “forced” to do so.
The company wants to build the 1,100-mile pipeline to move 450,000 barrels of North Dakota crude daily to Illinois. The $3.8 billion pipeline also would pass through South Dakota and Iowa.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The State Bar Association of North Dakota has reached a tentative agreement with a national conservative watchdog group that sued on behalf of a Bismarck attorney over the use of member dues.
The issue is whether the state bar can spend member dues on political speech. Attorney Arnold Fleck turned to the Goldwater Institute after he discovered the bar had donated $50,000 to an advocacy group that supported a ballot measure last year that he opposed.
The Goldwater Institute says the state bar has 90 days to change its procedures for handling dues, and if the institute finds the changes satisfactory it will drop the federal lawsuit.
Bar Executive Director Tony Weiler declined to discuss details of the settlement but acknowledged that the bar is reviewing its procedures.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Women in agriculture was the focus of a discussion at the Fargo campus of the North Dakota State College of Science.
U.S. Sens. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and U.S. Deputy Agriculture Secretary Krysta Harden led the discussion on Thursday at the College of Science Skills and Technology Auditorium.
They encouraged women to take on leadership roles in the agricultural industry and to work proactively in addressing roadblocks to their success. Heitkamp says women make up one-tenth of principal farm operators in North Dakota, compared to 30 percent nationwide.
Women leaders in the ag industry from across North Dakota also were on hand for the discussion.
In world and national news…
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) – A psychiatrist says whatever problems James Holmes was suffering from on the night he opened fire in a movie theater in Colorado — he knew what he was doing. Dr. William Reid is a state-appointed psychiatrist who examined Holmes long after the attack. He told jurors at Holmes’ trial Thursday that he thinks Holmes knew the consequences of his actions when he opened fire, killing 12 people and wounding dozens of others.
BALTIMORE (AP) – It’s the deadliest month in Baltimore in 15 years — and the latest victims are a 31-year-old woman and a young boy who were shot in the head Thursday. At the same time that violent deaths are on the rise, arrests have fallen. Police are booking fewer than half the number of people they pulled off the streets last year. The arrests were already declining before Freddie Gray died of injuries he suffered in police custody, but they dropped sharply thereafter.
HORSESHOE BEND, Texas (AP) – Authorities say floodwaters from the swollen Brazos (BRAZ’-uhs) River are lapping at the foundations of 11 homes in a North Texas community west of Fort Worth. The river has topped its 21-foot flood level, and is expected to crest tonight at about 24 feet. Residents were asked to evacuate about 250 homes there Wednesday. Recent storms have caused widespread flooding in Texas and Oklahoma, killing at least 21 people. Ten people remain missing in Texas.
MIAMI (AP) – As the U.S. and Cuba move toward reopening embassies on each other’s soil, President Barack Obama has visited a shrine in Miami to honor Cuban Americans. The White House says Obama visited the shrine today to honor the sacrifices made by Cuban Americans in pursuing liberty, and to recognize their contributions to the United States. Friday is the last day for Congress to challenge Obama’s decision to take Cuba off a list of state sponsors of terrorism.
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (AP) – Popular beaches along nearly 7 miles of Los Angeles-area coastline are off-limits to surfing and swimming after balls of tar washed ashore. The beaches along south Santa Monica Bay appeared virtually free of oil this morning after an overnight cleanup, but officials aren’t sure if more tar will show up. No source has been ruled out — including last week’s coastal oil spill about 100 miles to the northwest in Santa Barbara County.
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