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TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. EAST WINDS AROUND
5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHEAST IN THE AFTERNOON.
.TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 60. SOUTH WINDS AROUND
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.FRIDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S. SOUTHWEST WINDS 5 TO
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.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS AROUND 60. SOUTHWEST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH.
.SATURDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 90. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 90S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A
20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER
60S. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S TO LOWER 90S.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE
OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S. HIGHS IN THE
UPPER 80S.
FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY
TEMPERATURES IN THE 90S WITH BREEZY CONDITIONS COULD CREATE FIRE
WEATHER CONCERNS ACROSS WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA ON SATURDAY.
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH
WEDNESDAY.
Jamestown (CSi) The seventh annual Community Block Party, a project of the Downtown Jamestown Association and University of Jamestown, is today from 5 to 8 p.m. from along First Avenue in Jamestown.
It’s anticipated that over 3,000 people will be downtown, with 108 boths lined up as local businesses and organization will have booths, showcasing their services.
More students are expected for the block party this year partly because there is no football game scheduled for Thursday night. 300 new students are at UJ this fall.
First Avenue from the railroad tracks south to 3rd Street Southwest/Southeast will be closed starting at 9 a.m. to clear out vehicles. After 1 p.m. booth vendors will come in from the 3rd Street side, get their booth space assignments, and set up their booths.
The event also brings together the University of Jamestown students, highlighting freshman, with the community, including business owners, who may be perspective employers.
Many students will also volunteer for churches, the James River Humane Society and other organizations.
The first-year students are required to attend as part of orientation and wear matching orange T-shirts, and at the same time encourages the citizens of Jamestown to come out and it’s fun and it’s free.
The students will be coming down the 5th Avenue hill about 6-p.m., to join in the block party.
There will also be free refreshments and some local vendors will sell food, adding that the public is encouraged to bring their own chairs.
There will be inflatable air games and activities, prizes and giveaways.
The Block Party co-chairs are Gary Van Zinderen, UJ dean of students, and Erin Paulson of the Downtown Jamestown Association, a financial adviser with Edward Jones.
Jamestown (CSi) Traffic detours will remain in place through the weekend in Jamestown..
Traffic traveling down 5th Avenue, hospital hill, will detour around work to replace a barrel-shaped catch basin under the street. The catch basin, part of the storm-sewer system, that recently collapsed.
The concrete needs to cure before the detour is removed which could happen on Monday.
Travelers using 2nd Street Northeast, the east-and-west street over the viaduct, are also detouring after a old manhole collapsed.
The detour around that project will also remain up through the weekend and may come down Monday, weather permitting.
Work on a third emergency project in the 200 block of 6th Avenue Northeast was completed earlier this week.
Meanwhile, the planned work is expected to begin on chip sealing and other pavement repairs in northwest Jamestown next week. This work is part of a routine maintenance cycle for street work in Jamestown. Homeowners in that area will be advised as to when the work is scheduled and will be required to have vehicles off the street.
Jamestown (CSi) Authorities Wednesday morning were investigating a one vehicle accident that occurred about mid-morning on 17th Street Southwest, approaching the I-94 westbound on-ramp. The pickup was pulling a flatbed trailer hauling an air condition unit and a skid-steer loader, when the unit went out of control, and ended up in the ditch between the highway and the frontage road.
Jamestown (CSi) James River Family Fitness in Jamestown is offering a “free week,” where residents may look over the facility and ask questions free of charge.
On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSI Cable 2, Executive Director Frank Conlon added that the free week is August 31-Sept 4, 2015, and includes tours.
Then on September 1st there will be an ice cream social at the facility’s Learning Center, including meeting the new director.
Conlon pointed out that James River Family Fitness is now offering new youth and adult fitness classes.
Age brackets are set up for youth 8-12 years old, and 13 and older.
Those include, Yoga for Youth 11 and older, plus Zumba for those 8-13 years old.
With Adult Classes, a new seniors Cardio Circuit will be set up.
Battle Ropes is now, “Total Training,” still including Battle Ropes and more.
Conlon added that James River Family Fitness will have a booth at Thursday evening’s Community Block Party, downtown with brochures available along with give-aways.
He said that the Fall Classes will start August 31, 2015.
Jamestown (CSi) A number of alumni and students at the University of Jamestown are complaining about an event entitled “Homosexuality: Speaking God’s Truth In Love,” an event being held on campus September 12, 2015.
A newspaper article prompted individuals to debate the controversial issues of homosexuality and some are stating that the University of Jamestown appears to be sponsoring the event. Which is not the case.
Tena Lawrence with the University released this official statement from the University on the event.
“The University of Jamestown is not a sponsor of the September 12, 2015 event organized and advertised by Concordia Lutheran and Victory Lutheran Churches. The University of Jamestown has a history of leasing the Reiland Fine Arts and other campus facilities to long standing community organizations. The rental agreement should not be construed as an endorsement of the event. The University fully supports diversity on our campus.”
The event is described an “exploration of the Biblical view of homosexuality.
Pastors Shawn Bowman and Tom Eckstein are sponsors of this event.
Pastor Shawn Bowman is the moderator for the event.
Pastor Tom Eckstein is a speaker and he says that they only chose the Reiland Fine Arts Center as a place accessible not only to the community, but to the students as well.
Valley City (CSi) The Sheyenne Valley Friends of Animals will hold the “Walk & Wag-A-Thon,” on Sunday August 30, 2015 at Chatauqua Park, rain or shine.
Get pledge sheets at local businesses, or on line at www.sfvanimals.org
Set up teams, or walk as an individual, gather donations, and bring the collected pledge sheet on August 30th.
Free T-shirts for the first 50 participants that turn in pledges of $50 or more (Teams must turn in $25 per person to receive T-shirts for all team members, sizes are limited.)
Good Bags for all participants
Registration is at 1-p.m., the walk begins at 1:30-p.m.
Lunch will be provide with a free will donation.
Sign up for door prizes.
There will be food, music, door prizes, and animals.
Also Pet Portraits, Trail Trivia, Bark Bask Bone Hunt, Awesome Pet Tricks.
Pets participating in the walk must be current on their required vaccinations including rabies and distemper. Recommended vaccination Bordatella (Kennel Cough).
For more information call 701-845-5047.
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) – Criminal charges have been filed against a North Dakota man who was driving a boat that was involved in a fatal crash earlier this month.
Authorities allege Thomas Burns, of Grand Forks, was intoxicated during the early hours of Aug. 9, when he was driving a boat on Devils Lake that struck a tree about 30 yards from shore while traveling at over 30 mph.
Burns has been charged with felony manslaughter, felony reckless endangerment and boating under the influence.
Twenty-six-year-old April Stenger, of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, was killed. Three other passengers were injured in the crash.
Authorities say Burns registered a blood alcohol level that was more than double the legal limit.
Burns was arrested Wednesday. Court records don’t list an attorney for Burns.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – A man charged in a shooting at a Minot restaurant pleaded guilty earlier this year to a felony aggravated assault charge.
Twenty-nine-year-old Justin Walker faces reckless endangerment and weapons charges in the Sunday shooting inside and outside an Applebee’s restaurant. Court documents don’t list an attorney for him.
Walker is on probation for an April incident in which police say he knocked another man unconscious. Walker pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year in jail will all suspended but five days. He was put on probation for two years and ordered to perform community service.
Walker turned himself in Monday in the incident at Applebee’s that police say was sparked by a disagreement among people sitting at a table. No one was hurt.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Federal prosecutors say the sentence for a man convicted by a North Dakota jury for leading a Jamaican lottery scam should reflect the “severe mental anguish” he caused his victims.
Authorities say Sanjay Williams, of Montego Bay, Jamaica, was a “lead broker” who bought and sold “sucker lists” of potential victims. He was found guilty in May of conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering.
The sentencing memorandum says one witness testified that Williams threatened to rape her daughters and kill her son, and at least one victim committed suicide “after suffering greatly.”
The investigation began with a North Dakota woman who was duped out more than $300,000.
Williams faces a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison. Sentencing is Oct. 5.
A defense attorney could not be reached for comment.
MCGREGOR, N.D. (AP) – A Wildrose man who died after his car collided with a semitrailer at an intersection of two state highways in rural Williams County, has been identified.
The Highway Patrol says 72-year-old James Cain failed to yield at the intersection of Highways 50 and 40 south of McGregor on Tuesday afternoon. He died at the scene.
Both vehicles went into the ditch after the crash. The patrol says a utility pole was damaged, cutting electricity to some rural areas.
The driver of the semi was not hurt.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A statewide enforcement effort in July resulted in hundreds of citations for seat belt and child restraint violations and speeding. North Dakota’s Transportation Department says 48 law agencies including the Highway Patrol took part, working overtime paid for with federal dollars.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s newest high school is open for business.
Classes began Thursday at Legacy High School in Bismarck, which hosts 800 students. Principal Tom Schmidt says the school has modern features that will enhance learning.
Legacy is Bismarck’s third high school. Ground was broken in September 2013 for the 289,000-square-foot, $56 million school.
Bismarck voters in 2012 overwhelmingly approved an $86.5 million bond issue to build the new high school and two elementary schools to deal with crowding problems and anticipated enrollment growth.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – The University of North Dakota aviation program notched a milestone when three pilots from the school navigated an unmanned aircraft at a public airport.
The test at a remote airport in northeastern North Dakota was meant primarily to test radio systems on the drone. The project is being conducted through the Northern Plains UAS Test Site, one of six federally funded sites in the United States.
UND aviation researcher Andrew Regenhard supervised the flight. He says UND drone pilots have trained extensively on simulators, but the actual flight had “finer aspects” that can’t be duplicated in a classroom.
Regenhard says the test is a steppingstone to more meaningful research in the future.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – After a record year at North Dakota’s state-owned flour mill, its chief executive is getting a bonus of more than $63,000.
North Dakota’s Industrial Commission approved the bonus for Vance Taylor on Wednesday. The bonus is based on a percentage of his fiscal year 2015 salary of almost $221,000. His salary this year is about $241,000.
The Grand Forks mill has about 135 employees. The mill recently reported a $16.7 million profit for the year ending June 30. That was up about 25 percent from the previous year.
Employees at the mill last month received an average annual bonus of about $13,400.
The mill makes bakery flour for bread and baked goods, as well as semolina and durum flour, which are used to manufacture pasta.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Park district officials in Fargo are giving a group of volunteers a chance to try a non-lethal method to keep beaver colonies from chopping down and killing trees along the Red River.
The Park Board Facility Committee has agreed to allow volunteers to protect trees from harm by using an abrasive paint that beavers dislike.
The Fargo Park District caused an uproar in April when it announced its plans to trap and kill the beavers. Some residents organized and even started an online petition to convince officials to alter their plans.
Officials are targeting two parks along the river. Committee member Joel Vettel says the park district still plans to trap beavers in one park, and if the volunteer effort doesn’t show results, the trapping will expand.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – The effort to remove debris from the chronically flooded Rice Lake is moving ahead, but it’s costing Ward County a lot more in engineering fees than first anticipated.
HDR Engineering of Bismarck is administering the cleanup and applying for federal disaster funding. The company was promised $50,000 but said this week it needs another $75,000. The county Water Resource Board voted to approve the increase.
Rice Lake has risen five straight years, causing more than $3 million in losses. The county earlier this summer warned lake property owners to clean up their flooded lots or authorities would do it for them.
Many homeowners have cleaned up their lots, but there has been no action on about 10 properties. The county will contract the work and charge the property owners.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s top energy regulator says oil drillers are unlikely to meet targets that require reducing the amount of natural gas that is burned off as a byproduct of the state’s oil production.
State Mineral Resources Director Lynn Helms told North Dakota’s Industrial Commission on Wednesday that problems with federal permits and land access permission for planned pipelines will make reaching new capturing goals “essentially impossible.”
Data show the industry is capturing 82 percent of the natural gas at present. The industry is required to capture 85 percent by Jan. 1
Helms recommended the industry be given until Oct. 1, 2016, to meet the threshold. But the Commission took no action.
Gov. Jack Dalrymple, who heads the panel, says more information is needed on why the goals won’t be met.
In sports…
The Jamestown Blue Jay volleyball team is picked by the coaches to finish second, this season in the WDA.
Bismarck Century is picked to finish first, the Patriots have reached the state title match in each of the past four seasons.
In 2013, Jamestown won the state championship and reached the WDA tournament championship for a second consecutive year falling to Century.
This year Meghan Orr is the only contributor for the state title team still with the Jays.
Jamestown will open their conference season on Tuesday at Bismarck High, but first will compete in the Bismarck Invite this weekend and get a chance to play shortened matches against EDC schools.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Game and Fish Department over the past two years has stocked more than 20 million walleye fingerlings in lakes in the state.
Fisheries Chief Greg Power says about 10.4 million walleye were stocked in 2014, setting a state record. This year’s total was about 10 million, just under the record. But the 5.3 million fingerlings stocked into smaller water bodies was a new high.
Officials say an improvement in habitat and forage since the 2011 Missouri River flood also has boosted the condition of walleye in the river and its Lake Sakakawea and Lake Oahe reservoirs.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Records show a subcontractor involved in a fatal accident at the Minnesota Viking stadium construction site has received numerous citations for violating safety standards at its worksites.
Berwald Roofing Co. has a $3.4 million contract for work at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. On Wednesday one of its employees was killed and another was injured at the construction site.
Public records show Berwald was received nine worksite citations for serious violations in the past five years – many for workers failing to use safety harnesses.
One of the owners, Eugene Berwald, says the company stresses safety, but can’t always control its workers’ actions, including failing to hook up their harnesses. Berwald says he doesn’t know if the employee who died, Jeramie Gruber, was wearing a safety lanyard.
AA…
Sioux Falls 6, Fargo-Moorhead 5
MLB…
INTERLEAGUE
Final Cleveland 6 Milwaukee 2
AMERICAN LEAGUE
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) – Eduardo Escobar homered twice as Minnesota beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-3 on Wednesday night for the Twins’ sixth consecutive win. The Twins are 6-3 entering the final game of a 10-game trip Thursday night. Escobar hit solo shots in the sixth and eighth innings. Rays starter Chris Archer took the loss.
Justin Verlander came within three outs of his third career no-hitter while pitching Detroit past the Los Angeles Angels 5-0. The gem ended when Chris Iannetta (eye-ah-NET’-uh) led off the top of the ninth with a double, but Verlander’s one-hit shutout was more than enough to drop the Angels six games behind the AL West-leading Astros.
Final Houston 6 N-Y Yankees 2
Final Seattle 8 Oakland 2
Final Toronto 12 Texas 4
Final Baltimore 8 Kansas City 5
Final Boston 3 Chi White Sox 0
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final N-Y Mets 9 Philadelphia 4
Final San Diego 6 Washington 5
Final Colorado 6 Atlanta 3
Final L.A. Dodgers 7 Cincinnati 4
Final Pittsburgh 7 Miami 2
Final St. Louis 3 Arizona 1
Final San Francisco 4 Chi Cubs 2
WNBA BASKETBALL
Final Los Angeles 81 Indiana 79
LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES…
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) – Lewisberry, Pennsylvania, and Japan have advanced to the bracket championship games at the Little League World Series. Lewisberry shut out Pearland, Texas, 3-0 to earn a meeting against either Pearland or Bonita, California, in Saturday’s United States championship game. Japan moved on with a 5-4 decision over Venezuela and will take on Mexico or Venezuela for the International title.
MLB…
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) – The Minnesota Twins have put right-hander J.R. Graham on the 15-day disabled list with right shoulder inflammation one day after he earned his first major league win. Minnesota also reinstated reliever Blaine Boyer from the 15-day DL prior to Wednesday night’s game against Tampa Bay. Boyer had missed 15 games due to right elbow inflammation.
NFL…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The St. Louis Rams could be a little closer to returning to Los Angeles after Missouri’s legislative budget leaders said they oppose spending taxpayer money on a new football stadium. House Budget Chairman Tom Flanigan sent a letter Wednesday to Gov. Jay Nixon warning that he will block any effort to put money in the state budget for payments on a new stadium unless the Legislature or voters first approve the additional debt. Nixon and the St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority are working to piece together money for a new stadium as a counterproposal to efforts by Rams owner Stan Kroenke (KRAHN’-kee) to move the team to the Los Angeles area.
Rex Grossman has been signed by the Atlanta Falcons to compete for the backup quarterback job behind Matt Ryan. Grossman, who hasn’t thrown an NFL pass since 2011, helped Chicago go 13-3 in 2006 and reach the Super Bowl. He’s 26-22 in his career since getting drafted in the first round 12 years ago.
NHL-MAKI OBIT…
TORONTO (AP) – Longtime Chicago Blackhawks right wing Ron “Chico” Maki has died at 76.
Maki appeared in three All-Star games during a 15-year NHL career spent entirely with the Hawks. He helped Chicago reach the 1971 and ’73 finals after appearing in one playoff game with the 1961 Stanley Cup champs.
Maki had 143 goals and 435 points in 841 regular-season games from 1961-76.
In world and national news…
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) – WDBJ-TV in Roanoke, Virginia has observed a moment of silence on air for its two journalists who were killed in a shooting during a live interview. Yesterday at 6:45 a.m. was the time when reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were killed by a former employee who had been fired. Gunman Vester Lee Flanagan, who went by Bryce Williams on the air, then killed himself.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Labor Department reports this morning on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week. Economists surveyed by the data firm FactSet predict that 2,000 fewer people applied for unemployment last week than the week before, to a seasonally adjusted 275,000.
BEIJING (AP) – Wall Street investors are hoping for another good day. Yesterday, the Dow closed up more than 600 points, and Dow Jones and S&P futures are up. China’s main stock index surged 5.3 percent Thursday, its biggest gain in eight weeks.
UNDATED (AP) – Migrants are continuing to flow into parts of Europe at record numbers. Police in Hungary say they detained more than 3,200 migrants yesterday, 700 more than the day before, and the highest number so far. Many are from Syria. Britain says it gained almost 330,000 people through migration during the 12 months ending March 31. It’s Britain’s highest figure on record.
VIENNA (AP) – Police in Austria say at least 20 migrants have been found dead in a truck on a highway leading from the Hungarian border. Police say the bodies were discovered a day earlier in the truck, which was parked on the shoulder of the highway.
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