wbPM2CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS AROUND 60. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.SATURDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 90S. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 60S. SOUTH WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH.
.SUNDAY…SUNNY…BREEZY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 90S. SOUTH WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH INCREASING TO 20 TO 25 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE MID 60S.
.MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S.
HIGHS IN THE MID 80S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S.

 SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY
 
 TEMPERATURES IN THE 90S…MINIMUM RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES OF
 AROUND 15 PERCENT…WITH BREEZY CONDITIONS COULD CREATE FIRE
 WEATHER CONCERNS ACROSS WESTERN NORTH DAKOTA ON SATURDAY.
 
 ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH
 THURSDAY.

 

Valley City (CSi) The LET’S WALK VALLEY CITY event is coming soon! It’s a FREE event on Saturday, September 12, 2015, from 9 am to 1 pm. There will be fun for all ages – with games, activities, free food, giveaways and prizes. The event will introduce participants to the walking paths and new people in Valley City.

Join the fun and start at the registration tables at either Jefferson Elementary or at Pioneer Park. Some activities along the paths include yoga with Janice Berg from “Find the Balance” studio, sidewalk chalk with Circle of Friends preschool staff, Barnes County Ambulance tours, jumping rope with Sanford physician, Dr. Misty Anderson, shooting a hockey puck into a net with hockey club members, watching gymnastic demos by the Valley Twisters and much more.

Giveaways galore…including foldable Frisbees, jump ropes, lip balm, flying discs, stress balls, and insect repellent to name a few.

Tasty snacks will be available and will include fruit and yogurt parfaits and chocolate milk. Carly the Giant Carrot will be handing out baby carrots and Amy the Giant Apple will be giving out apples.

There will also be drawings for fantastic prizes! Each attendee will receive a passport with a map at the registration tables. As they visit each activity along the path, they will receive a sticker for their passport. Passports with 10 stickers will be eligible for prize drawings.

Prizes include a $100 pair of ASICS GT1000 tennis shoes donated by Bong’s Bootery, a FIT BIT donated by CHI Mercy Health, a boy’s bike donated by Handy Hardware, a girl’s bike donated by ON THE MOVE and a one month family Fitness Center pass from Valley City Park and Rec Dept.

“We invite everyone of all ages to come out on Valley City’s shared use paths to walk, bike, run, jog or skateboard on Saturday, Sept. 12! Exercise is like medicine…FREE medicine!” states Sharon Buhr, Barnes ON THE MOVE Partnership chair. Regular physical activity has been shown to reduce the risks of developing many types of chronic disease such as hypertension, stroke, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis and many forms of cancer.

The Barnes ON THE MOVE (OTM) Partnership is excited to announce they have received $3000 in grant funds from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota (BCBSND) Rural “Official Sponsor of Recess” Program to sponsor the Let’s Walk Valley City event.

The purpose of the BCBSND Official Sponsor of Recess Grant Program is to serve and show benefit to rural North Dakotans and their health needs, and raise awareness for the need for all ages to engage in more daily, physical activity and overall wellness.

If any individual or organization would like to have a booth or for more information, contact Sharon Buhr or Andrea Winter at CHI Mercy Health at 845-6456.

　

Washington (CSi) Senator John Hoeven has announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded a total of $1,302,762 to the City of Kindred, Golden Valley County Airport Authority, Hillsboro Municipal Airport Authority, Jamestown Regional Airport Authority and Oakes Municipal Airport Authority.

“North Dakota’s airports play a major role in our state’s economic success,” Hoeven said. “These grants will go towards funding improvements at airports across the state, which will help them to meet our growing transportation needs.”

The funds are awarded as follows:

· City of Kindred – $146,940 – To fund panel replacement on the runway, maintain the structural integrity of the pavement and minimize foreign object debris at Robert Odegaard Field Airport.

· City of Kindred – $117,000 – To fund an environmental assessment to evaluate any potential environmental impacts related to drainage improvements at Robert Odegaard Field Airport.

· Golden Valley Airport Authority – $200,902 – To maintain the structural integrity of the runway pavement, construct a 200 foot taxiway to provide access to aircraft hangers, rehabilitate the apron and improve access to the public terminal area snow removal building at Beach Airport.

· Hillsboro Municipal Airport Authority – $734,604 – To fund the acquisition of land for development at Hillsboro Municipal Airport.

· Jamestown Regional Airport Authority – $50,000 – To fund the design phase of reconstruction for the existing taxiway pavement that has reached the end of its useful life at Jamestown Regional Airport.

· Oakes Municipal Airport Authority – $53,316 – To fund reimbursement for the mill and overlay to the existing access road to Oakes Municipal Airport.

As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senator Hoeven works to support programs that invest in infrastructure and other services to meet the needs of North Dakota’s growing population and commerce.

 

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Minot police have arrested a second suspect in a shooting at a restaurant.
 
     Police say they arrested a 20-year-old man on a reckless endangerment charge about 12:30 a.m. Friday. Formal charges were pending.
 
     Authorities say the man was in a vehicle stopped for a traffic violation, and they believe he was on his way to the police department to turn himself in.
 
     No one was hurt in the Sunday shooting inside and outside an Applebee’s restaurant. Police say it was sparked by a disagreement among people sitting at a table.
 
     Police earlier arrested 29-year-old Justin Walker on reckless endangerment and weapons charges, and were looking for two other men, including the one who was recently arrested. Police say they also tracked down the third man Wednesday and questioned him.

 

MAKOTI, N.D. (AP) – Authorities have released the name of a 26-year-old Plaza woman killed in a two-vehicle collision on a Ward County gravel road.
 
     The North Dakota Highway Patrol says Brittany Westman was driving a car that was struck by an oncoming pickup truck that lost control while passing two vehicles.
 
     The woman driving the pickup, 33-year-old Cocoa Cummings, of New Town, was taken to a Minot hospital with injuries after the crash shortly before 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.

 

 WEST FARGO, N.D. (AP) – West Fargo police say a 41-year-old Horace man was hospitalized with non-life threating injuries after he was catapulted out of a boom truck bucket.
 
     Police say James Morrissette Sr., who works for a tree care company, was attempting to pick up a large log with a rope attached to the bucket on Thursday afternoon. When Morrissette had the log picked up with boom, which was about 20 feet in the air, the rope snapped and catapulted him to the ground.
 
     When police responded to the medical call at the mobile home park, they found Morrissette lying on the ground. He was taken to Sanford Health Care for treatment.

 

FLASHER, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s first crop of jet fuel is showing promise.
 
     Farmers in the western part of the state this year planted 6,000 acres of a mustard seed variety known as carinata for Canadian seed producer Agrisoma Biosciences.
 
     The crop can be made into jet fuel. One potential customer is the Navy.
 
     About one-fourth of the crop has now been harvested. Company spokesman Garret Groves says yields are slightly above average despite extreme heat some of the fields endured.
 
     The company has a goal of 50,000 acres next year. Agrisoma likely will start signing contracts in October through the end of November.

 

 MANFRED, N.D. (AP) – Officials are using a State Historical Society Cultural Heritage Grant to help restore an old schoolhouse in the town of Manfred.
 
     The  schoolhouse in the town on U.S. Highway 2 east of Harvey was built in 1910. It’s among several buildings that essentially make the town a living museum.
 
     Members of Manfred History and Preservation Inc. are dedicated to preserving the history of the town and showing visitors what life was like in a prairie village in the early 20th century.
 
     Once the schoolhouse restoration has been completed, one classroom will be set up to represent a classroom of by-gone years and the other classroom will exhibit the history of the Manfred Public School District that dates to the late 1890s.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – National and regional experts on behavioral health are gathering in Bismarck next week.
 
     The North Dakota Department of Human Services’ fall 2015 Behavioral Health Conference is scheduled for Sept. 1-3 at the Best Western Ramkota Hotel.
 
     The conference will feature experts who will address stigma and share information and training on evidence-based services, clinical practices and integrated ways to promote awareness, prevention, intervention and treatment. 
 
     Behavioral Health Division Director Pam Sagness says behavioral health is an important part of overall wellness, and the conference is an opportunity to discuss integrated services and effective strategies for recovery.
 
     She says that thousands of North Dakotans have behavioral health needs, and family members, friends, co-workers and others are also affected.

 

In sports…

　MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) – Longtime sports broadcaster Brent Musburger, who grew up in Billings, will call the season-opening football game between Montana and four-time defending FCS champion North Dakota State in Missoula.

The FCS battle will be aired on ESPN  CSi Cable 14, starting at 1:30 p.m. on Aug.29, 2015, and marks the start of the football season as part of the network’s second annual FCS Kickoff.

First-year Montana football coach Bob Stitt said Musburger called him recently to let him know that he and color commentator Jesse Palmer will call the game.

Musburger has called seven BCS National Championship games, including the last five.

 Last year’s season opener against Iowa State was a signature performance for North Dakota State quarterback Carson Wentz, who led the Bison back from a 14-0 deficit to beat the Cyclones and then took them to their fourth straight Football Championship Subdivision title. Wentz guides the Bison into Saturday’s season opener at Montana, but NDSU coach Chris Klieman is looking for others to come of age as well.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – University of North Dakota President Robert Kelley says going forward as just “North Dakota” will not be an option when people affiliated with the university vote on a new nickname.

A committee in July submitted five potential nicknames that didn’t include “North Dakota.” That prompted people who want no nickname to make angry social media postings and organize a petition drive and a protest.

Kelley says “North Dakota” is an identity that already exists – not a nickname.

The five nickname options are Roughriders, North Stars, Fighting Hawks, Nodaks and Sundogs. Online voting will be held for about a week in mid-October.

UND has been without a nickname the last three years after the state Board of Higher Education retired the controversial Fighting Sioux moniker that the NCAA deemed offensive.

　

In world and national news…

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – A former senior at a New Hampshire prep school who was accused of raping a 15-year-old freshman now faces up to seven years in prison on the most serious charge for which he was convicted. Nineteen-year-old Owen Labrie was acquitted Friday of three felony rape charges but convicted of three sexual assault charges and one count of endangering the welfare of a child — all misdemeanors. He was also convicted of a felony charge of using a computer to lure a minor for sexual contact. He wept after the verdict was read. He had said that he and the girl had consensual sexual contact.
 
     MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Hillary Rodham Clinton is insisting she is the Democratic party’s standard-bearer in next year’s election, even as Vice President Joe Biden considers challenging her and Sen. Bernie Sanders draws big crowds. Pointing to big losses in the 2010 mid-term elections, Clinton says the party can’t allow that to happen again and must rebuild “from the ground up.” She spoke to the Democratic National Committee meeting in Minneapolis.
 
     ROANOKE, Va. (AP) – The survivor of Wednesday’s shooting that killed two TV station employees in Virginia is thinking of the families of the two slain journalists. According to her boss, when Vicki Gardner awoke from surgery Thursday, her first communication with her family was concern for the families of Alison Parker and Adam Ward. They were killed by a former employee of the station as they interviewed Gardner, who is with a local chamber of commerce. The head of the chamber says Gardner continues to improve.
 
     VIENNA (AP) – Stories of death and desperation are continuing to emerge from Europe’s migrant crisis. Police in Austria say 71 people appear to have suffocated in the back of an abandoned truck. And an estimated 200 people are believed to have drowned off of Libya when two overloaded boats capsized. So far this year, more than 300,000 people have tried to cross the Mediterranean, as European authorities struggle with the largest influx since World War II. Many are fleeing war or persecution in countries including Syria, Afghanistan and Eritrea.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. military says an Islamic State group hacker who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Syria had been recruiting sympathizers in the West to carry out “lone wolf” terrorist attacks. A spokesman for Central Command, Air Force Col. Patrick Ryder, told reporters at the Pentagon Friday that the hacker also was responsible for the recent release of identifying information on about 1,300 U.S. military and government employees, and that he tried to inspire violence against U.S. service members.