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Jamestown (CSi) The annual Patriot’s Day, Freedom Walk will be held in Jamestown on Friday September 11, 2015, starting at 5:30-p.m., from the All Vets Club.

The community is invited to join in the short walk through downtown Jamestown and back to the All Vets Club, where a free supper will be served.

There will be a short program honoring our first responders, and the men and women serving our country, in the Armed Forces and the National Guard.

The Guest Speaker will be North Dakota District 12 Democratic State Representative Jessica Haak.

Jamestown (CSi)  The Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corporation is now accepting resumes for Board of Directors positions. Anyone interested in serving on this Board should send their resume to:

JSDC PO Box 293 Jamestown, ND 58402-0293

Or e-mail resume to Connie Ova at connie@growingjamestown.com. Resumes must be received by September 18th, 2015.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The 3rd Annual Jamestown Zombie Crawl has been scheduled for September 19, 2015, with a format change.

Th event changes from a Pub Crawl into more of a family event.

Co-Host of the event Johnny Jerome stated that the change came in order to allow more people to attend the event.

The event will encourage participants to dress up as zombies and will raise money to be donated to the James River Humane Society.

No registration is required and the event will begin at 5:00 PM at the REALTRUCK parking lot.

Click here to visit their Facebook page.

 

Bismarck  (CSi)  The NDDOT informs motorists that the Edgeley Rest Area on Highway 281, nine miles north of Edgeley, will be temporarily closed Tuesday, September 8 and Wednesday, September 9 for maintenance work.

 

Valley City (CSi)  VCSU reports that Tisa Mason, Ed.D., will be inaugurated as Valley City State University’s 13th president on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, at 3 p.m. in the W.E. Osmon Fieldhouse on the VCSU campus.

A 4:30 p.m. reception at Epworth United Methodist Church, adjacent to the fieldhouse, will follow the inauguration ceremony.

A tree-planting ceremony in honor of President Mason will take place in front of McFarland Hall on the VCSU campus on Friday, Oct. 2, at 1:30 p.m.

The inauguration events are open to the public free of charge.

Mason was appointed VCSU president by the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education at its meeting on the VCSU campus Oct. 30, 2014, and she began her work at VCSU on Dec. 15, 2014. She succeeded Steven Shirley, now president of Minot State University.

Mason came to Valley City from Hays, Kan., where she served as vice president for student affairs at Fort Hays State University. She previously served as dean of student life at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater in Whitewater, Wis.; executive director of the Sigma Kappa Sorority and Foundation in Indianapolis, Ind.; director of student life and assistant professor at Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Va.; and assistant dean of students, Hanover College, Hanover, Ind.

A frequent speaker on leadership, student involvement, adult learners, and fraternities and sororities on college campuses, she is a member of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and former president, treasurer and board member of the Center for the Study of the College Fraternity.

In 2013, Mason received the Robert H. Shaffer Award from the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors for her long-term commitment to fostering positive change in fraternities and sororities. She received the Excellence in Service to Students Award from the National Society of Leadership and Success in the same year.

Her academic credentials include a Doctor of Education degree in higher education from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.; a Master of Science degree in education from Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Ill., and a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology/anthropology from Transylvania University in Lexington, Ky. Her dissertation at William and Mary was “The Commuters’ Alma Mater: Profiles of College Student Experiences at a Commuter Institution.” She has also earned the professional credential of Certified Association Executive (CAE).

She and her husband, Bill Mason, make their home in Valley City.

President Mason’s inauguration is part of VCSU’s homecoming week and 125th anniversary celebration. More information can be found at www.vcsu.edu/inauguration.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Fargo police say members of a local street gang burned and assaulted a man while holding him captive for four days.

The  man showed up Wednesday morning at Nativity Catholic Church and told a priest that he feared for his life. Lt. Mike Mitchell says the victim escaped from a south Fargo apartment where he was being held by members of the Latin Kings.

Mitchell says the attack on the man was retribution for violating the gang’s expectations.

Thirty-one-year-old Alberto Cuellar is charged with felony kidnapping and aggravated assault. A message left with his public defender was not immediately returned.

Fargo Police Chief Dave Todd says the Latin Kings have been trying to establish presence in the Fargo area this summer.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – The Highway Patrol has identified a man who died while operating a compacting machine in a construction zone on a Williams County road.

Authorities say 63-year-old Stephen Smith, of Williston, drove the vehicle too close to the edge of the roadway, and it slid into the ditch and rolled.

Smith died at the scene about 15 miles northwest of Williston, shortly after 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Smith was an employee of Bituminous Paving, Inc., a Minnesota-based company.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A federal judge in North Dakota says his injunction blocking a new Obama administration rule aimed at regulating some small waterways applies only in the 13 states that sued to block the rule.

U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson issued his ruling Friday. It was meant to clarify his temporary injunction last week that was requested by North Dakota and 12 other states to stop the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers from regulating some small streams, tributaries and wetlands under the Clean Water Act.

The EPA had maintained that the injunction applied only to the 13 states and said it was beginning to enforce the rule elsewhere. Lawyers for the states argued it applied nationwide.

The states joining North Dakota in the lawsuit are Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota and Wyoming.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota University System Chancellor Mark Hagerott is launching a new initiative aimed at recruiting the often transient oilfield workers to degree programs, and in the process, keep them living in the state.

The program is called Bakken U. Haggerott says he came up with the idea when talking with tech-savvy rig workers while touring western North Dakota last month.

The plan is to tap academic programs from five colleges in the region, so oil patch workers can earn college degrees now that low crude prices have put many of them in limbo.

Hagerott says he hopes to get businesses that will benefit from the added workforce to sponsor scholarships and grants. He says that even with the oil slowdown, there are about 35,000 job openings around the state.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says he is seeking to dissolve the financially troubled independent foundation that supports Dickinson State University.

Stenehjem said Friday that he filed legal action in Stark County District Court seeking to dissolve the Dickinson State University Foundation. The attorney general’s complaint comes after a court-appointed receiver for the foundation issued a report last month calling for it to be dissolved because of financial issues.

The foundation was put into receivership last year after Stenehjem announced that the group’s financial records were in “disarray.” Stenehjem outlined several concerns, including a dispute in which a judge ordered the foundation to pay a building developer about $1.7 million.

Stenehjem says he is working with the school to create a new foundation.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The Burleigh County and Bismarck park boards are negotiating a contract that would turn over management of the county fairgrounds and several boat ramps to the city.

The  Burleigh County Park Board approved drafting a contract for a management plan that could include the Steckel, Kneifel, Kimball Bottoms and McLean boat ramps, as well as Swenson Park below the University of Mary and the Missouri Valley Complex.

County Commissioner Kathleen Jones says no final decision has been made.

Jones says she supports the move because Bismarck’s park district has been successful in running McDowell Dam for the Burleigh County Water Resource District.

The management agreement would cost the county about $430,000.

 

In sports…

UNDATED (AP) – A year ago, new Wyoming coach Craig Bohl vowed to field a team that was “Cowboy tough” and disciplined.

In year two, Bohl is talking about adding speed and athleticism.

When Wyoming hosts Football Championship Subdivision opponent North Dakota on Saturday at War Memorial Stadium, Cowboy fans will see some familiar names playing different roles, more than a dozen freshmen and a new quarterback.

It’s all part of the effort to bring more speed and athleticism to the field.

Cameron Coffman will be making his first start at quarterback for Wyoming after transferring from Indiana.

Bohl says playing more athletic freshmen will be a part of his goal of continual improvement in the team. Another part is moving some players to new positions to improve speed on defense.

 

In world and national news…

FOX LAKE, Ill. (AP) – Authorities investigating the slaying of a northern Illinois police officer say they’ve received several more videos from residents and businesses. A commander with a major crime task force says he thinks the new videos are “even more relevant” than one received earlier in the week. Some of the new videos came from intersection traffic cameras. Authorities hope the videos will offer investigators a detailed description of the three suspects they’re seeking. Police Lt. Charles Gliniewicz (GLIHN’-uh-wihts) was slain Tuesday in the village of Fox Lake, about 45 miles north of Chicago.

ISTANBUL (AP) – Turkey’s state-run news agency says four suspected human traffickers detained in connection with the drowning of 12 migrants face charges of smuggling and involuntary manslaughter. The 12 who drowned included the 3-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi, whose haunting image highlighted the plight of migrants. He died along with his 5-year-old brother and their mother when their small rubber boat capsized as it headed for Greece. The three were buried today in Kobani, northern Syria – the hometown they had fled.

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) – The World Food Program says it has had to drop one-third of Syrian refugees from its aid program in Mideast host countries this year, including more than 200,000 in Jordan who lost aid this month. The cutbacks were made necessary by funding shortages. And they come at a time when more desperate Syrians are trying to reach Europe.

WASHINGTON (AP) – It looks like President Barack Obama will have to use his veto pen on a resolution of disapproval of the nuclear deal with Iran. Supporters had hoped to have the 41 votes to prevent a vote — but the effort was dealt a setback Friday when Maryland Democrat Ben Cardin announced he’s opposed to the deal. Supporters still have enough votes to sustain Obama’s veto.

MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) – At least three gay couples have received marriage licenses Friday in Kentucky’s Rowan County. Meanwhile, the clerk who had refused to issue those licenses remains in jail. Outside the courthouse, supporters of the same-sex couples cheered, while a street preacher rained down words of condemnation. The licenses were issued only after five of Kim Davis’ deputy clerks agreed to hand them out. The only one who wouldn’t was her son, Nathan Davis.