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CSi Weather…
REST OF TODAY…SUNNY. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE
AFTERNOON IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. HIGHS AROUND 90. NORTHWEST WINDS 10 TO
15 MPH.
.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 60S. NORTH WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. EAST WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, A 40 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. LOWS IN THE MID 60S. EAST WINDS 15 TO
20 MPH.
.SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, A 50 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S. SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND
15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE WEST IN THE AFTERNOON.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS AROUND 60.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS AROUND 60.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT
CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. LOWS
AROUND 60.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.THURSDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S.
THERE IS ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY NIGHT FROM THE TURTLE MOUNTAINS SOUTH INTO THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY.
SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY
THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. SOME
THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL…DAMAGING
WINDS…AND POSSIBLY A FEW TORNADOES.
CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE INTO SUNDAY…MAINLY OVER
CENTRAL INTO EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA.
CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER VARIOUS PARTS OF THE AREA
FROM MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Fire Department was called to the 200 block of 15th Street Southwest, at 9:53 a.m. on Thursday. MDU was called to the scene, with three crews, as reports indicated a strong smell of natural gas in the area.
Reports indicate that a landscaping company was digging in the backyard of the home at 220 15th Street Southwest when the natural gas line was struck.
The fire department was standing by at the scene while MDU assesses the situation and locating a shut off feeding the line.
The homeowner was contacted to ventilate the home after the gas line was pinched off.
Lt. Sheldon Mohr says when the all-call went out, 29 city fire fighters were at the fire station on standby with six fire fighters and two city fire units sent to the scene.
Jamestown (CSi) The Stutsman County Relay for Life is Friday June 10 at the University of Jamestown Taylor Stadium from noon to midnight.
The Stutsman County Relay for Life Co-Event Chairs, Chelsey Francis and Amanda Thrift on the Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, said this year goal is to raise $100,000. So far, fundraisers throughout the year have brought in $67,000, so at least $33,000 is needed to reach this year’s goal.
Last year’s goal of $90,000 was reached, so this year another roughly $27,000 would match last year’s total.
A silent auction runs from 2-p.m., to 8-p.m.
They pointed out that on Friday, Jun 10th, volunteers are needed starting at 8-a.m., at UJ’s Taylor Stadium to help with set up of tents, and tables, along with placing luminaries around the track.
Help is also needed in assisting with parking in the stadium lot, and to keep the track and stadium picked up during and after the Relay.
Bismarck (CSi) The North Dakota Aeronautics Commission has awarded Jamestown Regional Airport with grant dollars to fund projects.
The Jetway Passenger Board Bridge project that totaled $126,820 was funded in a grant of $88,774, the requested amount, or 70 percent.
The Jamestown City Council this month passed a Resolution to approve the request from Jamestown Regional Airport for a loan from the City for up to 50% of $126,000 for five (5) years for the purchase of a Jet way passenger-boarding bridge for the airport.
The Terminal Secure Area Expansion was funded for $14,400, or 90-percent of the requested amount.
Other Jamestown projects funded included:
Wetland Reduction Phase II work at $62,500, or five percent of the total project costs.
The Wildlife Hazard Assessment was funded at $4,500, or five percent of the total project costs.
The West Hangar Taxilane Reconstruction at a cost of $183,000 was not funded.
The request was for $164,700.
The purchase of a New Operations/Maintenance Vehicle was not funded.
The total cost was $$40,000 with the request at $20,000.
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) – More than 25 professional kite flyers are expected in North Dakota this weekend for the 22nd annual Jamestown Kite Festival.
One of the founders of the festival, Mike Gee (jee), says the three-day outing is considered a “major event in the kiting world” and participants love coming to Jamestown.
Gee says a man from Aberdeen, South Dakota, plans to bring one of the largest kites in the country. It measures 30 by 60 feet.
The event runs Friday through Sunday. It is free and open to the public.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Transportation Department Motor Vehicle and Motor Carrier offices are closing temporarily for scheduled system maintenance.
Offices in Fargo and Rugby will be closed all day on Friday. All other offices around the state will shut down for the day at noon Central time.
All offices are scheduled to reopen for normal business hours on Monday.
The closure does not affect any driver’s license sites or Highway Patrol motor carrier services.
Valley City (CSi) Information has been released on the Watermain 98 Project in Valley City, as work begins next week involving street milling.
The areas include:
2nd Avenue NW from 7th St NW to 8th St NW
Central Avenue from Main St to 4th St S
2nd Avenue SE from 2nd St SE to 3rd St SE
4th Avenue SE from 2nd St SE to 4th St SE
2nd Street SE from Central Ave to 4th Ave SE
3rd Street SE from Central Ave to 4th Ave SE
Motorists are asked to park vehicles off the street in those areas.
Jamestown (CSi) The NDSU Stutsman County Extension Service office will be the location of a Livestock Risk Management workshop on Wednesday June 15, 2016. Registration is at 8:30-a.m., the workshop will begins at 9-a.m.
contact the Stutsman County Extension Office at 701-252-9030.
There will be information on Livestock Risk Protection Insurance and overview of Pasture Rangeland, Forage Insurance. Agent Alicia Harstad says those interested in learning more about the cattle markets or different insurance options should attend the free workshop.
Jamestown (CSi) The City of Jamestown has announced open positions on various city committees/boards
The city s currently accepting applications for:
One opening on the Special Assessment Commission–term to April 2017
One opening on the Planning Commission—5 year term
Anyone interested in serving on the above committees/boards should complete an “Application for Appointment”. The application may be obtained in person at City Hall, 102 3rd Ave SE, Jamestown, ND, by calling 701-252-5900 or online at jamestownnd.org and select government tab/city committees to download the form.
The application should be returned by July 10, 2015, to:
City of Jamestown
Attn: Appointments
102 3rd Avenue SE
Jamestown, ND 58401-4205
Valley City (CSi) The next, “What in the World is going on,” presentation will be with a book discussion, on Tuesday June 14, 2016 at 7-p.m., at The Vault, at 223 Central Avenue North in Valley City.
The program will provide participants in an informal setting the opportunity to briefly discuss a book they found worthwhile.
WISHEK, N.D. (AP) – Three people are dead after a small plane crashed south of Wishek.
The Highway Patrol said the four-seat plane crashed Thursday afternoon into May Lake while en route to Bismarck.
Authorities say complications during takeoff from Wishek’s airport resulted in the crash.
The 19-year-old pilot, a 10-year-old passenger and a 39-year-old passenger suffered fatal injuries.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the crash.
WATFORD CITY, N.D. (AP) – A Watford City man has been sentenced to serve 18 years in prison for sexually abusing two girls for nearly a decade.
Sixty-year-old Lance Foreman pleaded guilty in February to two counts of continuous sexual abuse of a child. He was sentenced this week during a hearing attended by the victims and their families.
One of the victims is now 16. She told a social worker that the abuse began when she was 5 and lasted until she was 14.
Foreman reached a plea deal that spared him the possibility of life in prison.
Defense attorneys said Foreman was abused as a child, though he did not offer that as an excuse.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has banned a Florida man’s sham credit card interest reduction operation from doing business in North Dakota.
Stenehjem said Thursday that Clarence “Harry” Wahl and his wife were leaving illegal pre-recorded messages with sham offers to lower consumers’ credit card interest rates.
The scams have been circulating in North Dakota for years. The phony offer requires a consumer to pay an advance fee to get a lower interest rate, but the scam artist simply takes the money.
Stenehjem says the con artists target people outside of their own state to stay ahead of authorities long enough to cash in.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Bismarck Police and the Burleigh County Sheriff’s Department are billing an oil industry group more than $13,000 for overtime the agencies spent during Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s visit to the capital city last month. Police put in a total of 272 overtime hours and the sheriff’s department had 76 hours in overtime costs providing security for the event.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A group studying North Dakota’s criminal justice system says probation and parole officers lack the necessary resources to effectively supervise people.
Research from the Council of State Governments Justice Center shows more than 1,000 people had probation revoked in 2014, adding to the prison population and driving up costs.
A survey of probation officers found nearly one-fourth weren’t confident that they could hold people accountable.
Project manager Katie Mosehauer says North Dakota jails are too full to take people for short, punitive sanctions. And treatment often requires a long wait, if it’s available at all.
Senior policy adviser Steve Allen says higher-risk offenders should get priority access to treatment, and jail space should be made available for people to serve short sentences for probation violations.
In sports….
Jamestown (CSi) The North Dakota Sports Hall of Fame Banquet and induction is at 5 p.m., Saturday, June 11, 2016, at the Jamestown Civic Center. Tickets are $30 per person or attendees can purchase a VIP table for six people for $250, which includes wine and dessert. To register, call 252-4835
Hank Biesiot, Travis Hafner, and Jocelyne and Monique Lamoureux will receive the Cliff Cushman Award as they are inducted into the North Dakota Sports Hall of Fame.
Cliff Cushman was Grand Forks native and 1960 Olympian who gave his life in the Vietnam War.
Hank Biesiot is a former American football player and college coach with over 200 career wins over 30 years. He was head football coach at Dickinson State university, from 1976 until his retirement in 2013.
Travis Hafner is a former major league baseball player, retiring in 2013. Born in Jamestown, he played as a designated hitter and first basemen for the Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians, and the New York Yankees. Hafner’s career batting average was .273 with 213 home runs.
Twin sisters Monique and Jocelyne Lamoureux are both American Ice Hockey players, born in Grand Forks.
They were the first set of twins to ever play women’s ice hockey in the Olympics. They both won a silver medal while playing on team USA’s hockey team.
AA..
Fargo-Moorhead 3, Winnipeg 2
MLB…
INTERLEAGUE
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Marcell Ozuna had four hits and three RBIs, and the Miami Marlins broke open the game with a seven-run seventh inning to beat the Minnesota Twins 10-3 on Thursday night.
Twins right-hander Phil Hughes had to be helped off the field in the ninth inning after taking a line drive off the bat of J.T. Realmuto off of his left knee.
Final Chi White Sox 3 Washington 1
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Final Texas 5 Houston 3
Final N-Y Yankees 6 L.A. Angels 3
Final Baltimore 6 Toronto 5
Final Cleveland 5 Seattle 3
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final Colorado 11 Pittsburgh 5
Final St. Louis 3 Cincinnati 2
Final N-Y Mets 5 Milwaukee 2
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
PITTSBURGH (AP) – The San Jose Sharks are still alive in the Stanley Cup Finals. Martin Jones made 44 saves and the Sharks captured a must-win Game 5 by beating the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-2 to cut the Pens’ lead in the series to 3-2 entering Sunday night’s Game 6 back in San Jose.
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Final Phoenix 90 San Antonio 75
ALI FUNERAL…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) – The first of two days of memorials to Muhammad Ali were held in his native Louisville.
A Muslim prayer service was held with more than 14,000 getting tickets for event in Ali’s hometown of Louisville. Some traveled thousands of miles to attend.
Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, boxing promoter Don King, former boxer Sugar Ray Leonard and Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, were among the high-profile guests in attendance.
An interfaith memorial service and funeral for the boxing champ will take place Friday.
LPGA: WOMEN’S PGA CHAMPIONSHIP…
SAMMAMISH, Wash. (AP) -Canada’s Brooke Henderson shot a 4-under 67 to grab the lead after the opening round of the Women’s PGA Championship.
She is two shots ahead of five others including Cristie Kerr and Christina Kim.
Defending champ Inbee Park became eligible for the LPGA Hall of Fame by completing the final requirement of 10 years on the tour. She’s five off the lead.
PGA-ST. JUDE CLASSIC…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – Tom Hoge (HOH’-gee), Shawn Stefani and South Korea’s Seung-Yul Noh share the clubhouse lead late in the first round of the St. Jude’s Classic in Memphis after 5-under 65s. Dustin Johnson is among those a shot off the pace. Johnson won this event in 2012.
CHAMPIONS TOUR…
FLOURTOWN, Pa. (AP) – Jay Don Blake shot a 2-under 68 to take the lead after the first round of the Constellation Senior Players Championship.
The 57-year-old won the last of his three senior titles in 2012.
He has a one-shot lead in the third Champions Tour major of the year, over Vijay Singh, Jeff Sluman, Brandt Jobe and Bart Bryant.
MLB-ROYALS-ORIOLES SUSPENSIONS…
NEW YORK (AP) – Kansas City pitcher Yordano Ventura has been suspended nine games and Baltimore third baseman Manny Machado has been penalized four games after their brawl earlier this week.
Major League Baseball has also fined each played an undisclosed amount.
Ventura and Machado both have appealed their suspensions and will continue to play until the process is complete.
Ventura hit Machado in the back with a 99 mph fastball in the fifth inning Tuesday night in Baltimore. Machado charged the mound and punched Ventura in the head as the benches emptied.
WIMBLEDON…
LONDON (AP) – The injured wrist that forced Rafael Nadal (rah-fay-ehl nah-DAHL’) to withdraw from the recently concluded French Open hasn’t gotten any better and he has announced that he will not be able to play at Wimbledon. The two-time Wimbledon champion says on his Facebook page that he made the decision after consulting with his doctor.
Nadal had already pulled out of next week’s Wimbledon grass-court warmup at Queen’s Club.
MLB DRAFT…
SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) – The Philadelphia Phillies have selected California high school outfielder Mickey Moniak with the No. 1 pick in the Major League Baseball draft.
Moniak, from La Costa Canyon High School in south Carlsbad, is the first prep outfielder to be taken first overall since Tampa Bay drafted Delmon Young in 2003.
It’s the first time the Phillies have led off the draft since they took Miami slugger Pat Burrell (BURL) in 1998.
The left-handed-hitting Moniak is 6-foot-2 and 190 pounds and is considered a five-tool talent.
Tennessee third baseman Nick Senzel went second to Cincinnati, giving the Reds a slugger who might someday provide pop in the middle of their lineup.
Senzel is the Volunteers’ highest-drafted player, surpassing Todd Helton, who went eighth overall in 1995.
Atlanta took high school right-hander Ian Anderson to round out the top three.
At No. 4, Colorado went with fireballing Kansas high school righty Riley Pint. The 6-4, 210-pound St. Thomas Aquinas High School star throws a fastball that sits in the mid-90s, but can crank it up to 100 mph.
Louisville outfielder Corey Ray was the fifth pick to Milwaukee.
Florida left-hander A.J. Puk, who was in the mix for the No. 1 pick, went sixth overall to Oakland.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL…
BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) – Basketball analyst Dick Vitale (vy-TAL’) has agreed to a one-year contract extension that will keep him at ESPN through his 40th season with the company. The deal will take the 77-year-old through the 2018-19 season. The former Detroit Pistons coach joined ESPN during the 1979-80 season, just after the operation’s September 1979 launch
He was involved in ESPN’s first college basketball broadcast and says he has worked more than 1,000 games since
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) -With the Afghan Taliban resurgent and refocusing their attention mostly on the southern provinces of Helmand, Kandahar and Uruzgan, the White House has decided it’s time to turn up the heat some more. Senior U.S. and defense officials say plans have been approved to expand the military’s authority to conduct airstrikes against the Taliban when necessary to better support and assist Afghan forces.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats appear to be marshalling their forces now that Hillary Clinton is the presumptive presidential nominee. Bernie Sanders says he’ll meet his Democratic rival to discuss ways to defeat Republican Donald Trump. Sanders hasn’t endorsed Clinton yet but President Barack Obama has and so has Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
NEW DELHI (AP) – The rape of a Danish tourist in India two years ago resulted in life sentences today for five Indians. The judge said the men, 23 to 30 years old, were guilty of gang rape, kidnapping, wrongful confinement and criminal intimidation. The five can appeal. The case underscored the plague of sexual violence in the country.
TOKYO (AP) – The conduct of U.S. service members in Japan is still a sensitive issue but the Navy is loosening up a little today on off-base activities. A ban on alcohol consumption remains in place following the weekend arrest of a U.S. sailor for alleged drunken driving. In a separate case, Japanese police say a U.S. military contractor is now the prime suspect in the murder and rape of a young woman on Okinawa.
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