CSi Weather from Staff Meteorologist Steve Root

　

REST OF TODAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S. WEST WINDS 15 TO
 20 MPH.
 .TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S. WEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
 .THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS.
 HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. NORTHWEST WINDS 10 TO 20 MPH.
 .THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 50S. NORTHWEST
 WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
 .FRIDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. NORTHWEST WINDS AROUND
 5 MPH.
 .FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S.
 .SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE
 OF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. LOWS IN THE MID 60S.
 .SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS.
 HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S.
 .SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 60S.
 .MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS.
 HIGHS AROUND 90.
 .MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
 THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 60S.
 .TUESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 90.
 

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — The North Dakota Highway Patrol reports, two Jamestown women were injured in a head-on crash on Highway 52, about six miles south Carrington Tuesday (Jul 24, 2012) afternoon, about 12: 40 p.m.

The report said, 78 year old David John Carter, of Elkwater, Alberta, Canada, was driving a 2011 Chevrolet Silverado pickup southbound on U.S. Highway 52 through a construction zone going to Fort Lincoln State Park near Mandan.

His vehicle crossed into the northbound lane and struck a 1991 Toyota Winnebago operated by 69 year old Rita Burnelle Lulai, Jamestown, who was headed to Minot.

The Patrol said pickup was going about 40 mph at the time of the crash while the Winnebago was almost stopped.

Carter, Lulai and Lulai’s passenger, 49 year old Angela Nording, of Jamestown, were injured and taken by ambulance to Foster County Hospital, in Carrington.

All three were wearing seat belts.

The patrol cited Carter for reckless driving.

The vehicles received front-end damage and were towed from the scene.

The Highway Patrol was assisted by the Foster County Sheriff’s Office, and the Carrington Police Department.

　

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News ) — The Jamestown City Council’s Finance & Legal Committee, Building, Planning & Zoning Committee, and Civic Center & Promotion Committee, met Tuesday afternoon (Jul 24, 2012) at City Hall.

All members were present.

With Finance & Legal Committee business:

The committee recommends on a 4-1 vote approving the request from Cherry Berry for up to $54,000 in Economic Development funds to provide for a Flex-PACE Interest buy down, to open a Cherry Berry plus a sandwich and coffee shop, which will be located in the former Master Bakery building, with the City Share to be $43,200 and paid from the City Sales Tax Fund.

Council Member Charlie Kourajian voted against the approval, which will be on the August City Council meeting Consent Agenda.

The state Flex Pace interest buy down reduces the interest the developer pays on the start-up loan by up to 5 percent. The buy down is paid for with a $100,000 grant from the Bank of North Dakota and a $54,000 loan from JSDC.

The JSDC loan incurs no interest until the start-up loan of up to $500,000 is repaid and then 2 percent interest while the Flex Pace loan is repaid over two years.

The Jerry’s Furniture owner said his business did not get financing and pointed out that a TCBY store is nearby the proposed Cherry Berry location. Council Member Charlie Kourajian pointed out other competing businesses in Jamestown.

The project organizer, Kal Patel said the jobs will pay between $8 and $8.50 per hour, mainly part time with some full time jobs. He said the square footage of the building is sufficient for the business. He said Jamestown is being looked at as a location based on the availability of a Flex Pace buydown.

He said his product line will be different than what is offered at other stores, such as TCBY and Dairy Queen. He said a local bank has approved the financing, of about $400,000.

The Stutsman County Commission, on Tuesday approved its share of funding.

The committee recommends approving the request from JSDC for $320,000 in Economic Development funds to provide for operating expenses for the 2013 budget, with the City Share to be $320,000 and paid from the City Sales Tax Fund.

The committee recommends approving the request from the offer from Tim Dabill to purchase Lots 1 & 2, Block 2, Beverly Hills 6th Addition and Lots 18 & 19, Beverly Hills 3rd Addition, in the amount of $6,000, subject to the buyer paying for all costs of surveying and approval of a re-plat prior to the deed transfer.

An addition to the previously approved request is Lot 18.

The committee recommends recognizing the Don Schwind Benefit as an other spirited organization and to grant the issuance of a raffle permit with the drawing to be held September 15, 2012, at the Corner Bar.

The committee discussed authorizing the issuance of a gaming site authorization to the Jamestown Hockey Booster Club, Inc., for February 13, 2013, at the Gladstone Inn & Suites.

The committee recommends approving the request from Alpha Opportunities to conduct a Chalk Talk/Chalk Walk on the new sidewalk on Business Loop East. The event is to bring attention to the new walking path in that area.

The committee considered the request from Stutsman Harley Owners Group for a fireworks permit at the Dazzle Parade. The request is to shoot off fireworks from the business’s float in the parade. City Fire Chief Jim Reuther is not in favor of the permit, due to paper products on site, adding he hasn’t been contacted about the issue.

The committee voted to table the request, pending the business meeting with the fire chief.

Monthly departmental and financial reports, were presented.

 

With Building, Planning, & Zoning Committee business:

Planning Commission minutes of July 9, 2012, were presented.

The committee recommends approving the final plat of Urdahl Addition, a Replat of Lots 11,12,13 and 14, Block 2, Mill Hill Second Addition.

Discussion was held on the Building Development Ordinances, requested by Mayor Andersen.

She said the Ordinance needs to be revisited, and recommendations are being looked for, in order for Jamestown to be competitive with other cities, for new building, regarding Special Assessments.

Mayor Andersen suggested a public input meeting at next month’s Building, Planning, & Zoning Committee meeting for developers.

The committee recommends advertising for the public input session on August 21, 2012.

Informational:

A public hearing and Second Reading of an Ordinance to change the zoning of Lot 1, RTS First Addition, from A-1 (Agricultural District) to M-1 (Limited Industrial and Manufacturing District) is scheduled for the August 6, 2012, City Council Meeting.

A public hearing and Second Reading of an Ordinance to change the zoning of Lot 13 & Lot 14, Block 1, Prairie Park Addition, from C-1 (Local Commercial District) to R-2-A (One to Twelve Family Residential District) is scheduled for the August 6, 2012, City Council Meeting.

The committee discussed approving the final plat of Titan Addition, a parcel of land within Government Lot 2 of Section 4, T139N, R64W, City of Jamestown.

Mayor Andersen moved to send the item to the City Council without recommendations, which passed unanimously.

　

Civic Center & Promotion Committee business:

Discussion concerned an evaluation prepared by Prairie Engineering, P.C., relative to the various scopes of work to upgrade the current, 22 year old, cooling tower at City Hall, and an upgrade of the current chiller at the Jamestown Civic Center.

City Administrator, Jeff Fuchs said the City Hall cooling tower is leaking, and patching is no longer useful.

 He presented options. Fuchs said with the summer season coming to a close, he suggested putting the items in the 2013 budget. Mayor Andersen suggested an option, to be considered in the 2013 budget, which passed unanimously to be recommended.

With the Civic Center chiller unit, the committee recommends an option to be reviewed at the budget time.

　

The meeting was shown live on CSi 67 followed by replays.

　

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A North Dakota construction worker accused
of killing his three young daughters has been ordered to go on
trial in Wisconsin.

St. Croix County Circuit Judge Scott Needham says prosecutors presented enough evidence during a preliminary hearing yesterday to try Aaron Schaffhausen on three counts of first-degree intentional homicide.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The U.S. attorney’s office says federal authorities are investigating a death on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.
 
     Thirty-year-old Jeremiah Sage, of Halliday, died Thursday in New Town.
 
     U.S. Attorney Timothy Purdon on Tuesday confirmed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Bureau of Indian Affairs are looking into the case. He declined to release details.
 
     Cousin Brad Sage, of Mandaree, told The Associated Press members of the family were meeting with authorities Tuesday afternoon to learn about the circumstances of the death.
 
     Sage says he last talked with Jeremiah about nine days ago, and his cousin didn’t indicate then that anything was wrong.
 
     Bureau of Indian Affairs spokeswoman Nedra Darling, based in Washington, D.C., says the investigation is ongoing and cannot comment on the status of the case.

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) – A Devils Lake airport security officer
is charged with assaulting his roommate and threatening him with a
pistol.
     Robert Jensen of Brinsmade is accused of shoving his roommate
July 13 during an argument after Jensen came home from a bar.
     Court papers say the man then fled after Jensen threatened him
with a gun. Jensen is charged with felony terrorizing, which
carries a possible five-year prison term.
     Jensen was also charged with simple assault last September for
pushing a woman against a wall and shoving a 12-year-old child to
the ground.

The woman’s arm was bruised and the child suffered an injured ankle.
Jensen has been a federal Transportation Security Administration security officer since 2002. He’s worked at the Devils Lake airport since 2004.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Authorities say the former director of the
Spirit Lake Vocational Rehabilitation Program has been sentenced to
three months in a halfway house for embezzlement.

     U.S. Attorney Timothy Purdon says 66-year-old Martina Kazena of
Fort Totten was sentenced on Monday on charges of conspiracy to
embezzle and aiding and abetting.
     Kazena pleaded guilty to the charges in January.
     Authorities say Kazena illegally approved program benefits for
her husband and others.
     Kazena also must serve seven months of home detention following
her three-month stay at a halfway house.
     She also faces a restitution hearing next month.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A new audit raises questions about
spending at North Dakota State University’s graduate school, saying
that student fees have been used to buy first-class plane tickets
for the school’s dean.
     The audit questions how NDSU and the University of North Dakota
use the fees they require students to pay.
     The Associated Press obtained the audit from the North Dakota
state auditor’s office. It’s being presented to legislators
Thursday.
     The report says student fee money has been spent on everything
from first-class plane tickets to iPads for some NDSU employees.
UND used fee money to buy “Greek Life” T-shirts.
     Some fees are being used to build up large reserve funds. It
says UND’s business school has a $370,000 reserve from the $150
semester fees that business students pay.
     University officials dispute some of the audit’s findings.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s largest newspaper is reviewing
its policy on same-sex wedding announcements in response to a
controversy that arose online.

 The Forum reports it received multiple negative comments on its official Facebook page and an online petition was started after it refused to print a Fargo couple’s same-sex wedding announcement.
     Forum Editor Matthew Von Pinnon says the newspaper’s rule is
being reviewed.
     Marriage in North Dakota is defined under state law as “between
one man and one woman.”
     The newspaper’s parent company, Forum Communications Co., also
owns the Grand Forks Herald, The Jamestown Sun and The Dickinson
Press.in North Dakota.

 

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – The president of the AFL-CIO is speaking
out against the lockout of union employees at American Crystal
Sugar.

Richard Trumka will be in Minnesota today to make what the
labor federation says will be a major announcement on the lockout.
More than 1,000 workers at facilities in Minnesota, North Dakota
and Iowa have been locked out since last August.
    

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Hot, dry weather in North Dakota is damaging
crops and grazing land in North Dakota.

The Agriculture Department says in its weekly crop and weather report that most crop conditions have declined over the week.

But the heat also has accelerated the maturity of crops, and the harvest of small grains is ahead of the average pace.

The report says about one-third of the pasture and range land in North Dakota is in poor or very poor condition, and 39 percent of the hay crop is in those categories.
    

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – The Ward County Commission may ask voters to
approve a one-half percent sales tax for county building projects.

     The proposed tax would take effect in November and last for no
more than 10 years.

It would finance construction of a county office building, an expansion of the county jail and a renovation of the Ward County courthouse.
     Some sales tax money would also be used to pay for repairs to
public works that were damaged during last year’s Souris River
flooding.
     The  commissioners plan to decide Aug. 21 whether they’ll put the sales
tax on the November ballot.

　

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – More than 70 people are touring North
Dakota wheat fields this week to gauge the quality of this year’s
crop.
     The annual tour is coordinated by the South Dakota-based Wheat
Quality Council to provide the wheat industry with an early look at
quality before the crop is even harvested.

Executive Vice President Ben Handcock says 17 vehicles of people are traveling eight different routes in the state, stopping periodically to examine
fields.
     The tour ends Thursday afternoon when participants gather at
Northern Crops Institute in Fargo.

　

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The prospect of doing legal work for North
Dakota’s oil industry has made the state bar exam more popular than
it’s been since 1983.
     The North Dakota Board of Bar Examiners reports 95 people began
taking the exam Tuesday.

That’s a 42 percent increase since a year ago, and the highest number since 1983, when 110 people took the North Dakota bar.
     North Dakota’s test can be used to apply for the bar in other
states.

　

　BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Gov. Jack Dalrymple says he plans to host
an “education summit” in Dickinson next week.
     Dalrymple says the meeting will help officials share information
about how to deal with rapid school enrollment growth in western
North Dakota’s oil region.
     One of the scheduled speakers is a Texas school superintendent
who administers one of the faster-growing school systems in that
state.

 

In sports…

 

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION…

Tuesday’s Games

     Fargo-Moorhead 11, Sioux Falls 8

 

 AMERICAN LEAGUE

MLB…

 CHICAGO (AP) – Adam Dunn homered and drove in four runs last
night as the Chicago White Sox topped the Minnesota Twins 11-4.

Paul Konerko and Alexei Ramirez also went deep for the White Sox.
Josh Willingham drove in all of Minnesota’s runs with a pair of
home runs.

 

SEATTLE (AP) – Alex Rodriguez is going on the disabled list
after breaking his left hand after being hit by a pitch from Felix
Hernandez in the eighth inning of the New York Yankees’ 4-2 loss to
the Seattle Mariners last night.

Rodriguez was the third player to be hit by a pitch from Hernandez in the inning.
  Final  Cleveland       3  Detroit        2
  Final  Tampa Bay       3  Baltimore      1
  Final  Oakland         7  Toronto        2
  Final  Boston          2  Texas          1
  Final  Kansas City     4  L.A. Angels    1
   
  

    NATIONAL LEAGUE
 
  Final  Chi Cubs        5  Pittsburgh     1
  Final  Philadelphia    7  Milwaukee      6
  Final  Atlanta         4  Miami          3
  Final  Washington      5  N-Y Mets       2
  Final  Cincinnati      4  Houston        2
  Final  St. Louis       8  L.A. Dodgers   2
  Final  Arizona         6  Colorado       2
  Final  San Francisco   3  San Diego      2

 

OLYMPICS…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP)- The U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team is
off to London following its final exhibition victory, a 100-78 rout
of Spain in a rematch of the Olympic gold medal game in Beijing
four years ago.

 Carmelo Anthony had 27, LeBron James added 25 and
Kevin Durant chipped in 13.

 

NBA…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The Minnesota Timberwolves have acquired
Dante Cunningham from the Memphis Grizzlies in exchange for Wayne
Ellington.

In NBA three seasons, Cunningham has averaged 5.2 points
and 3.3 rebounds per game. Ellington averaged 6.5 points a game
over three seasons with Minnesota.
    

NASCAR…

 LONDON (AP) – NASCAR has suspended driver A.J. Allmendinger
indefinitely after a test of his backup urine sample came back
positive yesterday for a substance officials did not identify.
Allmendinger originally was suspended July 7 after failing a random
drug test taken in late June, and his backup “B” urine sample
came back positive as well.

 

 PENN STATE-SANCTIONS…
     STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) – The price of the Jerry Sandusky child
sexual abuse scandal could go well beyond the $60 million fine and
other penalties imposed by the NCAA.
     State Farm is pulling its ads from broadcasts of Penn State
football games, while General Motors is reconsidering its
sponsorship deal and Wall Street is threatening to downgrade the
school’s credit rating.

Pepsi, PNC bank and the health insurer Highmark say they are sticking with Penn State.

 

In world and national news…

 

 CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) – Attention continues to focus on victims
of the Colorado theater attack and their grieving families, with
the first funeral planned for today.

Batman star Christian Bale visited survivors of the shooting and stopped by a makeshift memorial to victims yesterday. Suspect James Holmes remains in
solitary confinement awaiting a Monday arraignment.
    
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The fiscal cliff lies just a few months ahead
as the Senate fights another round today in the battle over tax
cuts.

Democrats want to extend expiring cuts for everyone but the
wealthiest.

But Democrats don’t have the votes to pass it. A
Republican plan that would include the wealthy is not expected to
come to a vote.
    
     LOS ANGELES (AP) – The clock is about to start ticking on about
900 medical marijuana shops in Los Angeles after a unanimous city
council vote.

The shops will have 30 days from the time the mayor
signs the bill to close their doors. Critics say the shops are a
blight.

The ban allows hospices and home health agencies to provide
medical pot.
    
     UNDATED (AP) – Child welfare advocates say there’s an upside to
the NCAA’s $60 million fine against Penn State University over the
schools sex abuse scandal.

Advocates say if the money is distributed properly by an endowment set up for the purpose, it will help plenty of abused kids and could even prevent some abuse.
    
     UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The first draft of a new U.N. treaty to
regulate the multibillion dollar global arms trade is bringing out
the critics and demands for change ahead of a Friday deadline.
Peter Herby of the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red
Cross said that every element in the draft has “major loopholes.”

Supporters say that with a few fixes the treaty could reduce the
impact of the illicit arms trade and save lives.