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Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Feb 27, 2013) — The Buffalo Valley Red Cross Chapter in Jamestown, on Wednesday, joined other Minn-Dak Red Cross Chapters in recognizing local motels, in donating rooms for disaster displaced individuals and families.

At the Gladstone Inn & Suites in Jamestown, it was noted by Buffalo Valley Chapter. Manager, Beth Dewald that in 2012 the Red Cross locally responded to over 160 disasters in the region. She said Red Cross volunteers respond to house/apartment fires most often, that leaves individuals and famlies homeless, unexpectedly.

At the gathering on Wednesday, was Myra Olson, who along with her husband, Robert and three children were left homeless when a fire in November of 2012 destroyed their home in Flasher, ND, and possessions, and their two dogs died in the fire.

Myra said the Red Cross was on scene and brought the family to Bismarck for housing and other needs.

She said the Red Cross relocation was “one less thing to worry about,” following the family’s devastating losses.

Beth Dewald said,The Rooms For Red Cross campaign plays a key role in helping disaster victims get back on their feet, adding, the rooms will be used on occasion for military personnel, in need of lodging during an emergency situation.

She said its not if, but, when, a disaster will occur.

She pointed out that eleven hotels in the Buffalo Valley are have come together to donate 70 rooms for 2013. The rooms will go to those in need throughout the calendar year.

Participating hotels in the area are in Jamestown, Valley City, Carrington, and Medina, with others coming on board.

Those presently include…the AmericInn, Valley City, Westside Motel, North Country Lodge, Island Park Motel, Carrington Inn & Suites, Holiday Inn Express, Gladstone Inn & Suites, Twin Pines Inn, Oxenrider Motel, Buffalo City Motel, and Quality Inn & Suites.

Also on hand at the news conference was Jamestown City Fire Chief Jim Reuther, who said the Red Cross plays a “key part to out function.” (as fire fighters).

He noted the quick-response time to the local Red Cross, on scene at fires.

Also attending the news conference were…Gladstone Inn & Suites, General Manager Phyllis Thompson, and Matt Stockert from Quality Inn & Suites in Jamestown.

Participating motels received a certificate of recognition and will display window clings indicating their participation in Rooms For Red Cross..

In 2012, “Rooms For Red Cross” in the Minn-Kota region, including North Dakota and western Minnesota, donated temporary housing to almost 1,000 individuals who lost their homes or apartments because of fire or other disasters.

 

Jamestown ND (KCSi-T.V. News Feb 28, 2013) — Jamestown Arts Center Director, Taylor Barnes has been name the recipient of a statewide award for her involvement in the arts in Jamestown…the 2013 Governor’s Award for the Arts, in the Individual Category.

The Arts Center staff nominated Ms. Barnes for the award given out every two years.

She said the award is really a team effort, saying she is extremely honored to receive the award.

The award will be given to Taylor on March 27, 2013 at the Radisson Hotel in Bismarck.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) Officials with Jamestown’s JC Penny and Sears stores say the two retailers have no plans of closing in the Buffalo Mall.

It was announced last week that the Jamestown K-Mart will close on May 19, 2013 due to slumping sales.

The store liquidation will start next week.

The Jamestown Sears franchise is owned locally by Jim Matthiesen, who suggested shopping locally to support Jamestown businesses.

Buffalo Mall Manager, Deb Thompson says the mall’s JC Penny store has strong sales, adding that a possible new tenant for the K-Mart space is being worked on, along with other marketing efforts.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – No one was hurt in a stove fire that prompted the evacuation of 260 children from a North Dakota day care.
 
     Fire officials say it took staff at the Small Wonders Daycare in Fargo fewer than three minutes to move the children to safety at an adjacent hotel on Wednesday.
 
     Officials say a sprinkler system extinguished the fire before firefighters arrived. The building suffered what was described as minor fire, water and smoke damage.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A convicted sex offender who moved to North Dakota from Utah has been sentenced to time served.
 
     Authorities say Troy Kartchner had been living in a Watford City trailer park for about four months before he was arrested last summer. He failed to tell authorities about his relocation, as required by law.
 
     Defense attorneys say in court documents that Kartchner mistakenly concluded that moving to a different state for employment purposes would not require a registration in North Dakota.
 
     Kartchner was ordered to register as a sex offender as part of his December 2004 conviction in Utah for forcible sexual abuse.
 
     U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland ordered Kartchner to serve five years of supervised release.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s House has endorsed a measure that would require jail time for some first-time drunken driving offenders.
 
     The measure passed 80-14 Wednesday and now goes to the North Dakota Senate.
 
     The bill mandates that someone with a blood-alcohol content of 0.21 percent – or nearly three times the legal limit for driving – must be sentenced to 10 days in jail. Some of the sentence could be suspended, meaning that the offender might only spend a day behind bars.
 
     The measure also increases fines and penalties and requires probation for repeat offenders.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Senate has reconsidered and endorsed a proposal to buy out the contract of University System Chancellor Hamid Shirvani.
 
     The Senate voted 28-19 Wednesday to provide about $854,000 to buy out the final two years of Shrivani’s three-year contract.
 
     Fargo Sen. Tony Grindberg’s amendment only provides funds for the buyout and does not force the Board of Higher Education to fire Shirvani.
 
     The North Dakota Student Association expressed a vote of “no confidence” in Shirvani on Saturday. The Board of Higher Education issued a statement a day later, expressing support for Shirvani.
 
     Shirvani has been in charge of the university system since last July. His contract runs through June 2015. He is paid $349,000 annually.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota House has voted to expand Medicaid to cover more uninsured residents of the state.
 
     The Republican-led chamber approved the bill 57-36. The measure now goes to the Senate.
 
     More than 20,000 people would be added to Medicaid if the program is expanded.
 
     Under the new Affordable Care Act, the federal government would cover the full cost of expanding Medicaid through 2016, with the state’s contribution rising in stages to 10 percent.
 
     Several Republican lawmakers testified that they don’t like the new federal law championed by President Barack Obama, but they say it’s in the best interest of the state to accept it.

 

  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Senate has rejected a measure aimed at exempting clothing and shoes from sales tax. The Senate voted 33-14 Tuesday to kill the bill. The measure would exempt clothing and shoes from the state’s 5 percent sales tax. Local sales taxes also would be exempted.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Lobbyists in North Dakota could have hundreds of new clients.
 
     North Dakota’s Senate on Wednesday approved a measure that allows cities and counties to spend taxpayer money on lobbyists.
 
     The Senate voted 27-20 to approve the measure. The approval was against the grain of a Government and Veterans Affairs Committee recommendation to kill the bill.

 

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) – An annual North Dakota gathering of veterans to share stories of World War Two, the Korean War and other military experiences has stalled out. Organizers of the Dakota Bull Session, which began more than 20 years ago, say there are no plans to meet this year in Devils Lake. The event started as a reunion of U.S. Navy veterans in 1990.

 

 MEDORA, N.D. (AP) – A federal report shows that visitors to Theodore Roosevelt National Park in 2011 spent more than $28 million in communities surrounding the park.
 
     The National Park Service report released earlier this week is based on an analysis by Michigan State University. It showed that more than 563,000 visitors explored the Medora park in 2011.
 
     The report said the spending supported 451 jobs in the Medora area.
 
     Valerie Naylor, Theodore Roosevelt National Park superintendent, calls the park “a wonderful place to learn about America’s story.”

 

In sports…

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. Sports) — The Jamestown College men’s and women’s tournament bound teams have learned who their opponents will be in the upcoming NAIA nationals.

The Jimmie women, which moved up to number two in the final NAIA top 25 poll are the number four seed, which features four pods of eight teams.

The Jimmies (26-5) will play fifth-seeded Menlo (26-3) of California Thursday, March 7, 2013, at 1:45 p.m. in Sioux City, Iowa.

In Point Lookout, Missouri, the Jimmie men open that day, as well, at noon, against Cardinal Stritch (30-3) of Wisconsin, which was the number two team in the final poll.

 

 NATIONAL  BASKETBALL  ASSOCIATION

  UNDATED (AP) – Golden State Warriors guard Stephen (STEH’-fen) Curry set an NBA season high with 54 points Wednesday night and fell one shy of the league mark of 12 three-pointers. He shot 18-for-28 overall and 11-for-13 from beyond the arc while collecting seven assists and six rebounds. But it wasn’t enough for the Warriors to avoid a 109-105 loss to the Knicks at Madison Square Garden.
 
   Final          Detroit                  96    Washington          95
   Final          Sacramento          125    Orlando              101
   Final          Cleveland            103    Toronto                92
   Final          Memphis                  90    Dallas                  84
   Final          Milwaukee            110    Houston              107
   Final          Oklahoma  City    119    New  Orleans        74
   Final  OT    Phoenix                105    San  Antonio      101
   Final          Atlanta                102    Utah                      91
   Final          Denver                  111    Portland            109
 
 
       NATIONAL  HOCKEY  LEAGUE
 
   Final    Montreal              5    Toronto            2
   Final    Philadelphia      4    Washington      1
   Final    Los  Angeles        2    Detroit            1
   Final    Anaheim                5    Nashville        1
 
 
       TOP-25  COLLEGE  BASKETBALL

UNDATED (AP) – Unranked Penn State had dropped 18 straight regular-season Big Ten games dating to last season and trailed No. 4 Michigan by 15 points midway through the second half Wednesday night before pulling off a stunner.

Jermaine Marshall scored 19 of his game-high 25 points in the second half as the Nittany Lions rallied to beat the Wolverines 84-78. Marshall hit six of Penn State’s season-high 10 three-pointers, four coming after intermission.
   Final            (  5)  Miami                    76              Virginia  Tech        58
   Final  2OT    (  7)  Georgetown          79              UConn                        78
   Final            (10)  Louisville          79              DePaul                      58
   Final                      Southern  Cal      89    (11)  Arizona                    78
   Final            (14)  New  Mexico          70              San  Diego  St.        60
   Final            (15)  Oklahoma  St.      64              TCU                            47
   Final            (18)  Saint  Louis        70              Saint  Joseph’s      53
   Final            (23)  Pittsburgh          64              South  Florida        44
 
 
       TOP-25  WOMEN’S  COLLEGE  BASKETBALL
 
   Final    (16)  Louisville      72    Seton  Hall      62
   Final    (23)  Iowa  St.          83    Kansas              68

 

Twins..

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – It’s twins for a Twin. Minnesota Twins All-Star catcher Joe Mauer and his wife Maddie are expecting twins. Mauer’s a St. Paul native who cheered for the Twins growing up and was his hometown team’s top draft pick in 2001.

 

NBA-SUSPENSIONS…
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – The Golden State Warriors were without forward David Lee against the Knicks Wednesday at Madison Square Garden.
 
     Lee and Indiana center Roy Hibbert each received one-game suspensions from the NBA for starting an altercation that drifted into the stands Tuesday night. Hibbert was ejected after the skirmish, which began when he and Lee exchanged shoves under the basket after a missed shot. The NBA says that the Warriors’ Stephen (STEH’-fihn) Curry and Klay Thompson and the Pacers’ Lance Stephenson were fined $35,000 each for escalating the fight.
 
     Hibbert will sit out the Pacers’ game Thursday against the Clippers.

 

In world and national news…

ROME (AP) – The United States is trying to turn up the pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad. Secretary of State John Kerry says the Obama administration will provide the Syrian opposition with an additional $60 million in assistance, including first time non-lethal aid like food and medical supplies to rebels fighting the regime.
 
     BEIJING (AP) – China is firing back at U.S. accusations of hacking with allegations of its own. China’s military says overseas computer hackers targeted two of its websites an average of 144,000 times per month last year, with almost two thirds of the attacks originating in the United States.
 
     VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Benedict says he will pray for his cardinals as they choose his successor. Benedict met with the cardinals as part of his final day as pontiff before retiring. Benedict promised “unconditional reverence and obedience” to his successor.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – Partisan battles on Capitol Hill are expected to take a brief back seat today as the House votes on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, which tries to protect women from domestic violence. The Republican-led House is expected to first reject its own plan before approving a more ambitious bill that passed the Senate two weeks ago.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The next phase of President Barack Obama’s evolution on gay marriage may come with the deadline for his administration to weigh in on a landmark Supreme Court case. The case could determine whether same-sex couples have a constitutional right to wed. Gay rights supporters want the administration to file a friend-of-the-court brief urging the justices to overturn California’s gay marriage ban.