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Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — Buffalo Mall Merchants are sponsoring their 8th annual Business Leaders Chili Cook-Off Contest to raise funds for the James River Senior Citizens’ Meals on Wheels Program.

The date has been set for Saturday, March 9th, 2013 from 11:00am-2:00pm in the Buffalo Mall commons area.

For $5.00 the public is invited to taste the chili entries and cast their vote for the best chili in Jamestown, along with an award for the Most Votes. 100% of the proceeds benefit the Meals on Wheels Program. A wrist band will be given to the chili samplers.

In conjunction with the chili cook-off, RSVP+ will host a benefit bake sale for the Meals on Wheels Program as well.

Business leaders include local bank presidents, realty companies, service clubs, as well as utility & engineering companies.

On Tuesday’s (Mar 5, 2013) Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, the Buffalo Malls, Tim Perkins said, the Chili Cookoff will be in the mall’s commons areas, with entertainment provided by local entertainers, R&C School of Rock.

He pointed out, to reserve a booth to call him at the Buffalo Mall at 251-2237.

Last year’s winner of the People’s Choice Award was the Jamestown Sun, and the Best Chili went to Classic Catering.

Also on our show on Tuesday, James River Community/Senior Center’s Rhonda Sahr said, in 2012 Center One provided over 32,000 home delivered meals in Stutsman, Wells, and Sheridan Counties, with over 27,000 meals delivered in Stutsman County.

The Meals on Wheels Coordinator at Center One, Rick Dockter thanks volunteers who bring out meals in all types of weather, year ‘round, as about 85-100 meals are delivered daily.

Volunteers to delivered the meals are always welcome, as there are 8-14 people on each route starting at 11-a.m., Monday through Friday, with six local Jamestown routes.

Time required for the Jamestown route is about one hour each day.

Call the James River Community/Senior Center for more information at 252-2882, Rick’s extension is 13.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — The public is invited to an open house as Nina Sneider retires, having stepped down recently as the Jamestown Tourism Director.

The open house is set for Thursday March 21, 2013 from 4:30 p.m., to 6:15 p.m., at the National Buffalo Museum.

A program honoring Nina is at 5:15 p.m.

　

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Mar 2, 2013) — The Jamestown Kiwanis Club and Kids Against Hunger, thank everyone who came out to help package meals on Saturday, March 2, 2013 at the Buffalo Mall.

Kiwanis officials said the event went better than they could have imagined.

400 volunteers package 140,000 meal bags, consisting of white rice, crushed soy, dehydrated nix vegetables blend, and a vitamin and mineral powder blend.

It said the community came together with a common cause – to help feed starving children and to save lives.

 

 DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) – Police say they have arrested a man for the November hit-and-run death of a Dickinson motel owner.
 
     Tracy Freer was killed when a pickup struck him shortly after midnight on Nov. 21 in the Queen City Motel parking lot.
 
     Investigators say Freer had been had been letting his dog out to use the bathroom when he was struck and dragged about 15 feet.
 
     Freer owned the motel with his wife, Roberta, who had offered a $5,000 reward for information in the case.
 
     The  suspect, a 47-year-old man, was arrested Monday.

 

 MANDAN, N.D. (AP) – A New Salem man accused of mistreating horses and donkeys has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor animal cruelty charges in Morton County.
 
     William Kiefer entered his pleas Tuesday to five counts through his attorney. He faces up to five years in prison if convicted.
 
     Authorities seized more than 150 horses and mules from Kiefer’s properties in Morton and Burleigh counties in January after finding nearly 100 dead animals. He faces similar animal cruelty charges in Burleigh County. He has not yet entered pleas there.

 

 GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – A second man charged in an alleged human trafficking case in Grand Forks is heading to trial.
 
     Twenty-seven-year-old Joshua Harry earlier took a plea deal offered by prosecutors and pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution in the case that authorities say involved the pimping of a 17-year-old girl.  Harry now wants to stand trial on a more serious charge of human trafficking, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
 
     Two others are charged in the case. Earlier this year, 30-year-old Travis Johnson rejected a plea deal and will stand trial on charges of human trafficking and felony corruption of a minor. He also allegedly had sex with the girl.
 
     Twenty-two-year-old Amanda Stewart pleaded guilty in January to a charge of criminal facilitation.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A former girlfriend of O.J. Simpson has been sentenced on a felony robbery charge in North Dakota.
 
     Christie Prody, of Moorhead, Minn., was given a suspended four-year prison term and two years of supervised probation after entering an Alford plea Monday. The plea means she did not admit guilt but acknowledged there likely was enough evidence for a jury to convict her.
 
     Prody was accused of trying to steal a woman’s purse in November at a mall in Fargo, which neighbors Moorhead. She also is accused in Minnesota’s Clay County of stealing painkillers from an elderly couple. That case is pending.
 
     Prody and Simpson began a 13-year relationship in 1996, after the former pro football star was acquitted of killing his ex-wife and a friend in 1994 in Los Angeles.

 

In world and national news…

CHICAGO (AP) – Officials in Chicago are working to keep Lake Shore Drive safe as a snowstorm bears down. Chicago could get up to 10 inches of snow by the end of the day. Officials are trying to avoid a repeat of scenes from two years ago, when a blizzard stranded hundreds of people on the world-famous road. Plows and salt-spreading trucks are in easier striking distance of Lake Shore Drive. And they started treating the roadway hours before snow began falling.
 
     UNITED NATIONS (AP) – It’s been 60 years since the signing of a cease-fire that ended the Korean War — but today, North Korea is threatening to cancel that agreement. The North is reacting to a resolution being introduced by the United States, and supported by China, at the United Nations. It would slap North Korea with new sanctions aimed at limiting the country’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The resolution reflects growing anger over the North’s defiance of three earlier resolutions.
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – The last time the Dow was this high, Apple had just sold its first iPhone, and George W. Bush still had a year remaining as president. The stock index surged past its all-time high Tuesday, climbing more than 150 points early in the day. The gains followed advances on stock markets around the world earlier in the day.
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – Martha Stewart has been testifying Tuesday that she did nothing wrong when she signed an agreement to open up shops within most of the J.C. Penney stores across the country. She testified in New York as part of a battle over whether the company that she founded breached its contract to sell some items exclusively at Macy’s. Stewart said she was only looking to expand and offer new opportunities for shoppers when she signed the deal with Penney.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – According to new federal numbers, the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air jumped dramatically last year. And the figures suggest that it’s very unlikely that global warming can be limited to another 2-degree increase. Many governments have set that as the upper limit. Scientists say the rise in CO2 reflects the global economy revving up and burning more fossil fuels, especially in China.