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TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 15. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH
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LIGHT SNOW IS EXPECTED ACROSS PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA FRIDAY NIGHT…MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF U.S. HIGHWAY 2.

ACCUMULATIONS WILL LIKELY BE LIMITED TO A COUPLE OF INCHES. SNOW IS EXPECTED TO LINGER INTO SATURDAY…MAINLY IN THE SOUTHERN JAMES RIVER VALLEY.

　

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — The Jamestown El Zagal Mystics, invites the community to their 32nd Annual Fish Fry, fundraiser, Friday March 8, 2013 from 4:30-p.m., to 7:30-p.m., at the Gladstone Inn,’s Shady’s Banquet Room.

On Thursday’s (Mar 7, 2013) Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, spokesmen Joe Larson and Jeff Oster, said this is the El Zagel Mystics largest fundraiser of the year.

Tickets are Adults $15, Children 6-12 years old $5, and under 5 eat free.

Tickets are available at Shady’s Lounge, or from any El Zagal Mystics member, or at the door.

(Tickets are not deductible for charitable purposes, all proceeds don not go the Shrine Charities.)

Proceeds go in part to the transportation fund to allow children to go to the Shrine Hospital in Minneapolis.

For more information call Jeff Oster at 252-0150, or Joe Larson at 252-5541.

It was noted that the Shrine Circus serving Jamestown/Valley City will be April 2, 2013 at the Jamestown Civic Center.

　

From ND Special Olympics…

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — On March 2, 2013 the YMCA/Larson Center, in Jamestown, hosted the Annual Polar Plunge event for Special Olympics North Dakota.

More than 20 people registered for this event and despite the cold weather, took the plunge into icy waters. In 20 degree weather, many Jamestown College students and community volunteers and many more spectators came to support the event and raise awareness for the athletes of Special Olympics North Dakota.

Over $5,000 has been raised so far, that’s more than a $230 average raised per person.

The event was recorded by CSi-T.V. 10 THE REPLAY CHANNEL, with the showing dates TBA

Some of the top fundraisers included Jamestown College, and Valley City State University.

Jamestown College raised more than $1000 and took home the Golden Plunger award.

The award goes to the Plunge Team that raises the most money.

VCSU raised more than $800 for the event.

Wade Wintermeyer, a Special Olympics North Dakota athlete from Jamestown raised $1160 and came in as the top individual fundraiser at the event.

Other awards from the Polar Plunge are as follows:
Oldest Plunger, Wade Wintermeyer
Youngest Plunger, Lindsey Kuntz
Best Belly Flop, Nick Maloney
Best Costume, Tina Carter

Sponsorship and In-kind donation for the Polar Plunge came from:
Schumacher Construction, American Legion Auxiliary, Buffalo City Grill, Dauer’s Trophies & Sportswear, Dominoes Pizza, Grizzly’s, I 94 Clark, IDK Bar, James River Correctional Center, Jamestown College, Jamestown Fire Department, King’s Photography, KYNU, KSJB, Meeting Grounds, North Dakota Fraternal Order of Police, Papa Murphy’s, Perkins, Pizza Hut, Rainbow Tanning, Regis, Ringdahl Ambulance Service, Subway, Taco Johns, Tia Tanning, Top Designers.

There are pictures available on the Special Olympics North Dakota Facebook page at and fans are encouraged to post their own pictures and stories from the event. Donations to the site can still be processed, simply go to www.specialolympicsnorthdakota.org.

Other Polar Plunges in North Dakota include; Grand Forks on March 2nd, Dickinson on March 23rd, Fargo on April 6th and Minot in December 2013.

Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.

For more information, please contact SOND at (701)746-0331,

sond@midconetwork.com.

FARGO, N.D. (KCSi-T.V. News Mar 7, 2013) — Fourteen North Dakota companies will travel March 16-23, 2013, to Beijing and Guangzhou, China, to showcase the state’s high-quality agricultural commodities and food products to some of the China’s largest food manufacturers and processors.

Going along on the trip will be representatives of Dakota Pride Co-op, of Jamestown.

Organized by the North Dakota Trade Office (NDTO), the North Dakota Department of Agriculture (NDDA) and the Northern Crops Institute (NCI), the “Better for You Food Ingredients” event will be led by Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring and officials from the NDTO and NCI.

The event includes a conference and exhibition designed to further introduce North Dakota’s high-quality food ingredients to the Chinese food manufacturing market.

NCI crop specialists will give presentations to Chinese buyers, and research and development specialists and food manufacturers, while chefs prepare Chinese dishes with North Dakota value-added ingredients including: flax, sunflowers, barley, wheat, flour, pasta, soybeans, peas, lentils and dry edible beans.

Other companies and organizations participating in the trade mission include:

  • SB&B Foods Inc., Casselton, ND
  • Richland Organics, Inc., Wahpeton, ND
  • Sun Opta, Moorhead, MN
  • SK Food, Fargo, ND
  • Red River Commodities, Fargo, ND
  • Soyko, Inc., Gary, MN
  • North Dakota Mill, Grand Forks, ND
  • VK Global, Fargo, ND
  • JB Global, Barnesville, MN
  • Dakota Specialty Milling, Fargo, ND
  • United Pulse Trading, Bismarck, ND
  • Northarvest Bean Growers Association
  • North Dakota State University

Among the organizations assisting in the development of this event were the North Dakota Soybean Council, Northern Pulse Growers Association, Northarvest Bean Growers Association, North Dakota Wheat Commission and USDA Foreign Agriculture Service.

In Local Sports…

From Jamestown College…Mar 7, 2013

The Jamestown College men’s basketball team’s season came to an end Thursday with an opening round loss at the NAIA National Tournament at Point Lookout, Mo.

The Jimmies (15-19) fell to the tournament’s No. 2 seed Cardinal Stritch (Wis.) (31-3) by a score of 74-56.

Mark Hoge (junior, Ironton, Minn.) led the Jimmies in scoring with 21 points. The team’s lone senior, Jared Sutherland (Grand Rapids, Minn.) added 10.

 

The Jamestown College women’s basketball team has advanced to the Sweet 16 round of the NAIA National Tournament for the second consecutive year.

The Jimmies defeated Menlo (Calif.) 70-54 in opening round play Thursday in Sioux City, Iowa. Bridget Schuneman (senior, Lino Lakes, Minn.) led the Jimmies with 19 points. Kayla Roemmich (senior, Bottineau, N.D.) added 10. Amber Ramlo (senior, Jamestown) grabbed 14 rebounds.

The Jimmies (27-5) will face Eastern Oregon at 1:45 p.m. Friday. The Mountaineers (32-2) defeated Southwestern (Kan.) in their opening round game 86-54.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota Senate committee is mulling a resolution that would study the effects of climate change in the state.
 
     Hazelton resident Jeffrey Magrum told lawmakers that a lot of money already has been spent worldwide studying climate change. Magrum says if the state wants to spend money, it should buy more snowplows to help clear North Dakota’s roads.
 
     Magrum says he’s a construction worker and works outside in North Dakota’s brutal winters. He says global warming is a good thing for him.
 
     Valley City resident Sharon Buhr urged lawmakers to a study the effects of climate change and provide funding for it. She says people need to know what the impacts are to the state.

 

ST. PAUL, Minn. (Mar 7, 2013)  – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, will begin the drawdown of four of its western area reservoirs to the maximum drawdown elevations in preparation of spring flooding forecasted by the National Weather Service. 

The Corps’ drawdown plans include:

Baldhill Dam, near Valley City, N.D., is targeted to reach its maximum drawdown elevation of 1,257 feet by the end of March. The Corps initiated part of the drawdown in October 2012. The reservoir is currently just above elevation 1,262 feet.

Homme Dam, located near Park River, N.D., will be lowered to its maximum elevation of 1,064 feet by the end of March. The Corps initiated part of the drawdown at the dam in November 2012. The Corps will begin the final portion of the drawdown at the reservoir March 8. The pool is currently at elevation 1,076 feet. 

 

Lake Traverse, near Wheaton, Minn., is targeted to reach its maximum drawdown elevation of 974 feet by the end of the month. The reservoir is currently one foot below the conservation level with two feet remaining.

 

Orwell Reservoir, near Fergus Falls, Minn., is targeted to reach its maximum drawdown elevation of 1,050 feet by the end of March. The reservoir is currently just above elevation 1,063 feet.    

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The National Weather Service has slightly increased the expected spring flood levels at the Red River in Fargo, but city officials say they’re prepared for the worst-case scenario.
 
     The weather service report released Thursday shows a 50 percent chance the river will reach 33.8 feet in Fargo and a 5 percent chance it will make 38.2 feet.
 
     The February outlook listed a 5 percent chance of the river going to 37.8 feet.
 
     Major flood stage is considered to be 30 feet, though recent efforts by Fargo and Moorhead, Minn., officials to improve protection has fortified most of the metropolitan area to 37 or 38 feet.
 
     The outlook for the Devils Lake basin shows a 50 percent chance of increasing by about 2 feet, which is mostly unchanged from February.

 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Thieves broke into a Grand Forks wire supply business over the weekend and stole more than 6  1/2 tons of copper wiring worth an estimated $110,000 wholesale.
 
     Dakota Supply Group President Tom Rosendahl says the theft is different from typical copper thefts because it targeted a wholesale supplier rather than an electrical contractor.
 
     Copper thefts are not unusual because scrap prices for the metal are about $3.50 per pound. They’ve been even higher in recent years.
 
     Minnesota U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar has introduced legislation to make metal thefts federal cases. North Dakota U.S. Sen. John Hoeven is a co-sponsor of the bill.

 

In world and national news…

 WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House says President Barack Obama does not have the authority to use a drone to kill a U.S. citizen on American soil if the citizen is not engaged in combat. The assertion comes from Attorney General Eric Holder in a letter to Sen. Rand Paul. The Kentucky Republican has held up the nomination of John Brennan as CIA director amid claims that the administration could use drones to target Americans suspected of terrorism.
 
     UNITED NATIONS (AP) – China’s U.N. ambassador is urging calm and a return to negotiations aimed denuclearizing the Korean peninsula Thursday, after Beijing joined the U.S. and the rest of the U.N. Security Council in approving tough new sanctions against North Korea. In Pyongyang, a North Korean general told a massive crowd that the country is ready to fire long-range, nuclear-armed missiles at Washington which he says will be “engulfed in a sea of fire.” The White House says the U.S. is fully capable of defending itself against a North Korean missile attack.
 
     BOSTON (AP) – A late winter storm has swept into New England, dumping a mix of snow and rain that has some coastline communities preparing for heavy street flooding and evacuations. Emergency management officials are worried about getting through two more high tides before the storm is expected to end. In the seacoast town of Scituate (SIT’-choo-eht), Mass., about a dozen streets are closed after this morning’s high tide sent 2 to 2 1/2 feet of water washing into some areas.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – A National Transportation Safety Board investigation is painting a more dangerous picture of a January fire aboard a Boeing 787 than previously portrayed. The report says mechanics and firefighters made repeated, unsuccessful attempts to put out the blaze through smoke so thick they couldn’t see the battery. The Japan Airlines plane had just landed at Boston’s Logan International Airport after an overseas flight. Passengers and crew had just gotten off the plane when a cleaning crew smelled smoke.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – Visitors to the nation’s capital won’t get a clean look at the Washington Monument for a while. Workers started building scaffolding around the 555-foot-tall obelisk Thursday. They’ll be making repairs to stonework damaged in a 2011 earthquake. The work will include sealing cracks, repointing the mortar and strengthening weak spots.