Sunrise Over James – Matt Sheppard

CSi Weather…

TODAY…CLOUDY WITH  20 PERCENT  CHANCE OF LIGHT  SNOW IN THE
MORNING…THEN PARTLY SUNNY IN THE  JAMESTOWN AREA THIS AFTERNOON. BREEZY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S. NORTH WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH.
.TONIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS AROUND 20. NORTHWEST WINDS
10 TO 20 MPH.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 30S. NORTH WINDS 10 TO
15 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 15 TO 20. NORTH WINDS AROUND 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHEAST AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW IN THE
AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE MID 30S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH
INCREASING TO AROUND 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S.
.SUNDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW AND SLEET.
HIGHS IN THE LOWER 40S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW AND SLEET. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 20S. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 40S.
.WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW AND SLEET IN THE MORNING…THEN SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN AND SLEET IN THE AFTERNOON.
HIGHS IN THE UPPER 40S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.

 

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — The Jamestown City Council met in Special Session Wednesday afternoon at City Hall.

The first item was to enter into Executive Session to consult with the City Attorney concerning territorial service claims by Stutsman Rural Water District.

At issue is which entity will serve Titan Machinery’s location under construction west of Jamestown, and other parcels in that area, within the one mile extra-territory of Jamestown.

　

Those present at the Executive Session were: Mayor Andersen,

Assistant City Attorney Mary Jensen, City Administrator Jeff Fuchs, City Council Members, Kourajian, Gumke, Brubakken, and Buchanan, along with City Engineer Reed Schwartzkopf , City Fire Chief Jim Reuther, Public Works Director Steve Suko, and on telephone conference call, Tammy Norgaard from Vogel Law firm in Fargo.

Following the Executive Session the open portion of the Special Session was reconvened.

Mayor Andersen said, Council Member Gumke had to leave the meeting at 4:27 p.m. and was not present for votes later.

She said the city is to offer Stutsman Rural Water District a Territory Exchange.

The plan is to allow SRWD to serve Titan in exchange for the city to serve any new development in the quarter section of land directly south of the entrance to Jamestown Regional Airport.

The quarter includes some areas served by Jamestown and allows the city to extend water lines into the rest of the area.

She added while no formal agreement has been reached between the city and SRWD, the plan will be sent to Stutsman Rural Water District, noting that the two entities have had good communications and correspondence.

The next agenda item was the awarding of the bid for sewer district only, at the Titan Addition, to Manito Construction in the amount of $393,360. .

The Mayor said the construction date was also amended to reflect a later possible start date.

She said should the city and SRWD not reach a water service agreement the city is still willing to be the water service provider to Titan.

The vote to approve the bid award was 4-0.

In other business, the City Counci declared an emergency and directed the replacement of the water main on 11th Avenue Southeast between 12th Street and 13thStreet.

City Engineer, Reed Schwartzkopf said the main there has broken seven times in the past five days, within a range of 100-120 feet. He said the main is likely to keep breaking without immediate replacement.

The project will be bid, and expected to cost about $42,000.

11TH Ave SE between 12th & 13thSt SE will be closed for water main replacement work due to a “cascade” failure in the water utility line.

Crews anticipate the repairs will take 7-10 working days, weather permitting. The Street will remain closed in order to facilitate the repairs.

Residents in the area may experience short periods of water outages during the repair period.

Motorists’ should use caution in and around this area and use alternate routes if possible.

The open portion of the meeting was shown live on CSi 67, followed by replays.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — Puppy Partners is a pilot program coming to Jamestown and the area in May 2013, where individuals help with foster care and training of service dogs, starting with puppies.

The program is sponsored by the United Way and private donations.

On Wednesday’s (Apr 17, 2013) Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Service Dogs for America, Executive Director, Pamela Standing said, two classes per month are planned for participants to learn first-hand about hands on service dog obedience training, for a period of 16-18 months..

The program will operate within a 50-mile radius of Jamestown.

Ms. Standing said, the participants give the puppy, about 4 months old, a home, while taking the dog everywhere with them daily.

Currently 13 lab/golden retriever mix puppies are available for training.

SDA will provide veterinary care, orientation, training materials, a puppy starter kit, and two training classes each month, along with planned socialization activities.

Volunteer Puppy Partners play a significant role in the pup’s socialization period, because an assistance dog eventually will live with and accompany a disabled person everywhere throughout his or her daily life.

Puppy Partners help SDA produce more confident assistance dogs that will enhance and enrich the lives of people with disabilities.

Puppy Partners have the opportunity to meet the individual for whom the dog is being trained.

SDA Development Director Shelley Nannenga noted that Service Dogs for America is a nonprofit corporation established in 1992 with a mission to assist physically and mentally challenged individuals to gain greater independence and autonomy by use of trained and certified assistance dog.

More information by calling 701-685-2242#1, or E-Mail info@servicedogsforamerica.org

　

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Senate has approved a measure to provide $50,000 to train service dogs to assist veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The Senate voted unanimously yesterday to provide the funding. Supporters say the funding over the next two years is enough to train four dogs.

 

Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Apr 17, 2013) — The Valley City Area Chamber of commerce reports that, the Annual Chamber/Development Corporation Banquet will be Tuesday, May 14, 2013, at Sabir’s in Valley City.

At the Banquet several awards will be given, including the Community Spirit Award and Business of the Year Award – both of which are nominated by chamber members.

Nominees can be emailed, called or faxed in.

The deadline to submit nominees is April 26, 2013.

The Valley City Chamber is also looking for a nonprofit group who needs a great fund raiser.

The opportunity to sell the Rubber Ducks for the Duckin Down the Sheyenne Race during Rally in the Valley is until Friday April 19, 2013.

Chamber officials note that n average, active groups raised around $3000 doing the event.

More information on nominee forms and the duck application by contacting the Valley City Area Chamber of Commerce.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The Farm Rescue nonprofit’s annual banquet this fall will feature a benefit concert by country music singer Jason Brown.
 
     North Dakota-based Farm Rescue provides planting and harvesting help to farmers in the Dakotas, eastern Montana, Minnesota and Iowa who have suffered a major injury, illness or disaster. Brown was born and raised in Iowa, and he says helping farmers in crisis is “just the right thing to do.”
 
     Farm Rescue was launched in 2006 and helped its 200th farmer last year. That figure is likely to approach 250 by the end of this year.
 
     Farm Rescue’s annual banquet is Nov. 1 at the Best Western Ramkota in Bismarck.

 OAKES, N.D. (AP) – A Brampton man faces hit-and-run charges connected to the death of a 28-year-old Oakes man.
 
     Twenty-two-year-old Dakota Sutton appeared in Southeast Judicial District court on Wednesday on charges of murder, manslaughter, drunken driving and driving with a suspended license. He’s accused of striking Reavis Dandridge with his truck on Sargent County Road 2, about four miles south of North Dakota Highway 11, on April 7. 
 
      Judge Brad Cruff set bail at $500,000. His next court appearance has not yet been set. A lawyer representing Sutton wasn’t immediately available for comment.

 

  FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Fargo police are investigating the death of a North Dakota man who was set to go on trial next month for the alleged sexual assault of a Minnesota woman. Forty-six-year-old Richard Haaland was scheduled to go to trial May 2nd in Moorhead, Minnesota on a charge of felony first-degree criminal sexual conduct. He was accused of raping a woman in her car in downtown Moorhead in September.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The National Weather Service says there’s a 40 percent chance that flooding from the Red River in Fargo could set a record, up from 15 percent in March.
 
     The new forecast released Wednesday shows that the river should peak in a range between 39 and 41 feet, likely in late April or early May. Flood stage is 18 feet.
 
     The record flood was 40.84 feet in 2009.
 
     The last forecast by the weather service, based on historical probabilities, gave the 50 percent chance of peaking at 38 feet in Fargo.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Fargo’s Sandbag Central is reopening for business.
 
     The city is calling on volunteers to fill an additional 500,000 sandbags, to go with the one million bags that were made in early April and 300,000 bags left over from the 2011 flood.
 
       The city is using a storage shed for garbage trucks for its sandbag filling operations. Most of the bags are produced by people manning three machines that funnel the sand. Each machine can produce 5,000 bags an hour.
 
     Sandbag Central is set to resume operations today.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A Roman Catholic priest nationally known for his anti-abortion activism says North Dakota’s tough new abortion laws are examples for other states to follow.
 
     The Reverend Frank Pavone addressed more than 400 people Wednesday at a rally outside the state Capitol in Bismarck.
 
     Pavone leads a New York-based group called Priests for Life. He and other speakers thanked North Dakota lawmakers and Governor Jack Dalrymple (DAHL’-rimp-ul) for passing measures this session that give the state the strictest abortion laws in the U.S.
 
     The bills are meant to close the state’s sole abortion clinic in Fargo and to challenge the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe versus Wade ruling that legalized abortion up until viability, usually at 22 to 24 weeks.
 
     Pavone says North Dakota’s actions are “echoing from coast to coast.”

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A doctor testifying in a trial challenging a North Dakota law that opponents argue would end drug-induced abortions says it’s very common to prescribe drugs for purposes other than what’s printed on their final label.
 
     The Red River Women’s Clinic of Fargo is challenging the 2011 law that bans the use of one of two drugs used to induce abortions.
 
     The law bans the use of an abortion-inducing drug not labeled for that purpose. The state’s lone abortion clinic uses a combination of two drugs in medication abortions. One is labeled for use in medication abortions, while the second is not.
 
Dr. Daniel Grossman, an assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco, testified for the clinic in the trial’s second day.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp says she could not support a measure to tighten restrictions on the sale of guns because it would have placed undue burdens on law-abiding people.
 
     A measure to expand background checks for the sale of guns failed in the Senate. Heitkamp was one of five Democrats who voted against it.
 
     In a statement, Heitkamp says she has thought a lot about the background-check measure and heard from North Dakotans. She says she voted to protect Second Amendment rights.
 
     Heitkamp says she believes the focus of gun safety should be on mental health issues, full and accurate reporting to a national database that keeps track of those not eligible to buy guns, and making sure criminals are prosecuted for possessing guns or trying to get them.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Fargo Republican Senator Tim Flakoll has been chosen as the North Dakota Senate’s new president pro tempore (pro TEM’-por-ay). The job involves presiding over Senate sessions when the lieutenant governor is absent.

 

In sports…

 INTERLEAGUE
 
   Final    Kansas  City      1    Atlanta      0
   Final    N-Y  Yankees      4    Arizona      3
 
     Texas    at    Chi  Cubs    (8:05  p.m.,    postponed,  Rain)
 
 
       AMERICAN  LEAGUE

The series finale between the Los Angeles Angels and Minnesota Twins was postponed by rain.
 
   Final            Oakland                  7    Houston          5
   Final            Boston                    6    Cleveland      3
   Final            Tampa  Bay              6    Baltimore      2
   Final            Chi  White  Sox      7    Toronto          0
   Final            Detroit                  2    Seattle          1,  14  Innings
 
 
 
       NATIONAL  LEAGUE
 
   Final    Pittsburgh      5    St.  Louis              0
   Final    Cincinnati    11    Philadelphia        2
   Final    Washington      6    Miami                      1
   Final    Milwaukee        4    San  Francisco      3
   Final    San  Diego        7    L.A.  Dodgers        2
 
     N-Y  Mets    at    Colorado    (8:40  p.m.,    postponed,  Rain)
 
 
       NATIONAL  BASKETBALL  ASSOCIATION

 SAN ANTONIO (AP) – Derrick Williams scored 21 points last night as the Minnesota Timberwolves topped the San Antonio Spurs 108-95. Chase Budinger added 15 points for the Timberwolves, who snapped a 16-game losing streak at San Antonio. Gary Neal and Tim Duncan both scored 17 points for the Spurs, who had previously clinched the Western Conference’s second seed.

  NEW YORK (AP) – The Atlanta Hawks lost their chance to move up in the East standings. Chris Copeland scored 33 points on a night that belonged to the benches, and the New York Knicks wrapped up their winningest season in 16 years by beating the Hawks 98-92 for their 54th victory.
 
   Final          Toronto              114    Boston                    90
   Final          Charlotte          105    Cleveland              98
   Final          Brooklyn            103    Detroit                  99
   Final          Milwaukee            95    Oklahoma  City      89
   Final          Dallas                  99    New  Orleans          87
   Final          Miami                  105    Orlando                  93
   Final          Philadelphia    105    Indiana                  95
   Final          Denver                118    Phoenix                  98
   Final          Memphis                86    Utah                        70
   Final          Chicago                95    Washington            92
   Final          Golden  State      99    Portland                88
   Final  OT    L-A  Lakers          99    Houston                  95
   Final          L-A  Clippers    112    Sacramento          108
  UNDATED (AP) – Carmelo Anthony captured the NBA scoring title without even suiting up last night. Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant, who would have needed 70 points to surpass Anthony, conceded the title as both he and Anthony sat out rather meaningless regular season finales in the NBA last night.

 UNDATED (AP) – The NBA playoffs will open Saturday with New York hosting Boston, and Chicago visiting Brooklyn. Defending champion and top-seeded Miami hosts Milwaukee on Sunday, and the Hawks visit the Indiana Pacers.
 
     In the West, the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder play the Houston Rockets, San Antonio hosts the L.A. Lakers, Denver is home against Golden State and the L.A. Clippers have the home-court edge against Memphis.

 

 GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) – New York Knicks forward Rasheed Wallace, who returned to the game at the start of the season after being retired for two years, has retired again.
 
     Knicks head coach Mike Woodson says Wallace has continued to have pain in his surgically repaired left foot.
 
       NATIONAL  HOCKEY  LEAGUE

 BOSTON (AP) – In the first major sporting event in Boston since the Boston Marathon bombings, Drew Stafford scored the only shootout goal after Buffalo tied the game in the final minute of regulation, and the Sabres beat the Bruins 3-2 before an emotionally charged sold-out crowd at TD Garden. The Bruins clinched a playoff berth with the point and climbed into a tie with Montreal for the Northeast Division lead.
 
   Final            Pittsburgh      6    Montreal      4
   Final            Calgary            3    Detroit        2
   Final  OT      Columbus          3    Anaheim        2

 

 NASCAR-TEXAS PENALTIES…
  
     FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – NASCAR came down hard on Penske Racing, with six-race suspensions for seven crew members of defending Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski and teammate Joey Logano. The team was also assessed $200,000 in fines for bringing unapproved parts to Texas Motor Speedway for last weekend’s race.
 
     Each driver and car owner was docked 25 championship points, dropping Keselowski from second to fourth in the Cup standings and Logano from ninth 14th.
 
     Penske Racing has vowed to appeal, a move that would put any suspensions on hold.
 

 TENNIS-MONTE CARLO…
 
     MONACO (AP) – Eight-time champion Rafael Nadal (rah-fay-ehl nah-DAHL’) has now won 43 straight matches at the Monte Carlo Masters. He upped the count by cruising past Marinko Matosevic 6-1, 6-2 in second round play. Top seeded Novak Djokovic (NOH’-vak JOH’-kuh-vich) needed more than 2 hours to beat Mikhail Youzhny 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.

 

In world and national news…

WEST, Texas (AP) – Waco police Sgt. William Patrick Swanton says there’s no indication a gigantic blast at a fertilizer plant in nearby West, Texas, was anything but an industrial accident. Swanton says a very preliminary estimate is that between five and 15 people died. The blast leveled the plant and buildings for blocks in every direction.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama heads to Boston today to speak at an interfaith memorial to those killed and wounded in the bombings at the marathon. Americans also will be looking to the president to offer reassurances about the nation’s safety as investigators scramble to answer key questions about the attack. Investigators have an image of a potential suspect.
 
     CORINTH, Miss. (AP) – A Mississippi man is under arrest in the mailing of allegedly tainted letters to the president and a senator.  Paul Kevin Curtis is said to believe he had uncovered a conspiracy to sell human body parts on the black market. Authorities are waiting for definitive test results on a substance in the letters.
 
     BEIJING (AP) – The infections of some people who had no recent contact with live fowl is perplexing experts nearly three weeks after China reported finding a new strain of bird flu in humans. The uncertainty adds to challenges the Chinese government faces in trying to control the spread of the H7N9 bird flu virus, which has already killed 17 people and infected 66 others in the country.
 
     KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – The International Committee of the Red Cross has issued a warning about the warm spring weather in Afghanistan ushering in a deteriorating security situation. Militants traditionally step up their attacks in the spring when mobility becomes easier. So far, April has been the deadliest month this year.