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CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 10 TO 15. NORTHWEST WINDS 10 TO
15 MPH.
.TUESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 30S. WEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY IN THE EVENING…THEN MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SLEET AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE MID 20S. WEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW
POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SLEET. WINDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S. WEST
WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH INCREASING TO NORTHWEST 25 TO 30 MPH IN THE
AFTERNOON.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 15 TO 20. WEST WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH. GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH IN THE EVENING.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 40S. LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE MID 50S.
LOWS IN THE MID 30S.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 60.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN. LOWS AROUND 40.
.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE MID 60S.
LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S.

A CLIPPER SYSTEM TO AFFECT NORTH DAKOTA WEDNESDAY (APR 24, 2013). THIS FEATURE WILL GENERATE A CHANCE OF SNOW AREAWIDE THROUGH THE DAY. ADDITIONAL SNOW AMOUNTS SHOULD BE LIGHT…WITH TOTALS GENERALLY RANGING FROM A TRACE TO ONE HALF AN INCH.  

 

KCSi-T.V.   —  The week of April 22, 2013 is Earth Week, and again this year, the  St. John’s Academy in Jamestown, second grade class with teachers Marlys Fix and Tammy Gapinski, are on The Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 at 8:25 a.m., reading their essays, on saving the earth.

Each day six students  read their essays, at the beginning of the show,  and on Wednesday the students will give a demonstration on saving the earth that  they learned in class.

The students and teachers appearance on The Wayne Byers Show, each day is being recorded, for a special showing of the combined daily appearances, to be shown on CSi 10 THE REPLAY CHANNEL, with the showing dates to be announced.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (KCSi-T.V. News Apr 22, 2013) — – As part of USDA’s Earth Day celebration, USDA Rural Development State Director Jasper Schneider Monday announced that two water districts will receive over $2.5 million in federal financing to expand safe, reliable water services.

Schneider says, “As a vital natural resource, USDA strives to provide and protect water resources in the state. We are proud to partner with the rural water districts to expand essential water services.”

The following two water districts will receive USDA funding.

Stutsman Rural Water District: $1,281,500 loan to expand services to 90 new customers who include residential, agricultural, commercial and industrial users. The expansion will add 76 miles of pipeline, a new water reservoir and SCADA implementation for improved water management.

South Central Regional Water District: $1,285,000 loan for phase IV of the Emmons, Logan, & McIntosh County service area project. The project will bring services to 230 rural customers while adding 315 miles of pipeline, one water storage tank and one booster pump station.

Earth Day is observed annually on April 22 to raise awareness about the role each person can play to protect natural resources and safeguard the environment. Since the first Earth Day celebration in 1970, the event has expanded to include participation by citizens and governments in more than 195 countries.

During Schneider’s tenure as State Director, 42 cities, tribal reservations or water districts have received over $59 million in loans and grants. The projects have provided clean drinking water, safe sanitation and adequate water services across rural North Dakota. To learn more about USDA’s water and environmental programs, please visit www.rurdev.usda.gov/UWEP_HomePage.html.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The National Weather Service says the Red River at Fargo is forecast to rise to 32 feet by next week, 2 feet above major flood stage.
 
     The weather service released its first deterministic river forecast Monday. The  forecast is based on current river conditions and the temperature and precipitation outlook.
 
     The Red River currently stands at about 16.44 feet. Flood stage begins at 18 feet. Major flood stage is 30 feet. The forecast doesn’t say when the Red River will crest in Fargo. That prediction is expected to be issued later this week. 
 
  Sandbagging operations are getting underway in communities along the Red River this week.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The National Weather Service says April has been the snowiest month of the winter for the Fargo area – and that’s not good news for officials gearing up for another flood fight.
 
     Officials say January typically is the snowiest month, but this winter it was the fourth-snowiest.
 
     As of Friday, 16.4 inches of snow had fallen in the Fargo area this month. The next-highest total is 14.6 inches in March. The weather service says this April has been the fourth-snowiest of all time for the Fargo area, with more than a week to go in the month.
 
     Fargo officials are gearing up for what might be the fourth major Red River flood in five years. The weather service says the river has a 40 percent chance of setting a record.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Gov. Jack Dalrymple has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to extend a temporary housing program to Minot and Ward County residents displaced by flooding in 2011.
 
     FEMA’s temporary housing program for Minot-area residents impacted by Mouse River flooding is scheduled to expire June 24. Dalrymple is requesting the program be extended 90 days.
 
     He says an extension would give the displaced residents more time to transition into permanent housing.
 
     The Mouse River flood swamped 4,100 homes and other structures in Minot and Ward County.  About 2,000 Minot-area households relied on FEMA’s housing units for temporary shelter after the flood. Since then, 1,678 households have transitioned to permanent housing while 350 continue to rent FEMA’s mobile housing units.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A weekend news anchorman for a Bismarck television station says he was fired after he opened his first-ever broadcast with obscenities.
 
     A.J. Clemente says on Twitter that KFYR-TV fired him Monday.
 
     The NBC affiliate said in an earlier statement that Clemente was suspended following the Sunday evening broadcast. General manager Dick Heidt says he can’t discuss the incident because it’s a personnel matter.
 
     The station posted an apology online and co-anchorwoman Van Tieu also apologized during the 10 p.m. newscast.
 
     Video of Clemente’s two-word uttering was immediately posted online via social media sites, and the hashtag “Keep AJ” started trending on Twitter in support of the self-described West Virginia University graduate.
 
     Clemente tweeted after the broadcast: “That couldn’t have gone any worse!”

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A home-building company aiming to supply housing for western North Dakota’s booming oil patch wants to set up shop on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, where jobs are scarce.
 
     Rick Downs with ATechBuilder Corp. tells The Bismarck Tribune a home manufacturing facility in Fort Yates could bring up to 45 full-time jobs to the area.
 
     Reservation Pastor Phil Wolverton says there is a need for jobs on the reservation that straddles the North Dakota-South Dakota border. He says many people have gone through construction training at Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates but can’t find work.
 
     The company also wants to open three or four more locations in North Dakota. It already has a facility in the South Dakota city of Aberdeen that’s operated by the Brentwood Hutterite Colony.
 

 

In sports…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Six schools in the Dakotas are starting a new athletic conference.

The North Star Conference will compete in the NAIA, starting in the fall. Its North Dakota members during the first year will be Jamestown College, Mayville State and Valley City State. Its South Dakota members will be Dakota State in Madison and Presentation College in Aberdeen, a former NCAA Division III school.

Presentation was notified Monday that it had been accepted into the NAIA.

Dickinson State in North Dakota plans to join the North Star in 2014-15. That school, the other North Dakota schools and Dakota State all once were members of the now-defunct Dakota Athletic Conference.

The North Star conference plans to hire a commissioner later this spring and be in full operation by July.

　

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The Fargo-Moorhead Curling Club is set to break ground on a $2.5 million rink.
 
     City Park District Executive Director Roger Gress tells The Forum newspaper that the facility will be “an incredible shot in the arm for curling.”
 
     The existing curling rink in Fargo opened in 1967 and needs a new roof. It will be torn down and replaced by a parking lot.
 
     Club President Amelia Young says about $2.3 million has been raised for the new rink and financing has been secured for the remaining amount. Construction is to begin Monday and wrap up in about six months.
 

In world and national news…

 BOSTON (AP) – The surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill — and it’s a crime that carries a possible death sentence. The charges, which came during a visit by federal prosecutors to his hospital room in Boston Monday, represent a decision by the Obama administration to try Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-KHAR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) in the federal court system, instead of as an enemy combatant in front of a military tribunal.
 
     MEDFORD, Mass. (AP) – Hundreds of family members and friends have mourned the death of Krystle Campbell at a church Monday in Medford, Mass. The 29-year-old restaurant manager was one of the three people killed in the bombings at the Boston Marathon. One person who attended the funeral says Campbell’s parents were too distraught to talk — so a pastor spoke for them, saying, “Krystle was always there for people.” She had gone to the marathon to watch a friend finish the race.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House says President Barack Obama will attend a memorial service for victims of the fertilizer plant explosion in the town of West, Texas. The service is scheduled for Thursday at Baylor University. Last week’s blast left 14 people dead and injured 200 others. The explosion was largely overshadowed by the Boston Marathon bombing.
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – Up and down the East Coast, airports are reporting flight delays. This is the first weekday on which thousands of air traffic controllers are being forced to take an unpaid day off because of federal budget cuts. Some flights into New York, Baltimore and Washington are seeing delays of more than two hours. The Federal Aviation Administration has been keeping some planes on the ground because there weren’t enough controllers to monitor the busy air corridors.
 
     CHICAGO (AP) – A state law enforcement agency in Illinois is investigating the son of Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan. This, after a newspaper determined that the son is a part-time suburban Chicago police officer who uses an unmarked squad car to provide traffic control for his father. The Chicago Sun-Times also reports that Mustapha Farrakhan hasn’t worked a shift for the police department in Harvey in more than four years. The police chief there describes him as a “volunteer” officer.