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Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — Meeting Wednesday (May 22, 2013) at the CSi Technology Center, at Historic Franklin School, the Buffalo City Tourism Board reviewed the job evaluation for Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund and approved grant requests.

Board President Aldon Kollman said Swedlund’s evaluation was based on a survey which was on a points basis. A “three” indicated he Exceeded Job Expectations, a “two” means he Meets Expectations, and a “one” indicates, Needs Improvement.

Swedlund’s Points on average were a “two” or better.

Areas included, communications, job knowledge, organization and planning, problem solving, productivity, professional attitude, and others.

Following grant application presentations the Board approved:

A Jamestown Arts Center request of $1536 for Saturday staffing for one year.

A Birding Drives Dakota request for $3,100 for a Jamestown kiosk and signing for was approved for $2,000.

A request of $1,750 for an Xterra off-roading event in cooperation with the Jamestown Community Foundationand R.M. Stoudt was approved, with the stipulation that the dollars be used for advertising only.

JSDC, CEO, Connie Ova gave a report. She said her office has been receiving inquiries from “big box,” retailers stemming from the planned CHS Fertilizer plant to located at Spiritwood, and due to an over run in the area from the western oil patch.

She said JSDC was given a tour of the new Titan Machinery facility west of Jamestown, where she said interior sheet-rocking was starting. Titan was apparently ready to hookup to rural water.

Ms. Ova added that the State Legislature had approved a total of $1.25 million dollars in money available on a one-one match for energy efficiency projects for non-public buildings, available to be applied for later this year.

Searle Swedlund said the Site Advisory Board reviewed two projects including a request from the Frontier Village Association to construct a new building between the Writer’s Shack and the former Doll House, now empty space, for a Wild West Store location.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Flooding caused by days of heavy rain in northeastern North Dakota has affected three communities and a couple of highways.
 
     In Pembina County, the 1,300 people in Cavalier have been evacuated as officials work to shore up the Renwick Dam on the Tongue River. Officials say the dam held overnight.
 
     Some of the 160 people in Crystal have voluntarily left their homes due to floodwaters moving overland through the town.
 
     In Walsh County, officials in Grafton have shored up an emergency levee as the Park River nears a record crest there. About 4,500 people live in the city.
 
     The state Transportation Department says state Highway 18 is closed at Neche (NEE’-chee) due to water on the roadway. State Highway 18 into Cavalier also is closed due to the flood operations.

 WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – People from Moore, Okla., who were working in the North Dakota oil patch when a tornado devastated their city say waiting for word on whether their families were safe was a stressful time.
 
     Monday’s tornado killed at least 24 people, destroyed countless homes and an elementary school, killing seven children inside.
 
     Contract pilot Liz Lillard was in Williston on Monday and watched a live feed of the tornado pass over her children’s day care in Moore. She tells says the two hours it took to learn that her two children were safe was “torture.”
 
     Jason Kindred also was working in North Dakota on Monday when the tornado hit Moore. He says his wife and two children also are safe, but they almost were in the tornado’s path.

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Three former North Dakota State University football players charged in an election scandal last year are now accused of failing to complete the community service required by their probation agreements.
 
     The Forum newspaper reports that court cases have been reopened for D.J. McNorton, Aireal Boyd and Don Carter. They pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor election offense last fall but authorities say they haven’t completed community service.
 
     Phone numbers could not immediately be found for the men. Court documents list an attorney only for Don Carter, and the attorney is on vacation and did not immediately respond to an Associated Press email request seeking comment.
 
     The faked names on petitions cost two proposed measures a spot on the November election ballot, including one on legalizing medical marijuana.
 

By KRISTI EATON
 Associated Press
     A North Dakota advertising agency is suing the creators of a Cartoon Network show, alleging that they copied a Department of Transportation marketing campaign.
 
     H2M, a Fargo-based advertising and marketing agency, is suing Dane Boedigheimer and Spencer Grove in U.S. District Court in North Dakota.
 
     Boedigheimer and Grove are the creators of the animated series “Annoying Orange.”
 
     H2M alleges that Boedigheimer and Grove ripped off a character called The Talking Orange that was created for television commercials for the North Dakota Department of Transportation. The commercials aired in North Dakota and western Minnesota from 2005 to 2010.
 
     Boedigheimer and Grove are both North Dakota natives and attended college in Minnesota.
 
     Emails sent to the Annoying Orange official website and a Cartoon Network spokeswoman were not immediately returned.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple has appointed a longtime Department of Transportation engineer as the agency’s new director.
 
     Grant Levi was appointed Wednesday. He succeeds Francis Ziegler, who retired last November after working for the department for 42 years, the last six as director.
 
     The Transportation Department is one of the state’s largest agencies. It has more than 1,060 employees, and a budget over the next two years of more than $2.8 billion.
 
     Levi has worked for the agency for more than 30 years. He’s 53 years old, and a native of Zeeland in south-central North Dakota.
 
     He says the department’s priority is to “safely move people and goods across the state.”

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Six projects are getting a total of about $332,000 in funding this quarter from the North Dakota Agricultural Products Utilization Commission.
 
     The group better known as APUC funds developers of North Dakota farm products. It’s a program of the state Commerce Department.
 
     The largest grant this quarter is going to Mandan-based Cloverdale Foods. The company is getting $101,000 for promotional work.
 
     Great Plains Processing of Fargo is getting $81,000 to help market specialty crops in new areas of the state.
 
     Another large grant is going to Velva, which is getting $61,000 to research a potential livestock auction.

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Actor Josh Duhamel is returning to North Dakota for the annual State Fair in July.
 
     Parade chairman Jim Clifford announced that the Minot native will be the grand marshal of the State Fair parade on July 20. The theme of this year’s parade is “Transforming North Dakota.”
 
     Clifford says the parade has 70 entries so far.

In world and national news…

MOORE, Okla. (AP) – An Oklahoma emergency management official says authorities still are working to find six adults who haven’t been accounted for since the devastating tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City area earlier this week. The state emergency management director says it’s not clear whether those people had left their properties, or if they might still be found in the rubble. Officials say the tornado that hit the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday killed at least 24 people, including 10 children.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – Tornado survivors and first-responders in Oklahoma will be getting a visit this weekend from President Barack Obama. His spokesman says Obama will travel to the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore and view the tornado damage first-hand.
 
     BELMAR, N.J. (AP) – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says this isn’t time for political payback. He’s urging lawmakers in Washington to support “swift and immediate” aid to tornado victims in Oklahoma — even though Oklahoma’s two Republican senators voted against bills sending $60 billiion to victims of Superstorm Sandy, mostly in New Jersey. Christie says two wrongs don’t make a right.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – Some Federal Reserve policymakers are ready to slow down the Fed’s stimulus program — if the economy shows strong and sustained growth. But the minutes of the Fed’s last meeting indicate that those officials aren’t in agreement over just what evidence would demonstrate such growth. And earlier Wednesday, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke signaled in testimony to Congress that it is too soon for the Federal Reserve to slow down its stimulus effort.
 
     PHOENIX (AP) – The Phoenix jury deciding whether Jodi Arias should be sentenced to life in prison or death has resumed deliberations. The case went to the panel Tuesday afternoon.  Arias had asked the jury to spare her life, saying she’d use her time in prison to bring about positive change. She later talked to The Associated Press and other media outlets, saying she believes she “deserves a second chance at freedom someday.” The same jury earlier this month convicted the former waitress of first-degree murder for killing her lover in 2008.