csi photo matt sheppard

csi photo matt sheppard

CSi Weather…

LATE THIS AFTERNOON…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS.
WEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF SHOWERS 30 PERCENT.
.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS AND SNOW
SHOWERS. LOWS AROUND 30. NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 40S. NORTHWEST WINDS
AROUND 10 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, A 60 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA…POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SNOW SHOWERS, AFTER MIDNIGHT.  SNOW ACCUMULATION UP TO 1 INCH IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA .LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S.
SOUTH WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.SUNDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SNOW SHOWERS. BREEZY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 40S.
NORTH WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 20S. NORTHWEST
WINDS AROUND 15 MPH.
.MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW
SHOWERS. LOWS IN THE MID 20S.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER
40S. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS
AROUND 30. HIGHS IN THE MID 40S.
.FRIDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 40S.

 

 INCLUDES BARNES COUNTY  – SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY
 
 THE FIRST ACCUMULATING SNOW OF THE SEASON IS POSSIBLE SATURDAY  NIGHT INTO SUNDAY. THERE COULD BE A BAND OF 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW ALONG A LINE FROM AROUND DEVILS LAKE TO GRAND FORKS TO BEMIDJI. THE LOCATION OF THIS SNOW BAND WILL BECOME MORE CERTAIN ONCE THE EXACT TRACK OF THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IS KNOWN. IT WILL GET VERY COLD BEHIND THIS ALBERTA CLIPPER…AND NORTHERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT. THE UNSEASONABLY COLD WEATHER WILL CONTINUE NEXT WEEK.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Oct 21, 2013) — The Buffalo City Tourism Foundation (BCTF), Grant/Executive Advisory Board met Friday at The CSi Technology Center, at Historic Franklin School.

Grant applications included:

Advertising for Buffalo City Flyers in the amount of $1,000

The parade train, for the Frontier Village in the amount of $5,000

Advertising for an Ice Fishing Tournament $4,000 & Fishing Personality Ted Takasocki for $3,000 for a total request of $7,000.

The grant requested by the Frontier Village regarding the Parade Train was tabled, pending proof of ownership of the train, and paperwork regarding the Carlascio family transfer of the train. Also to be determined is, if the grant dollars will be used for a purchase, or for repairs to the train.

Shawn Syverson has made some repairs on the train, and is interested in making the donation. The train most recently was at Bonanzaville, and is in disrepair.

At Friday’s meeting, FVA President Charlie Tanata said the train would be in use during the summer at the Village, frequently, but not on an everyday basis.

Toursim Board member, Beth Dewald also suggested varifying if the train is “street legal,” for operations on city streets.

The consensus of the Board is that the tabling is to make sure all issues of the process of the Frontier Village taking ownership is clear, and that the board is excited with the prospect of having the train in regular use, for tourism purposes.

The Board on Friday, approved the grant request of the Jamestown Rural Fire Department of $7,000 for the Ice Fishing Tournament in 2014. The Funds raised will go toward the purchase of a new fire truck for the Rural Fire Department.

Also approved was the request of $1,000 from the Buffalo City Radio Control Squadron for $1,000 for the upcoming Indoor Fun Fly, at the Jamestown Civic Center, on November 16, 2013. Spokesman Larry Gilje said, the dollars are earmarked for advertising, and lodging and meals for participants.

The event includes radio controlled aircraft demonstrations and giving away an Ice Castle trailer, and other items.

The board also learned that traffic on the tourism web site was down over 32 percent in September of 2013 from the month before.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Oct 18, 2013) – The Jamestown Public School District will receive a $10,000 grant this year through America’s Farmers Grow Rural Education, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund.

To celebrate its success, a check presentation will take place Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 before the middle school’s fall band concert. A Monsanto representative and farmers in the community who nominated the school district will be attending the presentation.

America’s Farmers Grow Rural Education, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund, offers farmers the chance to nominate a local public school district, which can then compete for a grant of up to $25,000 to enhance math and/or science education. More than 1,150 nominated school districts submitted applications. The Monsanto Fund will invest $2.3 million through America’s Farmers Grow Rural Education grants this year.

America’s Farmers Grow Rural Education helps farmers support math and science education in local rural school districts. Currently in its second year, this program is part of the Monsanto Fund’s overall effort to support rural education and communities.

America’s Farmers Grow Communities, which offers winning farmers the chance to direct a $2,500 donation to a nonprofit organization in their county, is also part of this effort. To date, these programs combined have contributed more than $15 million to rural communities.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (KCSi-T.V. News Oct 17, 2013)  – – On Wednesday afternoon, Darrin Anderson’s daughters pinned silver eagles on his uniform, signifying his promotion to the rank of colonel. He serves as the 119th Intelligence Group commander in the North Dakota Air National Guard.

Anderson’s wife, Senior Master Sgt. Barb Anderson, who serves full-time at the Fargo base, also took part in the ceremony where Brig. Gen. Ronald Solberg, assistant adjutant general for air, administered the oath of office to Col. Anderson.

Col. Anderson, who’s a native of Valley City, N.D., enlisted in the North Dakota Air National Guard in March 1983 and earned Honor Graduate recognition from the U.S. Air Force Security Police Academy during his initial training as a security specialist, a duty he fulfilled for 11 years. In February 1995, he earned a commission as a second lieutenant and served as the 119th Wing intelligence officer from 1995-2003. Twice – in 1996 and 1998 – he was named the First Air Force Outstanding Reserve Duty Company Grade Officer of the Year.

Anderson’s next role was as the aircraft generation squadron sortie generation flight commander and then, in 2005, he was appointed the aircraft maintenance squadron commander. In 2007, he was named deputy maintenance group commander, and earlier this month he took command of the newly established 119th Intelligence Group.

Anderson earned an associate’s degree in industrial security from the Community College of the Air Force in Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., a bachelor’s degree in business administration from North Dakota State University in Fargo, and a master’s degree in strategic studies from the Air War College Senior Developmental Education Program at Maxwell.

 

MINNEAPOLIS (AP Oct 18, 2013) — Xcel Energy has approval from Minnesota regulators to build four wind farms in the Upper Midwest.

Xcel says the projects will boost its wind power capacity in the region by 42 percent. Approval from the Public Utilities Commission Thursday clears the way for Minneapolis-based Xcel and two energy development companies to work on securing federal tax credits.

Xcel will own the Pleasant Valley wind farm near Austin and the Border Winds Project in Rolette County, N.D. Both are being built by RES America Developments Inc. Geronimo Energy, of Edina, will develop the Courtenay Wind Farm near Jamestown, N.D., and the Odell Wind Farm near Windom and the power will be sold to Xcel under a long term contract.

The Star Tribune says approval from North Dakota utility regulators is pending.

 

     MANDAN, N.D. (AP) – Authorities are investigating the stabbing of a 30-year-old Bismarck man at a bar in neighboring Mandan.
 
     Officers who responded to the Lonesome Dove about 1:30 a.m. Thursday found the victim on the floor inside the back door, with multiple stab wounds. He was taken to a hospital. His condition was not known.
 
     Police say a 38-year-old Bismarck woman was struck in the face by the same people believed to have stabbed the man. She was treated at the scene.
 
     Authorities say they aren’t sure what led to the incident. They are searching for two male suspects they think might be father-and-son bee haulers from southern California.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A Bismarck man is facing a felony child abuse charge for allegedly shaking his 16-month-old son.
 
     Authorities allege that the son of 21-year-old Jeremy Young suffered eye and brain injuries that might be permanent.
 
     Judge Bruce Romanick on Thursday set bond for Young at $25,000. Young requested a court-appointed attorney. No attorney was listed in court documents on Friday, and a home telephone listing for Young could not immediately be found.
 
     Young could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

 

 LINCOLN, N.D. (AP) – The Lincoln police chief who’s on paid administrative leave because of a domestic violence restraining order against him apparently thought about resigning.
 
     The Bismarck Tribune reports it obtained letters showing Chief Marcel Sim submitted a letter of resignation last week but later retracted it.
 
     He did not return messages seeking comment and the lawyer who represented him earlier no longer does.
 
     Mayor Bob Johnston says Sim remains on paid administrative, which started Sept. 25. Johnston says he’s still awaiting information on the personal matter, and meetings on the issue will likely be scheduled soon.
 
     According to court documents, a restraining order against Sim was signed Sept. 23 after a hearing involving him, his wife and their attorneys. 

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A Fargo woman is going to federal prison on a 15-year sentence for driving local crack cocaine dealers around town in exchange for small amounts of the drug.
 
     The sentence for 55-year-old Karin Ilene Condon was much lighter than it could have been because she has several drug-related felonies on her record. She could have gotten life in prison.
 
     But her attorney told The Forum  that Condon she shared with authorities a large amount of information on people in the area who make and sell drugs.
 
     Condon pleaded guilty in April to being part of a 16-person conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances in the Fargo-Moorhead, Minn., area, including crack cocaine, cocaine and heroin.

 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – The city attorney for Grand Forks has concluded that City Councilman Doug Christenson did not improperly vote on city business in which he had a stake.
 
     Resident Doug Marshall asked for an investigation in May, alleging that Christenson should have abstained from voting on tax incentives or subsidized loans for companies he represents as an attorney or that his firm represents.
 
     Marshall’s allegations also are being investigated by the state Supreme Court’s disciplinary board.
 
     Christensonsays he feels “100 percent exonerated” by the finding of City Attorney Howard Swanson that he did nothing wrong legally or ethically as far as the city is concerned.
 
     Marshall declined comment on Swanson’s review, saying the matter was in the hands of the Supreme Court.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A send-off ceremony is planned this weekend for about 40 North Dakota Army National Guard soldiers bound for a year of duty in Kosovo.
 
     The guard says the ceremony for Company C, 2nd Battalion of the 285th Aviation Regiment is set for 10 a.m. Sunday at the Army Aviation Support Facility in Bismarck.
 
     The soldiers will head to Fort Hood in Texas for final training and then serve overseas in support of the NATO-led international peacekeeping mission in Kosovo.
 
     The unit served in Iraq in 2009.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Federal workers are back on the job throughout North Dakota after the end of the 16-day partial shutdown of the federal government.
 
     Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the western Badlands is once again open to visitors. Chief Ranger Dean Wyckoff tells The Dickinson Press that it’s a good feeling.
 
     The Bureau of Land Management’s North Dakota field office in Dickinson also is getting back up to speed. More than 500 oil and gas drilling permit applications are awaiting consideration.
 
     U.S. Attorney Timothy Purdon says  his office also has a lot of catching up to do, but will get the job done.

 

In world and national news…

 WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s nominee to run Homeland Security is expected to shift the department from a focus on immigration toward protecting the nation from attack. Jeh (jay) Johnson has spent most of his career dealing with national security issues as a military lawyer. As general counsel at the Defense Department, he’s overseen the changing of military commissions to try terrorism suspects rather than using civilian courts and the escalation of the use of unmanned drone strikes during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The president is announcing his nomination this afternoon.
 
     ISLAMABAD (AP) – A U.N. expert is calling on the United States to reveal the number of civilians it believes have been killed by American drone strikes targeting Islamic militants. Ben Emmerson says preliminary information indicates more than 450 civilians may have been killed by drone strikes in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen, but more work needs to be done to confirm the figures. He says the secrecy surrounding the strikes “creates an accountability vacuum and affects the ability of victims to seek redress.”
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – Tom Foley has died. The courtly former congressman represented Washington state for 30 years in the House of Representatives and served more than five years as speaker. During that time, the Democrat never served a single day in the minority but lost his seat when Republicans seized control of Congress in 1994. Heather Foley says her husband died at their Washington, D.C., home of complications from a stroke he suffered last December. Tom Foley was 84.
 
     ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – Two escaped murderers in Florida registered as felons at the Orange County jail three days after they were mistakenly released from prison. According to criminal history records, Joseph Jenkins and Charles Walker filled out paperwork and were fingerprinted at the jail. Both had been serving life sentences, but forged documents duped prison officials and the court system into releasing them. Law enforcement officials are now searching for the men.
 
     PARIS (AP) – French police say a gunman is holding a man and a woman hostage at a Paris bank as a protest over housing. More than a dozen police officers have been deployed outside the bank and have blocked off roads around the busy shopping district (Place de l’Italie) where it’s located. Police say the gunman is upset that he wasn’t eligible to get social housing.