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REST OF TODAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 40S. NORTHWEST
WINDS AROUND 5 MPH.
.TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 15 TO 20. NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.THURSDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 40S. WEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE MID 20S.
SOUTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF SNOW POSSIBLY MIXED WITH RAIN
IN THE MORNING…THEN CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN
THE LOWER 40S. SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND 15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE
SOUTH 5 TO 10 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
40 PERCENT.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
AND SNOW. LOWS AROUND 30.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER
30S. LOWS IN THE LOWER 20S.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S.
LOWS IN THE LOWER 20S.
.VETERANS DAY THROUGH TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT
CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S. LOWS 15 TO 20.
CHANCES OF RAIN OR SNOW FRIDAY MORNING WITH PRECIPITATION BECOMING ALMOST ALL RAIN AS TEMPERATURES RISE DURING THE DAY. THE BULK OF THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD BE ACROSS NORTHERN NORTH DAKOTA ON FRIDAY
Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Nov 6, 2013) — The Valley City Education Association has not accepted an adjustment recommended by the Valley City School Board negotiating team concerning medical insurance.
The State Fact Finding Commission adjusted a section to its report on the medical insurance issue.
The school board agreed to the Fact Finding Commission recommendations.
VCEA president Kathy Lentz said the Association would only accept the Fact Finding Commission report without adjustments with no further negotiations.
Fact Finding Commission chairman Dean Rummel will publish a full page report in the Valley City Times Record after November 13, 2013, explaining to the public why the negotiations failed, and in his opinion, who, compromised a possible agreement.
Update
Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Nov 6, 2013) – Several Otter Tail Power Company customers, mainly in Northwest Jamestown lost electrical service about 10:20 a.m., on Wednesday.
Jeff Hoff at the Jamestown office said Otter Tail Power was looking for the cause of the outage, and power was restored about 11:49 a.m., to a portion of Northwest Jamestown, with all customers back on line within 2 and a half hours of the start of the outage.
He said crews isolated the problem with an underground cable located west of First Avenue and and north near Highway 281, with crews making the repairs.
He adds that about 800 customers were affected in the area west of First Avenue, and north of the railroad tracks.
Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Nov 5, 2013) — With the Jamestown sanitary sewer project, Interstate Engineering reports the intersection of 1st Street SW and 3rd Avenue SW, near Renaissance Recycling, is closed for construction on Wednesday, November 6, 2013. This closure is expected to be in place for two weeks. A detour is in place and access will be provided for area businesses during this time.
3rd Ave NW is open for about a half block south starting at 3rd St NW.
To enter CSi, customers are reminded to go west on 2nd St SW to 4th Ave SW, go north 1/2 block and enter the CSi parking lot from the west.
With the closing of the 1st Street intersection, the detour to access west of the river will be via 2nd Street to 4th Ave, up to 1st Street to use the 1st Street bridge.
The intersection of 17th St SE and 19th Ave SE opened Wednesday afternoon.
Also, local traffic can access 10th St SE between 15th Ave SE and 19th Ave SE, near Gerdau Recycling, from the east via 19th Ave SE.
Questions can be directed to Darrell Hournbuckle with Interstate Engineering at (701) 252-0234.
View the construction map at:
Another note to motorists that utility work to repair a buried electric line had CLOSED the drive-up mail boxes at the Jamestown Post Office. Check back for any further updates.
Jamestown, ND, November 6, 2013— Jamestown Regional Medical Center (JRMC) CEO Todd Hudspeth has informed the JRMC Board of Directors of his resignation, effective January 14, 2014. He has accepted a hospital CEO position at Cass County Health System in Atlantic, Iowa.
Hudspeth stated that his fiancé, children, siblings and parents all live in Iowa and that he has struggled to stay connected to them with the distance.
“This was an incredibly difficult decision for me because I work with a very talented and dedicated team of healthcare professionals—the administrative team, managers, employees, board and physicians are all dedicated to helping JRMC become the best rural hospital in the country,” said Hudspeth, “I leave JRMC knowing that the hospital has a very bright future ahead of it and I am confident that JRMC will continue to excel in achieving its goals that have been set for the coming years.”
Hudspeth became JRMC’s President and CEO in August 2011, the same time that the new facility opened. Hudspeth is credited with helping to open and fine-tune the new building as well as leading the effort to construct the 45,000 square foot medical office building attached to the west side of JRMC. He was a key leader in bringing new services to JRMC, like the addition of orthopedics and technology like 3D mammography—North Dakota’s first. Hudspeth also initiated the hospital’s current effort to add oncology services to the community.
“Two-and-a-half years ago Todd was hired as the CEO because he conveyed big-picture thinking. He values the importance of strategic planning and implementation, and it shows. Our latest employee and customer satisfaction rankings are positive, and indicate that the cultural change he is promoting has been very successful,” said Connie Krapp, JRMC Board Chair, “In the upcoming weeks we will finalize a deal with Sanford Health that will bring cancer treatment to Jamestown. Todd provided the leadership and vision that made that and other endeavors a reality.”
Prior to joining JRMC, Hudspeth was CEO of Buena Vista Regional Medical Center in Storm Lake, Iowa. Hudspeth has held other leadership positions, including CEO at Guthrie County Hospital in Guthrie Center, Iowa, director of the Storz Cancer Institute at Clarkson Hospital in Omaha, NE and manager of Radiation Oncology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
The process of selecting a new CEO will be discussed at the next JRMC Board of Directors’ meeting.
About Jamestown Regional Medical Center
Jamestown Regional Medical Center is a 25-bed, critical access hospital located at 2422 20th St. SW, Jamestown, ND. For more information on services at JRMC, visit www.jrmcnd.com or call 701-952-1050.
Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Nov 6, 2013) — The VCSU Theatre will be hosting about 300 students and faculty from Hillsboro-Central Valley, Enderlin, Oak Grove, Central Cass, Kindred, and Northern Cass high schools for the Region II One-Act Festival.The event takes place Thursday, November 7, 2013, from 8:30-a.m., to 3-p.m., at Vangstad Auditorium.
GRENORA, N.D. (AP) – A saltwater spill has been reported about 13 miles southeast of Grenora in Williams County.
The North Dakota Department of Health says about 300 barrels of brine water were released on a well site there. Approximately 200 barrels have already been recovered and the rest of it is being cleaned up.
The department says the spill is contained to the well site.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The number of North Dakotans using food stamps to buy groceries has dropped to a three-year low, even as the state’s population has risen to an all-time high.
Federal Agriculture Department figures show North Dakota had an average of just under 59,000 people per month receiving food assistance in fiscal year 2012. That’s down from 60,900 in 2011 and nearly 60,000 in 2010.
Food stamp director Arlene Dura says the decrease is due to the state’s strong economy and its low unemployment rate.
Data show North Dakota’s population has increased from about 672,500 people in 2010 to nearly 700,000 in 2012.
Federal figures show the number of U.S. residents receiving food stamps monthly increased from 40.3 million in fiscal 2010 to 46.6 million in fiscal 2012.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A Spirit Lake Reservation woman has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for abuse that led to a child’s death.
Thirty-two-year-old Hope Louise Tomahawk Whiteshield, of St. Michael, pleaded guilty in July to child abuse and witness tampering. She was sentenced in Fargo on Wednesday.
Authorities say Tomahawk Whiteshield threw a step-granddaughter who was just shy of 3 years old down an embankment in June, then bathed and clothed the unresponsive child and put her to bed. An autopsy concluded the girl died of a head injury.
The case was one of several held up by authorities to show the ineffectiveness of the tribe’s child protection system.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – The attorney for a man accused of killing the mother of his child and three other people in Minot in January 2011 says the judge in the case improperly admitted hearsay evidence about Omar Mohamed Kalmio’s past.
Attorney Russell Myhre also told the North Dakota Supreme Court on Tuesday that Kalmio was not allowed to give an alibi, and that there was not enough evidence for a conviction.
Ward County State’s Attorney Kelly Dillon argued that all four people were killed with the same weapon, and the only connection between the four people was Kalmio.
Kalmio, a Somali national, is serving life in prison without the possibility of parole. The Supreme Court justices will rule on his appeal later.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Bismarck-based Basin Electric Power Cooperative has signed agreements to buy the electricity produced by two new wind farms in western North Dakota.
Infinity Wind Power, based in Santa Barbara, Calif., will be developing the Sunflower Wind Project near Hebron and the Antelope Hills Wind Project near Golden Valley.
The projects with a combined capacity of 278 megawatts are slated to be operational by the end of 2015. A megawatt is roughly enough electricity to power about 300 homes.
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Democrats who are up for re-election next year are hoping they won’t be affected by the problems that have plagued the rollout of the new health care law. And they met Wednesday with President Barack Obama and other administration officials, to hear how those problems are being addressed. One of the senators, Mark Udall of Colorado, says he urged Obama to extend the enrollment period — and to ensure the security of personal information submitted to the government website.
WASHINGTON (AP) – It’s a promise that the Obama administration is no longer making — that those who like their health insurance policies will be able to keep them. And one Republican senator Wednesday tried to get Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to say whether that statement is true. She declined to give a yes or no answer. Insurers have been sending cancellation notices to customers whose current policies lack enough coverage to meet the more demanding standards of the law.
NEW YORK (AP) – New York’s new mayor-elect says he has a mandate “to create a city in which our prosperity is shared and there is opportunity for all.” Democrat Bill de Blasio spoke a day after he defeated Republican rival Joe Lhota, 73 percent to 24 percent, in incomplete, unofficial returns. It would be the largest margin of victory for a non-incumbent in the city’s history. He will need that political capital in order to tackle his signature campaign promise: to raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers in order to fund universal pre-kindergarten.
UNION CITY, N.J. (AP) – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has taken a victory lap, of sorts, at a charter school, the day after cruising to re-election. At the school in Union City, he said he’ll continue to push for opportunities for city children to get a good education. The blunt-talking Republican beat Democrat Barbara Buono by 20 points in the Democratic-leaning state. Union City is populated predominantly by Hispanics, a group Christie courted in the governor’s race and whose support he will need if he runs for president. An exit poll shows Christie and Buono split the Hispanic vote.
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) – A judge says a New York woman who drowned her three children in 2008 is not entitled to a share of their estate. The ruling was made today in the case of Leatrice (luh-TREES’) Brewer. She was found not guilty because of mental disease in the drownings. Brewer was seeking a share of the $350,000 that was awarded to the children’s estate. The money came from lawsuits their fathers settled with Nassau County over claims that social service workers failed to properly monitor the mother.
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