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Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Sept 6, 2012) — The Jamestown City Council held another in the series of 2013 budget meetings, Thursday afternoon, at City Hall. Council Member Buchanan was not present, at the start, and then came in to the meeting.

The City Council had approved the preliminary budget, up to Thursday’s meeting, the figures can not be increased, but they could be decreased.

At Thursday’s meeting the City Council reviewed the Enterprise Funds.

　

With the Water Department:

The software request was for $31,000.

 

Leak Detection Services, at $40,000-$55,000 per block.

“Hot Spot Testing,” would be done first.

$325,000 will be left in the fund, with the possibility of Special Assessing the costs to the benefited property owners.

A Lime Storage Facility Driveway was also discussed.

A five percent rate increase is proposed to be included in this budget.

　

With the Sewer Utility Fund:

Items included, new equipment, and a new overnight employee, at the Waste Water Treatment Plant, before the Great River Energy plant comes on line, possibly in early 2013.

Project Expenditures were also reviewed, and the purchase of a boiler at $239,000, and a heat exchanger at $165,000.

The addition of a “scrubber,” that strips selected elements, before the gas flaring, could be bonded for over 20 years.

With the addition of a employee, coupled with the rate adjustment the fund would operate at a loss of $31,000.

With the Sanitation fund, a net revenue surplus is expected.

　

With the Solid Waste Fund:

A $12,000 expenditure for a furnace for the Baler.

$8,000 for a cement pad, for roll-off boxes.

$95,000 for a cold storage building.

A $19,000 net loss in the fund is project for 2013.

Any additional employee was approved to hire for 2013.

A time-study of an employee at the inert landfill may be included.

　

Equipment Replacement Funds…

Includes the Police Department, for two patrol units, and the Cushman Unit, for parking enforcement, along with equipment for the solid waste facility.

　

Engineering Funds…

An exchange of a vehicle was discussed.

Other department budget requests have been heard.

The next budget meeting will concern Capital Construction, Convention/Promotion, Tourism, and the Public Building Sites, fund.

The City Council to make the final approval of the budget, later this month, with the final vote at the October Council meeting.

With action by the City Council, Thursday, the proposed budget is five mills lower than the 2012 budget, and no increase is anticipated in city property taxes for the 2013 budget.

A surplus in the General Fund is anticipated, of about $189,000, with a projected Mill Levy of 8-mills, a reduction of 5-mills was approved.

The next budget meeting was planned for September 17, 2012, at 3:30-p.m.

Thursday’s meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 67.

 

The preliminary budget contains a 2.5 percent step wage increase for eligible city employees and a two percent cost of living adjustment.

Mayor Andersen recently said, the city will pick up addition portions of employees health insurance under the plus dependent and family plan.

The mayor added this is the first time the city has picked up those additional shares of the policies, in order to keep the city competitive with other political sub-divisions and the private sector in terms of health insurance premiums paid by employees.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — Patriots’ Day, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, will be commemorated in Jamestown with a program and a Freedom Walk/Parade through downtown Jamestown.

The event is sponsored by the Patriotic Council.

This is the 11th Anniversary of the 9-11 tragedy and a chance for our Jamestown area residents to commemorate and remember the event.

Freedom Walk is a free and nonpartisan event open to the general public.

This is not a platform to discuss politics or policies.

Patriotic Council, Chairman, Charlie Kourajian says, “The purpose of this event is simply to continue the traditional Jamestown Freedom Walk started several years ago to reflect on the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001, renew our commitment to freedom and the values of our country and to honor our military members and their families and our first responders”.

The event will start with a half mile walk through downtown Jamestown at 5:30 p.m., starting at the All Vets Club, 116 1/2 First Street East.

After the walk, the Vets Club will host a free spaghetti supper served (about 6:00 p.m.) followed with a short program of remembrance of the 9-11 tragedy and a show of support for our troops and first responders.

Police chief Scott Edinger will be the speaker.

Kourajian adds, “This will be an opportunity for the community to remember the 9-11 terrorist attack on our country and the people who perished as a result. “It will also be a chance to show our appreciation and our continued support of our troops wherever they may be, abroad or stateside. Everyone is invited to attend, the walk route is short and should be an interesting walk/mini-parade downtown. If you can’t make the walk, you are invited to come for the supper and enjoy the program.”

For more information, call Charlie Kourajian at 320-3015.

　

From Jamestown College…

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. New) — Jamestown College has announced that Scott Hanna, from Indonesia, and Timothy Juelson, of Bismarck, were presented with the Young Alumni Medallion at Opening Convocation at 11 a.m. on Thrusday, September 6, 2012.

Scott Hanna works for PT Freeport in Indonesia, a company with operations in the Indonesian province of Papua that include exploration and development, mining and milling of ore containing copper, gold and silver and the worldwide marketing of concentrates containing those metals.

Scott serves as the Chair of the American Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia (AmCham) Young Professionals Committee.

He has lived in Indonesia for more than six years and speaks the Indonesian national language, bahasa Indonesia, fluently.

Scott Hanna graduated with honors from Jamestown College in 2002, where he was president of the student government and NAIA Dakota Athletic Conference Scholar Athlete in football.

He later received a master’s degree from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also served as an AmeriCorps volunteer in an elementary school.

Scott has also attended the AB. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University.

He was selected as the 1998 North Dakota Horatio Alger National Scholar, an award targeting students who have overcome adversity to achieve scholastically, and subsequently selected from the thousands of scholars selected since 1984 as the Horatio Alger 2004 Alumnus of the Year.

Scott serves as a volunteer coach in flag football league for local children and has helped develop and organize a series of first-even, grass-roots charity events in Jakarta to help children including: Crossfit for Hope Jakarta, which raised more than $30,000 in one day to help Indonesian children suffering from cancer; and Drive Books, Not Cars which has raised more than $10,000 in the past year to support kids’ education in Indonesia.

Dr. Timothy J. Juelson, joined The Bone and Joint Center in Bismarck, in 2011.

He is a board eligible orthopaedic surgeon with an additional year of fellowship training in arthroscopic surgery and the treatment of sports related injuries.

Dr. Juelson earned a bachelor’s degree in biology with a minor in chemistry at Jamestown College where he graduated magna cum laude in 2001.

While at Jamestown, he received the Melvin R. Arnold Scholarship, competed in collegiate track and field and was the Jamestown College Science Club President.

Dr. Juelson went on to the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences where he obtained his medical degree.

There he co-authored many papers and peer reviewed journals and presented at a national meeting where he received recognition for his third year research project.

He then completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

During his last year of residency, he served as chief resident and his research project won a national poster competition in 2010.

Dr. Juelson completed a Sports Medicine fellowship at The Andrews Institute in Gulf Breeze, Fla.

During his career he has worked with countless high school, collegiate, and professional athletes from around the world.

He has served as a team physician to the University of West Florida national championship baseball team, University of Auburn national championship football team, Washington High School football, Gulf Coast Community College, and Gulf Breeze High School football.

Dr. Juelson is a member of both the Arthroscopy Association of North America and the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine.

Dr. Juelson spends a lot of his extra time traveling to Chicago where he volunteers instructing other orthopaedic surgeons on complex procedure in the knee and shoulder.
Hanna and Juelson addressed students, faculty, and staff gathered at the Opening Convocation and named a mentor whom they felt influenced their Journey to Success at Jamestown College.

Hanna named Dr. Mark Joy and Juelson named Dr. Karl Steffan.

The Young Alumni Medallion is presented each year to young alumni of Jamestown College who exemplify the characteristics of a Jamestown College liberal arts education while demonstrating lifelong learning, community service, and character.

 

Bismarck, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Sept 6, 2012)  –  NDDOT says  authorities hope to reopen a section of Highway 281 to oversized loads, by sometime Friday.

The highway south of Jamestown, near Edgeley is affected because a setion of the roadway became blocked Thursday because a wind turbine component that fell off a trailer.

Normal traffic and semi-trucks can get around the closed area by taking an adjacent frontage road.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Bond for a Fargo woman accused of stabbing a
Horace man has been set at $10,000.
     The Cass County Sheriff’s Office say 21-year-old Sarah Natasha
Harris appeared in court Thursday on an aggravated assault charge.
     Harris is accused of stabbing a 36-year-old man in the neck, arm
and chest at his Horace home on April 1.

Authorities say the man was treated at a Fargo hospital for the injuries.
     An aggravated assault charge carries a maximum sentence of 10
years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

 

  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Agriculture Department is offering help for farmers who are eligible to apply for federal disaster aid because of drought.
 
     Farmers and ranchers in a group of 16 eastern North Dakota counties may be able to apply.
 
     North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring (GORE’-ing) says farmers have up to eight months to apply for emergency loans from the federal Farm Service Agency.
 
     Goehring says the state ag department’s mediation service can provide help with loan applications.
 
     He says the state-owned Bank of North Dakota also has a disaster relief loan program.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota state parks are on pace to
set a record for campers.
     The Parks and Recreation Department says that through August,
the 13 state parks recorded 60,469 camper nights, 2,638 more than
at the same time in 2010. That year saw a record 62,769 camper
nights.
     The department also says that daily visitation at the parks
should exceed a million people for the fourth year in a row.
     State Parks Director Mark Zimmerman says the parks have made a
remarkable recovery from widespread flooding last year.

 

 WEST FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota-based wind tower
manufacturer is being sold to a company in Texas.
     Parent Otter Tail Corp. says it is selling DMI Industries Inc.
plants, property and equipment in West Fargo; Tulsa, Okla.; and
Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada; to Dallas-based Trinity Industries Inc.
for $20 million.
     The Fort Erie transaction closed on Sept. 6, and the West Fargo
and Tulsa transactions are to close in the final two months of the
year.
     DMI employs 500 people among its three locations, including 216
in West Fargo. Otter Tail did not say how the sale will affect
them.
     Otter Tail’s second-quarter earnings report said there has been
a reduced demand for wind towers in part because of uncertainty
surrounding the future of a federal tax break for wind energy.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A Fargo lawmaker is proposing an increase in North Dakota’s merit-based college scholarship program.

State Senator Tim Flakoll says the plan would increase the amount of each scholarship to $2,500, with a maximum of $10,000 for undergraduate work.

Flakoll says the proposal would add $4 million to the budget for the 2013-15 period.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Wildlife officials are warning Fargo
residents to steer clear of a moose that’s been spotted wandering
around the city.
     The  moose was spotted Wednesday morning near the Fargodome and North Dakota State University property.
     State wildlife biologist Doug Leier says the moose has been
spotted in the area several times since April.
     Officials say the moose can be dangerous, especially if
provoked.

In sports…

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The new artificial turf in the Fargodome is
being replaced after only a month.
     Facility General Manager Rob Sobolik says there was a problem
with the underside of the turf.

The AstroTurf company is replacing it at no cost to the dome. 

The project will cost about $1 million.
     Sobolik says there was no issue with the surface of the old turf, and it was safe for players when the North Dakota State University football team hosted Robert Morris last Saturday.
     Sobolik says the new turf will be ready for NDSU’s September
22nd home game against Prairie View A and M.
     NDSU Athletic Director Gene Taylor says the school might buy the old turf for one of its practice fields.

 

PREP VOLLEYBALL
     Benson County def. Rolette-Wolford, 25-16, 25-13, 25-13
     Beulah def. Washburn, 25-7, 23-25, 25-22, 25-20
     Bismarck JV def. Linton-HMB, 18-25, 22-25, 25-21, 25-17, 16-14
     Bison, S.D. def. Bowman County, 25-21, 18-25, 25-21, 21-25, 15-13
     Carrington def. Jamestown JV, 25-12, 25-17, 25-18
     Dickinson def. Bismarck Century, 23-25, 25-23, 18-25, 25-16, 15-13
     Divide County def. Powers Lake, 13-25, 25-12, 25-13, 26-24
     Drake/Anamoose def. Surrey, 25-20, 25-13, 25-27, 25-21
     Ellendale def. Edgeley-Kulm, 25-15, 23-25, 25-18, 25-14
     Fargo Davies def. Valley City, 21-25, 25-15, 22-25, 25-10, 15-12
     Fargo North def. Wahpeton, 25-23, 25-13, 25-13
     Fargo Oak Grove Lutheran def. Richland, 25-5, 25-18, 25-17
     Fargo Shanley def. Grand Forks Red River, 22-25, 25-20, 25-14, 26-24
     Glenburn def. Underwood, 25-19, 25-20, 23-25, 25-18
     Grand Forks Central def. Devils Lake, 25-14, 25-18, 23-25, 25-15
     Hatton-Northwood def. Griggs County Central, 25-15, 25-18, 25-19
     Kenmare def. Bottineau, 20-25, 28-26, 25-12, 24-26, 15-12
     Lakota/Adams-Edmore def. Dakota Prairie, 25-20, 25-7, 25-10
     LaMoure def. Barnes County North, 25-8, 25-16, 25-6
     Larimore def. Cavalier, 25-21, 25-15, 25-9
     Midkota def. Harvey-Wells County, 25-17, 25-16, 25-16
     Midway def. Valley-Edinburg, 25-21, 18-25, 25-23, 25-18
     Minot Our Redeemer’s def. Hazen, 25-10, 25-8, 25-13
     Mohall-Lansford-Sherwood def. Velva, 25-20, 19-25, 25-15, 28-26
     Napoleon def. Kidder County, 25-22, 25-18, 25-21
     North Border def. Minto, 25-23, 26-24, 25-19
     North Star def. Towner-Granville-Upham, 25-8, 25-13, 25-6
     Northern Cass def. Maple Valley, 25-16, 25-10, 25-17
     Oakes def. Lisbon, 25-18, 25-23, 22-25, 25-17
     Park River/Fordville Lankin def. Drayton-St. Thomas, 25-23, 25-11, 25-10
     Pingree/Buchanan-Kensal def. Central Prairie, 21-25, 25-16, 25-12, 25-18
     Ray def. Tioga, 25-11, 25-15, 25-14
     Richardton-Taylor def. Mott-Regent, 25-17, 25-20, 25-10
     Rolla def. St. John, 25-16, 25-15, 25-14
     Sargent Central def. Wyndmere-Lidgerwood, 25-16, 26-24, 25-21
     Sawyer def. Des Lacs-Burlington, 25-20, 25-19, 29-31, 25-22
     Stanley def. Burke County, 25-16, 25-14, 21-25, 25-11
     Strasburg-Zeeland def. Litchville-Marion/Montpelier, 25-8, 25-13, 25-8
     Thompson def. Hillsboro/Central Valley, 25-16, 26-24, 25-10
     Trinity Christian def. Parshall-White Shield, 25-22, 25-18, 25-14
     Watford City def. New Town, 25-21, 25-11, 25-18

 

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS…

First Round
 (Best-of-5)

Winnipeg 2, Fargo-Moorhead 0
     Wednesday, Sep. 5: Winnipeg 4, Fargo-Moorhead 2
     Thursday, Sep. 6: Winnipeg 5, Fargo-Moorhead 3
     Friday, Sep. 7: Fargo-Moorhead at Winnipeg, 8:05 p.m.
     x-Saturday, Sep. 8: Fargo-Moorhead at Winnipeg, 8:05 p.m.
     x-Sunday, Sep. 9: Fargo-Moorhead at Winnipeg, 8:05 p.m.

 
 Wichita 2, Laredo 0
     Wednesday, Sep. 5: Wichita 6, Laredo 0
     Thursday, Sep. 6: Wichita 9, Laredo 5
     Friday, Sep. 7: Laredo at Wichita, 8:05 p.m.
     x-Saturday, Sep. 8: Laredo at Wichita, 8:05 p.m.
     x-Sunday, Sep. 9: Laredo at Wichita, 8:05 p.m.
     

MLB…

 AMERICAN LEAGUE
 
  Final     Baltimore   10  N-Y Yankees   6
  Final     Texas        5  Kansas City   4, 10 Innings
 
 
    NATIONAL LEAGUE
 
  Final     Atlanta      1  Colorado      0
  Final     Miami        6  Milwaukee     2
  Final     Washington   9  Chi Cubs      2

 

Athletics pitcher Brandon McCarthy is alert after having
surgery for a skull fracture and brain contusion caused by a line
drive.

The Oakland right-hander was hit in the head Wednesday by a
liner off the bat of Erick Aybar of the Los Angeles Angels.

There is no timetable for his return.

 

TENNIS…

  NEW YORK (AP) – Defending U.S. Open champion and No. 2 seed
Novak Djokovic (NOH’-vak JOH’-kuh-vich) defeated 2009 champion and
No. 7 seed Juan Martin del Potro (wahn mar-TEEN’ dehl POHT’-roh) in
straight sets to reach the semifinals at the final Grand Slam event
of the year.

David Ferrer (feh-REHR’), the fourth-seed, outlasted
eighth-seeded Janko Tipsarevic (YAHN’-koh tihp-SAYR’-oh-vihch) to
reach the semifinals for the second time in his career.

 

GOLF…
     
     CARMEL, Ind. (AP) -Rory McIlroy starts second-round play at the
BMW Championship at Crooked Stick in Indiana in a four-way tie for
the top spot.

Bo Van Pelt, U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson and
Graham DeLaet of Canada also shot 64 yesterday with Tiger Woods
looming one shot.
   NHL-TALKS…
     

     NEW YORK (AP) – While the NHL and the players’ association stay
away from the negotiating table, discussions have taken place
behind the scenes in an effort to restart talks as a lockout
deadline looms.
     NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly and NHLPA special counsel
Steve Fehr (feer) have discussed procedural details that could soon
lead to a continuation of negotiations that broke off last week –
perhaps as early as this week.
     The current collective bargaining agreement between the NHL and
the NHL Players’ Association expires on Sept. 15.

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has said he will impose a lockout then if a new deal hasn’t been reached.

 

 NBA-HALL OF FAME-COLANGELO…
          SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) – Center Court at the Naismith Memorial
Basketball Hall of Fame will now be named for former Phoenix Suns
general manager Jerry Colangelo.

Colangelo is chairman of the hall’s board of directors and the head of USA Basketball.

He was the architect of the American victories in the 2008 and 2012
Olympics.
     Also, the hall announced that Wayne Embry will receive the
Chairman’s Cup. Embry had an 11-year career in the NBA before
becoming the league’s first black general manager.

 

In world and national news…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – President Barack Obama is asking
Americans to give him more time to improve the economy.

 He told voters in his speech last night to the Democratic Convention, “Our
problems can be solved, our challenges can be met.”

Obama also acknowledged what he called, “my own failings.”
     
     CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – President Barack Obama and Republican
challenger Mitt Romney spend the day campaigning in New Hampshire.

Obama hits the Granite State with Vice President Joe Biden and both
their wives. Romney also stops in Iowa today, and his running mate,
Paul Ryan focuses on Nevada.
     
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The government releases the latest jobless
figures this morning, and some economists are expecting no change
in the 8.3 percent unemployment rate.

Experts surveyed by FactSet say the economy likely generated 135,000 jobs in August.
     
     BEIRUT (AP) – State-run TV in Syria says a bomb has exploded
outside a mosque in the Syrian capital, and there are casualties.

Reports say the bomb went off in a neighborhood in Damascus as
worshippers were leaving the mosque after Friday prayers.

A Syrian official tells The Associated Press that at least 10 people were
wounded, some seriously.
     
     CAMP BASTION, Afghanistan (AP) – Britain’s Prince Harry has
begun a four-month combat tour in Afghanistan as a gunner for an
attack helicopter.

It’s the second tour for the 27-year-old, who’s third in line to the throne. And it’s a definite shift from last month, when embarrassing naked photos emerged of Harry in a Las Vegas hotel room playing strip billiards.