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REST OF TODAY…MOSTLY SUNNY, WITH  ISOLATED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON.
CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.
.TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 60S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH.
.FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN
THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S. SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND
5 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA A 20 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EVENING. LOWS IN THE MID 60S. NORTHEAST
WINDS AROUND 5 MPH.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS IN THE
AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. NORTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. LOWS IN THE
LOWER 60S.
.MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR WITH SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS AROUND 60.
.WEDNESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S.

A FEW SHOWERS AND STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT, SOUTH OF I94/WEST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER

A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL…STRONG WINDS…AND LARGE HAIL.

THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAINFALL POTENTIAL WILL HIGHLIGHT THE EXTENDED FORECAST FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

A FEW STRONG STORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON ACROSS THE REGION. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE…ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST AND FAR SOUTH CENTRAL  IN THE 1.75 TO 2.00 INCH RANGE FRIDAY THROUGH AT LEAST SUNDAY.

HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING WILL BE A
 CONCERN WITH SLOW MOVING…WARM RAIN PROCESS DOMINATED
 THUNDERSTORMS.

 

Jamestown (CSi) Central Valley Health District in Jamestown will provide flu shots at businesses.

Avoid unnecessary missed work days due to illness.

Continue to operate your business efficiently with a healthy workforce.

BCBS covers flu shots, avoiding any out of pocket expense to either the employee or employer.

To schedule your business call Marcia at 252-8130.

Clinics will be held beginning in early October.

 

Jamestown (CSi) South Central Dakota Regional Council, in Jamestown, has announced the awarding of a Bush Foundation Community Innovation Grant, in the amount of $121,500.

It will be used to bring community leaders together to create a process that assures safe, quality buildings in the region, with an inspection program that can be utilized in the region.

Executive Director Deb Kantrud says, one of their top concerns was the need for building inspector services.

The Bush Foundation has awarded nearly $5 million to 34 organizations in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

SCDRC serves Barnes, Dickey, Foster, Griggs, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh, Stutsman and Wells counties.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota National Guard says it’s sending a helicopter and four soldiers to Washington state to help battle wildfires.
 
     The military says two pilots, two crewmembers and a Black Hawk helicopter from the Bismarck-based 112th Aviation Regiment will be in Washington state for about 20 days.
 
     The military says officials in Washington state sent a request for additional resources to fight wildfires after their own state resources were exhausted.
 
     The Guard says several other states have responded with help.
 

Bismarck CSi The North Dakota Game and Fish Department reports, the boat ramp at Twin Lakes near LaMoure is closed until further notice due to a prop wash hole at the bottom of the ramp.

The hole is causing damage to trailers when launching and loading boats.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Police are searching for a handgun reported stolen from an unlocked vehicle in downtown Bismarck.
 
     The  9 mm pistol was stolen sometime last week.
 
     The owner of the gun says the vehicle was unlocked because it had been broken into before.
 
     Police say the gun is valued at $500.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota has become the sixth state to have residents join a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over Missouri River flood damage.
 
     Flooding in previous years – particularly 2011 – prompted a March lawsuit by more than 200 landowners in South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri.
 
     Plaintiff’s attorney Eddie Smith says some people in North Dakota have now joined the lawsuit, and many more are expected after informational meetings in Bismarck this week.
 
     Rural Mandan homeowner Judy Masset says the lawsuit isn’t just about being compensated for damage but also about getting the corps to make flood control a priority.
 
     The federal government has said the corps shouldn’t be blamed for major flooding on the river because the management system doesn’t guarantee a flood-free zone.

 

 SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – A woman who was held captive for nine months has underscored the importance of work performed by health care professionals, law enforcement and social workers to rescue and support kidnap victims.
 
     Elizabeth Smart-Gilmour told a South Dakota forum on Wednesday that such work “makes a difference” in the fight against human trafficking and sexual abuse.
 
     Smart-Gilmour was taken from her Utah bedroom in June 2002 at age 14 and held for nine months. The now-26-year-old described her capture and the repeated sexual assaults she endured. She told how she was moved from Utah to California.
 
     The conference aims to raise awareness about human trafficking in the Dakotas, partly fueled by the recent massive influx of oil workers to area.
 
     Smart-Gilmour heads a foundation that educates children about sexual crimes.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Some National Guard soldiers who have been serving in Afghanistan since January are back home in North Dakota, a bit early.
 
     Three soldiers with the 814th Medical Company flew into Fargo on Wednesday and one flew into Bismarck. A fifth soldier was flying to Piedmont, South Carolina, where she lives.
 
     The soldiers returned to the U.S. about three months early and went through the demobilization process at Fort Hood, Texas. More members of the 40-person company are to return at the end of the month and the rest at the end of October.
 
     The soldiers deployed to Afghanistan to provide emergency trauma service and operate troop medical clinics. They’re coming home early as part of a recent drawdown of American troops there.

 

In world and national news…

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The widow of Robin Williams is revealing that he was in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease when he apparently took his own life. In a statement, Susan Schneider says Williams was also struggling with depression and anxiety. She says Williams had not been ready to share his Parkinson’s diagnosis publicly.
 
     FLORISSANT, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s governor is promising there will be a “different tone” in the way police in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson deal with protests over the police shooting death of an unarmed black teenager. Jay Nixon spoke at a meeting of clergy and community members today. President Barack Obama, meanwhile, appealed for “peace and calm” in the community where there have been several nights of chaos since Saturday’s fatal shooting. Obama said that “emotions are raw” now, but that “we’re all part of one American family.”
 
     KAMENSK-SHAKHTINSKY (AP) – Russia has raised the stakes in the conflict in Ukraine — sending an aid convoy of more than 200 trucks to the border, but not yet trying to cross that border. Ukraine’s government is threatening to use all means available to block the convoy unless the Red Cross is allowed to inspect the cargo. That would ease concerns that Russia could use the aid shipment as a cover for a military incursion in support of the pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine — who have come under growing pressure from government troops. 
 
     TURIN, N.Y. (AP) – Kevin Ward’s family and friends are remembering him as a “small-town boy” who loved the sport of dirt-track car racing. Hundreds of mourners jammed a high school in upstate New York today for a funeral service for the 20-year-old who died after he was struck by a car driven by NASCAR champion Tony Stewart last weekend. 
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – A new study finds that more than two-thirds of the recent rapid melting of the world’s glaciers can be blamed on humans. Scientists looking at glacier melt since 1851 didn’t see a human fingerprint until about the middle of the 20th century. Even then only one-quarter of the warming wasn’t from natural causes. But Ben Marzeion (mahr-TSY’-ohn) at the University of Innsbruck in Austria says since 1991 about 69 percent of the melt was man-made. Experts say this study is the first to calculate just how much of glacial melting can be attributed to people. The study is published in the journal Science.