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.MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN. HIGHS IN
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40. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN. HIGHS
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NORTHWEST WINDS 25 TO 45 MPH WILL AGAIN DEVELOP FRIDAY.
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Valley City (CSi) A Sanborn man involved in a semi accident on I-94 near Valley City, Wednesday morning, was arrested Thursday morning, and charged stemming from a pickup truck accident in Valley City.
Valley City Police reports that Terry Johnson of Sanborn, was the driver of the truck that struck a pole in front of the AmericInn parking lot around 5:30am Thursday morning.
When police arrived, Johnson was unconscious sitting in the driver’s seat of the truck.
He was taken to Mercy Hospital in Valley City for treatment of injuries.
During the Thursday accident investigation, Valley City Police recovered from the pickup what is alledged to be methamphetamine, marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
Johnson is facing drug related charges in connection with this incident.
Johnson was the driver of a semi trailer hauling barley Wednesday morning that crashed into a bridge guardrail on Interstate 94 eastbound near Valley City. The Highway Patrol is still investigating the cause of that crash.
Jamestown (CSi) The proposed renovation and expansion of the Alfred Dickey Public Library in downtown Jamestown, if approved by a simple majority of voters on November 4, 2014, would help preserve and expand the library.
On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, the James River Valley Library System Director, Joe Rector said, the expansion of the library will allow for more children’s programs and services, and include new adult programs.
Also on our show the JRVLS Development Director, Bill Kennedy added that the expansion of the library would include a community room that would accommodate about 60 people for library programs and for community meetings.
Rector said the number one issue is renovation of the existing library and then expansion as the additional structure would allow for more electronic access, and flexibility, and children’s and adult program .
Kennedy added the planning is in Phase One, with floor plans and architectural renderings in place.
If the project is approved by voters Phase Two would entail working drawings, with public input concerning the plans.
If approved by voters, the spring of 2015 would start the demolition of the two buildings north of the Alfred Dickey Public Library, with the spring of 2016 the opening, of the new and expanded library, which may come in two phases, with the grand opening coming when the new facility is completely finished.
Kennedy says the library survey currently has about 160 respondents with about 80 percent having positive views and comments about the project.
The survey is available at the library’s web site
www.jrvls.org and click on the “Take the new library survey here,” button. Or call Bill Kennedy at 701-252-2217.
He added that in a couple of weeks, a postcard mailing will be sent out with the information on the ballot measure (#1) on the local ballot, plus a brief outline of what supporters want the public to know about the benefits of the renovated and expanded library.
Jamestown (CSi) The Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) will host a Big Sit!™ at the Warbler Woodland Wildlife Viewing Area. This FREE, fun event will be held Sunday, October 12, 2014 from 7:30 am – dark at the Warbler Woodland Wildlife Viewing Area on the Refuge. Come for an hour or so, or join us for the day. The Refuge is located northeast of Pingree (off Highway 281) or south west of Kensal (off Highway 9). The Big Sit! is a non-competitive birding event. The Big Sit! is like a Big Day, or a bird-a-thon in that the object is to tally as many bird species as can be seen or heard within 24 hours from a 17-foot diameter circle.
The Big Sit! is an annual, international, noncompetitive birding event hosted by Bird Watcher’s Digest and founded by the New Haven (CT) Bird Club. The Big Sit! has been adopted by the National Wildlife Refuge System as part of National Wildlife Refuge Week celebrations.
The Arrowwood NWR is just one of over 550 National Wildlife Refuges spread throughout the country. Today, the National Wildlife Refuge System encompasses more than 94 million acres, dedicated to its mission of wildlife conservation. The Big Sit! allows birders of all ages as well as the non-birding public to enjoy their local National Wildlife Refuge.
THIS FREE EVENT is OPEN to every person; young or older, birder, nature enthusiast or just a refuge visitor looking for something to do!
The Warbler Woodland Wildlife Viewing Area is located on the east side of Arrowwood Lake, north of 11th Street SE. From Highway 281, turn east on to 11th St. SE and go about 6.5 miles. From Highway 20, turn west onto Highway 9 and a second west onto 11th St SE and go about 4.5 miles. For additional information call 701.285.3341, ext. 104.
Jamestown (CSi) The 12th Annual Gospel Music Jamboree is set for Sunday October 12, 2014, at Temple Baptist Church at 1200 12th Avenue, Northeast in Jamestown.
A free will offering will be accepted with proceeds going to the Jamestown Salvation Army, with the meal served after the entertainment, by the Women of the Church.
Scheduled to perform are:
Singer/Songwriter, and recording artist, Greg Hagar from Valley City.
“Old Friends,” including Kerry Wicks, Mark Urguhart, and Jeremy Gray, Nick Holden, Rocky Seifried, Marcia Gums, and Kenny Gilbertson.
“A Rising Star,” Erika Hermanson, accompanied by Cheryl McIntyre.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Fire has damaged the historic Masonic Temple in Grand Forks.
The cause of the blaze early Thursday at the century-old building was not immediately determined. Fire Battalion Chief Mike Sandry says the building that’s listed on the National Register of Historic Places suffered smoke and moderate fire damage.
Sandry says no people were hurt.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Fargo police are working to identify suspects in a violent home invasion in a mobile home court.
Lt. Joel Vettel says the suspects broke into the home through a window, vandalized the home and a car outside, tried to set fire to furniture and stabbed a dog.
Two teenage boys who were in the home at the time of the break-in about midnight Wednesday were not hurt, but the dog had to be euthanized.
Vettel says the incident is part of an ongoing dispute between two groups in the neighborhood and involves people known to have gang connections.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The head of North Dakota’s Game and Fish Department says the agency still can’t account for 12 guns missing from a hunter education program.
Director Terry Steinwand says the agency has exhausted its investigation. He says the missing guns are entered in a federal database so they’ll be tracked if they ever show up.
The issue of the missing guns surfaced in a June review by the state auditor’s office that criticized the agency’s misuse of public money and its “noncompliance with laws, rules and policies.”
Problems uncovered by auditors included improper payments to employees and more than 100 guns missing from the volunteer hunter education program. Most of the guns were found and Steinwand has said steps are being taken to correct other problems.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – University of North Dakota officials say the UND medical school is not in danger of losing its accreditation despite a warning from an agency that monitors education standards.
UND President Robert Kelley told the state Board of Higher Education on Thursday that the Liaison Committee on Medical Education found that the med school failed to meet compliance standards in 10 of 132 categories.
Kelley told the board he’s confident the school can fix the problems.
Medical School dean Joshua Wynne says the school is not on probation and has one year to address the issues. He says several medical schools are facing similar questions from the accreditation agency.
The board asked Wynne to give an update when the school’s action plan is completed.
CROSBY, N.D. (AP) – Longtime state Sen. John Andrist says he’s retiring due to declining health.
Andrist says he plans to resign his seat effective Nov. 30 and move to an assisted living center in Fargo. Three of his five children live in the city. The 83-year-old widower suffered a stroke two years ago.
The Republican from Crosby was first elected to the Senate in 1992, serving District 2 in the northwestern corner of the state. He has been known for being an advocate of rural North Dakota.
He is a retired publisher and past-president of both the North Dakota Newspaper Association and the National Newspaper Association.
Andrist has been writing newspaper columns for more than 60 years for the Crosby Journal. He wrote a farewell column this week.
ONALASKA, Wis. (AP) – Nearly 100 emergency responders are training this week for the possibility of a large oil spill on the Mississippi River caused by a train derailment.
The training is a response to rapidly rising rail shipments of crude oil from North Dakota that pass by the Mississippi. North Dakota has more than doubled its oil production in the last two years to more than 1 million barrels a day.
Federal, state and local emergency responders gathering in the La Crosse area will practice deploying booms to contain a spill, learn how to deal with oil-covered wildlife and train in communication and organization.
David Morrison of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is directing the exercise. Morrison says the energy boom is bringing a lot of crude oil in regular proximity to natural resources and refuge areas.
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) – Hundreds of airmen and several B-52 bombers are leaving Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota to return to their Minot Air Force Base home in North Dakota.
The planes and airmen have been stationed at Ellsworth for about half a year while a $67 million runway upgrade was completed. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the project was held Monday, and the airmen and bombers began returning Wednesday.
Bombers and airmen temporarily reassigned to Anderson Air Base in Guam in the western Pacific during the project returned last month.
Minot bombers are often deployed to Guam. Ellsworth also was chosen as a temporary site because the base is home to B-1 bombers.
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Texas health officials have ordered four close family members of the Ebola patient in Dallas to stay in their home, and they’ve posted law enforcement outside to be sure. Federal and Texas health officials are reaching out to about 100 people to determine if they have had contact with the Ebola patient hospitalized in Dallas. But Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden says they’ve only identified a handful of individuals so far who may really have been exposed and will be monitored.
HONG KONG (AP) – Student leaders of the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong haven’t yet responded to an offer by the territory’s leader to hold talks aimed at defusing a week of massive street demonstrations. Hong Kong’s chief executive made the offer as he refused demands from the protesters that he resign. Many of the protesters are expressing disappointment with the proposal, saying the offer includes no details.
EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) – President Barack Obama says the decisions Washington will make about the economy in the coming years will set the conditions for middle-class growth in the 21st century. Obama was speaking speaking at Northwestern University near Chicago. He says that while the economy has improved under his presidency, it’s “indisputable” that millions of Americans still aren’t feeling the benefits. The president says while he’s not on the ballot in November, his economic policies are.
WASHINGTON (AP) – One economist says it’s “just a matter of time” before there’s a “run of big gains” in monthly hiring figures. Ian Shepherdson of Pantheon Macroeconomics is reacting to Thursday’s report that the number of people seeking unemployment benefits last week fell by 8,000 — and that the total number of people on unemployment is at its lowest level in more than eight years. The government’s September jobs report is due out Friday.
LONDON (AP) – A jury in London has convicted a British woman of buying poison over the Internet. But jurors cleared the woman of trying to kill her mother, in a plot that prosecutors said was inspired by an episode of “Breaking Bad.” The woman had been accused of slipping a toxin similar to ricin (RY’-sin) into her mother’s cola after she was forbidden from marrying.
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