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Jamestown (CSi) Float entries are being accepted for the 2014 Holiday Dazzle Parade, in Jamestown.
On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSI Cable 2, Jamestown Downtown Association, Ambassador Charlie Kourajian said, now is the time to start planning and constructing floats.
This year parade planners would like to have over 50 floats.
Those who have participated in past parades should have gotten a letter, if not and plan to participate, call Charlie at 320-3015 for a registration form and instructions. Or E-mail
mainstreet@csicable.net or go online to www.jamestowndowntown.com
Also anyone wishing to be a $100 parade sponsor should contact Charlie.
Sponsors will be listed in advertising as a valued sponsor.
The parade is planned for Friday November 28, 2014 on 1st Avenue in Jamestown starting at 7-p.m. from McElroy Park to 3rd Street North.
There will be trophies and $100 cash for the best floats in the categories of :
Best Dazzle,
Most Original Theme,
Most Outstanding Amateur Built
Most Outstanding Civic or Non-Profit.
There will be a meeting of parade participants, on Monday November 24, 2014 at Babb’s at from 5-p.m., to 7-p.m.
Float numbers and other instructions will be presented at the meeting.
The Jamestown Community Christmas tree lighting will be after the parade, with the time dependent on the number of floats in the parade, with the tree lighting about 7:45-p.m., with a short program at the tree location, at the west side of the Civic Center, before the lighting.
Charlie pointed out that the tree this year will have about 1,500 new larger and brighter lights, with new wiring.
Jamestown City Forester, Doug Wiles says, the tree this year is a Colorado Blue Spruce stands just under 40 feet, and is being donated by Lloyd Landscoot, located at 821 16th Street, Northeast, across from Leapoldt Park.
Following the tree lighting the After Parade Party will be held at the Gladstone Inn & Suites, with cookies provided by Hugo’s and entertainment by the Jamestown Choralaires.
Also on our show, JDA President Nancy Miller said that Jamestown Tourism approved a grant request of $1,000 to advertise the evening as a regional event, to attract tourist to Jamestown.
She pointed out that she, along with Charlie and Lynn Lambrect recently attended a statewide meeting of downtown association members who exchanged ideas.
She pointed out that last summer the hanging flower baskets were extended on downtown light poles, with 140 on display, and that the downtown Christmas decorations are back this year.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Authorities say a patient and a staff member were injured in a small fire in the patient’s room at Sanford’s main hospital campus in downtown Fargo, but neither one of them was hospitalized as a result of the incident.
Firefighters responded to the call just before 5:30 a.m. Thursday. Hospital officials say that 10 patients were evacuated from nearby rooms and staffers had the fire out when firefighters arrived on scene.
Hospital officials say privacy laws prohibit them from releasing condition reports for the patient or staff member.
Fargo Fire Chief Steve Dirksen says the fire appears to have started in or near the bed in the single room. He says the cause is “fairly obvious” but an official report will not be issued for at least three days.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Lawyers for North Dakota’s lone abortion clinic in Fargo are asking the state Supreme Court to clarify a portion of a recent ruling that limits the use of pregnancy-terminating drugs.
In a divided decision released late last month, the North Dakota Supreme Court said the 2011 state law that bars the use of one of two drugs used by the clinic in medication abortions didn’t violate the North Dakota Constitution.
Attorneys for the clinic filed a petition for rehearing on Wednesday to “resolve any lingering ambiguity” about the “practical effect” of the law. Clinic attorneys argue the Supreme Court found that the law’s intent “does not impose a ban on all medication abortions.”
The clinic halted medication abortions one day after the high court’s ruling.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The attorney for the Dickinson State University Foundation says he doesn’t expect the group to fight an effort by Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem to put the foundation into receivership.
Tom Dickson tells The Associated Press that the foundation acknowledges there have been problems, and that “the mood and attitude is one of cooperation.”
Stenehjem announced his plan Wednesday. It would result in an outside person put in charge of fixing problems within the independent foundation that supports the school in southwestern North Dakota. Stenehjem says the foundation’s financial records “are in disarray.”
Stenehjem outlined several concerns, including a dispute in which a judge ordered the foundation to pay a building developer more than $1.5 million. He also said documents necessary for a complete audit are not available.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – More than 97,000 people voted in North Dakota prior to Election Day.
Secretary of State Al Jaeger says 97,140 ballots were cast before the election, that’s 38 percent of the 255,000 voters that participated in the Nov. 4 election.
Jaeger says 67,636 people voted by mail or turned in absentee ballots, and 29,504 people voted early in North Dakota’s most populous counties.
RICE LAKE, N.D. (AP) – Ward County is supporting a request for $10 million in state funding to provide immediate infrastructure help for the chronically flooded Rice Lake area.
County commissioners on Wednesday agreed to sign a letter to Gov. Jack Dalrymple from the Rice Lake Recreation Service District.
District Chairman Jarid Lundeen says $10 million would pay to raise roads, remove debris and safeguard the sewer system while the county water board draws up a long-term plan to address the flooding. Lundeen says that plan likely won’t be ready until after the state Legislature meets early next year.
Water levels on the lake near Minot in north central North Dakota have risen four straight years, damaging or destroying dozens of homes. Losses are estimated at more than $3 million.
In sports
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) – Waldorf College in Iowa is joining the Dakotas-based North Star Athletic Association.
The Warriors football team was an associate member of the NAIA conference this fall. The other 13 Waldorf sports programs will begin conference play next fall, moving from the Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference.
The North Star Athletic Association was formed last year by six schools in the Dakotas – Dakota State, University of Jamestown, Mayville State, Presentation, Valley City State and Dickinson State.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Parks and Recreation Commission has approved new rates for Hillcrest Municipal Golf Course and the Jamestown Municipal Swimming Pool.
Unanimously approved was increasing the Hillcrest season passes by $50 for each category. A family season pass goes from $500 to $550; from $425 to $475 for a couple; from $375 to $425 for a single adult; from $350 to $400 for a senior; and from $400 to $450 for a senior couple.
Fees also increased from $14 to $15 for nine holes; from $22 to $25 for 18 holes; and from $8 to $10 for an additional nine holes. The cost for a greens fee punch card went from $126 to $135.
Commission Chairman Mike Landscoot says rates have not increased at Hillcrest in two years, with no increase last year in any golf course fees due to work that was planned for Hillcrest, on $800,000 in improvements for Hillcrest.
Next year more work is planned, including the installation of a new irrigation pond and pump system that will catch storm water run off.
The commission also increased the daily admission fee for the Jamestown Municipal Swimming Pool from $6.75 to $7 for a family and from $2.25 to $3 for a single person.
In other business, the commission approved increasing Bob Schuchard’s wage from $14.21 an hour to $16.50 while he is serving as the interim superintendent at Hillcrest.
He asumed the duties after former golf course superintendent Marlyn Bertsch resigned last month. Schuchard will continue to serve as interim superintendent until a replacement has been hired.
In world and national news…
ISTANBUL (AP) – It could be a heavy blow to the U.S. strategy against the Islamic State group. Two Syrian opposition figures say the militant group met with al-Qaida’s branch last week — and they agreed to stop fighting each other and to work together against their opponents. The accord stops short of a merger between the two.
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) – Liberia’s president says she’s lifting a state of emergency that was imposed to control the Ebola outbreak that has ravaged the West African country. Meanwhile, Doctors Without Borders says accelerated clinical trials will be launched in the region in order to speed up the search for a treatment for the virus. It has killed more than 5,000 people.
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) – Lawyers for the family of Michael Brown are in agreement with Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon — who urged protesters to avoid rioting, looting and violence when a grand jury decides whether to charge the suburban St. Louis police officer who shot and killed the unarmed black teen. But the attorneys say Nixon also should have urged police officers to show restraint as well. They spoke Thursday outside a courthouse where the grand jury is meeting. A doctor who performed a private autopsy on the family’s behalf was scheduled to testify Thursday.
DENVER (AP) – A Denver man whose four young sons could communicate only in grunts when authorities rescued them from a filthy apartment could spend up to seven years in prison after pleading guilty today to felony child abuse. Prosecutors agreed to drop all other charges against Wayne Sperling in exchange for his guilty plea. He will be sentenced next month.
WASHINGTON (AP) – A new study says lightning strikes in the United States will likely increase by nearly 50 percent by the end of the century, as the world gets warmer and wetter. Researchers used weather data to show just how much more often lighting strikes as air warms and rainfall increases. They calculated that for every degree Fahrenheit the world warms in the future, lightning strikes will go up nearly 7 percent. The study was released by the journal Science.
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