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AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE MID 40S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
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Valley City, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — A presentation with information on the Valley City sales tax renewal advisory vote and a discussion concerning the National Guard Interstate 94 development will be Monday, October 29, 2012 on CSi Cable 68.

The presentation will be shown live at 10-a.m., followed by replays on CSi 68.

Valley City Barnes County Economic Development Director Jennifer Feist says the presentation will focus on the Valley City Sales Tax renewal, and information on the National Guard expansion project, along with industrial/commercial development opportunities including the I-94 Regional Development Corridor, east of the John Deere Seeding Group plant.

A 77 acre tract of land owned by the Stan Ryan family will be annexed into Valley City for construction of the new National Guard facility and future development.

With the Valley City Sales tax, 70 percent of the 1 percent tax goes to economic development, 25 percent for property tax relief, and 5 percent for service and retail image enhancement.

A 77 acre tract of land owned by the Stan Ryan family will be annexed into the city for construction of the new National Guard facility and future development.

Valley City Auditor, Avis Richter reminds voters, that absentee ballots for the City Sales Tax extension, Advisory vote are at City Hall.

The absentee ballots for the General Election are at the Barnes County Courthouse.

On election day Valley City residents will vote at their regular precincts, for both the advisory vote and the General Election.

 

  DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) – Authorities say a 28-year-old Dickinson
man has died from injuries sustained when he was struck by a pickup
truck south of the city.
     The North Dakota Highway Patrol says Brendan Smock died at a
Bismarck hospital Friday morning.
     On Thursday evening, the truck was heading north on North Dakota
Highway 22 and had just passed a southbound vehicle.

     The driver then saw a person walking in the middle of the
northbound lane. Troopers say the driver hit the brakes but the
truck struck the man.
     The crash remains under investigation.

 

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – Former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart says George
McGovern was stronger than any political label, despite his
critics’ attempts to dismiss him as a liberal.
     Hart spoke at McGovern’s funeral service Friday. Hart had had
served as manager for ex-U.S. Sen. George McGovern’s failed 1972
presidential campaign. McGovern, a three-time Democratic
presidential candidate, died Sunday at age 90.
     Hart says many people uncomfortable with McGovern called him a
liberal as an insult implying he was weak.

But Hart says “liberals,” in the sense critics intended, did not get elected
and re-elected in conservative states such as South Dakota or fly
dangerous bomber missions in defense of the country.
     McGovern flew bombing runs over Europe during World War II.
     Hart called McGovern “a voice of conscience for our nation in
our time.”

MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Some hospitals in western North Dakota’s
booming oil patch are turning to voters for financial help.
     Residents of Tioga, Stanley and Crosby will decide on Nov. 6
whether to impose new sales taxes to support their local hospitals.
 Issues facing hospitals in the oil patch include difficulty competing in
wages, a lack of affordable housing for employees and a substantial
increase in patients who don’t pay their bills.
     The Mountrail County Medical Center in Stanley, St. Luke’s
Hospital in Crosby and the Tioga Medical Center all are seeking
public help.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota State University researcher
known for her work fighting the crop disease scab has retired.
     Plant pathologist Marcia McMullen has been a fixture at NDSU for
nearly three decades. Agweek reports that in 1996 she became the first woman to obtain the rank of full professor in what was then known as the NDSU College of Agriculture.
     McMullen was widely known for her work fighting scab, which
caused billions of dollars in losses in the Upper Midwest in the
1990s. She became one of the leaders of the U.S. Wheat and Barley
Scab Initiative.
     NDSU Plant Pathology Department head Jack Rasmussen calls
McMullen “a world authority on management of wheat and barley
scab.”

 

FORT TOTTEN, N.D. (AP) – The Spirit Lake tribe is holding a
two-day conference on issues including child protection and family
violence.
     The “Awareness and Healing” conference is part of the North Dakota
tribe’s response to widespread criticism about child welfare on the
reservation.
     The tribe this month surrendered responsibility for foster care
placements, child abuse investigations and other services to the
federal Bureau of Indian Affairs.
     Chief Tribal Judge Shirley Cain says the tribe lacks the
resources it needs to adequately staff child protective services
and address the underlying causes of child abuse and violence.

But tribal leaders say they’re determined to resume management of
social services.
     Tribal Chairman Roger Yankton says the conference Thursday and
Friday will help people in various tribal agencies better understand their roles.

 

In world and national news…

AMES, Iowa (AP) – Mitt Romney says new stimulus spending won’t
help the private sector any more than the stimulus did four years
ago.

Instead, he’s vowing to work with what he calls “good
Democrats” to help revive the economy.

He isn’t unveiling any specific plans. But in today’s speech in Iowa, he argued that President Barack Obama has no proposals to meet the nation’s
economic challenges.

 And he said Obama is trying to “distract our attention from the biggest issues to the smallest.”
     
     AMES, Iowa (AP) – An aide says Mitt Romney won’t be calling on
Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock to pull TV ads
featuring Romney’s endorsement.

The aide says Romney disagrees with Mourdock’s recent comment that pregnancy resulting from rape is “something God intended.”

But he says Romney won’t interfere with Mourdock’s campaign advertising.

     
     NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) – As Hurricane Sandy continues on a path
toward the U.S. East Coast, it’s left 39 people dead across the
Caribbean.

The storm is still more than 400 miles south-southeast
of Charleston, South Carolina, with top winds that are just barely
at hurricane strength.

It’s projected to hit the Atlantic Coast early Tuesday and blend with a winter storm. Forecasters say most of the East Coast will almost certainly get gale-force winds, flooding, heavy rain and maybe snow.
     
     HOUSTON (AP) – The manager of a Target store has testified that
a woman who owned a day care where four children died in a fire
wasn’t frantic when she remembered that she had left a stove top
burner on at the house, where the children were alone.

Surveillance video shows that after speaking to the store manager, Jessica Tata didn’t rush home — but instead went to a Starbucks first.

She’s on trial in Houston on a murder charge.
     
     SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – Services to honor former U.S. Sen.
George McGovern have started at an arts center in South Dakota.
Hundreds of family, friends and fans have turned out to show their
respect.

The three-time presidential candidate died Sunday at age
90 in Sioux Falls.

Among the people in attendance at the service in Sioux Falls are former Vice President Walter Mondale and Sen. John Kerry.

McGovern will be buried in a private ceremony in Washington
at a later date.