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CSi Weather…
TONIGHT…CLOUDY. CHANCE OF FLURRIES LATE IN THE EVENING. CHANCE
OF FLURRIES…. PATCHY LIGHT FREEZING DRIZZLE AFTER MIDNIGHT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA.
LOWS AROUND 15. EAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY…SCATTERED FLURRIES AND PATCHY LIGHT FREEZING
DRIZZLE IN THE MORNING IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA…THEN DECREASING CLOUDS. HIGHS AROUND 30. SOUTHEAST WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF LIGHT FREEZING
RAIN POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SLEET IN THE EVENING…THEN SLIGHT
CHANCE OF LIGHT FREEZING RAIN POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SNOW AND SLEET
AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S. SOUTH WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH
SHIFTING TO THE WEST 15 TO 20 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF SNOW POSSIBLY MIXED WITH
RAIN IN THE MORNING…THEN SLIGHT CHANCE OF DRIZZLE AND SNOW IN
THE AFTERNOON. WINDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S. NORTHWEST WINDS
20 TO 30 MPH INCREASING TO 30 TO 35 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON. CHANCE
OF PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. BREEZY. LOWS 15 TO 20. WEST
WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 30.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS
15 TO 20. HIGHS IN THE MID 30S.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 20S.
HIGHS AROUND 30.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 15 TO 20.
.WEDNESDAY…CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 5 TO
10 ABOVE. HIGHS AROUND 15.
PATCHY LIGHT FREEZING DRIZZLE IS POSSIBLE LATE THURSDAY EVENING
THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT.
…FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.
FREEZING DRIZZLE WILL BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND
EVENING…MAINLY ALONG AND EAST OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY. THERE IS A CHANCE FOR A WINTRY MIX OF FREEZING RAIN…SLEET…AND SNOW
LATER FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY…MAINLY ALONG AND WEST OF THE VALLEY. MAINLY SNOW IS EXPECTED ACROSS NORTHWEST MINNESOTA…WHERE 1 TO 3 INCHES MAY OCCUR. WINDS WILL BECOME NORTHWEST ON
SATURDAY…AND INCREASE TO AROUND 30MPH. WARM TEMPERATURES SHOULD
PREVENT BLOWING SNOW.
STRONG WINDS ARE FORECAST FOR SATURDAY. WINDS GUSTING TO 45 MPH ARE POSSIBLE.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Fire Department was called to a reported vehicle fire in the 400 block of First Avenue North, where a vehicle was parked on the street, near Loaf and Jug about 10:49 a.m.
There was no fire, just an engine antifreeze leak that caused steam from the engine compartment.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Salvation Army reports that without hitting the goal for the 2014 Red Kettle campaign it is looking at the next three months to make up for this lack in donations.
Lt. Mitch Brecto says, “If we don’t recover by then, programs may have to be cut.”
He adds, “An example would be – we now serve over 100 households in our food shelf in a month, we may be forced to reduce that number to 75. If we now serve 15 families to provide shelter, we may be forced to reduce that number to 8.”
In the Jamestown area, more than/nearly $144,000 was raised during the Christmas Campaign. The overall goal was $156,000.
Lt. Brecto adds, “We look at our Christmas Campaign as a good barometer to overall giving.”
He says, although the red kettles did better than 2013, the iconic street fundraiser is just one part of the overall fundraising effort. Other areas of fundraising were not as successful. More money is needed to ensure programs and services continue.
Lt. Brecto adds, “The Jamestown Salvation Army is so appreciative for all of those who donated. It truly shows just how much our community cares and we could not provide the needs and services that we do year in and year out without your support.”
Donations are accepted anytime at SalvationaArmyNorth.org or mail in your donation to 320 1st Ave N Jamestown, ND 58401.
Lt Brecto points out that the Salvation Army is also in great need of volunteers, the work cannot be completed without having people available to help. Call 252-0290 or go to SalvationArmyNorth.org for more information.
The Salvation Army Northern Division has been serving Minnesota and North Dakota communities since 1886. Today the Northern Division serves in all 140 counties of both states, providing food, shelter, clothing, youth programs and other critical services to more than 480,000 people per year. Find us on social media at Facebook.com/SalvationArmyNorth and Twitter at @salarmynorth
Bismarck (CSi) North Dakota’s commercial service airports finished 2014 with a record high 1,240,681 boardings, a 9% increase from the previous record set in 2013.
In Jamestown in December 2014, there were 639 boardings, aboard United Express/SkyWest larger aircraft up from 214 in December of 2013, when the smaller Great Lakes Airlines planes served Jamestown, and increase of 198%
The December 2014 numbers compare to 765 boardings in December of 2011, when the larger Delta planes served Jamestown.
In Devils Lake in December of 2014 with UnitedExpress/SkyWest boarding were 547 compared to 250 in December of 2013.
The State Aeronautics Commission reports that seven of the eight commercial service airports in North Dakota saw more passengers in 2014 than in 2013.
2014 was the seventh consecutive year of continual growth.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A Bismarck man has been sentenced to serve four years in prison for threatening three people with a gun last year and pointing the loaded weapon at police.
Another six years of the 10-year sentence for 24-year-old Colton Wooten is suspended.
Wooten was arrested in May 2014 after a police officer investigating a report of threats by Wooten shot at him four times but missed. Wooten pleaded guilty this week to terrorizing, reckless endangerment and weapons charges in a deal with prosecutors.
ROSS, N.D. – For the eighth time, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Northern Excavating Co. for allowing its employees to work at great risk in trenches without cave-in protection and a safe means to exit the trench.
In July 2014, OSHA inspectors witnessed two employees repairing a valve on a city water line in Ross in an 8-foot trench. An investigation followed, and the agency cited the company for two willful and one serious violation with penalties of $147,000. For its continual failure to protect workers from cave-in hazards, the Jamestown-based company has been placed in OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program. The company has been cited eight times since 1997, and failed to pay its most recent penalties from a 2011 inspection.
“When it comes to worker safety, apathy can be fatal. A trench collapse can suffocate or crush a worker in seconds, a fact that Northern Excavating seems willing to repeatedly ignore and that must stop,” said Eric Brooks, OSHA’s area director in Bismarck. “The company knows about trench safety and must provide a safe workplace for its employees.”
OSHA initiated the inspection on July 9, 2014, under its National Emphasis Program for Trenching and Excavation. OSHA trenching standards mandate that all excavations 5 feet or deeper be protected against collapse.
Northern Excavating was cited for not providing a protective system for the trench and failing to have a designated, competent person available to remove an employee from the hazardous trench, if necessary. A willful violation is one committed with intentional, knowing or voluntary disregard for the law’s requirement, or with plain indifference to worker safety and health.
The company also filed to provide workers a safe means of exit from the trench, resulting in one serious violation. An OSHA violation is serious if death or serious physical harm could result from a hazard an employer knew or should have known exists.
To view the current citations, visit https://www.osha.gov/ooc/citations/NorthernExcavatingCo_984234.pdf.
Northern Excavating employs about 25 workers. The company has 15 business days from receipt of its citations and penalties to comply, request an informal conference with OSHA’s area director, or contest the citations and penalties before the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.
To ask questions, obtain compliance assistance, file a complaint, or report workplace hospitalizations, fatalities or situations posing imminent danger to workers, the public should call OSHA’s toll-free hotline at 800-321-OSHA (6742) or the agency’s Bismarck office at 701-250-4521.
Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, employers are responsible for providing safe and healthful workplaces for their employees. OSHA’s role is to ensure these conditions for America’s working men and women by setting and enforcing standards, and providing training, education and assistance. For more information, visit http://www.osha.gov.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s House has endorsed legislation that would require high school students to take the same test that immigrants must pass to become a U.S. citizen.
The House approved the measure by an 85-1 vote on Thursday.
Rep. Gail Mooney cast the lone “no” vote. The Democrat from Cummings says she supports civics education but students shouldn’t have to pass a test on the subject to graduate.
The proposal requires students to correctly answer 60 percent of the 100 questions on the U.S. citizenship test to graduate.
The measure now goes to the state Senate, where it is expected to easily pass.
Arizona lawmakers are fast-tracking a similar bill this week, hoping to become the first state to require passage of a civics test to graduate high school.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – Officials in Williston have voted to close two man camps over city code violations.
City commissioners moved to shut down the Black Gold Lodge and ATCO camps because they lack fire sprinkler systems. The facilities will be closed Feb. 15.
Black Gold came under city limits in 2013 through a land annexation. The city requires sprinkler systems and commissioners had given Black Gold until Dec. 31 to install one, but the 400-bed facility failed to do so.
Commissioner Tate Cymbaluk says the city was “crystal clear” with Black Gold during the annexation and gave notices to the facility.
Black Gold representatives didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment Thursday.
ATCO representatives have told the city that they were planning on closing operations in Williston.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Gov. Jack Dalrymple has signed an executive order officially establishing a group aimed at strengthening the support network for soldiers, veterans and their families.
The North Dakota Cares Coalition actually was started 1 1/2 years ago. First lady Betsy Dalrymple leads the group and says it now has the authority to advance its efforts, and possibly the funding. The governor has included $500,000 in his budget proposal for the coalition.
The coalition is made up of 45 military and civilian professionals around the state. Gov. Dalrymple says their efforts are another way to recognize the sacrifices of soldiers and veterans.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota lawmakers are considering a bill that would exempt college students’ contact information from the state’s open records law.
The North Dakota Board of Higher Education is pushing the measure.
The move was prompted after Bismarck-based Odney Advertising requested the information during the last campaign season. Odney handles much of the marketing for the state Republican Party.
Democratic leaders complained about the request but Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said the information is public record.
Odney President Pat Finken told the Senate Government and Veterans Affairs Committee Thursday that the students’ contact information is routinely used by banks, credit card companies, and military and job recruiters.
University system lawyer Chris Wilson says it’s not appropriate to release the information. He says students shouldn’t have to be bothered by unwanted solicitations.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – State officials say a saltwater spill north of Williston last week reached the Little Muddy River, but it will be a while before harm to the environment can be measured.
Officials say the saltwater spilled from a pipeline into Blacktail Creek and from there flowed into the Little Muddy. The amount isn’t yet known, but state Water Quality Director Karl Rockeman says it is “sizeable.”
Summit Midstream Partners tells the Minot Daily News that the company is “100 percent focused on remediation and cleanup” and that determining the size of the spill is an “ongoing process.”
State Game and Fish Department spokesman Kent Luttschwager says it will be hard to determine damage to wildlife until the ice melts. He tells the Williston Herald that the agency is “very concerned.”
In world and national news…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Target is closing up shop in Canada.
More than 17,600 employees will eventually lose their jobs when the U.S. discount retailer closes its 133 Canadian stores after only about two years to end financial losses that went as high as a billion dollars a year.
Target Corp. Chairman and CEO Brian Cornell said Thursday that the company didn’t see a realistic way for the chain to become profitable before at least 2021. Cornell said on Target’s corporate blog that its Canadian arm was losing money every day.
The closing is Cornell’s first major move since becoming CEO in August. Target will concentrate instead on improving its U.S. business.
BRUSSELS (AP) – Belgium’s federal prosecutor has called an emergency news conference after news reports that two people are dead after a raid on a suspected terrorist cell. The prosecutor and police couldn’t immediately confirm the reports of dead. The RTBF news website says two people were killed during a raid Thursday and quotes a witness describing explosions and detonations near a train station.
PARIS (AP) – A top French cyberdefense official says hackers have targeted about 19,000 French websites since last week’s terror attacks in the Paris area. The official says some of the cyberattacks have been carried out by well-known Islamic hacker groups. He says the targets of the mostly minor attacks ranged from military regiments to pizza shops. Military authorities are conducting round-the-clock surveillance to protect government sites.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) – Nigeria’s president has visited the capital of a Nigerian state that’s under attack by Islamic extremists. Goodluck Jonathan hasn’t visited Nigeria’s northeast since a state of emergency was imposed there last May. His office says he met with troops involved in the fight against Boko Haram (BOH’-koh hah-RAHM’) and visited a camp where hundreds of civilians are staying after the militants overran their town.
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) – A construction worker is dead after falling from a stage being built in a parking lot outside the University of Phoenix Stadium for a Super Bowl event. An NFL spokesman says the worker was hired through a subcontractor to help assemble the stage for the NFL Tailgate Party. He declined to release any additional information.
NEW YORK (AP) – As predicted, this year’s flu vaccine is doing a pretty crummy job. Health officials say a new study shows it’s only 23 percent effective. That’s one of the worst performances since the government started tracking how well vaccines work a decade ago. The best flu vaccines were 50 to 60 percent effective. This year, the vaccine doesn’t include the specific virus that is making most people sick.
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