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TODAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SHOWERS AND SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN
THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S. NORTHEAST WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 40 PERCENT, 50 PERCENT IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.
.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS IN
THE EVENING 50 PERCENT IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. NORTH WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS IN THE
MORNING IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S. NORTH WINDS
10 TO 20 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S. NORTHWEST
WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH. GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH IN THE EVENING.
.THURSDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 80. SOUTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
HIGHS IN THE LOWER TO MID 80S.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S.
.SATURDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S.
HIGHS IN THE 70S.
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON.
A SLOW WARM UP BACK TO NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURES BY FRIDAY BEFORE A
POTENTIAL COOL DOWN ON SATURDAY
THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY
NIGHT ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA.
Jamestown (CSi) T he Jamestown Public School Board, Monday approved a new contract for Superintendent Robert Lech. The one-year contract agreement is effective through June 30, 2016. It provides an annual salary of $140,946.
Lech said, he’s happy with the boards approval and feels, ‘fortunate to be in Jamestown.’
School Board Vice President, Heidi Larson said, “We are very pleased to have Mr. Lech back this next year to continue with the good work he is doing for our district.”
In his Strategic Plan Quarterly Progress Monitor report, Lech said the focus over the past three months has been on the enrollment study and the facility planning process, and preparing to implement the findings of the demographic study.
Lech said he would like the board to discuss allowing a Jamestown High School student to be a non-voting member of the School Board at the board retreat in October.
Larson said the student council reports are already presented to the board monthly during the school year and should continue.
In other business, the board approved, the administration master agreement, the central office administration and food service director contracts, hiring high school teachers including Allison Mack, business and computer teacher, Janelle Green science, Vanessa Grehl as a second-grade teacher at Roosevelt Elementary, and Mitch Ostlie as a marketing/IT instructor at the James Valley Career and Technology Center.
The meeting was recorded by CSi 10 THE REPLAY CHANNEL, with showings starting Tuesday morning.
Jamestown (CSi) Special Olympics North Dakota will host the “Play Unified to Live Unified” community party from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday August 18, 2015, at McElroy Park, Sertoma Shelter, in Jamestown.
The community party will provide an opportunity to celebrate with Special Olympics North Dakota, meet local Special Olympics champions, and learn more about the opportunities people have to become involved as an athlete or volunteer.
The evening includes a celebration of Special Olympics Unified Sports with a unified soccer experience, combining Special Olympics athletes and members of the University of Jamestown men’s and women’s soccer teams, as they lead a soccer circuit training. This training will be completely inclusive and is open to all members of the community to participate.
In addition to the soccer circuit training, Special Olympics athletes and volunteers will be at the Sertoma Shelter in McElroy Park to visit with people about Special Olympics. The public is invited to attend.
For more information about Special Olympics North Dakota or how to be a part of this event, call (701) 746-0331 or visit www.specialolympicsnorthdakota.org.
Jamestown (CSi) For the fifth time since 2011, Kiwanis is coordinating a Kids Against Hunger event in Jamestown.
Due to the generosity of an anonymous donor as well as many community contributions, Kiwanis will again work with the Aberdeen, S.D., branch of Kids Against Hunger to package the meals at James River Valley Fitness (former YMCA) in Jamestown. More than 400 volunteers are needed to help package meals, or about 200 for each shift.
Meal-packaging event set for Nov. 14 at UJ’s Larson Center
Marketing Manager for First Community Credit Union and past-president of Jamestown Kiwanis, Janna Bergstedt, says “With the help of our generous donors, our goal is to raise $50,000. Last year, we raised $40,000. Extra money means extra meals for hungry children at home and abroad.”
The two shifts are: 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. At prior events, volunteers attended in groups from churches, schools, service clubs and families including but not limited to Litchville-Marion, Devils Lake, Medina and Steele youth groups, church groups from St. Paul’s United Methodist, Atonement Lutheran, Church of Latter Day Saints, Immanuel Lutheran and St. James Basilica as well as sports teams from the University of Jamestown.
Kids Against Hunger packages and sends meals consisting of vegetables, vitamins, rice and soy for starving children in the U.S. and abroad. Meal recipients need only to add water and boil the dried ingredients for 20 minutes. Meals are distributed internationally as well as locally through Great Plains Food Bank.
Jamestown raised $23,000 for its first Kids Against Hunger event in April 2011, packaging 100,000 meals. It again raised $25,000 in October 2011, matching a $25,000 gift from the anonymous donor. With the help of multiple anonymous donors, Kiwanis raised $30,000 in 2013 and $40,000 in 2014.
For more information about Jamestown’s Kids Against Hunger event, to donate to the cause or to volunteer email
JamestownKiwanis@gmail.com, Facebook page
Valley City (CSi) The Valley City Commission, approved, OpenGov.com will be available this week. City Commissioner Madeline Luke explained that the program keeps track of expenses in nearly every city department, as the company provides a software program that posts city expenses online.
The city commission unanimously approved purchasing software and implementing the program at the August 4th City Commission meeting.
The cost of OpenGov.com is $9,000 annually for the first two years. City Auditor Avis Richter says the city commission has the option of renewing or dropping the program annually or with a 30 day notice.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Authorities have identified a Mandan woman who died in a crash on Interstate 94 earlier this month.
The Highway Patrol says 31-year-old Erin Seehafer was driving from Mandan to Bismarck the morning of Aug. 7 when her sport utility vehicle went off a curve and into the ditch, through a fence and through the grounds of a National Guard armory.
The SUV struck a concrete walking bridge, overturned and started on fire. Seehafer died at the scene. She was alone in the vehicle.
WAHPETON, N.D. (AP) – A West Fargo man faces an attempted murder charge after a stabbing at an apartment in Wahpeton.
24-year-old Jesse Wetsit allegedly stabbed a 23-year-old woman at least five times with a kitchen knife during an argument on Friday. Authorities say the knife had a blade about 4 1/2 inches long.
The woman was taken to a Fargo hospital. The Daily News reports that her condition was not released.
Court documents do not list an attorney for Wetsit. He was due in court Tuesday afternoon. The charge against him carries a maximum punishment of 20 years in prison.
UNDERWOOD, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Highway Patrol says charges are pending against a 14-year-old girl who was behind the wheel of a vehicle that rolled and caused the death of a woman.
Authorities on Monday said the girl lost control of a sport utility vehicle Tuesday while traveling on a gravel road four miles west of Underwood. Authorities say the Underwood girl was driving too fast when she caused the vehicle to enter the ditch and roll.
The Highway Patrol says a 16-year-old girl and 33-year-old Randi Backer, both of Underwood, were not wearing seatbelts and were ejected from the vehicle during the incident. Authorities say Backer died Wednesday at a Fargo hospital from injuries sustained in the crash.
The Highway Patrol says alcohol was found at the scene of the incident.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The sheriff in Stark County is denying allegations that law officers bullied a confession out a former Dickinson Trinity High School principal once blamed for setting fire to the school.
The attorney for Sheriff Terry Oestreich on Monday filed a response to a federal lawsuit by former principal Thomas Sander. Sander is suing law enforcement and the city of Dickinson for unspecified damages.
Other defendants in the lawsuit filed their response last month and made similar arguments as Oestreich. The sheriff rejects Sander’s contention that Sander was coerced into confessing to the March 2014 fire.
Sander was charged with arson and endangerment by fire and fired from his job. A judge last summer dismissed the charges after ruling that Sander’s statements to police were improperly obtained.
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) – Authorities in western South Dakota say first responders from North Dakota will assist in the recovery of the body of a woman who went missing in a reservoir after a boat crash. The Pennington County Sheriff’s Office says the North Dakota first responders are bringing an underwater inspection system with a variety of capabilities to help find the body of 33-year-old Gabrielle Fisher. Authorities are describing the effort as a body recovery operation.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota attorney general says a state dental board violated both open records and open meetings laws.
Wayne Stenehjem says the North Dakota State Board of Dental Examiners failed to meet open records rules when it declined a request by the North Dakota Dental Hygienists Association to produce the signed copy of a lobbyist’s contract. The board was ordered to provide the document free of charge.
Stenehjem says the dental examiners group broke state open meetings laws when it discussed public business by email. The attorney general says those exchanges should be made available.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Hollywood actor Josh Duhamel was back in his native state over the weekend shooting a North Dakota tourism video.
The Minot native was in Fargo on Sunday night, shooting part of the video outside the historic Fargo Theater. Cheerleaders from North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota also were part of the shoot.
State tourism officials say the promotional campaign will be rolled out early next year.
Duhamel is perhaps best known for his work in the “Transformers” movies.
In sports…
(CSi) Viterbo from Wisconsin, is the North Star Athletic Association’s (NSAA) pick to win the 2015 league title,
The new entry received eight first-place votes in the volleyball coaches’ preseason poll and was the coaches’ pick to win the 2015 league title.
The preseason poll was voted by the league coaches. Coaches were not allowed to vote for their own team. The NSAA volleyball conference currently have nine teams, with three new members joining the conference this year – Bellevue (Neb.), Viterbo and Waldorf (Iowa). The V-Hawks – who finished their 2014 season with an overall record of 39-9 – tallied 64 points in the poll.
Viterbo qualified for the NAIA Volleyball National Tournament last season and advanced to the national semifinals for the first time in school history. University of Jamestown- another NAIA national tournament qualifier last fall with an overall record of 25-9 – picked up the final first-place vote and recorded 57 points to finish second in the poll.
The Jimmies won the NSAA Volleyball Conference regular-season outright with a 10-0 record and postseason conference tournament in 2014.
Bellevue finished third with 49 points followed by Mayville State (N.D.) fourth with 39 points and Dakota State (S.D.) fifth with 33 points. Waldorf (Iowa) edged Valley City State (N.D.) 29-28 for sixth place in the preseason poll. Presentation (S.D.) is eighth with 18 points followed by Dickinson State (N.D.) ninth with 8 points.
The 2015 NSAA Volleyball Conference Tournament Champions will receive an automatic bid to the NAIA Volleyball National Tournament.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Time is running out for hunters to apply for a 2015 tundra swan license in North Dakota.
The deadline set by the state Game and Fish Department is Wednesday.
A total of 2,200 licenses were made available this year, for both resident and out-of-state hunters. The statewide tundra swan hunting season begins Oct. 3 and runs through next Jan. 3.
Successful applicants will receive a tag to take one swan during the season. Since swans are classified as waterfowl, nonresidents may hunt them only during the period their nonresident waterfowl license is valid.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A state guide that maps tracts of private land open to hunting in North Dakota is available online at the state Game and Fish Department website.
The free PLOTS guides also will be available at most hunting license vendors throughout the state beginning in early September. PLOTS stands for Private Lands Open to Sportsmen.
The program pays landowners who agree to keep their property open to public hunting. License fees paid by hunters funds the program.
This year’s guide will feature about 730,000 acres, down from 735,000 acres last year.
PLOTS land is marked by yellow inverted triangular signs.
AA..
Fargo-Moorhead 10, Lincoln 1
MLB…
AMERICAN LEAGUE
NEW YORK (AP) – Chase Headley hit a bases-loaded grounder in the 10th inning that Minnesota’s five-man infield bobbled as the New York Yankees beat the Twins 8-7 Monday night. Brian McCann homered, drove in five runs and sliced a double off left fielder Eddie Rosario’s glove in the 10th that set up the winning misplay. The catcher also threw out three runners trying to steal.
Yankees rookie pitcher Bryan Mitchell sustained a nasal fracture when he was hit in the head by a line drive last night. Mitchell was taken to a hospital after being hit by a liner off the bat of Eduardo Nunez in the second inning He needed help getting down the dugout steps because the towel was covering his bloody face.
The outcome gives the AL East-leading Yankees a one-game lead over Toronto and dropped the Twins 12 1/2 games behind the AL Central-leading Royals.
Final Baltimore 4 Oakland 2
Final Cleveland 8 Boston 2
Final Texas 4 Seattle 3
Final Tampa Bay 9 Houston 2
Final L.A. Angels 2 Chi White Sox 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final Arizona 4 Pittsburgh 1
Final St. Louis 2 San Francisco 1
Final Miami 6 Milwaukee 2
Final San Diego 5 Atlanta 3
NEW YORK (AP) – Major League Baseball has announced the schedule for post-season play and once again the World Series will be contested in November. The Fall Classic will start on Tuesday, October 27 in the American League city with the seventh game, if needed, on Wednesday, November 4.
The playoffs will begin Thursday, October 8.
NFL…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Former NFL players who object to terms of the potential $1 billion concussion settlement have filed appeals that are likely to delay payouts to thousands of retirees until next year. About a dozen appeals on behalf of as many as 90 former players were expected to be filed by Monday’s deadline. Some challenge the exclusion of future cases of CTE, while others are concerned the settlement awards players with neurocognitive symptoms, such as Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, but not those with behavioral and mood disorders.
NHL…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Danny Briere (bree-AIR’) is calling it quits after 17 NHL seasons that included stops with the Coyotes, Sabres, Canadiens, Flyers and Avalanche. Briere spent the bulk of his career with Buffalo and Philadelphia and earned All-Star nods playing for both franchises. He scored 307 goals and 696 points in 973 games.
COLLEGE ATHLETICS…
CHICAGO (AP) – College football players won’t be forming a union anytime soon.
The National Labor Relations Board has unanimously voted to dismiss the controversial ruling from last year by a regional NLRB director that led Northwestern football players to vote on whether they wanted to unionize or not.
The school appealed the decision and the votes were sealed. Those votes will now be destroyed and those that favored unionization cannot appeal the decision by the full NLRB.
In world and national news…
BANGKOK (AP) – A Thai police official says a man with a yellow shirt and backpack spotted on surveillance cameras before a deadly explosion is more than just a suspect — he’s the bomber. The rush-hour explosion at a central Bangkok shrine killed 20 people and injured more than 100 yesterday. Police released several photos of the man on social media. Video footage on Thai media appears to show the same man sitting on a bench at the crowded shrine, then leaving the backpack behind as he walks away.
TIANJIN, China (AP) – The latest complication in the recovery effort from explosions and fire in a Chinese port city is thunderstorms. Some of the chemicals exposed in the blast could become flammable on contact with water. Experts also worry that rain could spread some of the vast quantities of hazardous material. The warehouse explosions killed at least 114 people and left 57 missing.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – Islamic State militants are turning their attention to Turkey, calling for support from Muslims there and labeling Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (REH’-jehp TY’-ihp UR’-doh-wahn) a traitor. Erdogan is allowing the U.S. to use air bases for strikes against the group.
SAN DIEGO (AP) – Federal investigators say they’ll focus on which plane was where as they study debris from a deadly mid-air collision in Southern California between a jet and a smaller, slower plane. The crash Sunday morning as the planes approached a small San Diego County airport killed all five people aboard the two aircraft. The speed differential could have posed a problem for air traffic controllers if the jet was behind the smaller plane.
JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) – Officials in Indonesia say all 54 bodies have been recovered from the rugged mountain site where an airliner crashed in stormy weather two days ago. Recovery teams reached the site today and also recovered the aircraft’s so-called black boxes. Officials say the devices are in good condition.
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