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TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 60S. SOUTHEAST WINDS
AROUND 10 MPH.
.THURSDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 90S. SOUTH WINDS 10 TO
20 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 60S. SOUTHEAST
WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS, 40 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S. SOUTH WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S.
.SATURDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY. LOWS IN THE
LOWER 60S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 60 PERCENT.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
.LABOR DAY THROUGH TUESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER
70S. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S TO MID 50S.
ON THURSDAY THE HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL RISE TO NEAR 100 ACROSS THE
JAMES RIVER VALLEY BY AFTERNOON.
AN ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN WILL DEVELOP FRIDAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH
THE WEEKEND. THE THREAT STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL INCREASE
FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA…SPREADING INTO WESTERN
MINNESOTA FRIDAY NIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE
NEAR ANY STORM.
TOTAL RAINFALL THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY IS FORECAST TO
RANGE FROM AROUND HALF AN INCH SOUTHWEST…TO NEAR 2 INCHES NORTH.
SEVERAL MORE ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE
THROUGH THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND.
HIGHS DROPPING INTO THE 70S MOST AREAS BY
SATURDAY.
Jamestown (CSi) Celebrating St. John’s Academy’s 125th Anniversary, Bishop John Folda of the Diocese of Fargo will be in Jamestown Thursday leading a playground blessing and saying a Mass for the 255 students, 14 teachers, staff and parents.
The playground blessing starts at 10 a.m. The playground, which was installed over the summer, is possible with support from alumni and the parent teacher organization.
The bishop will visit classrooms and have lunch with students, followed by a 1 p.m. Mass to commemorate the anniversary in the school gymnasium.
The students include 47 preschool, 30 pre-kindergarten and 178 kindergarten through sixth grade. The students will wear matching maroon polo shirts with the traditional school coat of arms patch along with “125 years.”
St. John’s Academy closed its high school in 1965 and continues today as pre-kindergarten through sixth grade.
The Kid’s Kingdom day care tuition can cost between $1,050 and $1,400 per year; the pre-kindergarten morning or afternoon programs are $1,050 per child per year, and elementary enrollment is $2,919 for parish families and $3,539 for non-parishioners. Families Advocating Christian Education, an endowment, provided over $100,000 in scholarships to families in 2014.
For more information, call 252-2434 or 252-0119.
On line www.stjamesbasilica.org
Jamestown (CSi) Veterans needing a ride to the Fargo Veterans Administration for services, may use the Burleigh County Veterans Service van, that make stops in Jamestown.
On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Stutsman County Veterans Service Officer, David Bratton said, the van is available three days per week. His office can make arrangements for riders, to and then back from the Fargo VA.
In other notes, he said the Sew-A-Thon is set for Saturday September 26, 2015, at Fabric 7 Textile at the Buffalo Mall from 10-a.m., to 2-p.m.
He added that the store provides the material to sew items that will be distributed to residents at the Veterans Home in Lisbon.
Just bring along sewing needles, and other supplies.
He also reminded veterans that the letter “V” can be printed on a veteran’s driver license to indicate his or her veterans status.
He pointed out that it can save an individual providing proof of their veterans status, by combining the IDs.
His office at the lower level of the LEC in Jamestown has the forms to fill out that can be taken to the DMV.
The Stutsman County Veterans Service Office is open M-F 8-a.m to noon and 1-p.m., with the exception of holidays.
Call 701-252-9030.
Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown/Stutsman County United Way campaign kickoff is an outdoor movie event at Jack Brown Stadium, in cooperation with Jamestown Parks and Recreation, on Saturday September 19, 2015.
Cashwise has partnered with the United Way to put on a bratwurst and hotdog stand with all proceeds to the United Way.
The United Way is asking for a free will donation for the inflatables , fun activities and the outdoor movie. (Please leave pets at home.)
There will be inflatables courtesy of Jamestown Inflatables, and the family friendly movie starts at 8-p.m. Popcorn courtesy of Bison 6 Cinema, and Newman Signs will put up the screeen.
R&C School of Rock will provide music prior to the movie.
The Mosquito Squad will be spraying the park.
The United Way goal, for 2015-16 is $210,000, with the theme “United for Stutsman County.” The United Way currently funds 19 agencies.
Last year that goal was exceeded, raising $222,106.45.
Upcoming United Way events/fundraisers include:
An October 24th Bake Sale at the Buffalo Mall.
The United Way is also hosting the 50/50 drawing at the Jamestown Speedway races on September 25,26.
The biggest donations come from businesses and workers in the community.
Pledge packets are being distributed in September to businesses.
On the United Way is also on Facebook.
The United Way Board members are:
President; Megan Aldinger
1st Vice President: Jessica Haak
2nd Vice President: Erin Paulson
Treasurer: Rebecca Kercher
Secretary/Publicity: Dana Wallace
Board members may serve two consecutive three year terms and required to sit out, so the United Way is always looking for new board members to bring new ideas and energy to the board.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp says she will announce plans for her political future in the next “five (to) seven” days.
Rumors of a Heitkamp bid for governor were swirling months before North Dakota Gov. Jack Darlymple announced last week that he will not seek re-election.
Heitkamp says she is “working through” some details and understands that it’s important to reveal her plans as soon as possible. She adds that it’s unfair to North Dakota residents, the Democratic Party and her staff to “drag out” the issue.
The Democrat from North Dakota made an unsuccessful bid for the governor’s mansion in 2000. She is a former state tax commissioner and attorney general.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – The Highway Patrol says a man operating a compacting machine in a construction zone on a Williams County road died in a mishap.
Authorities say the 63-year-old man drove the vehicle too close to the edge of the roadway, and it slid into the ditch and rolled.
The man died at the scene about 15 miles northwest of Williston, shortly after 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. He was not immediately identified.
HETTINGER, N.D. (AP) – Authorities say a 56-year-old semi-truck driver was injured at an Adams County railroad crossing when his cab was struck by a train.
The North Dakota Highway Patrol says David Pastoors of Olivia, Minnesota, was driving the semi-truck north on a gravel township road just before 4 p.m. Tuesday. Pastoors traveled through the railroad crossing and was struck on the driver’s side door by a BNSF train that was heading east.
Pastoors was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Hettinger for treatment. His condition was not known.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A South Dakota woman who authorities said left her two young daughters to die in North Dakota won’t serve any more jail time if she continues getting her life turned around.
Rosebud Sioux member Michelle Wounded Face pleaded guilty in June to child abuse and neglect charges. She was sentenced Wednesday to the six months she’s already served, and three years of supervised release.
Authorities say Wounded Face abandoned her 2- and 4-year-old daughters in a rural area of the Fort Berthold Reservation in January. They survived.
Wounded Face later said she’d been under the influence of drugs and didn’t remember leaving her children. She says she’s taking steps to straighten out her life.
Federal Judge Daniel Hovland told Wounded Face that he hopes she continues on the right track.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Police in Minot are warning residents of a resurgence of calls from con artists posing as IRS officials.
Law enforcement authorities believe the scammers are located overseas, but the fraudulent calls show up on caller ID with an area code from western Washington state.
The Minot Police Department says two of the confirmed false phone numbers are 360-200-4671 and 360-283-5541.
Senior Officer Aaron Moss says people should be cautious if they receive a call from any of those numbers. He says the IRS never initiates any type of collections process over the phone. Instead, the agency first communicates with taxpayers through written correspondence.
The department is urging residents to contact police if they receive a fraudulent call.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Two Georgia men have been charged in North Dakota in connection with a ring that cashed several counterfeit checks worth thousands of dollars.
Thirty-one-year-old Marlis Hill and 30-year-old Antonio Stephens have been charged with forgery or counterfeiting and other counts.
Court records state that Hill and Stephens convinced three Bismarck men to work for them and were promised a cut of the checks they were asked to cash.
Authorities allege the men cashed checks worth over $14,000.
North Dakota Highway Patrol troopers found 17 counterfeit checks in a vehicle after arresting Hill and Stephens Sunday. Records show Stephens told a trooper he and Hill participated in an Atlanta-based scam.
Hill’s attorney declined to comment on the case. Stephens’s attorney didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Supporters of a Red River diversion channel around the Fargo and Moorhead, Minnesota, area are proposing a new funding formula to help speed up the project.
The Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Authority board voted Wednesday to support the concept, which would combine public and private resources to build the nearly $2 billion channel and associated infrastructure. The discussion came in front of Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick, the commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The corps is managing the project.
Proponents of the funding plan say it would help prevent construction delays and reduce costs to the federal government.
The authority is hoping to start construction in 2017. The group is facing legal and environmental challenges, mostly from upstream residents whose land would be flooded in times of high water.
DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) – A committee searching for Dickinson State University’s next president has invited five candidates to the southwestern North Dakota campus for in-person interviews later this month.
The committee has whittled down a list of applicants that numbered nearly 50. Those remaining are University of Wyoming professor Stephen Easton, Peru State College President Daniel Hanson, Rocky Vista University President and CEO Cheryl Lovell, Trinity College dean and vice president Thomas Mitzel and University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Vice Chancellor Petra Roter.
The search committee will conduct on-campus interviews in mid-September and then recommend finalists to the state Board of Higher Education, which will conduct final interviews on the DSU campus Sept. 30 before selecting a new president.
Former President D.C. Coston stepped down in August due to health concerns.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Officials at United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck say a lack of housing for students has led to a drop in enrollment.
The school enrolled 395 students for the fall semester, down from 430 last year. President Russ McDonald says that once on-campus housing fills up, students are having trouble finding affordable housing in the Bismarck-Mandan area.
United Tribes is renovating a dormitory to make room for up to 100 additional students, and considering loans to finance new housing.
The college is run by North Dakota tribes.
In sports…
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Game and Fish Department is asking grouse hunters to help with future bird management by sending in wing envelopes this fall.
Instructions for submitting wing feathers are printed on envelopes that are available from Game and Fish and the agency’s district offices.
Wing data allows biologists to monitor production, reconcile bird counts and get a better understanding of the harvest ratio of males to females, and juveniles to adults. Upland game biologist Aaron Robinson says, “the more we have, the better the data.”
The grouse season opens Sept. 12.
In world and national news…
FOX LAKE, Ill. (AP) – Even with 100 investigators on the ground for a second day, authorities in northern Illinois acknowledge they have no indication that three suspects who are wanted in the shooting death of an officer are still in the area. They say the slain officer had provided no concrete description of the men he was pursuing on foot before he was shot, except to tell dispatchers that two of them were white and one was black. That has left investigators and members of the public trying to help them with little to go on.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) – A Texas sheriff says a second video of deputies fatally shooting a man whose hands were raised appears to show him carrying what investigators believe was a knife. Bexar (bayr) County Sheriff Susan Pamerleau says the video has been forwarded to the state crime lab to see if the footage can be blown up and slowed down. She says investigators believe Gilbert Flores was holding a knife, but it’s unclear. A motorist captured video that was released publicly and that shows Flores standing motionless with his hands raised in apparent surrender when he was shot. A utility pole obscured one of his arms, though.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – In a speech that was broadcast live in Iran, Secretary of State John Kerry has told a Philadelphia audience that a defeat of the nuclear deal with Iran would be a “blow to our nation’s credibility and leadership.” His speech came shortly after supporters of the deal got the Senate votes they would need to save the agreement from a resolution of disapproval. The 34 votes would uphold a presidential veto. In a letter delivered to Congress Wednesday, Kerry offered reassurances about Israel’s security — pointing to the billions of dollars the U.S. has provided to Israel for missile defense and other security assistance.
ATLANTA (AP) – Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee supports a Kentucky clerk’s refusal to issue marriage licenses because of her opposition to same-sex marriage. In a statement, Huckabee says he spoke Wednesday morning to Kim Davis to offer “prayers and support.” Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul also has expressed support for Davis. Among other GOP rivals, Carly Fiorina and Lindsey Graham have said she should comply with the law. Other Republican presidential candidates have steered clear of the matter.
MIAMI (AP) – As he considers a White House bid, Vice President Joe Biden is testing the waters in pivotal Florida. He’s in the state Wednesday for an education event at Miami Dade College and a fundraiser for Senate Democrats, mingling with the types of donors he’d need to challenge Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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