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TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 50S. EAST WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.THURSDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. EAST WINDS AROUND
5 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 50S. SOUTHEAST
WINDS AROUND 5 MPH.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO
15 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S. SOUTH WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH.
.SATURDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER
50S. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S TO LOWER 80S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS.
HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 40S.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 60S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S.
A DRY PERIOD FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY…
THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH
MONDAY ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA.
Jamestown (CSi) The 25th Annual St. John’s Academy HOPE (Help Offer Private Education) Dinner and Auction is set for Saturday October 3, 2015 at St. John’s Zebedee Center, starting at 5-p.m.
Guests on Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Jim and Carolyn Exner have been involved with the planning for a number of years, including the first 10 years of the event, which was started in 1990 by then Pricipal, Sister Dorothy Zeller. The Exner’s have returned to Publicity Committee.
Carolyn pointed out that the first dinner and auction collected $2,500 from the dinner and $4,000 from the auction that was organized by Jim Exner.
More from Orr auctioned items at the first event, and continues through the years.
She added that in 1999 the event raised over $50,000 and through the first 10, around $317,000.
Over the past three years, each year the dinner and auction raised over $100,000 with the generous support of the community, both in attendance and those contributing auction items.
Sponsorships have increased from 9-sponsors in 1990, to 55 sponsors last year.
Jim pointed out that tickets are going quickly and to call St. John’s Academy for ticket purchases and availablitiy.
He said the first year the dinner and auction attracted about 160 participants, and now the event fills, with the limit of 300 attending.
The event outgrew the Jamestown Knights of Columbus Hall, and was moved to the Jamestown Civic Center.
The dinner and auction has been held at the Zebedee Center at St. John’s Academy since it opened in 2002.
Jim said the HOPE Dinner and Auction is one of the largest events in Jamestown each year, and has grown to include community-wide support.
Dollars raised through the years go to educational support, including keeping up with technology.
St. John’s Academy recent completed improvements to the school’s playground.
Bismarck (CSi) North Dakota State Hospital Governing Board members will meet Monday, September 28, 2015 at 9 a.m., in room 227 in the hospital’s administration building, 2605 Circle Dr., in Jamestown. The public is welcome to attend.
The board will review bylaws and regulations and will discuss the quality management plan and medical staff appointments. State Hospital Superintendent Rosalie Etherington will give a report. Board members will receive a financial report, the medical director’s report, and reports on employee programming and wellness committee activities, seclusion and restraint, the hospital safety program, and quality support services. Department of Human Services Executive Director Maggie Anderson will give a department report.
The meeting agenda includes time at about 10 a.m. for comments from State Hospital employees and the public. A complete meeting agenda is online at
www.nd.gov/dhs/info/publicnotice/index.html.
Individuals with disabilities who need accommodations including auxiliary aids to participate in the meeting can contact Karla Bachmeier at 701-253-3964, ND Relay TTY 800-366-6888, or
The 304-bed North Dakota State Hospital provides short-term acute inpatient psychiatric and substance abuse treatment, intermediate psycho-social rehabilitation services, forensic services, and safety net services for adults. The hospital also provides residential addiction treatment services for adults referred to the Tompkins Rehabilitation and Corrections Center (TRCC) by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DOCR). The hospital has a secure services unit that provides inpatient evaluation and treatment services for sexually dangerous individuals.
More information about the hospital is online at
www.nd.gov/dhs/locations/statehospital/.
Valley City (CSi-VCSU) North Dakota charitable food programs will benefit from the efforts of the Valley City State University freshman class, which will harvest squash and other produce for distribution by the Great Plains Food Bank.
On Thursday, Sept. 24, VCSU students in the freshman Learning to Live, Living to Learn (L2L) class will be bused to a farm northwest of Valley City owned by Dan Faust, a retired Lutheran pastor, who grows squash and other vegetables for the Great Plains Food Bank, a program of Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota.
The group of more than 200 freshmen and their upper-class L2L mentors, together with a group of community volunteers organized by Faust, will pick the produce and load it into semi-trailers for distribution by the food bank, which serves community food programs such as food pantries and soup kitchens throughout the state.
This is the fifth consecutive year for the harvest event; in 2014, the volunteers harvested more than 33,000 pounds of produce for the food bank.
Courtenay (CSi) The groundbreaking for the 200 megawatt Courtenay Wind Farm is Friday September 25, 2015.
The groundbreaking event includes a lunch at 2 p.m. and a program at 3 p.m. The location of the Courtenay Wind Farm is 3 miles south of Courtenay at the southwest corner of N.D. Highway 9 and 16th Street Southeast.
Xcel Energy holds the groundbreaking with state and local officials.
Expected to be on hand: U.S. Senator John Hoeven, North Dakota Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger, and Stutsman County Commission Chairman, Mark Klose.
The $300 million project will create around 200 construction jobs along with 10 full-time jobs.
The 100 wind turbines will generate enough electricity to power 105,000 homes and generate about $850,000 annually in tax revenue
The 100 wind turbines will be on nearly 25,000 acres of property leased from more than 60 landowners.
Jamestown (CSi) This Friday & Saturday the Disabled American Veterans Chapter 31 volunteers will be collecting donations and handing out “forget-me-not” flowers in front of Hugo’s Family Marketplace, Cash Wise Foods, The Depot Café and the Jamestown Post Office.
Donations collected during forget-me-not weekend that are used to provide assistance to ill or injured veterans, including free transportation for veterans who have medical appointments at the VA Medical Center in Fargo.
The funds go to support Service Dogs for America, local participants with the Honor Flight Network, DAV Auxiliary, DAV Century Fund Foundation, Jamestown All Vets Club, VA Transportation Network, VA Voluntary Service, coffee for patients at Jamestown VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic and the North Dakota Veterans Home in Lisbon, North Dakota.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – A judge is refusing to suppress statements made by a Kenmare woman accused in the death of her 13-year-old son, who died weighing just 21 pounds.
Jessica Jensen could be sentenced to life in prison if she’s found guilty of murder and child neglect. Her attorney asked Judge Gary Lee to suppress evidence authorities gathered during interviews and a search of Jensen’s home before she was arrested.
Lee refused, saying Jensen’s rights were not violated.
Defense attorney Tyler Morrow also wants Jensen’s trial moved to eastern North Dakota because of extensive news coverage of the case. Lee says he wants to first begin the process of trying to seat a jury in Ward County, to see if there are enough people there who meet juror qualifications.
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) – The getaway driver accused in the murder-for-hire plot of a Washington state businessman has pleaded guilty.
The Spokesman Review reports that Robby Wahrer pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal racketeering charge for his role in the 2013 murder of Doug Carlile.
That leaves only two of the six men implicated in the scheme to stand trial.
Prosecutors say Wahrer helped gunman Timothy Suckow carry out an armed robbery at Carlile’s home for an unnamed boss in North Dakota. In exchange, Wahrer was told the boss would give him oxycodone pills to sell in Spokane.
Prosecutors believe the boss is James Henrikson. They say he ordered Carlile’s murder after a joint oil venture in North Dakota went bad.
Suckow and two other defendants pleaded guilty to charges last week.
LAWTON, N.D. (AP) – A game warden supervisor with North Dakota’s Game and Fish Department says a mountain lion was injured when hit by a vehicle in Ramsey County and was euthanized.
The Tuesday night crash west of Lawton was unusual – northeastern North Dakota is not prime mountain lion habitat. Game Warden Supervisor Paul Freeman says the lion was a young male.
The driver of the vehicle was not hurt in the crash. Game and Fish will take possession of the lion carcass for study purposes.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – A Minot man accused of setting up a secret recording device in his bathroom during a Super Bowl party in February has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison.
Acting U.S. Attorney Christopher Myers says 47-year-old Terry Davis recorded video of several women and girls using the bathroom. The device disguised as a pen also recorded Davis setting it up in the bathroom.
A girl discovered the recording device during the party and turned it over to authorities. Officers searched Davis’ home and seized additional video of women and girls using the shower and toilet in various bathrooms.
Davis was sentenced for possessing child pornography. He’ll be on supervised release for five years following his prison time.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – University of North Dakota President Robert Kelley and the state Board of Higher Education say a federal lawsuit filed by the former head of a UND energy research center should be dismissed.
The federal complaint filed in June by Gerald Groenewold (GROHN’-wahld) alleges that Kelley and the board violated Groenewold’s First Amendment and due process rights by firing him as director of the UND Energy and Environmental Research Center. The suit seeks at least $2.5 million in damages and a year’s salary for Groenewold.
The response filed Tuesday says that Groenewold’s termination followed both UND and board policies and was properly reviewed by the school’s director of personnel.
The defendants say public officials are immune from claims for damages and federal courts do not have jurisdiction to hear the case.
MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Friends and family of a Minot State University student slain eight years ago want police to dedicate more time and resources to solving the crime.
Eighteen-year-old Anita Knutson, of Butte, was found stabbed to death in her apartment June 4, 2007. Knutson’s father discovered the body of his adopted daughter in her bed. Investigators were unable to solve the crime.
Friends and family delivered a petition with 1,035 signatures to the police department Tuesday, asking for “Justice for Anita.” Aunt Karen Leier says the group wants to keep the case in the public eye, in the hope that someone will come forward with evidence.
Police Chief Jason Olson says the case is still an open investigation. He says anyone with knowledge should contact authorities.
DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) – Four lawyers have applied to fill an upcoming judge vacancy in North Dakota’s Southwest Judicial District.
Judge Zane Anderson in Dickinson is retiring Nov. 1. Attorneys Glen Bruhschwein of Dickinson, James Gion of Regent, Michael Hurly of Devils Lake and Gary Ramsey of Dickinson are seeking to succeed him.
A judicial nominating committee has interviewed the applicants and will make a recommendation to Gov. Jack Dalrymple, who will make the appointment.
Meanwhile, an investiture ceremony is scheduled Friday in the Burleigh County Courthouse in Bismarck for new South Central District Judge John Grinsteiner. Dalrymple in August appointed him to fill a newly created judgeship.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – Houston-based oil field services company Halliburton has laid off some of its workers in the North Dakota oil patch hub of Williston, though the company isn’t providing details.
Halliburton in April suspended operations at its facility in Minot and transferred many of the jobs there to locations in Williston and Dickinson, citing “changing business needs from its customers.”
Spokeswoman Emily Mir told the Williston Herald that the company is now making “adjustments to its workforce in Williston” but she didn’t elaborate, saying it was competitive information.
Halliburton said in February that it planned to cut up to 6,400 jobs worldwide in response to falling oil prices.
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Drones aren’t quite ready to feed the world, but a college researcher who studies insects says unmanned aircraft can help grow better crops and produce more food.
Kansas State entomology professor Brian McCornack says it’s an important application because the world’s population is projected to increase by 2 billion people in the next 30 years and there will be “the same sliver of land” to produce food.
McCornack says in addition to targeting pests and other problems with production, drones should have the robotic capabilities to collect insect samples or set traps.
McCornack spoke Wednesday during the final day of an annual unmanned aircraft summit in Grand Forks. He told the group that making an entomologist part of a drone discussion shows how far the industry has advanced.
WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – The Lewis and Clark Bridge on U.S. Highway 85 south of Williston has reopened after being closed about a day for maintenance.
The bridge was shut down Tuesday and reopened Wednesday.
The highway is the major north-south artery in the western North Dakota oil patch.
In sports…
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s annual fall wetland survey indicates good but declining wetland conditions for duck hunting throughout much of the state.
Migratory game bird supervisor Mike Szymanski (shuh-MAN’-skee) says the northwest region once again has the highest number of wetlands holding water. But he says virtually all areas of the state are drier than last year, with the poorest conditions and most extreme declines in the southern half of the state.
Szymanski says this year’s moisture conditions have been somewhat of a roller coaster – fairly dry through April, extremely wet in May and June, and then dry again beginning in July.
Szymanski says hunters should be cautious driving off-trail to avoid soft spots and also areas like tall vegetation that could be a fire hazard.
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Pope Francis is praising U.S. bishops for taking up the cause of immigrants. And he’s urging them to welcome even more foreigners coming across the border. Speaking to bishops at the Cathedral of St. Matthew in Washington, Francis thanked them for defending the rights of migrants, helping them to prosper and keeping their faith alive. U.S. bishops have been demanding a more welcoming policy toward immigrants in the country. And they’re hoping Francis’ visit will help their push, on what is a divisive issue in the presidential campaign.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Since he became pope, Francis has said the church had become too focused on divisive social issues, and that it should instead focus on mercy. And it’s a theme he emphasized during his speech to U.S. bishops today. Francis said there’s no place for “harsh” rhetoric in their ministry. He encouraged them to build relationships with anyone, no matter that person’s views on church teaching, and to do so with compassion.
BERLIN (AP) – A German official says the emissions scandal at Volkswagen still needs to be “cleared up completely” — in the aftermath of the resignation of the company’s CEO. Martin Winterkorn resigned Wednesday after the company admitted it had rigged its diesel cars to pass U.S. emissions tests. Germany’s economy minister says Volkswagen and German officials need to cooperate with U.S. authorities as they investigate.
SEATTLE (AP) – Chinese President Xi Jinping (shee jihn-peeng) has been meeting with Chinese and American business executives Wednesday in Seattle as he continues his U.S. visit. He’s visiting the Boeing production facility and also Microsoft’s suburban campus east of Seattle. The Chinese leader says his country will continue to remove barriers to foreign investment. And he spoke of the need for reforms in China, including stronger intellectual property protection.
COBB, Calif. (AP) – Another body has been found in a burned-out home in Northern California, bringing the death toll to six from two of the state’s more destructive wildfires in recent memory. Authorities say the body was found last night in the rubble of a fire in Lake County, about 100 miles north of San Francisco. Sheriff’s officials believe the remains are those of Robert Fletcher, whose home was destroyed. Another man is still missing.
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