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Valley City, ND (WDAY TV) – The sight of a man playing with airsoft guns with kids in his front yard prompted the Valley City Police Chief to pull his gun.

WDAY TV reports, Chief Fred Thompson says he was driving by a home on October 10th when he saw a man holding what appeared to be an AR-15 rifle and children diving behind things. He drew his weapon from about 100 feet away and ordered the man to drop the weapon. When he realized his mistake, Thompson says he explained the misunderstanding to the man.

No weapons were fired and no one was injured.

Thompson says the incident had nothing to do with his recent announcement that he is resigning in January.

The man who reportedly had the gun drawn on him did not respond to a request for comment.

 

Jamestown(CSi) October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and communities across the state will be hosting events to bring attention to ending domestic violence. Safe Shelter, CAWS North Dakota, the state dual sexual assault and domestic violence coalition, along with the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program – North Dakota National Guard will be displaying the Clothesline Project at University of Jamestown’s Reiland Fine Arts Center on October 23, 2015.

On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, SAFE Shelter, Prevention Coordinator, Mary Thysell said, The Clothesline Project is a T-shirt display that bears witness to violence against women and aids in the healing process for survivors and the loved ones of victims.

University of Jamestown, Vice President of Marketing, Tena Lawrence also adds, “The University of Jamestown welcomes the Clothesline Project on campus as visual reminder that domestic violence affects people of every level of education and in all socio-economic classes.”

One in four women will be the victim of domestic violence at some point in her lifetime. In 2014 there were 5,181 incidents of domestic violence reported to crisis intervention centers in North Dakota. Throughout October, communities across the country will mourn for those whose lives were taken by domestic violence, celebrate the tremendous progress the violence against women movement has made over the years, and connect with one another with a true sense of unity to end domestic violence.

Mary adds, “Domestic violence and sexual assault are still ongoing problems in our community for women, children and men. The t-shirts in the Clothesline Project are testimony to the long lasting impact of that violence on us as individuals and as a community.”

The clothesline is representative of the days when doing laundry was considered women’s work and neighborhood women exchanged stories over backyard fences when hanging their clothes out to dry. The original Clothesline Project began with 31 shirts hung in Hyannis, Massachusetts in October of 1990. North Dakota had its first Clothesline Project display in 1995 at the Great Hall of the Capitol Building during the legislative session. There were 114 shirts on display at that time.”

The Clothesline Project will be on display in the Reiland Fine Arts Center, University of Jamestown from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on October 23rd, 2015. At 7:00 p.m. a 15 minute video entitled

“Telling Amy’s Story” will be shown. The display and video screening are free of charge and open to the public.

Mary also said that SAFE Shelter will be bringing the message of domestic and sexual violence prevention to Jamestown and Carrington schools.

A program called “Safe Dates,” is available, a 10 session program.

She added that moving away from the stigma of getting help is a major goal of those working in the area of support.

She said the SAFE Shelter 24 hour line is available 24/7 at 701-251-2300.

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce reports, Jamestown has received the Community of the Year, Award, for its forestry program.

Jamestown received the award for its work to grow and diversify it’s urban forest.

Over the last two years the City Of Jamestown has:

1)Developed a landscape ordinance which requires commercial properties and institutions to landscape their properties with trees and shrubs.

2) Started the Planting Partners Program which is a privately funded cost share program that gives homeowners and citizens up to $50 back and a limit of $400 per property for planting trees on the boulevard.

3) Constructed a gravel bed nursery which allows the city to purchase bareroot trees at a very low cost.

These trees are held in the gravel bed through the summer which allows them to put on substantial amounts of roots and then they are planted in the fall. This root growth results in an extremely high survival rate. The gravel bed nursery could allow the city to be very proactive in building a diverse, resilient urban forest.

4) The City Of Jamestown has also planted over 400 trees in the last two years including the 233 trees in the East Business Loop Landscape Project.

The Chamber congratulates Jamestown City Forester, Doug Wiles for the hard work as the City Forester for accomplishing all these projects.

 

HOOPLE, N.D. (AP) – A 68-year-old Hoople man was killed when the car he was driving hit a tractor trailer backing out on North Dakota Highway 18.

The North Dakota Highway Patrol says the tractor trailer began backing the trailer across the southbound lane onto a field approach on the west side of the roadway about 6:30 a.m. Thursday. While the trailer was across the southbound lane, a car driven south on the highway by Russell Crowder struck the trailer’s side.

Russell Crowder was killed in the crash. A passenger in the car, 64-year-old Betty Crowder, also of Hoople, was taken to a Park River hospital with injuries.

The truck driver, 29-year-old Hassan Stephens, was uninjured.

The crash remains under investigation.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The publisher of the Bismarck Tribune has announced that he will seek the Republican nomination for North Dakota state auditor.

Publisher Brian Kroshus (KROH’-shuhs ) tells the Tribune  that he has been considering running for office since his college days at North Dakota State University and now seems to be the right time.

The 51-year-old executive has been with the newspaper since July 1997 and was named publisher in 2005.

Kroshus says he feels his private sector experience, fiscal conservatism and work in creating efficiencies in day-to-day operations make him a good fit for the position.

On Wednesday, North Dakota State Auditor Robert Peterson told The Associated Press that he won’t seek a sixth term, marking an end of a more than four-decade father-son dynasty in the office.

 

DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) – A new support foundation is taking shape at Dickinson State University, after the previous one was dissolved by the state attorney general.

Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem announced the move in September after a court-appointed receiver for the foundation called for it to be dissolved because of financial issues.

Stenehjem outlined several concerns, including a dispute in which a judge ordered the foundation to pay a building developer $1.7 million.

DSU says 18 people agreed to serve on the board of the new DSU Heritage Foundation, and Bismarck attorney Timothy Lervik was hired to develop articles of incorporation.

The new board convened on Oct. 16 to review the articles of incorporation, develop bylaws and elect officers. The board has filed to be a nonprofit organization. It meets again Oct. 30.
 

MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Officials are developing a small community in an area once used for temporary housing for Minot residents displaced by Souris River flooding in 2011.

Townhomes, a school and a fire station are under construction in the 530-acre 55th Crossing area. It also will be home to a gymnastics facility.

Lt. Gov. Drew Wrigley joined local officials on Wednesday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Wrigley said the public-private partnership goes beyond making “lemonade from lemons.” He says it will create “something permanent, lasting and really, really positive.”

The Souris River in June 2011 swelled with excessive rain and spring snowmelt and swamped part of Minot, damaging or destroying more than 4,000 homes and other structures and causing nearly $700 million in damage.

 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – A committee that will search for the next president of the University of North Dakota has set a timeline for the process.

WDAZ-TV reports that the group gathered on campus Wednesday for its initial meeting, and decided to post the position Nov. 13.

The list of candidates will be announced about two months later, and the committee will whittle the field down to 2-4 finalists by mid-March.

The state Board of Higher Education will then make the final decision on who will succeed President Robert Kelley. He’s retiring early next year after leading the Grand Forks school for nearly seven years.

The committee meets again on Dec. 9

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Tempers are flaring at the House Benghazi committee hearing. The committee’s top Democrat is accusing his Republican counterpart of unfairly attacking Hillary Rodham Clinton and mischaracterizing a series of emails that have been the subject of a line of questioning. Shouting over the issue lasted several minutes. Republicans are grilling Clinton on her record in the lead-up to the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks.

WASHINGTON (AP) – One American service member is dead following a raid that freed about 70 Iraqi prisoners held by the Islamic State group. The Pentagon says U.S. special operations forces were supporting an Iraqi peshmerga rescue operation when it happened. The service member’s name has not yet been released. Officials say this is the first American combat death in Iraq since the U.S. began military campaign against IS in August of 2014.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – Government investigators are blaming the Environmental Protection Agency for a 3 million gallon wastewater spill from a Colorado gold mine. The Interior Department says a cleanup crew rushed its work and didn’t consider the complex engineering involved, causing the very blowout it hoped to avoid. The probe concludes the spill would have been avoided if the EPA had checked on water levels before digging into the mine.

BALTIMORE (AP) – Three of the six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray are asking a judge to drop second-degree assault charges, saying that failing to strap a seatbelt on a detainee is not a crime. Attorneys for Officer William Porter, Lt. Brian Rice and Sgt. Alicia White filed motions Tuesday. They also each face charges of manslaughter, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – The spacecraft that gave us the first close-up views of Pluto now has a much smaller object in its sights. NASA’s New Horizons is set to fire its thrusters Thursday afternoon and set out to fly by a recently discovered, 30-mile-wide object on the edge of the solar system. The object known as 2014 MU69 orbits nearly 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. The close encounter with the object would happen in 2019.