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TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S. EAST WINDS 5 TO
15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 5 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.WEDNESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 60S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO
15 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR IN THE EVENING…THEN MOSTLY
CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AFTER MIDNIGHT.
LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS IN
THE MORNING. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. SOUTH WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS IN THE MORNING…
THEN CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON.
HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 50 PERCENT.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY AND CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS
IN THE EVENING…THEN RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN
THE MID 40S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 60 PERCENT.
.SATURDAY…CLOUDY. CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS IN THE MORNING…THEN
CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE
AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE MID 50S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
50 PERCENT.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS.
HIGHS IN THE MID 50S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS IN THE
EVENING…THEN CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SNOW
SHOWERS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE MID 30S. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
.MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS.
HIGHS IN THE UPPER 50S.
THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND
CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA FROM THURSDAY EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY
AFTERNOON.
Jamestown (CSi) With the Jamestown Choralaires hosting the regional Big Sing, this year April 22, 23, 2016 at the Jamestown Civic Center, the “Choralaires Ladies Group,” is busy making plans for local events.
On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, members Sharyln Geerdes and Alaine Toso talked about what will be happening with the Big Sing and the role of the group for the weekend.
Alaine said their group will be ushering and taking tickets at the Big Sing-Mass Sing, with tickets available from Choralaires members and the Boys Choir members.
Sharyln added that about 200 to 300 singers will be in Jamestown that weekend, from North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, members of the Associated Male Chorus of America, (AMCA) Midwest District.
She said that Friday evening is Judication of each group which is a mechanism to help the groups improve their performance.
That Saturday the Choralaires Ladies will host a luncheon at the Masonic Temple in Jamestown. the event for all ladies attending the Big Sing, discussing the schedule of the day, and talking about Gift Bags, drawings, entertainment, the menu and more. The Jamestown Girls Choir will also entertain.
The Ladies Group , Quilt Raffle will be held, made by Mary Bertch, which is on display until April 20th at Unison Bank in Jamestown.
Raffle tickets will be sold at the Buffalo Mall on April 20th the day of the Unison movie at the Buffalo Mall, at the entrance to the theaters.
Also sold at Unison Bank, at the reception desk, and from Choralaires Ladies.
Also available that day will be tickets to the Mass Choir Concert on Saturday, and two CD’s that have be recorded by the Choralaires.
The cost of the ticket is $5 each, or a book of five tickets for $20.
Tickets will also be sold that Friday and Saturday evenings.
The drawing for the Quilt Raffle will take place that evening at the Mass Chorus Concert.
Part of the proceeds from the Quilt Raffle will go to fund scholarships for music students.
Students may apply for the scholarships through the AMCA.
It was noted that on student from the University of Jamestown and one from UND, a Jamestown native, were recipients of those scholarships and performed at the Choralaires Christmas Concert last year.
Jamestown (CSi) Central Valley Health in Jamestown will be planting pinwheels in the Hansen Jamestown Arts Park as a reminder of Child Abuse Prevention.
The community partnership meeting will be Thursday April 14, 2016, at noon as members walk over to the Arts Park to plant 259 pinwheels. Community members may also participate in the plantings.
Central Valley Health District, Executive Director Robin Iszler points out that the pinwheels symbolize life births in the area in 2014.
The Central Valley Health group provides a list of activities that care givers can do with children on their website at centralvalleyhealth.org.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A car crashed through the window of Fargo hair salon on Tuesday but no one was hurt.
The accident happened at The Salon Professional Academy over the lunch hour.
Owner Jodi Ellingson says a customer was parked outside the building when her foot got stuck on the car’s accelerator pedal. Ellingson says there were few people inside the building at the time.
Police are investigating but haven’t determined whether to recommend charges.
BELCOURT, N.D. (AP) – The Highway Patrol has identified a Dunseith woman killed in a pickup truck crash in Rolette County.
Authorities say 19-year-old Shatehya Azure lost control of the pickup on a BIA road northwest of Belcourt about 1 a.m. Friday, and the vehicle rolled twice in the ditch.
Azure was ejected and died at the scene. Three passengers were able to get out of the pickup and call for help.
FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Two Arizona men have been sentenced for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine in North Dakota and Minnesota.
Authorities say 38-year-old Christian Marlar and 27-year-old Joseph Johnson brought meth from Arizona to distribute to local drug traffickers in Fargo, North Dakota, and neighboring Moorhead, Minnesota.
Marlar and Johnson both are from Tucson. U.S. Attorney Christopher Myers says they were known in Fargo-Moorhead as the “Arizona Boys.” Marlar was sentenced to seven years in federal prison and Johnson to 10 years.
Three other people were sentenced earlier in the conspiracy to prison terms ranging from half a year to more than 10 years.
MANDAN, N.D. (AP) – A Mandan man accused of killing a friend and setting a mobile home on fire to cover up the crime has been sentenced to serve 15 years in prison.
Fifty-year-old Rodney Friesz was accused of shooting 62-year-old Gene Jassmann in the head with a .22-caliber rifle after the two argued in October 2014, then torching the home that belonged to Friesz’s brother.
Friesz was initially charged with murder and arson. A jury in February convicted him of arson and the lesser charge of manslaughter.
Friesz told the judge at Monday’s sentencing hearing that he plans to appeal.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota state Treasurer Kelly Schmidt is fighting to save her job and the agency itself.
Longtime Democratic Sen. Tim Mathern from Fargo filed Monday to run for the job as state treasurer. Mathern says if he’s elected, he will work to close the office and split its duties among other agencies.
Schmidt was the first Republican in 20 years to have the job when she was elected in 2004. The office has survived past attempts to abolish it, including those led by Republicans.
The change would require approval from North Dakota’s voters. They defeated attempts in 2000 and 1984.
Schmidt says those votes attest to North Dakotans’ support of the office.
It has been the smallest state agency headed by an elected official. It has eight employees.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A state lawmaker from Fargo and a pair of tribal members from North Dakota American Indian reservations made eleventh-hour filings to fill gaps in Democrats’ slate of statewide candidates for the June 14 primary.
Democrats will now challenge Republicans’ stronghold on the Public Service Commission, state treasurer and insurance commissioner. No Democrat came forward by the deadline late Monday to run for state auditor.
Longtime state Sen. Tim Mathern of Fargo will challenge incumbent Kelly Schmidt for state treasurer. Ruth Buffalo of Mandaree will run on the Democratic ticket for state insurance commissioner, a seat being vacated by Republican Adam Hamm.
Standing Rock Sioux member Marlo Hunte-Beaubrun will challenge GOP incumbent Julie Fedorchak for a seat on the PSC.
CRARY, N.D. (AP) – Dust from a dry pea processing plant is causing a dust-up in Crary.
The Dakota Dry Bean plant is properly located in an industrial zone in the northeastern North Dakota town of about 150 people. But some nearby residents are frustrated with what they say is dust coating homes and vehicles.
The business recently refurbished its grain elevator. Homeowner Mike Wentz says dust problems are the worst they’ve been in a decade.
A Health Department inspection in February found the facility in compliance with air quality laws. Company CEO Chuck Carlson acknowledges there have been some dust clouds but says ongoing improvements at the plant should create “pretty much a dust-free environment.”
Some residents aren’t convinced, and some say the damage is already done.
In sports…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Thousands of people packed Ralph Engelstad Arena on the University of North Dakota campus to help the school’s men’s hockey team celebrate its national championship.
UND beat Quinnipiac 5-1 on Saturday in the NCAA Frozen Four in Tampa, Florida, to win the school’s eighth national hockey title and the first in 16 years.
A public celebration was held Monday night at the arena. Grand Forks Mayor Michael Brown also proclaimed April 9 as UND Men’s Hockey Day. Brown said Grand Forks “bleeds green for all things UND, specifically for the North Dakota hockey program.” Green is the school color.
Lights on the Sorlie Bridge across the Red River were changed to green on Monday and will remain that color for eight days – one day for each national title.
NEW YORK (AP) – With eight years left on their deal to broadcast the NCAA Tournament, CBS and Turner are tacking on another eight. The extension announced Tuesday goes all the way through 2032. Provisions in the agreement protect CBS and Turner should the tourney start to look very different, but network executives hope the deal increases the odds that March Madness will march on mostly the same.
In world and national news…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Paul Ryan is definitively ruling himself out of a presidential bid this year and plans to make a statement on the issue. On Tuesday, Ryan told a Milwaukee radio station that there is no scenario under which he would seek the Republican nomination. He says that if the primary process goes to a contested convention, “the delegates should pick among the people who actually ran for president.”
WASHINGTON (AP) – Most Republican voters apparently think the candidate with the most delegates heading into the party’s convention in July should be the GOP’s presidential nominee, regardless of whether he holds the number of delegates needed to secure the nomination. A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds 58 percent of Republican voters who were surveyed hold that view, while 40 percent think it would be acceptable for the delegates to pick a different candidate. The poll also finds that Republicans are more likely to think of Donald Trump than either of his current rivals as a possible general election winner.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have been certified as the winners of Missouri’s presidential primaries almost a month after the state’s primary. The official results show Trump led Texas Sen. Ted Cruz by a fifth of a percentage point and Clinton led Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by a quarter of a percentage point. A recount remains a possibility — Missouri law says candidates who lose by less than half of a percent have a week to request one.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – New York’s legislature has become the latest to pass a bill to exempt tampons and other feminine hygiene products from state sales taxes. The Republican lawmaker who sponsored the bill says the state already exempts from sales taxes medicine and medical equipment. She notes that what she calls the state’s “out-of-touch tax laws” also exempt items like cupcakes and circus performances. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has indicated he’ll sign the bill into law.
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