Photo: JRMC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHearing the news was \u201cpretty shocking,\u201d she said, even though she thought she had prepared for it.<\/p>\n
Her husband, Kerry, attended several of her eight chemotherapy appointments, including her last on Sept. 17. He said he tried to stay strong for her.<\/p>\n
Kerry says, \u201cI didn\u2019t handle the news very well.\u00a0 But I didn\u2019t let her know that.\u201d<\/p>\n
One in eight women will receive a breast cancer diagnosis in her lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society. Catching it early can mean the difference between keeping the breast or needing surgery to remove it.<\/p>\n
Triple-negative breast cancer is cancer that tests negative for estrogen receptors, progesterone receptors, and excess HER2 protein.<\/p>\n
These results mean the hormones estrogen and progesterone or by the HER2 protein do not fuel cancer. So, triple-negative breast cancer does not respond to hormonal therapy medicines or medicines that target HER2 protein receptors. Still, other medicines are used to successfully treat triple-negative breast cancer.<\/p>\n
In Smith\u2019s case, her Oncologist Dr. Shelby Terstriep, ordered eight four-hour rounds of Adriamycin\/Cytoxan followed by taxol. Once the JRMC Cancer Center opened this summer, Smith could have her treatments here. Previously, she\u2019d received them at the Roger Maris Cancer Center in Fargo.<\/p>\n
Smith says, \u201cThis cancer center is a huge benefit for the area. It reduced our drive time from four hours a day to less than two.\u201d<\/p>\n
About 10 percent to 20 percent of breast cancers are triple-negative breast cancers.<\/p>\n
Now that her treatments are over, her husband wants to celebrate with dinner, whereas Smith joked that she may do laundry instead. She can also return to her normal routine of working at Farm Credit Services.<\/p>\n
The couple said they are grateful for their support team, including family, friends, coworkers and Smith\u2019s bowling team. More than a dozen of them surprised Smith at her bell ringing.
\nShe said in surprise, \u201cYou all came here from Carrington?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSmith\u2019s friend supported her in many ways \u2013 meals, rides to treatment, listening ears.<\/p>\n
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She celebrated with family and friends on Tuesday, Sept. 17.
\n\u201cYou find out you have a lot of friends.\u00a0 You see how much they support you.\u201d
\nSupport is important when it comes to cancer care.<\/p>\n
As October approaches, Kerry Smith says he plans to update his wardrobe. He plans to introduce pink to his closet, in support of others like his wife.<\/p>\n
He adds, \u201cShe\u2019s a tough cookie. She handled it better than I would.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kari says she will continue to support her others and encourage them to receive their preventative services like mammograms and cervical screenings.<\/p>\n
Based on national utilization data, 1,346 Stutsman County women over age 40 have not had their mammograms in two years. About 3,000 of them are behind on their cervical screenings.<\/p>\n
She says, \u201cIt\u2019s better to know than to wonder.\u00a0 Catching it early is better than catching it late.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jamestown Regional Medical Center, in partnership with Sanford Health, opened the JRMC Cancer Center in 2019. The JRMC Cancer Center serves 100 people from Sanford and other healthcare organizations in the Jamestown area each month, saving more than 160,000 miles of travel each year.<\/p>\n
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Valley City\u00a0 (VCPS)\u00a0 Hi-Liner Spirit will be on displays during Homecoming Week, Monday September 30th<\/sup> through October 5<\/p>\nEach day will highlight events and activities.<\/p>\n
Monday 9\/30-Athlete vs Mathlete Day<\/p>\n
Tuesday 10\/1 Color Day\u2026 12th<\/sup> in Black, 11th<\/sup> in Grey, 10th<\/sup> in Red, 9th<\/sup> in Green, 8th<\/sup> in Orange, 7th<\/sup> in Yellow , Wednesday 10\/2 Pattern day,<\/p>\nThursday 10\/3 Decade Day 12th-1920, 11th-1960, 10th-1970, 9th-1980, JRHI-1990 (Elementary \u2013superhero Day),<\/p>\n
The annual Powder puff Football Junior Class fundraiser is on Monday Sept. 30 at \u00a07-pm at Hanna field. Come out and cheer on your favorite Junior or Senior girl, cost is $5.00 per person.<\/p>\n
MUSIC BOOSTER GRILL OUT at 6:00pm before the game. Come have supper and watch the game.<\/p>\n
Pep Rally & Coronation will be held at 2pm on Friday October. 4 in the Hi-Liner Activity Center featuring the high school pep band, cheerleaders, dance team, skits, games, crowning of the Staff Homecoming King & Queen and crowning of the 2019 Student Homecoming King and Queen. The community is welcome to attend.<\/p>\n
2019 Homecoming Parade is Friday October 4th and the parade starts at 4pm.<\/p>\n
The Tailgate Party at Hanna Field (sponsored by the Valley City Education Association) starts at 5:30-pm, and announcing of the 2019 Homecoming Royalty followed by the 7- pm Homecoming Football Game versus the Wahpeton Huskies. Come out to Hanna Field to support the Hi-Liners!<\/p>\n
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SAWYER, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Authorities say one person was killed and two people were injured in a head-on collision east of Sawyer.<\/p>\n
The North Dakota Highway Patrol says 55-year-old Kristina Kraft, of Minot, died in the crash Wednesday afternoon on U.S. Highway 52. Kraft was driving west in a Toyota Camry when her car was struck by a man driving a Chevy Avalanche. The Avalanche had swerved into Kraft’s lane to avoid a vehicle stopped in the eastbound lane waiting to turn onto a gravel road.<\/p>\n
Kraft died at the scene.<\/p>\n
The driver of the Avalanche, 85-year-old Reuben Davis, of Kinston, North Carolina, and a passenger, 71-year-old Merle Davis, of Wilson, North Carolina, were hurt. The extent of their injuries is not known.<\/p>\n
Charges are pending in the crash, which remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
MADISON, Wis. (AP) \u2014 A bipartisan proposal making it a felony to trespass or damage oil or gas pipelines in Wisconsin is moving through the state Legislature, despite complaints Thursday from opponents that it would violate free speech rights.<\/p>\n
The bill heard by a state Assembly committee builds upon a 2015 state law that made it a felony to intentionally trespass or cause damage to the property of an energy provider. The latest proposal expands the definition of energy provider to include oil and gas pipelines, renewable fuel, and chemical and water infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Those found guilty could face up to $10,000 in fines and six years in prison.<\/p>\n
The Wisconsin measure has broad support from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers, organized labor unions, utilities, the state chamber of commerce and a variety of trade groups representing farmers, restaurants, the paper industry and others.<\/p>\n
Supporters downplayed its intent, calling it the fix to an oversight from the earlier law.<\/p>\n
Democratic state Rep. Jason Fields, of Milwaukee, is a co-sponsor of the bill and gave a passionate defense of the measure against critics who say it stifles free speech rights and will make it more difficult to combat climate change.<\/p>\n
Fields, who is black, said to be effective protesters need to follow the non-violent model set by Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Theresa, Ghandi and others.<\/p>\n
“What I find appalling is somehow we’ve gotten to the point of making excuses for destruction of property,” Fields testified. “I don’t like the Ku Klux Klan but I don’t have the right or option to go destroy their property. … I don’t care who you are. Destruction of property is a no-no.”<\/p>\n
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) \u2014 Attorneys for a man accused of threatening to shoot people at an office in Idaho plan to seek his release to a mental-health treatment center.<\/p>\n
Public defender Melanie Gavisk told a judge at a hearing Thursday in Cheyenne that defense attorneys might seek inpatient treatment for 44-year-old Joshua James Mjoness, of Christine, North Dakota.<\/p>\n
U.S. District Judge Alan Johnson didn’t make any rulings. Gavisk declined comment.<\/p>\n
Federal investigators say Mjoness threatened to shoot everybody at a Boise, Idaho, office if his wife wouldn’t identify a man there he believed was having a relationship with her.<\/p>\n
Rangers who arrested Mjoness in Yellowstone National Park on Sept. 18 allegedly found a handgun and 50 rounds of ammunition in his SUV.<\/p>\n
Mjoness faces federal charges of illegal gun possession and making threats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the State Department has not engaged in any improper activity regarding Ukraine and is focused squarely on trying to help Kyiv combat corruption.<\/p>\n
Pompeo told reporters on Thursday in New York that to the best of his knowledge all actions taken by State Department officials were “entirely appropriate.” He did not address claims from President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, that the State Department instructed him to reach out to Ukrainian officials.<\/p>\n
Giuliani’s efforts are part of an intelligence community whistleblower’s complaint alleging that Trump abused the power of his office and harmed national security by pressing Ukraine’s president to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son.<\/p>\n
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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Pentagon says it will send one Patriot missile battery and four radar systems to Saudi Arabia, in what officials have said are the first steps to help the kingdom protect itself against Iranian attacks.<\/p>\n
Two more Patriot batteries and a THAAD missile defense system will be prepared to go later if needed. The deployment will involve about 200 troops.<\/p>\n
Military leaders have been working since last week to decide how to respond to what U.S. officials call an unprecedented Iranian attack on Saudi oil facilities on Sept. 14.<\/p>\n
The four Sentinel radar systems and the Patriot battery are designed to provide better surveillance across northern Saudi Arabia. The kingdom’s defenses are focused on the south to protect the country from attacks by Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen.<\/p>\n
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 The gap between the haves and have-nots in the United States grew last year.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday that an index that measures income inequality in the U.S. increased from 2017 to 2018.<\/p>\n
The increase in income inequality comes as two Democratic presidential candidates, U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, are pitching a “wealth tax” on the nation’s richest citizens as a way to reduce wealth disparities.<\/p>\n
States that had statistically significant gains in inequality last year were Alabama, Arkansas, California, Kansas, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Texas and Virginia.<\/p>\n
The data released Thursday comes from the bureau’s American Community Survey program.<\/p>\n
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DETROIT (AP) \u2014 General Motors now says striking workers will get company-paid health insurance, nine days after saying coverage would be cut off.<\/p>\n
The company says in an email to the United Auto Workers union that it will keep benefits in place due to significant confusion among members. The letter says employee health and well-being are GM’s top priorities.<\/p>\n
Workers howled and politicians criticized GM after the company said it would end benefits the day after the strike began Sept. 16.<\/p>\n
It’s standard procedure for health care costs to shift to the union in a strike. The United Auto Workers’ website says the union would pick up the cost of premiums.<\/p>\n
The strike by about 49,000 factory workers has shut down production at more than 30 GM factories. Talks continued Thursday.<\/p>\n
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) \u2014 A Jewish civil rights group has added dozens of new entries to its online database of hateful symbols, slogans and memes that white supremacists have adopted and spread.<\/p>\n
The “OK” hand gesture is one of the images that the Anti-Defamation League has added to its hate symbols database. Online trolls have used the gesture to dupe viewers into perceiving it as a “white power” symbol, but the ADL says far-right extremists also are using it as a sincere expression of white supremacy.<\/p>\n
The database additions also include “Happy Merchant,” an anti-Semitic meme that depicts a stereotypical image of a Jewish man rubbing his hands together.<\/p>\n
ADL launched the database in 2000 to help law enforcement officers and others recognize signs of extremist activity. It has grown to nearly 200 entries.<\/p>\n
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Katheryn\u00a0 (CSi) The Barnes County Sheriff\u2019s Office reported Thursday afternoon that at about 9-am on September 26 a vehicle was located one mile north of Kathryn in the Sheyenne River. It appears the vehicle was traveling south on County Road 21. The vehicle left the roadway and entered the Sheyenne River. The vehicle that was recovered was registered to Mark Davies. His\u00a0 body was located inside his vehicle.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> His\u00a0 body and vehicle were recovered in the river near a bridge about a mile north of Kathryn, North Dakota.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Grummenladdertrucksimilar-300x197.png\")
Jamestown (CSi)\u00a0 The Jamestown City Fire Department has updated the status of the need for a replacement aerial ladder truck.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ArtsParkThurs4-300x225.jpg\")
Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Jamestown Arts Center, has established a funding opportunity, for financial support for next year’s Downtown Arts Market, at Hansen Arts Park.\u00a0 The appeal will be extended to businesses.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SmithBell2.jpg\")
Jamestown\u00a0 (JRMC) \u2013 Tuesday was a bittersweet day for one breast cancer survivor at Jamestown Regional Medical Center.<\/p>\n