{"id":247641,"date":"2022-04-25T13:04:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=247641"},"modified":"2022-04-26T08:58:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T13:58:20","slug":"247641","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=247641","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Carlsrud&#8217;s new message Apr 25, to VC residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Carlsrud-Dave-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-217744\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Carlsrud-Dave-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Hi Everybody,<\/p>\n<p>Last week an extreme overnight rain created our current flood event.\u00a0The flood forecast changed 3-4 feet from Friday evening to Saturday morning, basically creating a \u201cflash flood\u201d.\u00a0The City Crews are placing floodwalls, clay and sandbags to protect us (Thank you).\u00a0The runoff has been significant and pumps are slowly catching up.\u00a0At this time, the river should crest later in the week.<\/p>\n<p>We are extremely grateful to the folks, many of whom are from VCSU, who volunteered help with sandbags and other assorted tasks.\u00a0Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday VCSU, Valley City and the state of North Dakota celebrated the beautiful new Center for the Arts building with a Ribbon Cutting.\u00a0Many people from here and around the state attended.\u00a0It is a state of the art facility about which all can be proud.\u00a0Call VCSU for information concerning a tour, concert or recital.\u00a0Congratulations to all who contributed to the event and the building project.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixth Street NW road repair project from Central Avenue west to 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Avenue will likely begin this week.\u00a0Some of the preparatory work will include signage placement, laying the temporary water lines along the excavation area and lines to houses.\u00a0The construction crews will do their best to inform residents when work will affect their residences.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting a \u201cflash flood\u201d is a whole different ballgame than when it is a snowmelt and there is time to prepare.\u00a0Our City Staff is doing a great job, thank you again!<\/p>\n<p>This spring\u2019s \u201cclean-up week\u201d will be June 6-11. Please check the City Website and Face Book Page for details.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to contributors again this week.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cWhen others are lost, dare to help them find the way\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(Roy T. Bennett)<\/p>\n<p>Blessings, Respect, Kindness and Prayers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everybody, Last week an extreme overnight rain created our current flood event.\u00a0The flood forecast changed 3-4 feet from Friday evening to Saturday morning, basically creating a \u201cflash flood\u201d.\u00a0The City Crews are placing floodwalls, clay and sandbags to protect us (Thank you).\u00a0The runoff has been significant and pumps are slowly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":107396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247641"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247647,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247641\/revisions\/247647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}