{"id":290010,"date":"2025-01-20T10:47:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=290010"},"modified":"2025-01-20T10:47:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:47:40","slug":"news-notes-from-mayor-carlsrud-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=290010","title":{"rendered":"News &amp; Notes from Mayor Carlsrud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello Folks, The Bridge City Cruisers &amp; The Jamestown Classic Car Club are sponsoring&nbsp; the \u201cHot Rod Junkies Car Show\u201d 9 AM &#8211; 5 PM Saturday and 9 AM &#8211; 3 PM Sunday, February 24 &amp; 25.&nbsp; It will be held in the warm confines of the North Dakota Winter Show South Building. There will be Hot Wheels for kids, Valve Cover Racing, Model Car Show &amp; display along with a Swap Meet and food vendors.&nbsp; Oh, did I mention the beautiful cars, trucks and more?&nbsp; There is something for the whole family to enjoy, go for fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* There will be four ND District 24 Legislative Forums in Valley City beginning this Saturday January 25, 9:30 at the VCPS HAC.&nbsp; All are welcome to attend, interact with our state senator, house representatives and hear what is happening in this legislative session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To follow legislative bills please see <a href=\"https:\/\/ndlegis.gov\/legislative-bill-tracking-system\">https:\/\/ndlegis.gov\/legislative-bill-tracking-system<\/a>.&nbsp; When you have educated yourself with the bill of your interest, contact legislators <em>early<\/em> in the process so they have time to prepare information to answer your support or opposition.&nbsp; The 11th-hour contact is less affective than earlier.&nbsp; Remember, \u201cA difference of opinion doesn\u2019t necessarily mean a difference in principle\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In case it interests you, one of the Property Tax Reform Bills is HB 1176.&nbsp; Property tax funding is important to all of us as said funds pay for fire protection, police, snow removal, street maintenance, schools and senior centers to name a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Missouri River Energy Services (MRES) contingent attended a Joint Action Conference last week that focused on providing reliable, adequate &amp; affordable electric power.&nbsp; It is a huge challenge right now as the need for electric power is growing faster than renewable generation and total generation.&nbsp; The entire industry is tackling the challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to all who provide and proof material for this column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cRemember, anyone can love you when the sun is shining.&nbsp; In the storm is where you learn who truly cares for you<em>.\u201d &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>~ <em>Charlie Brown<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Blessings, Pray, be Respectful and Grateful,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dave Carlsrud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Folks, The Bridge City Cruisers &amp; The Jamestown Classic Car Club are sponsoring&nbsp; the \u201cHot Rod Junkies Car Show\u201d 9 AM &#8211; 5 PM Saturday and 9 AM &#8211; 3 PM Sunday, February 24 &amp; 25.&nbsp; It will be held in the warm confines of the North Dakota Winter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":272833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290010","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290012,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290010\/revisions\/290012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/272833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}