{"id":290272,"date":"2025-01-27T10:35:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=290272"},"modified":"2025-01-27T10:35:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:35:56","slug":"news-notes-from-mayor-carlsrud-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=290272","title":{"rendered":"News &amp; Notes from Mayor Carlsrud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greetings,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday was the first of the 2025 District 24 Legislative Forums of the 69th Legislative Assembly.\u00a0 The League of Women Voters did a great job organizing and administering the event at the HAC.\u00a0 Senator Wobbema, Representative Kiefert and Representative Johnston all graciously attended and answered questions from a nice size crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the forum and the car show, Sue and I went to \u201cThe Best Christmas Pageant Ever\u201d at our Valley Cinema.\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember a story more \u201ctouching\u201d and it will be showing here through Wednesday.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t seen a movie at Valley Cinema since the new seats were installed, you\u2019ll be amazed at the comfortable reclining lounges.\u00a0 I hope you check it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The South Central Transit Network in Valley City provides numerous and convenient transportation services around the area.\u00a0 Last week during one of the COLD &amp; WINDY days, over 100 rides were serviced.\u00a0 Please see: <a href=\"\/\/southcentraltransitnetwork.org\/about\/\">valleyhttps:\/\/southcentraltransitnetwork.org\/about\/<\/a> to learn of services you may use.\u00a0 Thank you Pat and the team at South Central.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201cHot Rod Junkies Car Show\u201d had great attendance along with over fifty cars and sixty-plus vendors, watch for it next year.\u00a0 Thank you Bridge City Cruisers &amp; The Jamestown Classic Car Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week we were at the legislature to request funding for our Permanent Flood Protection (PFP).\u00a0 HB 1020 is to provide appropriations to defray the expenses of the Department of Water Resources from which we receive said funding.\u00a0 Gwen &amp; Chad did a great job preparing and presenting funding needs to invest in our next PFP phase.\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drivers, when you see equipment working on the street in your planned route, PLEASE alter your route.\u00a0 It is for your safety and the safety of your vehicle as your pickup or car is likely to come out on the short end of a collision with a backhoe or skid steer.<\/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>\u201cI would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.\u201d<\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>~ <em>Helen Keller<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>Blessings, Pray, be Respectful and Grateful,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dave<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dave Carlsrud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, Saturday was the first of the 2025 District 24 Legislative Forums of the 69th Legislative Assembly.\u00a0 The League of Women Voters did a great job organizing and administering the event at the HAC.\u00a0 Senator Wobbema, Representative Kiefert and Representative Johnston all graciously attended and answered questions from a nice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":271545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290272","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\/290272","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=290272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290273,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290272\/revisions\/290273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/271545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}