A smile for while I am gone
I'm gone on vacation, but that doesn't mean I can't leave a little bit of happiness for you all:
Posted by: Logan C. Adams on May 13, 2008 at 11:26 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Extra, extra: 5/14/08
This will be my last preview post for a while. I'm leaving on vacation in the morning and won't be back until May 19. Anyway, here are some stories to expect in Wednesday's issue of The Jamestown Sun:
Local: Aron Nichols and Tamara Soreson get life sentences for the double murder of Donald and Alice Willey. Also, Jamestown will be having a city-wide cleanup next week.
Nation: Analysis of the farm bill.
Posted by: Logan C. Adams on May 13, 2008 at 8:59 PM | Comments (2) | Permalink
Fire call
Two semi-trucks have crashed west of town on Interstate 94 near mile marker 248, (10 miles west of Jamestown) according to scanner announcements. Diesel fuel is said to be spilling out onto the highway. Firefighters are responding.
Update: According to scanner chatter, a 10,000-gallon tank of diesel fuel is leaking on the interstate, and there appears to have been 3,000 gallons in the truck at the time of the crash. They're trying to get another truck with a pump to come pump it all up. They're also having to put down foam to prevent a fire. Clearly, this is very bad for the environment, but also, that's $4 and some change for every gallon that is lost.
New Update: They are trying to route traffic around the accident, but it still sounds like you might want to do your best to avoid the area while they're still cleaning up the mess.
Posted by: Logan C. Adams on May 13, 2008 at 5:45 PM | Comments (1) | Permalink
Agh! Look out! It's Bena!
Kari Lucin over at our sister blog (she refers to this one as her "brother blog") has a lovely column over at The Worthington Daily Globe about how here community would benefit from the addition of a monster in nearby Lake Okabena. She writes:
"Someone could get a baby lake monster and, in the dead of night, sneak over to the lake and dump it in. I don't think this idea is ecologically sound, personally, because introducing foreign monsters into new habitats usually ends with a pack of annoying tourists being eaten, if movies are to be believed. Also, I'm not sure a baby monster could survive the carp."
Posted by: Logan C. Adams on May 13, 2008 at 4:45 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Why come to North Dakota?
Bill Hurlburt sent me this link to a talk he gave about why he moved to North Dakota to work. You can watch the video, but the audio is a bit sketchy. The text that comes with it, though, is rather interesting.
Posted by: Logan C. Adams on May 13, 2008 at 3:20 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Extra, extra: 5/13/08
Here are some stories to expect in Tuesday's issue of The Jamestown Sun:
Local: We've got coverage of more local meetings than I can remember.
State/Region: Check out our feature of an interesting smoke-free bar in Minot.
Opinion: Mayor Clarice Liechty responds to the column our Publisher Bruce Henke had in the weekend paper.
Posted by: Logan C. Adams on May 12, 2008 at 8:10 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Bonsai: 2 1/2 weeks later
The tree is still growing, and my cell phone still takes crappy, out-of-focus photos.
Posted by: Logan C. Adams on May 12, 2008 at 4:02 PM | Comments (1) | Permalink
Good news for The Sun
Like I said, I got back from the convention Saturday. What I forgot to say was how well we did. Here is the story that was in today's paper about our awards:
Sun wins 42 awards from NDNA
The Jamestown Sun was awarded first place in the General Excellence category at the 2008 North Dakota Newspaper Association Convention this past weekend in Dickinson, N.D.
Sun news, sports, advertising and photo staff received a total of 42 awards and competed in the division with other papers that have circulations of 12,000 or less. Other newspapers in that division are The Dickinson Press, Williston Herald, Devils Lake Journal, Wahpeton Daily News and the Valley City Times-Record.
Sun staff also received 15 first-place awards in various individual categories in its division, including Overall Design Excellence. The Sun's news staff and advertising staff won first-place awards for Special News Section and Promotion of the Community, respectively, for the newspaper's 2007 Progress Edition, "Unsung Heroes."
The news staff won several awards, including first place for editorial writing, and Managing Editor Kathy Steiner and Assistant Editor Logan C. Adams won the Editorial Page category.
Adams also won first place for Front Page Design Excellence, second place for Personal Column - Serious with his column "Emotion doesn't apply to Wal-Mart" and third place in the Headline category.
Reporter Toni Pirkl won first place in the Government Reporting category with a story she wrote covering the City Council. She also took second place both in Business News Reporting with a story about GRE getting ready to break ground on its project at Spiritwood, N.D., and Feature Reporting with her story "Caring for children."
Reporter Jackie Hyras story about convicted serial rapist Gero Mahto moving to Jamestown after his release from prison won her first place in the Feature Reporting category, and she also won third place in Spot News for her story about a worker accident that killed a Jamestown man.
Reporter Keith Norman won two second-place awards; one in Government Reporting for his story "Boyd seeks 'Jets for Jamestown'" and one in Reporting for his story "Petitions circulate to recall sheriff." He also received an honorable mention in Personal Column - Humorous for his column "A Little Fire"
Reporter Katie Ryan won a third-place prize in Feature Reporting for her story "Turtle Surprise, in a snap."
The sports staff also brought home several awards. Sports Editor Scott Throlson and Reporters David Selvig and Kalen Ost received first place in the Sports Page/Section category for their work. Selvig also received a second-place award in the Sports Column category and an honorable mention in Sports Feature for "World Traveler." Throlson won third place in Sports Reporting for his story "Jackets sting JC."
Photographer John M. Steiner won a total of 15 awards, including five first-place awards. He won the following categories: Feature Photo, Outdoor Recreational Photo, Pictorial Photo, Portrait Photo and Sports Photo.
Steiner received second place in six photo categories, Agricultural, Feature, Picture Story, Portrait, News and Sports; third place in three photo categories, Feature, Pictorial and Spot News; and an honorable mention in Outdoor Recreational Photo.
Sean Copeland, Web manager, won second place for Best Web Site for his work with www.jamestownsun. com.
In advertising, former Advertising Staff Manager Lisa Marchus won first place in the Outdoor/Sports Ad category with her ad "City-wide - Blue Jays Head to State." She also received third place in Promotion of the Community for "817th Engineer Co. going to Iraq."
Zenithe Mayer, ad representative, won second place in Small Space Ad for "Martinizing Dry Cleaners - December Special."
Rob Keller, ad representative, won third place in Entertainment/Liquor Ad for "County Bottle - Spring Sell-a-bration."
The awards were all given for work published in the 2007 calendar year. The next NDNA convention will be next year in Bismarck.
Posted by: Logan C. Adams on May 12, 2008 at 3:39 PM | Comments (1) | Permalink
Through the windshield
According to some of the data I've seen, many of my blog's readers live outside this state and have actually never been here. That means none of them have ever experienced what it is like to drive in this state, so I put together a little video during the trip back from Dickinson, N.D., Saturday to show the whole what it is like to drive in this state.
Note the beautiful sky, the slightly bumpy road (sorry about the shaking) and Metallica's rendition of the Irish classic "Whiskey in the Jar," which had been playing over my car stereo at the time. There is only one minute of audio, and only four of the lines of one verse (plus a bit of howling), so I believe it to be covered by fair use doctrine. If any intellectual-property lawyers want to stand up and help me out, now would be a good time.
Posted by: Logan C. Adams on May 12, 2008 at 6:49 AM | Comments (1) | Permalink
Extra, extra: 5/12/08
I'm a little late with this, I apologize for that, but here are some things to expect in Monday's issue of The Jamestown Sun:
Local: Find out what's going to be new at the National Buffalo Museum and Frontier Village.
State/Region: Rural North Dakota gas stations are having trouble with high-priced gas because many have mechanical pumps that can't compute gas at more $4-per-gallon and get worn down by all the extra work.
World: Myanmar's goverment is run by bunch of worthless thugs. That's all I have to say about that.
Posted by: Logan C. Adams on May 11, 2008 at 9:56 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
It goes without saying...
But I'm saying it anyway:
Mom, you're great.
Love, Logan
Posted by: Logan C. Adams on May 11, 2008 at 3:56 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
And now, some video
Here is the first video I've been able to edit successfully. It's a speech by V.J. Smith at the NDNA Convention, followed by a brief interview we had after the speech. I thought his message was great, so I'm posting some of it here (His whole presentation was an hour long). He mentions a man named Marty in the course of this video, a friend of his who was a cashier at Wal-Mart who earned honors for going above and beyond the call of duty in his job on a daily basis.
During the interview, I tried to get him to provide some advice for bosses out there who want their employees to care more about the customers. It's not the best video out there, but hey, I'm pretty new with this stuff. There will be more of this sort of thing to come.
Posted by: Logan C. Adams on May 10, 2008 at 10:00 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
