COMM 313: Leads exercise

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By Clark Kent
Staff Writer
With the number of arrests bounding upwards, the quest to combat domestic violence in Fargo seems to have eolved into a clash of professional prerogatives, with one side represented by prosecutors lilke City Attorney Irving Nern, and the other side represented by advocates like Jill Blow, representing victims.

Their interests are not identical, but they try to accomodate one another. Now at issue, however, is whether the City Commission will continue ot support a pioneering domestic abuse project.

By Lois Lane
Staff Writer
Grand Forks, N.D.--According to Grand Forks Mayor, Joe Smith, the city's fall carnival was closed last week by a freak late snowfall. Smith said he likes snow because "you have to, living up here," but says seeing flurries in June is too much for even him. The carnival will re-open this week.

FARGO, N.D. (AP)--Irving Nern is made angry by local weather announcers. Hes not angry at the weather forcast per se. It's the wind chill he objects too. "The wind chill means nothing unless you're leaving the house naked," says Nern, a Fargo mailman used to working outside. "Otherwise, all that truely matters is the temperature. Wind chill is a crock."

Nern is embarrassed that the wind chill is becoming a more commonly reported number than the actual temperature, because "it makes the weather news sound more dramatic than it really is. Sure, it's cold up here, but 50 below wind chill is not like 50 below temperature in Antarctica."

FARGO, N.D.--The Cass County Commission met at its regular meeting Tuesday. A number of items on the agenda were discussed. After the minutes were approved, commissioner Kent Clark proposed a motion to increase property taxes 10 percent. The motion was approved unanimously.

By R.S. Pillbun
Television Correspondent
At the Prairie Public Broadcasting board meeting this weekend, the board of directors underwent strategic management and communication training, committing themselves to providing the prairie region with a new era of service. On Friday the board members participated in an intensive day-long workshop with Barbara Hanley of Hanley and Associates, management consultants, Minnapolis. Janley offered a planning model used by other corportate boards and menagement across the country.

"The training was invaluable," said Irving Z. Nern, Prairie Public Braodcasting board chair. In addition to the training program, the board of directors and staff chose the next Prairie Public Broadcasting president and general manager. Interviews had begun last month. "Finding the best qualified candidate for president is a task we took very seriously," said Paul Paulson, search committee chair, who named a North Dakota State University communication professor, Timothy Sellnow,, to the post. "As a publically-funded organization, we need to carefully consider how we can best serve the area."

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