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"this is basically turning the west acres theater, the whole thing, into a bar and it would turn that into probably the largest bar in fargo another step closer to grabbing a beer to go with your movie...but just barely. good evening... thanks for
joining us. strong opposition to allowing alcohol to be served at west acres cinema. the fargo city commission did not approve it tonight... simply received and filed the alcohol license for west acres cinema.
to pass, it has two more steps...... valley news team's "krista boehm" explains why some commissioners want to put a stop to the idea of sitting back and sipping on a beer at a movie. pour a cold one....grab that
popcorn and enjoy the movie you've been dying to see! but some fargo leaders are concerned it will ruin a popular family event. piepkorn: "even though i'm a parent and sometimes i wish i could have a drink when
barney is on, sometimes you just have to suck it up and go to a kids movie and not have alcohol." commissioners dave piepkorn and melissa sobolik say they have heard from dozens and dozens around
town...who say booze and the big screen are not a good mix. "it's been unanimous. people are like hey, this is not making our town a better town" questions of security were raised...but those who have been
to a theater already serving alcohol....say it's not an issue. and if it becomes one...the theater will suffer. gehrig: "if they screw up, if they do a bad thing, they'll get their license
pulled, they may close their business. there are repercussions for these things" it's not so much a question of marcus theaters handling the alcohol, it does in other states, its whether the culture fit in
fargo. sobolik "i think it's the bigger question of is that the sort of culture we want to have in our movies theaters as a city and i don't intend to support it."
and neither does commissioner mike williams, although he did support receiving and filing the license so the matter could be further discussed. being a swing vote, williams could the vote that takes the fiz out of alcohol sales at fargo
movies. krista boehm, valley news live. a representative for west acres cinema was there, but didn't want to talk at this time. the matter is expected to come up in two weeks during first reading. we want to know what your take
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a burden on a burden on a burden... that's the fear from cass county commissioners with the refugee resettlement program. lutheran social services ceo jessica thomasson was on hand to answer the many questions commissioners have.
she was actually invited to attend last month's meeting... but failed to show up despite saying she contacted them. thomasson was grilled on the syrian refugees... how much money lss makes and how it's spread
out and why cass county has to bear the brunt of the resettlement process. "beyond those 90 days, what happens next year? where are these people going? what are they doing? we know
they're doing good. but at what cost? can we keep supporting it? that's what we need to figure out." commissioner peterson says if they have these answers... they can figure out if they're
actually meeting the needs of the refugee population. a fargo woman is in jail after crashing into a car and a b-n-s-f railway crossing arm... and driving off.
23-year-old "erin glarum" was arrested for d- u-i and huffing after police found her heavily damaged car at a tesoro gas station in north fargo. police say they found several cans of "endust" inside her s-u-v... this after she hit a car, which
then hit another before she ran into a crossing arm. the man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman at a gas station in mapleton, north dakota appeared in court today after refusing to show up last
friday... abdul rahman ali faces several counts, including gross sexual imposition, kidnapping and terrorizing. investigators say, ali forced a woman working at gordy's travel plaza into the women's bathroom, locked the door and
started assaulting her. he faces life in prison without parole. "jacob dittmer"... a former moorhead hockey standout.. changed his plea to guilty today to criminal sexual conduct. dittmer was accused of climbing
through a 14-year-old girl's bedroom window and having sex with her last june. dittmer's sentencing is scheduled for february. officials are unsure if a popular game had any role in a crash that killed two lakeville, minnesota high school boys.
18-year-old "johnny price" and 17-year-old "jake flynn" died when their vehicle rolled friday afternoon. two others were injured in the crash. the game in question is called "nerf wars." teenagers shoot at each other with toy guns... and the
person who gets all their targets... wins. "nerf wars" has been speculated as a possible cause of the crash, and sheriff's officials have said they will look into the possibility. fargo police say they aren't concerned about the game
happening in our area. have you made any big holiday purchases?? maybe a smart t-v... a new cell phone... your list is probably full of items that are very expensive. and that's why thieves are
looking for the right moment to strike! valley news team's cornelius hocker tells us how you can protect your valuables even if they end up in the hands of a criminal. "what happens when something is stolen if we don't have a serial
number, it makes it virtually impossible to get that property back to the rightful owner." and lt. mitchell says even if they do get back stolen property, without any way to verify your ownership, you're most likely
out of luck.. that's why the city of fargo has the a program called my property. "you can register any serial numbers you might have on property that you have at your home. if you don't have a serial
number on an item you can also take pictures of it and it'll store that in your settings on my property." so say your child's clarinet or the family laptop ends up in a pawn shop.
"any item that we take in has to have a serial number or has to most likely have a model number depending on some certain situations." seth dye says there are several steps in place to make sure the pawn shop he works
for doesn't take in stolen goods. "if there's any tampering, damage, scratched our numbers. red flag. we don't give any money for that. before getting to serial numbers, dye says having a valid
form of identification is necessary to pawn or sell any item to first national pawn. they make sure they enter every item that comes through their doors on a nationwide data bass "anything that any pawn shop in the us takes in is posted to an online site that every detective
in the us, in every town can access. which is why you should take that extra step and write down the serial or model number of the things you buy, making it easier for law enforcement to track them if they get stolen. cornelius hocker.. valley news
live. for a link to that site where you can register your property, go to valley news live dot com and look for this story. . major donation tonight... costco donated more than $30- thousand dollars to
sanford children's hospital. and helping accept the check... grace hubrig... who also got a huge surprise in the form of what she says is a 300- pound teddy bear. born at 28 weeks.... grace was a sanford children's nicu patient.. so it was a full
circle moment for the now vibrant and thriving six- year-old and her family. in our area... costco has raised more than $60-thousand dollars in three years for children's miracle network hospitals.
sanford children's hospital is part of that network. december 7th, 1941...president franklin delano roosevelt called it a date, which will live in infamy... today marks the 74-th anniversary
of the attack on pearl harbor. just before eight o'clock on a sunday morning, nearly 400 japanese warplanes attacked the home port of the united states' pacific fleet. about 24- hundred americans were killed and another 12- hundred were
wounded, many while attempting to repel the attack. the attack prompted the united states to enter world war two, a four-year effort costing more than 400- thousand american lives. here in the valley.... both minnesota and north dakota
governors ordered flags lowered to half staff to pay respect to those who lost their lives during the attack and to honor those who served.
