CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Decreasing clouds. Lows 15 to 20. Northwest winds 5 to 10 mph.

.SATURDAY…Partly sunny in the morning then clearing. Highs in the mid 20s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows around 15. West winds 5 to

10 mph.

.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. Not as cold. Highs in the lower 40s. West

winds 5 to 10 mph.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 20s. Southwest

winds 5 to 10 mph.

.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s.

Lows 15 to 20.

.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Highs in the lower

20s. Lows around 10.

.WEDNESDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 20s.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND Thanksgiving Day…Partly cloudy. Lows in

the lower 20s. Highs in the upper 20s to lower 40s.

.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 20s.

Highs in the upper 30s.

A cooler day is expected on Saturday as high pressure continues to

settle through the area.

 

A roller coaster  ride of temperatures is expected for the upcoming

week.  The start of the week will bring warming

temperatures, with a dry clipper zipping through the region late

Monday into Tuesday bringing temperatures back down. Temperatures

then again climb for mid week into the Thanksgiving Holiday.

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi) Jamestown Police informs residents of a High Risk sex offender living in Jamestown.

Ronald Scott Thompson resides at 104 4th Avenue SW, Jamestown, ND

He is a 54 year old white male, 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighting 235 pounds with Blue eyes and gray hair.

Offense: Gross Sexual Imposition, entering the home of a 42 year old female he did not know, using physical force and pressing a knife against her throat, and forcing her into a sexual act.  The victim was cut with the knife and suffered other physical injuries.

Conviction:  October 1995 in Burleigh County, ND District Court.

Disposition: 10 years, 3-years suspended, 125 days credit; consecutive.

Thompson is currently on probation with North Dakota Probation and Parole.

He is not wanted by police at this time and has served the sentence imposed by the court.

This notification is meant for public safety and not to increase fear in the community, nor should this information be used to threaten, assault, or intimidate the offender.

Any attempts to harass, intimidate or threaten these offenders, their families, landlords, or employers will be turned over for prosecution.

Printed handouts of the demographics of Ronald Scott Thompson are available at the Jamestown Police Department.

More information on registered sex offenders is available at the North Dakota Attorney General’s web site: www.sexoffender.nd.gov

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  November is National Epilepsy Awareness month, and on Friday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, we talked with a Jamestown girl, 10 year old Braelon Geerdes who is bringing awareness to National Epilepsy Awareness Month after she was diagnosed with the neurological disorder.

Braelon is a fourth-grader at St. John’s Academy, who was in a music class when she was 9-years old when the teacher noticed Braelon’s  face twitching and eyes rolling back.

Also on our show, Braelon’s mom, Tara Geerdes said, following that seizure, Braelon was referred Sanford Children’s Hospital in Fargo, and a pediatric neurologist, where Braelon had a seizure while undergoing an electroencephalograph, helping  doctors localize the activity in the right side of her brain.

Braelon has since be placed on medication, which is helping to control the seizures, but not eliminate them, as she has fewer twitches or seizures and continues to live a normal life, but staying away from contact sports.  She does however participate in other sports, with head protection, and is active in other ways, playing the guitar, and the piano, and sings at public events.

Braelon has had a brief and sometimes undetectable absence seizure, which Tara said is a less severe seizure, one of 41 types of seizures.  Epilepsy can range in severity  from occasional seizures to over 200 a day.

Also on our show, Braelon’s Grandmother, Sharylin Geerdes a nurse at Ave Maria’s Heritage Center in Jamestown, said she is looking to form a Jamestown area support group.

The Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota, is presently serving a portion of North Dakota, offering support to cover expenses with Epilepsy seizure detection devices such as a sleep mat, sleep pillows, and a smartwatch all alerting parents, or in some cases a teacher, of the presence of a seizure.

Braelon said “Team Braelon,” has been formed bringing awareness to Epilepsy in the community, which includes helping with fundraising bake sales, and other public appearances and participation.

Braelon said the team consists of classmates, family, and friends.

Sharylin said “Team Braelon,” will be on hand at a bake sale fundraiser on Saturday November 25, 2017 at the Buffalo Mall.

Also “Team Braelon” will have a purple float in the Jamestown Dazzle Parade, with family and friends, the evening of November 24, through Downtown Jamestown.  Purple being the color of epilepsy awareness.

Braelon and others also hand out wrist bands, calling attention to #RiseAboveSeizures, and the website efmn.org

Sharylin pointed out that from the Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota, Fargo office, the Regional Coordinator, Janice Tweet,  has visited Braelon’s school,  St. John’s Academy in Jamestown, to educate the school staff and students about epilepsy.

Tara said as a result, St. John’s Academy is now a “Seizure Smart School.”

On Friday November 17th the University of Jamestown nursing students participated in an epilepsy awareness presentation.

For more information or to arrange a presentation, or learn about starting an epilepsy support group, or make a donation, contact Sharylin Geerdes at 701-320-6441, or Tara Geerdes at 701-799-8922.

Brochures are also available by contacting Sharylin.

 

Washington  (CSi) – Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Transportation Appropriations Committee, has announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has awarded three grants totaling $226,474 for infrastructure funding throughout North Dakota. The awards are distributed as follows:

  • North Dakota Department of Transportation – $100,000 – The funds will be used to repair roads and infrastructure throughout the James and Sheyenne River Basins that were damaged by flooding.
  • North Dakota Department of Transportation – $100,000 – The funds will be used to repair roads and infrastructure throughout Divide County that were damaged by heavy rain.
  • National Park Service, McKenzie, Billings – $26,474 – The funds will be used to reconstruct several Federal Lands Transportation Facilities.

Hoeven says, “Today’s funds will help ensure that roads and transportation facilities in our state can continue to be used safely.”

 

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) —  Operator TransCanada Corp. says the leak of oil from the Keystone pipeline is “controlled” and not a threat to public safety.

The company says in a news release Friday that it has sent more than 75 people to the site of a spill in a rural area of South Dakota and crews were working “around the clock.”

TransCanada says among those responding to the spill are specialists in “environmental management, metallurgy, engineering, pipeline integrity and emergency response.”

The company shut down the pipeline early Thursday after discovering the 210,000-gallon spill on agricultural land in Marshall County, just south of the border with North Dakota.

 

 

ROLLA, N.D. (AP) — Leaders in a northern North Dakota city are offering dozens of reasons for firing their police chief, including uncompleted paperwork, personal use of police vehicles and unapproved police purchases.

The Bismarck Tribune reports that Rolla’s former police chief Joe Boehm was abruptly fired last month with little explanation during a City Council meeting.

A city attorney sent Boehm a letter on Nov. 6 outlining 47 incidents and concerns in his file that contributed to the dismissal, including misconduct and inefficiency.

The former police chief believes he was fired because he announced plans to investigate a close acquaintance to Mayor Scott Mitchell. Mitchell says Boehm’s claim is inaccurate.

Boehm is at least the fifth leader of a law enforcement agency in North Dakota to have resigned or been fired amid controversy this year.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Supreme Court has rejected an appeal for a man serving life without parole for killing a West Fargo woman when he was 16 years old.

Barry Garcia is the only current state inmate who was sentenced to life without parole for a crime committed as a juvenile. He was convicted of murder and aggravated assault in the 1995 shooting death of Cherryl Tendeland.

Garcia argued the sentence was unconstitutional and he should be considered for a reduced term. His lawyers cited a new state law that bans sentences for juveniles without the possibility of parole.

Justices say the law was passed after Garcia filed his appeal and could not be considered. They say it’s up to a judge to decide whether the law applies retroactively to Garcia.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Bar and liquor store owners on an American Indian reservation in North Dakota say shipments from distributors have stopped due to new rules and higher taxes imposed by tribal leaders.

The Three Affiliated Tribes has imposed a 7 percent tax on alcohol on the Fort Berthold Reservation. That’s in addition to the state’s 7 percent tax.

The new rules also require permits, and subject records and businesses to be open for inspection by the tribe.

The tribe has said it needs higher tax rates to pay for road repairs, law enforcement and other consequences of oil development on the reservation.

Opponent of the new rules say the lack of booze deliveries on the reservation will lead to sales outside its boundaries, or the potential for illegal sales within it.

 

In sports…

DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — The Dickinson State football team is heading to Southern Oregon this weekend for a first-round matchup in the NAIA playoffs.

The Blue Hawks are one of 16 teams to make the postseason. The champion ultimately will be determined Dec. 16 in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Dickinson State is 9-1 and champion of the North Star Athletic Association. Southern Oregon is 10-0 and champion of the Frontier Conference.

Southern Oregon was ranked No. 5 in the final season poll, and DSU was in a tie for 12th.

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The debate between two senators over whether Republican tax cuts are aimed at helping the rich escalated into raised voices, interruptions and an un-senatorial cry of “bull crap.” The eruption occurred late Thursday. That’s when Republicans pushed a near $1.5 trillion, 10-year tax cut for businesses and individuals through the Senate Finance Committee. Democratic Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown said Republicans designed the bill to help the rich. Panel Chairman Orrin Hatch called that “bull crap.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Does money roll downhill? In their effort to overhaul the U.S. tax code, President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are betting it does. Behind their legislation is a theory long popular among conservatives: Slash taxes for corporations and rich people, who will then hire, invest and profit _ and cause money to trickle into the pockets of ordinary Americans.

CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson says he’s been seeking outpatient care for over two years for Parkinson’s disease. The civil right icon says he plans to dedicate himself physical therapy. In a letter Friday to supporters, the 76-year-old says family and friends noticed a change in him about three years ago and he could no longer ignore symptoms. He says the diagnosis isn’t a sign to stop working but a signal to make lifestyle changes to slow progression of the neurological disorder.

WASHINGTON (AP) — While leading Republicans have called on Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore to leave his race, President Donald Trump hasn’t gone that far. But he’s been quick to describe as “really bad” the accusations that Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken forcibly kissed and groped a woman on a 2006 USO tour. Trump remains silent on the claims that Moore had sexual contact with teenage girls decades ago.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The wife of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore says her husband will not step down in the face of sexual misconduct allegations. Kayla Moore spoke out in defense of her husband on Friday.