Wayne Byers Show – Evening – July 25

CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Partly cloudy. Slight chance of rain showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 50s. Northwest

winds 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.

.THURSDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. Northwest winds

around 15 mph.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Northwest

winds 5 to 10 mph.

.FRIDAY…Increasing clouds. Highs in the mid 70s. North winds

around 5 mph.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast

winds around 5 mph shifting to the west after midnight.

.SATURDAY…Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of rain showers and

thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 70s.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s.

.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.

.MONDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows around 60.

.TUESDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers

and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 60s.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.

 

Isolated thunderstorms are possible this Wednesday afternoon and evening.

 

 

Washington  – Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Committee, Wednesday announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has awarded more than $3.3 million in grants for airports in Mandan and Jamestown. Details of the funding are as follows:

• Mandan Municipal Airport – $2,101,000 – The funds will be used to install perimeter fencing.
• Jamestown Regional Airport – $1,277,000 – The funds will be used to rehabilitate one of the airport’s runways and taxiways, as well as to improve a runway safety area.

Hoeven  says, “The airports in Mandan and Jamestown are particularly important to general aviation in those communities. Today’s funds will help improve airport safety for both pilots and passengers.”

In her news release, Senator Heidi Heitkamp said,

“Enabling airports to operate smoothly keeps our communities safe and helps local businesses to thrive.  These federal funds will help the Mandan and Jamestown airports make needed improvements that will keep them functioning. Everything from families to goods and services run through many of North Dakota’s airports that keep our economy on the move.”

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  Jamestown will host the Annual State Convention of the State Horticulture Society, August 2,3,4 at the University of Jamestown’s Reiland Fine Arts Center.

On The Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, the current president, Laurie Podoll of Jamestown said, the convention follows the State President, as the annual convention is held annually rotating around the quadrants of North Dakota.  The society has been in existence for 95 years, with 60 members in the Jamestown area.

She said the convention consists of workshops, yard tours, and a silent auction.

Some of the various workshops include: Tomatoes 101, Ikabano flower arranging, bees and pollinators, growing garlic and more.

Several speakers have been invited to attend.

There will be a swap of horticulture books at the University of Jamestown.

The convention is open to the public.

The registration fee of $60 includes meals and snacks.

Proceeds will go to  two student scholarships.

The annual membership is $30.

The convention opens Thursday night, August 2^nd with a free tour of the National Buffalo Museum in Jamestown, followed by a garden tour at the Podoll’s home, complete with refreshments.

Contact Laurie Podoll with more information on the convention and your intent to attend the convention activities by calling 701-269-2498.

DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — A 69-year-old man is dead after a vehicle crash in Dickinson.The Highway Patrol says the man’s car crossed U.S. Highway 22, then a boulevard and a frontage road before striking a garage on private property.The man was declared dead at the scene about 5 a.m. Wednesday. He wasn’t immediately identified.There was minor damage to the garage and a vehicle parked inside.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The company that built the Dakota Access oil pipeline wants a North Dakota judge to throw out a lawsuit over its ownership of agricultural land, claiming it’s not violating a Depression-era state ban on corporate farming that it calls unconstitutional anyway.

Attorneys for Dakota Access LLC also asked the judge in court documents filed Tuesday to prevent North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem from enforcing the state’s anti-corporate farming law. It prohibits large corporations from owning and operating farms in order to protect the state’s family farming heritage.

Stenehjem’s office filed a civil complaint July 3 alleging that the pipeline company’s continued ownership of ranch land it bought in September 2016 violates the law. He wants the court to fine the company $25,000 and order it to sell the land within a year or face more fines.

Dakota Access LLC was formed by Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners to build the $3.8 billion pipeline to move North Dakota oil through South Dakota and Iowa to a shipping point in Illinois. The company bought 12 square miles of ranchland in an area of southern North Dakota where thousands of pipeline opponents gathered to protest in 2016 and 2017. It cited the need to protect workers and help law officers monitoring the protests.

Stenehjem deemed the purchase temporarily necessary to provide a safer environment and reached a deal with the company under which he agreed not to immediately sue. The agreement expired at the end of June, and he sued. He declined comment Wednesday on the company’s formal response.

 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Bismarck man who is serving time for arson has been sentenced to three years in prison for threatening police after he was arrested.

The Bismarck Tribune reports that 37-year-old Spencer Norton was charged in January with felony terrorizing. Authorities say he threatened to hurt the detective who investigated the arson case.

Norton was given credit for 203 days of time served for the terrorizing sentence.

A jury in May convicted Norton of felony arson. Sentencing in that case is scheduled for next month.

 

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — Charges are pending against two suspects after a large drug bust in northwestern North Dakota.The Northwest Narcotics Task Force says multiple search warrants were executed Tuesday by authorities from Williams, Ward and McKenzie counties and also from Williston.Authorities seized about half a pound of methamphetamine with a street value of $10,000, 80 grams of marijuana with a street value of $450, $14,512 in cash, numerous firearms and drug paraphernalia.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Sterling man accused of robbery and assault outside a Bismarck polling place has been sentenced to 60 days in jail.

The Bismarck Tribune reports 27-year-old Randy Travis Campbell pleaded guilty to felony robbery after allegedly ransacking a Bismarck man’s vehicle, assaulting him then pulling a knife and telling the man he was going to kill him.

South Central District Judge Cynthia Feland gave Campbell a three-year suspended sentence last week. He was required to serve 60 days with credit for the 34 he already had served.

Court documents show the incident took place in the parking lot outside the Bismarck Event Center when the victim walked to his vehicle after voting to find Campbell stealing from it.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Fargo police are investigating an armed robbery at a hotel.Authorities say two masked suspects entered the Grand Inn just after midnight Tuesday and showed a handgun to a clerk. They fled with a small amount of cash.The clerk wasn’t hurt.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum is scheduled to drop in on the Fargo Airsho — literally.

Burgum says he will skydive with members of the U.S. Navy Leap Frogs Parachute Team on Saturday morning. Once on the ground, Burgum is scheduled to deliver opening remarks to attendees of the event at the Hector International Airport.

Burgum spokesman Mike Nowatki says it will be a tandem jump for Burgum, though the governor has parachuted solo when he was a student at North Dakota State University.

The skydiving team is based in San Diego and travels the country to promote the Navy.

 

MEDORA, N.D. (AP) — Several residents in western North Dakota say a new bridge across the Little Missouri River is necessary to improve access for emergency responders, but not all agree on the ideal location.

The Bismarck Tribune reports that more than 100 Billings County residents attended a hearing Monday on a long-discussed river crossing proposed north of Medora. Many advocated for a bridge, but several said they didn’t favor the preferred route identified by a draft environmental impact statement.

Rancher Dave Short says his property would be destroyed by the route and that the county would need to use eminent domain to acquire his land.

The only other bridges across the river are 70 miles (112 kilometers) apart, one at Medora on Interstate 94 and one south of Watford City on Highway 85.

 

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Sanford Health has dedicated a $6 million tribute to the billionaire philanthropist whose financial gifts have benefited the Dakotas-based health care system.

Banking and credit card mogul T. Denny Sanford was in attendance Tuesday in Sioux Falls for a ribbon-cutting at the Sanford House.

The Argus Leader reports the 17,000-square foot building serves as offices for the Sanford Health Foundation, the hospital system’s charitable giving arm. It also includes a museum dedicated to Sanford’s life and achievements, event space, and bar and lounge areas. It opened late last year.

Sanford has donated nearly $1 billion to the health care system that uses him as a namesake.

On Tuesday, he also received the Vatican’s 2018 Pontifical Key Philanthropy Award, from a representative of the Vatican in Rome.

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is asking, “What kind of a lawyer would tape a client?” He’s venting on Twitter about the release of a tape that was secretly made by his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, on which Trump and Cohen are heard discussing plans to pay for a former Playboy model’s story of an alleged affair with Trump. Trump also claims that the tape suddenly cuts off while he was “presumably saying positive things.” Lawyers are sparring over whether Trump referred to cash payments on the tape.

 

 

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The few remaining campers in Yosemite Valley are packing up tents and other gear before a closure intended to clear the area for firefighters battling a wildfire near Yosemite National Park. Officials say the valley isn’t in imminent danger, but the closure is necessary to allow crews to perform protective measures. Other parts of the park remain open. The valley will be off-limits starting at noon Wednesday and will likely remain closed through Sunday.

 

 

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The Trump administration is releasing hundreds of immigrant families to faith-based groups that are taking responsibility for their well-being once they are out of government custody. The releases are happening mostly in Texas and Arizona. And they come as the administration works to meet a Thursday deadline to reunite migrant parents and children.

 

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hispanic members of Congress say the chief of the Homeland Security Department has told them officials are “on track” to meet a court-imposed deadline of reuniting hundreds of migrant children with parents or guardians. That deadline is Thursday. The lawmakers, all Democrats, say the remark by Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was met with disbelief and anger. They say she provided no figures to back up her assertion. The private meeting lasted around an hour.

 

 

BEIRUT (AP) — White Helmets volunteers trapped in southern Syria after the government seized areas they operated in say they live in constant fear of being caught in the dragnet of the government, which considers them its staunchest enemy, and are desperately seeking a way out. Hundreds of White Helmets volunteers failed to make it out of southern Syria in a complex international evacuation because they were caught in the fast changing battlefield.