Wayne Byers Show – Evening – May 7

CSi Weather…

TONIGHT:  Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain. Lows in the lower 40s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the east after midnight.

WEDNESDAY…Cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs in the lower 50s. Northeast winds 5 to 15 mph.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s. North

winds 10 to 15 mph.

.THURSDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s. North winds

around 15 mph.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s.

.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain showers in

the evening, then chance of rain showers and slight chance of

thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 40s. Chance of

precipitation 40 percent.

.SATURDAY…Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain showers and

thunderstorms in the morning, then slight chance of rain showers

in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. Chance of precipitation

20 percent.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Decreasing clouds. Lows around 40.

.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s.

.MONDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.

 

Chances for showers will be increasing Friday evening. There will be slight chance of thunderstorms Friday evening/night

Winds will shift from southwest to northwest and become quite

gusty Friday through Saturday. Northwest winds of 20 to 35 mph

will be common across western and central ND Saturday.

Chances of showers will exit the southern James River Valley Saturday

afternoon.

A brief cool down behind the clipper Saturday with

highs in the mid to upper 50s.

A spring pattern emerges Sunday through most of next week, with warmer temperatures and highs in the 60s to around 70 degrees. Dry Sunday, then some shower chances and perhaps a couple thunderstorms Monday through Wednesday.

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown City Sewer Department reminds residents  to run sump pump water into the storm drain system by placing sump pump hoses out to the curb. At this time, the City is experiencing high volumes of water being pumped through the sewer system.

The City of Jamestown Municipal Code states as follows:
Sec. 30-36. – Draining rain, surface or ground water into sewers prohibited.
a) No person shall permit rain, surface or ground waters to be carried into the sewer system. Rain water leaders shall not be connected with or run into the sewer system.
(b) Drain tile, sump pumps or other systems designed to eliminate the accumulation of seepage or other ground waters shall not be connected with or run into the sewer system.
(Ord. No. 1080, 9-6-94)

Jamestown officials also announce that city wide sanitary sewer system flushing will begin on May 15, 2019 in the north side of the City and continue working towards the south side. When flushing is being done there is a possibility of a sewer smell to occur as traps may be emptied. Please run water down all areas that have a trap in your residence and/or businesses that may be affected.

 

Valley City  (CSi)  The Valley City Commission met in Regular Session Tuesday evening at City Hall.  Commissioner Erickson was not present.

APPROVAL OF CONSENT AGENDA

Approved Monthly Reports from the Fire Chief, Building Inspector, Auditor, Municipal Judge and Public Works Accountant.

Approved Monthly Bills for the City and Public Works in the Amount of $2,862,367.57

Approved Mechanical Contractor License for 7 C’s Heating & Cooling, LLC

Approved Application to Block off Street for Bridge City Cruisers on June 15, 2019 for 100 block of East Main; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th blocks of Central Avenue N, 2nd Street NE to Taco John’s, 2nd Street NW to Wells Fargo drive in

Approved Parade Application for Bridge City Cruisers on June 15, 2019 on Central Avenue N

PUBLIC COMMENTS No One Spoke

Attorney General’s “A Citizen’s Guide to North Dakota Open Records & Open Meetings Laws” *A member of the public does not have the right to speak to the governing body at an open meeting. The public is only entitled to see and hear what happens at a meeting, and to record or broadcast those observations.

No personal attacks to persons present or not

No inflammatory language used during time that you have the platform

5 minute maximum or as directed by the chair

Thank you for participating in City Government.

RESOLLUTION

The City Commission approved a Resolution creating Water Main Improvement District No. 101 for 2020 5th Avenue NW Reconstruction Project.

Approved was a Resolution creating Sanitary Sewer Improvement District No. 65 for 2020 5th Avenue NW Reconstruction Project

Approve Resolution No. 2202, a Resolution creating Storm Sewer Improvement District No. 53 for 2020 5th Avenue NW Reconstruction Project  

Considered was a decision document for 5th Avenue NW Reconstruction Project (NDDOT Project No. SU-2-990(059). Two Public Input meetings have been held.  Based on comments some of the previous items were amended. A motion was made to concurred with the previously approved recommendation… 34 foot wide streets and parking on both sides of the street.

With the vote, Commissioners Magnuson and Bishop voted opposed, creating a 4-4 tie, with Commissioner Erickson absent and the motion to approve failed.  Commissioner Maguson said affected residents questioned how they would access their property during construction, adding there are too many unknowns in the project.

After further discussion a motion was made to reconsider the vote, and was then passed unanimously.

Following that the Commissioners voted unanimously to approve the previous vote.

A Declaration of Necessity is still pending that will allow a period of public protest.

City Commissioners approved a Conditional Use Permit for Hochhalter Photography at 114 3rd Street SE. City Attorney Martineck said the property will not allowed to be used for residential purposes.

 

The City Commission approved the 2019 Sidewalk Replacement bid from Mike’s Construction & Repair in the amount of $67,838.00.

Approved was an Application for Property Tax Exemption for Improvements to Residential Building at 304 5th Avenue NE.  City Assessor Hansen   said an addition will be attached to the home, which is well maintained.

The City Commission approved an Application for Property Tax Exemption for Improvements to Residential Building at 560 4th Street NW.  City Assessor Hansen an addition to the structure will add to to value.

Approved was the 2019-2020 Gaming Site Authorization Renewal for Valley City Eagles Aerie 2192 Fraternal Order of Eagles at Eagles; Captain’s Pub; The Labor Club; My Bar Valley City LLC; Hi-Line Hospitality, LLC dba City Lights; Main Street Off Sale LLC dba Tavern 94. The applications were reviewed by City Auditor Richter who said there were no significant changes.

CITY ADMINISTRATOR’S REPORT

David Schelkoph asks the public for their patients in the street work, as the Main Street construction is now underway. He said the street will be open for this June’s Rally in the Valley.

CITY UPDATES & COMMISSION REPORTS

City Attorney Martineck said The Planning & Zoning regular meeting dates each month will be changed to better coincide with City Commission meetings.  He added a committee will be formed to determined if the city should establish social media sites to inform the public of city business.

Dave Anderson pointed out with this being Citywide Cleanup Weekend Valley City, residents are reminded the week is a good time to clean up blighted properties.   Following cleanup week the city will be viewed for properties in violation of the Ordinance.

Commissioner Powell said downtown businesses have had a positive attitude concerning the StreetScape project, which was added to by Commissioner Maguson.  He also asked the public for continued patients with the street projects concerning detours.

Mayor Carlsrud also commented on property owners to clean up their properties.

The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 68 followed by replays.

 

 

Valley City  (CSi)  The Barnes County Museum is hosting ‘WOMEN BEHIND THE PLOW’ Exhibit! May 6th to June 24^th 2019.

Don’t miss this German-Russian cultural exhibit from the Tri-County Tourism Alliance

Catch a glimpse of life on the prairie through the lens of women who grew up on or raised their families on farms in German-Russian Country.

This Tri-County Tourism Alliance historic preservation project called, “Women Behind the Plow” will be coming to Valley City from April 17^th to June 24^th. The public is invited to view this history exhibit free of charge. This project honors the unrecognized contribution of women who grew up or lived on farms in Logan County, McIntosh County, and Emmons County. Seventeen panels feature photos and short memories created from interviews collected with assistance from a State Historical Society of North Dakota grant.

Many stories of farming prior to rural electrics bringing electricity to the sometimes-harsh prairies have never been told. How did these women learn about providing for families, sewing clothes or crocheting the scarce niceties in their homes? In addition to being wives and mothers, many were farm hands, healers, teachers, housekeepers, and artists. They kept traditional holidays and religious customs. Unseen and unrecognized many of these women did what they had to without recognizing the importance of their contribution to the economic growth of the state.

These panels represent a small snapshot into farm life, but you will enjoy spending some time reading memories and viewing the old photographs.

The Tri-County Tourism Alliance is a nonprofit dedicated to the support of Germans from Russia heritage tourism, for more information. Visit us at http://germanrussiancountry.org or find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/192780920779853/.

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Hours 10 AM – 4 PM Mon-Sat, free-will admission.

For further information, contact Wes Anderson, 701-845-0966

Barnes County Historical Society Museum

315 Central Ave N
Valley City, ND 58072

701-845-0966

 

Update…ID’s Driver…

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — Police say a man who stole a squad car to flee from arrest was killed when he crashed nearly head-on into a semitrailer on Interstate 29 in North Dakota.

Authorities say officers making a welfare check on the man at a Grand Forks business on Monday afternoon tried to arrest 33-year-old Jordan Poitra on an outstanding Cass County warrant.

They say Poitra fought with officers and tried to disarm one of them. An unspecified number of officers were treated for minor injuries at a hospital.

Police say Poitra stole the patrol vehicle, fled the scene, and eventually veered across the I-29 median into oncoming traffic and crashed with the semi. The squad car was destroyed. The semi driver wasn’t hurt.

Police say Poitra’s address isn’t known.

 

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — White House officials say Vice President Mike Pence plans to visit Minnesota to talk with farmers and steelworkers about the status of a trade deal with Mexico and Canada. Pence is scheduled to begin his day Thursday at R & J Johnson Farms in Glyndon, located about 10 miles east of Fargo, North Dakota. Officials say he will tour the facility and talk to producers about how the new trade deal will benefit Minnesota. Later Thursday Pence plans to stop at Gerdan Ameristeel in St. Paul.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Oglala Sioux and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem are each waiting for the other side to make a move to resolve a disagreement over anti-protest legislation that led to the tribe banning the governor from one of the largest reservations in the country. The legislation aims to prevent costly and disruptive protests against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The Tribal Council on May 1 voted 17-0 to tell Noem she’s no longer welcome on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota is setting up a task force aimed at getting an accurate count in next year’s census.

Gov. Doug Burgum signed an order Tuesday creating the Complete Count Task Force, with $1 million approved by the Legislature to spend on the effort.

The government takes a headcount every 10 years. Accurate counts are crucial for states, because at stake are billions of dollars in federal aid for such things as transportation projects and education.

The 2010 Census pegged North Dakota’s population at 673,000. That’s a figure many officials had disputed as too low because of the rapid population growth in the state’s oil patch.

The state’s population was estimated at a record 760,000 residents last year.

Officials say North Dakota is the fourth fastest-growing state in the nation.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Yellowstone River flooding in northwestern North Dakota this spring left at least 1,400 acres of farmland unsuitable for intended crops and also inundated several grain bins with stored crops.

State Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring says efforts are being made to help affected farmers.

The federal government has approved use of the Emergency Conservation Program, which provides a 75 percent cost share for the restoration of agricultural land impacted by disasters.

The state-owned Bank of North Dakota has begun the process of seeking approval to implement two loan programs.

Ice jams led to the flooding that inundated more than 22 square miles of land and impacted 29 homes.

 

In sports…

YANKTON, S.D. (uj.edu)– Dru Fitz (JR/Gresham, OR) pitched a four-hit shutout and the University of Jamestown scored three runs without the benefit of a hit, capturing the GPAC Baseball Championship Tuesday afternoon with a 3-0 win over Concordia (Neb.)

Jamestown (35-16) won the GPAC Championship in its first year as a member of the conference. The Jimmies will find out Thursday where they will be headed to begin the NAIA Opening Round of the national tournament.

UJ scored twice in the top of the second to take a 2-0 lead. Chase Hacker (JR/Millcreek, WA) led off the inning with a walk, then a balk by Concordia pitcher Jason Munsch moved him to second. Tanner Roundy (SR/Henderson, NV) executed a sacrifice bunt, but a throwing error by Munsch allowed Roundy to reach as Hacker scored all the way from second. Another error on the throw home put Roundy at second with no out. Musch wild-pitched Roundy over to third, then got Drake Pilat (SR/Winnipeg, MB, Canada) to ground out to second, but Roundy came across with the Jimmies’ second run.

The score remained 2-0 until the top of the ninth, when the Jimmies pushed home an important insurance run. Roundy singled to short to open the inning and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Braxton Hewitt (FR/Carrington, ND). Following a pitching change, Roundy took third on a wild pitch, then scored on another wild pitch to make it 3-0.

Munsch (5-4), who struck out 16 batters over seven innings in his prevous start against the Jimmies, struck out the first six batters Tuesday and retired the first seven in a row before Zach Zurbrugg (SR/Bremerton, WA) singled in the third. Zurbrugg also had the other hit against Munsch, a single to left with one out in the fifth. Munsch was lifted after the fifth, giving up one earned run on two hits, with one walk and nine strikeouts.

Fitz (6-2) retired the final 17 batters he faced following a two-out single in the fourth by Teyt Johnson. The right hander struck out two and did not walk a batter, needing just 96 pitches to complete the game. The outing was his second straight complete game, and first nine-inning complete game of the season.

Previously

Yankton, SD (CSi)   – The Jamestown Jimmies Baseball team is the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC)  Champions with a 3-0 shutout of the Concordia, Nebraska Bulldogs Tuesday, in the game played in Yankton, SD.

Dru Fitz pitched all 9 innings, retiring the last 17 batters in a row.

UJ now heads to the NAIA National Baseball Tournament, on Monday May 13, with the location to be announced this Thursday, May 9

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats say Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is “afraid” of the findings from special counsel Robert Mueller and failing to protect U.S. elections.

Democrats told reporters on Tuesday that McConnell is sending proposals to crack down on interference to a “graveyard” that ignores Mueller’s report and its findings that Russians meddled in the 2016 presidential election.

Democratic leader Charles Schumer said “McConnell is so afraid of this report that he doesn’t even want to do what needs to be done to stop Russian interference.”

McConnell on Tuesday declared the Russia investigation “case closed” and said Democrats are “grieving” Mueller’s inability to establish a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. He also said the Trump administration has taken several steps to retaliate against Russia for the election interference.

 

 

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has signed legislation banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected. That can be as early as six weeks, before many women know they’re pregnant.

The signing Tuesday morning caps weeks of protests at the state Capitol and marks the beginning of a possibly costly legal battle.

ACLU of Georgia legal director Sean Young said the new law is unconstitutional and the ACLU would challenge it in court.

Anti-abortion activists and lawmakers across the country have been energized by the new conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Several GOP-controlled states are pushing abortion bans in an attack on the high court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.

Similar bans have been signed into law in Mississippi, Kentucky and Ohio, and are being considered elsewhere.

 

GUJRANWALA, Pakistan (AP) — Hundreds of women and girls from Pakistan’s Christian minority have been trafficked to China as brides in recent months as their country becomes a new marriage market for Chinese men.

Chinese and Pakistani brokers are aggressively seeking out girls, sometimes even cruising outside churches to ask for potential brides, and some pastors get payments to lure impoverished parents with promises of wealth in exchange for their daughters.

Parents receive several thousand dollars and are told that their new sons-in-law are wealthy Christian converts.

The grooms turn out to be neither.

Once in China, the girls — most often married against their will — can find themselves isolated in remote rural regions, vulnerable to abuse, unable to communicate and reliant on a translation app even for a glass of water.

 

 

 

 

NEW YORK (AP) On Tuesday afternoon,  stocks fell sharply on Wall Street as the U.S. and China move closer to an escalation of their trade fight.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down more than 500 points.

Technology companies, which rely heavily on trade with China, bore the brunt of the selling on Tuesday. Apple lost 2.1% and Microsoft gave back 2.2%

China’s top economic official will travel to Washington this week ahead of a Friday deadline by which Washington said it would sharply raise tariffs on Chinese goods.

Safe-play sectors like utilities held up better than the rest of the market.

The S&P 500 fell 54 points, or 1.9%, to 2,877.

The Dow fell 506 points, or 1.9%, to 25,931. The Nasdaq fell 175 points, or 2.2%, to 7,947.