Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Aug 8

CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows in the mid 50s. Northeast winds around 5 mph shifting to the south after midnight.

.FRIDAY…Partly sunny. A 30 percent chance of rain showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon in the Jamestown area, 40 percent in the Valley City area. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and

thunderstorms in the evening, then showers and thunderstorms

likely after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds 5 to

10 mph. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.

.SATURDAY…Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and

thunderstorms in the Jamestown area, 50 percent in the Valley City area. Highs in the upper 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Slight chance of rain showers

and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s.

.SUNDAY…Mostly sunny. Slight chance of rain showers and

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

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain showers and

thunderstorms in the evening, then rain showers likely and chance

of thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of

precipitation 70 percent.

.MONDAY…Partly sunny. Rain showers likely and chance of

thunderstorms in the morning, then chance of rain showers and

thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s. Chance of

precipitation 60 percent.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain

showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 50s.

.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny. A 20 percent chance of rain showers and

thunderstorms in the morning. Highs around 70.

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

showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower 50s.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Slight chance of rain showers and

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

 

There is a slight chance of thunderstorms Thursday night. Severe weather

is not expected.

A few showers and storms Friday morning.

Widespread showers and thunderstorms Sunday afternoon, spreading into western and central North Dakota Sunday evening through Monday morning.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The community is invited to A Moment Of Freedom’s  Second Annual Barn Dance fundraiser, on Saturday August 24, at the Stutsman County Fairground’s Beer Garden. Doors open at 5-p.m., dinner at 6-p.m., Dance at  8-p.m.

On Thursday’s  Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 we were joined by A Moment of Freedom’s President, Annie Keffeler, and Program Director, Kelli Connolly, and they explained that A Moment of Freedom  is an Equine Assisted Riding Program that utilizes horses and support staff in an attempt to provide a sense of freedom relaxation and happiness for their riders.

AMOF is a non-profit organization located a mile east of Buchanan. It is one of only a few programs that dedicates itself solely to helping those with disabilities in the nearby vicinity and looks for tremendous growth in the future.

Annie said the program was established in 2013, and held their first riding session last week.

The session run for four weeks for one hour each session.  Current participants range in age from four years old to 18 years old.

Three volunteers assist the riders during the rides, that consist of beginning rides, and advancing to more activities to allow riders to stretch their muscles and for coordination.

Donations of supplies are welcome including hula hoops, and horse supplies such as tack, saddles, halters, bridles and lead ropes.

For more information contact Annie Keffeler, at 701-320-3543, or Kelli Connolly at 701-320-1603.

With the Dinner and Barn Dance.

Dinner and Dance: $20 per individual, $60 per family.

There will also be a silent auction at the dinner.

Dance only: $10 at the door (Doors open at 7:30-p.m.

Raffle Tickets are $20, dinner and dance not included.

Raffle prizes include:

$500 in cash

$250 in cash

Gun choice of .22-250 caliber, 243, 25-06 or 30-06 caliber

Quarter Beef, donated by Nick and Andrea Fayville meet processing

Hog donated by Jason and Kali Lautt.

Dinner tickets are being sold separately from the raffle tickets and the raffle tickets DO NOT include the meal or dance.  Winners will be announced at the dance. (Winners need not be present to win.)

Purchase tickets from  A Moment of Freedom.

Call 701-320-3543, or amomentoffreedom@outlook.com

Follow and message at Facebook.

More About A Moment of Freedom

Providing the opportunity for an individual with intellectual, mental, and/or physical disabilities to feel comfortably salubrious is perhaps the most genuine form of love one could offer. To make an effort in easing one’s discomfort through any sort of activity with therapeutic benefits rewards the participant with the deepest sense of intrinsic wealth. Since 2013, A Moment of Freedom has been journeying towards that for both its riders and volunteers.
A Moment of Freedom is an Equine Assisted Riding program that utilizes horses and support staff in an attempt to provide a sense of freedom, relaxation, and happiness for their riders. AMOF is a non-profit organization 501(c)(3), located a mile East of Buchanan. It is one of only a few programs that dedicates itself solely to helping those with disabilities in the nearby vicinity and looks for tremendous growth in the future. A new location, an increase in staff, horses, and riders, and the support of the community and other similar programs will help obtain that growth. The act of riding a horse provides such a different experience for these riders; activating and relaxing certain muscles groups, providing an increase of frequency as well as clarity in verbal communication, and allows nonverbal individuals to come out of their shell and enjoy the hour ride. The program looks to also provide riders the opportunity to develop and refine fine motor skills in tacking the horses.
President and founder, Annie Keffeler, works diligently alongside program director, Kelli Connolly, in ensuring the fluidity, accessibility, and enjoyment behind A Moment of Freedom. Annie Keffeler has worked with the special needs population ever since she was sixteen years old and believes she was guided to do this. After walking away from an accident in 2013, Keffeler realized her purpose and began laying the foundation of AMOF, working with programs like SPURS in Aberdeen, researching blueprints and layouts of facilities, aligning legalities, filing and passing articles of corporations, and doing general due diligence to ensure all proper protocols were taken and all avenues were ventured. In addition to her involvement with AMOF, Keffeler is also a published and nationally recognized children’s author. She has always found proving a platform for the improvement of other’s lives, whether through a laugh, a provoked thought, or just a moment of freedom, is her true profession.
Their calling and primary demographic is prominent in SE/Central North Dakota and AMOF is an advocate of participating through any program if it promotes the similar mission of “providing a healthy, loving, unique, and safe experience for individuals and horses, intending to facilitate both physical and emotional restorative therapies to help balance body and soul, and attaining an individual’s personal growth by working with support staff and horses.”
Alongside directing AMOF, Kelli Connolly works in a dental office as well as specializing in equine massages. Her love for horses is one that she grew up with and has acquired an abundance of equine knowledge in her life.
“I suppose I took them for granted for a long time,” said Connolly in reference to her continuous involvement with horses. “I never really appreciated the influence they’ve had on my life.”
Keffeler contributed, “People don’t really grasp how influential and therapeutic they are.”
The two balance each other very well; Keffeler having experience with the disabled and Connolly with her lifelong love and understanding of horses.
The program is available to those ages four and older. AMOF has made a tremendous push to get residents of nursing homes involved as well. With the actual opportunity to get on and ride, it would bring riders back to their younger days and really provide that moment of freedom. The program has also recently been donated a wheelchair ramp and is in the process of constructing it. The facility is currently on Annie Keffeler’s property, on an enclosed field of packed dirt. They look to move off-site in the future and are always looking for available land and equipment. A Moment of Freedom uses four horses and is attempting to increase that size through training, desensitizing, and testing. In the future, they look to obtain horses that are built to ride.
Connolly spoke on the intelligence and compassion of horses, “Especially true of trained horses, they understand the person riding. They take care of their rider and adjust their walking accordingly.”
In these hour-long sessions, there is also an opportunity for the community as side walkers. Family, friends, and members of the community are encouraged to participate and partake in this revolutionary moment.
“It’s therapeutic just to walk beside them and to be a handler for them,” said Keffeler, offering lessons to those who volunteer.
Members of the community are encouraged to contact Annie and Kelli, as there are a plethora of ways to get involved. On August 24th, the program will hold a Barn Dance at the Stutsman County Fairgrounds in the Beer Gardens as a fundraiser with doors opening at 5 p.m. There will be a silent auction, raffle tickets, and table sponsorships available. Local businesses are implored to inquire as there is a limited availability of tables left. They will also be hosting their 3rd Annual Homecrafter and Vendor Show at the University of Jamestown on November 23rd at the Larson Center.
Perhaps the most impactful way to contribute to A Moment of Freedom is through donations and sponsorships. A Moment of Freedom boasts a “Wall of Honor,” eternalizing one’s name and/or business through a tax-deductible $250 donation. AMOF is also currently looking for tack, noting that anyone who wishes to donate can do so with James at Affordable Promo in Valley City.
Annie Keffeler and Kelli Connolly can be reached at amomentoffreedom@outlook.com, through their Facebook page; amoftherapueticriding, or by cell (701) 320 – 3543 (Keffeler)/ (701) 320 – 1603 (Connolly).

 

CARPIO, N.D. (AP) — Berthold police say they’ve arrested a Missouri man for possessing a concealed Uzi submachine gun.

Police say the gun was within the man’s reach when he was stopped for a traffic violation in Carpio Wednesday. He’s jailed on weapons charges, including being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Police say they also seized drug paraphernalia from his vehicle.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A retired judge, a lawyer, a former mayor of a North Dakota oil boom town, a retired military general and a tribal college president were selected Thursday by Republican Gov. Doug Burgum and Senate leaders to sit on the state’s voter-approved ethics commission.

Burgum, Republican Senate Majority Leader Rich Wardner and Democratic Senate Minority Leader Joan Heckaman each had to agree on the five people picked. The commission members will oversee the conduct of legislators, statewide officials, candidates and lobbyists.

The members are Ward Koeser, the former mayor of Williston; Ron Goodman, a retired district court judge from Oakes; Cynthia Lindquist, president of Cankdeska Cikana Community College in Fort Totten; Paul Richard, an attorney and former executive vice president of Sanford Health in Fargo; and David Anderson, a retired brigadier general who led the first North Dakota Army Guard unit to serve in Iraq.

The governor and senators appointed Goodman as the committee’s temporary chair. Goodman and Lindquist were appointed to four-year terms, Anderson to a three-year term, and Koeser and Richard to two-year terms.

Nearly 70 people applied to serve on the commission. The selection panel held four meetings.

Update…

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Two environmental groups who say North Dakota regulators should have intervened in the location of an oil refinery near the state’s top tourist attraction, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, are taking their case to the state Supreme Court.

The Public Service Commission last year declined to review whether the refinery could be built just 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the park in the western Badlands, the Bismarck Tribune reported. Regulators concluded the proposed $800 million Davis Refinery would be too small to warrant review under state law.

The Environmental Law and Policy Center and the Dakota Resource Council don’t believe developer Meridian Energy Group is being forthright about the refinery’s size and asked a state judge to force the commission to hold a hearing.

South Central District Judge Bruce Romanick in May refused, ruling that the PSC followed state law that requires only those oil refineries with a capacity of 50,000 or more barrels daily to obtain a site permit.

Meridian’s current capacity estimate for the Davis Refinery is 49,500 barrels daily. The Environmental Law and Policy Center and the Dakota Resource Council question the company’s veracity.

Attorneys for the group have now appealed to the state Supreme Court, arguing the groups should have at least been granted a PSC hearing or the opportunity to obtain more information from Meridian.

It’s the second dispute over the planned Davis Refinery to reach the North Dakota Supreme Court. The National Parks Conservation Association in March filed an appeal to the state’s high court that an air quality permit issued by the state Health Department for the refinery and upheld by a state judge violates the federal Clean Air Act.

Public Service Commissioner Julie Fedorchak declined comment on the most recent appeal Wednesday, citing ongoing litigation. Meridian spokesman Mark Hanes said the company also does not comment on ongoing legal matters, but he added that “we remain confident.”

 

In world and national news…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of the four people killed in a Southern California stabbing rampage has been identified by his son.

Erwin Hauprich says his father, 62-year-old Helmuth Hauprich, died at a hospital Wednesday after he and his roommate were attacked at their Garden Grove apartment.

The son says his father, who was born in Romania, had called him earlier and told him the apartment had been burglarized and his passport, green card, a sword collection and a dining table had been taken.

Erwin Hauprich says he later heard there was a stabbing at the complex and went to check. He says a police officer told him his father was taken to a hospital, where he died. The roommate died in the apartment.

A suspect has been arrested.

The son says his father left Romania for Germany and then the United States more than two decades ago.

 

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — An attorney says a Montana man charged with assaulting a 13-year-old boy who refused to remove his hat during the national anthem believed he was doing what President Donald Trump wanted him to do.

Attorney Lance Jasper tells the Missoulian he will seek a mental health evaluation for Curt Brockway, a U.S. Army veteran who suffered a traumatic brain injury and was convinced he was following his commander in chief’s orders.

Jasper’s comments Wednesday came as prosecutors formally charged Brockway with assault on a minor.

Prosecutors say Brockway asked the boy to remove his hat during the anthem ahead of a rodeo.

They say the boy cursed at Brockway, and the man grabbed him by the throat, “lifted him into the air and slammed the boy into the ground.”

 

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Dozens of immigrant workers have been released a day after being detained in the largest immigration raid in a decade in the United States.

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials say 680 people were arrested in Wednesday’s raids.

But immigration lawyers say that by Thursday morning, about five busloads of people had been released.

The terms of the workers’ releases were unclear. It also was unclear whether any of those released were determined to be living in the country legally. ICE officials did not return telephone calls Thursday morning.

Officials had said Wednesday that they would release detainees who met certain conditions, such as pregnant women or those who hadn’t faced immigration proceedings previously.

Karla Vazquez-Elmore is a lawyer representing arrested workers. She said even those not arrested are terrified.

 

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — After the massacre at an El Paso Walmart, many of the city’s people are seeking comfort and strength in their Catholic traditions.

El Paso was founded by Catholic missionaries and has 75 Catholic churches, including many that are pillars of their communities. At St. Mark’s Catholic Church, the Wednesday sermon was about persevering in one’s faith. Parishioner Margarita Segura says the message resonated with her. She says the community and the nation can’t let the shooting “break our faith.”

At a memorial to the victims, visitors sometimes form large prayer circles. Others sit vigil and pray the rosary, which includes several prayers that take at least 20 minutes to finish.

The memorial reflects the city’s Catholic roots. It includes a painting of the Virgin Mary and countless rosaries.

 

NEW YORK (AP) — The retail titan behind Victoria’s Secret says the financier Jeffrey Epstein misappropriated “vast sums” of his fortune while managing his personal finances.

Ohio billionaire Leslie Wexner said in a letter Wednesday that he recovered “some of the funds” but severed ties with Epstein in 2007 as sexual abuse allegations first surfaced against him in Florida.

The letter was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Epstein managed Wexner’s wealth for years. It was through Wexner that Epstein acquired his seven-story Manhattan mansion near Central Park.

Wexner says he regrets ever crossing Epstein’s path and was “sickened” by his alleged abuse of dozens of underage girls.

Epstein has pleaded not guilty to federal sex trafficking charges in New York.

His lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.