Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Sept 30

CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows around 40. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph.

.TUESDAY…Cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s. North winds around

10 mph.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Cloudy.  A 20 percent chance of rain showers

after midnight in the Valley City area.

Lows in the mid 30s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

.WEDNESDAY…Cloudy with a 70 percent chance of rain showers.

Highs in the mid 40s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 70  percent chance of rain

showers in the evening. Lows in the mid 30s.

.THURSDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 40s.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.

 

.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain

showers. Lows in the lower 40s.

.SATURDAY…Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of rain

showers. Highs in the mid 50s.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Decreasing clouds. A 20 percent chance of rain

showers. Lows around 40.

.SUNDAY…Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of rain showers in

the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s.

 

Expect another rainy and cool day across the area on

Wednesday, with highs once again only in the 40s. Temperatures

might be cold enough for snow Tuesday night into Wednesday

morning, and some light accumulations on grassy surfaces cannot be

ruled out.

The upper low will depart the area Wednesday night.

There will be potential for widespread lows below freezing Wednesday night. Expect that clouds will be decreasing from west to east through the night.

Thursday into Friday, dry weather and slowly warming temperatures to the

region.

 

Omaha  (USACE)   –  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reports, that releases from Pipestem Dam was increased Monday to 500 cubic feet per second, and to 600 cfs Tuesday.  Jamestown Dam will continue to release 400 cfs, for a total combined release of 1,000 cfs by October 1.

Pipestem Reservoir is currently at pool elevation 1457.4 feet, almost 15 feet above the base of the flood control zone and rising.  The inflow is near 1,000 cfs.  Jamestown Reservoir is currently at pool elevation 1431.2 feet, 0.2 feet above the base of the flood control zone and rising.  The inflow is near 650 cfs.  Basin conditions will be continuously evaluated and adjustments to the releases will be made as needed.  The target date for evacuation of flood control storage from Pipestem and Jamestown reservoirs is Nov. 1.

The Corps of Engineers is coordinating with the Bureau of Reclamation and the City of Jamestown.  Combined releases could increase if basin conditions warrant.

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Jamestown  (CSi)  Jamestown Police warns residents of a convicted sex offender living in Jamestown, Dustin Joel Dean.

Dean lives at 2605 Circle Drive, Transition Home, at the North Dakota State Hospital, Jamestown, ND

Dean is a 38 year old white male, six feet two inches tall, weighing 285 pounds with green eyes, and brown hair.

Offense: Gross Sexual Imposition regarding a lewd act involving a wheelchair bound 14 year old boy, that happened twice in Morton County, ND at a company that assists physically handicapped individuals.

Conviction Date: January, 2008, in Morton County, ND, District Court.

Disposition:  Seven years, first serve three years, balance suspended for 10 years, five months.

28 days credit, 10 years supervised probation.

Offense:  Gross Sexual Imposition. The 14 year old victim was at a camp to obtain an assisted living job and Dean molested him there as well.

Conviction Date: January, 2009 in LaMoure County, ND, District Court.

Disposition:  Seven years, first serve three years, balance suspended for 10 years five months.

28 days credit, 10 years supervised probation, concurrent with Morton County sentences.

Dean is currently on GPS Monitoring

Dean is not wanted by police 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 Dustin Joel  Dean 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)  Jamestown Public Schools announces that School will dismiss at 1:00 PM on Wednesday, October 2, 2019 for Professional Development workshops.

School will resume on October 3, 2019.

Jamestown  (CSi)  Jamestown Public Works reports, that the Inert Landfill site closed due to weather conditions., until further notice due to the unsafe weather conditions.
The City Baling Facility is located at 3020 18th St SE.
Please call the City baling facility for further information at 701.252.5223

Jamestown (JRMC)   Sometimes, we are our own barrier to care.

Since 2015, Central Valley Health and Jamestown Regional Medical Center have collaborated to reduce barriers for women’s health. In that time, more than 100 women have received 3D mammograms and preventative services they otherwise wouldn’t have due to time, finances, transportation or lack of insurance coverage.

The program is called No Excuses and funding from R.M. Stoudt’s annual Running of the Pink event supports it. In the 12 years of ROP, R.M. Stoudt has raised more than $100,000 for women’s care in this community.

This year, No Excuses is set for:

• 11 a.m. to 6:30 .m. Tuesday, Nov. 5
• 8 a.m. to noon Friday, Nov. 8

For more information on No Excuses, call JRMC at (701) 952-5348 or visit https://jrmcnd.com/no-excuses/. To schedule a mammogram for any other day, call JRMC Mammography at (701) 952-4852.

In any given year, 30 percent of women over 40 in Stutsman County are not up to date on their mammograms. Knowing this, JRMC offered a special No Excuses day to its employees in 2018.

JRMC, Chief Nursing Officer, Trisha Jungles says, “By calculating the age and gender of our 330 employees, we estimated that 39 of them were behind on their annual screenings.  This saddened us. These women have access to care. They have insurance. What they needed was support. So we gave it to them.”

Last year, about 50 women participated in No Excuses. Of them, 26 were JRMC employees.

Ms. Jungles adds, “It shouldn’t have surprised us that women who devote their careers to caring for others hadn’t made time to care for themselves. We’re so glad, however, that they did. These screenings are important.”

One in eight women will receive a breast cancer diagnosis in her lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society. Catching it early can mean the difference between keeping the breast or needing surgery to remove it.

Knowing that support and encouragement is often a barrier to care, JRMC and Central Valley are offering No Excuses days to special community groups, in addition to days for the general public.

JRMC Radiology Manager Jason Schaffer, says, “We are proud to care for the people who care for our young people. Like healthcare workers, educators and support staff often put other’s first which delays getting care that helps them prevent and/or treat cancer.”

Based on national utilization data, 1,346 Stutsman County women over age 40 have not had their mammograms in two years. About 3,000 of them are behind on their cervical screenings.

No Excuses isn’t just for women who can’t afford it. Busy moms, grandmothers and professionals are also worthy candidates.

Registered nurse and unit administrator at Central Valley Health, Robin Iszler adds,   “If you’ve never had a mammogram, or it’s been a long time, you are definitely the woman we are looking for.”

Bismarck (Gov. Burgum’s Office)– Gov. Doug Burgum and State School Superintendent Kirsten Baesler on Monday announced that Sara Medalen, a reading and math interventionist at Minot’s Sunnyside Elementary School, is the North Dakota Teacher of the Year for 2020.

“Sara Medalen goes above and beyond to engage her students with hands-on, innovative experiences that instill courage and curiosity and prepare them to be lifelong learners and problem solvers,” Burgum said. “We thank Ms. Medalen and all of the finalists for their passion and dedication to empowering students with the knowledge and skills they need to reach their fullest potential.”

“Sara Medalen is one of the best our North Dakota teaching profession has to offer,” Baesler said. “She is an exceptional instructor who has tremendous love, respect, devotion and high expectations for all her students. She supports and brings out the best in her students and her colleagues. Sara is an exemplar of what the North Dakota Teacher of the Year is.”

Medalen said she had “a grateful heart right now. I want to say thank you.”

“I’m proud of the education system in North Dakota. We have one of the best education systems in the nation,” Medalen said. “I hope to communicate with all the educators, so that I can be a spokesperson and advocate for them.”

Burgum and Baesler will host a celebration for the new Teacher of the Year in mid-October.

Medalen assists students who are struggling with reading or math at Sunnyside, which is a grade K-5 school in Minot. She has also started programs to encourage reading, leadership development, and physical fitness.

Among them are Books and Braids, in which young girls sign up for appointments for Medalen to braid their hair before school while they read aloud from a book. Girl Power is a group of young students who do charitable projects and hear presentations from female role models, including public officials, first responders, business people, and athletes. Baesler visited the group at Sunnyside last November to read the children’s book “Grace for President.”

“One of the goals for Girl Power is to empower girls to make a positive difference in our lives and in the lives of others,” Medalen said. “I hope that I can carry that through in this role as North Dakota Teacher of the year as well. I’m excited and looking forward to becoming the 2020 spokesperson for the future of our students and schools.”

Medalen oversees STEAM Saturdays (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, Mathematics), which encourages students to collaborate, use critical thinking and problem-solving skills, take risks, and learn from failure. Medalen also founded Strides for Sunnyside, a running group for students, to promote physical activity and help students learn about healthy habits.

Medalen succeeds Kayla Dornfeld, who was the 2019 North Dakota Teacher of the Year.

Five finalists were selected for the 2020 honor: Medalen; Jessica Brandt, a Title 1 English and reading teacher at Casselton’s Central Cass school; Dr. Karyn Chiapella, a special education teacher and intervention specialist at the Scranton public school; Susan Lillian McPherson, an English Learner teacher at Northern Cass Public School in Hunter; and Sara Thompson, an instructional coach and reading specialist at Sweetwater Elementary School in Devils Lake. Baesler honored and celebrated each of the finalist candidates in their home schools earlier this month.

North Dakota Teacher of the Year candidates may be nominated by people within a teacher’s school or community. Nominees fill out an application, which asks them to list their educational history and to write short essays that describe their teaching philosophy and why they wanted to become teachers. Applicants are asked their opinions on major education issues.

The applications are evaluated by a selection committee that includes the incumbent Teacher of the Year, representatives from the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction, and groups representing teachers, school administrators, career and technical education, and nonpublic schools.

Additional information about the North Dakota Teacher of the Year program can be found here:

https://www.nd.gov/dpi/educators/awards/north-dakota-teacher-year

Former Teacher of the Year recipients are here:

https://www.nd.gov/dpi/north-dakota-teacher-year-recipients

 

In sports..

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The NCAA says a new California law allowing college student athletes to earn money from endorsements is creating confusion for current and future athletes, coaches, administrators and schools.

The NCAA responded Monday after California Gov. Gavin Newsom tweeted a video of himself signing the bill during a special episode of HBO’s “The Shop: Uninterrupted.”

The NCAA says changes are needed to continue to support student-athletes, but improvement needs to happen on a national level through the NCAA’s rules-making process.

The NCAA says it is considering its next steps in California but did not elaborate.

NEW YORK (AP) — Oakland Raiders linebacker Vontaze Burfict has been suspended for the rest of the season for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Indianapolis Colts tight end Jack Doyle.

NFL Vice President of football operations Jon Runyan announced the suspension Monday. The league says Burfict is suspended without pay for the remaining 13 weeks of the season and any playoff games for “repeated violations of unnecessary roughness rules.”

Burfict was flagged for unnecessary roughness and ejected from the Raiders’ game against the Colts on Sunday after a blow to Doyle’s head early in the second quarter. Runyan in a letter to Burfict called the contact “unnecessary and flagrant” and added that his “extensive history of rules violations is factored into this decision regarding accountability measures.”

Burfict during his time in Cincinnati was repeatedly suspended by the NFL for egregious hits and violating its policy on performance-enhancers. He was fined regularly for hits that crossed the line, most notably the one to Antonio Brown’s head that helped the Steelers rally for an 18-16 playoff win in the 2015 season.

Under the CBA, Burfict can appeal in the next three days.

 

(AP)  Green Day song may be new NHL hockey anthem.

The NHL could be on the way to its version of “Are You Ready For Some Football?”

The league is announcing a two-year partnership with Green Day that includes an opening song for NBC Sports’ “Wednesday Night Hockey.” The song, “Ready, Fire, Aim” isn’t custom-made for the NHL and will be on Green Day’s next album, though it’s likely a matter of time until Green Day or another band follows what Hank Williams Jr. and later Carrie Underwood did for the NFL.

Green Day’s open will debut Oct. 9. The band will also perform at the All-Star Game in St. Louis in late January, and new singles from its album will be released on “Wednesday Night Hockey.”

Green Day songs will be incorporated into arena mixes around the NHL and provide the soundtrack for much of the season on NBC Sports Network and NBC.

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are split over how President Donald Trump should respond to impeachment proceedings.

The president’s allies fanned out across the Sunday talk shows espousing different approaches to the rough transcript and whistleblower complaint at the heart of the proceedings.

The whistleblower says Trump tried to pressure the president of Ukraine to investigate the son of Democrat Joe Biden.

Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, tried deflection by insisting that the real story is a debunked conspiracy theory. Senior presidential adviser Stephen Miller said “deep state” figures are to blame. Ohio congressman Jim Jordan said Biden’s son improperly profited from his father’s position. There’s no evidence of that.

Trump himself tweeted that he should be able to meet his accuser. A top House Democrat said he expects the whistleblower to testify “very soon.”

 

 

 

 

NEW YORK (AP) — Rep. Chris Collins of New York is resigning from Congress ahead of his expected guilty plea in an insider trading case.

That’s according to a spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who said Collins has sent a letter of resignation that will take effect when Congress meets in a brief session on Tuesday.

It would be up to Gov. Andrew Cuomo to set a special election to fill the seat, which leans Republican.

Collins, a Republican, was among the first members of Congress to endorse President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

 

 

 

LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing political opposition and personal allegations as he tries to fulfil his pledge to lead Britain out of the European Union in just over a month.

The prime minister’s office is denying a journalist’s claim that Johnson grabbed her thigh at a private lunch two decades ago. Sunday Times columnist Charlotte Edwardes says the incident took place when she worked at conservative newsmagazine The Spectator while Johnson was its editor.

Johnson also is under scrutiny for claims that an American tech entrepreneur, Jennifer Arcuri, received money and perks from London coffers while Johnson was mayor of the British capital. He denies wrongdoing.

Johnson is rallying his Conservative Party on Monday at the party’s annual conference in Manchester under the slogan “Get Brexit Done.”

 

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Afghanistan’s government is using its platform at the U.N. General Assembly to send a message to Taliban insurgents: “Join us in peace, or we will continue to fight.”

National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib spoke Monday, two days after Afghans voted in a presidential election roiled by violence, Taliban threats and allegations of mismanagement and abuse.

Results aren’t due for weeks.

Mohib says that young Afghan leaders have embraced democratic values, but that “uncertainty lies with those who stand in the way of peace.”

The Taliban control or hold sway over roughly half the country. They warned voters not to participate in the election.

U.S.-Taliban peace talks, aimed at ending America’s longest war, collapsed earlier this month. The Afghan government had been sidelined in the talks, as the Taliban see it as a U.S. puppet.