Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Oct 14

CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Cloudy. Chance of snow possibly mixed with rain after midnight. Lows in the lower 30s. South winds around 5 mph shifting to the west 5 to 15 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation 30 percent in the Jamestown area, 50 percent in the Valley City area.

.TUESDAY…Cloudy. A 30 percent chance of snow in the morning in the Jamestown area, 40 percent in the Valley City area.

Highs in the mid 30s. Northwest winds around 15 mph.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s. Northwest

winds 5 to 15 mph.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 30s. South winds

around 10 mph.

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

.THURSDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Lows around 40.

.FRIDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 30s.

.SATURDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 50s.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain and

snow after midnight. Lows in the mid 30s.

.SUNDAY…Partly sunny. Chance of rain possibly mixed with snow

in the morning, then chance of rain in the afternoon. Highs in

the upper 40s. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.

 

Flood updates and water level updates  for the …

Sheyenne River Level Through Valley City

Lake Ashtabula Level

James River level through Jamestown.

Jamestown Dam

National Weather Service 

Water amounts in the snow pack

The Latest Flood Warnings from The National Weather Service

https://ndresponse.gov/flood-region

Fire Danger Map for North Dakota

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown City Council met in Special Session Monday evening at City Hall, to discuss action relative to anticipated reservoir releases.  All members were present.

Deputy City Auditor Jay Sveum was subbing for City Administrator, Sarah Helleckson.

Before the meeting, Mayor Dwaine Heinrich said, during recent conference calls, the city has been in communications with The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the State Department of Emergency Service the State of South Dakota, the City of LaMoure, and Interstate Engineering.

He added that engineers are working on flood mitigation measures, saying volunteers will be needed for possible sandbagging, and dikeing, for the safety of the public, preserve  property, and city infrastructure.

He said traffic flows would likely be affected.

He said a fall flood event allows easier access to the river, than in the spring, when the frozen ground creates sloppy, muddy conditions.

He said as of Monday the combined releases from Jamestown and Pipestem Dams were at 1800 cfs. Jamestown Dam is releasing 1000 cubic feet per second (cfs) and Pipestem Dam is releasing 800 cfs

At the Meeting, The City Council unanimously passed a Resolution to ratify the Mayor’s Emergency Declaration and extend the declaration and agree to be the designated project sponsor for the duration of the (possible) flood event.

Heinrich said a Public meeting will be held this week, with various agencies with additional planning and mitigation information.

CSiNewsNow.Com was informed that expected at that meeting Wednesday October 16, at 5:30-p.m., in the City Hall, lower level meeting room, is representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from Omaha, The National Weather Service, and the city’s engineering firm, Interstate Engineering, along with Stutsman County Emergency Management.   More official information on the notification of the meeting is forthcoming.

Monday’s Council meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 67, followed by replays.

 

Valley City  (CSi)  Minimal flooding may occur in Valley City, as storm sewer drains were closed Sunday to draw down Lake Ashtabula.  Scott Tichy, Park Ranger at Lake Ashtabula says, the action may cause some minimal flooding in Valley City, includin City Park, and Chatauqua Park.

Authorities are to start making storage space from the water in the upper basin, stemming from recent significant rainfall and snow melt from last weekends, wet snow.

Tichy says  the river height should be  less than 13 feet in Valley City, adding most of the levies in Valley City are built to 20-21 feet.

On Monday morning the release at Bald Hill Dam was Stepped up from 2400 cfs to 2800 cfs, with possible peak inflows of close to 5000 cfs.

It hope the peak discharge rate can be held to 3000 to 3100 cfs.

The lake level will likely go up to almost four feet above the normal pool level.

Tichy adds, that anyone with boat docks still on the lake should take them off, now.

Jamestown (JRMC)  — The group consists of mostly men, however, women’s health is one of their top priorities.  Each year, the 32 members of the Jamestown Rural Fire Department work together to show support for women’s health causes. One of the most public is leading the walkers at the annual Running of the Pink event in June.

This year, the department is taking women’s health another step forward by selling t-shirts to benefit cancer care at Jamestown Regional Medical Center. The department announced their fundraiser at JRMC Thursday.

JRFD Captain, Paul Bensch says, “This is important to us because fire departments around the country support women’s health efforts each year.  It’s important to me, personally, because my wife, Janis, has battled cancer since 2008.”

In any given year, 30 percent of women over 40 in Stutsman County are not up to date on their mammograms. That’s more than 1,300 women in Stutsman County alone.

JRMC President, and CEO, Mike Delfs says, “We are so grateful to the fire department. The generosity of this community is unreal.”

T-shirts are $20 available at the R.M. Stoudt’s or Jamestown Rural Fire Department in sizes medium through 4XL. To purchase, call (701) 269-0970, (701) 403-7451 or stop by R.M. Stoudt’s.

For more information on women’s health, call JRMC at (701) 952-5348 or visit jrmcnd.com/women/. To learn more about the JRMC Cancer Center, call (701) 952-3954 or visit jrmcnd.com/cancer.

About Jamestown Regional Medical Center

Jamestown Regional Medical Center is located at 2422 20^th St. SW, Jamestown, ND and serves approximately 55,000 people in nine counties. For more information on services at JRMC, visit www.jrmcnd.com or call 701-952-1050.

About the JRMC Cancer Center

Jamestown Regional Medical Center, in partnership with Sanford Health, opened the JRMC Cancer Center in 2019. The JRMC Cancer Center serves 100 people from Sanford and other healthcare organizations in the Jamestown area each month, saving more than 160,000 miles of travel each year.

 

Jamestown   (Kiwanis)  After exceeding its fundraising goal, one service club is asking the community for volunteers.

Tim Perkins, Kiwanis Against Hunger co-chair, says, the Jamestown Kiwanis club surpassed its fundraising goal and raised more than $17,000 for its annual meal-packing event. Kiwanis Against Hunger is set for 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 26. With the help of 250 volunteers, the club will package 64,000 meals for hungry families in North Dakota and Moorhead, Minn. Each meal costs 25 cents and includes rice, soy, dried vegetables and flavoring.  He adds, “Because we exceeded our goal, we’re going to pack 64,000 meals instead of 60,000.  We always hear from food pantries about how popular these meals are and how quickly they leave the shelves. We’re glad Kiwanis can provide an extra 4,000 meals.”

Any additional dollars raised will help the 2020 Kiwanis Against Hunger meal-packing event, he said. In eight years, the 45 or so members of Jamestown Kiwanis have raised $276,000 and packed 1.2 million meals.

Angela Martini, Kiwanis Against Hunger co-chair, saysm “About one-third of North Dakota students rely on free and reduced lunches at school.  Kids need Kiwanis more than ever to help with these efforts.”

To pack the meals, Kiwanis is counting on 250 volunteers. Volunteers between ages 8 and 108 are welcome to scoop, pour, weigh and assemble meals at Stutsman Harley-Davidson on Oct. 26.

Martini says, “Whether its youth groups, service clubs or sports teams, we welcome volunteers of all walks of life.”

Kiwanis is a service club dedicated to improving the world, one child and one community at a time. New members are always welcome.

To volunteer:

• sign up at facebook.com/JamestownKiwanis
• email JamestownKiwanis@gmail.com
• call (701) 320-5151

To donate:

• visit gofundme.com/kids-against-hunger-2019
• mail checks to

Jamestown Kiwanis

PO Box 1426
Jamestown, ND 58402

• drop off donations at First Community Credit Union

 

For information about Kiwanis Against Hunger or the Kiwanis Club of Jamestown, visit www.facebook.com/JamestownKiwanis, or email JamestownKiwanis@gmail.com.

Valley City  (CSi)  October 20th from 3-6:30 p.m. at the Barnes County Historical Society Museum in Valley City. This Home Movie Day: A Celebration of Regional Filmmaking event invites the general public to bring their Super 8, 8mm films and VHS tapes along with a hard drive for up to 20 minutes of complimentary digitizing per person and to share stories captured in their home movies.

Screenings with presenters to begin at 3 p.m. with live digitizing to follow. RSVPs are encouraged as well as early drop off of material for digitization. Email or call Shane Molander ( 701-328-3570 | smolander@nd.gov ) to reserve your digitization spot today. For general admission reserve your ticket at Eventbrite.

WAHPETON, N.D. (AP) — Police in Wahpeton are investigating after a man was attacked with a bayonet.

Police Chief Scott Thorsteinson says 31-year-old Byron Vann of Henryetta, Oklahoma, has been charged with attempted murder.

KFGO-AM reports that Vann was arrested Friday night after he returned to the scene while officers were still there.

Thorsteinson says the victim, a 30-year-old Fargo man, underwent surgery at St. Francis Medical Center in Breckenridge to repair “two significant neck wounds.” He was released from the hospital the following day.

Vann was in the Richland County jail. A court official said no attorney had yet been appointed for him Monday.

 

In sports…

The Valley City Hi-Liner Cross Country meet in Moorhead on Thurs has been postponed until Tues Oct 15.   2pm Varsity Girls, 2:30pm Varsity Boys. 3pm Middle School Girls, 3:30 pm Middle School Boys

BEIRUT (AP) — U.N. officials say the latest fighting in northeast Syria is compounding an already dire humanitarian situation.

According to U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric, at least 160,000 civilians have been displaced since the Turkish offensive began on Oct. 9. That’s mostly from violence around the towns of Tal Abyad and Ras al-Ain.

Dujarric told reporters Monday that the U.N. World Food Program has so far provided immediate food assistance to more than 70,000 people fleeing towns as the fighting continues.

He said “most of the displaced are staying with relatives or host communities, but increasing numbers are arriving at collective shelters in the area.”

Northeast Syria was already facing a humanitarian crisis before the Turkish offensive, with 1.8 million of the 3 million women, children and men in the region in need of assistance, “including over 910,000 in acute need,” Dujarric said.

He said there are also “heightened concerns” for vulnerable people in camps for the displaced, including al-Hol. That camp holds some 68,000 people who fled the last battlefields of the Islamic State group — 94% of them women and children.

 

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Fort Worth’s interim police chief says he expects a “substantial update” by Tuesday on whether a former police officer will be criminally charged in the shooting death of a black woman inside her home.

Interim Chief Ed Kraus said Monday that Officer Aaron Dean would have been fired had he not resigned following Saturday’s shooting death of 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson.

Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price called for “justice and closure” for Jefferson’s family.

Officers had responded to Jefferson’s home on a neighbor’s report of an open door. An attorney for Jefferson’s family says she was playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew when a shot was fired into her window, killing her.

Kraus said Monday that there’s no sign that officers knocked on the front door and that the shot was fired from within the fenced-off backyard.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. ambassador is expected to tell Congress that his text message reassuring another envoy that there was no quid pro quo in their interactions with Ukraine was based solely on what President Donald Trump told him. That’s according to a person familiar with his coming testimony in the impeachment probe.

Gordon Sondland, Trump’s hand-picked ambassador to the European Union, is among administration officials being subpoenaed to appear on Capitol Hill this week against the wishes of the White House. It’s the latest test between the legislative and executive branches of government, as the impeachment inquiry by House Democrats deepens.

On Monday, the House panels leading the investigation expect to hear from Fiona Hill, a former top Russia expert at the National Security Council.

 

LONDON (AP) — Both Ireland and Spain are starting to say the Brexit negotiations could well spill beyond this week and go right down to the wire at the end of the month.

Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said late Monday it was “too early to say if it is possible to get a breakthrough this week or whether it will move into next week.”

At the EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg, Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said “You know in Europe, we always take decisions on the edge of the precipice, on the edge of the cliff.”

Borrell added that “even when the last minute comes, then we stop the watch and say that we need technically more time to fulfill all the requirements, all the last minute requirements.”

Originally, this week was seen as the do-or-die week, with a two-day EU summit starting Thursday and a special U.K. House of Commons debate slated for Saturday.

 

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nobel Economics Prize winners Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo say they’re just like any other married couple trying to juggle kids and work.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have two children ages 5 and 7.

Duflo told a news conference Monday at MIT in Cambridge that her kids “believe they are the center of the universe, and they don’t accept kitchen table conversation” about weighty matters like economics.

Duflo says that means she and Banerjee need to sneak in shop talk while they’re cooking meals or walking to work.