– Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Apr. 26

CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain in the Jamestown area, 20 percent in the Valley city area. Lows in the upper 30s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

.TUESDAY…Mostly cloudy. Highs around 60. Northeast winds 5 to 15 mph.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing. Lows

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

after midnight.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest

winds 5 to 10 mph.

.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy in the evening then clearing.

Lows in the mid 30s.

.THURSDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.

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

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

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s.

.SATURDAY…Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows in the mid 40s.

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

afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s.

NDDoH

COVID-19 Stats

Mon Apr. 26, 2021

11:00 am

Barnes

New Positives 0

Total Positives: 1394

Active: 25

Recovered 1338

Stutsman:

New Positives: 1

Total Positives: 3459

Active: 33

Recovered: 3344

COVID-19 Test Results
The results listed are from the previous day. Additional data can be found on the NDDoH website.

Please note that from now on the daily news release will be sent Monday – Friday. The NDDoH dashboard will continue to be updated daily.

BY THE NUMBERS
274,520	Residents who received at least one dose of vaccine
531,198	Total COVID-19 vaccine doses administered
1,566	Total Tests from yesterday*
1,905,809	Total tests completed since the pandemic began
104	Positive Individuals from yesterday*****
61	PCR Tests
43	Antigen Tests
106,809	Total positive individuals since the pandemic began
8.01%	Daily Positivity Rate**
1,031	Total Active Cases
+40	Change in active cases from yesterday
64	Individuals with a recovery date of yesterday****
104,292	Total recovered since the pandemic began
45	Currently hospitalized
+5	Change in hospitalizations from yesterday
0	New death(s) since 4/23
1,486	Total deaths since the pandemic began
INDIVIDUALS WHO DIED WITH COVID-19
No new deaths to report
NEW POSITIVE CASES REPORTED TODAY BY COUNTY

Adams		0	Grant	1	Ransom	0
Barnes		0	Griggs	1	Renville	0
Benson		0	Hettinger	0	Richland	1
Billings		0	Kidder	0	Rolette	0
Bottineau		0	LaMoure	2	Sargent	0
Bowman		0	Logan	1	Sheridan	0
Burke		0	McHenry	1	Sioux	1
Burleigh		16	McIntosh	0	Slope	0
Cass		30	McKenzie	4	Stark	9
Cavalier		0	McLean	0	Steele	0
Dickey		0	Mercer	0	Stutsman	1
Divide		0	Morton	4	Towner	0
Dunn		1	Mountrail	0	Traill	0
Eddy		0	Nelson	0	Walsh	0
Emmons		1	Oliver	0	Ward	12
Foster		0	Pembina	0	Wells	0
Golden Valley		0	Pierce	0	Williams	2
Grand Forks		16	Ramsey	0

* Note that this includes PCR and antigen; it does not include individuals from out of state.

**Individuals (PCR or antigen) who tested positive divided by the total number of people tested who have not previously tested positive (susceptible encounters).

*** Number of individuals who tested positive with a PCR or antigen test and died from any cause while infected with COVID-19. Please remember that deaths are reported as they’re reported to us by the facility or through the official death record (up to 10-day delay).

**** The actual date individuals are officially out of isolation and no longer contagious.

*****Daily positive numbers include people who tested with a PCR or antigen test. Totals may be adjusted as individuals are found to live out of state, in another county, or as other information is found during investigation.

For descriptions of these categories, visit the NDDoH dashboard.

For the most updated and timely information and updates related to COVID-19, visit the NDDoH website at www.health.nd.gov/coronavirus, follow on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and visit the CDC website at www.cdc.gov/coronavirus.

Valley City (Chamber 4-26-21) Valley City Mayor Dave Carlsrud’s latest message to Valley City residents.

Hi Everybody”, (Herb Carneal, Minnesota Twins)

Last week was a time of continuing education for many of us. Workshops were held by Missouri River Energy Services, (MRES), in Sioux Falls and the North Dakota League of Cities, (NDLC) in Bismarck. Brenda Klein and Avis Richter were recognized for their achievements in the NDLC Leadership Training Program, congratulations.

“SMOKERS”. Will you please consider carrying a receptacle to contain cigarette butts and wrappers? They do not decompose well and many end up in people’s yards. You can make a difference, thank you.

“Everybody”. Other refuse is strewn throughout the city and county too. Please carry a container as per the aforementioned. If you see something on the ground, please pick it up. You can make a difference, thank you.

The Legislative Session will likely conclude this week. Our legislators had to sort through hundreds of bills and make many tough decisions while representing citizens of North Dakota. Thank you all for serving.

Last week, some COVID “front line workers” were mentioned. An omission on my part is the National Guard. They helped facilitate mass testing, vaccinations and whatever else was needed. Please say “Thank you”.

Last Thursday Mary O’Neill from the North Dakota Forest Service provided a pruning seminar on the VCSU Campus. “If young trees are pruned to promote good structure, they will likely remain serviceable in the landscape more years than trees that have not been structurally pruned”. https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/ndfs/programs-and-services/community-forestry

Take pride in how your property looks.

* Please consider having a COVID vaccination, the vaccine seems to be working well.

“Now and then it is good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” (Guillaume Apollinaire)

Blessings, Be Kind, Be Respectful and Pray

Dave

Dave Carlsrud

Valley City (CSi) The Valley City-Barnes County CROP WALK for HUNGER is Wednesday, May 5 with registration anytime between 6:30 and 7 pm.

Co-chairperson Emmy Swedlund says, “The CROP WALK will be a little different this year. “Jefferson Mile”, the mile route around Jefferson Elementary School and the Hi-Liner Athletic Fields area, and there will be 4 education stations, one station at each of the corners.

Walkers can register at any of the 4 corners of the Jefferson mile between 6:30 pm and 7 pm After registering, walk clockwise around the mile path, and do it one, two, three or even times before the event closes at 8 pm.

Co-chairperson Sharon Buhr adds, “We walk because they (those in Asia and Africa) walk. We walk to raise funds to help them, but they walk because they have to walk to get water, or buy items, or go to school.”

Walkers are encouraged to donate money to help hungry people all around the world, including the people in the U.S. who are in need. Walkers can drop their donations off at any of the 4 education stations along the walk, or leave the donation at your church anytime now through mid May. The 4 education booths include Safe Water (Our Saviors Lutheran…giving out clean water), Hunger (Epworth Methodist…giving out bananas), Health and Disease (Faith Lutheran), and Planting Gardens and Raising Animals (Connect Church…giving out packets of seeds).

The target to raise is $5000. Twenty percent ($1000), if that much is raised, will be given to our Barnes County Food Pantry, who is definitely in need of food. Over the past 15 months almost 2000 individuals have been served by the Food Pantry.

The remainder of the funds go to various places across the globe. They are used directly for food for people in need (e.g. refugee camps), but the funds can also go for seeds and purchasing gardening tools so people can grow their own food, for technical training and micro-enterprise loans so people can start their own businesses, and to dig wells because many people have to walk to a river to get their water every day.

Buhr gives an example of how far people in some parts of Kenya have to walk to get their daily water. Imagine a track (like our own Hanna Field Track), with one lap being 400 meters. Now imagine having to walk around that track 50 times every day in order to get clean water for your family!

Everyone is invited to join the CROP WALK for HUNGER…for the exercise, for donating funds to help hungry people, and empathize with others overseas who have to walk such a distance just to get their water.

The walk starts with registration from 6:30 pm to 7 pm on Wednesday, May 5, at either of the 4 stations of the “Jefferson Mile”. “Come walk, learn, donate,” emphasizes Swedlund. And if you cannot come to the walk drop your donation off to your church for the CROP WALK for HUNGER. If you have any questions, please contact Sharon Buhr at 840-0973.

Bismarck (CSi) North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has signed a proclamation designating North Dakota as a “Second Amendment Sanctuary State,” reinforcing the state’s support for the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

Burgum signed the proclamation Monday during a ceremonial signing with legislators for several bills approved this session to protect the rights of North Dakotans to possess and carry firearms.

Burgum says, “Both the U.S. Constitution and North Dakota Constitution recognize our citizens’ inalienable right to keep and bear arms, and designating North Dakota as a Second Amendment Sanctuary State sends a strong message to Congress and the White House that we will firmly resist any attempts to infringe on those rights. We are deeply grateful to all of the legislators who sponsored and supported these bills and worked to strengthen North Dakota’s commitment to the Second Amendment.”

Among the bills approved by the Legislature and signed by Burgum this session:

HB 1498 removes a victim’s requirement to try and escape before defending themselves against an attacker, making North Dakota a “Stand Your Ground” state.
SB 2344 protects North Dakotans’ access to firearm and ammunition businesses.
HB 1293 expands constitutional carry in North Dakota and expands hunting rights for North Dakotans.
HB 1383 prohibits state agencies from enforcing federal gun laws that infringe on the Second Amendment.
HB 1450 allows more North Dakotans to qualify for a Class 1 Concealed Carry license.
HB 1463 gives local fire and EMS entities the ability to have an armed responder for defensive purposes only.
HB 1248 clarifies the role of cities and political subdivisions in making local firearms policy.
HB 1297 clarifies where firearms are and aren’t allowed.
HB 1339 creates a study to evaluate the North Dakota Century Code’s definitions of “public gathering” and “dangerous weapon” to ensure North Dakota’s law is up to date.
HB 1396 protects firearm and ammunition manufacturers from lawsuits for damages caused by a third party.

The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Article I of The North Dakota Constitution expands on the Second Amendment, declaring that individuals have the inalienable right “to keep and bear arms for the defense of their person, family, property, and the state, and for lawful hunting, recreational, and other lawful purposes, which shall not be infringed.”

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Highway Patrol says a passenger on a motorcycle was killed when the bike slammed into a railroad crossing gate in Minot. The patrol says the accident happened shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday. The motorcycle approached the crossing where the lighted crossing arms were down. Authorities say both the driver, a 42-year-old man, and the passenger, a 42-year-old woman, struck their heads on the crossing arm causing them to be thrown from the motorcycle. The woman was killed and the man was treated and released from the hospital. The patrol says the two were not wearing helmets.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A semi driver serving a prison term for causing a crash in the North Dakota oil patch that killed two people has lost his appeal to the state Supreme Court. Sixty-five-year-old Douglas Landis, of Dagmar, Montana, is serving 1 1/2 years following his conviction last August on two counts of negligent homicide. His semi veered over the center line on a snow-covered Highway 23 bypass in New Town and collided head-on with a pickup truck in October 2018. Authorities said Landis had been working for 24 of the previous 28 hours before the crash that killed David Wilcox and Taylor Denny, both of Arizona.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Republican-led North Dakota Legislature has passed legislation aimed at preventing North Dakota State University from funneling federal grant money to Planned Parenthood for sex education in the state. The bill easily passed the Republican-led chamber, 35-11 on Monday. The GOP-led House passed the measure 66-25 earlier this month. It is unclear of GOP Doug Burgum will sign the bill. The bill says any institution that enters into a contract with an abortion provider would have its operating budget cut by 2.5%. A school official signing the contract also would face a misdemeanor charge and a fine.

MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) — Police are investigating hate messages that were found spray-painted on the outside of a mosque in the Fargo, North Dakota and Moorhead, Minnesota metropolitan area. Officers were dispatched to the Moorhead Fargo Islamic Community Center, which is located in Moorhead, about 5:20 a.m. Sunday. Police said the grafiti was found in several areas. Video surveillance from the building captured images of a suspect wearing a camouflage jacket and dark ski mask. The investigation by Moorhead police and Fargo office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is ongoing. Moorhead Mayor Shelly Carlson said in a statement that hate “will not have a home” in her city.

In sports…

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown High School Girl’s Soccer team will host, “Salute to Armed Forces Night,” on Tuesday April 27 at the Jamestown Rotary Soccer Field as the Blue Jays take on Bismarck Legacy.

The JV match begins at 5:30 pm the varsity is scheduled for 7:30 pm. All veterans and active military will get into the game free.

Jamestown (UJ) The 35^th Annual University of Jamestown, Jimmie Golf Scramble is planned for Saturday June 19, at Jamestown Country Club.

The Jimmie Scramble raises funds to benefit University of Jamestown Athletics and the 500 plus student athletes. It includes scholarships and Athletic Department overall athletic programs.

The 18 hole golf scramble includes cart rental, range balls,, UJ apparel, lunch and dinner.

The format is a four person scramble, with net and gross divisions.

The Event Times Are:

Registration 7:30-a.m.

Morning Shotgun start 8:30-a.m.

Afternoon Shotgun state 1:30-p.m.

Dinner 6-p.m.

Awards and Prizes 6:30-p.m.

Or, E-mail JKlemann@uj.edu

In World and National News…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is opening a sweeping probe into policing in Louisville, Kentucky over the March 2020 death of Breonna Taylor, who was shot to death by police during a raid at her home. The 26-year-old Taylor, emergency medical technician had been studying to become a nurse, was roused from sleep by police who came through the door using a battering ram. Her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired once. A no-knock warrant was approved as part of a narcotics investigation. No drugs were found at her home. Monday’s announcement was made by Attorney General Merrick Garland.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says the U.S. will begin sharing its entire stock of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines with the world once it clears federal safety reviews. As many as 60 million doses are expected to be available for export in the coming months. The move greatly expands on the Biden administration’s action last month to share about 4 million doses of the vaccine with Mexico and Canada. The AstraZeneca drug is widely in use around the world but has not yet been authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The White House is increasingly assured about the supply of the three vaccines being administered in the U.S.

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has denied a press report which quoted him as allegedly saying he would rather see “bodies pile high in their thousands” than impose a third national lockdown on the country. The Daily Mail claimed that Johnson made the comment in the fall of 2020, when his government imposed a second lockdown to combat a surge in coronavirus cases. A third lockdown was ordered in January as infections shot up again, driven by a new, more contagious variant of the virus. The Daily Mail didn’t cite a source for the allegation. Johnson said Monday that the allegation was “total, total rubbish.”

CHAUVIN, La. (AP) — Volunteers searching for seven men still missing after the oil industry boat they worked on capsized off Louisiana’s coast say they’ve found life jackets and other debris. An air and water search continued Monday by a nonprofit group, the United Cajun Navy. On its Facebook page, the group said the search would be concentrated along Louisiana barrier islands. The locations were based on where debris from the Seacor Power was found. The lift boat capsized April 13 in stormy weather with 19 aboard. Six were rescued. Six bodies have been recovered and seven are missing and presumed dead.

SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Apple is following through on its pledge to crack down on Facebook and other snoopy apps that secretly shadow people on their iPhones in order to target more advertising at users. The new privacy feature is rolling out Monday as part of a free update to the operating system powering the iPhone and iPad. The anti-tracking shield is coming out after a seven-month delay during which Apple and Facebook attacked each other’s business models and motives for decisions that affect billions of people around the world. Now, the big questions will revolve around the financial fallout on Facebook and whether other companies will become more aggressive about protecting people’s privacy.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is making the case before United Nations members that now is the time for global leaders to begin working on how they will respond to the next global pandemic. The virtual address Monday was Harris’ second to a U.N. body since her inauguration. It comes as the United States makes progress on vaccinating the public and much of the world struggles to acquire vaccines. Harris told the U.N. members, “At the same time that the world works to get through this pandemic, we also know that we must prepare for the next.”