Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Jun 16

CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s. Northwest winds 5 to 15 mph.

.THURSDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph shifting to the west 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.

.THURSDAY NIGHT…Clear. Lows in the upper 50s. Northwest winds

10 to 15 mph.

.FRIDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Northwest winds

15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Clear. Lows in the upper 40s.

.SATURDAY…Sunny. Highs around 80.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain

showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 50s.

.SUNDAY…Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of rain showers

and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 70s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain

showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the upper 40s.

.MONDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs around 70.

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

.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s.

Fire Rating

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — State officials say the number of wildfires this year in North Dakota has increased significantly. They’re citing the state’s extremely dry conditions. Data collected by the North Dakota Forest Service and the state Department of Emergency Services shows nearly 1,400 fires have consumed about 156 square miles since the beginning of the year. Last year, about 921 fires burned approximately 18 square miles. North Dakota has experienced some of the driest winter and spring months this year. The U.S. Drought Monitor shows more than two-thirds of the state is in extreme and exceptional drought.

Jamestown  (CSi)   A Wednesday luncheon at the University of Jamestown’s Harold Newman Arena, organized by the Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corporation (JSDC) gave the community and state and local officials the opportunity to welcome Archer Daniels Midland to the area, and the planned $350 million Soybean Crushing location at the  Spiritwood Energy Park.

Representing ADM was its President of North American Oils & Biodiesel, who stated the project is ready to get started, later this year,  with facility’s completion  before the 2023 harvest season.

Representing Governor Doug Burgum’s Office was Lt. Governor, Brent Sanford, who was joined by North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner, Doug Goehring, lauding the plant’s economic impact on North Dakota, in cooperation with the Bank of North Dakota.

Also speaking was North Dakota Soybean Growers Association, Executive Director, Nancy Johnson.

 

NDDoH

COVID-19 Stats  10:30 a.m.

Tues. Jun. 16,  2021

Barnes

New Positives  0

Total Positives 1423

Active: 3

Recovered: 1389

 

Stutsman

New Positives 0

Total Positives 3543

Active 2

Recovered   3460

 

Jamestown (CVHD)  Upcoming COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics Schedule

Thursday, June 17, 2021

Vaccine Type: MODERNA -or- JOHNSHON & JOHNSON

Event Time: 9:00am – 12:00pm

Event Location: Central Valley Health District

 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER 

 

Jamestown (CVHD) Central Valley Health District’s COVID-19 testing clinics are on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11-a.m. to noon.

The clinics will be held at the Jamestown Civic Center.

Pre registration is required.

 

 

 

Valley City  (CSi)  The play, “Persistence” which focuses on the role of Suffragist Elizabeth Preston Anderson who was a Tower City-Valley City native (with relatives still in the area) and a key figure in the fight in North Dakota to allow women to vote, will be presented on Thursday, June 17 at 8 pm in the Hi-Liner Activity Center. Everyone is welcome to attend this free event.

 

 

Jamestown  (Chamber)Members of the Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors held a ground breaking ceremony for the Eagles Club Train Parkette at the Frontier Village. The parkette will focus on the history of trains and include four pedal train cars, a track with a tunnel, ticket station, and model elevator. The project was made possible through a $20,000 donation from the Jamestown Eagles Club. You can learn more about the Eagles Club Train Parkette by calling Jamestown Tourism at 701-251-9145.

Businesses qualify for a ground breaking ceremony if they are starting construction on a new development or project. For more information, contact Emily Bivens by emailing: director@jamestownchamber.com or call the chamber at 701-252-4830.

 

 

LaMoure  (CSi)  The Toy Farmer show this year is,  “The 35th/36th Annual North Dakota Farm Toy Show.” at the LaMoure School  set up in both gyms.

Show hours on Saturday Jun 19 are 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The pedal pull will begin at 1:00 p.m. sponsored this year by Green Iron Equipment, Titan Machinery and Toy Farmer,  from LaMoure. The LaMoure Lion’s chicken barbecue is  in Sunset Park will again be part of the weekend’s activities an.   The annual toy auction by Tom Cornwell Auctions will begins at 6-p.m. at the American Legion Hall. Toy Farmer will again be donating the proceeds from some special tractors sold at this auction to local youth related organizations.

Sunday Jun 20 the show is from 10-a.m. to 2- p.m. The weekend events end an old time tractor pull.

For more information call: Mike Larson, (701) 361-9520. For any other show related questions call Toy Farmer, (701) 883-5206.

 

In world and national news…

(AP)  Geneva can breathe a sigh of relief after hosting a U.S.-Russia summit. President Joe Biden is aboard Air Force One and is on his way back to Washington after Wednesday’s meeting at an 18th century lakeside villa. Russian President Vladimir Putin had already departed for Moscow aboard his plane by the time Air Force One took off. Both leaders flew out of Switzerland after holding solo news conferences after meeting for more than three hours. Security was tight and access extremely limited to areas around the summit site.

Earlier…

GENEVA (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have concluded their summit with an agreement to return their nations’ ambassadors to their posts and a plan to begin negotiations to replace the countries’ last remaining treaty limiting nuclear weapons. But the two leaders offered starkly different views Wednesday over rising concerns about cybersecurity and ransomware attacks originating from Russia. Both leaders, who have stirred escalating tension since Biden took office in January, suggested that while an enormous chasm between the two nations remains that the talks were constructive.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A commission that reviews emergency spending requests says it won’t approve millions of federal dollars sought by North Dakota agencies due to a state law that limits the panel’s spending to $50 million each two-year legislative cycle. The Emergency Commission, headed by Gov. Doug Burgum, did not act on some requests, including for human services programs, that would have exceeded the new threshold. Instead, the full Legislature will take up the requests later this year. The state’s top budget writer says none of the delayed requests would result in loss of funds.

In world and national…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve signaled Wednesday that it may act sooner than previously planned to start dialing back the low-interest rate policies that have helped fuel a swift rebound from the pandemic recession but have also coincided with rising inflation. The Fed’s policymakers forecast that they would raise their benchmark short-term rate, which influences many consumer and business loans, twice by late 2023. They had previously estimated that no rate hike would occur before 2024. In a statement after its latest policy meeting, the Fed also said it expects the pandemic to have a diminishing effect on the economy as vaccinations increase, thereby allowing for more growth.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is providing assurances to Congress the recent jump in inflation is being watched very closely by the Biden administration, but said again that such increases appear temporary. Testifying on Biden’s $6 trillion budget proposal before the Senate Finance Committee, Yellen was asked Wednesday by Republican lawmakers about recent sharp gains in inflation, including a 5% rise in consumer prices for the 12 months ending in May. That was the biggest jump since 2008. Yellen said the administration is taking the recent inflation “very seriously” but still believes the price gains reflect temporary factors related to re-opening the economy after the prolonged shutdowns due to the pandemic.

 

NEW YORK (AP) — Two studies released Wednesday found that the nation’s housing availability and affordability crisis is expected to worsen significantly following the pandemic, likely widening the housing gap between Black, Latino and white households, as well as putting homeownership out of the reach of lower class Americans. Both reports, one by Harvard University and another by the National Association of Realtors, call for government action through traditional measures like down payment assistance and a massive increase in homebuilding to address the issue.

 

PHOENIX (AP) — A new report finds that Latinas have left the U.S. workforce at rates higher than any other demographic and also have had some of the highest unemployment rates throughout the pandemic. That could spell trouble not just for a post-pandemic economic recovery but for the long-term stability of the country as baby boomers continue to retire. Before the pandemic, Latinas were projected to join the U.S. workforce in higher numbers than anybody else between 2019 and 2029. Now, their economic gains and upward mobility are in jeopardy. The report is being released Wednesday by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative, a Latino-focused think tank. It was provided first to The Associated Press.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Marshals Service lacks the capability of adequately detecting threats against federal judges across the nation and uses outdated security equipment to protect judges’ homes. That’s according to a report released Wednesday by the Justice Department’s inspector general. It comes nearly a year after a gunman killed the 20-year-old son of a federal judge and shot and injured her husband at their New Jersey home after posing as a delivery driver. The report highlights serious security gaps in the Marshals Service’s efforts to ensure the safety of more than 2,700 sitting judges as the number of threats against judges continues to rise.

 

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man accused of shooting at a police substation has now been charged in connection with the shooting deaths of his mother and grandmother. Police believe the slayings occurred prior to Monday’s attack on the Winston-Salem substation in which suspect William Coleman Scott was shot and captured after a chase. Winston-Salem Police Chief Catrina Thompson said Wednesday that the 26-year-old is charged with murder in the death of his grandmother, Glenda Snow Corriher. He has also been charged with murder in the death of his mother, Kimberly Kyle Scott. William Scott is being held without bond, and he hasn’t yet retained an attorney who could comment.