Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Jul 15

CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds 5 to 15 mph.

.FRIDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to 15 mph.

.SATURDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 10 to

15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.

.SUNDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.

.MONDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 90s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 60s.

.TUESDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows in the upper 60s.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 90s.

 

Update:

Jamestown  (CSi)  Authorities reported Thursday evening that Thomas Alan Schmitz was located, along with his Vehicle.

Earlier

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s assistance in locating a missing 58 year old male.

Thomas Alan Schmitz is possibly driving a black 2007 Chevrolet Silverado, N.D. with plates 343DAH.

Schmitz is 6’1” 250 lbs, Brown hair, blue eyes.

Please contact the Stutsman County Dispatch Center with any information 701-252-1000.

 

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown City Fire Department  was called to a  two family dwelling, house fire Thursday July 15, about 7:48- am, at 423 6th Avenue Northwest.

Traffic was diverted from the area by Jamestown Police.

City Fire Lt. Sheldon Mohr says, seven individuals were evacuated from the house, six on the main floor, one individual in the basement.

One person was transported to JRMC by Jamestown Area Ambulance Service for treatment of smoke inhalation.

He says, after an investigation the cause of the fire is listed a “Juvenile Fire Play.”

Extensive smoke damage was reported, along with the fire damage

No other injuries reported and no other structures were involved.

The Red Cross was on the scene to assist the family with living arrangements.

5 City Fire Department units, and 23 firefighters were on the scene about one hour.

 

 

The North Dakota Department of Health dashboard is updated daily by 11 am and includes cases reported through the previous day. The investigations are ongoing and information on the website is likely to change as cases are investigated. The information contained in this dashboard is the most up to date and will be different than previous news releases. This dashboard supersedes information from previous news releases or social media postings.

Check out our other dashboards: The COVID-19 Vaccine Dashboard, NDUS Dashboard.

 

Previously

NDDoH

COVID-19 Stats

10:15 -a.m.

Thurs. Jul. 15  2021

 

Barnes

New Positives  0

Total Positives  1427

Active: 3

Recovered:  1393

 

Stutsman

New Positives 3

Total Positives 3554

Active 5

Recovered 3467

 

(CCHD)  City/County Health reports, that testing continues to be important. If you have any symptoms, it is important to be tested. If you have symptoms and need to be tested at other times contact your clinic.

Administrator Theresa Will says testing has moved inside City County Health, at the CCHD location.  415 2nd Ave NE, from 12:30-p.m., to 1:30-p.m, with  the Quick test will be administered by staff members inside their offices in Valley City, on Mondays and Fridays.

Vaccination available for those 12 years of age and older.

Call 845-8518 to make an appointment.

Pre-register for all clinics.

Vaccines available include, Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  Walmart has been a partner with the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals for numerous years.

Now for the next two weeks, they’ll be doing several pushes to raise awareness and funds for the network. Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals is a non-profit organization that raises funds for more than 170 children’s hospitals.

Sarah Bentley says every year they raise money and have set a goal of $12,000 for the local store.

She says, “Right now, we’re about $5,000 short of our goal.  We still have time, but we need the community’s help.”

To raise money, Bentley says they’re holding what she’s calling a “Miracle Monday” on July 19th. The day will feature local businesses including Cornerstone Nutrition, Candyman Candy, and Sweet Dreams Mini Donuts as they come together to help raise money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.

Bentley says each year, a child who has needed a Children’s Hospital through the network is highlighted. Young McKenzie Jost of Carrington received treatments and care for cystic fibrosis.

Bently adds, “She will be attending our event Monday at 3 PM.  We are pretty competitive and would love to out raise the rest of the state, as we always believe the community of Jamestown is the best.”

If you have questions, you can contact Sarah Bentley at 701-658-0437.

 

Jamestown  (Arts Center)  As part of Jamestown’s Buffalo Days Celebration, the Jamestown Arts Center, announces that, the Mini Art Hunt begins: Saturday, July 24 and ends when all 12 art works are found!  You can find clues at during the Buffalo Days on The Arts Center’s Facebook page.

On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show of CSi Cable 2, Arts Center Direcotor Mindi Schmitz said, 12 unique mini-artworks, hand carved wooden gnomes  by artist Cindi Psychos, will be roaming throughout the Jamestown parks and Historic Sites.

Mindi Schmitz also explained how the Mini Art Hunt works.

CLUES: Three Sets of Visual Clues (photos) to each artwork’s hiding place will be made public on Saturday, July 24th at 10:00 am, 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm. The first clues will be the most challenging with the final clues being the most revealing.

HUNTING: All artwork will be hidden in PLAIN SIGHT—You will not have to move, dig, or otherwise damage anything. Visual clues to the artwork hiding places will be posted on our Facebook page and available at The Arts Center’s booth in McElroy park during White Cloud Days.
FOUND: Finders keepers! This original piece of miniature artwork is yours to keep.

Be sure to REPORT YOUR FIND. No one wants to be hunting for a piece that has already been found. Post a photo of yourself and your found treasure to our Facebook or Instagram page. Or contact the Arts Center office (701-251-2496 / info@jamestownarts.com) to report your find.

LIMIT: Please only one artwork per family (you are welcome to locate them all, but claim only one). So, get out to the parks and good luck on the hunt!

Mindi also said, now on exhibit at the Arts Center, through August 12 is the Put a Mask On It, exhibition.

Over the past year, people worldwide shared in the pandemic experience. It changed our lives in such a way that the years 2020 and 2021 will live on in our collective psyche. Everything changed and humanity reacted in extraordinary ways.

This exhibition was inspired by what we were seeing artists create in reaction to the accoutrements of Covid19––particularly the surgical-style face mask. We’ve all had a love-hate relationship with the mask, whatever your view, “the mask” has touched our lives.

Many artists have created works that include mask imagery. The exhibition includes ceramics, photographs, mixed media, assemblages, drawings and paintings. Currently twelve artists are included in this group show.

 

Special Project: If you have cloth masks that you would now like to get rid of, please recycle them by dropping them off at The Arts Center anytime. Please wash them. The masks will be repurposed into a textile project during the Downtown Arts Market.

 

Mindi also said that entries are still be accepted for the 57^th Annual JFAA Annual Art Show Exhibit that runs August 26- October 9.

 

She said, anyone that would like to receive a prospectus to participate in one of the region’s longest running exhibitions, please give the Arts Center a call at 701-251-2496 or email sjeppson@jamestownarts.com or go to the Arts Center website,  website to download the entry forms. Once again, they are waiving the entry fees and offering shipping assistance.

This exhibition is open to all artists, no matter your age or skill level—accessible to all. All mediums are acceptable provided they meet installation requirements. This is an excellent opportunity for artists to share a few new pieces. Entries requested ASAP.

The 2020 Best of show winner: Martins Bug, mosaic by Bonnie Tressler

 

 

Jamestown  (Chamber)  The Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassador Committee and the Young Professionals of Jamestown presented the Customer Service Award for July to Marsha Hust for her outstanding customer service.  The chamber honors individuals who demonstrate a consistent commitment to delivering products or services that satisfy customers by exceeding their requirements or expectations.

A portion of her nomination said, “She does an amazing job of going above and beyond and recognizing her customers and assisting any way she can. This assistance made shopping during the pandemic possible for those that wanted to avoid going into stores. I appreciated this service immensely.”

Congratulations to Marsha! Menards is located at 1209 23^rd St. SW, and can be reached at 701-252-1710

Customer Service Award nomination forms are available at the Chamber office and on their website at www.jamestownchamber.com or call 701-252-4830.

Jamestown  (Strata Corp)   Starting on Monday July 19, 2021, through Friday August 6, 2021; Strata Corporation is going to close 91st Ave SE (Alkali Lake Road) from County Road 42 to 25th St SE for culvert and road work.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Police say an armed man has been arrested after a nearly five-hour standoff with police that started when he barricaded himself inside a Fargo motel room. Authorities say the 59-year-old, Moorhead, Minnesota man was armed with a knife. Other guests at the motel were evacuated and the Red River Valley SWAT team was called to help police during negotiations. The man is facing charges of terrorizing, preventing arrest and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia. He was also wanted on two unrelated warrants. No injuries were reported.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The same stronger-than-forecast oil prices that are swelling North Dakota’s treasury also could shrink dollars for road construction next year. Oil is used for road construction and making asphalt. The state Department of Transportation already has approved 174 contracts for road, bridge and other projects this year that total $350 million. Officials say bids on those projects came in earlier this year before oil prices began surging. Officials say none of the state-funded projects being done this year are affected by higher crude prices. Next year, however, things may be different if oil prices remain strong.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A new monthly survey of bankers in rural parts of 10 Plains and Western states suggests continued economic growth in the region, even as nonfarm jobs in most of those states remained below pre-pandemic levels. The overall Rural Mainstreet economic index dropped to 65.6 in July from June’s 70.0. Any score above 50 suggests growth. Creighton University economist Ernie Goss says federal labor statistics show nonfarm jobs across the region came in at 55,000 fewer jobs than before the COVID-19 pandemic began. But three states — Minnesota, Nebraska, and South Dakota — reported nonfarm employment levels above pre-pandemic levels. Bankers from Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming were surveyed.

In world and national news…

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A jury has found a gunman criminally responsible for killing five people at a Maryland newspaper. The jury of eight men and four women rejected defense attorneys’ arguments that Jarrod Ramos was unable to understand the criminality of his actions because of mental illness when he attacked the Capital Gazette newsroom in 2018. The jury’s finding Thursday means the 41-year-old will be sentenced to prison, not a maximum-security mental health facility. Prosecutors are seeking five life sentences without the possibility of parole. Ramos already had pleaded guilty to all 23 counts against him in 2019, but he pleaded not criminally responsible — Maryland’s version of an insanity plea.

 

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A prosecutor has rejected claims that the killing of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts could be connected to sex trafficking and other abductions around the rural area where she disappeared in 2018. Assistant attorney general Scott Brown said Thursday that a 21-year-old man’s alleged confession that he helped kill Tibbetts after she was kidnapped and held at a house used for sex trafficking isn’t credible. He says there is “zero” evidence to support the confession and that it’s inconsistent with testimony from Cristhian Bahena Rivera, the 27-year-old dairy farm worker who was convicted of first-degree murder in Tibbetts’ death. Bahena Rivera testified that two masked men killed Tibbetts but forced him to dispose of her body.

 

CALEDONIA, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Justice says a man who killed a 22-year-old who was pumping gas later shot himself in the head after exchanging gunfire with an undercover sheriff’s investigator. The Justice Department said Thursday that 32-year-old John McCarthy killed himself after confronting the undercover sheriff’s investigator at another gas station not far away in Caledonia on Tuesday morning. The justice department says both McCarthy and the investigator were struck by gunfire before McCarthy fatally shot himself. Authorities say the investigator, whose name hasn’t been released, remained hospitalized Thursday for wounds that aren’t considered life-threatening.

 

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered to remember eight young people killed when a van returning to an Alabama girls home after a week at the beach wrecked last month. The victims of the 17-vehicle accident are being remembered in a public service at a church in Auburn on Thursday afternoon. The pileup occurred June 19 on Interstate 65 south of Montgomery. The eight were in a van bound for a ranch that cares for abused and neglected girls. A Tennessee man and his young daughter died in another vehicle. Investigators haven’t said what happened. But a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board could be released soon.

 

SOPERTON, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say an interstate that connects the Atlanta area to the Georgia coast is closed in both directions after a crash knocked a bridge offline. The Georgia Department of Transportation said Thursday that a detour is in place for Interstate 16 bridge. The agency says a truck struck the bridge Thursday morning, causing it to shift about 6 feet. The agency shared photos on social media that show the bridge dislodged from its concrete base. Interstate 16 is the main route between metro Atlanta, Savannah and Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. The bridge is about 150 miles southeast of Atlanta.

 

BERLIN (AP) — More than 50 people have died and dozens are missing as heavy flooding in Germany and Belgium turned streams and streets into raging debris-filled torrents that swept away cars and toppled houses. Authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia state said at least 30 people were killed, while 19 deaths were reported in Rhineland-Palatinate state to the south. Belgian media reported eight deaths in that country. German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed shock at the scope of the flooding and the number of deaths, adding that everything would be done to find those still missing. Evacuations also were ordered in the Dutch city of Maastricht.

 

PULGA, Calif. (AP) — A California blaze that erupted near the flashpoint of the deadliest wildfire in recent U.S. history is heading away from homes but survivors of the 2018 blaze in the town of Paradise are worried that history could repeat itself. The Dixie Fire is burning in California’s Butte and Plumas counties, not far from where the 2018 conflagration killed 85 people. Meanwhile, the Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon has had more explosive growth and covers more than 355 square miles Thursday. The latest heat wave to bake the West continues to abate but some areas are still seeing high temperatures along with low humidity levels.