Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Jul 29

CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers after midnight. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the south after midnight.

FRIDAY…Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers in the morning, then sunny in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s.

Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph.

 

FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. A 20 percent chance of showers

after midnight. Lows 60 to 65. Southwest winds around 10 mph

shifting to the northwest after midnight.

.SATURDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds 5 to 15 mph.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.

.SUNDAY…Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.

.MONDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.

.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s.

 

 

 

Jamestown  (City)  Thursday night, July 29, 2021, Jamestown City crews will be out sweeping and painting the City parking lots. This will take place at 9:00 PM and continue through the night or until finished. Signs will be put in place by the Street Department.
Please move vehicles out of these parking lots during these times until work is finished.
The above schedule is contingent upon changing weather conditions.
Motorists should use extreme caution in this area.

 

 

Jamestown  (JRVLS)  The James River Valley Library System, Director, Joe Rector has issued a statement, because the Stutsman County Library is facing budget cuts, and  “I want to provide information.”

He said, per the direction from the Stutsman County Commission, the County Library is requesting the same budget as for 2021,.  He pointed out that the JRVLS is not asking for an increase in 2022. Even so, the County Commission has summoned the Library to defend its budget request, and the reason given is as follows:

Rector said, “I would like to talk to them about why that Library [Stutsman County Library] is still open. I’m not really getting a good answer from them.” (Commissioner Joan Morris, July 27 special Commission meeting).

See the video of the meeting in this story at CSiNewsNow.com

The Library’s appointment with the Commission is Tuesday, August 3, around 2:30 pm.

 

 

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.

 

COVID-19 Stats

Thurs Jul. 29, 2021

10:15 – a.m.

Barnes

New Positives  1

Total Positives  1429

Active 4

Recovered: 1393

 

Stutsman

New Positives 1

Total Positives 3569

Active 6

Recovered  3481

 

(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 is 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.

Reminder

Walk in Vaccination Clinics available, 9-a.m. to 4:30-p.m., Monday through Friday.

Vaccines available,  Pfizer, Moderna, available most days.

Vaccination available for those 12 years of age and older.

Call 845-8518 to make an appointment.

Pre-register for all clinics.

 

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown Arts Center has announced this summer’s entertainment at the Downtown Arts Market, and the Hansen Arts Park, each Thursday,  at 5:30 pm

 

Enjoy the best of regional live entertainment in The Hansen Arts Park.  The Downtown Arts Market… a celebration of culture and community when we need it the most! Don’t forget your lawn chair or blanket.

Would you like to one of the artisan vendors at this year’s Downtown Arts Market? We are currently accepting applications. Click to download the Vendor Application.docx.

File Photos from 2019

 

July 29th:    OPEN MIC NIGHT
Poets, writers, musicians, comedians, solos, duos, and any and all performers are welcome to share your talent with the community at our monthly open mic night. There will be a sign up sheet at the stage. Please limit your piece to 10 minutes.  Facilitated by local musician and instructor Steve Kuykendall.

 

August 5:    FLICKERTAIL BAND
With: Top of the Stairs Dance
Flickertail is a three piece band made up of old friends exploring and experiencing fun music of all sorts through the joy of live performance! Jeremy Gray on drums and Jon Beyer on bass…together, bring the rhythm section to life ! Steve Kuykendall adds his vocals and guitar to the mix and the result is pure fun ….this exciting trio is motivated solely by the joy of the journey….so why not come along?

 

August 12:  KICKS DIXIELAND BAND
With: The Jamestown Gymnastics Club
The Kicks Dixieland Band is a versatile jazz ensemble able to perform for intimate private parties or large special events. Our repertoire features arrangements of classic big band vocal and instrumental arrangements, waltz, polkas, with a nice mix of 50s & 60’s rock and blues charts. We also perform Dixieland jazz for school programs and other special events. This performance will be use a 6-piece combo featuring Dixieland Jazz. More information about the Kicks Band and booking information may be found at: www.fmkicksband.com.

 

August 19: BLUE ENGLISH
Full description coming shortly.

 

August 26:    OPEN MIC NIGHT
Poets, writers, musicians, comedians, solos, duos, and any and all performers are welcome to share your talent with the community at our monthly open mic night. There will be a sign up sheet at the stage. Please limit your piece to 10 minutes.  Facilitated by local musician and instructor Steve Kuykendall.

This HUGE undertaking is only possible thanks to our many supporters, volunteers and grantors. Including, but not limited to, these Arts Market sponsors:

• Association of American University Women
• Dakota Central Communications
• Farmers Union
• Farmers Union Insurance
• First Community Credit Union
• Heartland Chevy Dealers
• i3G Media
• Interstate Engineering
• Jamestown Downtown Association
• Jamestown Chamber of Commerce
• Jamestown Tourism
• Lifetime Vision Source
• Medicine Shoppe
• Newman Signs
• North Dakota Council on the Arts
• OtterTail Power Company
• Sanford Health
• Unison Bank
• United Way
• Walter Brothers Lawn Service
• John Zvirovski
• Lynn Lambrecht
• Christine Witt

 

Jamestown (CSi)  The Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with Jamestown Tourism, JRMC, Central Valley Health District, and the Jamestown Arts Center, will have a Welcome to Jamestown Table set up at the August 5 Downtown Arts Market at the Hansen Arts Park, starting at 5:30-p.m.

The Chamber’s Executive, Emily Bivens says, anyone new to Jamestown is invited to visit for information, and to have their questions answered.

Valley City  (Chamber)  The Valley City Area Chamber of Commerce  has announced the list of the 2021 Crazy Daze winners:

Gary Wieck won the Dakota Plains Ag Center grill.

Harvey Hochhalter received  a $75 Chamber Bucks certificate.

Joe Smith won $50 in Chamber Bucks.

Chris Waters received $25 Chamber Bucks.

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Stutsman County Commission in Special Session, July 27 reviewed the 2022 Preliminary Budget.

Commission Chairman, Mark Klose said, the budget is about 20 mills over last year, indicating it is early in the budget process.

Klose said the commission would not consider a 20 mill tax increase, which that would increase Stutsman County property taxes by about $90 for every $100,000 residential value.

Klose pointed out that budgeting requires such topics as raises for employees, road projects and any other major expenses.

The Stutsman County Commission has scheduled another budget meeting on August 3^rd, at  2 p.m. for the commission to make adjustments to the proposed budget. A budget hearing, with time for public comments, is scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday, August  6. The preliminary budget must be certified by August 10.

The final budget must be certified by October 10. The preliminary budget can be adjusted down but not increased between August 10 and October 10.

See the video of the meeting in this story at CSiNewsNow.com

 

 

Jamestown  (UJ)  The University of Jamestown invites the community to the Community Block Party in Downtown Jamestown, on August 25.  The Block Party starts at 5:00 pm on Wednesday, August 25th, and booths will be closing down at 8:00 pm.

Main street in Downtown Jamestown is blocked off, and booths are setup along the side of the road to give away food, drinks, prizes and information. Some booths will also feature music and games!

The Community Block Party is a city wide event designed to welcome UJ students to Jamestown, and familiarize them with Jamestown businesses and organizations.

Everyone is invited. Hundreds of UJ students come down the hill for the event and join up with community members of all ages. There is something for everyone at the Block Party.

There is no cost or registration for attendees.

Booth registration can be done with the online form.The Community Block Party is a city wide event designed to welcome UJ students to Jamestown, and familiarize them with Jamestown businesses and organizations.

 

DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Highway Patrol says a pedestrian has died after he was hit by an SUV in Dickinson. The patrol says the 22-year-old Mandan man was walking in the road near an intersection about 12:30 a.m. Thursday when he was struck by a Chevy Equinox. The 25-year-old driver and 20-year-old passenger were not injured. Officials say that after the crash, the driver turned around and returned to the scene. The victim was taken to a local hospital, but he died of his injuries. The Highway Patrol is investigating.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Minnesota electric company that wants to sell its coal-fueled power plant in North Dakota expects to know Friday if its member utility cooperatives will endorse the deal. Bismarck-based Rainbow Energy announced last month it would buy Great River Energy’s Coal Creek Station. The deal includes Great River purchasing electricity over the next decade from the new owner. The companies have not publicly disclosed terms of the deal that includes an associated transmission line. Great River supplies electricity to 28 rural Minnesota cooperatives. A company spokeswoman says two-thirds of the cooperatives are required to endorsed the sale.

 

 

In Sports

Jamestown  (UJ)   – For the sixth consecutive season, the University of Jamestown baseball team has been awarded the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellenc

e Award.

Teams from every level of college and high school baseball were honored with this year’s award, which highlights programs coached by ABCA members that posted a GPA of 3.0 or above on a 4.0 scale for the entire 2020-21 academic year.

Also

The University of Jamestown was one of 16 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) institutions to receive a perfect score of 100 in the 2020-21 Champions of Character initiative, the national office announced Wednesday.

UJ earned the Gold designation for the second straight academic year.

Traditionally, institutions are measured on a demonstrated commitment to Champions of Character and earn points in character training, conduct in competition, academic focus, character recognition and character promotion. Institutions earned points based on exceptional student-athlete grade point averages and by having minimal to no ejections during competition throughout the course of the academic year. The NAIA worked to collaborate with member institutions to better reflect efforts that were impacted by transition and adjustments from COVID-19.

 

In world and national news…

BOSTON (AP) — The Biden administration will allow a nationwide ban on evictions to expire Saturday. The end of the moratorium comes as advocates and some lawmakers call for it to be extended in the face of rising coronavirus cases and the sluggish pace of distributing rental assistance. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in June this would be the last time the moratorium would be extended when she set the expiration for July 31. As of July 5, roughly 3.6 million people in the U.S. said they faced eviction in the next two months, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey.

 

BOSTON (AP) — Court records show that former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy during a wedding reception in the 1970s. Court documents show that McCarrick is charged with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14. McCarrick was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 after a Vatican investigation confirmed he had sexually molested adults as well as children. Mitchell Garabedian, an attorney for the man alleging the abuse by McCarrick, says he is the first cardinal in the U.S. to ever be criminally charged with a sexual crime against a minor. An attorney for McCarrick told The Associated Press that they “look forward to addressing the case in the courtroom” and declined further comment.

 

 

(AP)  The nation’s capital is reinstating mandatory indoor mask requirements, regardless of vaccination status. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the new regulations begin Saturday and apply to everyone over age 2. The move had been expected in the face of local infection numbers and new guidance from the CDC, which now encourages vaccinated people to wear masks indoors in areas classified as having “substantial community transmission” levels. That includes Washington and the neighboring Virginia communities of Alexandria and Loudon counties. The city’s general state of public emergency remains in place. D.C. Health Director Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt says there will be a renewed push for vaccinations because they “continue to prevent severe illness, hospitalization and death.”

 

OSAGE BEACH, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri hospital that had no people hospitalized with COVID-19 just two months ago is now dealing with an onslaught of patients. Among them is Daryl Barker, who was passionately against a COVID-19 vaccination. He and several relatives got sick, and Barker ended up in an intensive care unit fighting for his life. The 31-year-old is at Lake Regional Hospital in Osage Beach, where 22 people died from the virus in the first 23 days of July. Barker said his conservative politics made him “strongly against the vaccine.” He and his wife both plan to get vaccinated once he recovers.

 

 

NEW YORK (AP) — Robinhood made its own leap into the stock market Thursday, the one it helped reshape by bringing millions of new investors to Wall Street. Robinhood’s stock was trading at $36.22 in the afternoon, down 4.7% from its initial price of $38. Perhaps fitting for a company that has upended the investing business, it had jagged movements and careened from a gain of 5.9% to a loss of 12.2%, all in its first hour of trading. The company has grown explosively since its 2013 founding as it’s made investing easier for everyone, but critics say it encourages customers to trade too often and in too risky a way.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fueled by vaccinations and government aid, the U.S. economy grew at a solid 6.5% annual rate last quarter in another sign that the nation has achieved a sustained recovery from the pandemic recession. The total size of the economy has now surpassed its pre-pandemic level. The government estimated that the nation’s gross domestic product accelerated in the April-June quarter from an already robust 6.3% annual growth rate in the first quarter of the year. The quarterly figure fell well below the 8%-plus annual growth rate that many economists had predicted for the second quarter. But the miss was due mainly to bottlenecks in supply chains related to the rapid reopening of the economy.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits slid last week, another sign that the job market continues to recover rapidly from the coronavirus recession. The Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless claims dropped by 24,000 to 400,000 last week. The weekly applications have fallen more or less steadily this year — from a peak of 904,000 in early to January. But they remain high by historic standards.