Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Aug 19

CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Showers likely and chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds around 10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph. Chance of precipitation 60 percent in the Jamestown area, 50 percent in the Valley City area.  New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

.FRIDAY…Showers and chance of thunderstorms. Not as warm. Highs

in the mid 70s. South winds 10 to 15 mph shifting to the west in

the afternoon.   Chance  of precipitation 90 percent.   New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. Rain showers likely and chance of

thunderstorms in the evening, then chance of rain showers and

slight chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the lower

50s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.

Chance of precipitation 70 percent.  New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

.SATURDAY…Mostly sunny.  A 20 percent chance of rain showers and

thunderstorms in the morning. Highs around 70. Northwest winds 10 to

15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.

 

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 50s.

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

and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 70s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Chance of rain showers and

thunderstorms in the evening, then slight chance of rain showers

after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of precipitation

50 percent.

.MONDAY…Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy with chance of rain showers and

slight chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 50s. Chance of

precipitation 40 percent.

.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny with chance of rain showers and slight

chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 70s. Chance of

precipitation 30 percent.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s.

.WEDNESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 70s.

 

 

 

 

Valley City  (CSi)  The Barnes County Sheriff’s Office continues with its investigation into a body found, on August 5, 2021.

On August 3, the Barnes County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a missing person. On August 5, the Barnes County Sheriff’s office located a body whom they believed to be the missing person on a rural farmstead in a tree-grove in the 4400 block 44th Street Southeast in Fingal, ND.

The Barnes County Sheriff’s Office is still investigating this incident and it’s still an open investigation pending the state medical examiners final report.

The Barnes County Sheriff’s Office would like to thank the citizens, the North Dakota Highway Patrol, the local Pilots who assisted in the search.

 

 

 

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:

 

COVID -19 Stats..

Thurs. Aug. 19, 2021

10:30- a.m.

Barnes

New Positives:  1

Total Positives:  1449

Active: 8

Recovered: 1409

 

Stutsman

New Positives: 1

Total Positives: 3616

Active: 22

Recovered: 3512

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown Tourism Grant Board, Thursday approved one submitted application.

North Dakota Amateur Baseball, Inc., is requesting $300 for the State A, AA, and AAA Baseball Tournament playing 13 dates, that started August 4 and continuing to August 22, with 22 teams playing at Jack Brown Stadium in Jamestown.

Representative, Tom Gould said, additional funding comes from the teams entry fees, at $200 per team.

Expenses are listed as equipment, and umpiring crew.

The Grant/Advisory board unanimously approved the $300 request.

Those present,  Tourism Executive Director, Searle Swedlund, board members,  Board President, Tena Lawrence, Frank Balek, Taylor Barnes, and Pam Phillips.  No Conflicts of interest were noted.

Searle pointed out that there is $10,000 left in the fund at this point this year.

The meeting was held virtually over the Zoom platform.

 

 

Valley City  (CSi)  Summer Nights on Central returns to Valley City with two evenings of entertainment planned.

The Valley City Area Chamber of Commerce, says,  the final Thursday evening date is August  19 in Downtown Valley City, for a family-friendly evening of fun, late shopping, with food and beverage vendors on hand and live entertainment on Central Avenue, with Free Admission.

Shopping Happy Hour is 4-p.m. to 6-p.m., vendors open at 5:30-p.m., with the concerts from 6-p.m. to 9-p.m.

The schedule of entertainment:

August 19 Tripwire

Wristbands are required for those 21 and older.

For more information or to get involved contact the Valley City Area Chamber of Commerce.

E-mail:  summernightsvc@gmail.con or call 701-490-3530.

 

 

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown Arts Center will host the Arts After School program Sept 7 thought November 5.

The program is for students in grades 3,4,5 & 6

On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Arts Center Director, Mindi Schmitz said, the After School Program follows the JPS schedule, and will be holding classes this fall. Due to concerns over Covid-19 The Arts Center is following these safety guidelines. Students will be asked to frequently wash hands, socially distance and wear masks. All surfaces will be sanitized regularly. If your child is sick—stay home. Thank you for looking our for yourself and others.

Arts After School Program
•    School days from 3:30 – 5:00 pm
•    After school snack included
•    Scholarships available
•    Bus transportation provided (in town only)
•    Pre-registration required

The Arts After School program runs from 3:30 – 5:00 pm. Parents should be prompt in picking up their child at 5:00 pm if not riding the bus. All students should read the code of conduct form (received in email after registration) with their parents.

Intro to Printmaking with Sharon Linnehan
September 7 – 17  • $72
Sharon is excited to get back in the classroom and teach everyone about printmaking with Gelli Plates! Gelli Plates are squishy, gelatinous pads people use to create a wide variety of colorful papers. They can be used to make collages, mixed media, cards, and more. Gelli plate printing is fun and anyone can do it. This is a playful, messy class where kids will use a gelli plate and other objects to make beautiful papers. No two will be the same!

FUNdamentals of Drawing: Learning Light, Shapes and Shadows with Mr. Billy
September 20 – October 1  •  $80
Join Mr. Billy as he teaches the students how to turn the 2D into 3D. We will study light and shadows in 360 degrees with fun drawing assignments and challenge sheets. After mastering basic shapes we will move on to organic shapes like fruits and vegetables. The final challenge will be applying realistic shading to people and faces. The class is great for beginners and skilled artists.

Wearable Art: Paint Shoes, Hats and Other Canvas Items with Linda Roesch
October 4 – 15  •  $72
Linda is back to teach a repeat of her Summer Camp! Students with work with acrylic paint to create their own wearable designs on shoes, hats and canvas items. Learn how to maintain consistency in your works while working with various line, color and patterns. Also experiment with different painting materials and techniques to add texture and contrast to the artworks. *No school (no Arts After School) October 8th

Ceramics with Bill Nybo
October 18 – November 5 • $104
Using basic hand-building techniques (slab, pinch and coil) students will create their own piggy banks and bird houses out of clay. Kiln firing and glazes are included. *No school (no Arts After School) October 21 & 22.

Additional sessions will be added as the year progresses. In case of inclement weather The Arts Center will follow the Jamestown Public Schools. If JPS cancels, delays or closes early The Arts Center will do the same.

Tuesday August 24, 6-p.m. to 9-p.m. come enjoy a beautiful summer evening with Artist-in Residence, Linda Roesch, as she lead the class in a wonderful painting experience.

Linda has years of experience working with acrylic paint from doing pet portraits to landscape paintings. The class is a great introduction to the medium for artists of all skill levels.

Pre-registration is required. Click below to register online or call the office at 701-251-2496.

Also coming soon is Oktober Fest, planned for September 18 starting at 5-p.m. at the Hansen Arts Park in Downtown Jamestown. Entertainment will be provided by the Blue Whalers, and local musician Tim Burchill.

Beer will be available at the event for those 21 and older, and ID’s will be checked.

The final Jamestown Arts Market is planned for Thursday August 26, at Hansen Arts Park in Downtown Jamestown.

A change in schedule:

No Open Mic Night, instead:

Entertainment by Stick Ponies, and Bolder Shades of Blue, along with music by Steve and nancy Kuykendall.

The change was due to a previously cancelled event earlier this summer due to weather concerns, and now rescheduled to August 26.

 

Bismarck  (NDDEQ)  The North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality has awarded a loan to Jamestown through the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Program in July.

Jamestown has been awarded a loan amounting to more than $1.8 million.

The loan will be used to replace sections of the existing distribution system. Leaks and breaks have occurred there. The replacement will allow providing safe water and reduce service interruptions.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provides part of the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Program funding, offering below-market interest rate loans to political subdivisions for financing projects authorized under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

 

 

Bismarck  (NDGF) North Dakota Game and Fish Department needs assistance in identifying populations of flowering rush, an aquatic nuisance species, with separate findings by department staff on the James and Sheyenne rivers.

Ben Holen, ANS coordinator, said fisheries staff are actively looking for flowering rush and other ANS species during regular work activities. In addition to these efforts, fisheries management personnel dedicate time solely to ANS detection and surveillance on waters around the state.

Flowering rush can be identified by its umbel cluster of 25-50 pink flowers and can generally be found along shorelines of slow-moving water, but can also grow deeper than three meters under water in some areas of the country.

He adds, “We really want to catch these ANS introductions early, because it allows us to have a full assortment of management options, including eradication in some instances. The more eyes we have on the landscape, the better. Under the right conditions, flowering rush can outcompete native vegetation, restrict lake access for shore anglers and impede boating,” he continued. “In canals and drainage ditches, flowering rush has significantly reduced water flow.”

To report a flowering rush sighting or any other ANS visit https://gf.nd.gov/ans/report.

For more information about ANS in North Dakota, visit https://gf.nd.gov/ans

 

 

MANDAN, N.D. (AP) — Jurors hearing the case against a North Dakota chiropractor accused of killing four people could begin deliberating as soon as Thursday. Attorneys for Chad Isaak rested their case Wednesday at the Morton County Courthouse in Mandan after questioning six witnesses. Closing arguments are set for Thursday morning, after which the jury will get the case. Isaak is accused of fatally stabbing and shooting RJR Maintenance & Management co-owner Robert Fakler and his employees, Adam Fuehrer, and Bill and Lois Cobb, in Mandan on April 1, 2019. Isaak lives in a mobile home on property managed by RJR. No motive has been established in the case.

 

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, but some say worsening drought could threaten their banks. The overall Rural Mainstreet economic index dropped slightly in August to 65.3 from July’s 65.6. Any score above 50 suggests growth. The survey shows nearly 16% of bankers reported that continuing drought conditions are the greatest threat to banking operations over the next year, while more than 40% of bank CEOs see low farm loan demand as their bank’s greatest challenge over the next year. Bankers from Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming were surveyed.

 

 

In sports…

Thursday

UJ Women’s Volleyball at the Keiser Volleyball Invitational, at West Palm Beach, Florida.

Game One UJ W 25-22,25-18,25-12 over Indiana University East.

 

Game Two  UJ   W 25-19,25-15,25-12 over William Carey University

 

In world and national news….

WASHINGTON (AP) — Law enforcement authorities say a man sitting in a black pickup truck outside the Library of Congress has told police that he has a bomb, and that’s led to a standoff in the heart of the nation’s capital. Officials have evacuated a number of buildings around the Capitol and sent snipers to the area after officers saw a man holding what looked like a detonator inside the pickup. The man has been identified as 49-year-old Floyd Ray Roseberry of Grover, North Carolina, according to two people briefed on the matter. Police are giving no immediate details on his motive or any demands.

 

(AP)  The U.S. military and its allies have rescued a high-profile Afghan national police officer who was being hunted by the Taliban because of his years working with the American military. Mohammad Khalid Wardak and his family were airlifted Wednesday to safety in an undisclosed location. The officer had been in hiding with his wife and four children in Kabul, moving from place to place and unable to get inside the airport where the Taliban controlled the entrances. He was well-known because of his position as police chief in eastern Afghanistan’s Helmand Province and from television appearances, including one in which he challenged the Taliban to a fight.

 

(AP)  German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle says the Taliban shot and killed a family member of one of their reporters in Afghanistan and severely wounded a second family member. The broadcaster said in a statement on Thursday that Taliban fighters were looking for the Deutsche Welle reporter and searching homes in western Afghanistan. It said other family members managed to escape. Deutsche Well says the reporter himself is already based in Germany where he is also working. Deutsche Welle didn’t give further details on the killed and injured family members or say where and when exactly in Afghanistan the killing took place.

 

LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — Tensions have been growing in Haiti over the slow pace of aid reaching the needy a powerful weekend earthquake that killed more than 2,100 people. At the small airport in the southwestern community of Les Cayes, police fired shots to disperse young men who had gathered to watch aid being unloaded. Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency raised the number of deaths from Saturday’s magnitude 7.2 earthquake to 2,189. Officials say the quake destroyed more than 7,000 homes and damaged more than 12,000, leaving about 30,000 families homeless. The quake was followed by drenching rains from Tropical Storm Grace, compounding the misery.

 

LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — Officials say two doctors at hospitals treating earthquake victims in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince have been kidnapped, forcing one of the institutions to a declare a two-day shutdown in protest. The abductions Tuesday and Wednesday dealt a major blow to attempts to control criminal violence that has threatened disaster response efforts. One of the doctors seized in Port-au-Prince was among the country’s few orthopedic surgeons. They are desperately needed for quake victims with broken limbs. On Tuesday, an obstetrician en route to perform an emergency cesarean delivery was kidnapped, and officials say the delay in treatment for his patient led to her death and that of her child.

 

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Authorities in North Carolina have found two people dead and about 20 remain missing in Haywood County in floods caused by Tropical Storm Fred. Now as a post-tropical cyclone, Fred is drenching New York and New England. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Henri is sending dangerous swells onto East Coast beaches and is expected to become a hurricane as it approaches the northeastern U.S. early next week. More than 200 people searched flooded areas in western North Carolina along the Pigeon River. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper planned to join Haywood County officials Thursday afternoon to survey the flood damage. Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis toured the area earlier in the day.

 

(AP)  Just as school doors are reopening across the U.S., children are filling hospital beds instead of classrooms in record numbers, sick with COVID-19. The surging virus is spreading anxiety and causing turmoil and infighting among parents, administrators and politicians around the U.S., especially in states like Florida and Texas, where Republican governors have barred schools from making youngsters wear masks. Scientists have yet to determine whether the highly contagious delta variant makes people more seriously ill or whether children are more vulnerable to it.

 

(AP)  U.S. Sen. Angus King of Maine tested positive for the coronavirus Thursday, a day after he began feeling ill, his office announced. King, an independent, says he’s definitely “not feeling great” but doing better than if he hadn’t been vaccinated. King says in a statement he’s quarantining at home and telling the few people he’s been in contact with to get tested in order to limit any further spread. The 77-year-old King says throughout the pandemic, he’s worked to protect himself, family and staff through masks, social distancing, a “work-from-home mindset. ” He’s used Zoom meetings and, until recently, was driving instead of flying to Washington, D.C. He urged people to follow guidance from health professionals and “get vaccinated if you haven’t been.”

 

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker has tested positive for COVID-19 and is in isolation. His communications director, Phillip Waller, says Wicker tested positive Thursday morning. Wicker sought a test because of mild symptoms. Waller says the 70-year-old is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, is in good health and is being treated by his physician based in Tupelo. Waller says everyone recently in close contact with Wicker has been notified. Wicker has been in the U.S. Senate since 2007. He was elected to the U.S. House in 1994 after having served in the state Senate.