Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Jul 30

CSi Weather…

REST OF TODAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 80. NORTHWEST WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH.
.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 50S. NORTHWEST WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH IN THE EVENING BECOMING LIGHT.
.THURSDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. NORTH WINDS AROUND
5 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S. NORTHEAST
WINDS AROUND 5 MPH.
.FRIDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. NORTHEAST WINDS AROUND
5 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE MID
80S. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF
 WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP) – A rural Kathryn woman charged with the deaths of eight horses had a seizure in court and was taken to a hospital.
 
Ginger Helland appeared in court on Tuesday. She is awaiting trial on charges of animal neglect, animal abuse and improper disposal of animal carcass.
 
     Judge Jay Schmitz called for emergency workers to assist the woman, who began shaking uncontrollably with a seizure.
 
     Barnes County State’s Attorney Carl Martinek says the trial for Helland will be reset and witnesses will be recalled later.
 

Valley City (CSi) Following the finishing of the water main replacement project on Second Street Southwest near Marketplace Foods, construction will start on West Main Street. The Second Street project may finish this week.

Officials say, construction on West Main Street may entail a traffic detour and various lanes may be closed.

Motorists are urged to follow detour caution sign instructions.

Three sections of Valley City are having water main replacements this summer.

Jamestown (CSi) The James River Family “Y” in Jamestown on September 2, 2014 becomes, the “James River Family Fitness Center,” but the name change will be the only difference the public will notice.

On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, the Y’s Executive Director Frank Conlin pointed out the facility will continue with all the present offerings.

He pointed out that with plans being developed over the past few years for a new Two Rivers Activity Center, (TRAC), an affiliation has been planned involving Jamestown Public Schools, Jamestown Parks and Recreation, Jamestown Tennis, and Jamestown Gymnastics, along with the James River Family Fitness Center.

The Fitness Center’s staff would become employees of Jamestown Parks and Recreation.

The planned facility would be located at the 7.5-8-acres of land north of Gussner Elementary School, in Northeast Jamestown, that was previously used for JPS 9^th grade football.

Conlin added that possible funding for the Two Rivers Activity Center, could come in part from a ¾ cent City Sales tax, that is presently being used toward paying off the costs of Jamestown High School, which was approved by voters in the early 2000’s. Conlin believes the high school portion of the City Sales Tax will expire in 2017. At that time, if approved by voters, the ¾ cent City Sales Tax portion would go toward funding the TRAC facility. The two would not over lap.

He said it’s possible that a vote by residents could come in a Jamestown Special Election in December this year (2014).

See the previously updated story on line at  www.csinewsnow.com/?p=50930

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Bond has been set at $1,000 for a Mandan woman accused of stealing a handgun while performing renovation work at a home.
 
23-year-old Cheryln Sarte is charged with theft of property and appeared in court on Wednesday.
 
     Authorities say Sarte was among several employees of interior design business doing renovation work a home in July 2013. Police say the homeowner reported that a firearm had been stolen.
 
     Authorities say all employees were questioned and denied knowledge of its whereabouts.
 
     During a separate drug investigation, a man told authorities that Sarte had given him the revolver to trade for methamphetamine.

 PIERRE, S.D. (AP) – Law enforcement agencies in the Dakotas are joining counterparts in 13 other states in a four-day interstate enforcement campaign on Interstates 90 and 94.
 
     The “I-90/94 Challenge” has a goal of zero fatalities on the two interstates from Washington state to Massachusetts through Monday, and a 50 percent reduction in all crashes for the reporting period. The effort covers more than 5,600 miles of highway.
 
     The Minnesota State Patrol is coordinating the national effort and will gather statistics from participating states on the effectiveness of the operation.
 
     The effort is part of a yearlong highway safety campaign by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to reduce traffic fatalities in the U.S. by 15 percent.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Lawyers for the corn syrup industry say American Crystal Sugar CEO David Berg would be a good witness in a lawsuit filed by sugar groups because he’s not involved in litigation.
 
     Berg is contesting a subpoena to testify in the long-running suit filed by sugar producers over claims by corn syrup marketers that sugar and high-fructose corn syrup are nutritionally the same.
 
     Berg’s lawyer, David Bunde, said during a hearing Wednesday that American Crystal opted out of the suit because Berg preferred the issue be debated with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
 
     Bunde said Berg has no relevant information in the case and other officials are better suited to testify.
 
     Corn syrup lawyer Cornelius Murphy says Berg is a bystander and therefore has less bias than other sugar executives.

 ROSS, N.D. (AP) – State officials say a spill of 427 barrels of oil and 142 barrels of saltwater was contained and recovered at a well site in Mountrail County.
 
     A state inspector visited the Statoil Oil & Gas site about 7 miles south of Ross. A valve failure was determined to have caused the spill that was reported Tuesday.
 
     A barrel holds 42 gallons. Saltwater is a byproduct of oil production.

In world and national news…

 MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) – Liberia’s president is closing the nation’s schools and ordering non-essential government employees to stay home as the country battles an Ebola outbreak.
 
     Already, several airlines have halted their flights into Liberia amid a rising number of patients with one of the world’s most virulent diseases.
 
     President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf also said late Wednesday she would stay home from a summit of African leaders in Washington this week to help combat the crisis.
 
     At least 129 people have died in Liberia from Ebola, and the disease is blamed for more than 672 deaths across West Africa.
 
     Among the dead was an American man of Liberian descent who was working for the Liberian government. He later flew to Nigeria, where he died Friday.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – Two new attacks in Gaza have pushed the Palestinian death toll above 1,300 in more than three weeks of fighting. Israeli strikes today hit a crowded shopping area in Gaza City, where Palestinian officials say at least 16 people were killed. Hours earlier, tank shells tore through the wall of a U.N. school that was crowded with war refugees, killing at least 17 people and wounding 90 others. Israel says its soldiers had been targeted by mortar rounds that were launched from the area of the school, and they fired back.
 
     DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) – Almost two weeks after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was blown out of the sky, there are concerns that the remains of some of the passengers are rotting in 90-degree mid-summer heat. Fighting between Ukrainian forces and separatist rebels is still keeping away international police who are supposed to secure the site. Even the rebels who control the area — and who initially oversaw the collection of more than 200 of the bodies — have stopped their work. They say attacks from the Ukrainian military have forced them to focus on defending themselves.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The United States and European leaders say they’re prepared to intensify sanctions against Russia unless it moves to de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine. The Group of Seven world leaders say in a statement that Russia hasn’t changed course despite the downing of a Malaysia Airlines jet. They’re calling the shootdown a watershed and say it should have led Russia to stop the flow of weapons and militants from Russia into Ukraine.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – A Republican congressman says the e-mails he’s releasing Wednesday show that Lois Lerner deliberately targeted conservatives when she headed the IRS division that handles applications for tax-exempt status. Dave Camp, who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, released the emails as part of his committee’s investigation into the handling of applications from conservative groups. In one email to a colleague, Lerner refers to some right-wing Republicans as “crazies.”
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Reserve is further slowing the pace of its bond purchases because it thinks an improving U.S. economy needs less help. But it’s offering no clearer hint of when it will start raising its benchmark short-term interest rate. In a statement after a policy meeting, the Fed says it’s cutting its monthly purchases by another $10 billion to $25 billion. The bond purchases have been intended to keep long-term borrowing rates low and are set to end in October.