Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Oct 29

CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE
EVENING. LOWS IN THE MID 30S. SOUTH WINDS AROUND 5 MPH SHIFTING
TO THE NORTHWEST 5 TO 15 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 40. NORTH WINDS 15 TO
20 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. COLDER. LOWS 15 TO 20. NORTHEAST
WINDS AROUND 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S. SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND
10 MPH INCREASING TO AROUND 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 20S. SOUTHEAST
WINDS AROUND 15 MPH.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. BREEZY. HIGHS IN
THE MID 40S. LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 50.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 30S.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND SNOW
SHOWERS IN THE MORNING…THEN SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS IN
THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE MID 40S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
20 PERCENT.
.MONDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. LOWS AROUND 30.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS AROUND 50. LOWS
IN THE LOWER 30S.

A QUICK MOVING ALBERTA CLIPPER TYPE SYSTEM IS  FORECAST TO SLIP THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY. RAIN SHOWERS  INITIALLY AHEAD OF THE CLIPPER WITH POSSIBLY SNOW SHOWERS BEHIND THE
CLIPPER WEDNESDAY.

Jamestown (CSi) The Read Local, Authors Group has formed in Jamestown, that focuses attention to local authors on their books and literacy in the community.

On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, local authors Bruce Berg, Keith Norman, and Bill Kennedy were on hand to discuss the formation of the group and the inaugural reading and book signing, open to the public.

Kennedy said the All Vets Club in Jamestown will host the event on Saturday December 6, 2014 at 4-p.m., followed by dinner.

Kennedy, Berg and Norman will read from their books, and other local authors are invited by E-Mailing jamestownauthorgroup@gmail.com

20% of the proceeds from the book readings will be donated to the James River Valley Library.

The author’s books are currently available at the Jamestown Arts Center, and from the authors.

On a related note, the Jamestown Arts Center will host author Nancy Kuykendall for a signing of copies of her book, Mornings on the Porch, on Saturday November 1, 2014,at 2-p.m.

Ms. Kuykendall, of Jamestown, announces that her first book was released nationally on October 15, 2014.

Ms. Kuykendall studied music and taught for thirty years and has played piano for churches and a variety of events.

On line, www.nancykuykendall.tateauthor.com

Valley City (CSi) Lyman and Cory Keim, operators of the Bison 6 Cinema in Jamestown have purchased the Valley City movie theater.

The Keim’s have been in the movie business in Jamestown for over 28 years. The Keims will be meeting with all existing employees and are happy to have them become part of the Valley Twin Cinema team. The Keim’s say they have always had a great relationship with Jeremy and Wendy Zako and wish them the best.

The Zako’s say, due to health issues, they have decided to focus their attention on their family and the Hazen Theater saying, “We wish Valley City the best and want to extend our sincerest “thank you” to the community and all of the support we received.”

Valley City/Barnes County Economic Development Director, Jennifer Feist says the theater will be renamed Valley Twin Cinema.

The Valley City theater will be closed for one week starting October 31st and will reopen November 7, 2014.

The newly renovated theater will be open daily with new releases. They will also honor all gift certificates and the 2014 refillable buckets from the previous owners Jeremy and Wendy Zako.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The director of North Dakota’s sole abortion provider says medical abortions have ceased at the Fargo clinic following a North Dakota Supreme Court ruling.
 
     Red River Women’s Clinic director Tammi Kromenaker tells The Associated Press that she directed her staff on Wednesday to halt medication abortions. Kromenaker says about eight women had been scheduled this week for the procedure. She says surgical abortions are still being done.
 
     The state’s high court on Tuesday upheld a 2011 state law that limits the use of drugs to perform abortions. 
 
     North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says the clinic had two weeks following the high court ruling to end medication abortions.
 
     Kromenaker says the procedure was stopped immediately because she didn’t want to put her staff at risk of legal action.
 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A former sergeant in the North Dakota Army National Guard’s military police unit has pleaded guilty to luring teenage girls over the Internet to have sex with him.
 
     Thirty-year-old Eric Sansburn pleaded guilty in federal court to seven counts, including transportation of minors with intent to engage in sexual activity and coercion of a minor. He faces life in prison.
 
     Authorities say Sansburn met the victims on social media sites and picked them up from their homes and schools for sexual encounters in the Grand Forks area. He allegedly had online chats with 90 different girls between the ages of 13 and 17.
 
     Defense attorney Tyler Morrow says Sansburn is a decorated Iraqi war veteran who receives disability from the Veterans Administration for post-traumatic stress disorder. 

 DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) – A Minot man faces four felony charges after allegedly trying to steal $26,000 worth of copper from a Dickinson business.
 
     Authorities allege 34-year-old Philip Poppell broke into Border States Electric over the weekend and tried to take two spools of copper electrical wire.  He’s accused of causing about $14,000 in damage to the wire and to a fence on the property.
 
     Poppell is charged with burglary, theft, giving false information to law officers and hindering them. He also faces a misdemeanor criminal mischief count. He could face up to 26 years in prison if convicted on all of the charges.
 
     Court documents do not list an attorney for Poppell. He’s due in court Jan. 5.

  MINOT, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Highway Patrol has named a new regional commander in Minot.
 
     Sgt. Jamie Huschka is being promoted to the rank of lieutenant and will begin his new role Saturday. He started his career with highway patrol in 2004.
 
     He served as a traffic enforcement trooper in Williston after graduation from the training academy and earned the rank of sergeant in 2010.
 
     Huschka earned an associate of arts degree from Williston State College.

MINOT, N.D. (AP) – The city of Minot plans to replace a bridge that has been deemed structurally deficient by state Transportation Department inspectors.
 
     The  Oak Park Bridge built in 1960 is still safe for traffic, but it has rusty steel beams and signs of aging.
 
     The city has budgeted $1 million to replace the bridge over a dead river channel with a box culvert.
 
     However, officials are looking into the possibility that the channel could be used as part of a flood control plan the city is working on in the wake of the 2011 Souris River flood. If that’s the case, a replacement bridge might be needed.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The federal government this fiscal year is providing $4 million in technical and financial assistance to help Midwestern farmers and ranchers improve the health of honeybees.
 
     Bees pollinate a number of crops and play an important role in food production. Their numbers have been declining at a sharp rate due to colony collapse disorder, blamed on a number of factors including mites, pesticides and habitat loss.
 
     Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the aid through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program builds on $3 million in fiscal 2014. The government is focusing its efforts on the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. The aid will help producers implement conservation practices to help honeybees.
 
     Sen. John Hoeven says the government also is providing $8 million in similar incentives through the Conservation Reserve Program.

In sports…

Jamestown (CSi) There will be a Jamestown High School winter sports player/parent meeting on Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 6:00 PM.

The meeting will take place in the JERRY MEYER ARENA and is for all students & parents that did not attend the fall meeting. Any questions can be directed to the JHS Activities office @ 952-4006.

 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A businessman who attempted to buy the Minnesota Vikings in 2005 is no longer a limited partner in the franchise.
 
     The Vikings confirm Reggie Fowler is off the list of the team’s owners. Fowler tried to buy the Vikings from Red McCombs in 2005 for $600 million, but didn’t have enough liquid capital. He brought in partners and Zygi Wilf took over as the majority investor.
 
     The Star Tribune (http://strib.mn/1pXMVC0 ) reports the 54-year-old Fowler experienced financial difficulties in Arizona last year when he lost control of his companies after accumulating nearly $60 million in debt.

In world and national news…

 WASHINGTON (AP) – Although federal health officials aren’t recommending quarantine for people returning from West Africa, the Pentagon is going to require 21 days of supervised isolation for all American troops coming home from Ebola response missions in the region. Pentagon officials say it’s too early to know exactly how the program will work. They say it’s a response to concerns among military families and the communities from which the troops are deploying.
 
     UNDATED (AP) – Even small clusters of Ebola cases could overwhelm parts of the nation’s health care system. That’s according to an Associated Press review of readiness at hospitals and other parts of the emergency medical network. It found that the emergency care system is already overextended. And according to federal data, patients already spend an average of four and a-half hours in emergency rooms at U.S. hospitals before being admitted — and two percent of patients leave before being seen.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Reserve plans to keep a key interest rate at a record low to support a job market that isn’t fully healthy, and to help lift inflation from unusually low levels. As expected, it’s also ending a bond purchase program that was intended to keep long-term rates low. In a statement ending a policy meeting, the Fed suggests that the job market, though still not back to normal, is improving.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – Attorney General Eric Holder says it’s clear that there’s a need for “wholesale change” in the Ferguson, Missouri, police department. The Justice Department is investigating the practices of the police department following the Aug. 9 police shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old.  A government official confirms that there are discussions among Missouri officials about having Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson step down as part of efforts to change the department.
 
     JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The execution of a Missouri man who killed a woman and her two children is on hold indefinitely as the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether to review the case. The court Tuesday issued a late stay of execution just hours before Mark Christeson was scheduled to die by injection. That stay will remain in place until the court decides whether to hear Christeson’s appeal. He cites concerns that his lawyers were ineffective and missed a deadline to appeal with a federal court in 2005.