Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Apr 30

CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY IN THE
EVENING…THEN MOSTLY CLEAR AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE MID 40S.
WEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST AROUND 5 MPH
AFTER MIDNIGHT. CHANCE OF SHOWERS 60 PERCENT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, 70 PERCENT IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.
.FRIDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. SOUTHWEST WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S. SOUTH WINDS
AROUND 10 MPH.
.SATURDAY…SUNNY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. SOUTHWEST
WINDS 10 TO 20 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S. WEST WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS.
HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 40. HIGHS
IN THE UPPER 60S.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS AROUND 40. HIGHS
IN THE UPPER 60S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S.
.WEDNESDAY…CLOUDY. CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS IN THE MORNING…THEN
CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE
AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
50 PERCENT.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY AND SLIGHT CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EVENING…THEN RAIN SHOWERS LIKELY AFTER
MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
60 PERCENT.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S.

THERE WILL BE SOME CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION…MAINLY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY

NEXT WEDNESDAY IS THERE A POSSIBILITY OF MORE SUBSTANTIAL RAIN

Bismarck  (CSi) Gov. Jack Dalrymple Thursday extended a statewide fire emergency through May 8, 2015  to protect against fire outbreaks.
Dalrymple said the state’s county commissioners should assess their counties’ fire threat and be prepared to authorize a county burn ban, if necessary, once the statewide fire emergency expires May 8.
Dalrymple says, “I have extended the statewide fire emergency because of the significant threat of uncontrolled fire that still exists throughout the state. However, the state’s county commissioners have authority to issue their own burn bans, and they should be prepared to manage their specific needs for any additional fire restrictions once the statewide fire emergency expires.”

In his executive order, Dalrymple issued a burn ban for areas in the North Dakota Fire Danger Rating designated as “High,” “Very High,” or “Extreme,” and/or when a Red Flag Warning has been issued for an area. Burning will be allowed in designated areas with a “Low” or “Moderate” Fire Danger Rating if approved by the local fire response authority that has jurisdiction over the area.

Dalrymple has also activated the North Dakota State Emergency Operations Plan to make state assistance available to local and tribal officials in the event of a fire emergency. In addition, the governor has authorized the Adjutant General to activate and make available North Dakota National Guard resources in support of local and tribal governments.

The Governor first issued a statewide fire emergency on April 1, in response to dry conditions, unseasonably high temperatures and high winds.

Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Police has released the names of those involved in a motorcycle-car accident about 2:09 pm on Tuesday at the intersection of First Avenue North and Second Street North.
Officer Justin Blinsky says the male motorcycle operator, 40 year old Shawn Durfee of Jamestown was taken by Jamestown Area Ambulance Service for treatment of a serious leg injury and later air lifted to a Fargo hospital .
The motorcycle was southbound on First Avenue, when it was struck by a car proceeding west on Second Street, crossing the intersection.
The female car driver, 91 year old, Helen Burleson of Jamestown was cited by police for failure to yield after stopping at the stop sign.

Jamestown (CSi) The 31st Last Annual Comedy Revue is set for 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 1-2, at 7:30-p.m., each evening at the Arts Center.
Tickets for the Comedy Revue are $10 for adults. College Students $5, those younger get in free.
Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Emcee, Bruce Berg, said the show brings back Dave McDowell, Tim Bratton, and Richie Wolf.
McDowell, in his 20th year,does a musical duo.
Bratton brings music and topical jokes, in addition to being an excellent musician.
Also performing will be, Joel Lees, Nick Scherbenske, Dave Hillerud, Brooke Carroll, Nancy and Steve Kuykendall and North Dakota poet laureate, Larry Woiwode.
Berg says, over 200 people have performed in the show during the run.
He adds, the show will last 1 hour and 22 minutes, because it almost always does.
Berg poined out that the Comedy Revue is a part of Jamestown Performing Arts, a nonprofit organization that he and Conrad Davidson started together in 1980, and its raised between $40,000 and $45,000 for charity over the years, going to the arts community, Jamestown High School or the Arts Center, for arts-related activities such as camps, trips or scholarships.

Jamestown  (CSi)  The University of Jamestown and Oakes High School are excited to announce a new partnership through which Oakes High School students will be able to take Introduction to the Humanities I & II through the University starting in the fall of 2015.  The course will expose students to some of the most important philosophers and writers throughout history, including Plato, Sophocles, Bronte, Fitzgerald, and Nagel.  The course will also have a heavy emphasis on leadership and civic engagement.
Joshua Johnson, Superintendent of Schools at Oakes, says, “Oakes Public Schools is very excited to partner with the University of Jamestown and offer a leadership-based dual credit course for senior students.  It is becoming increasingly challenging in North Dakota rural K-12 schools to meet the upper level needs of advanced high school students and we are confident that the partnership with UJ will challenge our students to new levels. This pilot program at Oakes Public Schools will likely pave the way for other schools and students across rural North Dakota to achieve at upper levels.”
As part of the course, students will participate in a variety of activities, including service projects in Oakes, the University of Jamestown’s fall leadership workshop, and a near-peer mentoring program with juniors and seniors in UJ’s Character in Leadership program.
“I am thrilled to be working with Oakes High School and to be bringing university-level humanities, leadership development, and civic engagement into their school,” said Dr. Paul Olson, the academic dean at UJ.  “To be able to provide a challenging dual-credit course for high achieving students is fantastic.  I hope we learn from our experience with Oakes and are able to use it as a model for other school districts throughout the area,” says Paul Olson, Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of Jamestown.
The University of Jamestown was established in 1883 and is ranked as a top tier regional school in US News and World Report and a top Midwestern school in The Princeton Review. The school features development of the whole person through its distinctive Journey to Success experience.
Jamestown (CSi) The Mrs. North Dakota ~ America Pageant Weekend will be held on April 30th – May 2nd, 2015. Mary Schwartzkopf, Mrs. North Dakota-America 2011 who is the state director will be leading the event with her staff during the pageant weekend. The Delegates are coming from across the state: Mrs. Benson County, Mrs. Fargo, Mrs. Jamestown, Mrs. Medora, Mrs. South Fargo, and Mrs. West Fargo.

The pageant show is scheduled for Saturday at 7:00 pm, May 2nd at the Quality Inn & Suites in Jamestown. Discount Tickets can be purchased from a Local Titleholder Contestant or go to the Mrs. ND/America state pageant website for more information. (www.mrsnd.com )
There will be a Veterans Color Guard Presentation to open the Pageant with a Opening Ceremony…Alexis Barnick will entertain. This year’s Pageant Guest Visitor will be Mrs. Vermont 2014, Sera Anderson. She will be joining Eliza Potratz, Mrs. NDA 2014 to participate in the festivities here in Jamestown during the pageant weekend.
Eliza shares her year …’A Walk To Remember.’
The 2015 Mrs. America Pageant is currently undergoing plans to be held in Russia. The State Winners from every state will compete in Russia, for Mrs. America 2015 in Moscow and Sevastopol this September. Keep watching the Mrs. America website for future developments the “First Runner-up Delegates” from every state may be involved in this year.
The Mrs. North Dakota ~ America Pageant is the official state preliminary to the national event. It is also a stage from which women in North Dakota can promote family values, women causes and local charities. Mrs. ND- America state pageant is for married women that are at least 18 years of age – 60 + . She must be legally married at the time of competition, a North Dakota resident and a U.S. citizen.
For more information on the 2015 Mrs. ND-America state pageant, email your questions to:
mrsndamerica2011@hotmail.com and visit the Mrs. NDA State Pageant Website at: www.mrsnd.com

GARNDER, N.D. (AP) – State authorities are reconstructing the scene of an all-terrain vehicle crash in Cass County to figure out how fast two men were driving when they fatally crashed.

The sheriff’s office says a 49-year-old man and a 52-year-old man were killed in the crash on a farmstead near Gardner on Thursday morning.

The two men will not be identified until their families are notified.

The sheriff’s office is working with the state Highway Patrol.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A top Jamaican law enforcement officer testifying in a North Dakota trial says his country is making progress in disrupting lottery scams, but many children still want to grow up to be scammers.

Cpl. Kevin Watson testified in Bismarck Thursday in the trial of fellow countryman Sanjay Williams, accused of participating in a wide-ranging lottery scam that victimized more than 70 people, including a woman from central North Dakota.

Watson founded a lottery task force in late 2012. He says a Jamaican law passed in 2013 has increased the number of successful prosecutions of scammers, but many fraudsters have now gone underground.

Watson says a Jamaican elementary school teacher asked him to speak to her class because 17 of the 35 students said they wanted to be lottery scammers.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Officials cite slumping oil prices as one reason for the first drop in airline boardings in North Dakota in years.

Passenger numbers at the eight commercial service airports in North Dakota in March dropped a total of 3 percent from March 2014. The drop came after years of growth that coincided with the oil boom.

But state Aeronautics Commission Director Kyle Wanner also says passenger numbers still soar high above where they were when the state’s oil industry began taking off.

Year-to-date numbers show a 57 percent increase over January-to-March figures from five years ago. And even if airline passenger numbers for the rest of this year are stable or show a slight decline, 2015 likely still will be one of the top boardings years in state history.

The North Dakota Aeronautics Commission reports, Jamestown airline boardings for March of 2015 were 727. In March of 2014 Jamestown was without airline service. In March of 2013, boardings in Jamestown with Great Lakes Airlines was 227.

Through March this year, Jamestown boardings were 2,109.

Devils Lake in March this year had boardings of 403. No airline service there in March of 2014, with the March 2013 numbers, in affiliation with Great Lakes Airlines at 154.

GRAFTON, N.D. (AP) – A Grafton man accused of possessing explosive devices has been sentenced to serve about 2 1/2 years in prison and then spend another three on probation.

Sixty-two-year-old Gregory Sevigny faced six felony charges related to possessing explosives, preventing arrest and terrorizing after an hours-long standoff with law officers at his home on Nov. 29.

He could have faced up to 30 years in prison if convicted on all charges. Court documents show he recently reached an agreement with prosecutors under which he pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing explosives, and the remaining charges were dismissed.

Sevigny also reached a plea deal on charges of violating a no-contact order. Fines and fees for all of the charges levied against him total about $2,200.

MINOT, N.D. (AP) – The owners of the last 10 temporary housing units on private lots in Minot face a June 1 deadline for removing them.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency brought 2,052 temporary housing units to Minot after the 2011 Souris River Flood that damaged or destroyed more than 4,000 homes and other structures, causing nearly $700 million in damage in the city.

When the federal agency’s housing mission ended in September 2013, homeowners still making repairs were able to buy their units. The City Council approved 39 requests for permission to keep units on private property until June 2014. The deadline was extended to October 2014 and then individually extended to owners who needed more time.

Councilman Dave Lehner says June 1 is the final deadline.

In world and national news…

BALTIMORE (AP) – Baltimore’s mayor is vowing that the city will get justice for Freddie Gray — the black man who died after suffering critical injuries while in police custody. She says if anyone can get “justice and healing for this community,” it would be three black women — herself, the prosecutor investigating the case, and new Attorney General Loretta Lynch. The prosecutor, meanwhile, is asking the public to remain patient and peaceful as she conducts an investigation.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Just hours into his Democratic presidential bid, Sen. Bernie Sanders says questions about the Clinton Foundation’s activities are fair game. The independent senator from Vermont also noted Thursday that Hillary Rodham Clinton hasn’t yet taken a position on contentious trade legislation, or on the proposed Keystone X-L pipeline. He told reporters on Capitol Hill that he wants to create “an economy that works for all of our people.”

DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (AP) – Authorities in Alabama are launching an investigation into a sailboat race that ended with three boaters dead and three more missing on the Alabama coast. The review is beginning as the search for the missing sailors winds down. A storm with near-hurricane-force winds struck Saturday afternoon as dozens of sailboats were completing the regatta. Forecasters had issued weather alerts, but sailors have said they didn’t know the storms would be so strong.

ATLANTA (AP) – A judge has sharply reduced the sentences for three former Atlanta public school educators who received the harshest prison terms in the city’s standardized test cheating trial. The three had earlier been sentenced to seven years in prison and 13 years on probation. That’s now been reduced to three years in prison and seven on probation — along with fines and community service. The judge says it’s a sentence he can “live with.” The three former district regional directors were the highest-ranking of the 11 former educators convicted of racketeering.

ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A school district in Tennessee is changing its food-handling procedures — after discovering that pork from six years ago was served to students in the Hawkins County district last week. No sicknesses have been reported from the frozen meat. According to a newspaper (the Kingsport Times-News), the Agriculture Department recommends eating frozen roasts within 12 months — but it says frozen food is safe indefinitely.