Wayne Byers Show – Evening – May 19

CSi Weather…

REST OF TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.  TEMPERATURE FALLING THROUGH
THE AFTERNOON.  SOUTH WINDS AROUND
20 MPH.
.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EVENING…THEN PARTLY CLOUDY AFTER MIDNIGHT.
LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S. SOUTHEAST
WINDS 10 TO 20 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. SOUTHEAST
WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. BREEZY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.
SOUTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 20 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH 20 TO 25 MPH
IN THE AFTERNOON.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
.MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS.
HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S.
.TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT
CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S.
LOWS AROUND 50.

THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY
 EVENING OVER THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED.
 
 FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY
 
 THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS FAR WESTERN NORTH
 DAKOTA SATURDAY NIGHT…THEN ACROSS THE WEST AND CENTRAL SUNDAY
 THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE STORMS
 SATURDAY NIGHT IN THE WEST…AND ACROSS THE CENTRAL SUNDAY INTO MONDAY.

 

WATER SERVICE OUTAGE

Please note WATER SERVICE WILL BE INTERRUPTED in the following areas Thursday afternoon: 17^th Avenue & 5^th Street NE

City Crews will be repairing valves, etc. near the 17^th Avenue & 5^th Street NE area and will continue work until repairs are complete.

Water outages will be temporary in this area – water service will be resumed as soon as is possible.

Please call the CITY WATER TREATMENT PLANT at 701.252.5131 for further information.

 

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Hansen Arts Park in downtown Jamestown is getting flowers for the season with plantings.

On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Jamestown Arts Center, Director Cyndi Wish said the community is invited to help out.

The first set of plantings occurred on Wednesday, and Thursday this week, and will continue after Memorial Day, with dates and times to be announced, with volunteer work consisting of planting the hedges.

This summer the sculpture will be installed at the Arts Park with the artist working for several days, and living in Jamestown during that time.

Anyone interested in volunteering at the Arts Park this summer may contact the Jamestown Arts Center at 701-251-2496.

The current exhibit at the Arts Center gallery is “Inspired by Shadow by Donna Watts, now through June 11, 2016.

Coming up at the Arts Center will be summer camps beginning June 6, 2016 including theater, sculpture, and mask making, and more.

In conjunction with the Two Rivers Performing Arts School, youth from 2^nd through 8^th grade are invited to participate in the Drama Camp.

July 11-29, 2016, Monday through Friday from 9-a.m., to 12 noon.

The performance will be Friday July 29, 2016 at 7-p.m., at the Arts Center.

Also coming to the Arts Center will be the Missoula Children’s Theater, with children learning, and then putting on a production later in the summer.

The Arts Center has more information.

The next Open Mic Night is set for Saturday May 21, 2016, starting at 6-p.m., at the Arts Center. Participants should sign up at the door that evening.

A variety of acts ranging from family friendly comedy, to singing will be presented.

Call the Jamestown Arts Center for more information at 701-251-2496, open Monday-Friday 9-a.m. to 5-p.m, and Saturdays 10-a.m. to 2-p.m., in downtown Jamestown.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The University of Jamestown Doctor of Physical Therapy program has earned accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE). CAPTE is the only Physical Therapy accreditation organization in the United States, and the University of Jamestown Doctor of Physical Therapy program is one of only three accredited programs in North Dakota.

The Program Director, Nancy Nuzzo says, “The success of the University of Jamestown Physical Therapy Program is a team effort by faculty, staff, administration, and students. We thank the professional community for their tremendous support, and we look forward to our graduates serving their patients/clients, the community, and the profession.”

Accreditation has been a four-year process for the University. Candidacy for accreditation began in 2012 with the construction of the Fargo campus and finished this spring with graduation of the inaugural class of 35 students. The program is taught from the Fargo location with hands-on learning classrooms equipped with practice tables and other training equipment.

Vice President for Academic Affairs, Paul Olson says, “Being granted full accreditation, without any stipulations, speaks to the quality of work that Dr. Nuzzo, the faculty, and the staff have been doing for the past several years. The Doctor of Physical Therapy program is an outstanding addition to the University, the Fargo community, and our entire region.”

 

 

LaMoure (CSi) LaMoure County Courthouse employees and local emergency services will be training for emergency preparedness on Friday, May 20, 2016.

A simulated incident involving an emergency event at the LaMoure County Courthouse will take place from Noon to 4:30 PM. City and County emergency services along with government officials will be participating and the courthouse will be closed to the public during that time.

LaMoure County Emergency Manager Kimberly Robbins states that these simulated plans will help the emergency preparedness in the community.

“The simulated emergency event will serve to assess the county emergency preparedness plan, which includes Lock-down during the exercise,” Robbins stated. “A second objective includes assessing the response of law enforcement and other emergency services including ambulance and fire response.”

Funding for the simulation is being provided partly by the State Homeland Security Grant Program. This funding allows other scenarios and training to happen in LaMoure, Ransom, Dickey and Sargent County schools in 2014.

For any questions, contact Kimberly Robbins at 701-883-6096.

 

 Valley City (CSi) Valley City and area residents are invited to join the original CROP Walk for Hunger event in Valley City on Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 7 pm. The walk starts at Faith Lutheran Church.

Pastor Emmy Swedlund, at Our Saviors Lutheran Church in Valley City. says “Everyone is welcome to walk or donate,” states And the walk this year has been shortened to 5 kilometers (about 3 miles).

Pastor Jolene Knudson-Hanse, adds, “This is an opportunity to fight hunger globally and in our local community.”

Twenty percent of the funds raised with go the Barnes County Food Pantry.

The funds going overseas will go through Church World Service, an ecumenical development and relief organization that works across the world. They also work in the USA and provided relief services as they did in 1997 for the people in Grand Forks during and after the flood.

Presently Church World Service is working with the 200,000 evacuees as a result of the earthquake that hit Kumamoto, Japan in mid April. In Pakistan they are providing education about heat stroke and to provide treatment of heat stroke, in expectation of a record high temperature coming this summer.

Last summer temperatures reached 120 degrees F, with reported 2000 deaths. The people in this area are vulnerable because of the extreme poverty, with few having electricity.

Tanzania has a refugee camp which is home to 85,000 Burundi refugees and 62,000 Congo refugees despite its intended capacity of 50,000. Church World Service is helping provide water and sanitation facilities (e.g. water storage tanks that supply 10,000 gallons of water daily).

More than 689,000 Syrians have sought asylum in Europe since the beginning of the conflict in 2011. Church World Service is helping countries provide food, shelter, blankets and baby care kits for these people.

Walk Chairperson, Sharon Buhr, encourages interested walkers to pick up a pledge/donation sheet from area churches or to contact her at 845-5197.

 

LUDDEN, N.D. (AP) – A Florida man is dead after a one-vehicle crash in southeastern North Dakota.
 
     The Highway Patrol says the 60-year-old man lost control of his car on a curve on state Highway 11 east of Ludden, and the vehicle tipped on its side in the ditch.
 
     The crash happened shortly after midnight Wednesday. The man was partially ejected from the car and died at the scene.
 
     The patrol didn’t immediately identify the Rockledge, Florida, man. He was alone in the vehicle.

 

 

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Minot police are searching for a suspect in an armed robbery of a bar in which a shot was fired.
 
     Authorities say a male brandishing a handgun entered Arny’s Lounge shortly before 1 a.m. Thursday, and at some point during the robbery a bullet was fired into a wall.
 
     The robber left with an undisclosed amount of money. No injuries were reported.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A man accused of firebombing a Somali restaurant in Grand Forks says the incident had nothing to do with race.
 
     Matthew Gust made the comment to a federal judge Thursday before he pleaded guilty to two counts for the Dec. 7 fire at the Juba Coffee House. The fire came three days after vandals had spray-painted what some have described as a Nazi-like symbol on the business.
 
     The 25-year-old Gust told the judge he doesn’t like the wording of one charge accusing him of attempting to intimidate employees and customers of the restaurant because of their national origin. Prosecutor Megan Healy replied that at least two witnesses testified that Gust has shown animosity toward the Somali community.
 
     The plea agreement calls for a sentence of 15 years in prison.

 

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A woman accused of robbing a pair of Grand Forks banks within two weeks last fall has pleaded guilty in federal court.
 
     Thirty-nine-year-old Charlene Corona, also known as Charlene Espinoza, faced two counts of bank robbery and pleaded guilty to both on Tuesday.
 
     Authorities say Corona used a knife to rob a Bremer Bank on Sept. 30 and a handgun to hold up the Citizen Community Credit Union on Oct. 12.
 
     She faces up to 40 years in prison, half a million dollars in fines and restitution. A sentencing date was not immediately set.

 

 OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Monthly survey of bankers suggests the economy remains sluggish in rural areas of 10 Western and Plains states. Creighton University economist Ernie Goss says weak crop prices and farm values are weighing on the economy in the region. And farmers aren’t making many big equipment purchases.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Attorney General and Republican governor candidate Wayne Stenehjem says he has a three-point plan to address prison overcrowding. Stenehjem held a news conference in Fargo Thursday to promote his idea that focuses on treatment, education and sentencing reform. He says without the changes the state will wind up putting more money into prisons and local jails rather than investing in anti-crime strategies.

 

MARMARTH, N.D. (AP) – A tank overflow has caused a spill of about 16,800 gallons of oil and more than 100,000 gallons of a mixture of saltwater and oil in Bowman County.
 
     The North Dakota Department of Health says the spill happened Wednesday at a site operated by Texas-based Denbury Onshore LLC, about 8 miles south of Marmarth.
 
     The company didn’t immediately respond to a telephone message requesting comment.
 
     Initial estimates show that about 105,000 gallons of what’s known as produced water were released. Produced water is a mixture of saltwater and oil and can contain drilling chemicals.
 
     An undetermined amount of the release left the well pad and has affected pastureland.
 
     Personnel with the Health Department and the state’s Oil and Gas Division are at the site and monitoring the investigation.

 

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Two top North Dakota lawmakers say a program that helped subsidize construction of hundreds of dwellings in western North Dakota’s oil patch likely has outlived its usefulness.
 
     The North Dakota Housing Finance Agency has issued some $62 million in tax credits since it began in 2011.
 
     Sen. Dwight Cook and Rep. Craig Headland, chairmen of their chambers’ respective tax committees, say continuing the program will be a tough sell due to a downturn in oil drilling.
 
     The program gives individual and business donors a dollar-for-dollar tax credit to subsidize construction of affordable dwellings. Agency director Jolene Kline says it has helped build about 2,450 rental units.
 
     She’d like to see it used to help fund repairs to low-income housing built decades ago.

 

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s fourth-largest city is on the verge of “metropolitan” status.
 
     New population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that Minot’s population grew by nearly 3 percent between July 2014 and July 2015.
 
     The gain of 1,398 residents put’s the city’s estimated population at 49,450 – just shy of the 50,000 mark that would categorize the city and region as a metropolitan area.
 
     Minot’s population has risen nearly 21 percent since the official 2010 census. State demographer Kevin Iverson says he expects Minot to top 50,000 residents in the next couple of years.
 
     Minot Mayor Chuck Barney agrees that the milestone is on the horizon, even with the oil industry slowdown.

 

 

In sports…

Jamestown (CSi) An evening of tennis for the entire family will be held Thursday, May 26, at Bolinger Courts in Jamestown from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Players of all ages and levels are welcome to the “Rally the Family” event.

Fun games and activities will be played. Everyone will have an opportunity to win a prize. Current and former high school players and coaches will be on hand to assist participants of all ability levels.

Kids as young as 5 years old can sign up for Jamestown Parks & Rec summer lessons at the event, as well.

“Rally the Family” is a United States Tennis Association (USTA) sponsored event, hosted by the Jamestown Tennis Association. USTA regional representative Carolyn Kramer will be sharing information about tennis opportunities in our region at the rally.

For more information, contact Jenna Reed at 320-6479.

 

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House says it’s too early to say definitively what caused an EgyptAir flight to crash into the Mediterranean Sea with 66 people aboard. Spokesman Josh Earnest says nothing has been ruled in or out, and that the U.S. is ready to help with the investigation. Secretary of State John Kerry, at NATO headquarters in Brussels, is expressing his condolences “to Egypt and to all other countries” affected by the crash of Flight 804.
 
     CAIRO (AP) – Egypt says that “floating material,” including life jackets and plastic items, have been found in the sea off the Greek island of Karpathos, close to the suspected site of the EgyptAir crash. The ministry says it is coordinating with Greek counterparts to examine what they have found and to determine whether the items could be part of the debris from the Airbus A320.
 
     CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) – A jury in Colorado has decided that the owner of a movie theater could not have prevented a 2012 shooting that killed 12 people. The six jurors concluded that Cinemark was not liable for the rampage, siding with the nation’s third-largest theater chain. Several survivors and families of the dead had sued the suburban Denver theater, saying it should have had armed guards.
 
     OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Oklahoma lawmakers have moved to effectively ban abortion in their state by making it a felony for doctors to perform the procedure. The bill also would restrict any physician who performs an abortion from obtaining or renewing a license to practice medicine in Oklahoma. A spokesman says Gov. Mary Fallin, an anti-abortion Republican, will withhold comment until her staff has time to review the measure.
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – A national poll finds that nine of 10 Native Americans aren’t offended by the “Washington Redskins” name. The poll conducted by The Washington Post indicated more than eight in 10 say they wouldn’t be offended if someone who was not a Native American called them that. A federal judge canceled the football team’s trademark registration in July, ruling the name may be disparaging to Native Americans. The club is appealing.