Wayne Byers Show – Evening – May23

CSi Weather…

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

ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND
 EVENING FOR THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE AREA OR ROUGHLY SOUTH OF A
 LINE FROM WASKISH MINNESOTA TO COOPERSTOWN NORTH DAKOTA. 
 
SOME  LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. THE STORMS WILL
 MOST LIKELY OCCUR BETWEEN 2PM AND 8 PM CDT.
 
 A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED ACROSS ALL OF
 EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA FOR
 WEDNESDAY. THE STORMS WILL BE MOST LIKELY IN THE AFTERNOON AND
 EVENING. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED.

Jamestown (CSi) The National Buffalo Museum in Jamestown has announced that White Cloud the albino buffalo, has returned home to Shirek (Shree’-ock) Buffalo, in Michigan, North Dakota.

White Cloud returned home on Saturday, May 21, 2016. White Cloud was born July 10, 1996 at Shirek Buffalo. The Shirek family wanted her to be more visible to the public and made a special arrangement with the Museum for her to live with the bison herd on the plains in Jamestown.

Over 20 years, White Cloud had 11 bison calves including one named Dakota Miracle. White Cloud was returned to Shirek Buffalo because her life expectancy is unknown. Typically, a bison can live in captivity on average of 20 to 25 years.

President of the National Buffalo Museum Board, Don Williams says, “We are aware of her health. Summers are hard on her. As an albino, she can’t regulate her body temperature as well in the heat. Shirek Buffalo can care for her during the summer in ways we can’t in Jamestown.”

The news release from the Museum states that they are sad to see White Cloud leave.

“White Cloud has become a special part of the Jamestown community, and we will miss her as part of the museum’s live herd. It’s estimated over 3 million visitors have stopped to see White Cloud during the 19 years she’s been in Jamestown.”

Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Public Works reminds residnets, that due to the Memorial Day Holiday, there will be NO garbage pickup on Monday, May 30, 2016.

Monday’s garbage will be picked up on Tuesday;

Tuesday’s garbage will be picked up on Wednesday;

Wednesday’s & Thursday’s garbage will be picked up on Thursday;

No change in Friday’s pick-up route.

All routes will begin at 7:00 a.m. each morning.

The baling facility will be OPEN on Saturday, May 28^th, 2016.

The baling facility will be CLOSED on Monday, May 30, 2016.

Carrington (CSi) Carrington School District patrons will again vote in a special election concerning building a new elementary school.

The vote will be held Tuesday, May 24, 2016, at the Carrington Elementary School. Voting will be from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The Carrington Public School Board approved a special bond election. School Superintendent Brian Duchscherer says the new project has cut some items and will cost a bit less than the first project proposal.

He also pointed out there isn’t much difference between this special vote and the previous one, which was defeated by the public.

Bismarck (CSi) The North Dakota Highway Patrol and the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services will conduct an annual test of the AMBER (America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response) Alert system from 2-3 p.m. on Wednesday, May 25, 2016. All AMBER Alert components will be tested. Advance notification is important to avoid misinterpretation of this test as an actual AMBER Alert.

AMBER Alerts are recorded on the North Dakota Department of Transportation’s 511 Road and Weather Information System and are displayed on the NDDOT roadside message signs, the nd.gov and AMBER Alert websites, and at North Dakota Lottery terminal sites. Eight AMBER Alerts involving nine children have been issued in North Dakota. Eight children were successfully recovered. Nationwide, AMBER Alert has been credited with the successful recovery of 822 children.

The goal of an AMBER Alert is to instantly galvanize the community to assist in the search for and safe return of the abducted child.　The AMBER Alert Program is a voluntary partnership between law enforcement, state agencies, the National Weather Service, and the North Dakota Broadcasters Association to activate an urgent bulletin in child abduction cases meeting AMBER Alert activation criteria.　 NDDES, in collaboration with the NWS, uses the Emergency Alert System to provide a description of the abducted child and suspected abductor to statewide radio and television broadcast stations that disseminate the information to the public.　 Please register at www.wirelessamberalerts.org to receive text notifications of actual AMBER Alerts that occur in the area.　

Bismarck (CSi) The North Dakota Game and Fish Department emphasizes a simple message to well-intentioned humans who want to pick up and rescue what appear to be orphaned baby animals – don’t touch them. Whether it is a young fawn, duckling, cottontail rabbit or a songbird, it is better to just leave them alone.

More often than not young animals are not abandoned or deserted, and the mother is probably watching nearby. Young wildlife are purposely placed into seclusion by their mothers to protect them from predators.

Anytime a young wild animal has human contact its chance for survival decreases significantly. It’s illegal to take wild animals home, and captive animals later returned to the wild will struggle to survive because they do not possess learned survival skills.

The only time a baby animal should be picked up is if it is in an unnatural situation, such as a young songbird found on a doorstep. In that case, the young bird could be moved to the closest suitable habitat.

Citizens should also steer clear of adult wildlife, such as deer or moose that might wander into urban areas. Crowding stresses animals, and this could lead to a potentially dangerous situation.

In addition, motorists are reminded to watch for deer along roadways. June is one of the peak months for deer vehicle accidents because young animals are dispersing from their home ranges. With deer more active during these months, the potential for car deer collisions increases.

 SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) – A federal judge has sentenced Timothy Suckow to 30 years in prison for the assassination of a Spokane businessman in a case that has ties to the North Dakota oil patch. U.S. District Court Judge Salvador Mendoza sentenced the 52-year-old Suckow on Friday for shooting Douglas Carlile in his upscale home in Spokane two years ago.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota research project aimed at finding a new way to restore land ruined by briny oilfield wastewater has been scrubbed due to lack of funding.
 
     The University of North Dakota’s Energy and Environmental Research Center got a $500,000 grant to develop a method of restoring land ruined by saltwater, which is a byproduct of oil production. The plan was to use pumps and drainage tiles to flush and recover salt from sites, instead of digging them up.
 
     EERC researcher John Harju says the project site in Renville County is double the size of what had been thought initially. He says the project isn’t feasible now because of additional costs involved.
 
     Harju says the researchers will use the money now to monitor some additional sites affected by oil development.
 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota educators, lawmakers, and business and community leaders are meeting at the state Capitol to discuss the future of higher education.
 
     The Envision 2030 planning initiative is being headed by North Dakota University System Chancellor Mark Hagerott. He says the goal is to address issues facing the state’s 11 public colleges and universities, including administrative and tuition costs and student retention.
 
     Panels on Monday were to discuss topics that included the state’s changing demographics and needs of businesses. Sessions also were slated on topics ranging from diversity to technology.
 
     Hagerott says recommendations from the discussions will be published next year.

In world and national news…

 BALTIMORE (AP) – Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is asking city residents to be patient and “allow the entire process to come to a conclusion,” after the second police officer to be tried on charges in the arrest of Freddie Gray was acquitted.  The 25-year-old died from injuries he suffered in the back of a police van.  The judge who decided Officer Edward Nero’s fate in the non-jury trial concluded Nero played little role in the arrest and wasn’t responsible for the failure by police to buckle Gray in.
 
     SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) – Police in Sarasota, Florida, say hazardous materials teams have found and removed unidentified chemicals inside cleaning closets at a Planned Parenthood clinic. More than 40 people were evacuated from the building Monday morning after staffers reported respiratory symptoms including shortness of breath. Police say seven people were taken to a hospital for evaluation and others were decontaminated at the scene.
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been meeting with Sen. Bob Corker. Following the meeting at Trump Tower in New York, Corker, the Tennessee Republican, said he has no knowledge of whether he’s being considered for Trump’s running mate or for a Cabinet position should Trump win the general election. Corker is chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He praised a high-profile foreign policy speech that Trump delivered in Washington last month.
 
     NORTHERN SYRIA (AP) – U.S. military advisers are working with Kurdish women and Arab men at a training camp in northern Syria to create a coherent and competent force to defeat the Islamic State. Advisers describe many of the fighters as civilians who see the battle as a personal moral imperative. The U.S. advisers say the number of Arab volunteers surged this spring, following a series of battlefield gains against the Islamic State.
 
     CHESTER, Ill. (AP) – An Illinois prosecutor says former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson offered a fellow inmate $10,000 to kill the state’s attorney who prosecuted him for the death of his third wife. The Chicago Sun-Times reports Randolph County State’s Attorney Jeremy Walker told jurors in opening statements that Peterson was motivated by anger, hatred and revenge. Peterson was convicted in 2012 of first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his ex-wife, Kathleen Savio, and is now on trial for the alleged murder-for-hire plot.