Wayne Byers Show – Morning – Jan 17

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REST OF TODAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS 15 TO 20. NORTHWEST WINDS
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WIND CHILL TEMPERATURES MONDAY MORNING ARE

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Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Jan 16, 2013) — Recruiting workers to the Jamestown area will be the emphasis of a regional workforce roundtable scheduled later this week.

On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corporation’s, Business Devlopment Coordinator, DeAnn Brunner, said the roundtable outlines strategies such as the establishment of a relocation workforce.

The roundtable is comprised of representatives of the JSDC as well as the Valley City/Barnes County business community and encourages the participation of local businesses and educational institutions.

The $1.3 billion Spiritwood nitrogen fertilizer plant set for construction in 2014 has sparked the need for the region to prepare for an influx of traffic and workers.

 

Ms. Brunner said it’s important for representatives from all around the region to be involved in the discussions.

At the January meeting, JSDC Board of Directors welcomed new members Lorrie Pavlicek, Brent Harris, and Kelly Rachel. Todd Hudspeth was nominated for the Executive Committee. Also, JSDC welcomed Gary Riffe as the new JSDC Chairman, Secretary Chris Rathjen, and Vice President Bob Toso.

The Board of Directors meeting in January focused on established and new committees to assist the community and region in further development.

JSDC has five committees currently that consist of JSDC Board members, city and county officials, industry leaders, job training officials, economic developers, school district representatives, and local and state officials.

The marketing committee has been established to oversee and guide JSDC marketing strategies and campaigns with guidance by KK Bold. KK Bold will assist JSDC in all marketing areas to better assist the community in recruiting business relocation and expansion, workforce recruitment, and housing developers.

The second committee is the spec building committee who will work with developers and research/design spec buildings for Jamestown/Stutsman County. Many companies looking to relocate desire a building that is already constructed and are move-in ready, which Jamestown is currently lacking.

The development committee will continue to assist SRF Consulting in the task of guiding and planning for the future growth of Jamestown/Stutsman County. The Development Committee will also research the development of another park.

The fourth committee is the workforce committee to address the concerns of workforce shortages across the region, plus attract and retain quality workforce. Many businesses in the community have reported a shortage of qualified workforce and will benefit from things such as workforce training programs and worker recruitment programs.

The last committee mentioned was the medical leaders/workforce training committee to continue to work with the CNA, CMA, Welders, and Dental Assistants training courses as well as explore other training courses that should be established.

The JSDC board members also heard an overview of all ongoing projects for the JSDC. JSDC had a very exciting 2012 and looking forward to an even better 2013.

The JSDC website is being updated at

www.growingjamestown.comto learn about the JSDC projects.

　

In other business, the JSDC Board this month, reviewed an interim report from

Carbontec Energy Corporation, which is performing a feasibility study regarding processing iron ore at the Spiritwood Energy Park, called E-Nugget.

The company is reviewing supply, loading and transportation requirements for a 100,000 ton/year iron nugget plant sited at Spiritwood.

Iron ore could be sent from northern Minnesota on coal cars.

　

Partial funding comes from a grant from the North Dakota Agricultural Products Utilization Committee (APUC), and the JSDC.

Carbontec is continuing the feasibility study.

　

In other business, Jamestown Mayor Katie Andersen gave a status update on the city’s negotiations with Stutsman Rural Water District, concerning which entity will serve the Titan Machinery building west of Jamestown, in the area of Jamestown Regional Medical Center.

Mayor Andersen said the same issue is occurring in a number of cities around North Dakota adding that the State Legislature may address it.

She said the issue was difficult but she was confident a solution could be found.

　

 DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) – Authorities in Dickinson are investigating the cause of a mobile home fire that injured five people and killed a dog.
 
     Four adults and a child were inside the home when the blaze broke out in the living room on Tuesday morning. The seriousness of the injuries they suffered is not known, though Fire Chief Bob Sivak says  one person was airlifted to a burn center.
 
     Corrie Bishop, who leases the home, declined comment to the newspaper when contacted at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Dickinson.
 
     The home was destroyed.

 

 MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A North Dakota construction worker has pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease to killing his three young daughters in Wisconsin. Aaron Schaffhausen is accused of killing 11-year-old Amara, 8-year-old Sophie and 5-year-old Cecilia Schaffhausen last July. Prosecutors say Schaffhausen killed the girls to hurt his ex-wife. 

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Two bills introduced this week by the North Dakota Legislature would allow people with concealed carry permits to have guns at schools or churches.
 
     The proposed legislation comes as President Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled the most sweeping proposals for curbing gun violence in two decades.
 
     In North Dakota, House Bill 1215 would allow someone with a concealed weapon permit to carry a gun inside a school if a school district has authorized a policy for doing so.
 
     House Bill 1283 would amend the current law that forbids carrying a concealed weapon in public places. Under the proposed bill, someone with a concealed carry permit could carry a weapon inside a church, if church officials allow it.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The State Tax Department is supporting a bill that would require commercial roll-your-own cigarette machine owners to register their equipment and pay the same taxes as name-brand packaged smokes.
 
     State Tax Department attorney Daniel Rouse told the Senate Finance and Taxation Committee on Wednesday that the commercial roll-your-own machines are a recent phenomenon and are beginning to appear in North Dakota.
 
     Rouse says the machines cost about $35,000 and are about the size of a jukebox. He says they can crank out a carton of cigarettes in about eight minutes.
 
     Rouse says the machines use loose pipe tobacco that is taxed at just one-tenth the rate as cigarettes.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Lignite production in North Dakota last year was a little below average.
 
     The Lignite Energy Council says the state’s four large lignite mines produced 27.5 million tons of coal in 2012. That’s down about 700,000 tons from 2011.
 
     The group says production has been near 30 million tons since 1988, making North Dakota one of the 10 major coal-producing states in the nation.
 
     The four large mines are the Freedom, Falkirk, Center and Beulah mines. Most of the lignite mined last year was used to create electricity. Smaller amounts were used to produce synthetic natural gas and fertilizer products.

 

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – Sanford Health could be operating in China in about a year if the Dakotas-based health system can work out details of a joint venture with the country’s communist government. Sanford Executive Vice President Ruth Krystopolski says the Chinese government is interested in having Sanford operate a children’s hospital and clinic in Kunming, a city of 6 million people.

 

　In sports…

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V Sports Jan 16, 2013) — Drag Racing at Jamestown Regional Airport will again, with Federal Aviation Administration approval, return this summer.

The dates will be July 27, and 28, 2013.

The Jamestown Regional Airport Authority agreed host the event.

The Jamestown Drag Racing Association contributes about $2,000 to the airport to offset any wear and tear to the airport, and oversees cleanup.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota is making only 180 any-deer bow licenses available to out-of-state hunters this year.
 
     That is down from just under 700 licenses last year, and about 1,100 in 2011.
 
     The number of nonresident any-deer bow licenses is 15 percent of the previous year’s mule deer gun license allocation. The state Game and Fish Department issued only 1,200 mule deer buck licenses last year, because mule deer reproduction is at record-low levels in the state.
 
     Game and Fish says bowhunters might be prohibited from killing deer within a large area of western North Dakota.
 
     The deadline for applying is March 1. A lottery will be held if more than 180 applications are received.

 

NATIONAL  BASKETBALL  ASSOCIATION
 
   Final  OT    Chicago                107    Toronto              105
   Final          Orlando                  97    Indiana                86
   Final          Atlanta                109    Brooklyn              95
   Final          Oklahoma  City    117    Denver                  97
   Final          Dallas                  105    Houston              100
   Final          New  Orleans          90    Boston                  78
   Final          San  Antonio        103    Memphis                82
   Final          Cleveland              93    Portland              88
   Final          Sacramento            95    Washington          94
   Final          Miami                      92    Golden  State      75
 
 
       TOP-25  COLLEGE  BASKETBALL
 
   Final          (13)  Butler                  62              Richmond                47
   Final                    Maryland              51    (14)  NC  State                50
   Final                    UNLV                      82    (15)  San  Diego  St.      75
   Final          (16)  Kansas  St.          67              TCU                          54
   Final          (17)  Missouri              79              Georgia                  62
   Final          (18)  Michigan  St.      81              Penn  St.                72
   Final  OT    (19)  New  Mexico          79              Boise  St.              74
   Final          (25)  Marquette            69              Seton  Hall            62
 

NBA…

 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Coach Rick Adelman has visited the Minnesota Timberwolves, giving his team some words of encouragement while he takes time away to tend to his ill wife. Adelman has missed the last five games after his wife was hospitalized with an undisclosed illness. Assistant coach Terry Porter will fill in against tonight when Minnesota hosts the Los Angeles Clippers.

 

COLLEGE BASKETBALL…
      
     MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Coach Tubby Smith is leaning heavily on his starting five this season as No. 9 Minnesota stays competitive in Big Ten play. Smith has been criticized in the past for a substitution pattern that often resembled hockey line shifts. The Gophers host No. 5 Michigan tonight.

 

NHL WILD…
     ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – About 150 Minnesota Wild fans lined up at the Xcel Energy Center yesterday to buy tickets as they went on sale. About 20 fans spend the night inside the arena before the box office opened yesterday morning. The Wild open the shortened season Saturday against Colorado.

 

COLLEGE HOCKEY…
     GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Tickets for this weekend’s hockey series between rivals Minnesota and North Dakota are selling for hundreds of dollars. The games tomorrow and Saturday at Mariucci Arena in Minneapolis are the last time the two schools will play as members of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, barring a playoff matchup. The Grand Forks Herald reports tickets for Saturday’s game are going for as much as $425 online.

 

CYCLING ARMSTRONG…

LONDON (AP) – Officials familiar with the decision tell The Associated Press the IOC has stripped Lance Armstrong of his bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Olympics because of his involvement in doping.
 
     Two officials say the IOC sent a letter to Armstrong on Wednesday night asking him to return the medal. The move came after the IOC was notified by cycling’s governing body that Armstrong had not appealed the decision to disqualify him.
 
     The officials spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the decision hasn’t been announced.
 
     The IOC executive board discussed revoking the medal last month, but delayed a decision until cycling body UCI formally notified Armstrong he had been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and all results since 1998. He then had 21 days to appeal.
 
     With the deadline expired, the IOC decided to take the medal away.

 

NFL…

 UNDATED (AP) – The Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Bears have filled their head coaching vacancies. Chip Kelly heads to the Eagles after going 46-7 in four years at Oregon. The Bears hired Marc Trestman, who won two CFL championships in five years with the Montreal Alouettes.
 

COLLEGE FOOTBALL…

 SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) – A story that Notre Dame Heisman finalist Manti Te’o’s (MAN’-ty TAY’-owz) girlfriend had died of leukemia turned out to be a hoax apparently perpetrated against the linebacker. The university says someone using a fictitious name “apparently ingratiated herself” with Te’o, then conspired with others to lead him to believe she had died of leukemia. T’eo says he developed an emotional relationship with a woman he met online and maintained that relationship through computers and phones.

 

MLB…
 
     UNDATED (AP) – The Washington Nationals have agreed to send Michael Morse to Seattle as part of a three-team deal that would move catcher John Jaso (JAY’-soh) from the Mariners to the Athletics and pitcher A.J. Cole from Oakland to the Nationals. Morse hit .291 with 18 home runs and 62 RBIs for the Nationals in an injury-plagued season, playing mostly as an outfielder. Jaso, 29, batted .276 with 10 homers and 50 RBIs but became expendable when Seattle signed Raul Ibanez to be its designated hitter.
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez has undergone surgery on his left hip and is expected to be sidelined until after the All-Star break. The Yankees also worked out a one-year, $7.15 million contract with Phil Hughes, a raise of $3.75 million. Hughes went 16-13 last year, two seasons after winning 18 games.

 

TENNIS…

 MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – Defending women’s champ Victoria Azarenka (az-ah-REHN’-kah) and third seed Venus Williams were among the second-round winners during Day 4 at the Australian Open. No. 1-ranked Caroline Wozniacki also has advanced. Men’s third seed Andy Murray won his second-round match in straight sets, as did No. 7 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Roger Federer advanced to the third round with a 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 win over Russian Nikolay Davydenko.

 GOLF… 
 
     ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Unheralded Jamie Donaldson outshone struggling Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods at the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship while carding a 5-under 67 for the early clubhouse lead.
 
     McIlroy, playing with new clubs following his multimillion dollar sponsorship deal with Nike, finished with a 3-over 75 and risks missing the cut.
 
     Woods, meanwhile, finished even par after a rollercoaster round. He had four birdies to go along with four bogeys and ended his round by three-putting his final hole for a bogey.

 

In world and national news…

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) – An Algerian security official says at least 20 hostages being held by Islamist militants at a natural gas plant in the Sahara desert have escaped. The official says Americans and Europeans were among those who got away. The militants had claimed to be holding 41 hostages. They say the attack was retaliation for France’s military operation against al-Qaida-linked rebels in neighboring Mali.
 
     AURORA, Colo. (AP) – The Colorado movie theater where a gunman killed 12 people and injured dozens of others last summer will reopen today. The theater’s owners are holding a private ceremony for victims, first responders and officials. But the event is being boycotted by some who lost loved ones in the massacre. The 16-screen complex in Aurora will reopen permanently next week. 
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The head of the National Rifle Association says his organization has no problem with tighter background checks of gun purchasers. But NRA president David Keene tells “CBS This Morning” that too much emphasis is being placed on banning certain firearms, in response to last month’s elementary school massacre in Connecticut. Keene says more attention should be paid to making schools safer and fixing the country’s mental health system.
 
     NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Federal Inspectors have found hundreds of flood control systems at risk of failing. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says 326 levees covering more than 2,000 miles in 37 states are in urgent need of repair. Problems include earthen walls weakened by trees and shrubs, houses built dangerously close to levees and decaying pipes.

 
     SCARSDALE, N.Y. (AP) – The Village of Scarsdale, New York, is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to get rid of the geese that flock near a pond by the village library and leave droppings everywhere. The geese will be captured during their summer molting period and their nests treated with corn oil to prevent eggs from hatching. But opponents have started a petition to stop the program, which includes a plan to donate goose meat to a local food bank.