Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Jun 12

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CSi weather…

 TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. PATCHY FOG AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE
LOWER 50S. NORTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. PATCHY FOG IN THE MORNING. HIGHS IN THE
MID 70S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY IN THE EVENING…THEN MOSTLY
CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. SOUTH WINDS 10 TO 20 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EVENING…THEN PARTLY CLOUDY AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE MID 50S. WEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 50S. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S.
.WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO SPREAD WEST TO EAST ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY  EVENING.
 

Jamestown, ND ( KCSi-T.V. News Jun 13, 2013) — The $7.5 million rail loop project, to encircle the Spiritwood Energy Park, is moving ahead.

On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Jamestown/Stutsman County (JSDC) Business Development Coordinator, DeAnn Brunner said, at this weeks JSDC Board meeting, Great River Energy, Budget Manager, Rich Garman said the rail loop project is in its final design stages, and GRE continues to work closely with BNSF Railway officials.

Bids for the project are expected by the end of June, and awarded in July this year.

Earthwork would start this summer and continue into the fall as weather permits, with rail purchasing over the winter and spring 2014 construction to get the rail in place.,

Garman says, the goal is to get an operational rail line by August 2014.

In other business it was noted that the South Central Regional Council will release the updated Stutsman County Housing Study this month.

Ms. Brunner added that by 2020 there will be a need for 1,041 additional housing units in Stutsman County, not even taking into consideration additional individuals in the county involved with construction projects such as the CHS fertilizer plant.

She pointed out that SRF Consultants is planning a meeting with landowners, in the area between the Jamestown Regional Medical Center and Walmart, to discuss future development under the Jamestown Strategic Plan.

The JSDC Board has agreed to recognize the Jamestown Arts Center as an entity for economic development. No dollar outlays are planned at this point.

BISMARCK, N.D. (KCSi-T.V. News Jun 12, 2013) – The Governor’s Committee on Aging will meet Fri., June 14, 2013, in Jamestown to discuss issues impacting older adults and the services and programs that help them. The meeting is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at James River Senior Center at Legacy Place (old Jamestown Hospital), 419 Fifth St. N.E., and is open to the public.

Agenda items include legislative updates on various topics including home and community-based services, long-term care, guardianship and petitioning, mandatory reporting of elder abuse, and Vulnerable Adult Protective Services. Committee members will also hear discussion on the committee’s budget, membership, and work plan for 2013. There will also be a recap of the Governor’s Committee on Aging Forums held earlier this year in Minot, Oakes, and Valley City, as well as the statewide uniform nutrition forum.

A complete agenda is online at www.nd.gov/dhs/info/publicnotice/index.html.

Individuals with disabilities who need accommodations can contact Diane Sundby at 701-328-4601, toll free 855-462-5465, ND Relay TTY 800-366-6888 or dsundby@nd.gov.

The Governor’s Committee on Aging acts as an advisory body for the N.D. Department of Human Services’ Aging Services Division, sponsors community forums, and works to achieve goals related to the needs of older individuals.

Committee information is online at

www.nd.gov/dhs/services/adultsaging/gcoa.html, or by contacting Jan Engan, Aging Services Division Director, N.D. Department of Human Services, at 701-328-4601, toll free 855-462-5465 or ND Relay TTY 800-366-6888.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A Langdon man has pleaded guilty in federal court in Fargo to fleecing farmers in 2009 and 2010.
 
     Thirty-two-year-old Lance Schill was accused of advertising himself as a licensed grain bin dealer, then using the advance money farmers gave him to build his own home.
 
   Schill pleaded guilty to felony money laundering. Prosecutors dropped a felony mail fraud count.
 
     Schill is to be sentenced Aug. 29.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is forecasting North Dakota’s 2013 winter wheat crop to be down 61 percent from last year’s record crop.
 
     The department in its crop production report forecast the crop based on June 1 conditions at 15.6 million bushels, down 12 percent from the May 1 estimate.
 
     The average yield is forecast at 46 bushels per acre, down 6 bushels from last month and down 9 bushels from last year.
 
     Acreage to be harvested for grain is estimated at 340,000 acres, unchanged from May 1 but down 53 percent from last year. That would be 97 percent of the planted acres.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota National Guard commander Maj. Gen. David Sprynczynatyk (sprihn-suh-NAT’-ihk) says flooding has caused more than $7 million in damages in the state since mid-May.
 
     Sprynczynatyk says damage costs could increase if heavy rains continue in June.
 
     The state Emergency Commission on Tuesday approved about $40 million in flood-fighting expenses dating back to 2009, including money for the recent damages. The money comes from the state’s disaster relief fund that’s used to help defray damage costs and to match federal funds from presidential-declared disasters.
 
     President Barack Obama last month approved Gov. Jack Dalrymple’s request for a federal disaster declaration to help several North Dakota communities recover from flooding earlier this year.  
 
     Sprynczynatyk says he’s crafting a new request for Dalrymple to send to the president for the most recent damages.
 

 In sports…

Jamestown, ND  (KCSi-T.V. Sports Jun 12, 2013)  —  Jamestown College athletic director Lawrie Paulson announced Wednesday that head men’s soccer coach Phillip Bohn has resigned after four seasons with the Jimmies.

Bohn’s 2012 team won a school record 16 games, including a first-ever NAIA tournament victory, and won the A.I.I. Tournament Championship at San Marcos, Calif.  He was named the A.I.I. Coach of the Year. Three Jimmie players were named to the NAIA Men’s All-Midwest Region Team by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, and sophomore Jade Johnson was named the program’s first-ever All-American.

Bohn also served as head women’s soccer coach from 2009 to 2011. A search is underway for his successor.

In world and national news…

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A family spokeswoman says the lungs being implanted in a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl at the center of a debate on organ donation are from an adult. Sarah Murnaghan (MUR’-nuh-han), who suffers from severe cystic fibrosis, is receiving her new lungs at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. No other details about the donor are known, including whether the lungs came through the regular donor system or through public appeals. The girl’s health was worsening when a judge stepped in last week and gave her a chance at the much larger pool of organs from adult donors.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – Edward Snowden insists he’s not a traitor, and also not a hero — just “an American.” The former spy agency contractor who fled to Hong Kong to leak U.S. secrets has told a newspaper there that he’s not in Hong Kong to hide from justice — but instead to expose wrongdoing. Snowden also tells the South China Morning Post that he has confidence in “the courts and people of Hong Kong” to decide his fate.
 
     CHICAGO (AP) – Strong winds, hail, even tornadoes. Much of the eastern half of the country is facing a strong risk of some nasty weather later Wednesday. Forecasters are assigning their highest alert level to the storm threat for parts of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. The storms could affect more than one in five Americans as they rumble from Iowa to Maryland.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The House is gearing up for another debate on abortion. A House panel Wednesday approved legislation that would ban almost all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. It’s headed for a House vote as early as next week. House Republican leaders have focused recently on jobs legislation and on investigating administration scandals, and haven’t shown much appetite for divisive social issues.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – It’s similar to a comment that brought trouble to the campaign of a Republican Senate candidate in Missouri last year. And now, another Republican congressman has claimed that the number of pregnancies resulting from rape is very low. Trent Franks of Arizona made the comment during Wednesday’s committee debate on a bill to ban most abortions after 20 weeks. He later sought to clarify his remark, saying he intended to say that later-term abortions of pregnancies caused by rape are infrequent.