Wayne Byers Show – Evening – May 6

CSi Weather…

..RED FLAG WARNING EXTENDED TILL 10-P.M. THURSDAY FOR MOST OF CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA…

Critical fire weather conditions will linger through the evening
across most of central North Dakota. A Red Flag Warning remains
in effect here. Expect mostly clear skies, with humidity values
as low as 15 percent, and northerly winds 15 to 25 mph becoming
east northeast at 10 to 20 mph through the evening hours. Then
look for improving conditions Thursday night.

Fire Danger Rating 

Forecast…

.TONIGHT…Clear. Lows in the upper 20s. North winds 5 to 15 mph.

Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.

.FRIDAY…Sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northeast winds 5 to

15 mph.

.FRIDAY NIGHT…Increasing clouds. Lows in the lower 30s. East

winds 10 to 15 mph.

.SATURDAY…Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain showers possibly

mixed with snow showers in the morning, then chance of rain

showers in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s. East winds 10 to

20 mph. Chance of precipitation 30 percent in the Jamestown area, 40 percent in the Valley City area.

.SATURDAY NIGHT…Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of rain

showers in the evening. Lows in the mid 30s.

.SUNDAY…Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of rain showers in

the afternoon. Highs in the mid 50s.

.SUNDAY NIGHT…Decreasing clouds. Lows in the lower 30s.

.MONDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.

.MONDAY NIGHT…Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 30s.

.TUESDAY…Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s.

.TUESDAY NIGHT…Decreasing clouds. Lows in the upper 30s.

.WEDNESDAY…Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of rain showers in

the afternoon. Highs in the mid 60s.

NDDoH

Covid-19 Dashboard Update,  Following the end of the statewide COVID-19 emergency declaration on April 30, all COVID-19 daily updates will be published through the NDDoH COVID-19 Dashboard.

NDDoH

COVID-19 Stats

11:00 a.m.

Thurs. May 6,  2021

Barnes

New Positives  1

Total Positives: 1411

Active: 12

Recovered 1362

 

Stutsman:

New Positives: 1

Total Positives: 3498

Active:  24

Recovered: 3382

 

Jamestown (CVHD)  Central Valley Health District this week will have COVID-19 Testing at the Jamestown Civic Center in May Monday, Wednesday, and Friday’s from 11-a.m. to 12 noon,  at the Jamestown Civic Center, with the exception of Memorial Day, May 31, using the Rapid Testing, BinaxNow.

By screening with rapid antigen tests, event attendees will be able to receive their test results within 15 minutes via text notification. The test also is less invasive than a PCR (Polymerase chain reaction) test in that it uses a nasal swab to collect a sample from the lower part of the nostril.

If a person tests positive, they should isolate at home immediately and a case investigator will be in touch with them within 24 hours. If the screening yields a negative result, individuals should continue to monitor for symptoms.

Interested individuals should fill out an online survey at testreg.nd.gov for faster registration.

For more information about rapid antigen tests and North Dakota’s screening strategies, visit https://www.health.nd.gov/rapid-antigen-screening

 

Valley City   A COVID-19 vaccination clinic will take place:

Friday May 7

8-a.m. to 10-a.m.

HAC  Lobby

Pfizer 1st and 2nd Doses

16 and older

 

Monday May 10

10-a.m. to 11-a.m.

Barnes County North School

Pfizer 1srt and 2nd Doses

16 and older

Also Monday May 10

1-p.m. to 4-p.m.

CCHD Location

Pfizer 1st and 2nd Doses

16 and older

Appointments are REQUIRED and can be made at https://www.ndvax.org//reg/0146051292 (link will not open in Internet Explorer).

City-County Health District now has COVID-19 vaccines available for all Barnes County residents over the age of 16.

Administrator Theresa Will said if you are 16 or older you may receive the Pfizer vaccine. She said for those 18 and older, the Moderna is a viable option.

Walk in Clinics at CCHD for Moderna and Johnson & Johnson Vaccines for those 16 and older.

 

Valley City (CCHD)  City/County Health reports, that testing continues to be important. If you have any symptoms, it is important to be tested. If you have symptoms and need to be tested at other times contact your clinic.

Administrator Theresa Will says Testing is now on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at the CCHD location.  Enter through the west door.  The times will be 12:30- 1:30p.m.  Quick testing will be available.

Also, walk in Pfizer vaccination clinics will be held May 5, 7, and 10 at CCHD.  Pre-register for all clinics.

 

Valley City  ( CSi)  At the Valley City Public Schools Annual Recognition of Teachers and Staff Members award social on May 5th in the Hi Liner Activity Center, this year the 2021 Teacher of the Year Award went to Becky Goven.

The Valley City Education Association Friend of Education Award went to John Triebold.

Seven teachers will retire at the end of the school year including:  Nancy Ost, Penny Peterson, Roz Huber, Tom Kjelland, Marla Boom, Robyn Borg, and Cheri Anderson.

 

Jamestown  (Tourism)  Frontier Village is looking for volunteers to help cleanup and prepare for the upcoming summer.

The day is set for May 7, from 9-a.m. to 3-p.m.  With lunch available.

All materials ready with most of  the work cleaning, with such things as  washing windows, sweeping debris and cobwebs, wiping cases clean, and picking up litter and trash outdoors.

Other minor maintenance and landscaping items are also on the list.

Volunteers are asked to bring along work clothes and closed toed shoes for the day.

If you’re interested in volunteering, and the time frame you are available contact Allison Limke at 701-251-9145 or email Allison@DiscoverJamestownND.com.

 

Valley City  (CSi)  Staring  May 10  7th Avenue West in Valley City will be closed from 2nd Street Southwest to the intersection of 2nd Street Nothwest. The closure will remain in effect until the corridor is reconstructed.

Main Street will be closed from 8th Avenue Southwest to 6th Avenue Southwest during installation of underground utilities. Access to businesses along Main Street will be provided. A detour route will be in effect for the duration of the Main Street closure. Any  questions regarding the project, contact the KLJ office in Valley City at (701)-845-4980.

7th-Ave-West-Project-Detour

Updated maps for all road closures will be posted on the City of Valley City’s webpage http://www.valleycity.us/engineers/ when they are taking affect

 

Denver  – FEMA has provided more than $1.6 million in Public Assistance funding to Stutsman County for costs related to the October 2019 flooding. Under this declaration, FEMA has paid a total of $10.9 million for the state of North Dakota to date. The assistance was made available under a major disaster declaration issued January 21, 2020. This funding is authorized under Section 406 of the Robert T. Stafford Act.

The $1.6 million was approved for Stutsman County to utilize force account labor, equipment, and material for a permanent grade raise of County Road 39, which had been inundated by floodwaters.

During the incident period, historically high groundwater saturation, and subsequent rapid snowmelt created an unprecedented October flood in central and eastern North Dakota. Powerful floodwaters washed surface gravel and culverts from Stutsman County and township roads and disrupted lifeline infrastructure. This prevented access to multiple residences within the St. Paul Township, creating significant delays for first responders struggling to reach citizens in need.

 

WOLVERTON, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota farmer who broke his back, fell victim to COVID-19 and recently underwent surgery will nonetheless have corn and soybeans to harvest this fall thanks to an agricultural organization that helps those in need. The non-profit Farm Rescue helped Robert Nord plant his fields in North Dakota, not far from his homestead in Wolverton, Minnesota. The farm is Nord’s family’s sole source of income, so getting the crops in on time is a life saver. He says he is overwhelmed by the support. Farm Rescue has helped more than 700 families since its inception in North Dakota in 2005.

In Sports

BELLEVUE, NEB. (VCSU)  – Anne-Elise Gest hit a two-run home run to finish Valley City State’s softball game in just six innings Thursday. The Vikings defeated Presentation by a final score of 14-6 in the NSAA Opening Round.

The Vikings advance to the winner’s bracket of the NSAA Softball Tournament. No. 1 Valley City State will face No. 5 Dakota State at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.

Joelle Aiello hit four doubles in the victory, increasing her career total to 19 and tying the school record for career doubles. She went 4-for-5 at the plate, scored four runs and drove in two Thursday.

Riley Perryman went 3-for-3 with a home run and five RBIs. Makenzee Stone went 3-for-4 at the plate, scored three runs, and drove in two. Anne-Elise Gest and Marissa Hawkins each scored three runs for the Vikings.

Amber Stewart got the win in the circle, working 4 2/3 innings. She allowed six runs on eight hits while walking two and striking out three. Emily Smith got the save, pitching 1 1/3 innings in relief. She didn’t walk a batter and struck out three.

Aiello opened the game with a double down the right field line and scored on an RBI single from Hawkins. Stone scored Hawkins with an RBI triple and stole home to take a 3-0 Viking lead at the end of the first inning. Stone later scored on a sac fly RBI from Andrea Rodriguez to lead 4-0 after three innings.

Aiello doubled again in the fourth inning, followed by a Gest walk. A Presentation error allowed Hawkins to reach and load the bases. Stone, Perryman, Crocker all singled to drive in four more runs and hold an 8-0 Viking lead at the end of the fourth.

Presentation then scored all six runs in the top of the fifth. Camille Vestal opened scoring with a solo home run over the left field fence. Hannah Larson and Ashleigh Wong also homered in the inning to close the gap to 8-6.

Aiello led off the fifth inning with her third double of the day and scored on another Saints error. Riley Perryman hit a three-run home run to lead 12-6 at the end of the fifth, and Gest put it away in the sixth with a two-run homer to finish the game 14-6 by run rule.

The Vikings finished with 14 runs on 17 hits and just one error in the game. Presentation scored six runs on eight hits and committed four errors Thursday.

In world and national news…

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An Army trainee has been arrested after authorities say he boarded a South Carolina school bus with a gun and held the driver and elementary school students hostage before letting them off the bus. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott says the incident started around 7 a.m. Thursday near Fort Jackson, the U.S. Army’s largest basic training facility. Lott says the trainee “ran off post and escaped,” armed with a rifle. He then got on a nearby school bus but later let the driver and students off before driving the bus for several miles himself. The sheriff says the man was later arrested without incident and will face multiple charges including kidnapping.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Under order by the Supreme Court, India’s government has agreed to provide more medical oxygen to hospitals in the capital city of New Delhi. That could potentially ease a 2-week shortage that worsened the country’s exploding coronavirus crisis. Officials also denied reports that they have been slow in distributing life-saving medical supplies donated from abroad. The Supreme Court intervened after 12 COVID-19 patients including a doctor died at a hospital when it ran out of oxygen for 80 minutes last week. On Thursday, the number of new confirmed coronavirus cases breached 400,000 for the second time in India since the devastating surge began last month.

 

(AP)  A new study and Census Bureau data show U.S. residents moved out of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas and into smaller ones during the pandemic. The data released this week shows increased declines in the nation’s densest metros and gains in small cities in the Sun Belt and West. The study found that many COVID-year migrants weren’t driven by jobs, weather, or even virus fears. Instead, they were motivated by a desire to be closer to family and a new freedom to make it happen because of remote working. The data adds to understanding of how the pandemic has changed where and how Americans live.

 

ROME (AP) — When prosecutors sought an indictment for two American teenagers for the fatal 2019 stabbing in Rome of an Italian paramilitary officer, they described them as being in cahoots from start to finish. That was even though only one defendant wielded the knife in what their lawyers steadfastly contended was in self-defense. When their trial ended more than 14 months later, the jury convicted both men on all charges and sentenced them to life imprisonment, Italy’s harshest punishment. A lawyer for one defendants’ family has called the ruling “a mockery of justice.” He lamented that the two Americans got a sentence in Italy that is often meted out to mob bosses who have ordered premeditated assassinations.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a sweeping elections bill into law that he and other Republicans said would place guardrails against fraud, even though there were no signs of voter irregularities in the November presidential election. Thursday’s signing is being denounced by Democrats and voter rights advocates. Voter advocates and retirees immediately filed federal lawsuits assailing the law as un-American and anti-democratic. They say it will unfairly target Blacks and Latinos and raise barriers to disabled voters in an attempt to regain a Republican advantage. The Republican governor also soon plans to announce he’s running for reelection.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik is stating her case for replacing Rep. Liz Cheney as the No. 3 House Republican leader. She is implicitly lambasting Cheney’s battles with former President Donald Trump. On Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast Thursday, Stefanik says, “We are one team and that means working with the president.” Stefanik is a one-time moderate who’s evolved into an ardent Trump champion and she now seems likely to replace Cheney in the leadership job. Cheney seems likely to be tossed from her leadership post next week. Cheney has repeatedly rejected Trump’s false insistence that he lost the 2020 election because of widespread fraud.

 

GENEVA (AP) — Several world leaders have praised the U.S. move to expand access to COVID-19 vaccines for poor nations by suspending patent protections on the shots. But it wasn’t clear if that would actually lead to the measures being lifted. Activists and international institutions cheered but Big Pharma fired back after the Biden administration called for a waiver of intellectual property protections. If even just one country votes against a waiver at the World Trade Organization, it would be sunk. The move made the U.S. the first country in the developed world with big vaccine manufacturing to publicly support the idea. And the vocal support that followed from French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday suggested that countries were reassessing their positions.