Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Jul 10

CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S. SOUTH WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH. THURSDAY…SUNNY…BREEZY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S. SOUTH WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH INCREASING TO 20 TO 25 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY IN THE EVENING…THEN MOSTLY
CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
AFTER MIDNIGHT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA. LOWS IN THE UPPER 60S. SOUTH WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH.
.FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON A 50 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. HIGHS AROUND 90. SOUTH WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE WEST IN THE AFTERNOON.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EVENING IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA A 50 PRECENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEYC CITY AREA. LOWS IN THE UPPER 60S. NORTH WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 30 PERCENT CHANCE
OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S. LOWS IN THE
UPPER 60S.
.SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 60S.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 60S.
HIGHS IN THE MID 80S.

 

 

Omaha, NE (KCSi-T.V. News Jul 10, 2013) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announces that gate changes at Jamestown and Pipestem Reservoirs were completed Tuesday to increase the rate of drawdown of the Pipestem Reservoir pool.

Pipestem releases were increased from 200 cubic feet per second to 300 cfs, and Jamestown releases were decreased from 700 cfs to 600 cfs.

The gate changes will not result in a change to the combined release of 900 cfs. Jamestown Reservoir’s pool elevation is 1435.6 feet with 6.6 percent of its flood pool occupied.

Inflows are estimated near 200 cfs. Pipestem Reservoir is at pool elevation 1472.4 feet and has 37.6 percent of its flood pool occupied. Inflows are around 80 cfs.

Read more – on line… http://www.nwo.usace.army.mil/Media/NewsReleases/tabid/1835/Article/15945/jamestown-and-pipestem-reservoirs-update-july-10.aspx

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Jul 10, 2013) – At a special meeting Tuesday evening, (Jul 9, 2013) at the All Vets Club in Jamestown, no “concrete” suggestions were offered to keep the Club open.

The meeting was called by Vets Club Chairman, LeRoy Wegenast.

He says, about 75 individuals attended Tuesday’s meeting, which included members of local veterans organization and auxiliaries, along with Vets Club employees, and patrons and community members.

Wegenast said he was disappointed that no definitive suggestions were made by those in attendance, that would keep the financially struggling club open.

A suggestion was made to borrow money to keep the club open.

He added that at the meeting donations were taken, but were little more than a “band-aid,” of what is need to keep the club open.

He said a possible option to inject finances into the operation could be establishing a capital campaign.

He said the Vets Club Board will meet informally to discuss the club’s future.

If a decision is made to close, the closure will be immediately.

He said the next formal board meeting is in October this year, but the club will not able to stay open until that time, given the present financial circumstances if the board would decide at that time to have a fundraiser.

The Club’s financial shortfall has been about $2,500 per month.

Wegenast pointed out that two people have applied for the vacant manager’s position.

A search this spring for a paid manager was unsuccessful with no applications received.

The club had been managed on a volunteer basis by Carol Martin.

The All Vets Club employs two people full time and about 11 part-time workers.

North Dakota law requires counties to furnish veteran’s groups with a meeting place, but not a bar or restaurant.

The building is owned by Stutsman County and All Vets Club owns the bar fixtures and restaurant equipment.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — Starting July 15, 2013, the west parking lot of the Jamestown Business Center will be closed, so construction crews can begin setting up equipment and preparing for excavation of the lift station.

Delivery of equipment and/or materials can be expected during the week.

The parking lot will be closed for the next several months.

The public is asked to use the south or east doors of the Jamestown Business Center. The Jamestown Business Center located at 300 2nd Ave NE.

For more information, visit jamestownsewerproject.com or follow the Jamestown sanitary sewer project on Twitter @jamestownsewer.

Information also update on line at CsiNewsNow.com and on The Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2.

Questions on the Jamestown sanitary sewer project can be directed to Darrell Hournbuckle with Interstate Engineering at (701) 252-0234.

 

Update…

YPSILANTI, N.D. (KCSi-T.V. News Jun 6, 2013) — The Stutsman County Sheriff’s Office reports, two people were injured when a pickup truck pulling a trailer went off the road, going northwest on County Road 38 ( the 4300 block of 90th Avenue Southeast) in Sutsman County, south of Jamestown, around 6 p.m. Saturday (Jun 6, 2013).

The vehicle entered a ditch and tipped onto its side, when the operator, Nicholas Docktor failed to negotiate a turn.

Deputy Josh Metzger says, “Speed was probably the only factor there.”

The report says Docktor and passenger 24 year old Chelsea Axtman, of Ypsilanti, were injured.

They were transported by Jamestown Area Ambulance Service to the Jamestown Regional Medical Center.

Axtman was then flown to Bismarck for treatment.

Three other passengers, 29 year olf Stacey Docktor, 30 year old Brad Docktor, and a minor child, all of Ypsilanti, were not injured.

None of the occupants were wearing a seat belt.

Damage was estimated at $10,000 to the Ford truck.

 

　WEST FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A carnival worker at a fair in North Dakota was arrested for allegedly hitting another worker in the head with a hammer.
 
     The alleged assault happened just before 10 p.m. Tuesday at the Red River Valley Fair.
 
     One man was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault. The victim was taken to an area hospital for treatment.

 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Health officials in Grand Forks are working to manage a tuberculosis outbreak – nearly 10 months after the first case was diagnosed. 
 
Costs continue to mount as officials work to manage the outbreak. More than 1,500 people have been tested since October 2012. That’s when the first case of tuberculosis was detected at Phoenix Elementary School.
 
     Grand Forks has received about $80,000 in reimbursement from the North Dakota Department of Health to help cover cost associated with managing infected patients.
 
     Public Health Director Don Shields says his staff is currently monitoring 23 people. Treatment for tuberculosis can last up to a year and monitoring requires daily visits to make sure patients take their medication. It can be fatal if left untreated.

 

　WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s state fire marshal is investigating a house explosion west of Williston that left a Montana man hospitalized with burns.
 
     Williston Rural Fire Chief Dave Benth says neighbors called 911 after witnessing the blast Monday evening. The Rural Fire Department and the Williams County Sheriff’s Department responded.
 
     Benth says one person was taken to a hospital to be treated for severe burns.
 
     The Daily Inter Lake  in Kalispell, Mont., reports Casey Malmquist of Whitefish, Mont., was hospitalized in stable condition Wednesday in St. Paul, Minn. Janene Adams, office manager at Malmquist Construction, says Malmquist suffered second- and third-degree burns and underwent surgery Tuesday.
 
     Malmquist was building houses for Bakken oil field workers.

 

 WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – Williston police are investigating the armed robbery of a motel.
     Authorities say two males held up the Mobile Motel in the early morning hours Monday. The  robbers fled with an undetermined amount of money.

 

 WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – Bond has been set for three more suspects in the slaying of a Williston hobby rancher.
 
     Six people are charged in the death of 58-year-old Jack Sjol (shohl). Bond earlier was set at $1 million for Ryan Stensaker, who’s accused of shooting Sjol and charged with murder.
 
     Bond also has been set at $1 million for Jeremy Weyrauch, and at $25,000 each for Isaac Steen and Amber Jensen.
 
     Weyrauch is charged with conspiracy to commit murder, along with Ronald Gibbons. Gibbons is jailed in Washington state and hasn’t made a court appearance in the case.
 
     Isaac Steen and sister Teresa Steen are charged with facilitation of murder. Authorities are still searching for Teresa Steen.
 
     Jensen is charged with hindering law enforcement.
 
     Authorities haven’t discussed a possible motive in the slaying.

 

KILLDEER, N.D. (AP) – The airport in the western North Dakota town of Killdeer is cleaning up after a storm that destroyed a hangar and damaged three airplanes.
 
     The storms that tore through the region Monday night ripped apart the hangar and flipped the Cessna planes on their tops. They landed near a ditch about 75 yards away – nearly the length of a football field.
 
     Airport authority vice chairman Mike Schollmeyer says the hangar was old, and officials had planned to replace it at some point.
 
     Randy Sandvick and Merlin Johnson owned two of the planes. They say the planes were valued at $28,000 and $40,000.
 
     Schollmeyer says a runway repair project was to begin this week. He says, “Now, we’ll be cleaning up wrecked airplanes and hangar parts.”

 

 WATFORD CITY, N.D. (AP) – The visitor center in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park is being closed because of unstable soil.
 
     Park Superintendent Valerie Naylor says heavy rains in recent years have led to ground shifting that has caused the building to move and to sink. Visitor center functions are being moved to a cottage at the unit’s campground.
 
     The visitor center was built in 1991. In 2002 it had to be raised, repaired and stabilized. In 2011 it shifted again. Naylor says interior walls are moving and cracking and the floor is buckling. She says it’s unlikely that the building can be repaired.
 
     The park is the western North Dakota Badlands. It has both a North Unit and a South Unit. About 20,000 people visit the North Unit visitor center annually.

 

YORK, Neb. (AP) – The York County Board of Commissioners has tabled a resolution that opposes construction of the Keystone XL pipeline through the county in eastern Nebraska.
 
     The York News-Times says several dozen people crammed into the board room on Tuesday morning – some to oppose the measure and others to support it.
 
     The resolution would have the board state its opposition to the pipeline and, should the pipeline be built, commit the board to wielding its power to protect the residents’ welfare and resources.
 
     The tabled measure will return for board reconsideration in two weeks.
 
     The pipeline could carry 830,000 barrels of oil per day from Canadian tar sands to refineries on the Texas Gulf coast. The Obama administration is still considering whether to approve the project.

 

In world and national news…

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) – George Zimmerman hasn’t made up his mind on whether he will testify at his second-degree murder trial. When asked by the judge Wednesday, Zimmerman said he hoped to make a decision by the end of the day. Zimmerman claims he fatally shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense. Jurors already have heard of Zimmerman’s account from recorded police interviews played in the courtroom.

 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The Pentagon is considering plans to eliminate danger pay for service members in up to 18 countries and five waterways around the world. The move would save about $120 million a year, while taking a bite out of troops’ salaries. The Associated Press has learned that the proposed list of countries to be removed from the imminent-danger category comes after a review by senior military leaders, who determined locations that no longer required the designation.
 
     LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (AP) – The president and CEO of the railway’s parent company says an employee failed to properly set the brakes of the train that crashed into a town in Quebec over the weekend, killing at least 15 people. Edward Burkhardt made the comments during a visit Wednesday to the town that was devastated by the runaway oil train four days ago. He said a train engineer has been suspended without pay. Officials say 60 people, in all, are dead or missing from the train wreck.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The minutes from the last Federal Reserve meeting reveal that many of the policy-makers agreed that the job market’s improvement would have to be sustained, before the Fed would reduce its bond-buying stimulus effort. Since the purchases began, the economy has added an average of 204,000 jobs a month. Still, unemployment remains at 7.6 percent.
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – A federal judge in New York says the evidence was “overwhelming” — that Apple conspired with publishers to raise electronic book prices significantly three years ago. The judge says Apple knew that no publisher could risk acting alone to try to eliminate Amazon.com’s $9.99 price for the most popular e-books — so it created a way for publishers to act together to “eliminate all retail price competition.” Apple continues to deny wrongdoing, and says it will appeal.