Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Oct 22

 

CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS. LOWS IN THE
UPPER 20S. NORTH WINDS AROUND 5 MPH. CHANCE OF SNOW 30 PERCENT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, 20 PERCENT IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.
.WEDNESDAY…CLOUDY. ISOLATED SNOW SHOWERS POSSIBLY MIXED WITH
RAIN SHOWERS IN THE MORNING. HIGHS AROUND 40. NORTHWEST WINDS
10 TO 20 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S.
NORTHWEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 40S. NORTHWEST WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S.
.FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE MID 40S TO
LOWER 50S. LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS IN
THE EVENING…THEN SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW SHOWERS POSSIBLY MIXED
WITH RAIN SHOWERS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S. CHANCE
OF PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.
.MONDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW SHOWERS
POSSIBLY MIXED WITH RAIN SHOWERS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S.

 

IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, PERIODS OF LIGHT SNOW TUESDAY NIGHT COULD CAUSE REDUCED VISIBILITIES. MINOR SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF AN INCH OR LESS ARE POSSIBLE ON GRASSY AREAS.

 LIGHT SNOW WILL TAPER OFF ACROSS THE SOUTH WEDNESDAY MORNING WITH SOME MINOR ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATION POSSIBLE.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Oct 22, 2013) — Street updates with the Jamestown sanitary sewer project, 2nd St SW from 3rd Ave SW to 4th Ave SW was opened Tuesday afternoon. The 2nd St SW bridge over the James River remains closed. Enter CSi from 4th Av SW.

Updates will be posted online at JamestownSewerProject.com , available through CSiNewsNow.com, and on the Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2.

Questions can be directed to Darrell Hournbuckle with Interstate Engineering at (701) 252-0234.

 

 Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — The Jamestown City Council’s, Finance & Legal Committee, Building, Planning & Zoning Committee, and Civic Center & Promotion Committees met Tuesday evening at City Hall.  All members were present.

With Finance & Legal Committee business:

The committee recommended for approval,  the request from Buffalo City Diesel for Economic Development Funds, to provide for up to $200,000 in P.A.C.E (primary sector business) interest buy down funding with the City Share to be $160,000 and paid from the City Sales Tax Fund.

The committee recommends approving the annual request from Buffalo City Tourism Foundation for $75,000 in Economic Development Funds to provide for tourism grant funding, with the City Share to be $60,000, and paid from the City Sales Tax Fund.

The committee recommended approval of  the request from Municipal Judge Tim Ottmar that witness fees paid for testimony in Municipal Court be increased from $15 to $25.00, consistent with District Court Fees.

The committee recommends approval of  the request from the ND National Guard for an amendment to the lease agreement with the City to increase the leased area for the maintenance facilities from approximately 3.67 acres to 4.36 acres.

Informational, Monthly departmental reports were presented.

The committee recommended to place on the November 4, 2013 City Council meeting, without recommendation  the proposed agreement from Interstate Engineering, Inc., for engineering services for Water System Improvements for Great River Energy.

　

Under the proposed contract, Interstate Engineering would design and oversee construction necessary to distribute city water to Great River Energy.

GRE is seeking to purchase an average of about 620,000 gallons per day for operation of its Dakota Spirit AgEnergy ethanol plant.

The city has not finalized the contract with GRE at this time, said Mayor Katie Andersen, said the city hopes to do that this week, adding that the project has an estimated $1.4 million cost with GRE paying a portion and the city paying the rest between $700,000 and $800,000 for improvements that benefit the entire water system.

 

With Building, Planning & Zoning Committee business:

Draft Minutes of the October 14, 2013, Planning Commission meeting was presented. (Posted on line at CSiNewsNow.com)

The committee approved for recommendation the findings of staff, and consider the plat of Lindberg Addition, a replat of Lots 11,12 & 32 and portions of Lots 7-10 and 33, Block 9, Kelly & Fuller’s Second Addition, from low density residential to commercial.  It relates to the former Job Service building, on 2nd Street Southwest.

The  First Reading of an Ordinance to amend and re-enact sections 9-12, 9-13, and 23-38, of the city code pertaining to the building and plumbing code, will be at the November City Council meeting.  Amendments to the existing code.

Informational: It was noted that a Public Hearing and Second Reading of an ordinance concerning the request to change the zoning of Block 2 of the proposed Lindberg Addition, a replat of Lots 11, 12 & 32 and portions of Lots 7-10 and 33, Block 9, Kelley & Fuller’s 2nd Addition, from zoning from R-3 (General Multiple Dwelling District) to C-1 (Local Commercial District) is scheduled for the November 4, 2013, City Council meeting.

It was also pointed out that a Public Hearing and Second Reading of an ordinance concerning the request to change the zoning of Block 1 of the proposed Lindberg Addition, a replat of Lots 1-6 and 34-44 and portions of Lots 7-10 and 33, Block 9, Kelley & Fuller’s 2nd Addition, from R-3 (General Multiple Dwelling District) to R-4 (Planned Residence District) is scheduled for the November 4, 2013, City Council meeting.

(Informational) A Public Hearing and Second Reading of an ordinance concerning the request to change the zoning of the West Half of the East Half of the Southeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, the West Half of the Southeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, the West Half of the East Half of the Northeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter, the West Half of the Northeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter, the West 60 feet of the East Half of the East Half of the Southeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter and the West 60 feet of the East Half of the East Half of the Northeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 13, Township 140, Range 64, Stutsman County, North Dakota from A-1 (Agricultural District) and P-O-C (Public, Open Development and Conservation District) to R-1 (One Family Residential District) is scheduled for the November 4, 2013, City Council meeting.

A Public Hearing and action on the request from North Dakota 5, LLC, to vacate

the Frontage Road Area adjacent to Lots 15 and 24, Block 4, Marjo 1st Addition, Bloom Township, within the NE ¼ of Section 30-140-63, to the City of Jamestown, Stutsman County, ND, is scheduled for the November 4, 2013, City Council meeting.

A Public Hearing and action on the request from Pipestem Properties, LLC, to vacate the Frontage Road Area adjacent to Lot 14, Block 4, Marjo 1st Addition, Bloom Township, within the NE ¼ of Section 30-140-63, to the City of Jamestown, Stutsman County, ND, is scheduled for the November 4, 2013, City Council meeting.

A Public Hearing and action on the request from Braun & Weatherly to vacate the roadway adjacent to Lot 4, Block 1, and South Half of Lot 1, Block 2, Replat of Joos First Subdivision, a portion of NE¼ of SE¼ and SE¼ of NE¼ Section 13-140-64, Midway Township, Stutsman County, ND, is scheduled for the November 4, 2013, City Council meeting.

Action on the request from Tripp & Munson to vacate the roadway adjacent to Lot 4, Block 2, and Lot 1, Block 3, Replat of Joos First Subdivision, a portion of NE¼ of SE¼ and SE¼ of NE¼ Section 13-140-64, Midway Township, Stutsman County, ND, is scheduled for the November 4, 2013, City Council meeting.

The committee recommends approval of the request from Bryce & Karen Tahran to move a house from 1301 2nd St NE to 907 5th Ave NE (N.40’ of Lot 10 and Lot 11, Block 11, College Heights Addition), all Jamestown, ND.  One of the structures purchased from Eventide Hi Acres. 

Civic Center & Promotion Committee business:  No Items, this month.

The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 67 followed by replays.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — The 3^rd Annual “Out of the Darkness Walk,” bringing attention to suicide prevention, will be held at the James River Family “Y” in Jamestown on Saturday October, 26, 2013.

On Tuesday’s (Oct 22, 2013) Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Miranda Erickson said, she got involved with the first walk, an has since become more involved with the planning, and the event.

Teams of businesses, families or individuals may pre-register for the walk by contacting Miranda at 320-3864, or registered that morning at 9-a.m.

At 10-a.m., there will be a half hour walk followed by a guest speaker, and families talking on the topic, followed by another half hour of walking.

Ms. Erickson said on our show that, national statistics show that:

104 individuals die per day from suicide  (38,000 per year)

One million individuals attempt suicide each year.

90 percent of those individuals have a diagnosed disease.

Men are more likely to attempt suicide, than women.

North Dakota is the 18^th highest state for suicide.

She said if anyone is interested in establishing a suicide prevention/awareness support group in Jamestown to contact her at 320-3864.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Members of an anti-hate group say they have bought property in the southwestern North Dakota town of Leith (leeth), which a white supremacist has targeted for a takeover.
 
     UnityND leader Jeremy Kelly of Bismarck says  he and three others have bought four lots from the town’s mayor, including one with a home.
 
     Craig Cobb has been buying property in the town of 24 people and recruiting others with white power views to come there so he can create a voting majority and take control.
 
     Kelly says members of his group want to help tip the balance against Cobb.
 
     Cobb tells The Associated Press that he feels he’s being harassed and that he’s not deterred.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A Taco Bell worker in Fargo will serve three months in jail for groping two female customers earlier this year.
 
     Court documents show that 20-year-old Austin Brady pleaded guilty on Monday to felony breaking into a vehicle and misdemeanor sexual assault. He was sentenced to serve 90 days in jail and ordered to pay $535 in fees.
 
     Authorities say that in incidents in March and April, Brady asked drivers to pull out of the drive-thru lane, then groped women when bringing them food.  Prosecutor Tristan Van de Streek called it “very predatory conduct.”
 
     Defense attorney Laura Lynn Reynolds characterized the incidents as mutual flirtations that got out of hand.
 
     Brady said in court that he made a mistake, and it cost him his job.
 

MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Some residents of northwest North Dakota are increasingly worried about saltwater spills in their region.
 
  Citizens and farmers toured parts of Bottineau County on Monday to look at land that has been impacted by saltwater, which is a byproduct of oil production.
 
     Keene farmer and rancher Donny Nelson was one of the organizers of the tour. He says serious cropland damages from oil field saltwater are evident all across North Dakota’s northern counties from Bottineau to the Montana border.
 
     Attorney Fintan Dooley says he’s attempting to obtain an accounting of how many Bottineau County acres have been destroyed by saltwater.
 
     Organizers plan similar tours at Killdeer, Keene and Dickinson.

 

 GRAFTON, N.D. (AP) – Officials in Grafton are pursuing a scaled-down project to provide flood protection for at least part of the northeastern North Dakota city.
 
     The Army Corps of Engineers several years ago proposed a $42 million Park River flood control project to provide protection for the entire city, but Mayor Chris West tells the Grand Forks Herald federal money hasn’t come through.
 
     The City Council has decided to hire an engineering firm to design a smaller project, after three separate flood events last spring resulted in an estimated $2 million in damage to property in the community of 4,200 people.
 
     Grafton has $10 million to put toward a scaled-down flood control project – $3.5 million in city funds and about $10 million the state allocated in 2010 for the corps project.

 

In world and national news…

 SPARKS, Nev. (AP) – Authorities say the student who opened fire on a Nevada middle school campus Monday, wounding two students and killing a teacher, got the weapon from his home. Police say they are still working to trace where the gun was bought. They say the Sparks Middle School student was the lone shooter, and then killed himself. They say 45-year-old math teacher and former serviceman Michael Landsberry tried to stop the rampage before he was fatally shot. The two boys who were shot are stable and recovering.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s longtime economic adviser, Jeffrey Zients, is being brought in to work on issues with the health care website. That’s according to a senior administration official. Widespread problems have plagued the website since its rollout Oct. 1. Obama has already pledged a “tech surge” to fix it. Zients is a long-time management consultant who joined the White House in 2009 as chief performance officer, heading an effort to streamline government and cut costs. He’s already been named to take over as Obama’s chief economic adviser next year.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – Analysts say the weaker-than-expected jobs numbers for September will make it more likely that the Federal Reserve will maintain its bond-buying stimulus program for the rest of this year. The Labor Department says the economy added just 148,000 jobs last month — a steep drop from the 193,000 created in August. The release of the September jobs report had been delayed by more than two weeks by the government shutdown — which likely further slowed economic growth and hiring.
 
     DENVER (AP) – Two Colorado farmers whose cantaloupes were tied to a 2011 listeria outbreak that killed 33 people have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges. Eric and Ryan Jensen pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Denver to six counts of introducing adulterated food into interstate commerce. They’ll be sentenced in January. Officials say people in 28 states ate the contaminated fruit and 147 were hospitalized. The brothers have sued a safety auditor who gave their farm a superior rating just before the outbreak.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The federal government is going into uncharted waters. It is deep-sixing the giant paper nautical charts that it’s been printing for mariners for more than 150 years. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the traditional paper charts won’t be printed after next April. The agency will still chart the water for rocks, shipwrecks and dangers, but mariners will have to see the information using private on-demand printing, PDFs and electronic maps.