Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Sept. 6

CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS AND ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE EVENING. LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S. NORTH WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 60S. NORTHWEST WINDS
5 TO 15 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S. WEST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH.
.SATURDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO
15 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 40S.
HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.TUESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Sept 6, 2012) — The Jamestown City Council held another in the series of 2013 budget meetings, Thursday afternoon, at City Hall. Council Member Buchanan was not present, at the start of the meeting, and came in shortly after.

The City Council had approved the preliminary budget, up to Thursday’s meeting, the figures can not be increased, but they could be decreased.

At Thursday’s meeting the City Council reviewed the Enterprise Funds.

　

With the Water Department:

The software request was for $31,000.

 

Leak Detection Services, at $40,000-$55,000 per block.

“Hot Spot Testing,” would be done first.

$325,000 will be left in the fund, with the possibility of Special Assessing the costs to the benefited property owners.

A Lime Storage Facility Driveway was also discussed.

A five percent rate increase is proposed to be included in this budget.

　

With the Sewer Utility Fund:

Items included, new equipment, and a new overnight employee, at the Waste Water Treatment Plant, before the Great River Energy plant comes on line, possibly in early 2013.

Project Expenditures were also reviewed, and the purchase of a boiler at $239,000, and a heat exchanger at $165,000.

The addition of a “scrubber,” that strips selected elements, before the gas flaring, could be bonded for over 20 years.

With the addition of a employee, coupled with the rate adjustment the fund would operate at a loss of $31,000.

With the Sanitation fund, a net revenue surplus is expected.

　

With the Solid Waste Fund:

A $12,000 expenditure for a furnace for the Baler.

$8,000 for a cement pad, for roll-off boxes.

$95,000 for a cold storage building.

A $19,000 net loss in the fund is project for 2013.

Any additional employee was approved to hire for 2013.

A time-study of an employee at the inert landfill may be included.

　

Equipment Replacement Funds…

Includes the Police Department, for two patrol units, and the Cushman Unit, for parking enforcement, along with equipment for the solid waste facility.

　

Engineering Funds…

An exchange of a vehicle was discussed.

Other department budget requests have been heard.

The next budget meeting will concern Capital Construction, Convention/Promotion, Tourism, and the Public Building Sites, fund.

The City Council to make the final approval of the budget, later this month, with the final vote at the October Council meeting.

With action by the City Council, Thursday, the proposed budget is five mills lower than the 2012 budget, and no increase is anticipated in city property taxes for the 2013 budget.

A surplus in the General Fund is anticipated, of about $189,000, with a projected Mill Levy of 8-mills, a reduction of 5-mills was approved.

The next budget meeting was planned for September 17, 2012, at 3:30-p.m.

Thursday’s meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 67.

 

The preliminary budget contains a 2.5 percent step wage increase for eligible city employees and a two percent cost of living adjustment.

Mayor Andersen recently said, the city will pick up addition portions of employees health insurance under the plus dependent and family plan.

The mayor added this is the first time the city has picked up those additional shares of the policies, in order to keep the city competitive with other political sub-divisions and the private sector in terms of health insurance premiums paid by employees.

 

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) — Patriots’ Day, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, will be commemorated in Jamestown with a program and a Freedom Walk/Parade through downtown Jamestown.

The event is sponsored by the Patriotic Council.

This is the 11^th Anniversary of the 9-11 tragedy and a chance for our Jamestown area residents to commemorate and remember the event.

Freedom Walk is a free and nonpartisan event open to the general public.

This is not a platform to discuss politics or policies.

Patriotic Council, Chairman, Charlie Kourajian says, “The purpose of this event is simply to continue the traditional Jamestown Freedom Walk started several years ago to reflect on the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001, renew our commitment to freedom and the values of our country and to honor our military members and their families and our first responders”.

The event will start with a half mile walk through downtown Jamestown at 5:30 p.m., starting at the All Vets Club, 116 1/2 First Street East.

After the walk, the Vets Club will host a free spaghetti supper served (about 6:00 p.m.) followed with a short program of remembrance of the 9-11 tragedy and a show of support for our troops and first responders.

Police chief Scott Edinger will be the speaker.

Kourajian adds, “This will be an opportunity for the community to remember the 9-11 terrorist attack on our country and the people who perished as a result. “It will also be a chance to show our appreciation and our continued support of our troops wherever they may be, abroad or stateside. Everyone is invited to attend, the walk route is short and should be an interesting walk/mini-parade downtown. If you can’t make the walk, you are invited to come for the supper and enjoy the program.”

For more information, call Charlie Kourajian at 320-3015.

 

From Jamestown College…

Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. New) — Jamestown College has announced that Scott Hanna, from Indonesia, and Timothy Juelson, of Bismarck, were presented with the Young Alumni Medallion at Opening Convocation at 11 a.m. on Thrusday, September 6^, 2012.

Scott Hanna works for PT Freeport in Indonesia, a company with operations in the Indonesian province of Papua that include exploration and development, mining and milling of ore containing copper, gold and silver and the worldwide marketing of concentrates containing those metals.

Scott serves as the Chair of the American Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia (AmCham) Young Professionals Committee.

He has lived in Indonesia for more than six years and speaks the Indonesian national language, bahasa Indonesia, fluently.

Scott Hanna graduated with honors from Jamestown College in 2002, where he was president of the student government and NAIA Dakota Athletic Conference Scholar Athlete in football.

He later received a master’s degree from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also served as an AmeriCorps volunteer in an elementary school.

Scott has also attended the AB. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University.

He was selected as the 1998 North Dakota Horatio Alger National Scholar, an award targeting students who have overcome adversity to achieve scholastically, and subsequently selected from the thousands of scholars selected since 1984 as the Horatio Alger 2004 Alumnus of the Year.

Scott serves as a volunteer coach in flag football league for local children and has helped develop and organize a series of first-even, grass-roots charity events in Jakarta to help children including: Crossfit for Hope Jakarta, which raised more than $30,000 in one day to help Indonesian children suffering from cancer; and Drive Books, Not Cars which has raised more than $10,000 in the past year to support kids’ education in Indonesia.

Dr. Timothy J. Juelson, joined The Bone and Joint Center in Bismarck, in 2011.

He is a board eligible orthopaedic surgeon with an additional year of fellowship training in arthroscopic surgery and the treatment of sports related injuries.

Dr. Juelson earned a bachelor’s degree in biology with a minor in chemistry at Jamestown College where he graduated magna cum laude in 2001.

While at Jamestown, he received the Melvin R. Arnold Scholarship, competed in collegiate track and field and was the Jamestown College Science Club President.

Dr. Juelson went on to the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences where he obtained his medical degree.

There he co-authored many papers and peer reviewed journals and presented at a national meeting where he received recognition for his third year research project.

He then completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

During his last year of residency, he served as chief resident and his research project won a national poster competition in 2010.

Dr. Juelson completed a Sports Medicine fellowship at The Andrews Institute in Gulf Breeze, Fla.

During his career he has worked with countless high school, collegiate, and professional athletes from around the world.

He has served as a team physician to the University of West Florida national championship baseball team, University of Auburn national championship football team, Washington High School football, Gulf Coast Community College, and Gulf Breeze High School football.

Dr. Juelson is a member of both the Arthroscopy Association of North America and the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine.

Dr. Juelson spends a lot of his extra time traveling to Chicago where he volunteers instructing other orthopaedic surgeons on complex procedure in the knee and shoulder.
Hanna and Juelson addressed students, faculty, and staff gathered at the Opening Convocation and named a mentor whom they felt influenced their Journey to Success at Jamestown College.

Hanna named Dr. Mark Joy and Juelson named Dr. Karl Steffan.

The Young Alumni Medallion is presented each year to young alumni of Jamestown College who exemplify the characteristics of a Jamestown College liberal arts education while demonstrating lifelong learning, community service, and character.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Bond for a Fargo woman accused of stabbing a
Horace man has been set at $10,000.
     The Cass County Sheriff’s Office say 21-year-old Sarah Natasha
Harris appeared in court Thursday on an aggravated assault charge.

     Harris is accused of stabbing a 36-year-old man in the neck, arm
and chest at his Horace home on April 1.

Authorities say the man was treated at a Fargo hospital for the injuries.
     An aggravated assault charge carries a maximum sentence of 10
years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – State officials plan two dredging projects
on the Missouri River in the Bismarck-Mandan area to help prevent
ice jam flooding.
     Sen. John Hoeven and Gov. Jack Dalrymple say in a statement that
last year’s record flooding significantly altered the river channel
and left large deposits of sand south of the neighboring cities.
     The State Water Commission will need to approve funding. State
Engineer Todd Sando (SAN’-doh) says the dredging work will cost $750,000.

     The projects are a short-term solution.

The state is working with federal officials to study long-term measures to control and remove sediment on the river.

 

 CROOKSTON, Minn. (AP) – American Crystal Sugar workers are
demonstrating at the homes of the company’s directors as a lockout
drags on.
     Union leaders say the demonstrations will continue indefinitely.
Small groups of workers have showed up at the doorsteps of
directors’ homes in Crookston, Ada and East Grand Forks in
Minnesota and Drayton and Minto in North Dakota this week.

     AFL-CIO spokesman Todd Anderson tells The Forum that
demonstrating at the homes affords the directors a chance to “look
a locked-out worker in the face.”
     About 1,300 Crystal workers have been locked out of their jobs
for more than a year at facilities in Minnesota, North Dakota and
Iowa. The company imposed the lockout after contract negotiations
broke down.

 

Sports…

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The new artificial turf in the Fargodome is
being replaced after only a month.

     Facility General Manager Rob Sobolik says there was a problem
with the underside of the turf. The AstroTurf company is replacing
it at no cost to the dome.

The  project will cost about $1 million.
     Sobolik says  there was no issue with the surface of the old turf, and it was safe for players when the North Dakota State University football team hosted Robert Morris last Saturday.
     Sobolik says the new turf will be ready for NDSU’s Sept. 22 home
game against Prairie View A&M.
     NDSU Athletic Director Gene Taylor tells The Forum that the
school might buy the old turf for one of its practice fields.

 

 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – The five architectural firms competing to
design the new Minnesota Vikings stadium are getting a chance to
show off their past work at a Metrodome event.
     Thursday’s open house is sponsored by the Minnesota Sports
Facilities Authority, which is working with the team to build the
$975 million downtown Minneapolis stadium.
     One bidder is familiar to Minnesota sports fans: Kansas
City-based Populous, which designed Target Field, TCF Bank Stadium
and Xcel Energy Center.
     Also in the running are the firms that designed CenturyLink
Field in Seattle; MetLife Stadium in New Jersey; the new San
Francisco 49ers stadium; and the firm that designed stadiums for
the Dallas Cowboys and Indianapolis Colts.

     Authority and team officials are interviewing firms Thursday and
Friday and plan to announce a designer on Sept. 14.

 

In world and national news…

 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – Forecasters are now predicting a 30
percent of scattered showers and thunderstorms throughout the
evening in Charlotte, N.C., — but either way, the Democrats will
be indoors as President Barack Obama accepts nomination for a
second term.

Citing a chance of thunderstorms, organizers moved the
event from a 74,000-seat outdoor stadium.

Obama spoke in a conference call Thursday to some of those who were supposed to hear him speak, and said campaign officials would try to get them into other events in the weeks ahead.

He asked them to keep working on his behalf in a close race.
     
     CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – Even as President Barack Obama tells a TV
station  that he should have chosen his words differently when he made his “you didn’t build that” remarks at a campaign event last month, Republicans are keeping up the attack over those remarks.

GOP running mate Paul Ryan, campaigning Thursday in Colorado, said government shouldn’t get the credit for the achievements of business owners.
     
     RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) – The Palestinians are criticizing the
decision by the Democrats’ to declare Jerusalem as the Israeli
capital.

That declaration hadn’t been in the party’s platform, but
it was inserted yesterday after Republicans accused Democrats of
abandoning Israel.

The language is at odds with U.S. policy calling
for the status of Jerusalem to be resolved through negotiations.
     
     JOLIET, Ill. (AP) – Jurors deliberating in the Drew Peterson
murder trial have sent a note to the judge asking for a definition
of the word unanimous.

The unusual request would seem to indicate some disagreement on a verdict after more than a day and a half of deliberations.

After a brief discussion with attorneys, the judge said he would respond with a note saying it “indicates the agreement of all on the matter at hand.” Peterson has pleaded not guilty to murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio, in 2004.
     
     NEW YORK (AP) – Tom Brokaw has been discharged from a Charlotte,
N.C., hospital.

The NBC News special correspondent was admitted Thursday morning after feeling light-headed during a TV appearance.

In a Twitter post, Brokaw said he had mistakenly taken a half dose of
the sleep medication Ambien.

NBC says, after a series of tests, doctors found the 72-year-old Brokaw “in great health.”