Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Feb 25

CSi Weather…

 JAMESTOWN AREA…
 WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST WEDNESDAY…
…WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 6 PM CST WEDNESDAY…

VALLEY CITY AREA…….WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST WEDNESDAY…
…WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 9 PM CST
WEDNESDAY…

.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS AROUND 10 BELOW. WEST WINDS 10 TO
15 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 30 MPH. WIND CHILLS AROUND 30 BELOW.
.WEDNESDAY…SUNNY. AREAS OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW IN THE
AFTERNOON. WINDY. HIGHS AROUND 15. NORTHWEST WINDS 20 TO 30 MPH
WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 45 MPH. LOWEST WIND CHILLS AROUND 30 BELOW
IN THE MORNING.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. BREEZY. LOWS AROUND 15 BELOW.
NORTH WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH BECOMING NORTHWEST 5 TO 10 MPH AFTER
MIDNIGHT. WIND CHILLS AROUND 35 BELOW.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. COLDER. HIGHS NEAR ZERO. WEST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS AROUND 10 BELOW.
SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS NEAR ZERO.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 20 BELOW.
HIGHS AROUND 10 BELOW.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT
CHANCE OF SNOW. LOWS AROUND 15 BELOW. HIGHS NEAR ZERO.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND
10 BELOW. HIGHS 5 TO 10 ABOVE.

WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY
 
 WEDNESDAY WILL SEE A COLD FRONT DROP THROUGH THE AREA FOLLOWED BY
 A PERIOD OF STRONG NORTH WINDS OF 30 TO 45 MPH  MIDDAY INTO THE AFTERNOON. THIS WILL CAUSE SOME BLOWING AND
 DRIFTING SNOW AND REDUCED VISIBLITIES. COLD THURSDAY INTO THE
 WEEKEND WITH LOW WIND CHILLS AT NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING.

Jamestown (CSi) The 9^th Annual Chili Cookoff, to support Legacy Center’s, Home Delivered Meals program will be Saturday March 8, 2014, at the Buffalo Mall.

On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Legacy Center’s Office Manager Rhonda Sahr said, in 2013 26,186 meals were delivered. However only 5,371 meals were covered by federal funding with the suggested cost of $4 per meal, or based on income.

She pointed out, 40 volunteers each week deliver the meals with six routes weekdays, and five routes on the weekends, which take about an hour each to deliver.

Anyone wishing to volunteer may call the James River Community/Senior Center at 252-2882.

Also on our show the Buffalo Mall’s Administrative Assistant, Bev Dawson said the Chili Cookoff on March 8, 2014 is from 11-a.m., to 2-p.m.

Those entering chili should supply no fewer than two large crockpots of chili for sampling and competition.

Chili will be judge in the categories of Best Chili, Most dollars raised, best decorated booth, and most unique chili.

The public can sample each entry for a $5 wrist band which entitles one vote, then $1 for any additional votes.

Prizes will include plaques and carmel rolls.

RSVP+ will also hold a bake sale during this time, with proceeds also going to Home Delivered Meals.

Those wishing to reserve a booth may call Bev Dawson at 251-2237 at the Buffalo Mall office.

Last year a total of nearly $2,400 was raised, through the chili cookoff and bake sale.

  FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The parents of a Fargo man who died after an apartment fire say the landlord is to blame for failing to maintain a smoke detector.
 
     Dwayne and Donna Peyton are seeking at least $100,000 in their wrongful death lawsuit against Goldmark Property Management.
 
     The complaint says 31-year-old James Peyton slept through the fire and died as a result of smoke inhalation.
 
     Goldmark says in court documents that it was not the company’s duty to maintain smoke detectors in James Peyton’s apartment and his death was “his fault or the fault of others.”
 
     The attorney for Dwayne and Donna Peyton, Timothy O’Keeffe, says Goldmark has not been willing to negotiate a possible settlement.
 
     Lance Schreiner, a lawyer for Goldmark, did not return a phone message left Tuesday by The Associated Press.

  WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal regulators say they’ve issued an emergency order requiring tests of crude oil before shipment by rail in response to a string of train explosions and fires since last summer.
 
     The Federal Railroad Administration said Tuesday it also is prohibiting shipping oil using the least-protective packing requirements.
 
     The order is a response to derailments of trains carrying oil from the Bakken region in North Dakota that resulted in explosions and fire, including a train that exploded in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, near the U.S. border, in July, killing 47 people.
 
     Shippers already had to classify oil shipments based on their risk for explosion or fire, but federal investigators found that many shipments were being misclassified as less dangerous. The order requires testing for classification before shipment.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota officials are working to link the state’s system to federal computers that help enroll people for coverage under the new health care law.
 
     The connection to federal computers requires a security review and approval. But North Dakota is one of three states that isn’t approved to connect to the federal data hub that verifies personal details about people applying for government-subsidized insurance.
 
     North Dakota Human Services Director Maggie Anderson says the state submitted a plan on Feb. 12 to federal authorities to ensure the state is in compliance. But Anderson says she has not heard back yet.
 
     Anderson says the situation has not put anyone’s personal data at risk and it has not stopped people from getting health care coverage.

 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A group of southern Minnesota banks is suing Target Corp., alleging damages from the retailer’s data breach late last year.
 
     The five banks are First Farmers & Merchants banks.  The lawsuit was filed Saturday in U.S. District Court in Minnesota.
 
     The complaint doesn’t specify a damage amount but says the banks have had to refund fraudulent charges, close and reopen checking and savings accounts and cancel and re-issue credit and debit cards.
 
     The  banks are in Luverne, Fairmont, Brownsdale, Grand Meadow and Cannon Falls.
 
     A Target spokeswoman told the newspaper the Minneapolis-based retailer does not comment on litigation.
 
     As of February, banks and credit unions nationally estimated they’ve spent more than $200 million replacing credit and debit cards whose data were snatched in the cyberattack.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A first-term state senator from Fargo is seeking a seat on North Dakota Public Service Commission.
 
     Democrat Tyler Axness launched his campaign Tuesday.
 
     He will run for a two-year seat held by Julie Fedorchak, a Republican. Gov. Jack Dalrymple appointed Fedorchak to fill the post in 2012, after it had been vacated by Republican Kevin Cramer who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. 
 
     Axness was elected to the state Senate in 2012. He works for a disability rights organization in Fargo.
 
     The three-member Public Service Commission regulates coal mining, land reclamation, pipelines, electric and gas utilities, grain elevators, telecommunications and auctioneers.
 
     Commissioners are paid more than $95,000 annually.
 

CARSON, N.D. (AP) – A judge has officially dismissed one of the seven felony terrorizing charges filed against a white supremacist who unsuccessfully tried to take over a small North Dakota town.
 
     Judge David Reich signed the order on Friday, meeting the request of Grant County State’s Attorney Todd Schwarz. Schwarz earlier had asked for the count against 62-year-old Craig Cobb to be dropped, saying the evidence didn’t justify it.
 
     Cobb still could face up to 30 years in prison if convicted on the other six counts. He’s scheduled for trial in mid-July.
 
     Cobb moved to the town of Leith about two years ago and attempted to turn it into an all-white enclave. He’s accused of terrorizing residents with guns in mid-November. He has pleaded not guilty.
 

 MILWAUKEE (AP) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture hopes to help honeybees by giving $3 million to farmers and ranchers in the Upper Midwest to improve pastures.
 
     The department planned to announce its new program Tuesday morning. It gave details in advance to The Associated Press.
 
     Commercial honeybees pollinate about $15 billion worth of agricultural products each year. But the bees have been in decline for more than a decade due to habitat loss and pesticide use.
 
     About 65 percent of the nation’s commercial beekeepers bring hives to Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas each summer to gather nectar and pollen and build up strength for winter.
 
     The USDA hopes to help the bees by encouraging farmers in those states to plant alfalfa, clover and other plants that feed both bees and livestock.

In world and national news…
 KIEV, Ukraine (AP) – The people who are now in charge in Ukraine are still working on forming a new government — something they now say will happen by Thursday. They’re also launching a new presidential campaign, while also seeking financial help from the West. But it’s all happening amid fears of divisions and retaliation in Ukraine, where the president fled the capital in the aftermath of clashes between protesters and police that left more than 80 people dead. There have been protests in Ukraine’s pro-Russian region of Crimea. That’s the area where the president is believed to have taken refuge.
 
     KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) – A gay activist in Uganda says many of the people who were identified as gay Tuesday by a Ugandan newspaper are “scared,” and are looking for a way out of the country. The newspaper published a list of what it called the country’s “200 top” gays, raising fears of violence against the people who were named. Just yesterday, Uganda’s president signed a law that provides long prison terms for people who engage in homosexual activity.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – More than 600 business organizations, from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to Apple to McDonald’s, have sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (BAY’-nur) pressing him to move on immigration legislation this year. The groups said “failure to act is not an option” and implored Boehner to move on legislation to fix the immigration system. Immigration legislation has stalled in the House. Boehner and GOP leaders unveiled a set of principles last month, but rank-and-file members have shown little eagerness to tackle the divisive issue in an election year.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – A Democratic official says Debbie Dingell will seek the House seat currently held by her husband, John, who has announced plans to retire after the longest congressional career in history. She’d been widely expected to pursue the seat. John Dingell was elected to his late father’s seat in 1955 and has held it ever since. The 87-year-old lawmaker announced plans to retire yesterday. He played a key role in some of the biggest liberal legislative victories of the past 60 years.
 
     LOS ANGELES (AP) – U.S. transportation officials have slapped a $500,000 penalty on a South Korean airline, in connection with a crash last year in San Francisco that left three people dead and dozens injured. Officials say Asiana Airlines failed to assist family members of passengers on that flight — and that it took five days to reach the families of all 291 people on board. Regulators say no airline had ever broken U.S. laws requiring prompt and generous assistance to the loved ones of crash victims.