Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Mar 21

CSi Weather…

 WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING…
.LATE THIS AFTERNOON…WINDY. PARTLY SUNNY. AREAS OF BLOWING AND
DRIFTING SNOW. SLIGHT CHANCE OF FLURRIES. NORTH WINDS 30 TO
35 MPH.
.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. BREEZY…COLDER. LOWS 5 TO 10 ABOVE.
NORTH WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S. NORTHWEST WINDS
AROUND 15 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 5 TO 10 ABOVE. NORTHWEST
WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 20S. NORTHWEST WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 15 TO 20. NORTHEAST WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHEAST AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S.
LOWS 5 TO 10 ABOVE.
.TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER
20S. LOWS 15 TO 20.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS
AROUND 20. HIGHS IN THE MID 30S.
.FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S.

 ARCTIC HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE SOUTH INTO NORTH DAKOTA ON SATURDAY
 AND REMAINING IN PLACE ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS THROUGH TUESDAY.
 TEMPERATURES WILL BE 5 TO 15 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL THROUGH MUCH OF
 THIS PERIOD.

 GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Wintry weather is causing travel problems in northeastern North Dakota as spring begins.
 
     The National Weather Service has posted blizzard and winter storm warnings for the far northeast on Friday because of snow and winds gusting up to 50 mph. A winter weather advisory is in place for the rest of the region
 
     The state Transportation Department has advised no travel in areas north of U.S. Highway 2 in the northeast due to near-zero visibility and icy roads. The advisory includes the cities of Grafton and Pembina.
 
     A travel alert is in effect for the rest of the region, including Grand Forks. Officials say motorists can still travel but should slow down and use caution.

 

Jamestown (CSi) — The Buffalo City Tourism Grant/Executive Board approved funding requests for Stutsman County Museum staffing, The R.M. Stoudt, Xterra Festival advertising, and the Jamestown Drag Racing Association advertising.

Meeting Friday at the CSi Technology Center at Historic Franklin School, the board approved the $6,000 grant request from the Museum. Harold Sahr said the amount would pay three quarters of the salaries of the three greeters. He pointed out, the dedication of the 1883 gazebo replica, constructed on the Museum grounds will be May 17, 2014

Steven Aesoph requested $2,000 in grant dollars for the Xterra Festival, advertising, applied through the Jamestown Community Foundation. The Board approved $2,750 which includes photography that Aesoph said was excellent promotional material, and noted the event is heavily advertised on Facebook.

He said last year there were 120 participants from 27 states and three countries.

This year’s event will include five events, June 20, 21, & 22 at Pipestem Creek.

Jamestown Drag Racing Association CEO, Leon Westerhausen requested $6,000 in advertising funds, plus $100 for a lighted sign, $1,043.40 for traffic cones, and $1,222 for track timing cables.

The Board approved the $6,000 plus $1222.00 for the timing cables, for a total grant approval of $$7,222.00.

This year’s drag racing at Jamestown Regional Airport is scheduled fof July 26 & 27.

With marketing Tenea Clocksene said the roll out of the re-branding of Buffalo City Tourism in cooperation with Red Plum Advertising will be the week of May3-11, 2014 in conjunction with National Tourism, week at the Jamestown Arts Center. More information to be announced.

Buffalo City Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund said the full board will discuss any possible ideas of putting a logo on the new Southwest Jamestown water tower, after re-branding and the new logo to be unveiled.

In said the new “Jamestown Service Area, ” brochure, in cooperation with the Jamestown Sun is being distributed outside the area, and the state, with 6,000 copies sent within the state of Oklahoma.

　

Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown/Stutsman Development Corporation’s marketing/workforce developer, Holly Miller, participated in the Red River Research Corridor’s Small Business Innovation Summit on March 19 in Fargo, ND.

Miller joined Dr. David DeMuth, Great Plains STEM Education Center director, and Tifanie Gelinske, Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation VP of workforce, to present information on the ND STEM Learning Network and Growing Tomorrow’s Skilled Workforce. The Small Business Innovations Summit was co-hosted by the Red River Valley Research Corridor and North Dakota’s Congressional Delegation.

The summit offered various panel discussions where small business owners could learn about ideas to build and expand their companies, and determine how to use local, state, and federal resources. The summit included keynote speaker Matt Varilek, Regional Administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration and Soo Young Kim, Head of Marketing for Google’s Get Your Business Online program. Dr. DeMuth, Miller, and Gelinske will present Growing Tomorrow’s Skilled Workforce at the ND STEM Learning Network Take Root Summit at the National Energy Center of Excellence in Bismarck, ND on April 4. “STEM is the foundation for “growing our own” workforce in Stutsman County,” Miller said. “Through STEM, we will create an innovative workforce and a link for education and industry collaboration.”

　

BISMARCK (CSi) The N.D. Department of Human Services’ Aging Services Division is hosting statewide public hearings to review comments received from a recent online survey addressing programs and services that help older individuals and adults with physical disabilities remain living independently in their homes and communities.

Individuals are invited to participate in these meetings.

Wed., March 26, 2014

• Valley City, 1 to 2:30 p.m., Valley City Senior Center, 139 Second Ave. S.E.

Mon., March 31, 2014

• Belcourt, 12:30 to 2 p.m., Turtle Mountain Retirement Home, Hwy. 5 and St. Ann’s Road.

Tues., April 1, 2014

• Surrey, 12:45 to 2:15 p.m., Surrey Senior Center, 301 Second St. S.W.

Wed., April 2, 2014

• Williston, Noon to 1:30 p.m., Williston Senior Center, 18 Main St.

Thurs., April 3, 2014

• New Town, 10 to 11:30 a.m., Northern Lights Building, 710 Ninth Ave. N.

Mon., April 7, 2014

• Dickinson, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (Mountain Time), Villard Terrace, 22 Fourth Ave. E.

“The comments we gather will help us update North Dakota’s State Plan on Aging, which describes our priorities and the services we support with our federal Older Americans Act dollars,” said Jan Engan, Aging Services Division director.

The Aging Services Division funds a variety of programs and services including a toll-free information phone line and website, home-delivered meals, meals at senior meal sites, senior legal assistance, assistive safety devices like grab bars and seat lifts, blood pressure screenings, foot care, medication set-up, options counseling, and the senior companion program. The division also funds the Family Caregiver Support Program, senior employment and training, dementia care, long-term care ombudsman services, and protective services to vulnerable adults at-risk of abuse, neglect, or exploitation.

Public hearing sites are accessible to people with disabilities. Individuals who need auxiliary aids to participate in the meetings or who have questions should call the department’s Aging and Disability Resource LINK toll free 855-GO2-LINK (855-462-5465) or ND Relay TTY 800-366-6888.

Individuals unable to attend the public hearings can submit written comments by May 7, 2014, to the N.D. Department of Human Services’ Aging Services Division at 1237 W. Divide Ave., Suite 6, Bismarck, ND 58501.

Additional public hearings are scheduled in late April and early May for Bismarck, Ft. Yates, St. Michael, Devils Lake, Grand Forks, and Fargo. Following the completion of the 12 public meetings, the draft state plan will be finalized in June and then submitted to the federal Administration on Aging for approval.

Engan said in federal fiscal year 2013, about 23,300 North Dakotans age 60 and older were served by programs funded under the Older Americans Act.

 

(CSi) A coalition of six labor groups has been formed to fill employment positions in the Dakotas.

Open houses are being held in North Dakota where attendees can learn about careers and training opportunities. Some positions include bricklayers, cement masons, iron workers, heavy equipment operators, painters and laborers.

An open house in Jamestown is set for Friday April 25, 4-p.m., to 8-p.m., and Saturday April 26, 2014 10-a.m., to 5-p.m., at the University of Jamestown’s, Raugust Library.

A benefit to construction work includes training and development relevant to careers, without having to pay for tuition or take out loans to do so.

Workers can make up to $50 dollars an hour in wages and benefits in several construction careers.

12 locations have been planned around North and South Dakota for open houses including Bismarck, Fargo, Jamestown, Devils Lake and Grand Forks.

click here for a detailed list of times and locations of these open houses.

The Coalition of Construction Professionals is comprised of:
– Bricklayers & Allied Craft Workers
– Cement Masons & Plasters Local 633
– Iron Workers Local 512
– Laborers Local 563
– Operating Engineers Local 49
– Painters and Allied Trades

 

 KILDEER, N.D. (AP) – The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration says a man has died at an oil well drilling site west of Killdeer.
 
     OSHA area director Eric Brooks says  the Ensign U.S. Drilling worker was struck by traveling blocks on Thursday while on a drilling rig.
 
     Brooks said emergency personnel were called but the man was pronounced dead at the site. An OSHA compliance officer is on site investigating the incident.
 
     The man’s name has not been released pending notification of relatives.

　BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A judge reduced bail Friday for the former Dickinson principal accused of setting fire to his school.
 
     Thirty-year-old Thomas Sander has been in jail since March 5 after police charged him with arson and endangerment by fire. Police say Sander is responsible for the fire in Trinity High School.
 
     The Stark County Clerk of Court’s Office says a judge reduced Sander’s bail from $500,000 to $50,000. Sander’s new conditions say he must be placed under the custody of Thomas Sander Sr. and he can only travel within Stark, Burleigh and Morton counties. He’s still prohibited from any contact with school officials.
 
     Sander had not posted bail as of Friday afternoon.

 

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – The U.S. Postal Service says it will open a new location in Williston in late spring.
 
     Acting Dakotas district manager Jim Herrmann says the Postal Service is boosting its presence in the fast growing Bakken oil field region with a 5,880-square-foot facility on the north side of the city. The Badlands Station will feature PO boxes, full retail window, a self-service kiosk and other services.
 
     The Postal Service says it has also established a contract postal unit at a Watford City grocery store and a Village Post Office in Tioga, recruited more than 100 new employees and added PO Boxes, delivery points and parcel pick-up lockers.
 
     It has also established consumer advisory councils in Williston, Watford City, Minot, Bismarck and Dickinson.

 

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – The Pioneer Village museum is staying on the North Dakota State Fairgrounds in Minot, at least for now
 
     A judge has ruled that the Ward County Historical Society’s village can stay until a court determines each side’s rights in the matter.
 
     The State Fair Association gave the historical society an eviction notice in January. The association wants the land the museum is on.
 
     The historical society has argued that a contract drawn up in the 1960s gives it the right to remain on the land. The State Fair says the contract gives the society the right to have only one building on the land.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Officials say a broken oil pipeline in northwestern North Dakota spilled almost 34,000 gallons of crude.
 
     North Dakota Water Quality Director Dennis Fewless says the spill occurred early Thursday about 6 miles northeast of Alexander. Fewless says Enid, Okla.-based Hiland Crude LLC owns the pipeline and has contained the spill.
 
     Fewless says a gasket on the pipeline appears to have failed, spewing about 800 barrels of crude. A barrel is 42 gallons. Fewless says about half of the oil migrated off the site but has been contained.
 
     Fewless says no water sources are threatened. Cleanup likely will continue for a few days.
 
     The pipeline company did not immediately return telephone calls seeking comment on Friday.

 

  WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – A Williston attorney is pushing for an inpatient drug treatment program in the western North Dakota oil patch hub.
 
     Drug crimes have been on the rise in Williston, and attorney Jeff Nehring tells the Williston Herald that jailing drug offenders doesn’t address the root of the problem.
 
     The Northwest Human Service Center in Williston has an outpatient drug treatment program, but patients leave every day and go back to their homes. Nehring says an inpatient facility could monitor drug offenders around the clock.
 
     Mercy Medical Center says it has no plans to open a drug treatment facility. But Judge Robin Schmidt says she hopes to start a drug court program, which gives offenders incentives to rehabilitate themselves so they can stay out of jail.

 

In world and national news…

POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. (AP) – Authorities say 10 people are unaccounted for after fire destroyed a Jersey shore motel housing people displaced by Superstorm Sandy. Authorities say at least three people were killed in the early morning fire and eight injured, three of them critically. About 40 people were believed to be staying at the Mariner’s Cove Motor Inn in Point Pleasant Beach.
 
     PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Law enforcement officials have raided the office and home of Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox as part of an investigation by the U.S. attorney’s office, the FBI, IRS and state police. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office said two federal search warrants have been executed, but he wouldn’t say whether they were connected to the Democrat who has represented Providence for more than two decades.
 
     TORONTO (AP) – A Canadian man accused of killing a Chinese student as her boyfriend watched through a webcam has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in Toronto. The woman (Qian Liu) was found dead in her apartment in 2011, just a few hours after her boyfriend in China watched via webcam as she tried to fend off an attacker who appeared at her door. The boyfriend told police he saw her struggling with a man before her computer was shut off.
 
     OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – An Iraq War veteran whose skull was fractured when police fired a beanbag round during a 2011 protest has reached a $4.5 million agreement with the city of Oakland, Calif. Scott Olsen was among more than 1,000 demonstrators protesting the police clearing of an Occupy Oakland encampment when he was struck by the beanbag. His lawyer says Olsen suffered permanent brain injuries and has not been able to return to his career as a computer systems administrator.
 
     RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Fourteenth-seeded Mercer has pulled off the biggest upset so far in the NCAA basketball tournament by knocking off Duke 78-71. It’s the biggest victory in school history for the Atlantic Sun champion Bears and the second one-and-done in three years for the third-seeded Blue Devils.