Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Apr 8

CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S. SOUTHWEST WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, A 40 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. WINDY…WARMER. HIGHS IN THE
LOWER 70S. WEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH INCREASING TO 20 TO 30 MPH IN
THE AFTERNOON.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. BREEZY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S.
NORTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH BECOMING WEST AROUND 10 MPH AFTER
MIDNIGHT.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 50S. NORTHWEST WINDS
15 TO 20 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE MID 30S.
SOUTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 30 PERCENT CHANCE
OF RAIN. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S. HIGHS IN THE MID 50S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE
EVENING…THEN SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW POSSIBLY MIXED WITH RAIN
AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE MID 20S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
20 PERCENT.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S.
LOWS IN THE MID 20S.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE MID 40S.
LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 50S.

WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON 
 ACROSS THE WEST AND CENTRAL…AND ACROSS THE FAR SOUTH WEDNESDAY
 EVENING. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

 AFTER THE WARM WEDNESDAY…
 TEMPERATURES WILL COOL TO NEAR NORMAL THURSDAY AND FRIDAY THEN
 TAKE A MUCH COOLER TREND BY SATURDAY AS A MORE SIGNIFICANT COLD
 FRONT ENTERS THE STATE. THIS WILL BRING A CHANCE FOR RAIN OR SNOW
 SATURDAY AND A CHANCE FOR SNOW SATURDAY NIGHT. COOL BUT DRY
 WEATHER WILL THEN PERSIST SUNDAY INTO MONDAY.

 

Jamestown (CSi) On June 10, 2014 Jamestown Public School District voters will be asked to elect five school board members. Four individuals have their names on the ballot.

Three Urban/City Seats are up for election, with two individuals on the ballot.

Those are:

Robert Toso

Heidi Heim-Larson (Incumbent)

(Third Seat No Candidate on ballot)

Filing to run for the two rural school board seats are:

Greg Allen (Incumbent)

Mindy Schmitz

In addition to Ms. Heim-Larson, and Mr. Allen, other school board members whose terms expire in June 2014 are, Roy Musland, (Urban/City), Tanya Ostlie (Urban/City) and Shelly Jystad (Rural)

Candidates run on a district-wide basis

The measure on the ballot asks if the school district should publish minutes of proceedings in a newspaper of general circulation

 

Valley City (CSi) The Valley City Public School Board elections will be on June 10, 2014.

Candidates include:

At-Large position:

Incumbent school board member Mike Callahan.

Stephanie Kruta

Rural Seat: Ryan Mathias, unopposed.

Dick Nelson has opted not to run for another term, having served over 20 years as a public school board member.

The election is June 10, 2014

 

Valley City (CSi) Elected Barnes County positions up for election this year, includes

The seat held by County Commissioner Phil Leitner in District #2, Commissioner Eldred Knutson in District #3, Commissioner Rodger Berntson in District #4, Sheriff Randy McClaflin, Treasurer Vicki Zinck, State’s Attorney Carl Martineck, Auditor Beth Didier, and Recorder Jody Pfaff.

Filing petitions for their candidacies are:

(Four Year Terms)

Barnes County Commissioner, District 2, Phil Leitner, Shawn Olauson, James (Mike) Metcalf

Barnes County Commissioner, District 3, Ryan Mathias, Bill Carlblom  (The seat now held by Commission President Eldred Knutson, not running for re-election, is open.)

Barnes County Commissioner, District 4, Rodger Berntson (unopposed)

Barnes County Sheriff, Randy McClaflin Unopposed

Barnes County Treasurer, Vicki L. Zinck Unopposed

Barnes County State’s Attorney, Carl L. Martineck Unopposed

Barnes County Auditor, Beth M. Didier

Barnes County Recorder, Jody Pfaff

The two candidates who receive the most votes for each position in the primary will advance to the November 2014 General Election, on Tuesday, November 4, 2014

North Dakota’s primary election will be Tuesday, June 10, 2014.

County Newspaper, Valley City Times-Record, Litchville Bulletin.

 

In sports…

Jamestown  (CSi)  Jamestown High School Activities Director Jim Roaldson reports that Jamestown High School Head Boy’s Basketball Coach Kelley Kessler has resigned his position. 

Kessler has served in this position for the past 4 seasons.  He will continue to coach the Blue Jay Baseball team as well as teach at Jamestown Middle School.

 A search for a replacement will begin.

 

ISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Officials in a small North Dakota town unsuccessfully targeted for takeover by a white supremacist have filed a complaint with the state against the prosecutor in the case who negotiated a plea deal that might keep Craig Cobb out of prison.
 
     Leith Mayor Ryan Schock, City Councilman Lee Cook and city website developer Greg Bruce say prosecutor Todd Schwarz hasn’t followed the town’s wishes that Cobb get prison time for terrorizing residents. They want Schwarz censured and removed from the case.
 
     Schwarz says he’s handled the case properly, and he doesn’t expect the complaint to affect it.
 
     The 62-year-old Cobb is awaiting sentencing after agreeing to plead guilty to five misdemeanors and one felony in a deal that would spare him further jail time. A judge ordered a presentence investigation.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota will pay a company $12,600 to clean up illegally dumped radioactive oil field waste found on the outskirts of the northwestern town of Noonan.
 
     The money to pay Secure On-site Services will come from the state Industrial Commission’s abandoned well cleanup fund.
 
     Officials about a month ago reported the illegal dumping of hundreds of radioactive oil filter socks in an abandoned building in Noonan. They said it’s the state’s biggest incident to date of illegal dumping of the tubular nets that strain liquids during the oil production process.
 
     Authorities don’t know who’s to blame, and the whereabouts of the building’s owner aren’t known.
 
     The cleanup company said it will dispose of the filter socks at a radioactive disposal facility in Idaho.

 

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Minot residents are deciding the fate of a proposed $39.5 million school bond measure.
 
     Tuesday’s vote is on a scaled-back version of a $125 million bond issue that voters narrowly defeated last December.
 
     The revamped proposal would pay for construction of a new elementary school, additions at two other elementaries, and safety and security upgrades at all district schools. The owner of a home valued at $200,000 would see property taxes go up about $120 annually.
 
     The bond issue defeated in December would have included a second high school, and would have raised property taxes about $465 annually on a $200,000 home. The vote was almost evenly split but the measure required 60 percent approval to pass.

 

 MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) – Two minor league hockey players from Nebraska are being investigated by police in Minnesota for allegedly having sex with a 15-year-old girl and recording it.
 
     Court documents say two 18-year-old players from the Lincoln Stars of the United States Hockey League had sex with the girl at a Moorhead hotel Feb. 15 when the team was in town to play the Fargo Force. KFGO reports a search warrant affidavit says one of the players took a brief video of the encounter, which was circulated among other players.
 
     A Moorhead detective traveled to Lincoln, Neb., to interview the two players. Their cellphones were seized as evidence.
 
     Lincoln Stars president and general manager Jon Hull says team officials are waiting to see what happens with the police probe.

 

In world and national news…

PERTH, Australia (AP) – Search crews in the Indian Ocean haven’t been picking up any more of the faint underwater sounds they were hearing a few days ago. They were hoping that the sounds might be coming from the black box voice and data recorders from the missing Malaysian jetliner. But the batteries that send the signal from those devices are probably running out. The signals were heard Saturday and Sunday, but not since then.
 
     DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) – Ukraine’s government is struggling to stay in control of the eastern regions of the country. The government has managed to recapture its regional headquarters and detain dozens of pro-Russian protesters in one city. But it says “radicals” are keeping 60 people hostage in another city, and threatening them. In eastern Ukraine, there’s a lot of hostility toward the government that took power in February. The United States and its allies are worried that Russia will make further moves into Ukraine, following its annexation of pro-Russian Crimea.
 
     CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) – Health experts say it’s one of the most challenging outbreaks of the Ebola virus that the international community has ever faced. They say the disease could continue to spread in West Africa for months. A doctor with the World Health Organization says other outbreaks have involved more cases, but this one is remarkable for the wide area over which it has spread, crossing the border from Guinea to Liberia. More than 100 deaths in the two countries have been linked to the outbreak. 
 
     CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – North and South America will be treated to a total lunar eclipse in the early morning hours of next Tuesday. And that might not be good news for a NASA spacecraft that’s been orbiting the moon since last fall. The robotic orbiter was never designed to withstand a lengthy eclipse, and scientists don’t know if it will withstand the hours of cold temperatures. But the craft is near the end of its mission anyway.