Wayne Byers Show – Evening – May 28

CSi Weather…

.LATE THIS AFTERNOON…SUNNY. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.

.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S. SOUTHEAST WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH.
.THURSDAY…SUNNY…BREEZY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S. SOUTH WINDS
15 TO 25 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE JAMESTOWN  AREA,  A 20 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S. SOUTHEAST WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN
THE MORNING…THEN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY IN THE
AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND 10 MPH.
CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 60 PERCENT.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…A 60 PERCENT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS AROUND 60.
.SATURDAY…SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER
70S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 60 PERCENT.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
.SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT
CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S.

 

THERE IS A CHANCE OF A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING THURSDAY AFTERNOON. THIS COULD DEVELOP INTO A SQUALL LINE WITH HEAVY RAINFALL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE PRIMARY THREATS THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
 
 CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUES THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING MAINLY FOR SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE STATE.
 
 CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS…SOME POSSIBLY SEVERE WITH HEAVY
 RAINFALL…CONTINUES FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL AND EAST…AND ON SATURDAY FAR SOUTH.
 
 THUNDERSTORM CHANCES CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND…WITH HEAVY RAINFALL THE MAIN THREAT.

THE PROLONGED POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL COULD LEAD TO AREAS OF LOW LAND FLOODING AND RISING RIVER LEVELS. STAY TUNED TO LATER FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Fire Department was called to a grass fire in the 400 block of 4th Street Northwest, about 11:36 a.m., on Wednesday.

City Fire Chief Jim Reuther says, the initial call was for a car fire.

He said the driver indicated that he lost his breaks, and the vehicle went into a ditch and was hung up on a dirt ridge.  The hot exhaust system, or the spinning tires trying to get out of the ditch caused the grass fire.

The vehicle received no damage, with about an 8×8 foot section of grass burned.

No injuries reported.

20 city fire fighters and 5 units were on the scene about 15 minutes.

 

Valley City (CSi) Valley City officials on Thursday will meet with North Dakota Water Commission officials to request a reduction in the the local share of costs for permanent flood protection projects

The current share is 25 percent local with the request to reduce the local share to 15 percent.

City Commissioner Mary Lee Nielson says the city will also ask the water commission to pick up the engineering costs of the permanent flood protection construction projects.

During Wednesday morning’s Special Valley City Commission meeting, commissioners approved making the request.

　

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Engineer’s Office is informing all residents in the area of the 2^nd St Bridge SW to 6^th Ave SW south to Klaus Park that they will experience water outages starting at approximately 8:00 a.m. Thursday, May 29, 2014 AND until utility repair work is completed.

It is anticipated that the utility repairs will be completed within the working day.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The James River Family “Y” in Jamestown in conjunction with the University of Jamestown will hold summer basketball and volleyball camps this summer.

On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 the Y’s Executive Director, Frank Conlin said, The UJ Women’s basketball team and Men’s basketball teams and the UJ Volleyball team will host the camps at the Y. More information and to sign up by contacting the University of Jamestown Athletic Department.

Also this summer there will be a Kiddie Basketball Camp at the Larson Lifetime Sports Center.

He said that several activities, and classes are being held outdoors this summer.

Conlin said the Y will host its first Golf Tournament at Jamestown Country Club on June 21, 2014.

He said it will be a four person scramble, with three divisions, with the shotgun start at 9-a.m.

Registration forms available at the Y, with registrations accepted the day of the tournament.

Conlin also pointed out that the Y has also established a new membership summer offer of reduced rates, during June, July and August 2014.

Contact the Y for more information.

He added that sign up is being taken for the Summer II classes and activities, with brochures available at the Y’s front desk.

　

BISMARCK (CSi) The North Dakota Industrial Commission has authorized the distribution of more than $197,000 to organizations statewide through Helping Housing Across North Dakota (Helping HAND). North Dakota Housing Finance Agency (NDHFA) administers the program.

A local match of 25 percent is required to access the funds. Helping HAND dollars are most often used for housing weatherization and rehabilitation projects. All of the funds must be utilized for projects in North Dakota.

In a news release the commission said, “Helping HAND allows community action agencies, tribal housing authorities and other nonprofit organizations to quickly address the unmet housing needs of lower-income individuals and families.”

2014 funds will be distributed to Community Action Region VI in Jamestown in the amount of $14,002.

The Industrial Commission, consisting of Gov. Jack Dalrymple as chairman, Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring and Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, oversees the agency.

For more information on Helping HAND, contact NDHFA at (800) 292-8621 or visit www.ndhfa.org.

Also the Industrial Commission has increased the purchase price limit of North Dakota Housing Finance Agency (NDHFA) homeownership programs from $250,000 to $265,158 in accordance with Internal Revenue Service guidelines.

NDHFA offers first-time buyers below-market interest rate mortgage loans through its FirstHome(tm) program. Households headed by a single parent or that includes a disabled or elderly member or a veteran honorably discharged from active duty may qualify for similar cost savings through the agency’s HomeAccess program. NDHFA also provides down payment and closing cost assistance and supports homebuyer education.

For more information on NDHFA homeownership programs, visit the agency’s website at www.ndhfa.org.

　

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Mayor’s Partnership Committee is working with the Jamestown Police Department to identify accessible parking stalls that do not meet the requirements of North Dakota Century Code (39-01-15-12) and the Jamestown City Ordinance (Sec 21-16-16-10.)

An accessible parking space is defined as a vehicle space with proper signage and a striped access aisle. The entire space must be kept clear of obstructions at all times including ice, snow, shopping carts, trash cans, racks, seasonal displays, bicycle racks, etc.

This joint effort is due to numerous violations with people who wrongfully park in the accessible parking space. Police are not able to ticket violators when the parking stall is not properly signed and marked.

The North Dakota Century Code states: An entity that fails to comply with signage and pavement markings is guilty of an infraction — $500 fine — if the entity does not correct such violations within 60 days after receiving an official notice.

The Jamestown Mayor’s Partnership Committee and Jamestown Police Department will work on implementing a progressive plan and contacting businesses who do not have proper signage showing them how they can be corrected.

Providing accessible parking is vital to ensuring equal access to everyone including those with mobility impairments.

For more information, contact Gary Jensen at 252-2414 or Andrea Nelson at the Freedom Resource Center at 252-4693.

 

　 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Supreme Court has denied an appeal of a man accused of killing the mother of his child and three other people in Minot in January 2011.
 
     The attorney for Omar Mohamed Kalmio told the state’s high court in November that the judge in the case improperly admitted hearsay evidence about Kalmio’s past, that Kalmio was not allowed to give an alibi and that there was not enough evidence for a conviction.
 
     Ward County Deputy State’s Attorney Kelly Dillon argued that all four people were killed with the same weapon, and the only connection between the four people was Kalmio.
 
     Kalmio, a Somali national, is serving life in prison without the possibility of parole.

 

  WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – A Williston nonprofit organization is collecting food and clothes for the victims of the Memorial Day tornado that hit a trailer park south of Watford City.
 
  Box Up Generosity took up donations in a Williston’s Davidson Park Tuesday. Donations can still be arranged by calling the drive’s organizers.
 
     Box Up Generosity organizers say their group is solely dedicated to helping the less fortunate in the oil patch. The organization prefers collecting non-perishable food.
 
     A tornado hit a trailer park around five miles south of Watford City around 7:50 p.m. Monday. The twister injured nine people and destroyed 15 trailers. Watford City is around fifty miles southeast of Williston.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker says challenger Brad Wimmer was not around when Walaker made the decision to keep the city open during a record flood.
 
     Walaker closed a debate with Wimmer on KFGO radio Wednesday by talking about a 2009 incident when Walaker rejected a call by then-Gov. John Hoeven to evacuate the city. Wimmer was in his first term as city commissioner at the time.
 
     Walaker said Wimmer was out of state during the meeting with Hoeven and other government officials. Wimmer countered that he was in another room with some other commissioners.
 
     Walaker said the city needed “every person on our first line of defense” during the flood and that’s why he refused to evacuate. All but about 100 homes were spared by a massive sandbagging effort.

 

 WADENA, Minn. (AP) – A group of Minnesota fourth-graders has finished the book of a classmate who died of leukemia a year and half ago.
 
     Jane Fiemeyer started writing the book between surgeries and treatments at the hospital, but she didn’t get to write all chapters of the fairy tale entitled, “The Life of Bobby Quinn.”
 
Each of the fourth-graders in Wadena was assigned a chapter for the book not knowing what anyone else was writing. Jane’s mother, Jil Fiemeyer, says all chapters fit together perfectly.
 
     Carson Kern, one of Jane Fiemeyer’s classmates, says he thinks Jane is “looking down and smiling.”
 

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Industrial Commission has approved $2.5 million for 17 projects under the state’s new Outdoor Heritage Fund.
 
     The Legislature established the fund last year. It will receive up to $15 million annually from oil and gas taxes. 
 
     The goal is to restore land affected by energy production and to develop such things as fish and wildlife habitat and outdoor recreation areas.
 
     The panel approved $5.8 million for 17 projects in January.
 
     The biggest grant awarded Tuesday in the second round was $305,000 for a woodland trail and access to the Souris River in Minot.
 
     Four other projects each received $300,000 in funding.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Sentencing has been postponed for a Seattle doctor accused of turning in phony Medicare claims that included reports of nursing home visits to patients who were dead.
 
     John C. Chen is charged in federal court in North Dakota with six counts, including health care fraud and false statements related to health care. The charges carry a combined maximum penalty of 45 years in prison.
 
     Chen was scheduled for a plea hearing and sentencing Wednesday morning in Fargo. The hearing has been reset to June 30.
 
     The case is being tried in North Dakota because Fargo-based Noridian Healthcare Solutions LLC processes and pays Medicare Part B claims in Washington state.
 
     Authorities say many of Chen’s claims for face-to-face appointments occurred when he was out of the country. 

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – An Almont man charged with felony negligent homicide in the death of a mail carrier in southwestern North Dakota has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and been sentenced.
 
21-year-old Ernest Borntrager will spend six months on electronic monitoring for misdemeanor reckless endangerment.
 
     Borntrager was accused in the death of 66-year-old Martha Kautzman, who was critically injured in a July 7, 2013, crash on N.D. Highway 31 north of New Salem and died of her injuries about two weeks later.
 
     Authorities alleged Borntrager was speeding and pulling a trailer that did not have functioning brakes. Borntrager disputed the speeding allegation but took responsibility for the crash.

 

  MINOT, N.D. (AP) – St. Alexius Medical Center in Bismarck has unveiled plans for a $19 million facility in Minot.
 
     The two-story, 67,000-square-foot Minot Medical Plaza will have 40 rooms for primary care, 20 rooms for specialty care and room for expansion into same-day surgeries. Services initially will include MRIs, CT scans, mammographies, and lab and pharmacy services.
 
     The facility will be hiring up to 65 staff members. Construction is scheduled to begin next month, with the facility opening in summer 2015.

 

In sports..

VALLEY CITY (VCSU, CSi) – Valley City State University (N.D.) men’s basketball coach Jeff Kaminsky announced Wednesday that Rashad Satahoo of North Lauderdale, Fla., has signed a letter of intent to attend VCSU and play basketball for the Vikings this fall.

A 6-foot-2 guard, Satahoo averaged 23 points, 8 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game this season for Pompano Beach High School. Satahoo led his team in scoring and was named Team MVP and Offensive MVP this season. He was also named Offensive MVP as a junior and received the team’s Most Promising Player Award as a sophomore.

Kaminsky says, “Rashad had an outstanding high school career. He is intelligent, athletic, and skilled. We are excited to have him in the Viking Basketball program.”

Pompano Beach head coach Alex Jenkins says Satahoo has a hunger and readiness to go to work.

Jenkins adds “Rashad was the inspiration of our program. The day I took the job, Rashad got my attention – ever since that day, he has given me 100 percent of his efforts and improved those around him. He will be truly missed. Valley City State has gained a great student-athlete who will be a great addition to the program.”

Satahoo has also excelled with high marks in the classroom at Pompano Beach High School, which is known for its high academic standards and is a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. He plans to continue his education by studying business and accounting at VCSU. Satahoo is the son of Winston Satahoo and Barbara Spence.

The assistant coach at Pompana Beach, Joe Bateman, is a VCSU alum and former player for Kaminsky’s Vikings.

Satahoo joins fellow high school seniors Briton Bussman (G, Milnor, N.D.), Jayden Ferguson (F, Williston, N.D.) and Alex Quist (G, Bismarck, N.D.) as signed recruits for next season. Transfer Riley West (G, Lakeville, Minn./St. Cloud Tech.) has also signed to attend VCSU.

Valley City State University posted a 14-14 record in 2013-14. Under Jeff Kaminsky, the Vikings are 149-115 and have posted 20-win seasons in four of the past seven years. In 2012-13, Kaminsky led the Vikings to their first NAIA National Tournament appearance since 1987.

 

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – The University of North Dakota women’s basketball team has been invited to participate in the 16-team Preseason Women’s National Invitational Tournament later this year.
 
     School officials say UND becomes the first Big Sky Conference member to participate in the event since Northern Colorado was selected in 2009.  Athletics Director Brian Faison calls it “a major honor.”
 
     North Dakota is the defending Big Sky regular season and tournament champion. UND last season advanced to its first NCAA Division I Tournament.

 

In world and national news…..

 WASHINGTON (AP) – The Department of Veterans Affairs’ internal watchdog says veterans at the Phoenix VA hospital waited on average 115 days for their first medical appointment. That’s 91 days, on average, longer than the hospital had reported. An interim report by the inspector general says investigators have “substantiated serious conditions” at the hospital, including 1,700 veterans who were waiting for medical care but were not on an official waiting list. The review follows allegations that several veterans died while awaiting treatment.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says increasing assistance to the Syrian opposition will be part of the U.S. battle against violent extremism. He told graduates at the U.S. Military Academy he intends to work with Congress to ramp up support for those in the Syrian opposition who offer “the best alternative to terrorists and a brutal dictator.” He’s proposing to train and possibly equip moderate rebels fighting to oust Syrian leader Bashar Assad as a way of countering extremists who “find safe haven in the chaos.”
 
     BOSTON (AP) – Prosecutors say former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez shot to death two men in their car in 2012 after one of them accidentally bumped into him at a Boston nightclub, spilling a drink. A third man was wounded in the incident. Hernandez pleaded not guilty in Suffolk Superior Court today. Hernandez already faces charges in the 2013 killing of semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd.
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – Politicians, media figures and fellow artists are paying tribute to Maya Angelou (MY’-uh AN’-juh-loh), the author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” Former President Bill Clinton says “America has lost a national treasure.” Clinton says her poems and stories are “gifts of wisdom and wit, courage and grace.” He says he’ll always be grateful for reading of “On the Pulse of Morning” at his first inaugural, which he calls “electrifying.” Her son says Angelou died at her North Carolina home Wednesday  morning. She was 86.
 
     UKIAH, Calif. (AP) – Hundreds of dead fish are lining the shores of Lake Mendocino in Northern California and wildlife biologists are trying to determine what killed them. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tells The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa that the water doesn’t appear to be too warm or lack oxygen since the die-off is affecting only carp, not other fish. He says the fish are resilient, but there are some diseases that affect only carp.