Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Jul 29

CSi Weather…

REST OF TODAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S. NORTH
WINDS AROUND 10 MPH.
.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. NORTH WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH IN THE EVENING BECOMING LIGHT.
.WEDNESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 80. NORTH WINDS AROUND 5 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S. NORTH
WINDS AROUND 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE WEST AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.THURSDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. NORTH WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE
UPPER 50S. HIGHS IN THE MID 80S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 60S.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF
RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S. LOWS IN
THE UPPER 50S.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.

Jamestown (CSi) David Kuhn is running to call attention to those with Cystic Fibrosis.

The 62 year old Kuhn, who is blind, passed through Jamestown on an 11,000 mile 18 month run, to increase awareness of the disease affecting his 12 year old granddaughter, Kylie.

On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Kuhn said, he started from Seattle, enroute to Bangor, Maine, then south Jacksonville, Florida, west to San Diego, and north, back to Seattle.

He finds a running guide to help him “see” along the way, and runs a scenic route, or track.

He’s running the track at the University of Jamestown, along with other scenic routes in Jamestown.

As of Tuesday morningKuhn, who is also a marathon runner, has covered about 75 miles in Jamestown.

Kuhn also travels by bus or by car besides running.

As of Tuesday morning he was seeking a ride to Fargo on Wednesday.

Anyone who can provide a ride, or knows someone who can may call Nellie Degen in Jamestown to make arrangements at 320-5440.

Also on our show was Nellie Degen, who is helping Kuhn coordinate running guides while he’s in Jamestown.

She said that Kuhn will be at the University of Jamestown track between 2-and 3-p.m., on Tuesday, and will visit the All Vets Club in Jamestown about 8-p.m., on Tuesday.

Cystic Fibrosis is an illness primarily affects the lungs and digestive system.

So far, Kuhn has raised more than $3,400 for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, a nonprofit headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, that funds CF research.

For more information, visit Kuhn’s blog or his Facebook page, facebook.com/itsallicando.

For more on cystic fibrosis, visit www.cff.org.

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Buffalo Mall is again sponsoring their annual Back to School “Stuff the Bus” program.

A bus is placed inside the main entrance of the mall and will remain there until August 15th.

Donations for the bus can also be delivered to Gate City Bank. School supplies are encouraged to be donated for area children in need. The mall’s goal is to fill the bus with backpacks, folders, notebooks and everything a child needs for going back to school.

Community Action Region VI will be receiving the school supplies and distributing them to children in need this fall. For more information contact the Buffalo Mall office at 701-251-2237.

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Tourism Board of Directors will meet next month to establish four to six strategic tourism goals.

On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 Jamestown Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund said,

eight to ten goals will be established by a tourism board committee that will become Jamestown Tourism’s new three-year strategic plan.

Swedlund said Jamestown Tourism just completed rebranding, and the information the board gathered from the rebranding process should be used by board members when coming up with goals for the strategic plan.

In other business, the tourism board, approved the Jamestown Tourism Executive Advisory Board reviewing applicants for membership on the Jamestown Tourism Board of Directors and make a recommendation for appointments.

The board also authorized Swedlund to obtain a cost estimate for trademarking Jamestown Tourism’s logo, “Discover Jamestown.”

Tourism board President Alden Kollman said trademarking the logo is essential, enabling organizations wanting to utilize “Discover Jamestown,” on a website or in print, how the logo can be uesd, including approved accompanying color schemes.

 NAPOLEON, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota farmer has died in a grain bin accident.
 
     A Logan County sheriff  says Marvin Grenz of Napoleon died Saturday after being buried in grain for nearly 40 minutes.
 
     He was found by family members who called police. Emergency responders say they retrieved his body after eight minutes.
 
     The sheriff says everyone will miss the Grenz’s smile.
 
     It’s the second grain bin death the town has seen in less than a year.

WILLISTON, N.D. — A missing Williams County teenager was found Tuesday.

15 year old Megan Laray Grandbois, was reported to have run away by the Williams County Sheriff’s Office.

Grandbois was last seen about 4 a.m. Sunday and was reported missing Monday.

She had been with her father in Williams County. The girl’s mother lives in Colorado.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The state attorney general says the North Dakota State University Development Foundation broke the law when it failed to provide a citizen with a copy of the group’s expenditures.
 
     Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says in an opinion that the foundation must release the records that conservative blogger Rob Port requested under the state’s open records law.
 
     Stenehjem says the foundation denied the request “on incorrect legal grounds.” He says the foundation “delayed its response by months, even after acknowledging that it had responsive records.”
 
     The NDSU Development Foundation is a nonprofit. But Stenehjem says the foundation “is a public entity subject to open records laws because it performs governmental functions on behalf of NDSU.”
 
     Foundation President and CEO Douglas Mayo was not immediately available for comment on Tuesday.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – One of two men accused of supplying methamphetamine that led to the death of a Mandan woman has been sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison.
 
     Fifty-three-year-old Joseph Senger pleaded guilty earlier for the February 2013 overdose death of his girlfriend, 59-year-old Cheri Bettis of Mandan. Brock Fish also has pleaded guilty in Bettis’ death and is scheduled for sentencing in October.
 
     U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland on Monday sentenced Senger to 11 years and seven months in prison.
 
     The federal case involves 13 defendants in North Dakota and South Dakota. Fish and Billie Jo Kirkpatrick also are charged in the December 2012 overdose death of 39-year-old Douglas Peterson, of Pollock, South Dakota.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp says she thinks Robert McDonald will bring a new outlook as secretary for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
 
     McDonald was confirmed Tuesday by a vote of 97-0.
 
     Heitkamp says the job will be tough because McDonald will have to restore the public’s trust in the VA after the recent scandal. But she says his experience in the military and as a CEO of a global company will renew transparency, accountability and reforms within the VA.
 
     She met with McDonald last week to discuss how he would reform the VA, restore trust and focus on reaching out to veterans in rural areas. Heitkamp said he promised to work with her to improve access to services and benefits for North Dakota veterans, including Native Americans.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – St. Alexius Medical Center in Bismarck is pursuing an affiliation with the Catholic Health Initiatives nonprofit.
 
     The hospital and nonprofit say the goal would be to enhance services and improve care. Officials say that if a final agreement is reached, the affiliation could occur by the end of the year.
 
     Catholic Health Initiatives is based in Colorado, with a division based in Fargo. It has several facilities in North Dakota, but none in Bismarck.
 
     St. Alexius serves residents of central and western North Dakota, eastern Montana and northern South Dakota through its Bismarck hospital and facilities in several other cities. It is associated with the Benedictine Sisters of the Annunciation Monastery in Bismarck.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring has announced a third round of land enhancement grants in North Dakota.
 
     The grants are aimed at helping landowners enhance their property and restore habitat damaged by overland flooding, erosion, and weed infestations.
 
     People can sign up for the Land Enhancement and Habitat Renewal Program Aug. 1-29.
 
     Goehring says the program will provide up to 50 percent reimbursement of most costs associated with reclamation, landscaping, soil conditioning, re-vegetation and weed control. Proposed projects must involve land that has at least 10 percent woody vegetation or is adjacent to wooded vegetation.
 
     The state Agriculture Department since last year has awarded 14 grants totaling $55,000. Goehring says another $30,000 is available.

 DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) – BNSF Railway still plans to allow faster train speeds on a section of track in Devils Lake, after hearing the concerns of city officials who worry about safety.
 
     BNSF is planning to double the current 30 mph limit on a nearly 1  1/2-mile-long section of upgraded track in the northeastern North Dakota city of about 7,300 people. The  change is to take place Friday.
 
     Railroad spokeswoman Amy McBeth says the section of track is rated for the higher speed and that the change doesn’t necessarily mean that all trains will be moving at 60 mph.
 
     Mayor Dick Johnson says the increased speed isn’t acceptable. He says if BNSF goes ahead with the change, the city will seek help from the governor’s office and the state’s congressional delegation.

 VELVA, N.D. (AP) – A 9-year-old Velva boy has landed a state-record fish.
 
     Brayden Selzler reeled in a 4-pound, 12-ounce goldeye from Lake Audubon on Friday. The state Game and Fish Department says it shattered a record that had stood for 16 years.
 
     The previous record of 3 pounds, 13 ounces was set in 1998 by Craig Unser, a Mandan angler who was fishing at New John’s Lake.

In world and national news…

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – Conditions in the Gaza Strip may get even worse, now that the territory’s only power plant has been shut down. Officials say it’s the result of an Israeli tank attack that left a fuel tank in flames. Even before the shutdown, Gaza residents only had electricity for about three hours a day because the fighting had damaged power lines.  A Palestinian health official says 109 Palestinians were killed in Tuesday’s shelling and airstrikes, bringing the total number of Palestinian deaths above 1,200 since the start of the three weeks of fighting. Israel says its latest strikes signal a “gradual increase in the pressure” on Hamas.
 
     FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) – Authorities say the top doctor treating Ebola in Sierra Leone has died from the disease. The doctor had been hospitalized in quarantine since he contracted the virus that has killed more than 670 people across West Africa this year. Health workers have been especially vulnerable to contracting Ebola, which is spread through bodily fluids. Two American health workers are currently being hospitalized with Ebola in neighboring Liberia.
 
     JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A federal appeals court panel has ruled that a Mississippi law that would close the state’s only abortion clinic is unconstitutional. The three-judge panel ruled Tuesday in a case involving the law requiring physicians at the clinic in Jackson to obtain admitting privileges at a local hospital. They weren’t able to obtain those privileges. Attorneys for Mississippi argued that if the clinic closed, women could get abortions in other states. But the appeals panel says Mississippi may not shift its obligation for established constitutional rights of its citizens to another state.
 
     ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – A jury has awarded former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura $1.8 million in his lawsuit against the estate of “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle. The federal jury in St. Paul found that the 2012 best-selling book libeled Ventura in describing a bar fight in California in 2006. Kyle wrote that he decked a man later identified as Ventura after the man allegedly said the Navy SEALs “deserve to lose a few.” Ventura, a former governor and professional wrestler, testified the incident never happened. Kyle insisted in testimony videotaped before he was slain last year that it did.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The acting U.S. surgeon general is asking Americans to give up their love of sunbathing and indoor tanning beds, citing an alarming 200 percent jump in the number of deadly melanoma cases diagnosed since 1973. Rear Adm. Boris Lushniak says in a new report that nearly 5 million people in the U.S. are treated for all forms of skin cancer each year at a cost of $8 billion. He says that state and local officials should do more to help people cover up, such as providing more shade at parks, and that colleges should discourage indoor tanning beds on their campuses, much as they would tobacco use.

ATLANTA (AP) – The last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died in Georgia. 
Tom VanKirk says his father, 93-year-old Theodore VanKirk, died Monday in Stone Mountain, Georgia. 
VanKirk, also known as “Dutch,” was the navigator of the Enola Gay. The B-29 Superfortress aircraft dropped “Little Boy” – the world’s first atomic bomb – over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. The bomb killed 140,000 in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki three days later. Van Kirk was 24 years old at the time. 
In a 2005 interview with The Associated Press, VanKirk said his World War II experience showed that wars and atomic bombs don’t settle anything, and he’d like to see the weapons abolished.