Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Aug 26

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CSi Weather…

LATE THIS AFTERNOON…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SCATTERED SHOWERS.
HIGHS 65 TO 70. SOUTHWEST WINDS AROUND 5 MPH. CHANCE OF SHOWERS
40 PERCENT.
.TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS IN THE EVENING.
LOWS 45 TO 50. SOUTH WINDS UP TO 10 MPH. CHANCE OF SHOWERS
40 PERCENT.
.WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. SOUTHEAST WINDS
5 TO 15 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 55 TO 60. SOUTHEAST WINDS
UP TO 10 MPH.
.THURSDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS 75 TO 80.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS 55 TO 60.
.FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS 80 TO 85.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS 55 TO 60.
.SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.
HIGHS 80 TO 85.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS 55 TO 60.
.LABOR DAY…PARTLY SUNNY. CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.
HIGHS IN THE MID 70S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
.TUESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS 70 TO 75.

THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON  AN ISOLATED THREAT FOR THUNDERSTORMS.

.SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FROM FRIDAY
 EVENING INTO THE LABOR DAY WEEKEND. FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS POSSIBLE AT TIMES ALONG WITH A THREAT OF BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM.

  MORE WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION CHANCES ARRIVE  INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Engineer’s Office is informing residents, that fogging operations in the City of Jamestown for adult mosquitoes is scheduled to begin Tuesday night, August 26, 2014 and will continue throughout the week as is necessary.

All fogging operations are contingent upon weather conditions.

All fogging operations will take place between approximately 8:30 PM (dusk) until approximately 6:00 AM.

Parents are advised to keep children out of the streets and away from the fogging machines.

Motorists are urged to use caution when traveling in the vicinity of the fogging units.

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Arts Center’s 4^th Annual Oktoberfest is set for Saturday September 13, 2014 at the Stutsman County fairgrounds, starting at 5:30-p.m

Tickets are $25 and available at Cork & Barrel in Jamestown, the Arts Center, Arts Center board member, and at the gate.

The evening will include German food, beer German style music and more.

The Arts Center Oktoberfest celebration is a fundraising event organized by the Arts Center’s Board of Directors. All proceeds to to support programming at the Jamestown Arts Center.

 WAHPETON, N.D. (AP) – The mother of a North Dakota State College of Science student who was missing for two months before his body was found says she believes her son was murdered.
 
     KFGO-AM reports Tammy Sadek says her son was not suicidal. She is calling on North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenhjem to investigate his death.
 
     The body of Andrew Sadek was pulled from the Red River in late June. An autopsy report released Saturday shows Sadek died of a gunshot wound to the head.
 
     The autopsy says it was “undetermined” how the gunshot was inflicted, and the toxicology drug test was negative. The report shows he died May 3.
 
     Police released an arrest warrant for Sadek after he’d been missing several days. Police alleged Sadek sold marijuana twice to a police informant.

Valley City (CSi) The Music Hall of Fame Recognition Banquet will honor two Valley City State University alumni — John Reed (in memoriam) and Myron Sommerfeld.

The banquet will be held September 27, 2014 at the Valley City Town & Country Club.

A social hour will begin at 6 p.m. with dinner served at 6:30 p.m. T

All VCSU alumni are invited to attend this event.

Tickets are $35 per person. Contact Paula Larson in the VCSU Department of Music office by emailing paula.larson@vcsu.edu or calling (701) 845-7272.

Payment must be received no later than Sept. 12. Tickets will not be available at the door.

The evening is anticipated to be filled with memories and stories, celebrating the service of those individuals to VCSU and the musical culture of North Dakota and beyond.

Reed spent more than 25 years as the choir director at Valley City State University. He taught in California and North Dakota and spent five years at Valley City Junior-Senior High School before working at VCSU. While at VCSU, Reed directed the Concert Choir, University Singers and taught voice. Reed also served as director of the VCSU Christmas Madrigal Dinner Concerts, the 1986 “Christmas Masterpieces” productions of Bach Magnificat and the opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors” and the 1987 VCSU Choral Union presentation of Handel’s “Messiah.” Reed frequently served as an adjudicator, clinician and massed choir director throughout North Dakota.

Sommerfeld attended Valley City State College and graduated in 1962. He would later go on to earn his master’s in music education from the University of North Dakota in 1973. He taught music in North Dakota for more than 25 years. He has been in the music business for 58 years and is still performing with his band Myron Sommerfeld and His Music. Sommerfeld writes and arranges every piece of music that his band performs. His many accomplishments include having his composition, “Stepping Out,” chosen as the theme song for National Ballroom Dance Week in 1992 and having his orchestra voted as “The Outstanding Band” by the National Ballroom & Entertainment Association. His band has played for several governors and has toured throughout the Midwest and into Canada.

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police say a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train carrying unscented propane derailed near Canada’s border with Minnesota and North Dakota early Tuesday.
 
     Manitoba RCMP media relations officer Tara Seel says the RCMP responded to a train derailment in Emerson at about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday. She adds no leaks have been detected and there were no injuries.
 
     Seel says the train was carrying unscented propane, prompting the evacuation of approximately 40 people who lived within 110 yards of the site. RCMP says the train crossed into Canada from Minnesota.
 
     Andrew Kirking is the emergency manager of Pembina County on the North Dakota side of the border. He says the train derailed about 100 yards into Canada but did not affect the nearby North Dakota town of Pembina.

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Department of Mineral Resource says it’s adding three new pipeline inspector positions.
 
     Department of Mineral Resources spokeswoman Alison Ritter says the inspectors will deal with oil, gas and waste gathering lines.
 
     Gathering lines are pipelines that transport oil, gas and saltwater between well locations or to a central collection point.
 
     Ritter says the pipeline inspectors will mostly be focused on making sure new pipeline installations follow regulations. New rules that went into effect in April require gathering pipeline installation to not interfere with agriculture and dictate pipeline trenches to be filled in ways that do not damage the pipelines.
 
     The new inspectors will bring the total number of pipeline inspectors at the department to 35.

 WATFORD CITY, N.D. (AP) – The U.S. Forest Service is reminding people to take their trash home with them when visiting public lands.
 
     The plea comes after employees picked up half a ton of garbage from a 48-acre area of the Little Missouri National Grasslands in western North Dakota.
 
     Trash picked up by McKenzie Ranger District employees near Watford City included beverage cans, a broken lawnmower, vehicle parts, used ammunition, destroyed road signs and broken gas cans.
 
     The garbage filled a flatbed trailer and three pickup truck beds. Some was taken to a recycling center and the rest to a dump. The Forest Service says the trash came from target shooters, hunters, people on off-highway vehicles and in campers, and from people using the area as a dumping grounds.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A week of heavy rainfall brought North Dakota’s small grains harvest to a halt.
 
     The Agriculture Department says in its latest weekly crop report that all areas of the state got at least an inch of moisture in the past week, with some areas in the southwest getting nearly half a foot.
 
     The report says the rain was needed by row crops but that flooding damaged hay, fences and some crops.
 
     Only 10 percent of the state’s staple spring wheat crop has been harvested, behind 25 percent last year at the same time and the five-year average of 43 percent. Eighty percent of the crop is rated in good to excellent condition.
 
     Pasture and range conditions are rated 83 percent good to excellent.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp has traveled to Africa as part of a Senate delegation to learn more about how the U.S. can better support growth in developing countries, particularly for women and children.
 
     The North Dakota Democrat will be in Africa for nearly two weeks. Details of the trip aren’t being disclosed for security reasons.
 
     Heitkamp says the goal of the trip is “promoting healthy families, good jobs and strong partnerships abroad.” She says that also will improve national security and spur economic growth.
 
     Heitkamp will visit agricultural research and training centers as well as health centers, and meet with various officials.

  FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Federal attorneys say a report on tribal prosecutions shows continued improvement since a study that criticized the Department of Justice for turning its back on reservation crime.
 
     The report released Tuesday shows that 2,542 cases were filed in Indian Country in 2013, a 34 percent increase from five years ago when the federal government began its tribal justice initiative. That’s down from 3,145 cases brought in 2012, which DOJ officials attributed primarily to reduced budgets and a hiring freeze.
 
     A U.S. Government Accountability Office study released in 2010 revealed that federal prosecutors had declined 50 percent of American Indian cases in a five-year period ending in 2009.
 
     Timothy Purdon, U.S. attorney for North Dakota, says the updated report shows the feds are keeping promises to improve tribal public safety.

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria — which has threatened to kill American hostages — is holding a young American woman who was doing humanitarian aid work in Syria. That’s according to a family representative. The 26-year-old woman is the third American known to have been kidnapped by the militant group. She was captured last year. More than a week ago, an American freelance journalist was beheaded by the group, which had kidnapped him in November of 2012. A video of his beheading showed another missing American journalist, and warned that he would be killed next if U.S. airstrikes continue.
 
     MINSK, Belarus (AP) – The presidents of Russia and Ukraine are meeting for their first bilateral talks at a much-anticipated summit in Belarus. There are hopes that the talks may help bring an end to fighting between Kiev’s forces and pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine. It’s the first one-on-one meeting between the two leaders since Ukraine’s pro-Russian ex-president was ousted from power in February.
 
     CLEVELAND (AP) – The Ohio State Highway Patrol says the plane that crashed in suburban Cleveland last night, killing four college students, had been rented for four hours. Three of those who died were members of the varsity wrestling team at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. The plane had been rented by the fourth student, who was the pilot. Authorities say no flight plan had been filed. The plane crashed and exploded shortly after takeoff from an airport near Cleveland. The four students were trapped inside the wreckage.
 
     DOLAN SPRINGS, Ariz. (AP) – Authorities say an Arizona shooting instructor has died after he was accidentally shot while showing a 9-year-old girl how to use an automatic Uzi. Sheriff’s officials say Charles Vacca died Monday after being shot at a shooting range in White Hills. According to investigators, Vacca was standing next to the girl when she pulled the trigger and the recoil sent the gun over her head. Deputies say the girl was at the shooting range with her parents.
 
     MIDLAND, Texas (AP) – Indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry says campaign funds, not taxpayers, will pick up his legal tab. The possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate told reporters Tuesday in Midland that he had considered it appropriate for state funds to pay his legal fees because a criminal investigation dealt with his official duties as governor. But he now says he’ll use campaign funds — so that people won’t, in his words, “grouse about it.” Perry has pleaded not guilty to two felony charges of abuse of power. At least $80,000 in taxpayer dollars have so far been spent on his defense.