Wayne Byers – Evening – Sept 4

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CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY IN THE EVENING THEN CLEARING. COLDER.
LOWS IN THE MID 40S. NORTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH DECREASING TO
5 TO 15 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.FRIDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S. NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO
15 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 40S. WEST WINDS
AROUND 10 MPH.
.SATURDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. WEST WINDS AROUND 10 MPH
INCREASING TO 10 TO 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S. SOUTHWEST
WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.
LOWS IN THE MID 50S.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 50S.
.TUESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND SLIGHT
CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND
SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 40 PERCENT.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS. HIGHS IN THE MID 50S.

 THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY FROM THE TURTLE MOUNTAINS SOUTH INTO THE JAMES RIVER VALLEY.

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REST OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL  NORTH DAKOTA MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY.
 
 THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN NORTH DAKOTA TUESDAY NIGHT.

Valley City (CSi) Street clean up continued Thursday, following torrential rain and street flooding early Thursday morning.

Valley City Public Works Director, Jeff Differding says the rain caused a section of Winter Show Road from 4th Avenue Southwest to fill back to the AmericaInn with waist deep water.

Public Works crews have cleaned up the intersection of Viking Drive and 4th Avenue Southwest.

Public Works Thursday morning blocked 4th Avenue Southwest near Valley City State following dirt and gravel on the shoulder washing down the hill, as crews filled in the washed out area of the road before reopening the road, which is expected by the end of the work day, Thursday.

He says a portion of 5th Avenue Northeast near 6th Street Northeast also flooded and was closed for a short period of time.

Jamestown (CSi) The public is invited to join the Memorial Procession Honoring Life, which will take place on Saturday September 13, 2014 starting at 1:30-p.m.

On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, representing clergy involved in the event were Pastor Tom Eckstein from Concordia Lutheran Church in Jamestown and Deacon Tom Geffre from Ave Maria Village in Jamestown.

The walk will start at Calvary Cemetery and follow a route ending at the 1883 Stutsman County Courthouse. Those participating may walk, travel in vehicles, or bus. Also there will be a gathering of participants at an Open House, at St. John’s Academy’s Zebedee Center, about 3-p.m.

Prior to the walk, at Calvary Cemetery there will be a Memorial Service for babies who were aborted. The location is at the tombstone Memorial at the cemetery.

The burial site contains aborted fetuses that were sent from North Dakota to Illinois, retrieved from a lab dumpster site, and then returned to North Dakota for burial through the efforts of Father Pfau.

The service will also remember the over 66,000 aborted fetuses that were sacrificed in Dakota abortuaries over the past 40 years. 66,000 pink and blue flags have been placed at locations in Jametstown indicating those.

More information on line at www.abortionmemorials.com

Jamestown (CSi) An Open House at the 1883 Stutsman County Courthouse is set for Saturday September 13, 2014 from 1-3-p.m.

The event is an officially sanctioned North Dakota 125^th Anniversary event.

During the days of Dakota Territory, meetings were held in the courthouse in preparation for statehood.

During the Open House, there will be tours, including rooms open for viewing in the 1883 courthouse. There will be individuals stationed in each room, to welcome guests.

The building is considered a superb, and rare example in the upper midwest, of the Gothic-Revival style of architecture. The interior is outstanding for its stamped metal ornamentation that dates to 1905.

Restoration efforts have stabilized the exterior of the courthouse, and the State Historical Society is currently installing a new mechanical system. This is the first of many projects that will eventually lead to the courthouse becoming a state historic site open for tours.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Republican North Dakota Tax Commissioner Ryan Rauschenberger announced Thursday that he will take a temporary unpaid leave of absence to seek treatment for alcohol addiction.
 
     On Wednesday, Rauschenberger announced that he had been receiving treatment for an alcohol problem. He also said he loaned his vehicle to someone he met in treatment and the vehicle was involved in an accident.
 
     Fargo attorney Jason Astrup, a Democrat running against Rauschenberger for tax commissioner in November, says he hopes his opponent will get the help he needs.
 
     Astrup says many people have friends and loved ones who struggle with addiction. He says it’s not appropriate to pass judgment on Rauschenberger.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Fifteen members of the North Dakota Army National Guard’s 231st Brigade Support Battalion Logistical Support Element are preparing for a yearlong deployment.
 
     The soldiers will travel overseas to provide logistical support to U.S. Central Command units, including the management of supply, maintenance, transportation and cargo movement activities. They have completed a number of pre-certification trainings and tests to prepare for the mission.
 
     The soldiers, all of whom belong to the unit headquarter in Fargo, are from five North Dakota and Minnesota cities.
 
     An official send-off ceremony is set to be held in Fargo on Sunday afternoon. Gov. Jack Dalrymple and Maj. Gen. David Sprynczynatyk, North Dakota adjutant general, will speak at the event.

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Federal regulators are hosting a hearing in Fargo, North Dakota, on complaints about delays in shipping fertilizer and grain by rail as oil shipments are taking up increasing space on American railroads.
 
     The Surface Transportation Board has directed Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. and BNSF Railway to appear Thursday.
 
     State Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring is scheduled to testify before the board.
 
     Farmers and some politicians believe the increased crude oil and freight shipments from North Dakota’s western oil fields are largely the cause of shipping delays, which have created big backlogs at grain elevators and added costs for agriculture shippers.

     BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Agriculture Commissioner says more combiners are needed to help bring in the state’s harvest this year.
 
     Doug Goehring says the state’s Harvest Hotline has a long list of farmers who need combining services but few looking for work.
 
     Goehring says the number of farmers on the list looking for work is more than three times the number of harvesters.
 
     Farmers can call the hotline and the department will match them up with someone who needs harvesting help or work. Department employees answer the phones daily from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. The hotline is free of charge.

 WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – Thirty post offices in North Dakota’s oil country that were scheduled to have their workdays reduced will maintain their hours of operation.
 
     U.S. Sen. John Hoven on Thursday said the U.S. Postal Service has formally agreed to not disrupt service at the 30 locations in the growing region.
 
     Officials in North Dakota have been pushing the Postal Service for months to improve service in the western part of the state, which is bustling with oil activity.
 
     Hoeven earlier this year announced that the Postal Service will grant pay increases and bonuses to recruit and retain mail carriers in that region of the state.

 MEDORA, N.D. (AP) – Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the city of Medora will host an astronomy festival this month.
 
     The western North Dakota park said Wednesday that the second annual astronomy festival will be Sept. 19-21. Park rangers and astronomers will help festival-goers stargaze with telescopes in the evenings.
 
     Hubble Space Telescope scientist and Mercury spacecraft mission planner Mark Kochte will speak, as well as aurora borealis expert Dr. Joe Shaw.
 
     Daytime attendees can build and launch model rockets and attend sun viewing activities. Programming in Dickinson State University’s Discovery Dome will go on throughout the festival.

In world and national news…

NEW YORK (AP) – Comedian Joan Rivers has died Thursday at a New York hospital at the age of 81. Word of her death comes from her daughter, Melissa. Joan Rivers was hospitalized last week after going into cardiac arrest at a doctor’s office.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department is launching a broad investigation into the practices of the Ferguson, Missouri, police department. That’s according to Attorney General Eric Holder. The announcement comes in the aftermath of the shooting last month of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb. It’s a separate inquiry from an ongoing federal civil rights investigation into the circumstances of the shooting of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson. A local grand jury is also investigating.
 
     UNITED NATIONS (AP) – United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power says the United States is concerned that the most dangerous terrorist groups could get hold of chemical weapons if Syria is hiding any stockpiles. The Security Council was briefed Thursday by the head of the international effort to rid Syria of its chemical weapons. She says her team is still working with Syria’s government to resolve discrepancies.
 
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – A jury has convicted former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen of corruption, fraud and bribery, after the couple accepted more than $165,000 of gifts and loans from a businessman.
 
     Both Bob and Maureen bowed heads and wept as a chorus of “guiltys” kept coming from court clerk.
 
     McDonnell was widely considered a possible running mate for presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012. He was charged with doing favors for a wealthy vitamin executive in exchange for the gifts and loans.
 
     Both were found guilty on most counts against them.
 
     A federal jury in Richmond returned the verdicts Thursday after a five-week trial and deliberating for three days.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – A liberal-leaning think tank is unveiling a health care cost-control plan that borrows some Republican ideas. It’s from the Center for American Progress, which is closely associated with the White House. And it calls for empowering the states. Several former Obama and Clinton advisers have signed on to the plan. Individual states would set their own targets to curb the growth of health care spending. If they succeed, they’d pocket a share of federal Medicare and Medicaid savings, ranging from tens of millions to $1 billion or more.
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – Health officials say smoking is banned in more than eight out of 10 U.S. homes – nearly twice what the numbers were two decades ago. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found smoking is even forbidden in nearly half of homes where an adult smoker resides, up from one in 10 households with smokers in the early 1990s. CDC experts attribute the changes to shrinking smoking rates and a shift in how many people think it’s OK to smoke around nonsmokers.