Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Nov 12

CSi weather….

 TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, A 40 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.  LOWS
5 TO 10 ABOVE. NORTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS 15 TO 20. NORTHWEST WINDS 10 TO
15 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS AROUND 5 BELOW. WEST WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH.
.FRIDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 15. SOUTHWEST WINDS AROUND 5 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE. LIGHT
WINDS BECOMING NORTH UP TO 5 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.SATURDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS 15 TO 20.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 5 TO 10 ABOVE.
.SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. BREEZY.
HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 5 TO 10 ABOVE.
HIGHS 15 TO 20.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 5 TO
10 ABOVE. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S.

 WIND CHILL VALUES OF AROUND 5 BELOW TO 15 BELOW ZERO ARE EXPECTED  TONIGHT.

THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

 THE COLDEST NIGHT LOOKS TO BE THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING….WITH THE ENTIRE STATE SUB-ZERO.
  
 AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF COLD WEATHER WILL REMAIN OVER THE REGION THROUGH MONDAY. DURING THIS PERIOD WIND CHILL VALUES OF 5 BELOW TO 20 BELOW ZERO ARE EXPECTED DURING THE OVERNIGHT AND EARLY MORNING  HOURS.

Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Police is warning Jamestown residents regarding a convicted sex offender , who has changed addresses within the city of Jamestown.

39 year old Kevin Jerome Parisien now resides at 517 4th Street Northwest in Jamestown.

His vehicle is a black 1989 Ford Escort 4-door, with North Dakota license plate, JRP 285.

Parisien is an American Indian male, 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighing 220 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair.

He has been assigned a high risk assessment by the North Dakota risk level committee of the North Dakota Attorney General’s Office.

Parisien was convicted of sexual abuse of a child involving a seven year old boy with a conviction date of Nov 29, 1994 in U.S. Federal Court, in North Dakota, for an offense he committed in 1990 as a juvenile. Disposition: 1-year, with 5 months probation.

Parisien was convicted in October of 1994 in Ward County District Court of gross sexual imposition involving a 14 year old runaway girl, on approximately six occasions. Disposition was 5 years.

Parisien is currently on probation with North Dakota Parole and Probation.

Parisien is not wanted by police at this time and has served the sentence imposed by the court.

This notification is meant of public safety and not to increase fear in the community, nor should this information be used to threaten, assault, or intimidate the offender. Attemps to do so including their families, landlords, or employers will be turned over for prosecution.

Printed handouts of Parisien’s demographics are available at the Jamestown Police Department.

More information on registered sex offenders is available at the North Dakota Attorney General’s web site: www.sexoffender.nd.gov

Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown will host the AAUW Tech Savvy Event on January 5th, 2015. The day-camp is held for girls in grades 7-8 to encourage and develop career interests in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in an effort to overcome a history of limited participation by women in these career fields.

The event will be held at the University of Jamestown.

Tech Savvy will impact approximately 220 girls through hands-on STEM workshops.

STEM, Tech Savvy also includes an important program for parents, with the component encouraging families to reinforce the girls’ interest in STEM.

Also on January 5, 2015, young men in grades 7 and 8, may attend a STEMtastic event at Jamestown Middle School in partnership with the Great Plains STEM Education Center.

On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, the JSDC’s Vice President of Economic Development, Holly Milller added that another workforce project in cooperation with NDSU involves a four week teacher internship with businesses.

She said two business in Jamestown are being sought.

Contact her at the JSDC office at 252-6861 for more information.

 GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – A man is dead after a semi and a sports utility vehicle collided on a slippery road in North Dakota.
 
     The North Dakota Highway Patrol says the Peterbilt semi and flatbed trailer and the Chevrolet Trailblazer crashed Wednesday on the southbound lanes of Interstate 29 near the Gateway Exit in Grand Forks County.
 
     The Trailblazer lost traction on the slippery road and began to spin. The semi, which was traveling behind the SUV, was unable to stop and struck the Trailblazer’s passenger’s side.
 
     The SUV came to rest on the right shoulder, while the semi traveled down the steep ditch and stopped on the southbound on-ramp to I-29.
 
     The 33-year-old male driver of the SUV was pronounced dead at the scene. He wasn’t publicly identified.
 
     The semi’s driver wasn’t injured.

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota officials are looking for applicants for two positions on the state Board of Higher Education.
 
     The terms of two members, Terry Hjelmstad and Grant Shaft, end on June 30. Hjelmstad, of Minot, has served one four-year term and is eligible to be appointed for a second term, but says he will step down. Shaft, of Grand Forks, has served the maximum two four-year terms.
 
     A nominating committee will forward three nominations for each vacant position to the governor, who appoints the board’s members.
 
     The higher education board is the governing body for the North Dakota University System, which includes the state’s 11 public colleges and universities.
 
     North Dakota voters last week rejected an initiated measure that would have replaced the board with a full-time, three-member commission.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota University System officials have told two high-level employees that they will likely be fired.
 
     University system spokeswoman Linda Donlin said Wednesday that chief compliance officer Kirsten Franzen and chief auditor Timothy Carlson have been placed on paid administrative leave. Both employees received termination notices on Monday.
 
     Documents provided by the system office accuse Carlson of providing misleading information about his work experience and credentials. A memorandum to Franzen lists seven reasons for her termination notice, including failure to perform her job and unprofessional conduct.
 
     The state Board of Higher Education will be asked next week to approve Carlson’s firing. Franzen has until Monday to submit documents for a pre-termination review.
 
     Carlson and Franzen could not be immediately reached for comment.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Fargo Rep. Al Carlson has been re-elected without opposition as the Republican House majority leader.
 
     Republican members of the House picked their leaders for the 2015 session Tuesday night. Majority GOP members of the Senate are slated to pick their leaders Wednesday night.
 
     Democrats will be electing their leaders later this month.
 
     In the House, Fargo Rep. Wesley Belter was elected as the new House speaker. Belter defeated Bismarck Rep. Lawrence Klemin for the job.
 
     Cooperstown Rep. Don Vigesaa (VIG’-uh-sah) was re-elected as the House Republican assistant majority leader.
 

  MINOT, N.D. (AP) – A U.S. senator has asked the U.S. Postal Service to reconsider its decision to close the mail sorting facility in Minot after an inspector general’s report found concerns over how facilities were chosen to be closed.
 
     U.S. Sen. John Hoeven sent a letter to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe asking the postal service to reevaluate the decision to move the facility from Minot to Bismarck.
 
Hoeven says the USPS Inspector General’s report shows that the postal service could have done a better job of studying the impacts of consolidation.
 
     Hoeven says it makes sense to consolidate facilities in other parts of the country but says North Dakota needs mail facilities to sustain its “unprecedented” growth.

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. (AP) – Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel will visit Minot Air Force Base Friday to tour missile facilities.
 
     Base officials say Hagel and Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James will meet with a group of airmen to discuss the “safety, security and effectiveness” of some of the weapons housed at the base.
 
     For more than 18 months, The Associated Press has documented evidence of security problems, low morale and other troubles in the nation’s nuclear missile corps. The Minot base has been at the center of the problems that led Hagel to launch an independent investigation last winter into the troubled nuke corps.
 
     Nearly two dozen launch officers at the Minot base were temporarily taken off duty last year and given weeks of remedial training after being found unfit to perform. Last week, the Air Force fired a missile squadron commander and reassigned a vice commander.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The Fargo Park Board has expanded its smoking ban at city parks, limiting smoking to about a dozen areas.
 
The  park board previously only banned smoking within 25 feet of playgrounds and family events.
 
     Park District spokesman Clay Whittelesey says the commissioners felt they didn’t want to completely ban smoking, since it’s legal.
 
     Whittelesey says park patrons can still smoke in open areas and trails, including golf courses.
 
     The board now prohibits smoking at all indoor facilities, outdoor skating rinks, tennis courts and youth-designated special events.

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s first lady Betsy Dalrymple is headed to Minot for a signing of her recently released book on the history of the governor’s residence in North Dakota.
 
     Dalrymple will be at the Home Sweet Home boutique store in Minot at 1 p.m. Wednesday. She will be signing copies of her new book, “Building a House, Making a Home: A History of the North Dakota Governor’s Residence.”
 
     The current Governor’s Residence has stood since 1960. The prairie-style home is the second official residence that has been built for North Dakota’s governors.
 
     The original Governor’s Mansion, built in 1884, is a few blocks south of the Capitol.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Singapore’s ambassador to the United States is touring North Dakota this week.
 
     Ambassador Ashok Kumar Mirpuri is in the state discussing business and trade opportunities between his country and North Dakota.
 
     The North Dakota Trade Office says North Dakota’s exports to Singapore have increased from $751,000 in 2003 to $4.5 million in 2013. They add that the top products exported to Singapore include front-end shovel loaders, machinery parts and soybeans.
 
     Singaporean companies have also shown interest in investing in North Dakota. One Singaporean investment firm has opened a hotel in North Dakota’s oil patch and has proposed a $300 million residential and commercial project in Dickinson.
 
     North Dakota Lt. Gov. Drew Wrigley says Singapore is an important trade and business partner for the state.

In world and national news…

  NEW YORK (AP) – There’s been a sky-high rescue outside the nation’s tallest building. New York City firefighters cut through some window glass to rescue two window washers who were trapped on scaffolding that was dangling 69 stories up, outside One World Trade Center. The workers were tethered, and were communicating with rescuers while they were stranded.
 
     CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says he will appeal a federal judge’s ruling tossing out the state’s ban on same-sex marriages. The judge today found the state constitutional ban to be “invalid as a matter of law.” But Wilson says the decision was no surprise and that he has an obligation to defend the state’s laws.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court may be ready to put new limits on the ability of states to tax money that residents earn across state lines. During oral arguments Wednesday, several justices appeared skeptical as a Maryland official argued that the state’s tax on out-of-state earnings is constitutional. If the court narrows the scope of tax collection, states could see the loss of hundreds of millions in revenue.
 
     DENVER (AP) – The government is granting new protections to a bird that lives in southern Colorado and Utah. And that could bring restrictions on oil and gas drilling and other land uses, in order to preserve the habitat of the Gunnison sage grouse. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it’s a threatened species. The bird is related to the greater sage grouse, which is at the center of a separate and larger debate over federal protection in 11 Western states.
 
     OLATHE, Kan. (AP) – A judge in Kansas is ordering a competency hearing for Frazier Miller. He’s the avowed white supremacist from Missouri who is accused of shooting three people to death at two Jewish sites near Kansas City earlier this year.