Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Nov 20

CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 5 TO 10 ABOVE. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S. SOUTHWEST WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE MID 20S. SOUTHWEST
WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S. SOUTHWEST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 20S.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW POSSIBLY
MIXED WITH RAIN. HIGHS IN THE MID 30S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. PATCHY
BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. BREEZY. LOWS 15 TO 20.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. PATCHY
BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW. BREEZY. HIGHS AROUND 20.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. BREEZY. LOWS 5 TO
10 ABOVE. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 15.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW.
HIGHS IN THE MID 20S.

THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SNOW AND GUSTY WINDS SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY. BLOWING SNOW…REDUCED VISIBILITY AND ICY ROADS WILL BE THE MAIN HAZARDS/IMPACTS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SYSTEM.

THE SYSTEM WILL EXIT THE AREA ON MONDAY WITH LIGHT SNOW LINGERING OVER EASTERN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA
THROUGH THE DAY.

Jamestown (CSi) The house fire scene at 523 2^nd Avenue Northwest in Jamestown is under investigation into the cause of the Wednesday evening blaze that caused extensive damage to the structure.

Jamestown City Fire Chief Jim Reuther says the investigation includes a rerpresentative from the federal Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF)

Chief Reuther says the ATF is an option local officials have with calling in an outside investigation agency, in lieu of the State Fire Marshall’s Office.

He says it’s not known how long the investigation will take.

City fire fighters were called to the scene at 5:24-p.m. Wednesday, notified by a neighbor.

The house was unoccupied at the time of the fire.

The home’s resident is received assistance from the Buffalo Valley Red Cross chapter, and is staying with family and friends.

Chief Reuther says 34 fire fighters and six fire units were on the scene three hours.

The cause of the fire was not determined and remains under investigation.

More photos at Facebook. Video posted on line at www.CsiNewsNow.com

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council’s Police Committee & Public Works Committee met Thursday evening at City Hall.

All members were present.

Under Police Committee business the panel considered elimination of Police recruit pay.

Jamestown Police Chief Scott Edinger said currently a recruit receives $1,022 in pay every two weeks.

He says the wage is too low, given other cost of living expenses including housing rents.

Chief Edinger presented a wage study comparing Jamestown to other North Dakota cities in police department wages.

He said Valley City Police salaries are moving ahead of Jamestown salaries.

He said eliminating recruit pay is a way to attract officers and start officers at a more competitive wage.

Two position are to be filled, soon with one starting after the first of the year.

He added that the situation with officers leaving, including through retirement, the police officer staff on patrol will have a more inexperienced staff, on patrol, and in supervisory roles, which the chief said puts the department in “crisis.”

The committee recommends eliminating the recruit pay, and move to the starting salary.

With Public Works Committee business

The committee recommends approving an agreement from CPS relating to the 2014 Annual MSWLF Groundwater Monitoring Report and ongoing work with the ND Department of Health regarding VOC issues.

Approved was recommending a request to the US Army Corps of Engineers to provide at no cost to the City of Jamestown, a proposed Scope and Estimated Costs for performing Phase II of the River Study in Jamestown.

The committee recommends accepting the proposal and purchase from Central Business Systems of Jamestown for the replacement of a ten year old color laser printer in the Public Works Department.

The committee reviewed an architectural and engineering proposal from Joseph P Larrivee Architects, PC regarding modifications to heat one bay of the existing cold storage building at the main Fire hall. (for the Police Department)  The committee recommends approving the contract.

The committee recommends approving advertising for Requests For Proposals to perform a solid waste study for the City of Jamestown. The study would look at curbside recycling for Jamestown as a feasibility.

The committee recommends updating the 2007 Equipment Rental Rates.

The committee recommends approving Change order No. 2 relating to the New Water Mains project, in the amount of $55,301.08 in conjunction with the southwest water storage tank . A balancing change order to close out the project.

The committee then recommended approving Change order No. 2 relating to the New Elevated Water Storage Tank.  It is a decrease of $28,000 based on the exterior paint scheme that was chosen.

The committee recommends accepting proposals  to clean “Burdick” Storm Sewer lines in the area from the viaduct, south to the oxbow.

The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 67, followed by replays.

Valley City (CSi) The movie, “Night at the Museum, features a 65 million year old Triceratops.

Wes Anderson says the real 65 million year old fossil, “Bob” remains on display at the Barnes County Historical Society’s Museum, in Valley City.

Anderson invites movie-goers to see the film and then come “meet Bob,” in person at the museum.

It’s open with free admission Mon-Sat 10-4PM and other times by arrangement. Group tours are welcome!

For more information, contact Wes Anderson, 701-845-0966

Anderson explains more about Bob the Triceratops:

“This specimen was excavated in 2003 on the Craig and Bobbi Egeland Elk Ranch in Bowman County, North Dakota by Alan Komrosky and Hell Creek Relics.

Bob is from the Cretaceous Period in the Hell Creek formation dated to sixty-five million years old. Bob’s skull measures seven feet, two inches from the back of the frill to the tip of the rostrum. It is by far the largest skull we have ever seen.

We believe this would be the largest triceratops skeleton out there at twenty-six feet. We have twenty-one out of twenty-four of the largest bones of its body so by bone mass we are well over ninety percent complete.

Because it is typical to be missing some of the smaller bones the bone count is still extraordinary at seventy percent. His left femur is four inches longer than the right which is unusual and gives him some definite character.

The name ‘Triceratops’ comes from the Greek language, with ‘tri’ meaning three and ‘keratops’ meaning horned face.

Triceratops lived in the late Cretaceous Period (around 65 million years ago).

The Triceratops is one of the most easily recognizable dinosaurs due to its large body, unique frill and three horns.

It needed its three horns to try and protect itself from the Tyrannosaurus Rex which lived during the same time period.

It is believed that fully grown Triceratops were about 26ft long, 10ft high and weighed anywhere from 6 to 12 tons.

The skull of a Triceratops alone could grow over 7ft in length.

The Triceratops was a plant eating (herbivore) dinosaur.”

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – A man accused in the September slaying of a man in Minot has been arrested in Philadelphia after a nine-week manhunt.
 
     Minot police say the U.S. Marshals Service took 37-year-old Anthony Campbell into custody early Wednesday. He was being held in Philadelphia pending his extradition back to North Dakota.
 
     Campbell was wanted on a warrant for murder and an unrelated warrant for burglary. Court documents do not list an attorney for him. The murder charge carries a maximum punishment of life in prison without parole.
 
     Authorities have described Campbell as an acquaintance of 25-year-old Shannon Brunelle, who was found dead in a garage at an apartment building on Sept. 15.

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – A shooting at a rural Minot building sent two men to the hospital.
 
     Ward County Sheriff’s Capt. Bob Barnard says the incident happened shortly before 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. He says the 42- and 49-year-old men got into a fight at an industrial building were one of the men was staying.
 
     Barnard says the men exchanged gunfire, with one man suffering a shotgun wound and the other being shot multiple times with a handgun.
 
     The men were taken to a Minot hospital for treatment. Their conditions were not available.
 
     No arrests were immediately made. Barnard said the investigation was continuing.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A new federal definition of rape has resulted in a big increase in the number of crimes in North Dakota recorded under that category in 2013.
 
     The old definition considered only sexual assaults on females. Attorney General Eric Holder in 2012 changed the official definition so it was not gender-specific.
 
     The FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report shows 330 rapes in North Dakota in 2013. Under the old definition, only 230 of the cases would have qualified for that category.
 
     The  43 percent jump in recorded rapes in North Dakota under the new definition is in line with the increase nationally.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Board of Higher Education is raising admission standards at the state’s two research institutions, in an attempt to raise graduation and retention rates without taking a large bite out of enrollment.
 
     The board on Thursday approved a plan that would raise the minimum ACT score from 21 to 22 to get into North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota. It would also raise the minimum cumulative high school grade point average from 2.5 to 2.75 for potential NDSU and UND students.
 
     The proposal was born out of criticism from lawmakers who primarily wanted NDSU and UND rated higher in national publications. The original plan was scaled back out of fears it would keep some students out of North Dakota colleges who could earn degrees. 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline in North Dakota has dropped below $3 for the first time in nearly four years.
 
     AAA says the statewide average is about $2.99 per gallon, down 8 cents from last week and down 18 cents from the same time last year. The last time the statewide average was below $3 per gallon was in December 2010.
 
     The current national average is $2.86 per gallon. It has been below $3 since Nov. 1.
 
     AAA cites falling global oil prices as the primary reason for the drop in the price of gas at the pump. The downward pressure on prices is expected to continue through the Thanksgiving holiday.

  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Telemedicine efforts in North Dakota will be receiving a share of more than $400,000 in federal funds to expand their services.
 
     U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp says Altru Health Systems and Essentia Health Telemedicine will receive the funds. The announcement came Thursday during National Rural Health Day.
 
     Altru will use the money to provide care for patients in a 17-county region, while Essentia will use the funds to expand its network to 21 clinics and two hospitals throughout three states including North Dakota.
 
     In addition, Heitkamp said, Congress has granted nearly $440,000 to an education effort that will provide training to emergency responders and others through 14 remote rural sites throughout North Dakota and Ohio.
 
     Heitkamp says expanding telemedicine services and educating professionals is critical to ensuring residents get “top-notch care.”

 
In sports…

Valley City State University’s football team is ranked #14 in the country and recently qualified for the NAIA playoffs.

FARGO About 400 tickets for Saturday’s NDSU Bison football game vs. Youngstown State at the Fargo Dome, will be released to the general public at 8 a.m. Friday.

NDSU athletic director Matt Larsen says students not picking up all the indoor tickets at the Fargodome is an opportunity for the Bison fan base in general.

The season was essentially sold out in the beginning of August, and there was a waiting list for season tickets of approximately 1,000 people requesting 3,200 seats.

The season ticket base is capped at about 12,100.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota State University’s 2015 season-opening football game at Montana will be televised as ESPN’s  (CSi 14) FCS Kickoff matchup.

The featured Football Championship Subdivision matchup is televised one week prior to the first games in the upper-tier Football Bowl Subdivision. Next year’s FCS Kickoff will be Saturday, Aug. 29, at 2:30 p.m. CT, in Missoula.

NDSU is the three-time defending FCS champion and aiming for a fourth straight title. The Bison are ranked among the top five teams this year, with only one loss. Montana is ranked among the top 15 this season.

　By ROB MAADDI
 AP Pro Football Writer
     The NFL players’ union has appealed the league’s suspension of Adrian Peterson.
 
     In a letter to its player representatives and executive committee obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday, the NFLPA calls Commissioner Roger Goodell’s punishment “unprecedented, arbitrary, and unlawful” and demands an independent, neutral arbitrator hears Peterson’s case.
 
     Goodell on Tuesday suspended Peterson without pay for the rest of the season and told him he will not be considered for reinstatement before April 15 for his violation of the NFL personal conduct policy. Peterson pleaded no contest Nov. 4 to misdemeanor reckless assault in Texas for injuries to his 4-year-old son with a wooden switch.
 
     The union says Peterson was told the games he missed on a special exempt list would count as time served toward a suspension. The 2012 NFL MVP played just one game for the Minnesota Vikings this season.