Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Dec 3

CSi Weather…

 TONIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 5 TO 10 ABOVE. SOUTHEAST WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH.
.THURSDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 20S. TEMPERATURES FALLING
INTO THE MID TEENS IN THE AFTERNOON. SOUTH WINDS AROUND 5 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 5 TO 10 ABOVE. WEST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S. NORTHWEST WINDS
AROUND 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE. NORTHWEST
WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHWEST AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE MID
20S. LOWS IN THE LOWER 20S.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S.
LOWS AROUND 10.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S.
LOWS AROUND 10.
.TUESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 20S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. LOWS AROUND 20.
.WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 30S.

Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Tourism’s Grant/Executive Advisory Board met Wednesday at the CSi Technology Center, at Historic Franklin School.

The Executive Board voted to proceed with plans for a community calendar.

A sub-committee will be formed and have their first meeting after the first of the year.

The Executive Advisory Board also approved setting aside the unused 2014 grant funds, estimated at about $5,900, for future maintenance/repairs on The World’s Largest Buffalo at Frontier Village.

The Board also approved allocating $10,000 for the 2015 community fireworks display, to be held on the 4^th of July.

With Grant approvals, the board approved a $1,500 for the James River Firefighters Association, which will host the North Dakota Firefighters state convention in Jamestown to be held June 4-6, 2015.

The request was for $1,199, listed as the total cost of the program. The dollars will be used for paying fuel costs, and motel expenses for two organizations.

One is the Aberdeen Fire Department’s Pipe & Drum Corps, and the other dollars will be used to bring “Vivian” the Pink Fire Truck from Bismarck, to the event, which includes mileage and motel expenses for the driver.

The truck promotes cancer awareness, and JRFD spokesman Brian Paulson said the truck could be used in conjunction with that weekend’s Relay for Life, and the R.M. Stoudt Running of the Pink cancer awareness/fundrasing events in Jamestown.

Other events planned include a Memorial Service and a parade of fire trucks.

Another grant was approved for the Jamestown Classic Car Club’s “Winter Wheels Car Show.” The request was for $6,000, of the $8,000 total program costs, and the board approved granting $3,000 with the stipulation that 30% be used for advertising.

The Car Club’s President, Jack Meikle said additional expenses for this show includes bringing in a customized car, a virtual driving experience simulator, and a classic Auburn car. The expenses include motel rooms for the drivers, and fuel.

In Other business the Board approved the year end Bonus for Tourism employees, and the 2014 Stutsman County Mill Levy.

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s largest city is mourning the death of its three-term mayor and former city employee Dennis Walaker.
 
     He was the face of several successful flood fights and a fierce promoter of a planned Red River diversion project that would end the almost yearly spring sandbagging efforts.
 
     The 73-year-old Walaker died Tuesday in his home, about three months after he was diagnosed with kidney cancer and five months after winning re-election.
 
     Deputy Mayor Tim Mahoney says Walaker never backed away from tough decisions and maintained his sense of humor through it all. Mahoney says he hopes people will carry on Walaker’s vision to flood-proof Fargo.
 
     City Engineer Mark Bittner says Walaker was an employee-centric leader who knew that workers “drove the city.”
 
     Walaker was the city’s longtime public works director.

GRASSY BUTTE, N.D. (AP) – Authorities have identified a man who was killed in the collision of two trucks in the western North Dakota oil patch.
 
     The Highway Patrol says 23-year-old Lucas Bennett, of Dickinson, was a passenger in a pickup truck that collided with a larger Freightliner straight truck near Grassy Butte on Tuesday morning. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
 
     The patrol says the pickup truck’s driver swerved to avoid hitting a deer, the truck spun on the icy shoulder of the road and entered the path of the straight truck.
 
     The two drivers both were taken to a Watford City hospital with undisclosed injuries.

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) – Devils Lake police are investigating the death of a 1  1/2-year-old boy.
 
     Police say the toddler had been hospitalized since nearly drowning in a bathtub on Nov. 17. The child died Sunday.
 
     No other details have been released. No charges have been filed in the case.

 WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota man accused of tying a noose around the necks of his ex-wife and son and pulling them behind an SUV has filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea.
 
Isaac Gould has withdrawn the plea he made in July to charges involving his wife as part of a plea agreement that would drop the same charges of abusing his son. 
 
     A judge had accepted the plea deal, but court documents show Gould has refused to cooperate with the mandatory pre-sentencing investigation.
 
     Records show prosecutors believe Gould has no valid reason to withdraw his plea.
 
     Authorities say the incident happened in July 2013.  Gould’s current wife, who was sitting inside the SUV, eventually got out of the vehicle and untied the nooses.
 

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – A Minot Air Force Base woman accused of causing a fatal accident is on trial in Minot.
 
     Thirty-two-year-old Maria Sutton has pleaded not guilty to a negligent homicide charge in the June 2013 death of 49-year-old Robert Morrison in north Minot. Authorities allege that Sutton was driving her car in the wrong lane and hit Morrison’s car head-on.
 
     Sutton told police she had become disoriented in heavy rain, had missed a turn and did not realize she was in the wrong lane.
 
     Sutton faces up to five years in prison if convicted.   Her trial is scheduled to last through the week.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Three defendants in the 2013 fatal stabbing of a North Dakota man have pleaded guilty to lesser charges.
 
     Jennifer Blue, Vincent Gladue and Thomas Begg have entered guilty pleas to conspiracy to commit burglary and criminal facilitation. They originally faced murder and burglary conspiracy charges in the death of 33-year-old Ruben Cisneros, the ex-boyfriend of Blue.
 
     Authorities say the Grand Forks was killed by people who broke into his home on November 2013 and demanded property belonging to Blue.
 
     Authorities have said a fourth defendant, 23-year-old Joe Saucedo, is the one who stabbed Cisneros. Saucedo has pleaded not guilty to murder and burglary conspiracy charges, but has a change of plea hearing scheduled for Dec. 19.
 
     Saucedo is also expected to be sentenced during that hearing.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple has presented the Legislature with a $15.7 billion proposed budget for state government over the next two years.
 
     The governor offered his blueprint to a joint session of North Dakota’s House and Senate on Wednesday.
 
     Dalrymple’s suggested budget raises state spending over two years by 14 percent, while cutting income and property taxes by $408 million.
 
     The plan includes $3.7 billion to help western North Dakota’s oil-producing region address rapid growth. The proposal also includes $3 billion for statewide infrastructure and flood-control projects.
 
     Dalrymple’s budget includes 287 new state workers in law enforcement, public health, education and environmental oversight.
 
     Even with the spending increases, the governor’s plan estimates a budget surplus of $3.5 billion at the end of the next two-year budget cycle.

In sports…

University of Jamestown’s golf coach Dustin Jensen announces the signing of four incoming freshman who will join the Jimmies in the 2015-2016 season. “We are very excited to add these fine young men and women to the University of Jamestown family,” Jensen says. “Recruiting from our own backyard is extremely important, so keeping local kids in the area was a major priority with our spring recruiting class. It is our feeling that these student-athletes will mesh well with our fall signees to put our program in a tremendous spot. In addition to being great students, they are great athletes with a strong passion for the game of golf. Their dedication, desire and willingness to go all in will take them to great places.”

Cole Anderson, son of Amy and Brian Anderson, will join the Jimmies from Colorado Springs, CO. Keagon Lindsoe, son of Lori and Paul Lindsoe, will join the Jimmies from Three Forks, MT and plans to major in business. Emily Grace-Lynn Grothmann, daughter of Karen and Barry Grothmann, will join the Jimmies from Fargo, ND and plans to major in exercise science. Alexis Piatz, daughter of Sandy and Perry Piatz, will join the Jimmies from Oxbow, ND and plans to major in math secondary education.

The University of Jamestown was established in 1883 and is ranked as a top regional school in both US News and World Report and The Princeton Review. The school features development of the whole person through its distinctive Journey to Success experience.
 
     GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – University of North Dakota hall of fame football coach Marvin “Whitey” Helling has died.
 
     UND says Helling died Sunday in Florida, at the age of 91. He was a native of Luverne, Minnesota.
 
     Helling was UND’s head coach from 1957 to 1967, winning nearly two-thirds of his games and helping transform the program into an NCAA Division II power. He led UND to three North Central Conference titles and pair of Division II bowl game victories.
 
     UND now competes in Division I.
 
     Sixteen of Helling’s players have been enshrined in the UND Athletics Hall of Fame. Helling was inducted in 1988.

In world and national news…

 NEW YORK (AP) – A lawyer for Eric Garner’s family says a grand jury in New York City has declined to indict a white police officer on criminal charges in the chokehold death of the unarmed black man. Garner was stopped in Staten Island on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes in July. Amateur video shows Garner refusing to be handcuffed, and Officer Daniel Pantaleo (pahn-TUH’-lay-oh) putting Garner in an apparent chokehold, which is banned under NYPD policy. Garner was heard yelling, “I can’t breathe!”
 
     HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) – A federal appeals court has halted the scheduled execution of a Texas prisoner whose attorneys say is too delusional to be put to death.  Scott Panetti was set to be executed Wednesday night for the shooting deaths of his estranged wife’s parents 22 years ago. Panetti’s lawyers sought a delay for new competency tests to support their arguments he’s too mentally ill for capital punishment.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Reserve says solid gains in consumer spending, manufacturing and overall employment kept the U.S. economy expanding in October and November. The Fed’s latest review of business conditions around the country found many areas of strength. The report for the first time this year did not see a need to qualify growth by using words like “modest” and “moderate.”
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The United States says the world is watching how China deals with Hong Kong and its commitments to preserve freedoms there. The top diplomat for East Asia told a Senate panel today the U.S. supports the right of citizens of the semi-autonomous Chinese city to a free election for its chief executive in 2017. But Daniel Russel denies Chinese allegations that the U.S. has helped foment two months of pro-democracy protests.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The Food and Drug Administration is changing labels on prescription drugs to make it clearer which medications are safe for pregnant women to use. The current system uses letters to convey risk, but the FDA acknowledges that’s misleading and is scrapping the system. Starting next summer, labels on new prescription drugs must clearly state what’s known about safe use during pregnancy or breastfeeding, including whether the information comes from studies in people or only in animals.