Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Dec 31

CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. NOT AS COLD. LOWS 10 TO 15. WEST WINDS
15 TO 20 MPH.
.NEW YEARS DAY…CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW IN THE
AFTERNOON. HIGHS 15 TO 20. NORTHWEST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY. LOWS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE. EAST WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHWEST AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW IN THE
AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S. SOUTHWEST WINDS AROUND 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. LOWS
5 TO 10 ABOVE.
.SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW.
BREEZY. HIGHS 5 TO 10 ABOVE.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 15 BELOW.
.SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 5 BELOW.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 15 BELOW.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGHS
NEAR ZERO.
.MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 15 BELOW.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE.

FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SATURDAY BELOW AVERAGE TEMPERATURES THIS WEEKEND. 

THE LATEST ESTIMATES ARE FOR 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW THROUGH THIS  PERIOD.

 LOW WIND CHILLS AT TIMES SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. 

ON MONDAY MORE MEASURABLE SNOWFALL IS POSSIBLE

Jamestown (CSi) 2014 marked a name change for what was previously know as the James River Family YMCA, becoming, James River Family Fitness.

On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Executive Director Frank Conlin said, the new year holds in store, continued optimism, adding that those with new year’s resolutions of better heath and fitness are invited to check out the brochure for upcoming classes and activities at James River Family Fitness.

Conlin pointed out that in 2015 there will be some time changes for classes and activities based on requests by patrons, plus adding new offerings.

Swimming lessons, session four, is coming up in January.

He added that coming up the Fitness Center will host the Cabin Fever Days basketball tournaments. On January 24^th at the Hansen Center it will be the 4,5 and 6^th grade girl’s tournament.

On January 31^st it’s the boy’s 4,5, and 6^th grade tournament.

The first Dodgeball Tournament for those high school age through older adults will be held on February 7^th. Sign ups are being taken.

More information on line at www.jrfamilyfit.org or call 253-4101.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The Cass County Sheriff’s Office is working to determine whether burglaries in three towns are related.
 
     Authorities say businesses were burglarized early Wednesday in Hunter, Arthur and Grandin.
 
     The sheriff’s office did not say what was taken from the businesses. The investigation is continuing.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Two men are in custody after a North Dakota Highway Patrol trooper discovered $2.5 million worth of heroin during a traffic stop.

Court Records show Frank Villa and Charles Ahumada have been charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to manufacture or deliver. Villa has also been charged with possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Authorities say a deputy pulled over a car with Nevada license plates Monday on Interstate 94. A K-9 unit was used to search the car and the deputy located 4.5 pounds of heroin that had been wrapped in three separate bricks. Authorities say the street value of the drug is $2.5 million.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A woman who pleaded not guilty in state court to running a prostitution parlor in Minot has now pleaded not guilty to similar charges in federal court.
 
     Thirty-two-year-old Trina Nguyen (wihn) is accused of operating a sex business in Dickinson after posting bond on the state charges filed in 2013.
 
     Her co-defendant also appeared in federal court Monday, but 32-year-old Loc Tran didn’t enter a plea. Tran asked for a Vietnamese interpreter, and Magistrate Judge Charles Miller granted the request.
 
     Tran and Nguyen face federal charges including racketeering and extortion stemming from allegations that they lured women from California to work as prostitutes in western North Dakota. State charges were dismissed when federal prosecutors took jurisdiction in the case.
 
     Trial for Nguyen is scheduled to begin March 3 in Bismarck.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Basin Electric Power Cooperative has signed deals to buy power from two new wind farms in North Dakota.
 
     The Bismarck-based utility says the combined generating capacity is 300 megawatts, enough to power about 300,000 homes. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
 
     Florida-based NextEra Energy Resources is developing the Dickinson Wind Energy Center near Richardton, and Kansas-based Tradewind Energy will be developing the Lindahl Wind Project near Tioga. Both wind farms will be in western North Dakota.
 
     Basin Electric supplies electricity to 137 member rural electric systems in Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Those member systems distribute electricity to about 2.8 million consumers.

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – City officials in Minot are working with a local developer to try to revive construction of two downtown parking ramps in the spring.
 
     Two parking lots were torn up in November 2013 so construction could begin on the ramps that are to provide 225 parking spaces. But activity stopped shortly after when subcontractors left after not getting paid.
 
     The City Council last October approved changes to its agreement with Cypress Development in an effort to help the developer get more financing. The new agreement extends the city’s property lease with Cypress from four years to nine years to allow more time to complete the full $27 million project which also includes retail and residential development.
 
A  final agreement could be reached next month.

GARRISON, N.D. (AP) – Residents of Garrison in February will vote in a fourth school bond election in less than two years.
 
     The Feb. 5 ballot measure asks voters to approve $5.9 million for expansion projects at the town’s elementary school and high school.
 
Residents in the community of about 1,450 people have rejected a school expansion three previous times. But Superintendent Steve Brannan says the proposal lost by just seven votes in the most recent election on Nov. 4, so school officials will try again.
 
     A $5.9 million bond issue would raise property taxes for the owner of a $150,000 home by about $150 per year.

In world and national news…

PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) – A search and rescue coordinator in Indonesia says the wreckage that’s been found Wednesday had drifted more than 30 miles from where it was Tuesday. And he says bodies of some of the 162 victims of Sunday’s crash of an AirAsia flight will likely end up on beaches. Bad weather, choppy seas and strong currents have kept divers out of the water today.
 
     BRINDISI, Italy (AP) – Bad weather in the Adriatic Sea is thwarting efforts to tow a fire-ravaged ferry to Italy. Authorities want to search it for more possible dead and investigate the cause of the blaze that killed at least 11 people. A prosecutor told the ANSA news agency that 98 people are still unaccounted for. It’s not clear if they ever boarded the ferry or perhaps died in the fire or the sea.
 
     ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – The governor of Maryland says he is going to commute the capital sentences of the state’s last four inmates on death row to life in prison. The outgoing Democratic governor says leaving the death sentences in place “does not serve the public good of the people of Maryland.” Two years ago, the state legislature abolished the death penalty, making the ultimate sentence in new cases life in prison without the possibility of parole. That left four previously sentenced inmates on death row.
 
     HAVANA (AP) – The State Department is condemning the first coordinated crackdown on Cuban dissidents since the two countries declared they were moving toward full relations. Dissidents said Cuban officials detained dozens of members of the political opposition ahead of a protest art performance yesterday that was seen as a test of tolerance for dissent. One activist says most were held briefly. An artist had planned to set up an open microphone for anyone to speak in a public plaza, but the event was never held. A dissident newspaper says she was one of the people detained.
 
     MANILA (AP) – A New Year’s Eve concert in the Philippines was supposed to feature Chris Brown — but the singer has sent his regrets. Organizers say they were informed by Brown’s people Wednesday that he was still in Los Angeles, because he had lost his passport. He was supposed to perform in a 55,000-seat arena with other musical acts.