Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Jan 16

CSi Weather….

.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S. SOUTHWEST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW.
LOWS AROUND 20.
.MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY AND MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY.
HIGHS IN THE UPPER 30S. LOWS IN THE LOWER 20S.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS AROUND 30.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW. LOWS
15 TO 20.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW.
HIGHS AROUND 20.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 5 TO
10 ABOVE. HIGHS 15 TO 20.

 

A WINTRY MIX OF RAIN…SNOW…FREEZING RAIN…OR SLEET WILL BE
POSSIBLE FRIDAY NIGHT WHICH MAY RESULT IN SOME SLIPPERY ROADS AND WALKING SURFACES.

SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

GUSTY WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS WILL SPREAD THROUGHOUT MUCH OF
WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. PLEASE SEE WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BISFOR MORE DETAILS.

A WINTRY MIX OF PRECIPITATION WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE SUNDAY NIGHT.

 

PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO BE RAIN  FRIDAY EVENING…THEN TRANSITION TO SNOW LATE FRIDAY NIGHT WITH THE PASSAGE  OF THE COLD FRONT. THUS MAIN PRECIPITATION WILL BE RAIN AND/OR SNOW.
A PERIOD OF LIGHT FREEZING RAIN OR FREEZING DRIZZLE
OVER THE NORTH CENTRAL AND INTO THE JAMES VALLEY SATURDAY MORNING.

 

Jamestown (CSi) On Tuesday January 20, 2015 Jamestown Public Schools will host the next community meeting at 6:30-p.m., at the Jamestown Middle School, Thompson Room.

On Friday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Jamestown Public School Superintendent Rob Lech said, public input is being solicited concerning the the long-range facilities planning, including a facilities assessment, staff and community engagement, and ultimately assistance with approving the long-range facility plan, that would be adopted by the Jamestown Public School Board.

A boundary analysis will be made for K-5 schools, to meet capacity limits.

He said the input is needed as the school district makes difficult decisions regarding facilities, short-term and long-term. The community input will help the school district understand what students and the community needs, and the level of support for each of these concepts.

Lech added that the January 20^th public meeting will give the school district perspectives necessary to make the best possible decisions for Jamestown Public Schools.

 

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

No grant requests were on the agenda, so the board discussed and reviewed other business, and reviewed Executive Director, Searle Swedlund’s job performance and salary increase.

During his reports, Swedlund said the Calendar Committee met this week and the planning process is in the “technical component.” It a good cross-section of stake-holder were in attendance.

He also pointed out that representatives of the 1883 Stutsman County Courthouse Committee will be requesting some funding from the state legislature.

He presented a 2015 Grant Allocation workshop sheet that indicated anticipated requests and projected dollar amounts.

Also reviewed was the grant fund request guidelines, along with eligible grant funding recipients. Possible additional categories were discussed.

The board directed Swedlund to meeting with Civic Center Manager Pam Fosse to develop a one page grant request sheet to be included to entice organizations to hold events in Jamestown.

It was discussed if tourism can influence expanding camping opportunities in Jamestown.

Remaining 2014 Grant and Operating dollars were allocated into the 2015 budget.

Remaining Operating Funds were approved to go into the 2015 General Operating Fund, in the amount of $4,135.

Grant dollars of $5,919 was applied to the city held Capital Improvement Fund.

Swedlund commented that the Frontier Village Association Board has authorization and identification issues that need addressing.

It was pointed out that the FVA has hired a CPA for accounting purposes.

In closed Executive Session the board discussed Swedlund’s annual job performance review. Returning to Regular Session the board voted unanimously to give Swedlund a salary increase of $7, 000 annually.

Board President, Mitzi Hager said Swedlund has done a “fantastic job,” in his postion, and had brought tourism, “into the 21^st Century,” with his “hands-on,” approach.

Civic Center Manager Pam Fosse told the board that the North Dakota Dance and Drill team competition next weekend, is expected to have 39 teams competing.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s House has defeated a bill that would extend a moratorium for a new nickname and moniker for the University of North Dakota.

Representatives voted 62-21 to kill the measure on Friday.

Minot Republican Rep. Scott Louser pushed the measure that would extend the moratorium until mid-2017.

Lawmakers put a three-year moratorium on replacing the UND “Fighting Sioux” nickname after residents voted overwhelmingly in 2012 to dump it. That moratorium ended Jan. 1.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The Cass County Sheriff’s Office says a 58-year-old inmate who died in November suffered from cardiac arrest after choking.

Sergeant Tara Morris with the sheriff’s office says Charles Bliss died while in custody on November 5, 2014.

Bliss drew the attention of a corrections officer after breakfast and indicated he was having medical problems. Bliss became unconscious while jail staff initiated emergency procedures and called 911.

Morris says the final autopsy determined to the cause of death was asphyxiation by choking, which caused cardiac arrest.

Bliss was being housed at the jail on a fugitive warrant from Washington State.

Emergency personnel responded to the jail, but their lifesaving measures were unsuccessful.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A Nevada man has been sentenced in Bismarck federal court to five years in prison for receiving and possessing a large amount of child pornography.

U.S. Attorney Tim Purdon announced Thursday that 40-year-old Jonathan Holiday, of Reno, Nevada, will have to serve 60 months.

The Bismarck Tribune reports that Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Delorme initially requested a 97-month sentence because of the large quantity of materials. Authorities say Holiday had hundreds of videos and thousands of photos of minors.

The newspaper reports that Holiday had used Twitter to send and receive the materials.

Holiday says he takes responsibility for his actions but that he only had so many files because he mass-loaded them when he was working. Holiday’s Nevada-based trucking company frequently operates in the North Dakota oil patch.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Officials from North Dakota’s oil-producing region pleaded with lawmakers to expedite hundreds of millions of dollars in special funding so that infrastructure projects can begin by next summer.

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Friday held hearings on a pair of competing proposals that each would fast-track funding to cities, school districts and communities.

One measure is Gov. Jack Dalrymple’s “jumpstart” proposal that is pegged at $873 million. The other is an $845 million “surge funding” bill sponsored by Republican Sen. Kelly Armstrong of Dickinson.

The key difference in the bills is how they will be funded and the amount of money that would be spent on state highways.

Sen. Ray Holmberg is chairman of the Appropriations Committee. He says elements of both bills might be incorporated into one.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A man accused of threatening to shoot people at a federal office building in Minot has pleaded not guilty.

William Pogorelec is accused of calling the Minot office of U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp in June 2014 and threatening to shoot people at the Social Security Administration office.

Pogorelec is charged with attempting to interfere with the government agency and transmitting threatening communications.

Court documents show that Judge Daniel Hovland scheduled trial for March 24-25 in Bismarck.

 

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) – U.S. Sen. John Thune of South Dakota says the Air Force has approved a proposal to establish an enormous bomber training area over the Northern Plains.

Thune said Friday that federal aviation regulators will now examine the plan to expand the Powder River Training Complex over the Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming. If the FAA approves the proposal, it would become the largest training airspace over the continental United States.

It would be used by B-1 bombers at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota and B-52 bombers at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota.

Thune has said the expansion will help prevent the closure of Ellsworth, improve national security and save on fuel costs.

Critics have said the bombers would disrupt rural communities and businesses, and scare livestock.

 

In sports…

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) – Teams from across the country are coming to Devils Lake for the 2015 USA Curling Junior National Championships.

The event gets underway Saturday and continues through Jan. 24. The winning men’s and women’s teams will represent the U.S. at this year’s World Junior Championships in Estonia.

Competing teams are from nearly a dozen states, from Alaska to Maryland. North Dakota also has teams in the event.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) – Penn State’s football team is getting back 112 wins wiped out during the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal and the late Joe Paterno has been restored as the winningest coach in major college football history. A settlement with the school was announced Friday by the NCAA. It comes just weeks before a scheduled trial on the legality of the 2012 consent decree it will replace. The new deal also directs that a $60 million fine to address child abuse be spent within Pennsylvania and resolves that lawsuit

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says the likelihood is very high that nuclear negotiations with Iran would collapse if Congress moves forward with new sanctions. He says he’ll veto a sanctions bill if it comes to his desk. He’s urging Congress not to pursue new sanctions while talks are underway. He says there’s no good argument for undermining the negotiations. Obama says if the talks collapse, there will be no constraint on Iran moving ahead with its nuclear program.

NEW YORK (AP) – In the wake of the Paris terror attacks, the New York Police Department is quietly expanding training for “active shooter” situations in which terrorists arm themselves with high-powered rifles and open fire. Commissioner William Bratton says the new training for the nation’s largest police force is based in part on lessons brought back from an NYPD team that was sent to Paris. Bratton says more officers will be trained like the NYPD’s elite Emergency Services Unit, which responds to the most dangerous situations, from shootings to terror attacks.

NEW YORK (AP) – A New York Post spokeswoman says some of the newspaper’s Twitter accounts were briefly hacked Friday. She says the hack is being investigated. The Twitter feed of United Press International sent out identical suspicious tweets on false economic and military news. Earlier this week, the Twitter and YouTube accounts of the U.S. military’s Central Command were compromised earlier this week by hackers claiming to support the Islamic State militant group.

WOODLAND, Calif. (AP) – A man in Northern California has survived being scooped up by a garbage truck. The Oroville Mercury Register reports that the man was searching for his wallet in a trash bin when he was scooped up and taken for a long ride. The man told police he used lumber in the truck to reach the top of the garbage pile and avoid the compactor. He was taken to UC Davis Medical Center after complaining of back and neck pain.