Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Feb 5

CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW AFTER
MIDNIGHT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA, A 50 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.  NOT AS COLD. LOWS 10 TO 15. NORTHEAST WINDS AROUND
5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE EAST 10 TO 15 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S. EAST WINDS 10 TO
15 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 15. EAST WINDS AROUND
10 MPH.
.SATURDAY…CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF LIGHT FREEZING
RAIN IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.  HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S. SOUTH WINDS AROUND
10 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF LIGHT FREEZING RAIN IN
THE EVENING…THEN CHANCE OF LIGHT FREEZING RAIN POSSIBLY MIXED
WITH SLEET AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN THE LOWER 20S. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF LIGHT FREEZING RAIN…
SNOW AND SLEET IN THE MORNING…THEN SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW IN THE
AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 20S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
20 PERCENT.
.SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND
15. HIGHS IN THE MID 20S.
.TUESDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGHS AROUND
30.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW.
LOWS AROUND 15.
.WEDNESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS 15 TO 20.

 THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR LIGHT FREEZING RAIN…SLEET OR SNOW OVER VARIOUS PORTIONS OF THE AREA FROM FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT.

THE THREAT FOR FREEZING RAIN WILL INCREASE IN THE SOUTHERN RED
 RIVER VALLEY INTO ADJACENT AREAS OF WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA ON
 SATURDAY. ICY CONDITIONS MAY DEVELOP ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE
 AREA…DEPENDING ON SURFACE TEMPERATURES AND THE TRACK OF A
 WEATHER SYSTEM THIS WEEKEND.

 SUNDAY AND MONDAY SHOULD BE A DRY PERIOD. 

 MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY BRINGS CHANCES OF RAIN OR SNOW.
 TOWARDS THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce’s latest E-Newsletter outlined the following sales tax changes in Jamestown effective April 1, 2015.

Tax Changes

The following summarizes the local option tax changes effective April 1, 2015. Information will be mailed to permit holders located within the city and county where the change will occur.

Jamestown

The City of Jamestown will decrease its city sales, use, and gross receipts tax by one percent (1%). The tax rate for Jamestown starting April 1, 2015 will be one percent (1%).

Maximum Tax (Refund Cap) will be $25/sale

More information on state and local taxes, including the Local Option Taxes by Location Guideline, is available on line at    www.nd.gov/tax

 

Valley City (CSi) Barnes County is in the process of hiring dispatchers, and will hire a 9-1-1 Coordinator.

The estimated starting salary of the coordinator is around $68, 000 dollars annually.

The current 9-1-1 Coordinator Kim Franklin is slated take a 35-hundred dollar salary reduction from her base salary as the Barnes County Emergency Manager.

The commissioners unanimously approved giving all dispatchers a $1 per hour raise and an additional $1 per hour raise for two new dispatchers, plus another $1 per hour in differential pay for dispatchers who work nights and weekend shifts.

 

Valley City (CSi) The construction contract for building the new Faith Lutheran Church in Valley City has been awarded to TF Powers.

A spring ground breaking is being planned, with the location east of the former church.

The new structure will contain 12,700 square feet of space including the sanctuary’s 288 capacity.

The church will also have fellowship and educational areas.

The architect is YHR.

A Capital fundraiser is planned.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The 2^nd Annual, “Purses for a Purpose,” will help raise vital funds for North Dakota Wounded Warriors, and benefiting North Dakota veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) helping to provide service dogs.

Service Dogs for America spokesperson Shelley Nannenga on Thursday Wayne Byers Show on CSI Cable 2, said, the event is set for this Sunday February 8, 2015, from 4-p.m. to 7-p.m., at Sabir’s II, formerly the Buffalo City Rotisserie Grille on First Avenue South in Jamestown.

There will be designer purses, a silent and live auction, Stella Cidre (with complementary glass) and hors d’oeuvres.

Also on our show, the event’s organizer, Karmel Wanzek said participant bring gently used or new designer purses to the event, or drop sites, including Unison Bank, First Community Credit Union, and the Anne Carlsen Center, in Jamestown. Bring two purses and get to pick out two purses.

Only 200 tickets are available, and no reservations will be taken.

General Admission is $25, VIP tickets $50, (which are going fast) which enters the purse exchange first.

Order tickets by contacting

Annie-client.services@servicedogsforamerica.org

and make checks payable to Paws4Ward-2015, and mail to Paws4Ward, P.O. Box 1235 in Jamestown ND 58402.

At last report, sponsorships opportunities are still available and include….

Brief Case Sponsor…$1,000 and includes a logo at the event, business name and logo in all event publicity, and six general tickets.

Clutch Sponsor…$5000, and includes logo at the event, business name in all event publicity, and four general tickets.

Handbag Sponsor…$250 and includes logo at the event, business name in program and two general tickets.

Wristlet Sponsor…$100, and includes logo at the event.

Ms. Nannenga, of Service Dogs for America added that, last year, Paws4-Ward raised $17,000 for North Dakota Veterans in need of a PTSD service dog.

Service Dogs for America currently has eight North Dakota veterans on the waiting list for a service dog.

The average cost of a service dog is $20,000 and none of the cost is covered by insurance, or the VA.

 

  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Senate has confirmed Fargo optometrist Kevin Melicher as a member of the state Board of Higher Education.
 
     The Senate voted 27-18 to confirm Melicher on Thursday.
 
     A five-member Senate committee voted 3-2 earlier this month to deny Melicher a four-year term on the board. The full Senate confirmed him anyway.
 
     Melicher has served on the board in a temporary status since June.
 
     The board has eight voting members.
 
     Nicholas Hacker of Bismarck and Greg Stemen of Fort Ransom also have been nominated to serve on the board. Their Senate confirmation votes are pending.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A Minnesota man has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for stabbing another man outside a downtown Fargo hotel last year.
 
20-old Samuel Ortley, Jr., of Mahnomen, Minnesota, had previously pleaded guilty to attempted murder.
 
     Police say Ortley, his father and several other men got into an argument that quickly turned into a drunken fight in November. One victim was stabbed several times and another man was hit over the head in the parking lot of the Scandia Inn.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A man who pleaded guilty to under-reporting income from his Bismarck restaurant has been ordered to pay nearly $1 million to the Internal Revenue Service.
 
     Forty-two-year-old Youde Li pleaded guilty to four counts of tax evasion and was sentenced recently to time served, three years of supervised release and restitution.
 
     U.S. Attorney Timothy Purdon says Li did not report $961,000 in income from his China Garden restaurant. He also did not report that income on his personal tax returns.
 

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A former school paraprofessional in Fargo has been sentenced for showing a student nude pictures of herself on a cellphone.
 
     Thirty-one-year-old Sara Wurgler pleaded guilty this week to a misdemeanor charge of contributing to the deprivation of a minor. She was sentenced to 30 days in jail and two years of probation.
 
     Wurgler could have faced up to a year in jail and a $2,000 fine under the charge.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A new study shows that retail giant Wal-Mart gave $9.3 million to try to pass a North Dakota ballot measure last November that would have allowed the company to open pharmacies in the state.
 
     The figure is part of an analysis released Thursday by the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity. It found that corporations and trade groups gave at least $217 million to sway the outcome of state ballot measure and referendum campaigns during the 2014 midterm elections.
 
     North Dakota voters rejected the pharmacy ballot measure, which would have repealed a 1963 law banning chain retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target from operating pharmacies.
 
     Voters sided with small, pharmacist-owned drug stores and their allies who raised a fraction of Wal-Mart’s total.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Bipartisan legislation that would require additional monitoring and safeguards for North Dakota pipelines that carry briny oilfield wastewater has been amended to allow regulators to make the decision on an individual basis.
 
     No one spoke against the changes to the proposed legislation Thursday.
 
     The measure was filed in the wake of a recent 3-million gallon leak near Williston in western North Dakota. It’s been called the largest saltwater spill of North Dakota’s current oil boom
 
     Senate Republican Majority Leader Rich Wardner is the primary sponsor of the bill. It originally sought to require flow meters and leak-detection devices on pipelines that carry oilfield wastewater.
 
     Wardner’s amendment would allow the state Industrial Commission to decide whether the equipment is needed.

 

 CLEAR LAKE, S.D. (AP) – A Powerball ticket sold in Clear Lake is worth $10,000 in the latest drawing.
 
     South Dakota lottery officials say the ticket matched four of five white ball numbers and the Powerball in Wednesday’s drawing to win the game’s third prize. The odds of winning it are 1 in about 649,000.
 
     Powerball is played in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The jackpot is at $360 million for Saturday’s drawing.

 

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) – The White House says President Barack Obama will ask Congress in the coming days for authority to use U.S. military force against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria. But House Speaker John Boehner (BAY’-nur) warns that it won’t be easy to pass the measure. He says it will be up to Obama to rally support from lawmakers and the public.
 
     AMMAN, Jordan (AP) – Jordan’s military says dozens of its fighter jets have carried out bombing attacks Thursday on Islamic State targets — including training centers and weapons storage sites. Jordan is pledging to keep up the attacks until the militants are defeated. The strikes came even as Jordan’s King Abdullah paid a condolence visit to the family of the Jordanian pilot who was burned to death by his Islamic State captors.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – For a third straight day, Senate Democrats are blocking action on a measure funding the Homeland Security Department, because it would also reverse President Barack Obama’s administrative policies protecting millions of immigrants from deportation. Senate Democrats say they won’t agree to the bill unless all the immigration language is removed. Republicans say such a bill won’t pass the House.
 
     PALATINE, Ill. (AP) – Health officials say five children under age 1 who attend the same suburban Chicago day care have been diagnosed with measles. Officials say it’s not clear if the cases are linked to the outbreak that started at Disneyland in December or to one other suburban Chicago case confirmed last month. Everyone affiliated with the day care has been notified and anyone not vaccinated for measles has been instructed to stay home and away from unvaccinated individuals for 21 days.
 
     COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina law enforcement officials say two people are dead in an apparent murder-suicide on the state’s flagship university campus. The school says the shooting occurred at its new School of Public Health, in a busy section of downtown Columbia.