Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Mar 10

CSi weather…

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS AROUND 30. NORTH WINDS AROUND 5 MPH
SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHEAST AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.WEDNESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 50S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 5 TO
15 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE MID 30S. SOUTH
WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER
60S. LOWS IN THE MID 30S. NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 50S.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S.
HIGHS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND
40. HIGHS IN THE MID 60S.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. BREEZY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 40S.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 20S.
HIGHS IN THE MID 40S.

 A MORE POTENT COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH MONDAY. THERE IS A
 SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SOME PRECIPITATION WITH THIS FRONT. BEHIND THE FRONT HIGH PRESSURE AND COLD AIR ADVECTION WILL REDUCE
 TEMPERATURES BACK DOWN TO THE 40S AND 50S.

 

Valley City (CSi) Valley City Police report a 19 year old motorcyclist was injured Monday afternoon around 3:30, at the intersection of Central Avenue and 5^th Street near Valley City High School.

The accident involved the motorcycle striking the rear passenger side of a school bus.

The injured motorcyclist was wearing a helmet and was transported to CHI mercy Health Care with treatment of non life threatening injuries.

The condition of the injured driver has not been released.

 

　Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Police is warning Jamestown residents of a convicted high risk sex offender that has moved into Jamestown, from the rural area.

Timothy Alan Taxis is currently residing at the Starlight Motel,  #5, 1610 Business Loop East Jamestown, ND

Taxis is a 51 year old white male, 5-feet 6 inches tall, weighing 140 pounds with hazel eyes, and blonde hair.

His vehicles are a white 1992 Chrysler New Yorker, with ND license plate: JZR 252.

He also drives a 1985 black Dodge Ram 2 door pickup, with ND license plate: GEA 590.

Another vehicle is a gray 1997 Buick LaSabre, ND Lic GRN442.

He was convicted in Stutsman County Court in July of 2001 of indecent exposure, involving two 11 year old girls in a park, and then following them in a vehicle.

The disposition was 30 days.

He was convicted in Stutsman County Court in April of 1998, of indecent exposure, involving a female employee at a video store.

Disposition, 30 days with 24 days suspended.

He was convicted of gross sexual imposition on three occasions in one week, involving exposing himself to young girls in the area of a tennis court. On one of those occasions he forced an 11 year old girl to perform a sexual act on him.

The conviction date in Stutsman County District Court, was in May 1994, with the disposition of 7 years, with 3 years and 6 months suspended.

Taxis  is not wanted by police at this time and has served the sentence imposed by the court.

This notification is meant for public safety and not to increase fear in the community, nor should this information be used to threaten, assault or intimidate the offender. Attempts to harass, intimidate or threaten these offenders or their families, landlords, or employers will be turned over for prosecution.

Printed handouts of Timothy Alan Taxis’s photo and demographics are available at the Jamestown Police Department.

Sex offender registration information is available on the North Dakota Attorney General’s web site:   www.sexoffender.nd.gov/

Timothy Taxis photos 

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Stutsman Development Corporation (JSDC) Board of Directors has reviewed if James River Family Fitness (former YMCA) along with its child and daycare facility would be required to pay a rental fee at the proposed Two Rivers Activity Center (TRAC) which would house the Fitness Center and child care operations.

At the meeting, Jamestown Mayor Katie Andersen said she wasn’t sure it was fair to competing businesses, that James River Family Fitness and its child care/day care operation will be able to operate out of a new facility that is being paid for by taxpayer dollars and will not have to pay any rent.

She noted that other day care centers, they pay rent on their facilities.

Andersen feels it would be appropriate to obtain rental income from James River Family Fitness, including the child and daycare operations, using the funds to pay depreciation costs of the facility.

Jamestown School Superintendent Rob Lech, also member of the Two Rivers Activity Center Board of Directors, said he understood Andersen’s point of view, adding that the revenues James River Family Fitness and the child and day care operation would generate dollars toward rent and go to the activity center to pay off its debt.

JSDC Board member, Kelly Rachel, said the activity center’s plan would not create any additional competition at subsidized rates.

The activity center debt would be paid back by memberships to the center, including $55 for a single and $90 for a family per month, which covers over 4 individuals.

Activity Center Board member, Amy Walters said the updated business plan indicates that if all the 2,700 current members of James River Family Fitness would become members the center can attract 100 more, or 2,800 memberships, and renting the center’s facilities, would cover almost all of the center’s costs.

The city is reviewing petitions submitted by supporters of the activity center, asking the city to hold a special election to determine if voters want to approve a one percent sales tax that would pay for the first phase of the proposed activity center, that would cost $28.6 million.If at least 1,053 signatures are verified, the special election would be held within 90 days of when the signatures are verified.

TRAC operations would become part of the Jamestown Parks and Recreation Department.

The activity center’s board would dissolve and become an advisory board to the parks and recreation department.

The second phase, which would be paid for by a separate capital fundraising campaign, would expand the area where the multisport courts are planned and other sections of the center, and bring the total cost for the project to about $40 million.

Two Rivers Activity Center would be located on about eight acres of land, southeast of Jamestown High School and northwest of Gussner Elementary School, and contain James River Family Fitness and its child and daycare operation, along with an indoor water facility, three multisport courts, community meeting rooms, a kitchen and an indoor turf air facility

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Planning Commission is recommending zone changes for two projects, and preliminary plat approvals.

The commission approved a zoning and plat change for Edgewood First Addition for a 23-unit assisted-living facility and a 39-unit memory care unit, to be located on the west side of 10th Avenue Southwest, west of the Fairfield Inn.

The 5-acres includes land zoned as commercial and agriculture. The zone change, would mean the entire parcel will be zoned commercial.

Construction is planned to start this spring with completion of the project in about a year.

The Planning Commission also gave preliminary approval to the Schumacher Acres Addition plat, south of 13th Street Northeast and south of Jamestown Regional Airport.

Developers plans to construct 36-unit apartment buildings on two of those lots.

The plat divides an existing parcel into eight lots.

The planning commission also appproved a preliminary plat for the Anne Carlsen Center Second Subdivision located east of the Jamestown Regional Medical Center.

The plat enlarges a previous plat owned by the Anne Carlsen Center.

The plat notes that the owner has no current plans for development.

 

Valley City (CSi) An at-large Valley City Public School Board seat is up for election on June 9, 2015.

The seat is currently held by Rick Ross, who intends to run for re-election.

Anyone interested in running for the seat has until 4-pm April 6, 2015 to fill out a statement of intent at the school district business office.

 

MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Minot police are searching for a man who robbed a convenience store at gunpoint.
 
     Authorities say a man wearing a hooded sweat shirt and a ski mask walked into a Kum & Go store about 4:45 a.m. Tuesday, brandished a handgun and threatened the clerk’s life.
 
     The man fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota man could spend up to a decade in prison after admitting that he punched a 4-year-old child in the face.
 
34-year-old Lionel Dunn has pleaded guilty to a felony child abuse charge stemming from the October incident. An aggravated assault charge was dismissed as part of a plea deal.
 
     Authorities say the Fort Totten man punched a 24-year-old woman in the face and kicked her in the stomach during an argument during an October night. She was taken to a hospital for treatment.
 
     Authorities say the following night, Dunn got into another altercation with the woman and another woman, and punched the child when the child attempted to intervene.
 
     Dunn’s sentencing hearing has been scheduled for May 18.

 

Update…

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Some North Dakota lawmakers believe noon is too late to begin buying booze at restaurants on Sunday. 
 
     A bipartisan measure would allow alcohol sales on Sundays to begin at 11 a.m. instead of noon. 
 
     The House already has endorsed the Legislation.
 
     Democratic Rep. Marie Strinden of Grand Forks is the bill’s lead sponsor. She told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that North Dakota’s restrictions put cities bordering other states at a disadvantage because those states allow for earlier booze sales on Sundays.
 
     The legislation does not allow for off-sale liquor sales. It also does not require restaurants to serve booze at the earlier time.
 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A Mandaree man accused of murder on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation allegedly killed another man with his bare hands after a fight last December that began while the two men were using methamphetamine.
 
     Thirty-one-year-old Marcel Chase then allegedly put the body of Toby Young Bear in the trunk of a car. FBI Special Agent Bruce Bennett says in an affidavit that Young Bear’s body appeared to have severe head injuries.
 
     Chase faces a second-degree murder charge that carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. Defense attorney Paul Myerchin says Chase plans to plead insanity.
 
     U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland has ordered Chase undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

 

In sports…

 GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – The University of North Dakota men’s hockey team will enter postseason play atop both national polls.
 
     UND over the weekend clinched the Penrose Cup as regular-season champion of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference. The team remains atop both the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll and the USCHO.com poll.
 
     Minnesota State, Boston, Michigan Tech and Miami round out the top five in both polls.
 
     North Dakota hosts unranked Colorado College this weekend in the NCHC quarterfinals.

 

In world and national news…

 WASHINGTON (AP) – The State Department says the full trove of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s emails as secretary of state will be published on a website after they are reviewed. A department spokeswoman says a review of the 55,000 pages of emails will take several months. They’ll be posted online afterward for the public to see. Clinton’s aides have said no classified material was transmitted via that private email account that she used for official business while in office.
 
     BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) – Witnesses say 34 people have been killed by a teenage girl suicide bomber at a crowded market in northeastern Nigeria. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, but it bears the hallmarks of Nigeria’s Islamic extremist group, Boko Haram (BOH’-koh hah-RAHM’). The market is where suicide bombers on Saturday detonated explosives that killed 54 people.
 
     ATLANTA (AP) – President Barack Obama says college affordability isn’t just important for students, but for the nation as well. Obama told thousands gathered at Georgia Tech Tuesday that he is trying to make it easier for them to pay back student loans. He is aiming to clamp down on the private companies that service federal student debt.
 
     VILLA CASTELLI, Argentina (AP) – Investigators have recovered all 10 bodies from a remote site in Argentina where two helicopters collided Monday afternoon. The helicopters were serving a reality TV show — and the victims included three prominent French sports figures who had been among the contestants on the show. In all, eight French nationals and the two Argentine pilots were killed. French prosecutors have started an investigation of possible involuntary manslaughter.
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – The funeral for Cardinal Edward Egan has begun with a procession from the streets of midtown Manhattan into St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Drummers and bagpipers from New York’s police and fire departments played as a long line of clergy and others made their way to the cathedral’s main entrance. Egan, who was 82, died last week after a heart attack. He led the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York for nearly a decade — including the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.