Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Apr 2

CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 20S. NORTH WINDS
15 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH BECOMING NORTHWEST 5 TO
10 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 40S. WEST
WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN AND
SNOW IN THE EVENING. LOWS IN THE MID 20S. NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO
15 MPH.
.SATURDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 40S. EAST WINDS 5 TO
15 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW
IN THE EVENING…THEN SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS
IN THE MID 20S. EAST WINDS AROUND 15 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
20 PERCENT.
.SUNDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 40S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW IN
THE EVENING…THEN SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. LOWS IN
THE MID 20S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 20 PERCENT.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF
RAIN AND SNOW. HIGHS AROUND 40. LOWS IN THE MID 20S.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW POSSIBLY MIXED
WITH RAIN IN THE MORNING…THEN SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN IN THE
AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 40S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION
20 PERCENT.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN
THE UPPER 20S. HIGHS IN THE MID 40S.
.THURSDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 50S.

 

Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Police is warning Jamestown residents of a convicted high risk sex offender who has changed his Jamestown address.

Timothy Alan Taxis is currently residing at the Frontier Fort Campground, 1838 3rd Avenue, Southeast, 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 now include:

A White/tan 1976 Dodge Motorhome- ND Temporary sticker

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

 

Valley City (CSi)  Bids opened this week for  construction of the Valley City Health, Wellness & Physical Education Center, came in  more than $1 million under the budget based on the proposed $17 million project.

21 prospective contractors submitted bids, from contractors in Valley City, Fargo, Jamestown, Wahpeton, Grand Forks, Hope, Bismarck and Hatton North Dakota, Mitchell, South Dakota and Bloomington and Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

Details of the bids and alternatives will be reviewed by the construction committee, JLG Architects and KLJ Engineering.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Area Grief Support Team is offering a grief support group for anyone who is grieving the loss of someone important to them, whether the loss is recent or from years past. The group will meet once a week at 7:00 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 424 1^st Avenue S, Jamestown, beginning on Thursday, April 9^th and will run for 6 weeks.

On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Eileen Lisko said in his book, Understanding Your Grief, internationally recognized expert in the field of loss and grief, Dr. Alan Wolfelt states, “You can benefit from a connectedness that comes from people who have also had a death in their lives. Support groups, where people come together and share the common bond of experience, can be invaluable in helping you and your grief and supporting your need to mourn long after the event of the death”

In our fast paced society, people who have had a significant loss are often expected to be ‘over it’ in a matter of a few weeks. They may even expect this of themselves. In reality, it may take years for someone to work through his or her grief. The support group experience helps individuals to understand and express grief in their own unique way and on their own unique timetable.

Also on out show, JAGST member, Carol Arnold said the group is free of charge, however, participants are asked to register to ensure that enough materials are available. For more information, or to register, please call Charlotte at 952-9358 or 320-3297 or Kathy at 952-8001 or 659-8001.

Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown property owners this week have been sent letters from City Assessor, Darrell Wollan, concerning calculations on city commercial and residential property for values used for property taxes.

Wollen indicates that the past good year for real estate sales, means values used for property tax calculations are increasing, recommending a 15 percent increase to values for residential and commercial properties in Jamestown.

That’s compared to a nine percent increase last year.

He adds that valuations are in addition to other calculations used to determine a property tax bill.

The actual tax bill for each property will be affected by the amount of new construction in the city and the budgets established by the City Council.

He adds, if property owners do not feel the new value established for their property is appropriate they can contact his City Hall office at 252-5900.

He says, individual appraisals of property are performed, if the owner doesn’t feel the 15 percent increase is warranted on their property.

The proposed increase will come before the Jamestown City Council, acting as the Board of Equalization during a special meeting at on April 14, 2015, at 3-p.m. at City Hall.

North Dakota law, states that the valuation must be within 90 percent of the sales price as an average across the community, the sales ratio.

If the city does not adjust valuations to fall within a 90 percent sales ratio, the Stutsman County Board of Equalization or the State Board of Equalization would have the authority to make the adjustments.

Stutsman County Tax Equalization Director, Tyler Perleberg says residential property outside Jamestown will not see any across-the-board increases in valuation.

Agriculture land will see a 9 percent increase, and the value will also be applied to the agricultural land located within Jamestown city limits.

 

Jamestown  (CSi)  Annually, nursing students at the University of Jamestown travel abroad to see witness nursing techniques in other parts of the world and thus gain perspective. Students want to become nurses because they know it is a meaningful, purpose-driven vocation. As nurses, the expectation is that they will be instrumental in the saving of lives. As students going on a nursing-trip, however, it is certainly not expected. Nevertheless, this is exactly what happened during this spring’s trip to Vietnam where UJ nursing student Nichole Johansen followed her calling and saved lives – not in a hospital setting but while dining at a pool-side restaurant.

Nursing students and instructors were invited to dinner in Nha Trang, Vietnam by UJ alumnus Jim Johnson and his wife Sally. They were enjoying the delicacies when they heard noises of splashing and a child crying. Bethany Mello, nursing instructor at the University of Jamestown, said, “We turned and saw a man thrashing in the water, his head popping above the water line for seconds before going back under. At first we thought it was a joke, but the longer we watched, the more we realized this man was not fooling around.”

A worker at the restaurant jumped in to help, but immediately the flailing man pulled him down and they were both in danger. People panicked and nobody knew what to do. The nursing students and professors were asking each other, “Should we jump in? Should we help?” Mello said, “It was in this instant that I saw a flash of pink and a big splash out of the corner of my eye. I then recognized the pink skirt and striped shirt swimming swiftly to the two men as Nichole Johansen. She positioned herself below the drowning man who was still clinging to the restaurant worker. With a strong kick off from the bottom of the pool she pushed both men to the side where they were able to grab hold of something solid and be hoisted to safety.”

Both men emerged unharmed. Nichole simply rejoined the table with her wet dress and hair and continued sampling the unfamiliar delicacies. Nichole was a swim instructor for five years and a lifeguard for one year. When asked what made her jump in, she said, “I don’t know. I wasn’t really thinking. I just knew someone had to help him.”

Nichole Johansen will be a 2015 graduate of the University of Jamestown with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Her hometown is Devil’s Lake, ND. In addition to Nursing, she is active in with pole vaulting in the University’s Track & Field program.

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.

 

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – Two people onboard a small airplane escaped injury when their landing gear failed at the Williston airport.

The North Dakota Highway Patrol says pilot Edward Routon and passenger Tammy Heimbuch were flying from Cheyenne, Wyoming, on Thursday when the landing gear on their Beechcraft Baron propeller plane failed to lower on descent to Sloulin Field International Airport.

The patrol says Routon landed the plane on its undercarriage. The plane suffered about $15,000 in damage.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s teacher licensing board has decided to take no disciplinary action against state Superintendent of Public Instruction Kirsten Baesler.

Baesler was charged in February with simple assault in an alleged domestic dispute with her then-fiance Todd Tschosik. The Education Standards and Practices Board in March postponed discussing possible disciplinary action until the case was resolved, and prosecutors late last month dropped the charge for lack of evidence.

The board on Thursday voted unanimously against disciplining either Baesler or Tschosik, who teaches at three Bismarck schools. Tschosik is on probation after pleading guilty to a driving under the influence charge in December, and he’s on an improvement plan following absences at work.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – For the third time in six years, the North Dakota Legislature has killed legislation that would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.

North Dakota’s Senate approved the measure in February but House members voted to defeat the bill on Thursday.

Similar legislation failed during the 2009 and 2013 sessions.

The bipartisan legislation introduced this session would add sexual orientation to the list of classes of individuals who are specifically protected against discrimination.

Opponents of the measure say it’s unnecessary, and argued it could force businesses and religious organizations to go against their own convictions.

Backers say many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people fear they could lose their jobs or residences under current state law.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Oil and Gas Division has ordered five oil companies to reduce their production in the state as a penalty for flaring more gas than allowed.

Division spokeswoman Alison Ritter says this is the largest number of companies and wells the state has sanctioned since new restrictions took effect on Jan. 1. The new rules require companies to capture at least 77 percent of natural gas produced during oil production.

The five companies were ordered this month to reduce production to 100 barrels per day at certain wells or risk facing daily penalties.

The division restricted 10 wells for Emerald Oil, nine wells for Occidental Petroleum Corporation, six wells for QEP, three wells for Abraxas Petroleum and two wells for Enerplus.

In world and national news…

WASHINGTON (AP) – It’s being described by President Barack Obama as a “historic” understanding with Iran over its nuclear program. He spoke at the White House shortly after negotiators in Switzerland announced that they’d agreed on a framework outlining limits on Iran’s nuclear program. Obama says if it leads to a final deal, it will make the U.S. and the world safer.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – Kenyan officials say Thursday’s attack by the extremist group al-Shabab on a college campus has claimed 147 lives. That’s in addition to the four attackers who also died. The country’s interior minister says most of those killed were students, but that they also included two police officers, a soldier and two watchmen. It’s by far the highest death toll in an attack by al-Shabab, an Islamic group from neighboring Somalia, on Kenyan soil. One survivor says the extremists were singling out Christians and killing them immediately.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) – New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez has entered a not guilty plea, a day after being indicted on corruption charges. He entered the plea in front of a federal judge in Newark Thursday. Menendez is charged with accepting nearly $1 million in gifts and campaign contributions from a longtime friend in exchange for a stream of political favors. His co-defendant, Salomon Melgen, also pleaded not guilty.

WALKERTON, Ind. (AP) – Police have stepped up patrols around a small-town Indiana pizzeria. This, after one of the owners said the state’s new religious objections law backs their right to deny catering to a same-sex wedding. Police in Walkerton says the restaurant has received threats, but there was no trouble Wednesday night. They say the owners have closed the restaurant and probably won’t reopen it soon.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – An inmate who’s been on Alabama’s death row for nearly 30 years will go free. Prosecutors now say there’s not enough evidence to link Anthony Hinton to the 1985 murders he was convicted of committing. They say forensic experts can’t determine whether crime scene bullets came from a gun found in Hinton’s home. The bullets were the key evidence that led to his conviction. The U.S. Supreme Court last year said Hinton had an inadequate defense because of a low-cost ballistics expert who was quickly discredited.

LOC ANGELES  – Televangelist and Crystal Cathedral megachurch founder Robert Schuller, known worldwide for his weekly “Hour of Power” broadcasts, died in Southern California on Thursday.  He was 88.

The death of Schuller, who was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2013, marked a closing chapter for a congregation he began in 1955 when he started holding services in a rented drive-in movie theater and built into a worldwide following.

His weekly television broadcast aired for more than four decades, featuring celebrity guests and drawing some 30 million viewers a week at its peak.