Wayne Byers Show – Evening – May 20

CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 40S. WEST WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.THURSDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S. NORTHWEST WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 40S. NORTH WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHEAST AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.FRIDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S.
.SATURDAY…INCREASING CLOUDS. CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND SLIGHT
CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE MID 60S. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 40 PERCENT.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY…CLOUDY WITH CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS
AND SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S. HIGHS
IN THE UPPER 60S. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 40 PERCENT.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S.
.MEMORIAL DAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND
SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.
.MONDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 40S.
.TUESDAY…PARTLY SUNNY WITH CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND SLIGHT
CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 70S. CHANCE OF
PRECIPITATION 30 PERCENT.

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND
 INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED
 AT THIS TIME.

Jamestown (CSi) With $350,000 in hand, appropriated this session by the North Dakota State Legislature, plans are going forth for additional 1883 Stutsman County Courthouse renovations.

On Wednesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, North Dakota State Historical Society, Historic Sites Regional Manager, Guinn Hinman said,

the funds will be used toward installing a new electrical system and plumbing, plus interior painting will be done, plus restoration of the pressed tin ceilings, and restoring interior walls. Future plans include installing an elevator.

She asked if anyone ask photographs of the interior of the courthouse, the way it looked in years past, two let her or Barbara Lang in Jamestown know, and copies will be made and returned. Also being sought is original artifacts from the courthouse.

Also on our show, Barbara, a member of the 1883 Courthouse Committee, said

local funding raising for matching state dollars continues, with the current goal of raising $60,000, and more fundraisers planned in the future.

She noted that an open house will be planned for later this year, when additional restoration work is completed.

She pointed out that when the electrical and plumbing work is finished it will allow interior work to continue year ‘round, in the now heated building.

When further work is completed the 1883 Stutsman County Courthouse is planned to be open for tourists during the summer months, in conjunction with other local tourist sites.

Future plans call for the courthouse to house community events, and may be home to other entities.

Anyone wishing to make a donation to the restoration efforts may do so by sending a tax deductible donation to:

1883 Courthouse Committee

P.O. Box 1559

Jamestown, ND 58402

Washington (CSi) – Senator John Hoeven has announced that the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee on Energy and Water has included language and funding in its Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 appropriations bill that supports flood projects for Fargo, Minot and LaMoure.

As a member of the committee, Hoeven worked to secure the provisions, which help these communities move forward on constructing the projects and competing for funding.

Jamestown (CSi) Due to the Memorial Day Holiday, there will be NO garbage pickup on Monday, May 25, 2015.

Monday’s garbage will be picked up on Tuesday;

Tuesday’s garbage will be picked up on Wednesday;

Wednesday’s & Thursday’s garbage will be picked up on Thursday;

No change in Friday’s pick-up route.

All routes will begin at 7:00 a.m. each morning.

The baling facility will be OPEN on Saturday, May 23, 2015.

The baling facility will be CLOSED on Monday, May 25, 2015.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A man accused of leading a heroin ring on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation has been sentenced to five years in prison.
 
     Zachariah Walker pleaded guilty in November to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin. Two other charges, including tampering with a witness, were dropped as part of the plea deal.
 
     Authorities say Walker regularly travelled to Utah to buy drugs to distribute in North Dakota. He is one of seven people charged in the case.
 
     U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland ordered Walker to serve three years of supervised release when his prison term is completed. 

  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A Bismarck man accused of slashing his daughter’s boyfriend’s throat has made his first court appearance.
55-year-old Don Kevin White appeared in court Wednesday. White is charged with felony aggravated assault.
 
     Authorities accuse White of using a box-cutter knife to slash his daughter’s boyfriend’s throat on March 19. The victim, who sustained a cut several inches long, told police that he and his girlfriend had been arguing before the incident happened.
 
     White was charged in April.
 
     Judge Bruce Haskell on Wednesday allowed White to remain out of custody on a promise to appear in future hearings, not leave the state and not make contact with the man he is accused of injuring.
 
     Court records don’t list an attorney for White.

  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A new survey says the number of homeless people in oil-rich North Dakota increased slightly in the past year but it’s down dramatically from the record set in 2013.
 
     Volunteers counted 1,305 homeless people during a “point in time” survey on Jan. 28. That’s up from 1,258 homeless people counted on a single day in January 2014.
 
     In 2013, volunteers counted a record 2,069 homeless people.
 
     Michael Carbone is the executive director of the North Dakota Coalition for Homeless People. He attributes the drop in the past two years to more housing options and improving economies in other states.
 
     Half of the unsheltered homeless people counted this year had jobs and most were found in western North Dakota’s oil-producing region.

  FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A New Zealand man who’s biking across America has made it to North Dakota.
 
     Adam Glover made it to Fargo on Wednesday the 76th day of his journey. Glover says  he is crossing the country on his bike to raise awareness of asthma, which he’s had since he was a child.
 
     He began the trip in New Zealand aboard a cargo ship and hopped on his bike in Philadelphia. He’s en route to Alaska.
 
     Glover rides about 60 miles a day, carrying spare parts for his bike, a tent and cooking utensils.
 
     He plans to cross Argentina in 2017.

  FARGO, N.D. (AP) – A study by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on cemeteries that would be flooded by a Red River diversion project shows that the potential damage to the gravesites would not be enough to justify protective measures.
 
     The corps says there would be minor damage to the seven cemeteries in the staging area that would be flooded when the $2 billion channel is in operation. The federal mitigation plan calls for an easement that would compensate the cemeteries for the right to temporarily store water on their land.
 
     The Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Authority also says it would pay for clean-up and repairs for the cemeteries.
 
     Mark Anderson, who represents two cemeteries that would be in the staging area, says many family members are upset but haven’t decided what to do next.

WATFORD CITY, N.D. (AP) – Work is starting on an $83 million event center in Watford City.
 
     Mayor Brent Sanford said Wednesday’s ground-breaking ceremony for the project was “pretty monumental” for the oil patch city.
 
     Residents last June voted to increase the city sales tax to fund the center and other projects, including a new hospital.
 
     The Bismarck Tribune reports that the Watford City Event Center will house sports arenas, a convention center, swimming areas and a 3,000-seat auditorium. It will connect to a new high school and also serve as an off-campus venue for the University of Mary in Bismarck.

In world and national news…

GOLETA, Calif. (AP) – Oil floating off the California coast now stretches about 9 miles, according to the Coast Guard. A broken onshore pipeline spewed thousands of gallons of oil down a storm drain and into the Pacific Ocean for several hours Tuesday before it was shut off. Coast Guard Capt. Jennifer Williams says vessels have deployed three sets of floating booms to try to keep the slicks from spreading.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – A fill-in-the-blanks job application for potential terrorists. Letters calling for attacks on Americans. Personal correspondence. Those are among more than 100 documents seized from Osama bin Laden’s compound and released Wednesday by U.S. intelligence officials. The material was taken during the 2011 raid in which the al-Qaida leader was killed.
 
     NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) – President Barack Obama says the threat posed by climate change is “indisputable.” And he says those who deny the science are putting at risk the security of the United States and the military sworn to defend it. Addressing Coast Guard graduates, the president said refusing to act to slow the effects of global warming amounts to a “dereliction of duty.”
 
     HONOLULU (AP) – A second Marine has died of injuries he suffered when a hybrid military aircraft crashed last weekend during a training exercise in Hawaii. The MV-22B Osprey, which can fly like a helicopter and a fixed-wing airplane, went down Sunday at a military base outside Honolulu with 21 Marines and a Navy corpsman on board. Two other Marines are still hospitalized in stable condition.
 
     SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – A cruise ship that ran aground on a reef near Bermuda departed for Boston today after repairs were made to its steering system. The Norwegian Dawn, carrying nearly 3,500 passengers and crew, hit the reef late yesterday and was stuck for more than six hours before a rising tide helped push it into deeper water.