Wayne Byers Show – Evening – May 21

CSi Weather…

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

 UNSETTLED WEATHER DEVELOPS FOR THE WEEKEND
 AS UPPER LOW OVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LIFTS AND BROADENS OVER THE
 ROCKIES. THIS WILL BRING PRECIPITATION CHANCES MAINLY TO SOUTHERN
 PORTIONS OF THE STATE. UPPER LOW CONTINUES TO LIFT AND OPEN UP TO
 START THE WORK WEEK BRINGING CONTINUED UNSETTLED WEATHER TO THE
 REGION…THOUGH MODELS ARE STILL HAVING SOME TROUBLE WITH THE
 TIMING OF SOME SUBTLE FEATURES. WITH THAT SAID…PRECIPITATION
 CHANCES WILL REMAIN IN THE FORECAST THROUGH MUCH OF THE AREA INTO
 THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Thursday afternoon increased the release from Jamestown Reservoir from 75 cfs, to 125 cfs.

The Corps’ Pipestem Dam Manager, Bob Martin says, the increase may raise the James River leve through Jamestown about six inches.

He said the 75 cfs release that was started on Monday this week did not help draw down the reservoir which received inflow run off from last weekends heavy rain.

Prior to Monday there was no release made from Jamestown Dam since last November.

The goal is to have the flood storage area at Jamestown Reservoir evacuated by the first week of June 2015.

Pipestem Dam is still not releasing flows.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Tourism Grant and Executive Board meeting on Thursday at CSi Technology Center at Historic Franklin School, included discussion about the hole in the street near the retaining wall adjacent to the amphitheater near the entrance to Frontier Village.

Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund said he’s had discussion on the repair of the area with City Engineer, Reed Schwartzkoph, on the topic, and Swedlund noted he would bring the topic to the City Council’s Public Works Committee.

Swedlund said the problem was first discussed with the city two years ago, and wonders why the issued has not been actively addressed since.

He pointed out that Torurism has no dollars to fund the project, adding that the Frontier Village Board is not concerned about the condition of the wall, or street, “because nothing bad has happened yet.”

Frontier Village leases their parcel of land from the City of Jamestown.

In other business the board approved the full grant requests from the North Dakota Patriot Guard for a Jamestown gathering, and from the Jamestown Fine Arts Association for Saturdays staffing year ‘round.

George Quigley representing the Patriot Guard said this is the second year that Jamestown has hosted the regional event, last year drawing about 250 visitors to Jamestown, with around 50 hotel rooms rented, and this year the group hopes around 500 will be on hand.

In addtion to the honor ride, on June 19, 2015 a statue dedicated to fallen heros will be dedicated, to be located outside the Jamestown Civic Center’s main entrance.

The event will be held June 19^th and 20^th, with the memorial program and honor ride, on the 20^th. The steak  fry will be on June 19^th, with all activities at the Jamestown Civic Center. The group’s request for $2,500 to be used toward regional advertising was granted by the board.

Also approved was the grant request from Jamestown Fine Arts Association in the amount of $1,580, to be used for staffing the Jamestown Arts Center, year ‘round on Saturdays from 10-a.m., to 2-p.m.

Arts Center Director, Cyndi Wish said about 20-30 people come to the Arts Center when it’s open on Saturdays.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council met in Special Session Thursday at City Hall. All members were present.

The purpose of the meeting was to advertise for bids for construction of the sanitary landfill cell.

Darrell Hournbuckle from Interstate Engineering said this is the remaining piece of the present landfill.

The Council voted unanimously to approve advertising.

　

Following the meeting, the City Council’s Police Committee and Public Works and Fire Committee and Finance and Legal Committees met at City Hall.

With the Police Committee:

Discussion concerned the exempt employee status of the Major, Captain and Lieutenants in the Police Department.

Chief Edinger said those officers are a part of other administrative positions, now, and should not be exempt, and then would qualify for overtime hours. Mayor Andersen suggested the Chief submit job descriptions to the city.

Council Member Buchanan moved to re-classify those officers, as non-exempt employees.

City Administrator, Jeff Fuchs said, the city will have to amend the Civil Service Ordinance, which requires a First and Second Reading of the Ordinance.

The committee recommends approval including submitting the job description.

 

Public Works

Tourism Director Searle Swelund made a comment concerning the hole in the street near Frontier Village, abutting the wall near the amphitheater, and where the progress was in rectifying the problem.

The city previously looked at hired a company for soil testing, and the city will obtain quotes.

No official recommendation was made by the committee, however City Engineer Reed Schwartzkoph said he will go forward to obtain quotes.

The committee discussed a RRV&W train track washout at a bend near the James River.

The committee recommends the city and railroad and landowner work together to reach a solution to repairs. The committee recommends approval of the entities working together to reach a solution to the repairs.

Finance & Legal Committee

The committee recommends approving a Resolution relating to a project under the Municipal Industrial Development Act giving preliminary approval, subject to a public hearing, for the City of Jamestown to issue University Facilities Revenue Bonds not to exceed $2,000,000.00 on behalf of the University of Jamestown, for the purpose of financing the acquisition of a building located at 4190 26th Avenue South, in Fargo, for the University’s physical therapy program.

The committee recommends approving the application from David and Cheryl Remillong for a Class C on/off sale alcoholic beverage license for DCR Investments, dba The Office Bar & Lounge.

The meetings were shown live on CSi 67 followed by replays.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Bond has been set at $50,000 cash for a man accused of human trafficking in the Bismarck-Mandan area.
 
     Forty-year-old Abdul Fazl Vann is accused of operating as a pimp. He faces a felony charge that carries a maximum punishment of 20 years in prison.
 
Vann maintained his innocence during Wednesday’s bond hearing.
 
     Vann is listed as one of the state’s witnesses intended to be called in another human trafficking case involving Las Vegas man. That trial is scheduled to start on Sept. 1.

 

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A new survey suggests the economy will remain weak in rural parts of 10 Western and Plains states because the strong U.S. dollar is hurting exports and the bird flu is hitting poultry farms hard.
 
     The overall Rural Mainstreet index improved to 49 in May from April’s 46, but the index remained in negative territory below 50.
 
     Creighton University economist Ernie Goss says agriculture and energy exports are suffering.
 
     The survey indexes range from 0 to 100. Any score below 50 suggests decline in that factor in the months ahead.
 
     Sales of farmland and farm equipment are slowing, and the bankers surveyed are less confident about the next few months.
 
     Bankers from Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming were surveyed.

 

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The manager of a ring levee project south of Fargo says a judge’s decision to halt construction could cost taxpayers millions of dollars.
 
     U.S. District Judge John Tunheim last week put the project on hold when he ruled that the Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Authority should wait for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to complete an environmental study on the planned $2 billion Red River diversion.
 
     The levee would protect structures where floodwaters would be staged when the diversion is in operation.
 
     Project manager Bruce Spiller says in court documents that the loss of the 2015 construction season would result in nearly $1.2 million in additional costs. He says the delay would cost at least another $1 million if it stretches into 2016.
 
     The diversion authority is appealing Tunheim’s order.

 

MANNING, N.D. (AP) – The Dunn County Commission has rejected for the time being a company’s application to build a landfill to accept energy industry waste.
 
     Neighbors of the proposed facility near Killdeer and the Little Knife River worried about possible environmental harm and impacts to property values. Many showed up at Wednesday’s commission meeting wearing orange shirts that said “We are Dunn County.”
 
     Green Group Holdings vice president Oscar Allen said the landfill would have a “robust ground water protection system,” and that opposition amounted to “a fear of the unknown.”
 
Commissioners decided there were still too many unanswered questions about the project, so they rejected the application. Green Group Holdings can reapply in four months.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The first female general in the North Dakota Army National Guard says her father always believed she should be a general.
 
     Col. Giselle “Gigi” Wilz, of Bismarck, was promoted to brigadier general during a Wednesday ceremony at the North Dakota Heritage Center.
 
     Wilz says she always dreamed of being a general, and strived for it the past 15 years. She says she hopes she’s set an example for both women and men.
 
     Wilz has served in the state Guard for 32 years. She enlisted in 1983 as a military police officer with the 191st Military Policy Company. Throughout her career, she has held various leadership positions, most recently as the Guard’s chief of staff.
 
     She leaves this month for a one-year tour commanding NATO forces operating in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

 

In sports…

 FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Former University of North Dakota standout hockey player and assistant coach Cary Eades is returning to the Red River Valley as head coach of the Fargo Force.
 
     Eades also will serve as general manager of the United States Hockey League team.
 
     Eades the past three seasons has been coach and general manager of the USHL’s Sioux Falls Stampede, which won the Clark Cup Championship last season.
 
     Eades in the 1980s played on two national championship UND teams and was an assistant coach for a third national title team. In addition to coaching in the USHL, he spent 11 seasons as the head high school coach in Warren, Minnesota. He led the school to three state titles and was named Minnesota high school coach of the year in 1996.

 

In world and national news…

 

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – Police say they have shot and killed a man they suspect was involved in the wounding of a South Carolina’s sheriff’s deputy at a gas station.
 
     Charleston police spokesman Charles Francis tells The Associated Press that after a 10-hour standoff, the man emerged from an apartment complex in downtown Charleston on Thursday afternoon and shot at officers.
 
     Francis says officers returned fire and killed the man.
 
     Charleston police spokesman Charles Francis said earlier that the suspect was a person of interest in the wounding of Berkeley County sheriff’s Lt. Will Rogers.
 
     The man’s name was not released. A news conference was scheduled for Thursday afternoon.
 
     Police have said that Rogers was shot by a masked man at a gas station in Moncks Corner, about 30 miles from Charleston, on May 14 as he talked to a customer and that the gunman fled in a carjacked vehicle.

 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The search continues for an ex-convict accused in the slayings of a wealthy executive and three other people in Washington, D.C. Authorities now believe Daron Dylon Wint may be in New York City. He’s wanted for first-degree murder.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s trade agenda has cleared a key Senate hurdle, and is moving toward likely passage despite opposition from most Democrats. The measure would allow Obama to negotiate trade deals that Congress can accept or reject, but not change.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – House leaders are pressing the Senate to take up a bill that would end the National Security Agency’s collection of American telephone records but keep other surveillance powers in place. Senators are divided, and time is running out before three significant provisions expire June 1.
 
     ATLANTA (AP) – A U.S. State Department employee is accused of sending threatening emails to college-age women in the U.S. from his computer at the U.S. Embassy in London. A federal complaint states that Michael C. Ford accessed computer accounts of young women to obtain sexually explicit images of them.
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – Did you watch David Letterman’s farewell show last night on CBS? If so, you were among 13.76 million viewers, according to Nielsen. It was Letterman’s biggest audience in more than 21 years.