Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Jun 4

CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS AFTER MIDNIGHT IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA. LOWS IN THE MID 50S. NORTHEAST
WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON IN THE JAMESTOWN AREA. HIGHS IN THE MID 70S. SOUTHEAST
WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S. SOUTHEAST WINDS
10 TO 15 MPH.
.SATURDAY…SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY. HIGHS IN THE MID
70S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHWEST IN
THE AFTERNOON. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 60 PERCENT  IN THE JAMSTOWN AREA, 70 PERCENT CHANCE IN THE VALLEY CITY AREA.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A 40 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S.
.MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S.
HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER
60S. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S.

 

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY NIGHT ACROSS SOUTHWEST AND  SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA..

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FRIDAY AFTERNOON
 AND COULD LEAD TO STRONG OR POTENTIALLY SEVERE STORMS WITH HAIL. 

MORE WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED SATURDAY  SOME POTENTIALLY  WITH HEAVY RAIN.  A POTENTIAL FOR PRECIP AMOUNTS OF AN INCH OR MORE.

 

Valley City (CSi) The 20^th Annual Soap Box Derby activities start on Thursday Jun 4, 2015.

Thursday June 4, 2015

5-9 PM its inspections at the Youth Sports Complex.

FIRST TIME RACERS REQUIRED to be inspected. o

Friday, Jun 5, 2015

5-9 PM- Inspections- Youth Sports Complex

6 PM- Picnic for drivers and families at the Youth Sports Complex

6:30 PM- Driver’s meeting- youth sports complex

Saturday, Jun 6, 2015

7:30 AM- group picture,

8-9 AM- Driver trial runs,

9:30 AM- opening ceremonies,

9:30 AM-5:30 PM, Derby Racing

 

Jamestown (CSi) Stutsman County Relay for Life is set for Friday June 5, 2015, starting at 2-p.m., and going until 2-a.m., on Saturday June 6^th, at the University of Jamestown’s Taylor Stadium.

Co-Chair, Pam Phillips says, opening ceremonies will be at 6-p.m., Friday.

Returning this year as a fundraiser is the “Miss Relay Contest,” where men dress up as women, and votes for favorites are donations to Relay for Life.

Luminaries will be set up along the track, along with reading of names.

This year, on Friday evening, the scheduled the North Dakota Fire Fighters Association State Convention, parade featuring “Vivian The Pink Fire Truck,” and the Aberdeen Pipes & Drum Corps, will do one lap around the stadium track to honor an Association past-president who passed away this last year from cancer, and as a tribute to fire fighters who have passed away.

The full Schedule of Events is posted with the Relay story on line at CsiNewsNow.com

 

Jamestown (CSi) The 8th Annual Running of the Pink will be held on Saturday June 6, 2015, at 9-a.m., starting & ending at R.M. Stoudt in Jamestown.

Registration is: Adults $25, Youth 12 and under, and seniors over 60, $20.

Proceeds to to help fund breast & cervical cancer screenings through the local Women’s Way Resource Fund & the Jamestown Regional Medical Center Foundation.

The printable form is available on line at Stoudtcars.com or here. joholstad@csicable.net, or call, 800- 279-2886, or 701-252-2270.

Early packet pick up will be available at R.M. Stoudt’s on Friday June 5, 2015 from 5-p.m., to 7-p.m.

Registration is available the morning of the run/walk at Stoudt’s.

The event offers participants the opportunity to choose from a 5K Run/Walk, and a 10K Run. Prizes will be awarded for the Largest Family, and Largest Business team participating.

Running of the Pink is a Runner’s World Race Series Event. Prizes will be awarded for those entering the competitive aspect of the event.

 

Jamestown (CSi) Benefits continue to be scheduled for Shawn Durfee who was involved in a motorcycle-car accident in Jamestown that led to a below-the-knee amputation on his left leg.

On the afternoon of April 28, 2015, 40 year-old Shawn Durfee was struck by a car while driving his motorcycle on First Avenue North in Jamestown receiving extensive injuries to his left leg and wrist.

After treatment in Jamestown, he was airlifted to a Fargo hospital where he has undergone several surgeries and many more will be required.

The Individual Motorcycle Club and Dennis Barton from the FM Crusaders Motorcycle Club have set up a benefit bike ride that will be held June 6, 2015 and begins in Jamestown. Registration begins at 10:30 a.m. at the Corner Bar. The cost for the bike ride is $20 per driver and $10 for a passenger, and will begin at noon at the Corner Bar in Jamestown.

The route will be to Courtenay, Glenfield, Hannaford, Dazey and Sanborn before returning to the Corner Bar in Jamestown. A hog roast, a pool tournament and a live and silent auction have also been planned for that day.

Donations for the bike ride can be mailed to FM Crusaders MC, PO Box 635, Jamestown, ND 58402.

For more information about the benefit bike ride, call Ry Walsh at 701-320-9267 or Dennis Barton 701-269-2556.

You can donate online at Shawn Durfee’s Recovery Fund at GoFundMe.com

A benefit fund has also been set up at Unison Bank in Jamestown.

 

JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) – A West Fargo man is accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy and 7-year-old girl.
 
     According to online court records, Matthew Derek Kriedeman pleaded not guilty in Stutsman County Wednesday to two charges of felony gross sexual imposition.   Each charge carries a potential life sentence.
 
     Authorities say Kriedeman assaulted the boy and girl between August and December of last year.
 
     A message seeking comment was sent to an attorney listed as representing Kriedeman.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says the North Dakota Public Employees Retirement System and the state Retirement and Investment Office can operate under current budget guidelines.
 
     The Legislature adjourned in April before resolving the agencies’ more than $13 million spending bill that affects public employee benefits.
 
     Stenehjem says in a written opinion issued Thursday that the agencies may still operate under their current budget that ends June 30. But he says “any expenditure of funds must be done prudently.”
 
     The Legislature couldn’t agree on a measure meant to ensure public employees keep the same health coverage when their insurer changes in a month.
 
     A committee is slated to meet Monday to try to negotiate a compromise. If an agreement is reached, the Legislature could reconvene June 16 to pass the measure.

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Supporters of a Red River diversion project say the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is inventing reasons to oppose a related upstream ring dike project.
 
     A federal judge has halted construction of the levee south of Fargo until the DNR completes its environmental study of the diversion. The Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Authority is appealing the decision.
 
     Lawyers for the diversion authority say in court documents that the DNR is not exercising its policies “in an evenhanded way.” It says the agency’s recent complaint about the width of the levee is a rationalization that does not affect Minnesota.
 
     The authority’s lawyers also deny accusations by diversion opponents that levee construction continued after the injunction. The authority says it is performing erosion control work on previously constructed portions of the dike.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Federal prosecutors have added an additional count against a man who was featured in a documentary in the North Dakota oil patch and now faces sex trafficking and drug charges.
 
     An updated indictment charges Keith Graves with seven counts of sex trafficking by force or coercion, or one count for each alleged victim. He also is charged with obstruction, distribution of methamphetamine and possession of a controlled substance.
 
     Court documents accuse Graves of beating some of his victims and forcing at least one woman to perform sex acts on him.
 
     Graves was one of the main subjects in “The Overnighters,” which won the special jury award at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. It followed a Lutheran pastor who opened his Williston church to oil workers with nowhere to stay.

 

 WAHPETON, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota State College of Science President John Richman says the expansion of a regional college affiliation will benefit not only students but also the business economy.
 
     Tri-College University was founded 45 years ago to combine course offerings from North Dakota State University, Concordia College and what is now Minnesota State University Moorhead. An expansion announced last week will add the College of Science in Wahpeton and Minnesota State Community and Technical College, in Moorhead, Minnesota.
 
     The agreement includes an exchange program that allows undergraduate students to take courses at any of the Tri-College campuses without paying additional fees.
 
     Richman says  the expansion also will benefit relocating or expanding businesses in need of workers. He says, “having 35,000 available students is a plus.”

 

In world and national news…

DOVER, Del. (AP) – Delaware residents have gathered at the state Capitol to pay their respects to former Attorney General Beau Biden. The eldest son of Vice President Joe Biden died of brain cancer Saturday at age 46. Beau Biden lay in honor in the state Senate chamber following a processional from Wilmington to Dover. His father and other family members stood in a receiving line, greeting well-wishers.
 
     TOBYHANNA, Pa. (AP) – An Italian tourist on his honeymoon has been identified as one of three victims of a deadly crash involving a tour bus and a tractor-trailer in eastern Pennsylvania Wednesday. The bus driver and another passenger, also from Italy, were also killed. State police say it will take time to know why the tractor-trailer was in the path of the charter bus, which was headed to Niagara Falls.
 
     LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) – There are concerns that a serial killer may be at work on the roadways of northern Colorado. A bicyclist was recently gunned down, and a driver was wounded nearby. And now authorities want to see if another fatal shooting overnight is related. A man was found dying of bullet wounds on a sidewalk in Loveland. 
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – A new federal study provides a rebuttal to global warming skeptics who say heating trends have paused. According to the study, global warming hasn’t stopped or even slowed in the past 18 years. Government scientists readjusted thousands of weather data points to account for different measuring techniques. And they concluded that since 1998, the rate of warming has been about the same as it’s been since 1950. 
 
     HOUSTON (AP) – Doctors in Houston have opened a new frontier in transplant surgery. They performed the world’s first partial skull and scalp transplant, to help a man who suffered a large head wound from cancer treatment. The operation was performed two weeks ago. The patient, 55-year-old Jim Boysen, is leaving the hospital Thursday with a new kidney and pancreas along with the scalp and skull grafts. He jokes that he will have “way more hair” than he did when he was 21.