Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Oct 13

CSi Weather…

.TONIGHT…CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S. WEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S. WEST WINDS 5 TO
10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST AROUND 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S. WEST
WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.THURSDAY…SUNNY…BREEZY. HIGHS IN THE MID 50S. NORTHWEST WINDS
AROUND 10 MPH INCREASING TO 20 TO 25 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS AROUND 30.
.FRIDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 40S.
.FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S.
HIGHS IN THE LOWER 50S.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE MID 30S.
HIGHS IN THE 50S TO LOWER 60S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S.
.MONDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S.

WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

FREEZE BOTH FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
 MORNINGS ACROSS THE ENTIRE FORECAST AREA TO END THE GROWING
 SEASON.

Jamestown (CSi) Otter Tail Power Company reports that a power outage occurred in Jamestown Tuesday afternoon starting at 3:15 –p.m. for about 28 minutes.

Customer Service Manager,Jeff Hoff at the Jamestown Otter Tail Power Company office says, a squirrel got into the Substation located across from City Hall, and tripped the circuit affecting about 2,300 customers in the downtown area, plus parts of Southeast Jamestown and Northeast Jamestown including the University of Jamestown campus, areas fed from the substation.

Jamestown (CSi) The North Dakota Aeronautic Commission reports that Jamestown boardings for September 2015 increased significantly, compared to September 2014 as did the year to date boardings, compared to last year at this time.

In September this year Jamestown boardings were 643 compared to 488 in September of 2014, and 253 in September of 2013.

Through September this year Jamestown boardings were 6,101, compared to 1940 in the first nine months of 2014 and 1,988 through September of 2013.

Jamestown was without air service from March to  most of June , 2014.

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Tourism Board has approved having Talking Trails, a Mandan-based company, perform an assessment of the community.

The recent assessment will determine which stories about Jamestown and the community would be compelling to visitors and the best way to get those stories told.

On Tuesday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Jamestown Tourism Director Searle Swedlund said the project is still in the development stage, as the board will be discussing the possibilities. Swedlund said the effort is a part of Jamestown Tourism’s goal of telling the story of Jamestown.

He added that a representative from Talking Trails visited Jamestown last week to view various locations, including a tour of Historic Franklin School in downtown Jamestown, now the home for CSi Cable, and CSi Computers.

Talking Trails will review the sites, and then indicate where the locations should be included in the program.

Swedlund pointed out that Historic Franklin School and Jack Brown Stadium in Jamestown are good examples of stories that can be told about venues in Jamestown that are tourist attractions.

Swedlund says when a site is established, a sign is placed at the location, including a cell phone number that will be available 24/7, day and night where a recording will tell of the historical significance of the site.

The cost for this assessment is $5,000, and the cost of placing a sign denoting a historic or notable place is $600.

Tourism Board President Mitzi Hager previously said, the board is just having the assessment done for now and no decisions have been made about how many stops would be on any route using the Talking Trails system.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Law enforcement authorities have arrested a 36-year-old man following a 15-hour standoff at a home in Bismarck.
 
     Bismarck Police Officer Pat Renz says the man surrendered to police after officers fired six rounds of tear gas shortly before 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. The man was able to walk out of the house on his own.
 
     The incident began about 9 p.m. Monday when the man threatened to kill another man in the home. The second man and a woman fled and contacted police.
 
     Police fired tear gas a number of times Tuesday morning. At one point, police heard shots fired and officers did not return fire.
 
     Neighbors in the area were evacuated shortly after.
 
     The man hasn’t been publicly identified. Renz says the man has “a very concerning” criminal history.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s oil production slipped slightly in August but still remains at a near-record pace despite depressed crude prices.
 
     The Department of Mineral Resources says the state produced an average of 1.1 million barrels of oil daily in August, down about 20,000 barrels from July. The August production was about 41,000 barrels per day less than the record set in December.
 
     North Dakota also produced 1.64 million cubic feet of natural gas in August. That’s down slightly from the record set in July.
 
     The August tally is the latest figure available because oil production numbers typically lag at least two months.
 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A federal judicial panel says lawsuits challenging a new Obama administration rule aimed at regulating some small waterways should proceed independently.
 
     The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers had asked that the lawsuits against the new rules be consolidated in a single district court. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation denied the request Tuesday.
 
     The seven-judge panel says there are several lawsuits pending in seven district courts across the country. The panel’s order says “centralization will not serve the convenience of the parties.”
 
     States challenging the rules say they go too far and could be costly to landowners, while the government says they would safeguard drinking water for 117 million Americans.
 
     Last week, a federal appeals court put the regulations on hold nationwide.

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – The design for a new $5 million North Dakota governor’s residence places it north of the existing home, allowing the governor and first lady to remain on site when construction begins.
 
     The Capitol Grounds Planning Commission recently approved a layout that puts the public entrance of the home on the east side, facing the Capitol, and the private entrance on the west side. Chris Hawley Architects of Fargo has prepared one-story and two-story designs for consideration.
 
     Lawmakers earlier this year authorized $4 million in state money and $1 million from private donations to build the new residence. Construction won’t begin until at least $500,000 in donations are collected.
 
     A fundraising group expects to roll out a website and announce multiple large donations in coming weeks.

In world and national news…

 NEW YORK (AP) – Ukraine’s foreign minister is defending his country’s decision not to close its airspace to passenger flights. Dutch investigators who today released their report into the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane last year with 298 people aboard questioned why flights were still allowed over the area where rebels were engaged in battles with government troops. But the Ukrainian foreign minister says no one in Kiev knew that Russia had brought highly-sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles into Ukraine.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – The brother of the Washington Post journalist who’s been detained in Iran and has now been convicted in secret describes his imprisonment as “cruel and inhumane.” And he’s calling on the U.S. government to take “any appropriate actions” to win his freedom. Ali Rezaian (reh-ZY’-ahn) says there’s no evidence that his brother Jason tried to access security information. He described the charges against the journalist as “trumped up.” Iran’s judiciary spokesman confirmed the verdict on state TV Sunday, but gave no indication of what punishment the Iranian-American could face.
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – One critic of Planned Parenthood says the organization is making “an admission of guilt.” Planned Parenthood announced Tuesday that it will no longer accept any sort of payment to cover the cost of programs that make fetal tissue available for research. The man whose undercover videos of Planned Parenthood officials focused attention on the fetal tissue program asks why the organization would now be refusing payments, if the payments had been legitimate.
 
     MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – Memphis police say there is currently not enough evidence to charge a man with murder in the fatal shooting of an off-duty police officer. They say there have been different stories from witnesses in the death of Terence Olridge. Police say Olridge was shot multiple times as he exchanged gunfire with a neighbor, Lorenzo Clark, during an altercation Sunday afternoon. Clark has been charged with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
 
     BALTIMORE (AP) – The Baltimore Police Department says without more information, it can’t verify that Republican presidential contender Ben Carson was once held at gunpoint at a fast-food restaurant in the city. The retired Johns Hopkins Hospital neurosurgeon told Sirius XM Radio last week he was in a Popeyes restaurant years ago when a man stuck a gun in his ribs. Carson says he told the gunman, “I believe that you want the guy behind the counter.” Baltimore police said Tuesday they’ve searched several databases of incident reports at Popeyes restaurants as far back as 1987 in response to news media requests, but haven’t found any mentioning Carson. A Carson spokesman says the incident happened “30-plus years ago.”