Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Oct 16

CSi Weather…

 TONIGHT…CLEAR. LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S. NORTHEAST WINDS AROUND
5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHEAST AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.SATURDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 50S. SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND
5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE EAST IN THE AFTERNOON.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…CLEAR. LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S. SOUTHEAST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH.
.SUNDAY…SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 60S. SOUTHEAST WINDS 10 TO
20 MPH.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE MID 40S. SOUTH
WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 60S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…INCREASING CLOUDS. LOWS IN THE LOWER 40S.
.TUESDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN. HIGHS IN THE
MID 50S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN.
LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S.
.WEDNESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLEAR. LOWS IN THE UPPER
30S. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 50S.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT
CHANCE OF RAIN. LOWS IN THE MID 40S. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 60S.

VALLEY CITY, N.D. (AP) – The chief of the Valley City Police Department in eastern North Dakota is resigning after spending nearly 40 years in law enforcement.
 Chief Fred Thompson says that his resignation will be effective in January. Thompson says he wants to spend more time with his family.
 
     Valley City Administrator David Schelkoph says Thompson has been with the department for more than three years. He says the citizens of Valley City are safer because of the work Thompson has done.

Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown author, Nancy Kuykendall’s newest book, “Ordinary Wonders,” has been published and available for purchase.

On Friday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Nancy said, the book is available on line at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and at the WestBow Press online bookstore. It’s available in paperback @ $9.95 and in e-book form for @ $3.99.

She explained that, “Ordinary Wonders,” is a book of nonfiction short stories, taking a close look at the wonder we can find in ordinary things and circumstances. There are 18 stories but they are shorter and not as personal as in her first book “Mornings on the Porch.”

Nancy will be part of a Read Local event coming up with other local authors on Oct. 20 at 7:00-p.m., at the University of Jamestown’s Unruh-Sheldon lobby.

Authors will read from their books, take comments and questions and sell and sign their books. Nancy will have copies of both “Ordinary Wonders,” and “Mornings on the Porch,” with her.

Nancy has a third book of short stories in the works, but fiction this time.

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Tourism, Grant/Executive Board met Friday at the CSi Technology Center, at Historic Franklin School.

Requests for grants came from:

Jamestown Downtown Association. Lynn Lambrecht said the $1,000 is toward for advertising, to be expanded to get the word on on the change of day and date, for the 2015 Holiday Dazzle on Main Parade to Tuesday November 24, 2015. $700 is being supplies by parade sponsors. Regional advertising is again planned.

Jamestown Regional Airport, Manager Sam Seafeldt requested $1,000 for renovation of the airport’s ad kiosk.

The total cost is $2,200.

Other funds to come from airport funding to pay for construction materials. The electronic billboard ad sponsors will pay for maintenance. Updated Art work will be supplied by Roughrider Signs.

Jamestown Rural Fire Department, request was for $4,000 for the February 20, 2016 Fishing Tournament. Other funding from raffle tickets at $10,250 with the total at $73,231 dollars. Perry Kuss said billboards advertising the tournament are in Bismarck, Devils Lake and Fargo.

The full grant requests were approved by the board.

With the Tourism report, Executive Director Searle Swelund said, Talking Trails representative Shawn Brannan visited Jamestown last week, and is proposing 50 locations for signs and cell phone messages, indicating stories about those specific sites. Brannan is planning another visit to Jamestown.

The Talking Trails recommendation should be ready by November 5, 2015.

The board voted to have the full board vote on three candidates nominated for two positions on the full board, and to have a Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce staff person as an Ex-Officio member.

The three nominees are: Taylor Barnes, Pam Phillips and Tena Lawrence.

The Grant/Executive Advisory Board has an opening, as Jon Lillejord is going off the board.

A decision on the date for the 2016 fireworks display has been tabled, pending more input from the Jamestown Speedway, and Stutsman County Fair Board’s decision.

Ft. Seward 2015 extra staffing allocations of $258.79 were approved.

Ex-Officio member, Jamestown/Stutsman County Development Corporation CEO Connie Ova said she’s been in contact with CHS officials. She said even though the company has decided not to build the fertilizer plant at the Spiritwood Energy park, CHS is assisting JSDC in making contacts to possibly find another company to located where CHS was to build.

She added that another fertilizer plant is being sought for the site.

JSDC has talked with an investment banker in Mineapolis. CHS will keep the site, with a decision for its use to be determined.

Connie indicated the continued need for a water supply for the site.

She also said that the Forward Jamestown organization is putting together a workforce study.

Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown Police remind residents that all motorhomes, camper trailers, RV’s or trailers of any type must be removed from all city streets by November 1, 2015.

After this date, vehicles found in violation will be tagged and impounded.

The police department is asking for the public’s cooperation.

Jamestown (CSi) The University of Jamestown will host a Read Local event in the Sheldon-Unruh lobby at the University of Jamestown on Tuesday, October 20 at 7:00 pm. Read Local authors Bruce Berg, Keith Norman, Bill Kennedy, Laurel Woiwode, and Nancy Kuykendall will be joined by UJ professors Larry Woiwode and Glauco Ortolano and will read from their published works and work in progress. Their work ranges from poetry, children’s chapter books, memoirs, local history and adult novels.

After the readings, the audience will have the opportunity to visit with the authors, purchase books and have their books signed. 20% of the proceeds from book sales will be donated to the James River Valley Library General Fund.

Read Local is an initiative that focus’s attention on local authors, books and literacy in the community, and reinforces the importance of literacy among all age groups.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – A Crookston, Minnesota, woman has been charged with robbing two banks across the North Dakota border in Grand Forks.
 
     Authorities on Friday issued an arrest warrant for 39-year-old Charlene Espinoza on felony charges of robbery and terrorizing. She could face up to 30 years in prison if convicted.
 
     Police say Espinoza is in custody in Minnesota’s Clay County on unrelated charges. Court documents don’t list an attorney for her.
 
     Espinoza is accused of robbing a Bremer Bank on Sept. 30 and Citizen’s Community Credit Union Monday.
 
     The woman who robbed the bank had a box cutter knife. Police didn’t immediately release the type of weapon used in the credit union robbery.
 
     There were no customers in either financial institution at the time of the robberies, and no one was hurt.

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Minot’s Park District has started work on a third sheet of ice in Maysa Arena.
 
     Officials on Thursday held on official ground-breaking ceremony for the $11.2 million project. Construction actually got underway about three weeks ago.
 
     Park Board President John Drady says the third sheet is needed because ice programs in Minot have expanded in recent years. It should be ready for use in about a year.
 
     The third rink will have seating for about 2,000 people – double that of Maysa’s current main rink. It will be able to accommodate high school, college and junior hockey games, as well as ice shows.
 
     The rink is being paid for with park district money and donations.
 
     Maysa stands for Minot Area Youth Skating Association.
 
 
     MINOT, N.D. (AP) – The number of 2011 flood victims in the Souris River Basin who’ve been asked to repay federal aid has been less than numbers associated with other large disasters.
 
     The Federal Emergency Management Agency has requested full or partial repayment of assistance from 53 households. The average repayment amount is about $8,600. The most common reason is duplication of insurance benefits.
 
     The Minot Daily News reports that the total amount sought by FEMA is less than 1 percent of the $96 million paid out to 7,400 residents.
 
     As a comparison, FEMA sought repayment of 2 percent of assistance after Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and just under 5 percent after Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma in 2005. FEMA sought to recover more than $385 million from 83,000 victims after those hurricanes.

In world and national news…

 WASHINGTON (AP) – The House committee that’s investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, has been hearing Friday from a long-time aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Huma Abedin (HOO’-muh AB’-uh-deen) began what was expected to be several hours of questioning Friday morning about the attacks that killed four Americans. The decision to call her as a witness angered the panel’s top Democrat, Elijah Cummings of Maryland, who says Abedin had no “operational responsibilities” and that she wasn’t with Clinton on the night of the attacks.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – A judge in Washington has heard arguments on whether to dismiss charges against a Libyan man accused in the 2012 deadly attacks at the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi. Ahmed Abu Khattala (hah-TAH’-lah) appeared in court Friday for the most significant hearing since his June 2014 capture by U.S. special forces. His lawyers say a charge of providing material support to terrorists is unconstitutionally vague, and that some of the lesser counts against him were designed for domestic, not international, crime.
 
     HOUSTON (AP) – Emergency personnel have rescued six workers from piles of rubble and twisted metal after scaffolding collapsed at a seven-story building under construction in downtown Houston. A Houston Fire Department statement says all six workers were taken to hospitals Friday morning. The injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. Firefighters continued to search for more people possibly trapped under the rubble.
 
     OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Oklahoma’s attorney general has agreed not to request any more execution dates until next year. That allows time for his office to investigate why the state used the wrong drug to execute an inmate in January. Court documents say a legal challenge to the state’s lethal injection law has been put on hold, for now.
 
     SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Records from a Northern California utility reveal who some of the biggest water-users are in a district east of San Francisco. They include Oakland Athletics baseball executive Billy Beane — who used about 6,000 gallons of water a day — and retired Chevron executive George Kirkland, who used more than 12,000. They are among those facing fines for using more than 1,000 gallons a day. They both blame leaks that they say hadn’t been discovered earlier.