Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Jan 21

CSi Weather…

TONIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS ZERO TO 5 ABOVE. NORTHWEST WINDS
AROUND 5 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTH AFTER MIDNIGHT.
.FRIDAY…PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 20. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH
INCREASING TO AROUND 15 MPH IN THE AFTERNOON.
.FRIDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS AROUND 15. SOUTH WINDS AROUND
15 MPH.
.SATURDAY…DECREASING CLOUDS. HIGHS IN THE MID 30S. SOUTHWEST
WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.SATURDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 15 TO 20. NORTHWEST WINDS
AROUND 10 MPH.
.SUNDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS IN THE MID 20S.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW. LOWS
AROUND 15.
.MONDAY…CLOUDY WITH SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGHS IN THE LOWER
20S.
.MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT…MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 10 TO
15. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 20S.
.WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 20 PERCENT
CHANCE OF SNOW. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 20S. LOWS 10 TO 15. 

 SATURDAY WARM AIR ACROSS THE AREA.   MOST LOCATIONS WILL PUSH IN TO THE 30S WITH AREAS
 SOUTH AND WEST OF THE MISSOURI REACHING THE 40S.

A COLD FRONT WILL
 SWING THROUGH NORTH DAKOTA BY SATURDAY EVENING. THIS WILL BRING AN
 END TO THE WELL ABOVE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES WITH HIGHS THROUGH THE
 REST OF THE LONG TERM NEAR NORMAL WITH READINGS IN THE 20S AND
 OCCASIONALLY LOW 30S.
 BY SATURDAY NIGHT  LIGHT SNOW MAY BEGIN WORKING INTO SOUTHWEST
 NORTH DAKOTA BY EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. LIGHT SNOW IS POSSIBLE
 ACROSS NORTH DAKOTA THROUGH THE DAY SUNDAY AND MONDAY AT THIS TIME IT APPEARS
 PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS SHOULD REMAIN RATHER LIGHT…WITH AN INCH OR
 TWO OF SNOW POSSIBLE.

 

Jamestown (CSi) Pam Musland of Jamestown is seeking endorsement from District 12 Dem-NPL voters for a North Dakota House of Representatives seat in the 2016 election.

A news release states: “Jamestown has been my home for more than 20 years. I love this community and want to give back through the legislative process,” said Musland. “With the decline in revenue from the oil patch, state budgets and funding for critical programs will be cut back. I want to make sure adequate funding for our schools, human services, and job growth continues.”

Musland is the marketing and communications supervisor at North Dakota Farmers Union. She serves on the TRAC advisory board, Jamestown Tennis Association, Area 9 Special Olympics Management Team, Rural Leadership North Dakota board, and is a longtime Meals on Wheels volunteer.

She and her husband Roy have three grown children. The youngest is a student at the University of Jamestown.

District 12 candidate endorsements for the Dem-NPL Party will be held Sunday, Feb. 21, at 2 p.m. at the Gladstone Inn. A social will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. All voters are welcome to attend.

District 12 encompasses five of the six precincts in the city of Jamestown.

 

Jamestown (CSi) Prairie Paws Rescue presents the Raise The Woof Comedy Show fundraiser, on Saturday January 30, 2016 at the Gladstone Inn & Suites in Jamestown. The doors open at 7-p.m., the show starts at 8-p.m.

Tickets are $10 in advance, and $15 the day of the show, and can be purchased at R.M. Stoudt, Dr. Dawn’s Pet Stop, Country Acres Vet, Southwood Vet, Ingstad Family Media, or an Prairie Paws Rescue volunteer.

Sponsorships are available for Raise the Woof for $100 and includes two tickets to the show.

On Thursday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Prairie Paws Rescue President and Co-Founder Kaye John pointed out that at the event there will be raffles, including four “mystery suitcases,” with day trips worth between $200 and $400 each, and includes gasoline vouchers, donated locally. In addition there will be 41 raffle baskets.

Prairie Paws Rescue is a non-profit group with all volunteers and gives animals a foster home while seeking a permanent home.

Kaye said that there’s a need for more foster families, who take care of the animals until adopted. Costs associated with caring for the animals is paid by Prairie Paws.

In 2015 the group Prairie Paws was able to give 163 cats and dogs a permanent, new home, stemming from business partnerships and volunteers drivers.

The cost of adopting a dog is $150 and $50 plus tax for a cat.

The cost includes all shots, and all animals are micro-chipped, contiaining information in the event it gets lost, to find the owner.

For more information including volunteer opportunities, contact Prairie Paws Rescue at 701-320-4553, or E-Mail prariepawsrescue@hotmail.com

On our show, Kaye added that Petco in Bismarck in conjunction with www.petfinder.com has a cat adoption center available, with a number of cats available for adoption.

　

Jamestown (CSi) Former Jamestown resident, Ronda Rousey will host Saturday Night Live” this weekend. Ronda, will share the camera with pop-singer Selena Gomez.

Sharon Cox reports that, Rhonda is the daughter of AnnMarie Rousey, and Ronda, her two older sisters and dad Ron lived in Jamestown in the early 1990s with her mom, when professor Ann-Marie Rousey,she was teaching in the psychology department at then Jamestown College.

A UFC’s bantamweight champion, Ronda was defeated in her most recent fight with Holly Holm in Australia on November 15, 2015. She has a day job as an actress.

Ronda is presently filming a remake of the movie “Roadhouse.” She was the sole female actor in “The Expendables 3” (2014), and played herself in “Entourage,” filmed last year.

 

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Regional Airport Authority has reviewed passenger boardings for 2015, and re-elected officers.

Jamestown Regional Airport had 936 passenger boardings in December and 8,642 total boardings for 2015.

Passenger boardings are also up 128 percent from last year.

In other business, the Airport Authority unanimously voted to add a second wall-mount panel to provide better cell phone service to passengers at a cost of about $400 per panel not including labor costs.

The Airport Authority voted unanimously to keep its board of officers the same as 2015. Chariman Jim Boyd, Vice President,Jeff Wilhelm, and Treasurer, Sam Seafeldt.

　

 MINOT, N.D. (AP) – Authorities in Minot are seeking the public’s help in finding a bank robbery suspect.
 
     The Minot Police Department says a robbery was reported at the U.S. Bank in downtown Minot at about 11:30 a.m. on Thursday.
 
     Police say the suspect passed a note to a bank teller and requested money. The man then left the bank with an undisclosed amount of cash.
 
    The man didn’t show a weapon during the robbery and that no injuries have been reported.
 
     Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the Minot Police Department.

 

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – Authorities have identified a Williston man who died in a crash in Williams County.
 
     The Highway Patrol says 43-year-old Robert Schieno was driving a car that drifted into the wrong lane on state Highway 1804 and collided with an oncoming semi.
 
     Schieno died at the scene about 10 a.m. Wednesday. The semi went in the ditch but the driver wasn’t hurt.
 

MINOT, N.D. (AP) – A jury in Minot has convicted a man accused of killing another man in the city.
 
     Thirty-eight-year-old Anthony Campbell was charged with murder in the September 2014 death of 25-year-old Shannon Brunelle.
 
     Brunelle was found stabbed to death in an apartment building garage where he’d been staying, and Campbell was arrested in Philadelphia after a nine-week search.
 
     Jurors deliberated for six hours Wednesday before retiring for the night. The Minot Daily News reports that they reached their verdict Thursday morning.
 
     Prosecutor Kelly Dillon said DNA evidence tied Campbell to the killing, and that his timing in fleeing Minot suggested guilt.
 
     Defense attorney Samuel Gereszek said Campbell and Brunelle were friends, and that Brunelle’s death was “an execution, not just a random fight.”

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota continues to see less-than-expected tax collections due to declining oil drilling activity.
 
     Office of Management and Budget Director Pam Sharp says overall tax revenues through December are about $215 million less than projected.
 
     Most of the drop comes from weakened sales tax revenue, which provides the biggest share of the budget for North Dakota government.
 
     Last month, Sharp ordered a fresh revenue forecast to address revenue shortfalls in the current two-year budget cycle that began July 1.
 
     The Legislature’s Advisory Council on Revenue Forecasting is meeting Friday to discuss the new forecast and updated projections for the price of North Dakota oil.

 

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A survey shows some bankers had a dire view of the rural economy in their 10 Western and Plains states.
 
     A report released Thursday says January’s Rural Mainstreet Index plunged to 34.8 from 41.5 in December. It’s the lowest overall index figure since August 2009. Survey officials say any score below 50 on any of the survey’s indexes suggests that factor will decline.
 
     Creighton University economist Ernie Goss oversees the monthly survey of rural bankers and says it’s the fifth straight month for a decline. He again blames lower prices for agriculture and energy commodities and downturns in manufacturing.
 
     The farmland and ranchland price index dropped to 23.9 in January from December’s 28.8
 
     Bankers from Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming were surveyed.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Seven members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa are suing North Dakota’s chief elections officer, alleging the state’s voter identification requirements are unconstitutional.
 
     The federal lawsuit filed against Secretary of State Al Jaeger alleges North Dakota’s voter ID requirements “disproportionately burden and disenfranchise Native Americans.”
 
     Jaeger says he was served with the lawsuit Thursday and could not comment on it.
 
     North Dakota is the only state without voter registration. State law requires identification such as a driver’s license, or identity cards issued by North Dakota’s American Indian tribes.
 
     The lawsuit says some of the tribal members can’t afford the required identification. The lawsuit says others had to pay to get their tribal IDs updated with a valid address, forcing them to “pay to vote.”
     WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) – Natives of Flint, Michigan, who operate a water bottling plant in North Dakota plan to send thousands of gallons of fresh water to their hometown this weekend to help with a crisis there.
 
     Chris Duell and Dan Provost tell the Williston Herald they’ve also set up a GoFundMe account so others can contribute to the cause.
 
     Corrosive water from the Flint River has caused lead to leach from old pipes into Flint homes. Tests have shown high levels of lead in some children’s blood. President Barack Obama has declared an emergency in the city.
 
     Duell and Provost operate C&D Water Services in Williston, the hub of the western North Dakota oil patch. On Saturday they plan to load 1,040 4-gallon water bottles on a truck for shipment to Flint.

 

In sports…

Jamestown (CSi) University of Jamestown head volleyball coach　Jon Hegerle has announced the signing of Meghan Orr from Jamestown, N.D.,　who will join the Jimmies in the 2016-17 season.

Orr, who played libero at Jamestown High School, finished her career as the Blue Jays’ all-time leader in digs (2189) and holds the JHS records for most digs in a season (821) and most digs in a single match (62). She was named All-Conference and All-State following the 2014 and 2015 seasons and was named to the 2012 All-State tournament team.　

While at JHS, Orr also competed in basketball, track, choir, and is a member of the National Honor Society.

Hegerle, says, “Meghan is a great addition to our volleyball program.

She comes from a family that tirelessly supports athletics and the Jimmies, and has grown up under the wing of Jimmie athletics. I have coached Meghan since she was in 6^th grade in the Jamestown juniors program and have watched her mature, develop and excel not only in volleyball, but in multiple sports as well as in the classroom as a Blue Jay.

He adds, “Meghan is a competitor and certainly embodies the Shakespeare quote ‘And though she be but little, she is fierce.’ Meghan’s motor never stops. She never takes a play off and competes with the purpose of not only winning, but in honoring the sport by playing the right way. Most importantly, Meghan is a selfless teammate and a conscientious leader.　Her commitment to excellence and her team is uncommon which is why we expect her results to be uncommon. We are thrilled to have Meghan join an accomplished group of defensive minded back row players.”

The daughter of Darron and Barb Orr, Meghan plans to major in Biology at the University of Jamestown.

The University of Jamestown was established in 1883 and is ranked as a top regional school in both US News and World Report and The Princeton Review. The school features development of the whole person through its distinctive Journey to Success experience.

　

In world and national news…

 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – American Airlines is already canceling the bulk of its flights in the Northeast ahead of the winter storm that’s supposed to arrive  Friday. Snow, ice and strong winds will all cause problems for fliers. At its Charlotte hub, all 654 American flights are canceled for tomorrow. All major airlines have issued waivers for travel over the weekend, allowing passengers to rebook onto earlier or later flights to avoid the storms.
 
     WASHINGTON (AP) – Boston is offering help to the District of Columbia with the massive blizzard about to strike the nation’s capital. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is in Washington for the U.S. Conference of Mayors. He says Boston last year purchased two truck-mounted snow-blowers to clear streets after large snowfalls. So far, forecasters are calling for less than an inch of snow in Boston. The Washington area could get up to two feet.
 
     LONDON (AP) – Britain is renewing its demand that Russia turn over the two prime suspects in the poisoning death of a former Russian spy in London a decade ago. One of the suspects is now a member of the Russian parliament. An investigation led by a British judge Thursday concluded that the plan to kill former spy Alexander Litvinenko — who had become a critic of the Kremlin — was probably approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
 
     NEW YORK (AP) – Energy prices have been recovering Thursday, a day after oil prices showed their biggest one-day loss since September. And stocks have been higher for most of the day, led by gains in energy companies.
 
     LOS ANGELES (AP) – A worker at the Los Angeles Zoo has been hospitalized with a possible broken leg after falling into the gorilla enclosure. City fire officials say the animals in the enclosure were secured while the worker was rescued this morning. The zoo was closed when the worker fell into the exhibit that’s home to western lowland gorillas.