Wayne Byers Show – Evening – Apr 15

CSi Weather…

.SUNDAY…CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN. HIGHS IN THE  UPPER 40S. NORTH WINDS AROUND 15 MPH.
.SUNDAY NIGHT…CLOUDY WITH SLIGHT CHANCE OF RAIN. LOWS IN THE  MID 30S. NORTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH.
.MONDAY…MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 30 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN. HIGHS IN THE MID 50S.
.MONDAY NIGHT…DECREASING CLOUDS. A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN.
LOWS IN THE UPPER 30S.
.TUESDAY…MOSTLY SUNNY WITH A 20 PERCENT CHANCE OF RAIN. HIGHS  IN THE MID 60S.
.TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS IN  THE MID 40S. HIGHS IN THE MID 60S.

 

Bismarck (CSi) The North Dakota Aeronautic Commission reports another uptick in Jamestown boardings in March this year compared to March of 2015.

The report shows that the Jamestown Regional Airport Boarding is March this year were 962, compared to March 2015’s  678.

That’s an increase of almost 42 percent.

 

 

Jamestown (CSi)  Enjoy an Evening of Bluegrass Music and listening and learning, presented by the Bluegrass Association of ND , featuring Dick Kimmel, on Saturday, April 16th at 7:00 pm at The Jamestown Arts Center

Tickets at the door: $10 / $5 for Arts Center, members.

Also featured will be the North Dakota Bluegrass Bands, in The Battle of the B.A.N.D. (Blue Grass Association of North Dakota).

With…Moose Creek Symphony Bluegrass Band, Stoney Run Bluegrass Band, T&L Schwartz Family, and Flatt Mountain Bluegrass Band.

Sponsored by the Bluegrass Association of North Dakota, the Jamestown Arts Center, and funded in part by a grant from the North Dakota Council on the Arts.

On Friday’s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2,President of the North Dakota Bluegrass Association, John Andrus said, Kimmel, known as The Ambassador of Bluegrass, has been entertaining audiences for more than a half-century throughout North America and Europe.

In 2015, he performed across 9 time zones as he performed from Prague, Czech Republic to Coos Bay, Oregon. He has opened for Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys in Monroe’s homestate of Kentucky. At that concert Bill Monroe actually came out from backstage to listen to Dick’s unique version of Monroe’s “On and On.”

Kimmel has performed with such top artists as Del McCoury, Alan Munde, Becky Buller, and Hazel Dickens. He has performed and recorded with his own bands, Dick Kimmel & Co, Mountain Grass, and The Wild Turkey Stringband and has been featured on more than 2-dozen recordings, which include 4 Dick Kimmel solo CDs.

The music of Dick Kimmel is firmly rooted within traditional bluegrass, folk, and old-time stringband music, genres where he excels as a performer as well as an historian, mentor, and teacher. Dick regularly carries his music throughout North America and Europe as a solo performer, with his band Dick Kimmel & Co, and with various musical collaborations that includes The Alan Munde Trio and 4 duos where Dick stretches the boundaries of traditional music: Dick Kimmel & Adam Granger, Ian & Dick Kimmel, Dick Kimmel & Pamela Longtine, and Lori Jean with Dick Kimmel.

The sponsors are the Bluegrass Association of North Dakota, the Jamestown Arts Center, and funded in part by a grant from the North Dakota Council on the Arts.

Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Tourism Grant/Executive Advisory Board, Friday approved two grant requests.

Meeting at The CSi Technology Center, at Historic Franklin School,

the board approved the Jamestown Downtown Association’s request for $1,000 for the June 11, 2016 2^nd Annual Rods and Hogs event, to be held on First Avenue, South, downtown.

Representative, Lynn Lambrecht said the event will be expanded this year to include a tractor display, along with food vendors, classic cars and trucks, and motorcycles. There will also be a tire changing contest, a car balance beam, and a trike race.

The board also approved a request for $1,600 for the 1883 Stutsman County Courthouse Open House, planned for May14,2016.

Also representing the 1883 Stutsman County Courthouse Committee, Lynn Lambrecht said the Open House will allow the public to tour the structure, for the first time since a 2014 Open House.

She said since that time improvements have included the areas of plumbing, lighting, and restorations of rooms.

At the Open House Jerome Zimmerman will be serving fry bread, with free will donations going toward the restoration project. Other refreshments will be served. Entertainment will be provided by the local band, “Old Friends.”

A dedication of the Mary Young Room, will be on that Friday, May 13, 2016.

She pointed out that the State Legislature appropriated $350,000 toward the project, with local matching dollars coming from on-going fundraising events.

In other business, Tourism Director, Searle Swedlund said the 4^th of July fireworks display contract has been signed with RES Pyrotechnics, in the amount of $10,000. The fireworks will be at the Stutsman County Fairgrounds.

Nellie Degen represented the Frontier Village board, and showed a T-shirt the staff will wear during White Cloud Days, and throughout the summer at the Village.

She said that plans are moving forward for the activities, at McElroy Park this year.

 

 

Jamestown (CSi) Jamestown retail sales activity jumped by 19.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015 when compared to the fourth quarter of 2014.

JSDC, CEO Connie Ova, points out that “The new stores and the quality of the existing businesses contribute to that.”

Jamestown saw an overall 2.2 percent increase in sales and use tax activity, which compares to a statewide decline of 25 percent. Of North Dakota’s 50 largest cities, Jamestown was one of just nine cities that saw an increase in sales and use tax collections.

Stutsman County sales and use tax collections for the quarter were up 2 percent for the fourth quarter. Stutsman County was one of six counties to see an increase.

Jamestown fourth-quarter sales and use tax increased from $65.3 million in 2014 to $66.7 million in 2015.

The increase was pushed by retail sales, which climbed from $34.7 million for the fourth quarter of 2014 to $41.4 million in 2015.

The annual sales and use tax figures for 2015 for Jamestown and Stutsman County showed about a half percent decline compared to 2014.

 

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – Attorneys for the family of a North Dakota college student who was a confidential informant for a drug task force before he was found dead are calling for a federal investigation.

The body of 20-year-old Andrew Sadek was found nearly two years ago near Wahpeton in the Red River, which separates North Dakota from Minnesota. An autopsy concluded that Sadek died of a gunshot wound, though it’s unclear how his body ended up in the river.

His relatives says they’re frustrated with the investigation, which is now in the hands of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Attorney Lance Block says the BCA has virtually cut off communication with Sadek’s parents.

Officials with the Minnesota BCA said they would comment later Friday.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota man has been charged with murder in the killing of a 40-year-old woman.

Court records show that 33-year-old Bismarck resident Morris Jerome Brickle-Hicks was charged Friday. His bond has been set at $1 million cash only.

Officers responded to a report of an unresponsive woman at the Runnings store shortly before 9 a.m. Thursday and found the body of Bismarck resident Misty Coffelt along a side of the building.

An autopsy was scheduled Friday to determine Coffelt’s cause of death.

Brickle-Hicks’s court and jail records do not list at attorney who could comment on his behalf. He is being held at the Burleigh County Detention Center.

Brickle-Hicks also goes by the last name Hicks.

 

 

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) – A head-on crash on state Highway 1806 in Morton County has killed two people and injured three more.

The Highway Patrol says a car traveling north crossed into the wrong lane and collided head-on with a southbound car about 7 p.m. Thursday, 6 miles north of Cannon Ball.

Thirty-six-year-old Nation End of Horn, who was driving the southbound vehicle, died in the crash, along with 55-year-old passenger Glen Fox. Both were from Fort Yates.

Another passenger in End of Horn’s vehicle, 23-year-old Fort Yates resident Alissa Greywater, was transported to a hospital with undisclosed injuries.

The driver of the northbound vehicle, 28-year-old K. Riley Plenty Chief, and 31-year-old passenger Andrew Thunder Hawk, both of Cannon Ball, were also taken to a hospital with undisclosed injuries.

The crash remains under investigation.

 

 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Federal authorities are investigating a stabbing death on the Spirit Lake Reservation last weekend.

FBI spokesman Kyle Loven confirmed that the agency is investigating the April 9 death. He did not provide details, citing the ongoing probe.

The reservation is in northeastern North Dakota.

 

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s Department of Mineral Resources says the state’s oil production decreased by about 4,000 barrels a day in February. The agency says the state produced an average of 1.11 million barrels of oil daily in February. North Dakota also produced a record 1.69 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day in February, up from 1.64 billion cubic feet daily in January.

 

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) – The Standing Rock Sioux has set up a camp in North Dakota to protest a planned pipeline to carry crude from the Bakken oil fields to Illinois.

The  “spirit camp” at the confluence of the Cannonball and Missouri rivers has been occupied for two weeks.

The tribe opposes the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline planned by Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners because it fears a spill could contaminate its drinking water.

The company maintains the pipeline will be a safe and cost-effective way to transport oil, and will create jobs and boost the economy.

The proposed 1,130-mile pipeline would pass through North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa on its way to Illinois. Regulators in all states have approved the project, though it still needs federal approval.

 

 

FARGO, N.D. (AP) – The Fargo Police Department’s three K-9s will be getting body armor.

The  dogs will be getting bullet and stab protective vests.

Fargo resident Martha Trussell is sponsoring the vests through the Massachusetts-based nonprofit Vested Interest in K9s. Each vest costs $1,050.

The vests for Earl, Falco, and Bali will be embroidered to honor the late Fargo Police Officer Jason Moszer, who died after he was shot while responding to a domestic disturbance on Feb. 10.

The vests will be delivered to the department in eight to ten weeks.

 

 

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In world and national news…

MASHIKI, Japan (AP) – Barely 24 hours after an earthquake killed nine people in southern Japan, the region has been hit by an even more powerful quake. Japanese broadcaster NHK says calls have been coming in from residents reporting people being trapped inside houses and buildings. The latest quake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.1.

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Pentagon is describing a North Korean missile launch Friday as a “catastrophic” failure. The launch was meant to celebrate the birthday of the country’s founder. But a South Korean news agency says the missile exploded in the air just a few seconds after liftoff. It was reportedly a new and powerful type of mid-range missile.

WASHINGTON (AP) – When it comes to rudeness in 2016 politics, a poll finds that the Republican presidential contest wins in a landslide. The new poll by the Associated Press and the N-O-R-C Center for Public Affairs Research shows that 78 percent of Americans who were surveyed, including most Republicans, see the GOP race as discourteous. Only about half as many – 41 percent – say the same about the Democratic campaign. Nearly three-quarters say people in general are more rude these days than they were decades ago.

HOUSTON (AP) – Houston police say a man who was questioned in the shooting of a Texas deputy constable has been ruled out as a suspect in an attack authorities have described as an ambush. They say detectives are still hunting for the gunman who seriously injured Harris County Deputy Constable Alden Clopton. Doctors have said Clopton suffered six wounds to his chest and abdomen and should fully recover.

RENO, Nev. (AP) – Sheriff’s deputies in Nevada are investigating whether two people whose bodies were found in a hot spring died because the water became too hot. They tell a newspaper (the Reno Gazette-Journal) that the bodies were found at Bog Hot Springs on Sunday, near the Oregon border. Nevada is home to hundreds of hot springs, which range in temperature from warm to scalding. Deputies are still investigating the cause of death but don’t suspect foul play. They say the temperature in the springs “can fluctuate.”