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See a photo gallery from the event here. Five wrestlers will represent the Cheney Blackhawks at the Region IV tournament, Feb. 11 at Ellensburg. Josh Baker qualified for regionals after he won the 220-pound division at the District 7 tournament, Feb. 3-4 at Shadle Park. Saul Bautista (120), Zack Nguyen (138), Francisco Martinez (145) and Boedy Taylor (182) punched their tickets to regionals after finishing second in their brackets. "It was about what we expected," head coach...
Artist Jenene Nagy transformed Eastern Washington University's Gallery of Art into a geometric illusionic painting for her "Scablands" exhibit, which runs until Feb. 23. Admission is free to all....
Medical Lake Middle School honored six students for the Partners Advancing Character Education (PACE) award for January. January's trait is fairness. Students received certificates and T-shirts and were treated to a lunch, Feb. 3. From left to right: Katie Hiatt, Ryan Vandenbussche, Kaylee Swenson, Tracen Tueller, Thomas Threadgill and Atriana Larson....
Medical Lake High School Junior ROTC's drill team is kicking it into high gear for the Feb. 25 Silverwings Drill Competition they are hosting. The team began their season at the Nov. 5 Silverwings competition at Redmond High School in Oregon. They were scheduled to compete in two other events, but those were canceled because of the weather. The team's drill practice begins at 6:45 a.m., Monday through Friday and cadets are expected to be front and center. Senior cadet Josh...
Eastern Washington University police officers, Sgt. Jay Day (left) and Chief Tim Walters, were a part of the Jan. 30 Community Policing panel at Hargreaves Hall's reading room. Day and Walters discussed aspects of community policing and their department's focus on interacting and building relationships with students. The panel was the first installment of the EWU President's Dialogues on Diversity series....
Eastern Washington University celebrated Chinese New Year Jan. 25-27 with several events. On Friday, members of the Spokane Lion Dance Team performed the lion dance. The dance is performed during Chinese New Year and other holidays as a way to bring good luck and drive away evil spirits. Adjunct professor Chiu Hsin Lin also led guests in singing "Gongxi, Gongxi," which is the Chinese New Year song while Carlos Alden, host of Spokane Public Radio's "Nacho Celtic Hour," plays...
Three athletes from the Cheney High gymnastics team earned high marks at the 3A/2A gymnastics district competition, Jan. 28 and will advance to the Feb. 11 3A/2A regionals at Ballard High School in Seattle. Alexis Miller took fifth in all around scoring with 34.55 points, qualifying for all of the individual events at regionals. At districts, Miller scored high in the vault (8.125), balance beam (8.9), floor exercise (8.975) and bars (8.550) Miller’s sister, Makayla Miller, qualified for regionals in the vault (8.075), b...
I’m going to go off my usual combat sports path in this week’s column and focus on a recent development in baseball, specifically with the Seattle Mariners. Like any year, the Mariners’ 2017 season comes with a lot of expectations and questions. What new faces will don a Mariner’s jersey and cap? How will the team’s bullpen play? But one of the guaranteed bright spots for fans and the team will come in August when the Mariners officially retire franchise mainstay Edgar Martinez’s No. 11 jersey. The uniform will be in good...
Eastern Washington University celebrated Chinese New Year Jan. 25-27 with several events. On Friday, members of the Spokane Lion Dance Team performed the lion dance. The dance is performed during Chinese New Year and other holidays as a way to bring good luck and drive away evil spirits....
Medical Lake Middle School honored six students for the Partners Advancing Character Education (PACE) award for December. December's trait is caring. Students received certificates and T-shirts and were treated to a lunch, sponsored by Pizza Factory, Jan. 7. From left to right: Nico Ehman, Tim Thompson, Natalie Salinas-Sanders, Kylie Pepperman, Aaryn Taschler and Damien Valdez....
The Medical Lake School Board went through a light agenda at its Jan. 24 meeting. During his report, Superintendent Tim Ames informed the board that there are no confirmed mumps cases in the school district. According to the Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD), there are 112 confirmed cases in the county. Forty-eight percent (54) of the cases are children ages 10-19 years old. Ames said in the event that there is a case of mumps at one of the buildings, the district would send out a notification letter. After the second c...
Caitlin Butcher (right) presents Medical Lake Middle School teacher Carey Schwarzer with the MVP award after the "Hoops for Caitlin" charity basketball game. The Green Machine, comprised of middle school and Michael Anderson Elementary school staff, defeated the Pink Team – Hallett Elementary and high school teachers – 37-34. All proceeds raised from the game went to help the Butcher family....
Medical Lake residents may notice something different about the city’s street lights in the coming months. During the Jan. 26 Planning Commission meeting, City Administrator Doug Ross announced that Avista Utilities will install energy efficient light-emitting diode (LED) lamps in the street lights within city limits. According to Ross, the bulb replacement is being done through the state Transportation Improvement Board’s Relight Washington program. He said he learned about the program from Gloria Bennett, the Northeast Reg...
The city of Airway Heights recently received a $50,000 grant from the Washington Community Economic Revitalization Board. The grant will fund a feasibility study to develop a master plan for industrial-zoned property south of 21st Avenue, which Development Services Director Derrick Braaten called the "Airway Heights Industrial Center." According to the state Department of Commerce's website, the CERB grant program provides funding to local governments and federally-recognized...
The Green Machine, comprised of middle school and Michael Anderson Elementary school staff, defeated the Pink Team – Hallett Elementary and high school teachers – 37-34 in the Hoops for Caitlin charity basketball game. All proceeds raised from the game went to help Caitlin Butcher and her family....
Eastern Washington University students headed over to Tawanka Hall for Einstein Bros. Bagels' grand opening, Jan. 19 to get some coffee and food before their next class. Einstein Bros.' menu includes bagel sandwiches for breakfast and lunch....
At separate Jan. 17 meetings, the Airway Heights and Medical Lake city councils approved a five-year interlocal agreement of the Combined Communications Center (CCC) contract. The Cheney City Council approved the agreement at its Jan. 24 meeting. All three municipalities’ fire departments are a part of the Combined Communications Center (CCC) board as are Spokane County Fire Districts 3 and 10. The CCC was formed in the mid-1990s to merge the four fire and emergency medical services dispatch centers within Spokane County i...
One of the questions regarding Spokane Transit Authority's West Plains Transit Center, is how will it affect the bus routes that run through Medical Lake? At a Jan. 19 Re*Imagine Medical Lake meeting, Don Skillingstad, project manager for STA, gave a presentation that provided some of those answers. Skillingstad explained that the transit center, which will be located off Exit 272 on Interstate 90, will provide an improved connectivity between the cities of Airway Heights, Che...
The Airway Heights City Council decided not to take an official stance on the Cheney School District's $52 million bond proposal after all. At its Jan. 17 meeting, council voted 5-0 to oppose a resolution declaring that it would not support the bond proposal. Councilman Dave Malet abstained from voting and Councilman Steve Lawrence was absent from the meeting. The decision to reject the resolution came a week after council's Jan. 9 study session where it agreed to forward the...
Hallett Elementary fifth-grader Shayley Taylor said she was shocked when she, along with her best friend Lindsay Kuster, made it to the final round of the school's Jan. 17 geography bee competition. The geography bee began with 20 students and Taylor and Kuster answered their three preliminary questions to advance to the final round. Counselor Tami Earthman, who was overseeing the competition, asked "Carson Sink, Black Rock Desert, and Yucca Flat are physical features found...
Medical Lake High School students, staff and visitors who stroll down Hall 100 may notice the "Positivity Wall." The wall is adorned with positive messages written by students, including "happiness is key," "life is amazing" and "live long and prosper," a reference to the Vulcan blessing from "Star Trek." Other notes are compliments written for specific students and teachers. MLHS Associated Student Body President Joey Jasmer said the idea for the wall came at the beginning...
Medical Lake High School senior Nick Isherwood has played in the Washington Music Educators Association All-State and All-Northwest performing groups as a percussionist. When he travels to this year's music festival, Feb. 16-19, he will play bass in the All-Northwest jazz band- marking the first time a student from Medical Lake has performed in that group. Isherwood is one of the many students traveling to Bellevue that weekend to perform in various All-Northwest bands "I'm...
In October 2016, the Airway Heights City Council awarded a $322,483.48 bid to Blue Star Enterprises Northwest, Inc. for drilling and testing of a future well on the city’s Deno Road property. A couple of months later, crews encountered a snag in the project. City staff recently submitted a change order, at the cost of $159,500.39, to relocate the project northwest of the original site, which City Council approved at its Jan. 17 meeting. According to Public Works Director Kevin Anderson, the location of the original project w...
Airway Heights could receive another gift from the state's Transportation Improvement Board (TIB), one that will help make the city's sidewalks better at accommodating residents. The city was one of several nominated for a Complete Streets Award grant for up to $250,000. According to the TIB's website, the Complete Streets Award is a new program that gives funds to a municipality or county that has adopted a Complete Streets ordinance "and shows an ethic of planning and...
For the last several years, Medical Lake requested state funding for policing and emergency medical services it provides to Eastern State Hospital. After years of no response, a proposed bill that was introduced in the current legislative session could result in some compensation to the city for those services. On Jan. 16, the senate held the first reading of Senate Bill 5159. The bill, introduced by senators Michael Baumgartner, Steve O’Ban and Steve Conway, would add chapters to the Revised Code of Washington requiring West...
