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All seniors on the Cheney Blackhawks were honored before the game for Senior Night. CHS ended up falling 28-7 to the Pullman Greyhounds in the last home game. Charles Johnson ran the one touchdown on the night for the Blackhawks from the 1-yard line.... Full story
The Cheney Blackhawks fell to the undefeated West Valley Eagles 41-7 on Friday, Oct. 13. With this loss, CHS falls to 0-7 overall and 0-3 in the Great Northern League. “Aside from starting slow, we drove the field at times and looked good,” head coach Bobby Byrd said. “Letting them score that much didn’t put us in a position to be successful, but we only held them to seven points in the second half.” The Eagles were able to get on the board a couple times in the first quarter as Collin Sather ran for a nine-yard touchdown...
Last year was the first time I have ever watched more than one round of the NFL draft because I was waiting to hear Cooper Kupp’s name called. In the third round at the 69th pick overall, it finally happened when the Los Angeles Rams decided to make a wise choice and choose the superstar wide receiver out of Eastern Washington University. In Kupp’s NFL debut in preseason, he scored the Ram’s first touchdown and scored another touchdown in the following game against the Oakland Raiders. He didn’t stop in preseason either...
Rotary 21 and Union Gospel Mission Motors teamed up together to help the West Plains community. The two companies helped provide a truck that will be used to pick up food for Cleone's Closet Food Pantry and other items for Women's Healing and Empowerment Network (WHEN). Cleone's Closet is currently located at 13514 West Sunset Highway in Airway Heights and reopened at the beginning of October. The food is donated by Second Harvest and it is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday...
A chance for Airway Heights' residents to clean out their yards is coming up at the fall community clean-up day on Oct. 28. "Basically this event is just to offer residents a place to drop off their leaves, branches, and other garden items," Glenn Horton, parks and recreation coordinator said. "The goal is to clean up the community a little bit and try to make it a cleaner place." This event has been going on close to 10 years and it is free to the residents of the town. The d...
October is Domestic Violence Awareness month and two female officers in Airway Heights are promoting it in a special way. Officers Erika Rose and Erin Johnson both dyed their hair purple, the color that represents Domestic Violence Awareness. Rose has been in Airway Heights for around three years and grew up in the Spokane Valley. She had wanted to be a police officer her whole life and loves the job because she can help people. Johnson joined Airway Heights in 2016 and has...
Although there were not many people in attendance, the Airway Heights City Council held a public hearing on revenue sources for the current expense fund for the 2018 budget. The hearing included consideration of the possibility of increases in property tax revenues. The increase would be 1 percent and the council decided to discuss it further at the next study session on Oct. 23. If the council decided to go with the increase in regular property taxes, the city would receive an additional $11,071. The current expense fund has...
The Cheney Blackhawks had a heartbreaking Homecoming game loss as the visiting Clarkston Bantams scored a game winning field goal with .9 seconds left. Alex Clark had one touchdown while Charles Johnson had two. At halftime, Peyton Putney and Mariah Daceus were crowned Homecoming King and Queen.... Full story
It was a heartbreaking Homecoming game for the Cheney Blackhawks when the visiting Clarkston Bantams kicked a field goal to with .9 seconds left to win 24-21. "After a good week of practice, we executed well," head coach Bobby Byrd said. "We as a group just need to come together and work harder. With all the circumstances, we just haven't been able to gel and this game showed us the potential of what could happen as a team." With the loss, the Blackhawks fall to 0-6 overall...
The U.S. Highway 2 roundabout outside the future Spokane Tribe Casino west of Airway Heights is in full swing of construction and is set to finish in mid-December. The project is being fully funded by the Tribe after the Washington Department of Transportation (WSOT) recommended the roundabout in the set location....
Fairchild Air Force Base announced on Oct. 5 that it is expanding its current sampling area of Perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS) and Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). The Air Force Civil Engineer Center is asking for the public's help to identify the drinking water wells for the potential samplings. "We are continuing to try to identify the private well owners within the current sampling area," Marc Connally, AFCEC remedial project manager said in the release. "We want to ensure...
A new weekly event has been added to the Airway Heights movie theater at 10117 Highway 2. The Village Centre Cinemas has decided to show every Washington State University football game with free admission to the public. "Our company started in Pullman, so we are attached to WSU," Kimberly LiVecchi, a marketing coordinator for Village Centre Cinemas, said. "With the new technology, we have talked about doing this for a while and we talked to WSU to get permission to do it."...
Peyton Putney was crowned Homecoming King while Mariah Daceus was named the Homecoming Queen last Friday during Cheney's football game with Clarkston. Both seniors were also a part of the football game as Putney was on the football team and Daceus is the cheerleading captain....
After hearing all three options for setting the guaranteed maximum price for the recreation center at the Oct. 2 Airway Heights City Council meeting, the board voted on option two at the Oct. 9 study session. Option two allows the 44,000 square foot building to be completely done once doors open with a guaranteed maximum price of $13.99 million of desig/build costs with the project totaling $17.26 million. Right now, the current approved project funding is at $15.04 million, creating a $2.2 million cost overrun with this...
The Cheney Blackhawks held strong on the defensive side of the ball, but was not able to make it up on offense as CHS lost to East Valley 22-7. The Blackhawks will continue league action this Friday, Oct. 6, at home versus Clarkston for the Homecoming Game. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. at Tom Oswald Field.... Full story
Here we are again after another mass shooting in the United States with the events that happened in Las Vegas, Nevada on Oct. 1 during a country music festival on the Strip. The whole situation is devastating and there are no answers at this point in time. But I think there is something we should do as fellow Americans. We should be united as one and come out stronger after another event like this. If you go on social media right now, all you see are people arguing over gun laws, politics, race, religion and NFL players...
The West Plains parks and recreation offices have been busy putting together seasonal events until the end of the year for our communities. In Airway Heights, it starts with a new event, “Cooking with Cops,” taking place at Sunset Elementary School at 5:30 p.n. on Oct. 13. The event will be a way the community shows awareness of domestic violence along with a fundraiser for the C.A.R.E.S. scholarship fund at the parks and recreation department. Tickets are $10 for an adult, $5 for a child or $25 for a family of four. The nex...
At the Oct. 2 Airway Heights City Council meeting, J.C. Kennedy, the parks, recreation and community services director, discussed the options for the future recreation center with the council in regards to the guaranteed maximum price. He said that there are basically three options for the council to choose from. Option one is to set the price at $13.25 million with some of the space not being completely done from day one of opening. The second option is to have the recreation center completely done with a price tag of $13.95...
The Cheney High School Blackhawks football team had their first true Friday Night Lights experience at home last Friday, Sept. 22, against Eisenhower. Despite holding the Cadets to only six points, the Blackhawks took a 6-0 loss. Cheney was held to 151 total yards on offense with 76 passing yards and 75 rushing. EHS had 316 total yards in offense, but the Blackhawks’ defense only allowed one touchdown. “We learned that we can grind it out,” head coach Bobby Byrd said. “Obviously we would have liked to score, but we played fou...
It has been a weird couple weeks in the professional sports world. While watching the NFL this weekend to check on my fantasy football team, I couldn’t help but notice the continuing debate explode all over the television and social media over the players kneeling, sitting or standing for our anthem. On Sept. 22, President Donald Trump said at a rally that players who do not stand up for the national anthem should be fired from the NFL. A day later, he followed it up with a tweet, “If a player wants the privilege of making mi...
Northern Quest Resort and Casino has a full lineup going into the fall and winter season as they host a variety of shows. The first event will be the "Conquest of the Cage" on Nov. 4. The MMA event features 11 bouts, including a female match with Muay Thai champion Bea Malecki from Stockholm, Sweden. Ticket prices range from $45 to $65 and $125 for ringside table seats. Next up is the world-class magic show "Champions of Magic" taking place on the Pend Oreille Pavilion stage...
At the Sept. 25 Airway Heights City Council, parks and recreation coordinator Glenn Horton gave a presentation on what events have been going on in the parks and recreation department. He went over what the teenagers and senior citizens have been doing throughout their programs and listed which ones were successful or unsuccessful. Horton said that the department learned over the summer that seniors did not want to attend any of the outdoor activities, so most of them were canceled. On the teen’s side, the department held eve...
Airway Heights has a couple different events going on in the month of October in observance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The first will take place on Oct. 4 at the Texas Roadhouse in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. People can take a flyer provided by the city to the restaurant. Then, 10 percent of whatever is spent on the meal goes towards Airway Heights C.A.R.E.S. scholarships. The fundraiser will take place from 3 – 9 p.m. at 402 W. Neider Ave. in Coeur d'Alene. The next e...
Eastern Washington University quarterback Gage Gubrud visited Salnave Elementary School on Sept. 19 to read to third-graders. Prior to reading book, Gubrud answered a variety of questions from the students including what his favorite color is and if he had any hidden talents. Gubrud is coming off a successful weekend with a 56-21 win over Fordham, earning him Big Sky Conference Offensive Player of the Week for EWU....
An interlocal agreement with Cheney to provide police department data service was the main topic of discussion by the Airway Heights City Council Sept. 18 meeting. Since 2008, the city has been using the service through Cheney. In 2016, there was an amended agreement to exclude warrant maintenance associated with the Kalispel Tribe Police Department and the contract rate increased to $17,000. At that time, Cheney proposed using a future fee calculation that was based upon the processing time of documents. Now the rate will...
