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Let’s take a quick detour from the political scandals of today and focus on something that will take precedence for decades to come: the Seattle Mariners’ call-up of their top prospect, catcher Mike Zunino. Zunino, when called up this Tuesday, was hitting a rock solid batting average of .230 in AAA Tacoma. It’s well-known that any baseball player will drop in average when graduating to the next level of play, so most Mariners fans should expect around .210 or closer to .200 from him. Of course, that would mean Zunino would...
Feed Medical Lake is still going strong, two years into its operation. The progress made by the monthly program easily puts a smile on organizer Joanna Williams’ face, when looking back at all of the families it has served at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Medical Lake. The program serves a free meal on the second Monday of the month to residents of Medical Lake and surrounding areas, bringing together a synthesis of community and charity. The food has received rave reviews, as well. Celebrating its second anniversary, Fee...
Making its final stop at Hallett Elementary during its annual visit to different schools in the district, the Medical Lake School District board of directors held its final meeting during the school year. Students at Hallett in Sheila Overman’s fourth-grade class demonstrated at the Tuesday, May 28 meeting some of the different ways of learning math through iPad applications. The apps allow a teacher to guide students as they solve a problem, and display a student’s iPad up on the projector so they can explain their wor...
In the upcoming fire season, minimum security offenders from the Airway Heights Corrections Center will be working with Department of Natural Resources crews, fighting fires in the region. Part of the offenders’ job includes digging fire lines to prevent a blaze from advancing further. Arcadia district manager for the DNR’s Northeast region Andrew Stenbeck said fire line crews dig down to reach mineral soil, where there are no organic compounds. That way, the fire can be fully...
The city of Airway Heights previewed an annual update to its six-year transportation improvement plan at the Monday, June 3 meeting of the Airway Heights City Council. Public Works director Kelly Williquette said the items included in the improvement plan were projects the city believed to be of importance and filled a need. One of the items on the list from last year, the Highway 2 sidewalk project, received funding last year. The project will go out for a design bid this year and will be constructed in 2014. “This is a...
By JAMES EIK Staff Reporter They say the first year is always the hardest for a new business, but that will soon be out of the way for Medical Lake’s Verve Vintage Home Furnishings. Owner Rhonda Edgar is the sole proprietor of the store, which will celebrate its first year of business during Founder’s Day celebrations Saturday, June 15. She looked back on the past year with a positive outlook, noting that business has grown steadily since opening. Although the business is sti...
Several years of hard work were recognized this month when Medical Lake School District Food Services Supervisor Charlotte Cook received awards at both the regional and national levels. School Nutrition Association, a national non-profit organization, awarded Cook Outstanding Director of the Year Award. The honor recognizes the extraordinary contributions of school nutrition directors who manage effective school meal programs providing healthy, appetizing meals to students,...
Airway Heights Court Administrator Suzanne Wohl holds a flag as the remains of Fairchild airmen travel on Highway 2 during a Dignified Arrival procession....
Last Wednesday, May 22, United States Air Force officials announced their recommendation that McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas was recommended to be the first base to receive the new KC-46A tanker fleet, listing Fairchild and Grand Forks as alternative locations. The new tanker will eventually replace the KC-135 fleet, the aircraft currently used at Fairchild. Local cities and economic organizations rallied to support the base’s bid to be the main operating base for the first KC-46A fleet, built by Boeing. “Our KC-135s are...
The second regional transportation meeting hosted by the city of Spokane drew more comments on the future of West Plains roadways last week. Held at Airway Heights’ Sunset Elementary School Thursday, May 16, the meeting expounded on a previous one in March where transportation representatives once again listened to members of the public to form a long-term transportation plan for the region. “This is probably a 100-year plan, so don’t expect this to be plopped down in short order,” Louis Meuler, city of Spokane senior...
Several Cheney High School golfers qualified for state at the districts tournament last week. For the girls, junior Shyann Morton led the way with a sixth-place finish, shooting 97 on day one and 106 the next day for a total of 203. Fellow junior Steff Cunningham shot 100 and 109 in her two days on the course, ending the tournament with a score of 209 which put her in eighth place. Sophomore Breanna Dufour will serve as a team alternate, shooting a two-day score of 227. Her day two score dropped dramatically from the first...
Keep an eye out for the next Justin Bieber or Mark Zuckerberg at freshman orientation. Also, most of today’s class of 2013 entered college likely displaying some form of hearing loss. The Beloit College Mindset List is an eye-opening read, showing how quickly time changes for students entering college. Beloit has been doing this since 1998, originally as an effort to remind its faculty about how dated some of their references were. Scroll through the list and you’ll see that salsa has always outsold ketchup, the class has...
Manipulated photos, magazine covers, book designs and various other digital design projects were on display last week at Medical Lake High School, all created by students. Led by high school teachers Jason Spakowski and Don Parr, the students worked in recent months to hone their skills and create the items for the show. The digital design and visual communications design classes were among those contributing to the show, which was featured in the high school lobby for a...
Airway Heights’ O’Reilly Auto Parts store manager Tanner Zak cuts the ribbon to celebrate the store’s official opening Friday, May 17 with members of the West Plains Chamber of Commerce. The store has been operating under a soft opening for a few months....
Changes are in store for the recycling center in Medical Lake, namely in the form of accepting glass. At its Tuesday, May 21 meeting, the Medical Lake City Council discussed the potential of ending its acceptance of glass at its recycling center. Previous discussions have taken place on the subject, but no definitive action was taken. City Administrator Doug Ross brought up the subject during the public works committee’s report, suggesting a cutoff date of Aug. 1 for accepting glass. “There’s no reason for the city to pay t...
Cheney boys’ tennis team saw some positive results in its districts’ play at Pullman last Friday. While the results don’t display the type of play quality shown by players, head coach Jesse Erickson said the effort was phenomenal. “The guys played the best they have all season,” he said. ”The results just weren’t quite what we were hoping for.” Cheney finished in fourth place at districts, mirroring their fouth place overall finish in the Great Northern League with a 7-7 record. Among the successes this season, senior...
Last Wednesday, local representatives and business leaders opposed to the proposed casino and hotel in the Spokane Tribe Economic Project criticized the tribe’s recent study that claimed it posed no threat to Fairchild Air Force Base. The Madison Government Affairs study, released last week and funded by the Spokane Tribe, said the only encroachment pertaining to Fairchild was the mobile home park in the southern portion of Airway Heights. Plans are currently underway to a...
For the past month, the Medical Lake School District has been enjoying a digital facelift following the debut of its new website design. Mary Kay Rolwes, librarian and teacher at Medical Lake Middle School, led the design for the new website and worked with Schoolwires, a design company, to find the best look for the school district. Input from administrative assistant Claudine Muelken and Superintendent Dr. Pam Veltri helped to form the direction of the website’s look. ...
In a short Monday, May 6 meeting, the Airway Heights City Council approved two change orders for the Aspen Grove Park development project, totaling $25,425.80. Included in the change orders is a modification to the access slopes. Parks, recreation and community services director J.C. Kennedy said other change orders had come in during the past week, including one that was turned down based on the contract agreement. Another change order that came in turned out to be a credit to the city totaling around $6,000. The City...
The journey to finalize Airway Heights’ new C-2 general commercial and mixed-use overlay documents will have to wait one more month. At the Monday, May 13 meeting of the Airway Heights Planning Commission, development services director Derrick Braaten said a comment received from the city of Spokane will require some additional research before a final recommendation is given to the City Council. Both documents relate to the Joint Land Use Study regulations passed by the City Council last year. Separate public hearings took p...
Dozens of items in the maintenance shop were approved as surplus by the Medical Lake City Council at its Tuesday, May 7 meeting. The shop has become something of a storage location for broken items that don’t work, as well as other items like abandoned bicycles. The City Council took a glance at the items set to become surplus, but didn’t find any to note separately from the others. “These items are items we cannot use any longer,” City Administrator Doug Ross said. “At first glance, it looks like we’re getting rid of things...
A new private study released last week concluded that the Spokane Tribe Economic Project (STEP) wouldn’t have an impact on Fairchild Air Force Base. Madison Government Affairs, based out of Washington, D.C., produced the study, which was funded by the tribe. STEP is a multi-use project on tribal trust property located northeast of Fairchild. Included in the design plans are a casino, hotel resort, big box retail space and various other operations. Local organizations, including Greater Spokane Incorporated, Citizens A...
Last Friday, May 3, three airmen from Fairchild Air Force Base perished in the crash of a KC-135 aircraft near Chon-Aryk, Kyrgyzstan. Capt. Mark T. Voss, 27, of Boerne, Texas; Capt. Victoria A. Pinckney, 27, of Colorado Springs, Colo. and Tech. Sgt. Herman Mackey III, 30, of Bakersfield, Calif. were lost in the incident, the cause of which is still under investigation. The 93rd Air Refueling Squadron is part of the 92nd Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild. The crew were just one o...
Last week, students in the Future Farmers of America class at Medical Lake High School showcased their presentation about genetically modified organism foods to the Medical Lake School District board of directors at its monthly meeting. The presentation at the Tuesday, April 23 meeting, which earned the team the right to attend the state competition, gave both sides of the GMO argument about whether Washington state should label foods that have been modified. The group of seven acted out different roles, including...
This weekend at the Lone Pine Range just west of Medical Lake, members of Project Appleseed will put their marksmanship skills to the test. The event, which takes place on a monthly basis three other times this summer, is a two-day rifle clinic where participants learn the foundational skills of being a rifleman. Project Appleseed is an event belonging to the Revolutionary War Veterans Association, which is dedicated to teaching every American our shared heritage and history as well as traditional rifle marksmanship skills....
