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MEDICAL LAKE — Two people were transported to Sacred Heart Medical Center after a one-car rollover injury accident on Friday morning, according to the Washington State Patrol. The vehicle was traveling eastbound on Interstate 90 when the driver fell asleep just west of the Salnave Road exit and began drifting toward the left shoulder. He apparently woke up and overcorrected to the right to avoid the median and instead ended up sliding into a tree in the right-hand side of t...
MEDICAL LAKE — A fifth grade special needs student at Hallett Elementary school had staff scrambling when he turned up missing after a lunch recess on Friday, Nov. 22. The duty Spokane County Sheriff’s Deputy was dispatched when it was discovered the student was gone, and within a few minutes the young truant was intercepted and returned to school, according to district Superintendent Tim Ames. Adding to the situation, the student, who has a history of hiding in the bui...
Medical Lake maintenance workers Dan Reis and Steve Blymeyer (in bucket) were out hanging holiday decorations along Lake Street on a foggy Friday, Nov. 22....
MEDICAL LAKE — As of Oct. 1, after months of construction on its new 70,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility, the Medical Lake Veterinary Hospital is open for business at its new location just east of downtown at the intersection of State Route 902 and South Bartholomew Road The hospital offers services for just about any domesticated animal — companion pets to large farm animals including horses, and exotic pets like hedgehogs, rats or even emus. They even have a spe...
MEDICAL LAKE — In a quick, 20 minute meeting, the City Council moved the city’s 2020 budget, along with an employee salary and wage ordinance, one step closer to approval. Councilman-elect Art Kulibert noted during the citizen comment portion of the meeting that 20 years ago the city was forced to chop $220,000 from its budget in the wake of Initiative 695 that reduced licensing fees to $30. He expressed concern that the passage earlier this month of a similar initiative, I-9...
ELLENSBURG - After coming back at the end of the regular season to land a spot in the state championships, the Lady Blackhawks were eliminated in two matches last week to end the 2019 season. "Heading to the state tournament was a great accomplishment for this team," head coach Heather Zorrozua said. "It is a big deal getting there and the excitement and hype of this experience seemed to get the best of us." Cheney first faced the formidable Northwest League's Burlington-Ediso...
Consider a contrast in images, if you will. First, picture in your mind a high school football game; say it’s a long-standing rivalry between two teams. Bragging rights are at stake and the tension is high. The young, pubescent athletes are all geared up, blocking and tackling each other, their helmets making a loud hollow popping noise as they collide with one another. Now picture a large defensive player losing his cool, getting into a shoving match with a much smaller q...
FOUR LAKES — Hollywood and the usual entourage of actors, crew and equipment descended upon local watering hole The Bullhead tavern last week to film the indie movie “All Those Small Things,” starring James Faulkner, perhaps best know for his role as Randyll Tarly, the evil father of main character, Samwell Tarly, in “Game of Thrones.” Written and directed by Spokane filmmaker and screenwriter Andrew Hyatt, the plot involves long-time British game show host Jonathan Robbins,...
MEDICAL LAKE — Do you believe in miracles? Whatever your answer, between Dec. 12 – 14 you have the opportunity to hear one story that witnesses — including physicians and emergency medical services personnel — later called a miracle. On Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 19, 2015, 14-year-old John Smith and two of his friends walked out onto the ice of Lake St. Louise in St. Charles, Mo. — and fell through. While his two friends were quickly rescued, John disappeared, sinking b...
MEDICAL LAKE — Medical Lake middle and high school band teacher Craig Johnson was recently awarded the Spokane Youth Symphony’s 2019 Carolyn Hage Nunemaker Music Teacher Appreciation award on Nov. 3 at the Fox Theater. Johnson, a 24-year music teacher — 20 in Medical Lake — received a $500 check made out to Medical Lake High School for use in the high school band program, according to Jennifer O’Bannan, symphony executive director. “He’s had a quiet, behind the scenes, great i...
MEDICAL LAKE — Principals at a recent Medical Lake School District board meeting shared student learning data and optimistic plans for improving their individual schools. Lyra McGirk, a 12-year teaching veteran of alternative schools, and director of Medical Lake’s alternative school, Endeavors, was more pragmatic in her assessment. “We have students that come to us with trauma,” she said, noting that the number was “significant.” As a result, the school’s goals are often dif...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake cross country team came back from the state 1A cross country championship meet with a trophy — just not the one they had hoped for. The Cardinals had to settle for third place at Pasco’s Sun Willow Golf Course on Saturday, Nov. 9, behind first place Lakeside and Klahowya, who took second. “I was really pleased with our kids,” head coach Gene Blankenship said. “They competed really well. We were leading at two miles, but we couldn’t ho...
CHENEY — The post-season Cinderella story of the Lady Blackhawks volleyball team continued after they defeated Prosser three sets to one, on Saturday, Nov. 9, to advance to the state 2A championships. Head coach Heather Zorrozua kept her team focused on their game going into the playoff match with Prosser. “We know, when we play our game, we can compete with anyone,” she said. The Blackhawks proved it, taking out the Mustangs 25-17, 20-25, 25-16 and 25-17, despite an early...
At a recent high school assembly marking Veterans Day, keynote speaker retired Gen. Neal Sealock suggested that students be the “kind of American worth fighting for.” He defined that as a citizen who is active in elections by promoting voter registration, casting informed votes themselves and speaking out against injustices such that everyone could realize the benefit of the freedoms our veterans and active military have and continue to protect. “We can do that by volun...
SPOKANE COUNTY — Local and federal officials announced on Tuesday, Nov. 6, a $11.3 million transportation grant award for the construction of the Rail-Truck Transload Facility near Spokane International Airport. The facility, to be located east of Craig Road between McFarlane and Thorpe Roads, will improve freight mobility for shippers and manufacturers, and create up to 7,000 jobs, generate $77 million in tax revenue, and produce $773 million in total economic impact, a...
MEDICAL LAKE - Members of the Medical Lake Planning voted to recommend the City Council not approve a request to amend an individual parcel designation of a future land use map in the city's recently completed comprehensive plan from mixed-use commercial to multi-family at its regularly scheduled meeting on Thursday, Nov. 7. At issue before the commission was a request by Spokane developer A&K Development, Inc. - made during an annual 45-day window allowing change requests -...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake School District has been selected as one of two state districts to participate in a joint University of Washington, Seattle Children’s Hospital pilot program called Partnership Access Line for Schools, or PAL. The two-year program will provide school councilors and mental health professionals with access to psychologists and psychiatrists via telephone and televideo consultations for clinically relevant sessions, according to a press rel...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake middle and high schools took time out from classes to honor veterans and their families ahead of Monday’s Veteran’s Day holiday, and to hear from one special guest about what the national holiday truly signifies. The Medical Lake Middle School assembled in the gym to listen to the seventh and eighth grade choir sing several songs and to recognize current active military and veterans in the audience along with students of military families on Thu...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake City Council approved two city-wide tax increases and held a preliminary budget hearing during its regular bi-monthly meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Without discussion or debate, the City Council quickly passed two property tax increases totaling 5 percent that will take effect on Jan. 1, 2020. The first, a 4 percent increase, tapped into the city’s available 8.04 percent “banked levy capacity” — tax increases the city has opted not to use since 19...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Cardinal’s final game of the season Friday night, Nov. 1, against the top-seeded Deer Park was in many ways a game of opposites. While Deer Park was at 6-0 in Northeast A League play and 8-0 overall going into the post-season, Medical Lake was the reverse: 0-6 in the NEA and 0-8 overall and done for the year. Friday’s 62-12 loss at the hands of the Stags only hammered home a very large nail in the coffin of a season most want to put behind them, and under...
CHENEY - The Lady Blackhawks volleyball squad took it to both East Valley and Clarkston in Great Northern League post-season play, beating both in straight sets before going five sets in a loss to Pullman to advance in post-season play. District post-season play began on Thursday, Oct. 31, in Cheney when the Blackhawks beat the 2-10 Clarkston Bantams 25-22, 25-8, 25-12. Statistics were unavailable for the Clarkston match. Then it was on to face No. 2 seed East Valley on...
CHEWELAH - The Medical Lake cross country crew ran their best at the Northeast A League district championships at the Chewelah Golf Course on Saturday, Nov. 2, sending 10 varsity runners on to state 1A competition. The Cardinal boys finished second overall, seven points behind Lakeside while breaking four personal records. The Card girls qualified three for state - sophomore Allison Payne, with a time of 20 minutes, 5 seconds, freshman Jenna Castro in 20:34 and junior Paige He...
REARDAN - Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient Private Joe Mann's exploits in Holland during World War II have been celebrated across the globe. He is, in part, the namesake of the Department of Veterans Affairs Mann-Grandstaff Medical Center in Spokane. The former Army Reserve Center in Spokane was named Mann Hall. There is the Mann Theater at Fort Campbell, Ky., home of the 101st Airborne. A U.S. Navy ship bore his name, as does a street at Joint Base Lewis-McCord. And...
MEDICAL LAKE — Re*Imagine Medical Lake’s second annual Fall Festival was a hit. The candy competition winners were Wispies Hair Salon, Whispering Palms Massage and Medical Lake Flower Shop who together brought in 97 pounds of candy that was distributed during the festival. All told, some 424 pounds of candy was collected by Medical Lake businesses including: Owl Pharmacy, The Fischin’ Hole Tavern, Cela’s Creative Learning Center, Farm Salvation, Morning Brew, Washing...
CHENEY — Clay Randall died suddenly and unexpectedly on State Route 902 just east of Medical Lake on the evening of Oct. 22 when he was partially ejected from his truck when it went off the road before rolling across the highway and landing upside down in the ditch. Like many of us, he hadn’t planned ahead for his ultimate, if untimely death. Born in Chewelah in 1964, Randall was the oldest brother of five siblings. He eventually migrated to Tacoma where he was known as a cle...
