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MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake girls soccer squad closed out their season on Thursday, Oct. 24, with a loss to Deer Park in a winless season in which fate seemed to conspire against the young, inexperienced team. The Cardinals hosted the Colville Indians on Tuesday, Oct. 22 in a Northeast A League 7-0 loss, followed by a road game in Deer Park where they endured a 16-0 beating at the hand of the Stags. Medical Lake went 0-11 in NEA play and 0-13 overall in an i...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake volleyball crew closed out their regular season with at least one loss last week to the visiting No. 3 Colville Indians (7-4, 9-5) on Tuesday, Oct. 22 in a straight sets 25-17, 25-15, 25-14. Scores, coaching comments and statistics for Colville match and the Cardinal’s final match of the season against fifth-ranked Deer Park on Thursday, Oct. 24 were unavailable by press time. Medical Lake closed the regular season at the bottom of the Nor...
MEDICAL LAKE — It was another lopsided game for the Cardinals when they faced the Northeast A league second-seed Colville Indians at home in a 49-8 rout. Colville, now 4-1 in league play and 6-2 overall, pushed the Cardinal offense back to negative eight yards of total rushing, and forced Medical Lake to punt nine times, converting only three first downs and gaining only 94 offensive yards to the Indian’s 340. Colville owned Holliday Field all night, scoring on the ground in...
CHENEY — The Lady Blackhawk volleyball squad added two more to the win column last week when the beat both Clarkston and West Valley as the season winds down. Cheney traveled south to Clarkston (2-9,8-13) on Tuesday, Oct. 22, where they took it to the Bantams on their home wood in five sets 25-14, 21-25, 24-26, 26-24, 15-10. “Clarkston was not pretty,” assistant coach April Stark said. “But we ended up beating them down in Clarkston.” Junior Sara Graham led the Blackhawk...
Should college athletes be allowed to profit from their names, images and likenesses? The National Collegiate Athletic Association apparently thinks so, according to a Tuesday, Oct. 29 press release in which the governing board announced it had unanimously voted to allow athletes to “benefit” — read profit — “in a manner consistent with the collegiate model,” from personal endorsements, and directed each of its three divisions to begin the process of updating their bylaw...
MEDICAL LAKE - The Cardinal boys varsity cross country crew remains the top ranked 1A classification team according to the state coaches poll, and they proved why when both the Cardinal boys and girls cross country teams swept the visiting Freeman Scotties in a decisive 15-50 victory for both varsity squads on Wednesday, Oct. 23. "Nearly everyone ran faster this week on our home course than they did a week ago," head coach Gene Blankenship said via email, comparing this...
MEDICAL LAKE — In a quick session, the Medical Lake School Board approved several policies and the district’s overall School Improvement Plan at its regular meeting after a longer session that outlined individual school improvement plans, before hearing an update regarding ongoing efforts to enroll employees in the new State Education Benefits Board program at it’s Oct. 22 regular meeting. The board unanimously approved revisions to district policies relating to academic accel...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake School Board held a long, early meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 22, to hear the district’s five principals highlight the good things they’ve been doing, and areas of focused improvement. District schools are evaluated on results from a variety of state and local testing that measures two distinct areas of student learning: proficiency and growth. The district’s ongoing Center for Educational Effectiveness (CEE) survey also measures nine areas of “hig...
MEDICAL LAKE — It was July when little Aiden began acting out of character. He had a persistent low-grade fever, had started taking naps again, had even regressed from being potty trained to requiring diapers. He lost his appetite. His parents, Heather and Ryan Thomas, took Aiden to urgent care several times before finally taking him for a regular doctor’s checkup on Sept. 23. The doctor checked his lymph nodes, and then ordered a blood test. “I think the doctor had a feeli...
MEDICAL LAKE — The City Council gave its final approval to the city’s 2019 Comprehensive Plan that will help guide its direction for the next decade at its regular meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 8. It also passed on first reading a 4 percent property tax and 1 percent EMS levy increase after a public hearing. Neither issue was without long and sometimes contentious discussions among council members. It was a steep learning curve as the council was educated on nuances of taxing lim...
CHATTAROY — The Medical Lake Cardinal football squad took another beating on Friday, Oct. 18, this time by the Riverside Rams (3-2, 5-2) in a 61-14 road loss. The Cardinal defense was unable to stop the Rams, who amassed 242 rushing yards in 39 carries, scoring 34 points — all but one of the Ram touchdowns were on the ground — before junior quarterback Ashton Hamilton-Becker found senior Jordan Peterson on an 18 yard pass in the final seconds of the first half. Medical Lake...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Cardinal soccer squad remains winless but not scoreless, managing to net their second goal of the season against Riverside, and on the road no less. Still, it wasn’t a victory in the 8-1 loss at the hands of the Rams (4-7, 4-8) on Thursday, Oct. 17. The previous Tuesday, Oct. 15, the Cardinal crew was unable to find the net in an 8-0 loss at home to Newport (2-8, 2-12). Medical Lake sits at 0-9 in Northeast A League play and 0-11 overall as they head int...
MEDICAL LAKE — Head coach Todd Harr has been saying it all season long: they’re improving. On Tuesday, Oct. 15 the Medical Lake girls’ volleyball walked that talk when they beat the visiting Newport Grizzlies (2-7,4-8) 3-1 in four sets 25-21, 16-25, 25-22, 25-10 in their first Northeast A League victory of the season. ‘The win versus Newport definitely lifted a chip off the shoulder for this program,” Harr said. “Many of the younger players were able to play loose and live in...
CHENEY — The Lady Blackhawks volleyball crew dropped two more matches in the past week against East Valley and Pullman as the regular season winds to a close. ”We really took a hit having both East Valley and Pullam in the same week,” head coach Heather Zorrozua said. “These are two teams that we can compete with and definitely can take charge of but struggle to control the rollercoaster that is momentum.” The Blackhawks took a loss against East Valley on Thursday, Oct. 17 o...
MEDICAL LAKE — The top-ranked state 1A Cardinal boys’ cross country team continued its domination after taking first through fifth place at home in the third Northeast A League meet of the season, going 15-48 against both No. 10 Riverside and Deer Park on Wednesday, Oct. 16. Despite an infestation of small white gnat-like bugs that descended upon the event, Cardinal speedster Quintin Collins managed to nail a 16 minute, 41.66 second time to set a new home course record pre...
MEDICAL LAKE — Only one of three positions are contested in this years school board election in Medical Lake. While incumbent council president Ron VonLehe and Ron Cooper are running uncontested, incumbent Felicia Jensen is being challenged for her Director Position No. 3 seat by Laura Parsons, who currently serves on the Medical Lake City Council and is not seeking reelection to her seat there. Each candidate was asked the same questions, sent to the emails listed on the S...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — There are two contested positions on the City Council this election season. Incumbent Larry Bowman is defending Position No. 5 against challenger Jared Lacambra, while Jennifer Morton and Sarah Slater via for Position No. 7 currently held by Dave Malet. Incumbent Councilwoman Veronica Messing is running uncontested. Each candidate was asked the same questions, sent to the emails listed on the Spokane County Elections website, and offered the same amount of t...
MONTEREY, CALIF. — Former Medical Lake standout musician Nick Isherwood was recently named the 23rd recipient of the Jimmy Lyons Scholarship, a four-year, full ride scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass., at the 2019 Monterey Jazz Festival, where he performed with faculty saxophonist George Garzone and the Berklee group the Berklee Global Jazz Ambassadors, according to a Berklee press release. Isherwood is the first bassist to be selected in the s...
MEDICAL LAKE - High school senior Brennan Hart's goal is to attend the United States Naval Academy and study nuclear engineering. His parents are Air Force veterans. "The think I'm trying to rebel," Hart deadpanned with a straight face. Tall and erect, Hart carries himself with a self-disciplined bearing and no-nonsense demeanor that renders the idea of a personal rebellious streak seem laughable. His bearing is unusual, according to Chief Master Sgt. Albert McGowan,...
MEDICAL LAKE — With only a few more games remaining in the regular season, the Cardinal volleyball crew remains the only Northeast A League team without a league win after dropping two more. On Oct. 8, Medical Lake traveled to Nine Mile Falls to face the Lakeside Eagles, losing in three sets 25-11, 25-13, 25-16. “This week the team competed at a much higher level and found a way to battle each night,” head coach Todd Harr said in an email. “The team is fighting off a sickness...
MEDICAL LAKE — All things being equal, both the Cardinals and the Newport Grizzlies (1-2,4-2) had an equal chance of winning Medical Lake’s Homecoming game on Friday, Oct. 11. But two game statistics stood out in the tale of the Cardinals 35-12 loss: rushing yards and interceptions. The Cards got off to a good start from the opening kickoff in Northeast A League play when junior quarterback Ashton Hamilton-Becker — playing most of the game with a taped-up ankle after an injur...
MEDICAL LAKE – The Cardinal cross country boys crew remains the team to beat in the Northeast A League as they stayed the top-ranked team in the state 1A weekly coach’s poll after decisive victories in both a league match and a strong showing at a cross-state invitational. The Cardinals continued their league juggernaut when took their A game to Newport last Wednesday, Oct. 9, winning both varsity divisions against the Grizzlies by wide margins. The boys’ varsity left the o...
“Buy the ticket, take the ride,” or so wrote journalist Hunter S. Thompson in his book “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” While the context of Thompson’s comment was certainly different, on the surface it’s perfectly relevant for I-976, the newest car tab reduction effort placed on next month’s ballot by serial initiative activist and anti-tax campaigner Tim Eyman. His fourth effort to reduce the cost of taxing licensed vehicles in the state, if passed, would pull a $2 bil...
SILVER LAKE — Workers for Garco Construction were on-hand on Wednesday, Oct. 2 to assist North Idaho Maritime in installing dock sections on Silver Lake at Gonzaga University’s new boathouse that will house its men’s and woman’s competitive rowing teams. The project has been two years in the making acquiring the land, and obtaining various permitting for construction of the 11,800 square foot rowing facility and dock, according to Rob Kavon, associate director of athleti...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake School District Student Support Services team is offering a series of MIND Your Health classes during the 2019-2020 school year. The season kicks off on Monday, Oct. 21, at the Medical Lake High School auditorium with “Lessons learned from my journey as an American Ninja Warrior,” a presentation by Spokane physical education teacher Sandy Zimmerman. Zimmerman gained notoriety when, at the age of 42, she became the first mother and the oldest wom...
