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MEDICAL LAKE — The struggling Cardinal girls soccer team managed something they haven’t done in nine games: they got a ball into the opposing teams net. “They were pretty happy about that,” head coach Zane Higgins said. “And it was against Freeman which was another bonus.” The point was on a penalty kick by sophomore Allison Davis. It’s another sign of progress as the fledgling team continues work on improving their game as the end of the season looms. “Their improving,” Hig...
The Medical Lake interchange has been re-opened on schedule, according to Washington State Department of Transportation officials. In an email Wednesday night, Project Engineer Mark Allen announced the opening, effective at 6 a.m. Thursday morning. Geiger Boulevard east of the interchanges northern roundabout to Hayford Road remains closed while Spokane County works to complete its Geiger Boulevard Improvement project, which was scheduled to this week. A power outage Tuesday...
MEDICAL LAKE – The Medical Lake girl’s soccer squad is making headway, albeit at a glacial pace, according to head coach Zane Higgins. “We keep plugging away and working on fundamentals, then apply them,” Higgins said of practices. “We just have some issues executing.” The Cardinals, who have yet to notch a win, faced Deer Park at home in Northeast A league play on Tuesday, Oct 1, only to be pummeled 13-0, although 10 of those points came in the first half. Considering...
MEDICAL LAKE – The Medical Lake football squads season continued as it has in previous games when the traveled to Rockford on Friday night, Oct. 4, where they endured a 56-8 pounding by the 2-1 Freeman Scotties. Freeman came out from the first whistle fast and furious, scoring 26 points — one off a 50 yard interception with 2:30 remaining in the first quarter — for a 26-0 score going into the second quarter. Stunned but not broken, the Cardinal defense managed to hold the S...
MEDICAL LAKE – The Medical Lake volleyball crew continues rebuilding efforts after losing two more matches during the past week. With only one win this season in a non-league game, and winless in the Northeast A League, they still have plenty of work to do. The Cardinals took on Deer Park (2-4, 4-5) at home on Tuesday, Oct. 1, in NEA play, losing in three straight sets 25-14, 25-22 and 25-14. They then hit the road to face the 2B Bi-County League Mary Walker Chargers (...
MEDICAL LAKE – The Lady Blackhawks volleyball may have lost their two matches against East Valley and Pullman last week, but they didn’t go down without fight. Second seed East Valley (3-2, 4-5) took it to the Blackhawks on Tuesday, Oct. 1 on the home floor, winning three of four sets, with Cheney winning the first set 25-23, then losing the next three straight sets, 25-18, 25-23 and 25 16. Head coach Heather Zorrozua said it wasn’t their best performance. “East Valley was a t...
MEDICAL LAKE – The Medical Lake cross country has taken the top spot in the state 1A division in the most recent Washington State Cross Country Coaches Poll, bumping the Lakeside Eagles after taking the first Northeast A League race in at Nine Mile Falls on Wednesday, Oct. 2. “Can you imagine a flock of Cardinals beating back a group of Eagles?” Sue Blankenship, wife of Cardinal head cross country coach Gene Blankenship said. Medical Lake team edged out both the Eagles and t...
CHENEY —Spokane County Fire District 3 has been awarded a $2.06 million Staffing for Adequate Fire & Emergency Response, or SAFER, grant, according to a press release. The district will use the grant to fund the cost of 11 new firefighters during a three-year period to cover “the rapidly increasing number of emergency calls,” according to the release. Of the 11, eight will be full-time line firefighting positions. The remaining three will likely be additional chief...
MEDICAL LAKE — The City Council approved on first reading the city’s updated Comprehensive Plan, a task recently completed by the city Planning Commission and forwarded to the council for formal adoption. As in the previous council meeting, Councilman Ted Olsen shared concerns about provisions in the comprehensive plan related to sheltering homeless citizens. “I don’t think (homelessness) should be a burden on the taxpayers,” Olsen clarified after the meeting. However, in a me...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake High School Athletic Hall of Fame will be inducting three new members at a dinner and induction ceremony on Friday, Oct. 11 ahead of the school’s homecoming football game against Newport. Inductees Amanda Higgins, class of 2000, Nicole Alexander (Jones) class of 2002 and Gary Reid class of 1970, will be honored in front of the Medical Lake crowd during halftime at the game. Now its 12th year, the criteria for induction, according to John Gia...
MEDICAL LAKE —Spokane County Sheriff’s deputies arrested 27-year-old Dustin J. Williams at a local store at about 7 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 6, for failing to stop at the scene and render assistance after he struck a jogger near the intersection of South Stanley and East Campbell streets. According to a Sheriff’s Office press release, Williams was identified with the help of witnesses who described a blue or green sedan, possibly a Honda driving south on Stanley toward Campb...
MEDICAL LAKE -Spokane County Sheriff's Office deputies have arrested a motorist in connection with a hit-and-run incident. Dustin J. Williams, 27, was arrested for felony hit-and-run at a local store at about 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6. He allegedly failed to stop and render assistance after he struck a jogger near the intersection of South Stanley and East Campbell streets, the Sheriff's Office reported. Williams was identified with the help of witnesses who described a blue or gr...
Halfway through the season and the news is less then mixed for the Medical Lake volleyball team, but it’s not all doom — although they lost their last three matches, they at least won one set. Currently sitting at the bottom of the standings at 0-5 in Northeast A league and 1-7 overall, the young, inexperienced team still has work to do. “We are fighting the battle of finding out who we really are as a team,” head coach Todd Harr said. “We have had some great battles, but we h...
The Lady Blackhawk volleyball crew let the visiting West Valley (1-3, 4-4) know who owned the court on Tuesday, Sept. 24, beating the Eagles in a three sets, 25-8, 25-18, and 25-15. “I was very proud of the girls,” head coach Heather Zorrozua said. “We have been very focused on our game and controlling the flow of the match. These girls have been showing up to practice ready to learn and push themselves.” West Valley was no different, she said, noting that the team was foc...
The Medical Lake soccer team continued its team-building odyssey, enduring at least two more losses in the past week. On Tuesday, Sept. 24, the Cardinals hosted Riverside (3-2, 4-2) in Northeast A league action, getting shutout 9-0. Medical Lake then traveled to Colville (3-2, 3-3) the following Thursday, Sept. 26, where the Indians also held the Cardinals scoreless in an 8-0 loss. A match scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 28, against the Lakeland, Idaho, Hawks was canceled...
The Medical Lake cross country crew continued its winning streak during its third meet of the season, walking away from the Nike Portland Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 28, in Grisham, Ore. as the Division 3 Boys champions, scoring 39 points. The Cardinals were again led by Quintin Collins, who finished third overall, crossing the finish line at 16 minutes, 37 seconds. Freshman Reid Headrick was close on his heels, placing fourth at 16:43. Victor Long was eighth at 16:58, Ang...
The proverbial bovine fecal matter has been piling up recently. According to columnist Frank Watson, in his Sept. 26 piece, the minimum wage was never intended to be a living wage, but an income for “untested, unskilled labor.” Meanwhile, Don Brunell complained in his Sept. 12 column about the skyrocketing national debt, blaming it on so-called entitlement programs and government overspending, noting “taxes must be affordable.” Both perspectives are patently misguid...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake School District is working to develop a variety of methods and programs to “change the narrative” of the educational experience for it’s students and staff, and at least one of those programs is getting considerable attention. The district’s innovative mental health program called “Mind Your Health” recently began offering free mental health and other services to the Medical Lake community. Leading that program is Student Services Director Tawn...
CHENEY — Spokane County Fire District 3 is now offering free car seat checks to help parents ensure they are installing and placing children in car seats correctly. Benefits include ensuring the proper installation of the car seat and the safety of the child in it, making sure the child is in tight, but not too tight, which direction the seat should be installed and to check that the car seat fits the child correctly. Although people are invited to stop by the district h...
MEDICAL LAKE — Fall may have arrived based on the calendar and the shift of the Earth on its axis, but conditions remain dry enough for wildfires. Case in point, Medical Lake experienced two in as many days last week. On Tuesday, Sept. 25, an approximately five-acre stubble fire, possibly caused by a tractor hub, ignited a field north of the city and about a quarter mile west of the Fairchild Air Force Base border. The fire was extinguished quickly, according to Spokane C...
CHENEY — The West Plains will soon have a host of new firefighters to serve on the area’s four fire departments, and for the first time, all are being trained together in one location. Firefighter recruits from Airway Heights, Cheney, Spokane County Fire District 10 are all learning the firefighting trade with recruits from Spokane County Fire District 3 at its training facility on Presley Drive in Cheney. They are undertaking a major commitment: three months of intensive eve...
The past week was a rough one for football aficionados, unless you’re a Vandal or Huskie fan, then it was a great week. In West Plains prep football both the Cardinals and the Blackhawks went down in hard-fought games. At the collegiate level it was mainly a week of upsets. The Eastern Eagles headed south to the Palouse where the aforementioned Vandal’s took advantage of a hole in Eastern’s defense that arrived with two starting linebackers, a cornerback and a starting rushe...
The Medical Lake football squad (0-1, 0-3) may have lost the game against the Lakeside Eagles (1-0, 1-2) at home on Thursday, Sept. 19, but they never stopped striving for the win in a game that boasted over 300 Cardinal passing yards. “I don’t know the last time we had a 300 yard passer and two 100-yard receivers,” head coach Jeremy Bahr said. It only took the Eagles six minutes to get on the board from the one yard line to make it a 7-0 game. But then the Cardinals only...
The owner of a trailer was awakened in the worst possible way on Thursday, Sept. 19, when the travel trailer caught fire while she was napping. Spokane Count Fire District 3 were dispatched to West Cameron Road west of Cheney at 4:49 p.m. Arriving on-scene four minutes later firefighters found the trailer spewing flames, according to Division Chief Dustin Flock. They then received a shock when what sounded like ammunition began cooking-off in the fire. The noise was later...
Lakeland Village, the state Department of Social and Health Services residential facility for adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities in Medical Lake, was put on notice on Sept. 13 after an inspection by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found the facility failed to meet several standards of care. “Surveyors came down and saw some things they didn’t like and put us in a denial of payment status,” DSHS spokeswoman Lisa Copeland said. “That...
