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FOUR LAKES - Spokane photographer Ryan Rowe will be spending 3,500 minutes fishing from a float tube on Sliver Lake this weekend to raise money for Family Promise of Spokane's Open Doors 24/7 emergency shelter for children and families. The 3,500 minutes represents the number of homeless children in Spokane County, according to the fundraiser's Facebook page. The goal is to raise $35,000 during the 58-hour event. Other fisherman are invited to join either in real-time or...
The Medical Lake volleyball squad made strides in the past week. No, they didn’t win a match, unless almost counts, but the young team continues to show improvement as the season progresses. The Cardinals (3-0, 1-5) hosted the second place Freeman Scotties (2-0, 2-0) on Tuesday, Sept. 17, going 0 for 3 in three sets, 22-25, 5-25 and 18-25. Calling it a well-played game, head coach Todd Harr said the team “battled hard and fought for each point.” Libero Grace Stimson led the t...
The Medical Lake girls soccer squad (0-3, 0-5) continue to struggle and work on being competitive as the season moves ahead. The team lost 13-0 to the undefeated Freeman Scotties (3-0, 5-0) at home on Tuesday, Sept. 17. The teams focus, according to head coach Zane Higgins, was to focus on what they could do to improve, he said. The Cardinals faced then faced the Grizzlies (1-2, 1-5) in Newport the following Thursday in a 4-0 loss. “It was a pretty even game, back and f...
MEDICAL LAKE - The state Department of Transportation has revised the detour scheme of its planned 10-day Medical Lake interchange closure. Project Engineer Mark Allen announced Wednesday that state Highway 902, between Craig Road and the interchange, will be limited to local traffic only during the interchange's north half closure. The previous detour plan gave motorists the option of traveling Highway 902 through a portion of a newly constructed roundabout to Geiger...
It was an enthusiastic Medical Lake varsity volleyball squad that began their 2019 season with a 0-3 loss against visiting Lakeside on Thursday, Sept. 12, in the teams first Northeast A League game year, going 13-25, 11-25, 11-25 in three sets. “This was the best we have competed against Lakeside since I have been coaching at Medical Lake,” head coach Todd Harr wrote in an email. “We had an amazing crowd and the ladies were very scrappy throughout the night.” The 5-foot-...
Medical Lake’s girls’ soccer team started the season struggling, going scoreless in their first two games, out-gunned and out-maneuvered on the pitch. The Cardinals dropped their first game to the North Central Indians (2-0) on Tuesday, Sept. 10, at the Merkel Sports Complex, an 8-0 rout in non-league soccer action. On Thursday, Sept 12, the Cards hosted Lakeside, taking a 14-0 shellacking against the Eagles superior ball-handling, leaving the teams only club player, goa...
The Okanogan Bulldogs (1-1) brought their big boys to Holliday Field in Medical Lake to dominate on the ground under the Friday night lights on Sept. 13, in a 33-6 loss for the smaller Cardinal football squad. “They’re big, but they’re not that good,” was how one Cardinal player assessed the Okanogan players in the middle of the first quarter. Maybe, but the Caribou Trail League Bulldogs were good enough to continue jacking-up the score as the contest wore on against the agg...
Drivers will be enduring a 10-day closure of the north half of the Medical Lake interchange beginning Monday, Sept. 30, according to Washington State Department of Transportation officials. The closure will involve the north half of the interchange only, during which both the Interstate 90 westbound off- and on-ramps, and the freeway overcrossing structure between the interchange’s north and south sides will all be closed. Drivers using State Route 902 from Medical Lake w...
The Medical Lake City Council and staff discussed a wish list of projects they hope to include in their 2020 budget at a roundtable public workshop at City Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 10. City Administrator Doug Ross began by ticking-off a list of accomplishments from the previous year, among them the successful annexation of the city fire department with Spokane County Fire District 3, trail repaving, and a $250,000 Transportation Improvement Board grant. One missed goal — a b...
Editor's note: This story was updated on Sept. 16, 2019 to reflect an error in the original reporting that the lawsuit had been withdrawn. According to lawyers for the plaintiffs, only a portion of the lawsuit has been withdrawn. The portion of the lawsuit asking the WIAA to schedule post-season playoffs on a day other than Saturday, the Sabbath, remains active. The pressure is increasing on the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association to accommodate high school...
Drivers may be enduring a 10-day closure of the north half of the Medical Lake interchange beginning Monday, Sept. 30, according to Washington State Department of Transportation officials. "We're 95 percent sure we're going to try and do this," WSDOT Project Engineer Mark Allen said. The closure will involve the north half of the interchange only, during which both the Interstate 90 westbound off- and on-ramps, and the freeway overcrossing structure between the north and...
Fans at August’s Blue Waters, Bluegrass festival enjoyed the music in a variety of ways, including doing a little dancing on the grass at Medical Lake’s Waterfront Park. Photos such as these are perfect to send to the Cheney Free Press as a Picture of the Week....
I’m a big fan of sports, the national anthem and free speech. Like most fans, I enjoy watching talented people who have trained hard to hone their natural athletic gifts to compete against others on the field in their chosen sport. Sung at these events, the national anthem uses the American flag as a symbol of the endurance and perseverance of America and its so-called “American values” — those values being different things to different people — against its enemies on the fi...
The Medical Lake volleyball squad headed to Davenport on Saturday, Sept. 7 for the Davenport Jamboree, where they notched but a single win in four matches. But that’s OK with head coach Todd Harr. “Each of the girls played better as the day continued on,” Harr said in an email. “We will be looking to make adjustments headed into our next competition and make opponents work even hard to earn points.” The Cardinals opened the tournament facing Lind Ritzville, losing in two se...
It’s a building season for the Medical Lake Cardinals football squad, and they definitely hit a building called St. Maries in a one-sided, 32-2 non-league blowout in their season opener Friday, Sept. 6, in Idaho. It was an aggressive St. Maries defense that was penalized five times for 50 yards in the game. It as also a game of opposites. With roughly the same time of possession, and the St. Maries defense zeroed-in on the Cardinal running game and pushing them back for a l...
Is democracy threatened? Look around and it seems like — feels like — something is off. Things are amiss, and to offset what some consider the beginning of the end of democracy as we know it requires civic responsibility. We are seemingly bombarded on a daily basis by arguably disturbing news about far right conservative leaders like Donald Trump and Britain’s Boris Johnson, both of whom are actively undermining long-held and intertwined systems of trade, commerce and strat...
The condemned 99-year-old building at 110 S. Lefevre St. in Medical Lake has received a reprieve after owner and Spokane investor Andy Louie successfully submitted required engineering documents to city officials that paved the way for rehabilitation of the crumbling structure. Contacted by phone, Louie said the city was “still giving me some runaround, but it’s doable.” Previously condemned after complaints by an adjacent business owner and local residents prompted an inspe...
The Medical Lake School Board kicked off the new school year at its Tuesday, Aug. 27 meeting by moving money around for a new high school roof, hearing summer program reports, receiving an enrollment and preliminary legislative update, and learning how the district is working to "change the narrative" for students. But on the eve of the first day of the new school year the board was first introduced to some of the district's new crop of teachers before getting on with district...
Big changes are coming to the Medical Lake water system — and nobody will likely notice. The changes, including a new booster pump at one of the city’s two interties with the state water system, and a new intertie with the city of Spokane will provide fire flow capacity and provide a more reliable water source even as available ground water in the area remains an increasingly dubious prospect. Medical Lake water currently comes from four wells. Two are owned and operated ind...
If you've been pondering on the status of Medical Lake's Lefevre Street Bakery and Café, the cat is now out of the bag: it's for sale. That's at least one path that co-owner Kevin Gerhart is holding open. "It's one of the options we thought we would pursue," Gerhart said in a voicemail. "We thought that with us being shut down currently that someone might be interested in coming in with their own staff and doing their own thing." With the sale advertised with an...
Medical Lake social media lit up Saturday evening when a high-speed chase ensued after Spokane County Sheriff’s Deputies spotted a wanted suspect near Silver Lake. The pursuit began at 10:45 p.m. when a deputy attempted to pull the suspect over, according to Spokane County Sheriffs Office spokesman Cpl. Mark Gregory. Wanted on outstanding warrants and a probable cause for a felony crime on Aug. 18, rather than stop, the suspect instead accelerated and reportedly reached s...
Spokane County Commissioners have approved a petition by the Spokane Gun Club to re-designate a 451-acre site near the Medical Lake Cemetery from no shooting to a shooting zone at their Aug. 20 meeting after receiving an approval recommendation from the Spokane County Shooting Advisory Committee. The subject parcel is located in an area previously designated as a no-shooting area. The re-designation applies only to the subject parcel, according to the Shooting Advisory...
The Swedish climate activist 16-year-old Greta Thunberg recently set sail across the Atlantic on a solar and wind-powered racing yacht to attend climate summits in the U.S. She was offered the use of the yacht because she refused to use a transportation method that would further contribute to global warming. That got me thinking about what-ifs. What if there was no more oil to power planes or ships? Our modern world came into being because of petroleum, which has allowed...
The Washington State Department of Transportation and its partners are taking a fresh look at West Plains’ transportation as growth begins to outpace the area’s roadways capacity. WSDOT and a technical team of local, regional, tribal and federal stakeholders have embarked on a phased study from which to develop long-term transportation that will provide relief to commuters as growth on the West Plains swells and clogs roads. Charlene Kay, planning and strategic community man...
The West Plains may be getting a gun range soon if the Spokane Gun Club’s efforts work in their favor. But not everyone is thrilled with the idea. Located in Spokane Valley since 1892, the gun club is operating at its current location on borrowed time after selling the property to Central Valley School District in September 2018 for $4.5 million, according to county records. The club has been looking for a replacement site since. They settled a 451-acre site across from and i...
