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The 18th annual Blue Waters, Bluegrass Festival was another hit this year, although not as well-attended as previous years, something organizers blamed on a wet weather forecast that never materialized - at least in Medical Lake's Waterfront Park. "We literally had no rain," festival president Nick Burgis said. "There was one instance when I had to cover some equipment for a minute." Rain in Spokane was at times a deluge, but despite being surrounded by heavy clouds, the...
From left: Dan Dorshorst of the Medical Lake Kiwanis, Gayle Hennings of the Gardeners of Cheney, homeowner Diane Nichols, and Donna Kuilbert of Gardeners of Cheney. As this month’s winner, Nichols received a $25 gift certificate from Farm Salvation in Medical Lake....
The organization that has been serving the citizens of Medical Lake for 115 years will soon be no more. With the overwhelming passage of Proposition 1 earlier this month, the Medical Lake Fire Department will be annexed into Spokane Fire District 3 once the Tuesday, Aug. 6, election is certified by county officials. Then the two fire departments will become one. “The facts really spoke for themselves,” Medical Lake Fire Chief Jason Mayfield said. “I am super proud of our c...
Members of the bluegrass band Whiskey Deaf keep the crowd entertained Saturday at the 18th annual Blue Water Bluegrass Festival at Medical Lake’s Waterfront Park last weekend....
Medical Lake may be seeing a new building downtown, at least if the plans of Bob and Jennifer Maxwell come to fruition. The couple has purchased the lot, including the building commonly known as the Icicle Stand, at 112 S. Lefevre Street, for $32,500, according to Spokane County records. "This will be a metal and wood-type of building," Maxwell, a 30-year real estate agent and property investor, said. He and Jennifer moved to Medical Lake from Spokane's South Hill about a...
Drivers traveling between Cheney and Medical Lake may have noticed the return of an unusual aquatic neighbor on Heron Pond, adjacent to Salnave Road just west of Interstate 90. Marsha the Marsh Monster is back, and she's brought her offspring, Reed, with her. The sculptures are the creation of retired fiberglass fabricator Jerry Pitts, a long-time resident of the pond. Long an icon on the rural highway, Marsha has a bit of a storied past. While her origin dates vary depending...
What’s going on with the Lefevre Street Bakery and Café in Medical Lake? That question has been on many people’s minds since the restaurant suddenly shut down just over a month ago. A July 6 post on the business’s Facebook page, and notes taped to its doors, said a leak in the heating and cooling system was dripping into the kitchen, forcing the restaurant’s closure until it could be repaired. Then a July 20 Facebook update explained that water damage from the leak was more ex...
The Medical Lake School Board approved a new school budget on Tuesday, July 30. The details were outlined for board members by district staff at a public hearing held before the board’s regular monthly meeting. The $5.2 million 2019-2020 district budget represents a $600,000 revenue shortfall the district is offsetting by dipping into its general fund. That same scenario is built into the district’s four year revenue projection that, assuming nothing changes, will nearly dep...
Firefighters from multiple agencies were dispatched to Eastern State Hospital for a reported commercial structure fire in the northwest wing of the hospital at 12:11 p.m., Wednesday, July 31 — only to find there was no fire. Medical Lake Fire Chief Jason Mayfield, on his way out of town for vacation, turned around to respond to the call and was the first on scene, according to department spokesman Capt. Jake Kirwin. Seeing no obvious smoke when he arrived, Mayfield began a s...
Some 131 Medical Lake residents received disturbing news last week. A notice, hand delivered by city maintenance personnel on Wednesday, July 24, informed them that routine water samples had tested positive for E.coli bacteria. The notice advised residents to use bottled water or boil tap water for one minute until further notice. “It was my worst nightmare,” Scott Duncan, Medical Lake maintenance supervisor, said. Additional samples were drawn and submitted for testing the...
The Aug. 6 primary is next Tuesday, and among other items on the ballot, both Medical Lake and Spokane County Fire District 3 voters are being asked to consider a merger of the Medical Lake Fire Department into District 3. If passed, emergency service calls in Medical Lake would thereafter be handled by District 3 personnel from its newly renovated Station 33 in Four Lakes, now fully staffed 24 hours per day, 365 days per year, once the election is certified by county...
History was recently made in West Plains sports when the West Plains 11 – 12 Little League All Stars went to the state championships and won — twice. Although they had made the playoffs many times in the past, they’d always been quickly eliminated — often by double digits — in the first two games of the series. And in the league’s 15-year history they had won only a single tournament game. “Most of the time we go to the state tournament we lose two and we come home,” Josh A...
The Washington Eastern Railroad (WER) crew has been busy repairing track defects along the Central Washington Branch of the Palouse River and Coulee City Rail System (PCC) in recent weeks. “The work will take the track out of exempted status,” WER Operations Manager Gary Durr said. Exempted status is a Federal Railroad Association (FRA) designation that restricts WER train speeds to 10 mph and gives the railroad unlimited time to correct track defects, Durr said. Being non...
Set up at the intersection of Cameron Road and State Route 904 just west of Cheney on Wednesday, July 24, the incident command post consisted of a truck tailgate, a whiteboard and a lot of squawking hand-held radios. The smoke-covered highway was closed, traffic being diverted elsewhere by Washington State Department of Transportation personnel. Vehicles occasionally passed by, kicking up dust on Cameron Road, some towing livestock trailers as they evacuated the area ahead of...
A recent Washington Post analysis of a University of North Texas study found a 226 percent increase in reported hate crimes in counties where President Donald Trump held a rally compared to those where he didn’t. Few escape his verbal hate speech — Mexicans, African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Muslims, Jews, immigrants; women and gold star military families. Even people with disabilities are a target. But is there a correlation between the president, who cam...
Perhaps it was a bad omen when the umpires arrived an hour late. Whatever the reason, the American Legion AA Medical Lake Post 196 crew finished their season with a two-game make-up doubleheader at Kettle Falls that ended in a double loss. Pitcher Denton Deal "had his worst outing of the year," head coach Jefferson French said of game one. "He wasn't able to find the strike zone," French said. "And when he did they hit him pretty well." The first game went to Kettle Falls...
The Spokane American Legion Cannons Senior ended their season with a tough loss in the first game of loser-out league playoffs at home against the Bandits at Shadle Park Thursday, July 18. In a back-and-forth game that was tied going into a no-hit sixth inning, the Bandits brought in two runners in the top of the seventh, which the Cannons couldn't answer despite out hitting the bandits six to five in the game. The Cannons drew first blood, holding the Bandits scoreless in...
The business has been integral to the social fabric of Medical Lake for nearly a quarter century, and while Denny’s Harvest Foods isn’t going anywhere, the owner, Kathy McDaniel, a slight woman with short, sandy-blond hair, gray eyes and glasses, is moving on. She and her late husband, Denny, the business’s namesake, had been working for several months in 2017 preparing to sell and retire when his untimely death radically changed McDaniel’s life. “We were in the process o...
The 22nd annual 24 Hour Tennis-a-Thon was by all accounts another success this year as volunteers, coaches, players and participants came out to hit some balls, receive some lessons, and raise money for the Medical Lake Food Bank, Medical Lake Outreach Center and Medical Lake High School tennis teams. “We’ve been out here for 24-hours or close to it,” volunteer Rob Haugen said on Thursday morning, July 18, as the event approached its conclusion. He estimated that close to 70...
Bayle Bahr, left, and Chloe Parsons spent much of Thursday, July 18 under the sun at the corner of Lefevre and Lake streets in Medical Lake selling drinks and asking for donations to offset the cost of Chloe’s Amateur Athletic Association basketball league fees. “It was her idea,” Chloe’s mom, Laura Parson’s said....
Attendance was back to normal – that is, low – for the July 16 Medical Lake City Council meeting, as members, absent Councilwoman Jessica Roberts, heard two presentations and addressed some minor business issues before going into executive session for litigation reasons. A planning commission position vacant for weeks was filled by longtime resident Marye Jorgenson by unanimous approval by the council. The council also approved an on-call contract, not to exceed $12,500, wit...
The American Legion AAA Spokane Cannons Senior crew traveled east to Whitefish, Mont. for the Whitefish Tournament last weekend, where they took an 0-4, slide in non-league action, including a 21-0 loss to the AA Elks on Friday. Cannons vs. Glacier Twins Errors. It was their 10 errors that cost the Cannons in a 10-4 loss on Thursday, July 11, despite out-hitting the Twins 8-7. The Twins recorded no errors, going hitless until the fourth inning when they racked up seven runs,...
Grab your fiddles, banjos and guitars, your tents and lawn chairs, it’s family friendly bluegrass pickin’ time once again. The 18th annual Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival is just around the corner and will soon be in full foot-stomping mode beneath the pines of Medical Lake’s Waterfront Park. Billed as “quite possibly the best summertime bluegrass experience in the Northwest,” this year’s festival features a diverse cast of local to national bluegrass bands. “If you’re a musi...
From left, Dan Dorshorst of the Medical Lake Kiwanis, homeowner Juergen Duetsch and his wife Susan, Sharon Granquist, Gayle Hennings of the Gardeners of Cheney, and Shannon Narcelo representing this month’s sponsor, the Pizza Factory. Kneeling are Braydon and Tyrstan Demick. The Duetsch’s received a $25 gift certificate from the Pizza Factory as this month’s Medical Lake Yard of the Month winners....
It appears Andy Louie bought a lemon, and wants to make lemonade, but the city of Medical Lake won’t let him. The lemon in question is a 99-year-old, 888-square-foot building located at 110 S. Lefevre St. in Medical Lake that Louie purchased in March 2018 for $35,000, according to county documents. The structure was later deemed uninhabitable after complaints from an adjacent business and local residents prompted a city inspection, according to City Administrator Doug Ross. F...
