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The audience rose to their feet when Rob Mendez took the stage at the annual ESPYs (Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly) awards in Los Angeles this month to accept the Jimmy V. Perseverance Award. Looking dapper in a gray suit and silver tie, Mendez looked out at the audience full of today's top-tier athletes and began his acceptance speech by thanking a long list of people in his life. Then he offered this: "I also want to thank the game of football for all it's given me,...
The American Legion AA Medical Lake Post 196 crew took on the Rogers Pirates on Friday, July 12, at home, getting a win and a loss in doubleheader action. Jacob Edison started on the mound in game one, earning the 13-8 win, and going 2 for 2 at the bag with a triple and two RBIs. Cameron Comer was 2 for 3, and Denton Deal was 1 for 2 with two RBIs. Game two was a different story in a close game for Post 196, losing the bottom of the seventh inning 8-7. “It was a back and f...
The American Legion AAA Cannon Seniors added three more wins to their record in the past weeks play. Cannons vs. Spokane Bandits They started with two league wins in a doubleheader play on Monday, July 1 against the Spokane Bandits in Medical Lake. The Cannons took an early 4-2 lead in game one going into the third inning. Scoreless in the third and fourth, the Bandits brought in a runner at the top of the fifth to make it 4-3, but the Cannons came back in the bottom of the...
If you’ve driven down State Route 902 lately you’ve probably run into a construction project on the roadside near Lakeland Village and wondered what’s going on. That construction that has caused brief delays for motorists on SR 902 is due to the installation of an 8-inch high-pressure Avista gas main that will eventually augment an existing 4-inch line already in place between Medical Lake and Cheney, according to Avista. “Avista has embarked on a multi-year project to add...
If the Medical Lake City Council was considering any further action regarding a firework ban, a contingent of about 25 citizens were on-hand at the council’s July 2 meeting to remind them how they felt. At a meeting lacking any agenda action items, the full council heard committee reports and a smattering of citizen comments on various issues, including fireworks. Gerri Johnson thanked the council for the city’s support, along with a long list of other government age...
Former Vice President Hubert Humphrey once said, in part, “The moral test of government is how that government treats … those who are in the shadows of life — the sick, the needy and the handicapped.” That ideal is being exemplified by the ongoing transfer of 20 severely developmentally handicapped residents of the Rainier School, a state Department of Social and Health Services facility in Buckley, Wash., to Lakeland Village in Medical Lake. The city’s newest citizens...
The tree-sized branch on an old cottonwood tree at the corner of Stanley and Lake streets in Medical Lake had finally had enough, breaking off from the tree’s main truck on Tuesday, July 2. It was a bit of a shock to resident Jess Burdick and Coulton Raczykowski. Burdick said she was standing in the kitchen at about 8:30 a.m. when she heard a noise like firecrackers. Going outside to investigate, Burdick found the huge branch had fallen on her carport, taking out a r...
It was a long day at the Shadle Park diamond as the Spokane American Legion Cannons took on visiting Pullman in a doubleheader on Thursday, June 27, dropping both to the leagues number one team. “Offensively we were clicking,” head coach Austin Sharp said of game one. “We did really well.” Lead hitter, Medical Lake’s Mason Hammond, had a great game, hitting two doubles, an RBI, a stolen base and brought in two runs. Keegan Cottrell hit a single, a double and an RBI. Van Vega...
American Legion AA league Medical Lake Post 196 dropped two more games in doubleheader action at home against Northern Lakes on Thursday, June 27. “We were only able to scatter a few hits,” head coach Jefferson French said. Davenport’s Denton Deal opened the game, going 4 1\3 innings before being pulled on his pitch count, leaving the game tied at 1-1. Medical Lake’s Eugene Haas took the mound in relief. Northern Lakes spent much of the remaining innings hitting long and hard...
Picture yourself traveling through space. Ahead hovers your home, a glowing bright blue orb reflecting the sun’s light off its vast oceans in the otherwise inky-cold blackness of space. As you know from your travels among the unimaginable vastness of the cosmos, planet Earth is a unique and infinitesimal bubble of life within the uninhabitable and unforgiving vacuum of space. From the Bible, in the Book of Romans, chapter 1, verse 20, we are told, “For since the creation of th...
Medical Lake is one of three Spokane County municipalities that still allow private discharge of fireworks on Independence Day, and Medical Lake Fire Department personnel have been busy distributing fliers by hand and on social media as a reminder to residents of city ordinances and state fireworks law in advance of the holiday. Here’s a summary of city and state regulations relating to fireworks. By city ordinance, the discharge of fireworks is legal only on July 4 between 9...
Spokane County Fire District 3 achieved a major milestone in its 74-year history on Monday with the first raising of the American flag over its newly renovated Station 33 in Four Lakes. “We’ll be staffing it 24/7, 365 days a year,” District 3 Battalion Chief Tom Brunke said. “And we will aid them with volunteers on-shift.” One of 10 fire stations in the sprawling district’s 565 square mile area of responsibility, it’s the first-ever fulltime fire house, called a combination s...
It was one of the faster meetings in memory as the Medical Lake School Board made quick work of an essentially pro forma agenda on Tuesday, June 25. With Superintendent Tim Ames absent, it fell on Assistant Superintendent Kim Headrick to answer questions. The big news was the surprise retirement of Hallett Elementary School Principal Cindy McSmith. Headrick noted that McSmith had been in education for 40 years, 18 of those with Medical Lake. A replacement principal, Kristin...
The Medical Lake Planning Commission on Thursday, June 27, approved a resolution that will eventually be presented to the City Council that formalizes its recent work to update the city’s comprehensive plan. Among other things, the resolution states that during the commission’s deliberations it “has been made aware of planning issues beyond compliance with the (Growth Management) Act requiring additional study and consideration.” Translation: there are outstanding issues...
Picture a baseball game. The pitcher is on the mound; he gets his signal from the catcher and nods approval. He goes into his windup, makes his pitch and the home plate umpire makes the call. Then all hell breaks loose. At first there’s just some smack-talk, then some shoving and suddenly fists are flying. One man is knocked down from a punch while others push and shove. The police arrive. A bit of grousing and catcalling is nothing unusual in baseball. What was unusual a...
Medical Lake Post 196 continues to play aggressively in American Legion AA action as the summer season progresses. Post 196 at Riverside Tuesday, June 18 doubleheader on the road was a 5-4 game one loss to “a really solid Riverside,” according to head coach Jefferson French. Reardan’s Aiden Kieffer was on the mound. Davenport’s Garrett Mellick and Medical Lake’s Joe Griffey had a pair of hits each. “We hit the ball well and didn’t let up” Head coach Jefferson French But game...
The Spokane American Legion Cannons senior ball club took on Shadle Park before heading to the Yakima Tournament in non-league action in the past week, where they managed to squeak out a single win. Cannons vs. Shadle Park The Tuesday, June 18, league doubleheader was a double whammy for the Cannons in a seven-inning 5-4 loss, followed by a 19-2 whipping in five innings in Medical Lake. “We weren’t able to get runners in,” head coach Austin Sharp said. Shadle Park came out s...
The men and women of Crew 212, dressed in dirty yellow nomex shirts, heavy trousers, hardhats and boots, sat on the dirt road — a trail really — in the thick young pine forest behind the Riverside Middle School in Chatteroy taking a break. Nearby sat several chainsaws. The entire campus of the public school was taken over last week by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Eastern Washington Interagency Wildfire Training Academy (EWIWTA), where both new and sea...
If Medical Lake School District finance director Chad Moss had his way, school funding would be much simpler and less fluid. So much for wishful thinking. “There’s a lot of unknowns still,” Moss said of budgeting in general, a newly mandated state health benefits package that takes effect in 2020, and how it all will affect school district finances. The good news is the budget, which has yet to be completed for the next school year, appears to be well in the black with some...
Social media was set ablaze ahead of the Medical Lake City Council’s June 18 regular meeting when a discussion about a proposed fireworks ban within the city limits was placed on the agenda. The ban prompted a standing-room-only crowd of nearly 100 people to arrive ready to voice their opinion on the issue. It was enough to warrant the subtle presence of two Spokane County Sheriff deputies. But the first reading — a procedural precursor in which two readings are required to pa...
The Spokane Cannons, the American Legion AAA league team, is the summer home of West Plains boys of summer the likes of Sam Gollehon, Mason Hammond and Trevor Hurt-Moran of Medical Lake, and Nick Berman, Julian Chabot, Rory Schuller, Van Vega and Kyle Peabody of Cheney, who make up the bulk of the team roster. And they just endured a troubled tournament. “We just played bad defense all weekend,” head coach Austin Sharp said of the four day, five game Dwight Church tou...
The Medical Lake American Legion AA Post 196 baseball squad went into a doubleheader against Riverside on the road on Tuesday with a two-game wining streak as of press time, pounding Cheney13-3 in game one of a doubleheader, and 5-4 in game two on Thursday, June 13. Post 196 is 4-4 in league play and 5-7 overall with about a month left to play. Head coach Jefferson French called his boys, who are making the next step from school ball, a “come-from-behind team.” “We’re scrappy...
There was no shortage of visitors to Medical Lake this weekend along the reflective black wall engraved with the names of 58,318 Americans who didn't make it home alive from the Vietnam War. "Once the panels come out, this place becomes hallowed ground," Paul Chen, The Moving Wall caretaker, told volunteers gathered to help erect the traveling monument on Thursday morning after arriving via an escort of motorcycles and law enforcement. Those volunteers spent much of Thursday...
Terri Cooper’s demeanor was an equal measure of near-exhaustion and exhilaration on Wednesday, June 12, at the Medical Lake Middle School soccer field, where volunteers were putting the final touches on the area that would host The Moving Wall the following day. “It’s almost over,” Cooper said. “A year and a half of work.” Cooper is chairwoman of the festivals and events committee of Re*Imagine Medical Lake, and director and driving force behind bringing The Moving Wall...
