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Jordan Starr, Medical Lake High School assistant athletic director, has been named the new Cardinal head basketball coach. In a telephone interview, Starr said his goal for the 2020 season is to create an identity for his players. He knows the Cards’ opponents and his players, he said, and the style he wants to play against their opponents. “If we can create a great identify as a team we can find some success in the league,” Starr said. By identity, he said he wants his team...
Peter Lansburgh of Elk Grove, Calif. shot an 18 under par for the week at the 55th Lilac City Invitational to take the top spot on the leaderboard, the $10,000 purse and the Lilac City title at the Fairways Golf Course Sunday. Play started out windy on day one Thursday, with Nampa, Idaho’s Steve Tarkon leading the way, shooting a seven under 65. Rathdrum’s Derek Bayley was close on his heels with a 66. The low amateur lead was a three under 69 by Medical Lake’s Aaron Byrd....
This is for all you civilians out there. Yes, you, who have never served in the defense and protection of these United States. You see, all veterans make a sacrifice. All serve with the explicit understanding that at any time they may be called upon to protect and defend this great country of ours from enemies foreign and domestic, as the oath of enlistment reads. And in doing so they give something up. In a word, they give up their freedom. Because serving in the armed...
The primary topic of discussion at the Tuesday, June 4 Medical Lake City Council meeting was fire. Specifically fireworks and a city code pertaining to the use of fire pits. Two residents offered contrasting perspectives regarding the discharge of fireworks in the city. The full council was present as resident Scott Holbrook shared his view regarding the “patriotic reasons” for fireworks used in Independence Day celebrations, and how both public and private property fir...
Terrace Heights resident Duke Hammond had heard enough. “I think this is a crock of crap,” he told Spokane County engineering officials standing before a group of about 23 of his neighbors at a raucous Wednesday, June 5, public meeting at Snowden Elementary School. Hammond’s comment underscored the evident and palpable anger and frustration coming from neighborhood residents who have, to one degree or another, been fighting groundwater intrusion into the basements and crawl...
Being a Mariners fan is a lot like having a high school crush on someone that enjoys teasing you mercilessly. First they’re hot, then they’re cold — and you’re left frustrated and confused. Is consistency too much to ask for? Look, to be honest, I’m not one of those sports geeks who hovers over every team and player stat. I’m more of a passive, causal fan who likes to relax, toss back a cold one and just watch a game unfold. Or maybe a better word is implode, which is wh...
Medical Lake’s Sam Gollehon is going to the show, at least for a high school senior, anyway. The 5-foot-9-inch, 170 pound catcher, shortstop and all around versatile player for the Cardinals was named to one of four All-State teams after playing center and left field in a doubleheader feeder game on Thursday, May 31 at Shadle Park. All State directors and coaches nominate the top 10 players who advance to the All State Series during the feeder game. “I’m excited,” Golleho...
It was an impulsive decision. Born in Lakewood, Ohio, in 1945, Jerry Foster chose to join the U.S. Marine Corps in 1962, four days after he turned 17. He hadn’t even finished high school. “I was borderline a lot of problems,” Foster said of his enlistment, thinking the Marine Corps would instill the self-discipline he said he lacked at the time. “Boy they sure gave it to me.” He was assigned to artillery after boot camp at Parris Island, S.C. He started in fire direction contr...
The home of Art and Donna Kulibert has been named the Medical Lake Yard of the Month for June. From left are Jean Nelson of the Gardeners of Cheney, Dan Dorshorst of the Medical Lake Kiwanis, homeowners Art and Donna Kulibert, and Gayle Hennings the of Gardeners of Cheney. Each month during the spring and summer a yard is selected. The homeowner receives a $25 gift certificate to a local merchant....
They came to Waterfront Park in Medical Lake on Saturday from across the country to celebrate the end of an era. About 100 current and former Lakeland Village College in-Resident Volunteers (CIRV) alumni gathered to remember their work in the program that has served the residents at Lakeland Village since 1970. The nearly half-century old program is the latest victim of budget cuts. The program originally started as a high school program that brought kids from the Tri-Cities...
After 18 months of planning, The Moving Wall, a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington D.C., will be arriving at the Medical Lake Middle School soccer field on the 200 block of South Prentis Street on Thursday, June 13 at 9 .m., via an escort by law enforcement, fire and veteran motorcycle groups. The Wall will be on display beginning noon Thursday through noon Sunday. It will be staffed by volunteers and available for viewing 24 hours a day....
The Medical Lake School Board considered a number of policy revisions and resolutions, and heard reports on a recent state audit and other updates at its regular monthly meeting Tuesday, May 28, at Hallett Elementary School. Chad Moss, director of finance reported on a recent financial audit by the Office of the Washington State Auditor. “It was one of the most intensive audits that I’ve been a part of,” Moss said. The two-part audit looked at both financial statements and a...
It started from nothing, really. Just an idea hatched by a couple of motivated wrestling enthusiasts that, with a handful of local kids, they might start a kids’ folkstyle wrestling club. Flash forward 36 years later, and the Washington Little Guy Wrestling League — all 97 teams and 4,377 kids from three states — held its season-ending tournament on the expansive, 32,000 square foot floor of the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena. “It’s just an amazing thing that’s happened,...
Like many retired military service members of his particular vintage, Jerry Herker served a tour in Vietnam during the war. But unlike many others, his experience didn’t result in so much emotional baggage as it did perspective. “It changes your whole attitude toward life,” Herker said during an interview in his modest split-level Medical Lake home he and his wife, Patti, have lived in for some 40 years. Herker spent most of his 27-year Air Force career working on aircr...
Local, state and federal elected officials and dignitaries ceremoniously break ground on the two-year, $14.3 million Geiger Boulevard project scheduled to begin next week. Officials touted the cooperation between organizations and agencies as crucial to the project, and to many others in the future....
Veterans salute as the colors are presented and the National Anthem sung during Monday’s Memorial Day ceremonies at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery in Medical Lake....
The Medical Lake City Council approved two fireworks applications and received an update on events surrounding next month’s Founders Day celebration that includes a visit by The Moving Wall, a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. The June 15 Founders Day parade will be a big one, reported Re*Imagine Medical Lake president Gerri Johnson, with over twice as many parade entrants than normal. The weekend event will include 10 food trucks, a p...
Should high school sports make accommodations for an individual student’s religious beliefs? One local family believes so and, because they had done so in the past, asked the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association to do just that. The WIAA declined. Sherry Kenady’s Christian beliefs declares the Sabbath falls on Saturday and, per scripture, she and her family hold that day aside as one of rest and religious reflection. Kenady made her formal request to WIAA in Apr...
America celebrates Memorial Day this weekend, a long-running and, in the past, controversial holiday eventually made official by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966. The purpose of the holiday is to remember our nations fallen servicemen and women who have died in the defense of these United States. The weekend also unofficially ushers in the beginning of the summer vacation season with local parades, picnics, camping and road trips, baseball games and, less often, trips to...
A passing semitrailer sprays accumulated stormwater across the front of Bogle's Auto Repair at 16 1st St., Cheney, after a May 16 thunderstorm that inundated the region with various amounts of intense rain. Bogle said it was the fourth time his business had flooded since April 1....
If there's a sure sign of summer, it's roadway construction, and like seasonal temperatures, things are beginning to heat up near the Interstate 90 Medical Lake interchange. Work has already begun on one of three projects slated for construction in the area that are being driven by West Plains residential and commercial growth. One project has broken ground. Spokane County's low-bid contractor, Acme Concrete Paving, recently began work on the first of four phases of a...
A three-year financial audit by the Washington State Auditors Office found that the City of Medical Lake has had issues keeping track of its internal finances. But don’t be alarmed, Kathleen Cooper, director of communications for the state auditor said. “It’s not an usual finding,” Cooper said. “Internal controls are the most common finding. They don’t have enough internal staff to do (the accounting) so they hire someone.” The audit found the city incorrectly classified $5...
The big topic of the evening at the Medical Lake City Council meeting on May 7 was approval of a pre-annexation agreement between the city and Spokane Fire District 3. The city and the district will be asking voters to approve the annexation of the Medical Lake Fire Department into District 3 in an upcoming Aug. 6 special election. Assuming approval by voters, the agreement outlines various transitional details, including a 50-year lease of the current MLFD space — at $1 per y...
After 27 years, Wes Anderson came to accept who and what he was. So it was that, in 1995, after years of personal struggles he “came out” — as a Vietnam veteran. Two years later he made pilgrimage to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. It took three days of sightseeing around the Capital before Anderson finally made his way toward The Wall, a monument featuring a 246-foot-9-inch long, black opaque wall built of 144 highly polished granite panels sunk unobt...
Enjoy the clear blue spring sky while you can. By all accounts, this year will be host to yet another hot, dry and smoky summer fire season. “We’re already really dry,” Spokane County District 3 Division Chief Dustin Flock said. “The predictive outlook is higher than normal.” He noted that moisture content is low in the area. The Washington State Department of Natural Resources, who is responsible for preventing and fighting wildfires on 13 million acres of public and priva...
