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The 2019 Medical Lake girls tennis team ended the season last weekend with a 3-9 record, 3-10 overall, and sixth among the seven Northeast A teams, after the district tournament at Mead High School Friday and Saturday, May 10-11. After Friday's elimination matches only one Card girl advanced to play on Saturday. First year player Riley Olmstead put on a good performance on the courts, going 2 for 3 in the tournament, winning her first match against Colville's Nena Reyes in...
Its over for the Medical Lake softball team after losing back-to-back games against Freeman last week. The Scotties (7-5, 14-7) traveled to Medical Lake on Tuesday, May 7, for the final game of the regular season, downing the Card girls 13-6. Both teams came out hitting in the first inning with the Cards taking a 2-1 lead going into a scoreless second, and by the top of the fifth the Cards had a three-run lead. But by then the Scotties bats had warmed up, knocking in five...
The Cards were dealt two losses in the last week of the regular season. It was a 4-1 team home loss against the Grizzlies with Medical Lake winning only a single match on Tuesday, April 30. “In general, this was a tough day due to injuries and sickness,” head coach Brian Tellez said in an email. “Regardless, we made the most of it by focusing on post-season strategy, team building and fun.” It was the Kenady brothers, Kurtis the elder and Brad the younger, in their final home...
The Medical Lake baseball crew wrapped up the regular season with a win against Deer Park on Tuesday, April 30, followed by a post-season loser-out loss to Riverside on Saturday, May 4 in Colville that the ended their 2019 baseball season. Medical Lake vs. Deer Park Because the Cards had the fourth seed playoff spot locked up, the goal was to gain momentum and offensive production in the Cards final regular season game, according to head coach Austin Sharp. It was a defensive...
The Medical Lake girls tennis squad have gone 3-9 in Northeast 1 League play and 3-10 overall, ending up in sixth place at the end of regular season court action after three final matches. The Card girls went 1-4 against the Grizzlies in a Tuesday, April 30 match at home, and without a full squad, according to head coach Dawn Eliassen, with the only win coming in the form of a forfeit by Newport against doubles team Suzanna Gavrilyuk and Allison Duncan. Doubles team Stasia Hur...
Medical Lake at Lakeside As the regular season draws to a close, the Cardinal softball team got a taste of what the post season may be like in the Northeast A League when they faced undefeated Lakeside on Tuesday, April 30. And it didn’t taste so good in a 9-1 road loss at Nine Mile Falls. “The Lakeside pitcher is pretty good,” head coach Tim Blakely said. “We were only able to get four hits off her.” Lakeside’s offense grabbed an early 4-0 lead after one inning that they d...
Don Turner was a go-to administrator during his 30-year Marine Corps career, and everything a Marine is reputed to be — dedicated, firm but fair, and proven in combat in the jungles of Vietnam. But you won’t see Turner at The Traveling Wall, a mobile half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., that will arrive in Medical Lake on June 13. He’s been to enough memorials. Enlistment Turner enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1959. After boot camp...
If the most recent budget appropriations are any indication, Medical Lake may be losing a long-running battle of wills with the state for funding of municipal services provided to Eastern State Hospital. The city and the Department of Social and Health Services, whose facilities — the Eastern State Hospital campus and Lakeland Village — take up about half of Medical Lake’s incorporated boundary, have been tied at the hip for decades for the delivery of nearly all the servi...
Medical Lake at Riverside The Card baseball crew traveled to Nine Mile Falls on Friday, April 26 for an offensive onslaught by both teams that by the end of the day found Medical Lake victorious over the Riverside Rams (2-8, 5-9). But what looked like a sure victory for the Cards for most of the game became a narrow win in the end. “We went into that game looking for a playoff spot,” head coach Austin Sharp said. “If we’d lost there’s a chance we might not make the playoffs....
You win some, you lose some, and the Cardinal boys tennis club managed one of each in regular season play, bringing their Northeast A League record to 1-6 in league play and 1-7 overall for a sixth-place position. The Cards won but a single match when they faced the Riverside Rams across the net on Tuesday, April 23. The Kenady brothers, Brad and Kurtis, were the only victors for the Cards, taking both sets 6-1, 6-1. Calling it a fun match to watch, boy’s head coach Brian T...
The Medical Lake girls tennis team notched another win putting the team in fifth place in the Northeast A League at 3-6 and 3-7 overall. The Cards beat Riverside (1-8, 1-8) on the road Tuesday, April 23, on the backs of the doubles teams, who had decisive wins. Stasia Hurt-Moran and Trinity Caputo shut out their Rams opponents 6-0, 6-0, while Lina Terporten and Nicole Ehr went 6-0, 6-2. Grace Remendowski and Emily Zunker also won their two matches 6-2, 7-6. “Our doubles t...
The Cardinal softball team made some headway in Northwest A League play as this year’s late-starting season moved ahead with strong wins in a doubleheader against Riverside, but two losses to Freeman and Coleville. Medical Lake vs. Freeman Medical Lake took on the fourth place Scotties (5-4, 9-4) on the road on April 16, losing ground quickly in a 12-2 loss that left their batting cold. Freeman came out quick, outscoring the Cards 4-2 in the first inning — and kept on goi...
Medical Lake resident Gary Starr had a talent for hitting the target while in the Army. His first assignment as newly-minted second lieutenant was platoon leader in an U.S. Army mechanized infantry battalion in Germany in early 1967, where he took first place in the Army’s 8th Division Pathfinders marksmanship competition. Later that year, after a promotion to 1st lieutenant, Starr was given command of an Army Airborne infantry company within the 8th Division. Under his l...
After hearing from one high school group on the instructional use of new Chromebook computers in Spanish language studies, and watched a demonstration of Knowledge Team students who had placed seventh in state competition this year, the Medical Lake School Board, absent member Peggy Schweikhardt, quickly got down to business. The board approved a first reading of revised policies related to student health, infectious diseases, and anaphylaxis prevention and response. One polic...
If there’s an analogy for the challenges facing the state’s mental health system, it might be found in the sweltering heat in the office of Eastern State Hospital CEO Mark Kettner. On a pleasantly cool mid-April day outside, his office is at least 80 degrees. “There’s no central anything in this building,“ Dean Davis, director of facilities said of the building’s antiquated steam heating system. The focus is instead on a $6.7 million capital improvement project currently u...
Medical Lake at Newport The Cards traveled to Newport on April 10 for a weather-related rescheduled league game where they were mauled by the Grizzlies on their home court in a 5-0 shutout. In singles action, it took Card Caleb Snow, who moved up a position, one set to get warmed up, losing the first set to Newport’s Cameron Whittle 1-6. Snow put up a good fight in the second set, but ultimately lost it as well 5-7. In his first singles match R.J. Pucket was handily beat 1-6,...
Medical Lake at Newport The Card girls brought up junior varsity players due to absences on the varsity squad to go 0-5 against the Grizzly girls on the road on April 10. In singles play Nicole Ehr and Henna VanDingenen — her first match of the season — both went down in singles play 0-6, 0-6. In doubles play, Sarah Ransom and Trinity Caputo lost 1-6, 2-6, while an Izzy Chicoine and Jenavieve Brandt combo weren’t able to win either of their sets, going 2-6, 0-6. Stasia Hurt-...
It’s a cool, overcast day at Spokane Valley Archery, tucked in the foothills beneath Mica Peak. Rain looks likely. Medical Lake Army veteran Larry McAdams sits somewhat impatiently inside the archery shop tossing off random one-liners at anyone within range. His friend, Don Wilhelm of Airway Heights, stands patiently some distance away. Nearby — and out of McAdams’s range — Kristie Townsend, another Army veteran, is doing wheelies in her pink wheelchair with a sense of anti...
I’d like to offer a contrast of ideals and character for your consideration. I recently had the pleasure of interviewing several Medical Lake High School students, members of the Circuit Breakers robotics team. I went into the interview not knowing what to expect, having never spoken with a teenager involved with robotics. I guess I expected some serious nerdiness. What a pleasant surprise it was. The kids I spoke with were polite, intelligent, engaging, enthusiastic and d...
Three’s a charm as these erstwhile egg hunters show off their golden eggs at Waterfront Park in Medical Lake Saturday, April 20. The annual event was hosted by the Medical Lake Kiwanis Club....
What is Medical Lake's identity? That seems the primary question that needs answering by the small West Plains community, at least according to some in attendance at an open house intended to inform citizens about the city's current Comprehensive Plan, or Comp Plan, efforts. A smattering of people milled about the City Council chambers on Thursday, April 11, talking, reading and placing Post-It note comments on five presentation boards that outlined the city Planning...
On the morning of July 29, 1967, the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal was conducting combat flight operations on "Yankee Station" off the coast of war-torn Vietnam. Suddenly, at 10:50 a.m., a "stray electrical signal," a U.S. Navy investigation concluded, caused a rocket strapped beneath the wing of a fighter to ignite, sending it hurtling across the flight deck of the carrier. It hit the fuel tank of another plane, which exploded, causing volatile jet fuel to burst into an...
Spokane County Fire District 3 recognized a variety of firefighters and others for outstanding service and exceptional leadership at its annual firefighter appreciation banquet on March 16, according to a press release. Battalion Chief Russ Mace received the Don Mangis Selfless Service Award for 55 years of selfless service. He has been heavily involved in mentoring new members, construction of many new fire stations - including the remodel of Station 33 in Four Lakes, his...
Last month the state Senate defeated a bill that, if approved, would have placed a referendum on the November general election ballot asking voters to approve a constitutional amendment allowing a simple majority vote to pass local school district construction bonds levies. The failure of the state Senate to pass Joint Resolution 8201 compounds the ongoing and convoluted business of keeping schools operational for administrators. The state law that remains on the books requires a so-called “supermajority” of school dis...
It's official: the Medical Lake City Council has approved an ordinance asking voters to give the thumbs up - or down - in August to a proposed annexation of city fire services by Spokane County Fire District 3. There was considerable discussion by council members during its April 2 meeting before the unanimous vote to move the ordinance forward. Councilmembers Ted Olson and Laura Parsons were absent from the meeting. Councilwoman Jessica Roberts, who said she supported the...
