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The Medical Lake softball crew went 2 for 2 in their last four as the late-starting season advances with plenty of doubleheaders to make up for lost time. Lakeside vs. Medical Lake The Lakeside Knights (5-2, 3-0) gave it to the Medical Lake softball crew in an 11-4 rout at home on Wednesday, April 10, scoring off of nine hits while taking advantage of six Cardinal errors, according to head coach Tim Blakely. "Our defense let us down," Blakely said. "We had six errors."...
What recourse does a municipality have when it feels the state owes it more money for providing a state agency police and fire services? That’s the challenge the city of Medical Lake has struggled with since 2014, when officials realized the city of Lakewood was being compensated by the state at a far higher rate for providing police services for Western State Hospital, according to Medical Lake City Administrator Doug Ross. State officials have essentially thumbed their n...
Baseball is a game of numbers. For the Medical Lake Cardinal baseball team, that number over spring break diamond action was six. The Cards have continued to struggle in their last six games before and during spring break, when they went 0 for 4. As of press time they stood at 1-1 in Northwest A league play, and 1-6 overall. Still, despite the losses head coach Austin Sharp sees an upswing in his team on a year-over-year basis. “This year is a huge improvement over last year,...
Life has a serendipitous way of coming full circle, and shaping our world view along the way. "Now I'm a musician," said long-time Medical Lake resident and former City Councilman Dave Seagrave, in a voice reminiscent of the late actor Jimmy Stewart. "How many people get to do what they wanted to do in high school?" Now 80, Seagrave has traveled a long, often dark road from his days as a high school trumpet and tuba player. During his life he's served in a spectrum of...
Against all odds, they've done it again. Medical Lake High School's Circuit Breakers robotics Team 4513 is once again headed to Houston, Texas, for the FIRST Robotics Competition, or FRC, April 17-19. "It's the frosting on the competition cake in FIRST robotics," Naomi Moody, team mentor, parent of Circuit Breaker team member Rylie Moody, and unofficial spokesperson for the group said. The competition in For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, or FIRST, is...
The Medical Lake boys tennis crew faced both Riverside and Freeman in Northeast A League matches on the Card’s home court last week. Medical Lake Boys vs Riverside As a team, the Card boys weren’t able to overcome Riverside in a 4-1 loss. In the only match win, doubles Eathan Brown and Kurtis Kenady “were on fire with impressive passing shots and energy out on the courts,” in doubles play, said coach Brian Tellez via email. Kenady and Brown smoked their opponents 6-1, 6-3 on t...
The Cardinal girls tennis team faced Riverside and Freeman in Northeast A League matches on Medical Lake courts last week, tallying both a win and a loss. Medical Lake girls vs Riverside The Cardinal girls brought it to the Rams with a 4-1 victory on Tuesday, March 26. In singles play, Emily Zunker overcame Helene Burin Des Roziers 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. In doubles action, both Sarah Ransom and Trinity Caputo earned a decisive 6-3, 6-0 victory, with Stasia Hurt-Moran and Raina Reyes g...
They were games of firsts for the Medical Lake baseball crew last week, when they notched both their first win and first loss in NEA league play in games against visiting Newport and Riverside. Newport vs. Medical Lake It was a Bennett Soliday sacrifice fly in the seventh inning that gave the Cardinals their first win of the season on Thursday, March 28 in a Northeast A League play against visiting Newport. “It was ugly baseball early,” head coach Austin Sharp said of the man...
Our democracy has become dysfunctional, and it’s all part of the sideshow of distraction. Meanwhile, special interests — read moneyed interests — have taken over the legislative decision-making processes that are intended for all, not just for the wealthy few. I was privileged to serve as a legislative intern during the financially desperate 2010 Washington state legislative session. Revenue forecasts at the time were in the red in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisi...
The Medical Lake School board received updates on a variety of topics at its regularly scheduled meeting March 26 at Medical Lake Middle School. Director of Finance Chad Moss presented an annual report of the district’s asset prevention program. “We know that there’s issues in the buildings,” Moss said. “We’ve got stuff on our plan that we obviously want to look at.” The district is required to submit an annual Site Condition Rating Summary report to the Office of the Superi...
This is a story of sea captains, a car ferry in an unexpected place, and true love. Driving north from Wilbur over the rolling wheat fields along the northern edge of the Columbia Plateau, one will suddenly find the highway taking a steep plug over the ragged basalt cliffs of the Columbia River gorge to wind like a coiled snake around sharp, serpentine curves toward the river basin below. Continue along the highway at the bottom and drivers will meet an unexpected sight in...
The Card baseball crew dropped their first game against Kiona-Benton in a 2-1 match-up on the road Thursday, March 21. But the loss isn’t something second-year head coach Austin Sharp is losing sleep over. In fact, he sees plenty of positives in the game, considering it was the team’s first time on the grass — even in practice — this season. “A two-one loss we can work with for the first time on the grass this year,” Sharp said. “We’ve only been in the parking lot so far.” The...
The Medical Lake group Friends of the Library will be holding their semi-annual book sale at the Medical Lake Library, 321 East Herb Street, on Friday and Saturday, April 12-13 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. All proceeds from the sale go to support the library and its various programs and offerings. Mary Seagrave, long-time library patron and chair of the group’s book sale effort, said the Friends of the Library mission is to encourage reading and literacy in the community. The book sa...
Area mayors provided state of the city reports to the West Plains Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, March 20, at its regular monthly breakfast at Hargreaves Hall on the Eastern Washington University campus. The main theme for the assembled elected officials was water availability and conservation and growth. Each municipality had a different take on how to deal with those issues. Airway Heights Airway Heights Councilman Sonny Weathers, sitting in for Mayor Kevin Richey, was...
Mary Seagrave of Friends of the Library poses for a photo in one of her favorite places — the Medical Lake Library. The group is hosting its semi-annual book sale at the library on Friday and Saturday, April 12-13 from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m....
The Medical Lake City Council moved one step closer to asking voters to approve a merger of current city fire and EMS services with the 565-square-mile Spokane County Fire District 3 that surrounds Medical Lake at its regular meeting Tuesday, March 19. With few questions or fanfare, Councilwoman Laura Parsons moved to approve the merger — technically an annexation. Councilman Ted Olson seconded and City Ordinance 1071 was approved on first reading. The merger must ultimately b...
So, I was cruising the Internet and came across a 2013 article from The Atlantic magazine, “The case against high school sports.” Search for it, it’s a valuable read. We are regularly told that sports are good for young people. It teaches things like resilience, sportsmanship; it toughens kids to the realities of the world beyond high school. Or so the argument goes anyway. Prep sports are huge, bigger than I was aware until I started covering it as a reporter. The sheer...
A neighbor on East Jim Darby Drive in Medical Lake called law enforcement on Tuesday afternoon, March 12, to report they feared a cat had been shot, according to the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office. The person, who told deputies that the sound of target shooting was common in the area, said they had heard a two shots and “feared” a cat that had wandered in the direction of the shooting had been shot, according to public information officer Deputy Mark Gregory. The cat did not...
Current and past Medical Lake firefighters and former chiefs came together on Saturday at the Medical Lake City Hall to honor former Medical Lake Fire Chief Gino Palomino with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his 16 years of service with the Medical Lake Fire Department. “It’s definitely a well-deserved award,” current Fire Chief Jason Mayfield said. Palomino was chief for eight years, and served on the Medical Lake Fire Department for 16 years, from 1992 to his depar...
Is there room for growth in Medical Lake? Opinions vary depending on who one speaks with. But one thing is becoming increasingly clear: the West Plains is growing economically, and with that growth comes the need for more housing and businesses to support it all. Gerri Johnson, owner of Medical Lake’s Farm Salvation store and president of Re*Imagine Medical Lake, a quasi-chamber of commerce organization, thinks Medical Lake has plenty of potential as a “gem” of Spokane count...
Training for spring sports normally has its challenges, but when winter decides to show up several weeks late, then hang on indefinitely, it can make for some adaptations by coaches and their teams. Such was the case in Medical Lake last Friday. Head coach Austin Sharp and assistant coach Fred Wagner, along with a select crew of volunteers from the Cardinal baseball team, took to the infield in an effort to, if not create some space to practice, at least hasten the eventual...
Lawmakers in Olympia have educators wringing their hands wondering what their school district's budget will look like once this year's legislative dust settles. Although in a good position financially, whatever happens, the fiscally conservative, property-poor Medical Lake School District may still lose money, according to Superintendent Tim Ames. The approximately $500,000 Ames said MLSD stands to lose from its $25.9 million annual budget is a bitter pill to potentially be...
The clock is ticking for the Medical Lake City Council to decide to ask voters to consider merging the city’s struggling all-volunteer fire department with Spokane County Fire District 3. Speaking before the council and spectators that included board members from SCFD3, Medical Lake Fire Chief Jason Mayfield suggested there are three options for the council to consider. One is do nothing — knowing that 911 calls will continue to be missed by the Medical Lake Fire Dep...
The Medical Lake School Board had a full agenda at its regular monthly meeting Tuesday, Feb. 26, when they considered variety of topics including policy revisions, special education successes, and a legislative session update from the district superintendent. The board approved three policy amendments relating to career and technical education, highly capable students, and excused and unexcused absences. A bid and proposals policy was considered and passed on first reading...
There’s a new room at Medical Lake High School that’s partially painted in various shades of Air Force blue. A scale model of a KC-135 tanker sits in one corner; the Fairchild Air Force Base logo adorns one wall. It’s called the Fairchild Room. A small contingent of Fairchild Air Force Base dignitaries and school district leaders came together at a ribbon cutting ceremony at the Medical Lake High School on Thursday, Feb. 20, to dedicate the room that serves as a physi...
