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The Medical Lake girls arrived home after four days of state playoff games at the Hardwood Classic at the Yakima SunDome, bringing with them a fifth place title for the second year in a row after going 2 for 2 in the state 1A championships. King’s Knights The Card girls started out strong with a decisive 49-36 victory on Wednesday, Feb. 27 over No. 8 King’s Knights (19-7), coming out strong in the first quarter. Led by Jaycee Oliver, the Cards outscored the Knights by nin...
When is a business a business, and when is it part of the fabric of a community? Medical Lake may find out soon if things don't turn around for Care and Share, the 30-year-old landmark thrift store on Lefevre Street. That's because Care and Share isn't just a thrift store, but the financial lifeblood of the Medical Lake Food Bank. The do-it-yourself culture of the Internet has taken its toll on donations at the Care and Share, like it has many other brick-and-mortar stores,...
Sometimes it’s hard to see the forest because of the trees. The U.S. Constitution guarantees those inalienable rights to which the founding fathers referred in the Declaration of Independence — life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Consider your own definition of happiness, then and ask yourself this: do you and your family have the freedom and ability to pursue your idea of happiness in today’s economy? Conversation in mainstream and social media in recent years has u...
The Medical Lake High School music department sent 10 of its musicians and singers on Feb. 14-17 to Portland, Ore. to the National Association for Music Education, Northwest Division All-Northwest Band and Choir event. Being named to the All-Northwest honor group is no small feat with significant competition. Participants auditioned and are selected from high school-aged students from across the Northwest. “It’s a huge deal,” MLHS Band Director Craig Johnson said. “You...
Avista and the City of Medical Lake had an unfortunate encounter with a long forgotten service line near the intersection of North Stanley and East Percival Streets on Monday. Avista crews were placing a new utility pole and, in an abundance of caution at the city’s request, had moved slightly away from an existing fire hydrant to place the pole. The city was unaware, however, that an old service line was below. Avista subsequently hit and punctured the line. “I think the...
This is a basketball story. But it doesn't necessarily involve statistics, unless you can quantify desire. The Medical Lake Cardinal girls, led by Northeast 1A League Most Valuable Player Jessica Lohman, has had another winning season. Watching Lohman play one would never know that getting there took no small amount of perseverance and determination. "This is her year," Lohman's mother, Dee Dee said. It's been a long road for the blond-headed, 5-foot-11-inch Lohman. Although...
The Medical Lake girls moved ahead in post-season play in a low scoring, defensive 42-31 road victory against King’s Way Knights Friday at West Valley High School. But the beginning of the game didn’t look like eminent victory. The Card girls took the first quarter to warm up, allowing the Knights to outscore them by three points, and going only 1 for 8 in 3-point shooting. “King’s Way shot the ball really well in the first quarter,” head coach Kyle Lundberg said. That was...
All council members were present at the regular bi-weekly Medical Lake City Council meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 19. The primary focus of the evening was on the first reading of renewals for Avista and T-Mobile franchise agreements that allow the utilities to operate on city property. Set to expire next month, Avista’s electrical franchise agreement allows the utility provider to continue to locate its electrical transmission utilities within city rights of way. The agreement w...
The game at West Valley High School sometimes looked more like a wrestling match than a basketball game on Feb. 13 when the Medical Lake girls took on an aggressive Freeman team in the NEA championship game. Perhaps it was a grudge thing. After all, the Cards had beaten the Scotties in both of their regular season matches. In the end it was the Scotties physicality that was the Card girls’ demise. Freeman wasn’t afraid to haul down rebounds, wrestle for the ball, or in the...
The Medical Lake boys basketball team lost their third in a row, losing on the road at West Valley High School in their final game of the season against the Lakeside Eagles Wednesday, Feb. 13 in a 77-57 smacking. Things initially looked good for the Cards. Led by Garren Garza, they came out hot from the tip-off, and outscored the Eagles by three points in the first period. But the Eagles were just warming up. Lakeside came back in the second quarter with a nearly impenetrable...
It took four minutes for the visiting Caribou League Omak Pioneers (8-4, 14-9) to even get on the board against the Medical Lake girls’ “Red Crush” defense in a one-sided 59-33 victory on Saturday in post-season playoff action. The victory was led by 5-foot-8-inch Lexie Redell, who singlehandedly kept the Card offense scoring points at the start until Jaycee Oliver decided she wanted some of the action and hit a 3-pointer. Then the team’s first quarter shoot-fest began....
The Medical Lake wrestling squad closed out an impressive season last weekend at the Matt Classic XXXI at the Tacoma Dome, taking 13 wrestlers to the state championship tournament. Weston Thomas in the 120-pound weight class beat two wrestlers before falling to Royal's Dominic Martinez in a 1:33 minute takedown. In the consolation round he defeated two more wrestlers before being eliminated by Mount Baker's Jake Anderson for a fourth-place finish. Aden Carl in the 113-weight...
The French-born American historian Jacque Barzun, a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, wrote extensively about a wide range of Western and American cultural phenomena. One of his cultural studies involved baseball. He’s even quoted on a plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame. It reads, “Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game — and do it by watching first some high school or small town teams...
You probably haven't noticed, but there's a new railroad in town. Tucked unobtrusively beneath a covered walkway on Lefevre Street in downtown Medical Lake are the offices of the Washington Eastern Railroad (WER), the new operator of the Central Washington Branch of the state-owned and managed Palouse River and Coulee City Rail System. They're a small but busy crew. From his small office space, WER operations manager Gary Durr, and his conductors and maintenance crews manage,...
The City of Medical Lake will be constructing a new intertie connection with the City of Spokane beginning this spring near Craig Road and State Route 902, officials said. The nearly $500,000 infrastructure project will allow Medical Lake to tap into Spokane’s water on-demand for both a water emergency and for supplemental water. The cost includes connection fees charged by Spokane. The intertie agreement was approved by the Medical Lake City Council in mid-June. In it, S...
When is it appropriate for an elected official to skip their duties? That was a point of discussion at the Medical Lake City Council’s regular meeting Tuesday, Feb. 5, after one councilman chose to skip the meeting to instead watch the State of the Union address. The council was a total of three members shy Tuesday. Councilwoman Laura Parsons was home tending to a sick child. Councilman Don Kennedy was vacationing in Hawaii. And Councilman Ted Olson chose to stay home to w...
The Medical Lake boys basketball team rode a rollercoaster into the first two rounds of NEA post-season play with a road win against the Freeman Scotties on Wednesday, Feb. 6, , followed by a trouncing by top ranked Deer Park at West Valley High School on Saturday. At Freeman The Card's took it to Freeman on the Scotties home court playing "great ball," according to head coach Noel Hachtel. Freeman took an early lead in the first quarter, nearing the end of the quarter with a...
The top-seeded Medical Lake girls basketball squad were once again victorious in NEA district basketball tournament play on a snowy Friday at West Valley High School, keeping the Colville Indians at bay in a 46-40 victory. The Cards came out aggressively from the tip on both offense and defense, hitting their shots in a steady scoring game. And although the Indian’s managed to tie the score early in the first quarter, the Cards never gave up the lead throughout the game, d...
Longtime Medical Lake High School tennis coach Leroy Lemaster was named this year's Kiwanis senior citizen volunteer of the year Saturday at St. Anne's Parrish Hall in front of nearly 80 of the area's fellow seniors. Lemaster was recognized for his years of work in the tennis community, and his efforts at the Department of Social and Health Services' College In Residence Volunteer program at Lakeland Village, where he supervised over 40 college students who provided enhanced...
Our internal strength comes from controlling our perceptions and reactions to things external to us, or so ancient stoic philosophers believed and practiced. Of all the things Medical Lake High School senior Destiny Earle has learned to date in her high school career, that lesson may be the most enduring. That’s because Earle has transformed from a delinquent under juvenile court supervision to a successful student leader and cheerleader with a bright future. But getting t...
It was a “pretty tough year” due to injuries that saw six state-level grapplers go down for the season, according to head coach Matt Leenhouts. But he was happy to report that his back-up squad came out late in the season to make up for the early wrestler losses. “We ended up having 13 kids move on to regionals,” Leenhouts said. The Cardinals finished fourth at the District 7 tournament and 7-3 in duals. Thirteen wrestlers advanced to regionals including: Angel Mendez 106 pou...
It was a tough fight from tip-off to the final buzzer when the Medical Lake boys B-ball squad (5-7, 7-13) took on the Freeman Scotties (6-6, 9-11) on their home court in the final regular season game of the year. But the Cards had something to prove coming off two back-to-back losses in as many weeks. Samuel Gollhehon sank the games first field goal, but the Scotties answered back with a 3-pointer in the first minutes of the game. The game remained tied until a Cards rally...
It wasn’t for a lack of trying or the best of intentions. The Medical Lake Fire Department was called Monday to Medical Lake after dispatchers received multiple calls about a deer stranded in the ice. Firefighters responded with ice rescue equipment and went onto the ice to assess the situation. They found the injured deer about 200 feet from the south shore of the lake and attempted to make a rescue. “Surprisingly, the deer allowed them to put a rope around it,” MLFD Chief...
Unlike stop-and-go intersections, roundabouts keep traffic flowing continuously in a one-way, counter-clockwise direction. Remember that: traffic moves one-way counterclockwise. Basic rules There are four basic rules for roundabouts. Rule 1: Go slow. Roundabouts are designed to force drivers to slow down as they approach. Continue slowly as you maneuver through it. Rule 2: Traffic inside the roundabout has the right-of-way. Always yield to traffic coming from your left when...
About 60 people braved a dark, wet Friday evening at Snowden Elementary School to ask questions, share concerns, and receive an update on planned summer roadwork on and near the Medical Lake interchange on Interstate 90. Sponsored by a local homeowners association, the meeting included representatives from the Washington State Department of Transportation, Spokane County, and the West Plains Public Development Authority, who are either leading the design and construction of...
