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AIRWAY HEIGHTS - Thieves who assaulted a man Monday, Dec. 30,came up short after the victim was only able to produce a $1.50. The assailants may not be living free much longer, according to police. "We've gotten quite a few tips and have some a pretty solid leads," officer Erin Johnson said Friday afternoon. "Detectives will be following-up as soon as they can." According to Johnson, the victim had just gotten off a bus on the 1200 block of South Hayford Road near Walmart at...
SPOKANE VALLEY — The Cardinal girls basketball crew dropped two non-league games at the Eagle Holiday Classic at West Valley High School. Head coach Kyle Lundberg summed up the games with two words: four quarters. Medical Lake vs. East Valley “We have to be able to compete in all four quarters,” Lundberg said of the Friday, Dec. 27 game. “The East Valley game we struggled to score in the second and fourth quarters. We cut the lead down to five in the third quarter but couldn...
HANFORD — The Medical Lake wrestling team limped in, then limped out of Hanford High School’s Winter Cup tournament on Saturday, Dec. 28, taking 13th place overall in a field of 23 teams after a bug swept through the team. “Our team is all coming off of being sick,” head coach Matt Leenhouts said. Ethan Davis was the lone first place Cardinal wrestler in the 170-pound weight class, taking out Liberty-Spangle’s Jesse Turner in a close 6-5 decision, while Brent Keith finished...
ROCKFORD — Blackhawk grapplers took second at the annual Freeman Winter Classic on Saturday, Dec. 28, with nine scoring wrestlers and edging out Deer Park by five points to take second place and getting a head-to-head first-place victory by Blake Seubert in the 160-pound weight class in the championships. “We had two of the best rounds of wrestling we’ve had all year in the semifinal and placing rounds,” head coach Jason Connor said. “We put four in the finals from 138-160 a...
SPOKANE VALLEY — After a mediocre season last year with an 8-15 overall record, it may have taken new head coach Jordan Starr’s 2019 pre-season prediction that the Cardinal boys basketball team would likely take second in the Northeast A League as wishful thinking. But as the season pans-out the prediction may have been a bit humble for the scrappy, do-or-die Cardinals who, after eight games in which they’ve lost only one non-league game, are currently tied with Deer Park at 2...
MEDICAL LAKE — In one of its final acts, the Medical Lake Volunteer Firefighters Association withdrew the remaining funds from the associations bank account and donated it to the community it served for 115 years. “One of the last things the association voted on was to disperse those funds into the community,” former Medical Lake Fire Chief Jason Mayfield said. Mayfield, the department’s last fire chief, had the responsibility of overseeing the transition of the departm...
MEDICAL LAKE — At it’s final meeting of the decade the Medical Lake School Board made quick work of a short agenda ahead of the Christmas holiday, swearing in new and reelected board members, considering district policies and conducting other business. Superintendent Tim Ames swore-in board member Rod Von Lehe, who in-turn read the oath of office to reelected member Ron Cooper and newcomer Laura Parsons, who beat former board member Felicia Jensen in the November general ele...
CHENEY - A local family was displace after a New Year's Eve fire made its rental home uninhabitable. Medical Lake Middle School special education teacher Ben Hill and his three children weren't home when a passerby noticed the fire at 439 N. Sixth St.and dialed 911 at about 6:30–7 p.m., according to Fire Department Lt. Tim Steiner, the incident commander on the blaze. Firefighters from Cheney and Spokane County Fire District No. 3 were able to quickly contain the fire to a s...
As has been widely reported, Rep. Matt Shea (R-Spokane Valley) has been labeled a “domestic terrorist” after the Washington State House of Representatives commissioned an independent investigation to determine if, and to what extent, Shea “engaged, planned, or promoted political violence against groups or individuals.” Conducted by Rampart Group LLC, the extensive 108-page report concluded that Shea did, in fact, engage in political violence and domestic terrorism on three s...
MEDICAL LAKE — The high school track and field team sent eight athletes out of District 7 competition to the State 1A track meet at Eastern Washington University this year. Jaxyn Farmen, Sophie Salinas-Sanders and Mayah Eberhardt led the girls by earning a trip to state in the triple jump and 100-meter races respectively. The Cardinal boys were led by first-place finishes from Colton Ellis throwing discus and and Ezekiel Lewis in the high jump. Both achieved first places and s...
MEDICAL LAKE - After years of leadership and emersion on the local and regional folkstyle wrestling scene, Wayne Terry, co-creator of Medical Lake's Mat Maulers Wrestling Club and the Washington Little Guy Wrestling League, received a Lifetime Service to Wrestling award and was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Okla., for his decades of service and leadership to the sport at a June 2 ceremony in Olympia. Mat Maulers originally began as part of th...
CHENEY — History was made in August when the West Plains 11 – 12 Little League All Stars went to the state championships and won — twice — in a David and Goliath-type victory. In the surface the feat may not seem spectacular, after all, the team had made the playoffs many times in the series. In the league’s 15-year history they only won only one tournament game. But this year they won their first two games and advanced to the second round of play. What made the victories...
CHENEY — The Blackhawks wrestling squad took third overall at the Eisenhower Cadet Classic in East Valley on Wednesday, Dec. 18. “We were happy with our finalists,” head coach Jason Connor said, adding that the team scored 20 pins in the tournament. “Everyone contributed to the third-place finish as a team.” The big wines of the match were William Seeberger, who went 4-0 for first place in the 113-pound weight class with two pins and a decision and one bye. Dylan Straley a...
MEDICAL LAKE - The Cardinal girls earned fifth place at the state playoff games at the Hardwood Classic at the Yakima SunDome for the second year in a row after going 2 for 2 in the state 1A championships. The team started out with a decisive 49-36 victory over the No. 8 Kings Knights in a game that saw both teams exchange the lead several time in back-and-forth play. The Cardinals were led to the win by Jaycee Oliver before taking on the Meridian Trojans in a follow-up 41-33...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Cardinal girls came away from their first two Northeast A League games of the season last week with back-to-back wins going into their brief holiday break. Medical Lake vs. Lakeside Knowing the Eagles struggle with ball pressure, the plan, according to head coach Kyle Lundberg, was to generate defensive turnovers, then get out and run. “The girls did that,” Lundberg said. “They did a good job.” More than a good job in the lopsided 52-23 Tuesday, Dec. 17,...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Cardinal cross-country team had to settle for third place at the state 1A cross country championship meet at Pasco’s Sun Willow Golf Course in November. “I was really pleased with our kids,” head coach Gene Blankenship said. “They competed really well.” He was quick to point out that, as a team, “Finishing third is respectable.” Team leaders included Victor Long, Quintin Collins, Reid Headrick, Angel Mendez, Jeremiah Windle with “one of his best races of...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Cardinals are playing it tight and getting in some extra quarters as the season moves ahead in their first two Northeast A league games that together took four overtime quarters to win. Medical Lake vs. Lakeside It was deja vu all over again in Medical Lake on Tuesday, Dec. 12 when the 4-1 Cardinals took on the 3-4 Lakeside Eagles to win in another Ashton Hamilton-Becker last second 3-point clutch shot to seal a drawn out 62-59 win in a white-knuckle t...
MEDICAL LAKE — The City Council approved an update to the city’s Comprehensive Plan that will help guide its direction for the next decade in October, while also approving a 5 percent property tax increase. The first, a 4 percent tax increase, tapped into the city’s available 8.04 percent “banked levy capacity” — tax increases the city had opted not to use since 1985 that allows it to raise taxes beyond the state’s 1 percent per-year levy cap limit. The increase will add an a...
MEDICAL LAKE —Medical Lake experienced a big spike vehicle prowls in late 2019, Spokane County Undersheriff Dave Ellis told the Medical Lake City Council in December. While the three-year average is six, by that point in 2019 there had been 21 vehicle prowls, according to Sheriff’s Department data. He noted that the perpetrators could be arrested, but not necessarily held — one person who was arrested and booked at 5:45 a.m. was released by the court by 7:15 a.m. Worki...
MEDICAL LAKE - There was no shortage of visitors to Medical Lake in June along the reflective black wall engraved with the names of the 58,318 Americans who didn't make it home alive from the Vietnam War. Brought to the city in conjunction with the annual Founders Day celebration by Re*Imagine Medical Lake, The Moving Wall, a half-scale model of the actual monument in Washington D.C., brought thousands to the city under the hot June sun. Volunteers spent the morning of the...
MEDICAL LAKE — The organization that has served the citizens of Medical Lake for 115 years was dissolved this year after the overwhelming passage of Proposition 1 in August and was annexed by Spokane County Fire District 3. “The facts really spoke for themselves,” Medical Lake Fire Chief Jason Mayfield said. “I am super proud of our citizens for recognizing the need and taking this step.” His priority when he became chief six years ago was to guarantee every citizen would get...
MEDICAL LAKE - Students at Medical Lake Endeavors spent the evening of Tuesday, Dec. 17 in the classroom. But they weren't there to study. Endeavors teacher Char Edwards, dressed to the holiday nines in a red tutu, red and green stockings and festive fuzzy slippers, explained the event that evening was part of the alternative high leadership class that was launched at the beginning of the year. The class involves, among other things, planning the schools four annual family nig...
MEDICAL LAKE — Over 250 people braved freezing temperatures and solid gray skies to pay tribute to veterans interned at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery by laying over 2,000 wreaths during a Wreaths Across America ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 14. While a few dignitaries were seated inside the cemetery’s committal shelter, including Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the bulk of attendees endured the cold outside to listen to speakers and observe a ceremonial wreath pla...
Medical Lake residents pause to watch fireworks during the tree lighting ceremony part of last weekend's Winter Festival. For more pictures, turn to page 10....
MEDICAL LAKE — The kids sit at various tables working on Christmas projects, as kids will do during the holidays. The concrete walls of the large, utilitarian room devoid of decoration echo with youthful voices and laughter as they decorate Santa-shaped cookies with sprinkles and frosting, or paint cheap wood craft store ornaments with the help of volunteers dressed in a Santa costume or sporting headbands of reindeer antlers or oversized elf ears. The kids are all dressed nea...
