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MEDICAL LAKE – Superintendent of Schools Tim Ames wryly remembered the phone call he got on Saturday, March 14 as being when the “fun” began. But Ames was not first in line to learn that an unnamed school district employee had been suspected of carrying the COVID-19 virus. That “honor” was bestowed on Career and Technical Education coordinator Ann Everett who oversees robotics, where the infected teacher serves as an advisor. “She said I think you really need to talk to our...
MEDICAL LAKE – “Domino’s Pizza,” came the reply on the other end of the phone, followed by a laugh. But please pardon Medical Lake City Administrator Doug Ross for this injection of levity in a before business hours call who he knew was from some nosy reporter. Regular customers of City Hall will get nothing but respect and service as usual from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., even amidst the current craziness of COVID-19 — except not personally interacting with people. “I think all m...
MEDICAL LAKE — Just as Medical Lake parents and employees were trying to grasp the magnitude of Gov. Jay Inslee’s decree that all state K-12 schools would be forced to close for up to six weeks due to the COVID-19 virus, news that a staff member had tested positive was announced. The governor announced on Friday, Feb. 13 that schools across the state —both public and private —would remain closed from March 17 through April 24. This decision expanded a closure that Inslee...
MEDICAL LAKE — With the ongoing takeover of Medical Lake’s fire department by Spokane County Fire District 3, so will officially disappear the second oldest fire service in the county. But all good things tend to come to an end and in the case of emergency services in the community it all about saving lives and property. “I’m never gonna’ fault our residents for wanting things to stay the same or having loyalties,” City Administrator Doug Ross said. “But I think at the end of...
While this plea may not carry much weight I’m going to present it anyway. Ringo my beagle has an eating disorder, meaning that if an entire bag of food were somehow left within reach of his snout, he just might eat until he burst. But that’s not the point. Somehow when we got him as a pup nearly 14 years ago on Father’s Day we were told that he was typical of many beagles. They eat, eat, eat and slowly become big and round. Through careful exercise, Ringo has remained a const...
Tanner Groves (left) and Jack Perry celebrate Eastern Washington University winning the 2019-20 Big Sky Conference regular season men’s basketball championship. Eastern clinched the outright title with a 78-69 victory on March 7 at Reese Court over Weber State, earning the conference’s top-seed in the Big Sky tournament this week in Boise where they face the winner of the No. 8 vs. No. 9 game between Sacramento State and Weber State....
MEDICAL LAKE — One of country singer George Strait’s many memorable songs is typical of the genre of the girl leaving the guy. It cries out that “If you leave me, I won’t miss you,” and if you believe that, the song continues, “I got some oceanfront property in Arizona; From my front porch you can see the sea.” That song might have come to mind by audience members during some light-hearted debate by the Medical Lake City Council at its March 3 meeting where for nearly 10 min...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake boys basketball team will certainly be faced with a significant rebuilding job for the 2020-2021 season. They will lose eight seniors, four of them starters, two All-Northeast A League performers in Nick Mason and Jordan Petersen. “They had tremendous years, they just kind of did everything for our team, offense defense, good leadership at times,” head coach Jordan Starr said. “So it’s going to tough to replace them.” Gary Holcomb III, Zeke L...
MEDICAL LAKE — There might not be much that Medical Lake music student Riley Olmstead can one-up her teacher, Craig Johnson, on, except, perhaps an ancient middle memory. The senior percussionist, Olmstead was recently accepted into the first-ever All State Percussion Ensemble, vividly recalled how she was persuaded to take of a wide array on instruments that reside under that banner of making music by hitting things. When she joined band in middle school Olmstead didn’t actua...
MEDICAL LAKE — Finding a way to engage First Graders in a subject many American adults have little clue about — Civics — took on a novel approach recently at Michael Anderson Elementary school at Fairchild Air Force Base. Under the direction of teacher Erin Clark, students participated first in the selection of a topic on which to vote. Then they took on the referendum amongst the classes to decide on what would be the winner: socks or PB&J. This was all presented to the M...
CHENEY — It’s unlikely in recent years that the public comment portion of an Eastern Washington University Board of Trustees meeting has drawn the interest it did last Friday afternoon, Feb. 28 at Tawanka Commons. However, on the heels the previous day’s presentation from associate professor of physics David Syphers, who was offering a report to the university’s governing body on athletic spending, what others had to say proved of interest. Eastern is facing approxi...
DEER PARK — Not only was Medical Lake’s 45-44 loss to Deer Park — AGAIN — on Feb. 21 agonizing in itself for all the what ifs, but the game that ultimately ended the Cardinals season also concluded a remarkable career for a group of seniors. In a loser-out District 7 playoff game at Deer Park where the winner advanced to state, Medical Lake’s scoring dried up in the final minutes as they could not find the basket over the final two-plus minutes. The Cardinals finish the seaso...
MEDICAL LAKE — Gene and Carol Haynes were honored as the “Senior Citizen Volunteers of the Year” by the Kiwanis Club of Medical Lake at their Feb. 15 Valentine’s Day Dinner. In his nomination of the couple, Pat Trout wrote that ”Both volunteer everywhere at senior meals with anything that needs to be done.” Gene Haynes, 88, cooks and fetches anything that is asked for before the meal. Carol, 85, sets the tables and vacuums the floors. In addition, Carol also serves as t...
Big Sky basketball referee Martin Cichocki took a moment during a timeout at the Feb. 20 men’s basketball game between Eastern Washington and Sacramento State at Reese Court to tie the loose shoe laces for ball boy Grady Zehm....
MEDICAL LAKE — All-state honors in any sport shine the spotlight on a job well done on the field, track or court. The same is true in other disciplines and with Medical Lake that has and does ring true on a regular basis with its music and band program. The school is regularly represented in the competition. Recently, band teacher Craig Johnson returned from taking a record number of students to participate in the All State Bands/Choirs competition in Yakima. “It’s just a hug...
If the Medical Lake girls’ basketball team has a deer in the headlights look lately there’s good reason. The Cardinals have faced the Deer Park Stags in three of their last four games, losing all of them including a 41-34 setback in a District 7 semifinal playoff game on Feb. 14 at West Valley High School. That game completed the first week of postseason play for Medical Lake (10-13) following a 56-44 victory over Newport (7-14) in a loser-out game Feb. 12. Together they set...
MILLWOOD — The “rubber match” between the Medical Lake and Deer Park boys basketball game didn’t remotely resemble the regular season matchups when these two Northeast A League teams met. After a pair of certainly one-sided wins by the Stags in NEA play where they won by an average of 21 points, the Feb. 14 District 7 semifinal playoff game at West Valley High School was not decided until a 3-point shot by Ashton Hamilton-Becker fell short in a 69-66 loss. “We know Deer Park...
DEER PARK — Medical Lake scored a fifth-place team finish and will send five wrestlers to Mat Classic XXXII, the WIAA High School State Wrestling Championships Feb. 21 – 22 in the Tacoma Dome. The Cardinals are led by 170-pound regional champion Ethan Davis, who returns to state after an injury shelved his 2019 road to Tacoma and shot at repeating the title he won as a freshman. Davis was sidelined with a fractured pelvis and torn labrum in his shoulder. “This year he’s...
A pair of fans appropriately attired with curling rock hats take in the action at the USA National Curling Championships women’s finals last Saturday, Feb. 15, between Team Peterson and Team Sinclair at the Eastern Washington University recreation center’s ice rink. Team Peterson beat Team Sinclair 7-5....
As Eastern Washington University, and Cheney, prepare to foist themselves on the national stage hosting the upcoming USA Curling National Championships some questions may come to mind. Among them: Just what the heck is curling and how is it played? And how did the event that will help determine Team USA for future World Championships land in Cheney and EWU? From Feb. 8-15 at EWU’s University Recreation Center (URC), the top competitors in the U.S. will put on a clinic that c...
A skater in the 8 and under game looks to receive a pass in action last Saturday between teams from the Moses Lake Youth Hockey Association and the Spokane Warhorse Hockey Association at Eastern Washington University’s University Recreation Center....
Among other weather records that were set last week, we just might have seen our shortest fall ever. Just five days into the autumnal equinox - the fancy Latin term for the swing from summer to fall - much of the Inland Northwest got belted by winter, or at least a distant relative. The area's summer, which in itself was significantly cooler than normal, drifted into history on Monday, Sept. 23. And then, bang, here comes the first measured snowfall in September since 1926 on...
How does warmer mean we’re cooler? When the vast northern Pacific Ocean sea surface temperatures are just a bit above normal which has meant so far in July 2019 has been notably cooler than most of the five prior first full months of summer. Through July, the average high temperature is 81.6 degrees, the low 57.2 with over a half-inch of precipitation — .29 of that falling in one day, July 17. The closest comparison was that of July 2016 according to the National Weather Ser...
Winter in the area seemed to be cruising along well on its projected course as one of those typical non-descript El Niño-influenced seasons. That phenomena featuring slightly warmer than usual ocean temperatures is generally a signal for higher than normal temperatures and lower snow in the lowlands, retired Eastern Washington University meteorology professor Dr. Bob Quinn said back in late December. The pattern started on the weak side but strengthened by the waning days of...
Anxious Eastern Washington University fans look on as the Eagles struggled to rally last Saturday in the Football Championship Subdivision national title game against defending-champion North Dakota State University. Trailing 10-0 early, Eastern closed to within 31-24 in the fourth quarter before falling to the Bison in Frisco, Texas, 38-24....
