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One does not see today's skiers dusting off the old wooden slats. The ones that were physically attached to the feet with tough leather straps on boots tightly laced to the feet. They were a broken ankle or leg waiting to happen on ungroomed ski slopes, let alone serious head injury from flailing helicopter blades after a fall. But some golfers are hearkening back to the good old days when hickory shafted clubs with funny names - not numbers - filled a bag that was slung over... Full story
One does not see today's skiers dusting off the old wooden slats. The ones that were physically attached to the feet with tough leather straps on boots tightly laced to the feet. They were a broken ankle or leg waiting to happen on ungroomed ski slopes, let alone serious head injury from flailing helicopter blades after a fall. But some golfers are hearkening back to the good old days when hickory shafted clubs with funny names - not numbers - filled a bag that was slung over...
With a disappointing 14-6 loss to Weber State in their rearview mirror, a bye could not come at a better time for the Eastern Washington University Eagles football team. Bruised bodies and egos deserve some time away from football, head coach Aaron Best said on the Oct. 15 EWU Coaches Show. “This is a fabulous time (for a bye) after seven straight weeks of football,” Best said. It’s a period in which Best wants both players and coaches to get away from football and recon...
Needing a win to close on a playoff berth, the Medical Lake High School volleyball team got it. Ending a five-match losing streak, the Cardinals earned a nail-biting 3-2 match win over Newport on Oct. 9 to begin a pivotal week of Northeast A League play that ended with a split as they lost a 3-2 decision to Riverside. The week concluded with a 3-1 nonleague win over Greater Spokane League Rogers. “This was a week of battles for the girls,” head coach Todd Harr wrote in an ema...
Medical Lake cross country now knows who to have in their sights next week at the District 7 championships in Chewelah. For the boys, the defending 1A state champions, it will be both Lakeside and Riverside after the Rams edged the Cardinals 23-26 last Wednesday at Deer Park. The boys did come away with a 23-33 victory over the host Stags in a Northeast A League meet on Oct. 10. And the girls, well they will be watching and making sure they are at their best to compete with...
Medical Lake soccer goalkeeper Anastasia Hurt-Moran prepares to make a save in an Oct. 11 Northeast A League soccer game against Riverside. Scoring all of their goals in the second half, the Rams defeated the Cardinals 3-0....
Medical Lake High School students selected Faraz Abounorinejad and Sarah Ransom as their king and queen of Homecoming 2018 during halftime of the Cardinals' football game on Oct. 12 with the Riverside Rams. Here, Abounorinejad receives his crown....
Peering into the future is fraught with peril on any front. But trying to see what's ahead in the world of technology and how it might apply to preparing students for their careers might be the equivalent of predicting eventualities by use of a Ouija Board. Trevor Meade, Medical Lake School District's head of technology, has tried to peer into the future discussing how new Chromebook tablet-computers have, and will be implemented into learning opportunities. Students are...
Eastern checked off its first payback last Saturday with a 55-17 win at Roos Field over 2017 co-champion Southern Utah. The Eagles found they did not skip as much as a beat last Saturday when quarterback Gage Gubrud was sidelined with a boot around his right foot following an injury suffered in the Montana State game Sept. 29. Backup Eric Barriere responded in only his second start by scoring a pair of touchdowns, one a record for EWU quarterbacks of 85 yards, and throwing... Full story
Eastern checked off its first payback last Saturday with a 55-17 win at Roos Field over 2017 co-champion Southern Utah. The Eagles found they did not skip as much as a beat last Saturday when quarterback Gage Gubrud was sidelined with a boot around his right foot following an injury suffered in the Montana State game Sept. 29. Backup Eric Barriere responded in only his second start by scoring a pair of touchdowns, one a record for EWU quarterbacks of 85 yards, and throwing... Full story
Just as advertised, Danny Bradbury was everything the Medical Lake football staff thought he would be, and he proved it in a very convincing manner on his home field in Newport’s 50-13 Northeast A League win last Friday night. Newport, coached by former Rogers High School and Whitworth University assistant, Dave Pomante, remained unbeaten at 3-0 in NEA play, 5-0 overall with a showdown looming this Friday with league co-leader Colville (3-0, 4-2). “It was a battle of att...
Medical Lake’s boys and girls cross country teams got the lickin’ they expected last week, but then turned things around to have solid finishes in an important invitational race. “Lakeside did pretty much what I thought, and we did the same thing to Freeman,” Cardinals head coach Gene Blankenship said of his team’s spankings in the opening race of the abbreviated Northeast A League dual meet schedule. The state’s No. 1-ranked 1A Eagle boys topped the Cardinals 19-40 while...
The Eastern Washington University football team ventures into unfamiliar territory for its players - Ogden, Utah. Because of scheduling wrinkles across the broad footprint of the Big Sky Conference, this is the first game at Weber since 2012. Kickoff this Saturday is 3:05 p.m. in the second of two-straight Big Sky Conference games against opponents EWU lost to last season. Eastern checked off its first payback last Saturday with a 55-17 win at Roos Field over 2017 co-champion...
The addition of four new members to the Medical Lake High School Athletic Hall of Fame brings the number in the group to 53. They will be honored at halftime of the Oct. 12 Cardinal football game against Riverside, and officially inducted during a dinner on Saturday, Oct. 13. This is the 11th induction into the hall and a tradition that started in 2008 with a group of three graduates — Dana Jensen, Dannie Turnbough and John Jensen — all posthumously inducted after being kil...
Gary Gasseling, the former deputy chief of the Eastern Washington University Campus Police Department and the man with an ever-present smile, was laid to rest on Oct. 6 at the Latah Cemetery in Latah, Wash. following a battle with cancer that took his life Sept. 23. Gasseling, 63, was born in Alliance, Neb. on Feb. 15, 1955 to Kenneth and Orleatha Gasseling. He was raised near Pomeroy, Wash., graduating from Pomeroy High School in 1973. Gasseling enrolled in Washington State...
Back in the 1970s, brother and sister pop singing duo Karen and Richard Carpenter had a memorable hit song, “Rainy Days and Mondays.” It seemed to play all the time and lamented that those two times “always get me down.” There’s a paraphrased version here at the Cheney Free Press called, “Breaking news and Tuesdays.” Our retort? They make us frown — and maybe swear, but that doesn’t have the same ring. What do they do? They can get you down, but there’s no time for that becau...
The first indication that the 2018 wheat harvest has been pretty good for farmers across the northern tier of Washington state is visible to those who travel Interstate 90 near Four Lakes. There, at the silos of Highline Grain's loading facility are two equally large piles of grain that have no place to stay inside either the concrete towers or steel tanks. "If we were going to categorize this year, I'd say (it's been) better than average, everywhere," Paul Katovich, CEO of...
The planned visit of the Moving Wall Vietnam War tribute next June will have the blessing and backing of the city of Medical Lake. Just how that happens, however, will remain somewhat up in the air following the Oct. 2 meeting of the Medical Lake City Council. After much discussion, a motion was eventually presented with very broad language to support the wall. “I don’t even know how to say it,” Mayor Shirley Maike said when crafting the language on which to vote. A 4-1 vote a...
The true extent to which Don Kennedy might go to give back may have been best illustrated 20 years ago on a cold and snowy Sunday in February. "It was snowing to beat the band and one of the neighbors called up (and said), 'I've got some friends coming over for a Super Bowl party, can you get out there and plow the road?'" Kennedy, the most recent appointee to the City Council was asked. Sure enough, living out in the country and a ways from county plows, there he was,...
Backed by a strong finish last Saturday amongst a stout field, the Medical Lake cross country teams now enter the part of the season where it begins really counting. As Northeast A League dual-meet competition began this week with Medical Lake hosting its lone home event on Oct. 3, the Cardinal boys returned from "The Rose City" with a Division 3 championship. The girls tied for fifth. A handful of invitational meets have head coach Gene Blankenship quite encouraged as his Car...
Earthquakes and glaciers tend to be agents of slow-moving change for the planet. Little, by little, over the course of centuries — eons perhaps — they make their mark. The same might also be said for landmark football victories. Like Medical Lake’s 16-14 win over Freeman last Friday. The victory was only Medical Lake’s fourth in their last 30 games, but the Cardinals’ second straight. Hopefully it signals some kind of positive trend? Certainly, one or two games does not mean...
Things certainly did not start well for Medical Lake in last Friday's Northeast A League home football game against Freeman. But they definitely finished the right way for the Cardinals (1-1 NEA, 2-3 overall) who took an edge-of-the-seat 16-14 Northeast A League win over the Scotties (0-3, 0-5). The victory was the first for Medical Lake over Freeman in eight games, but more notable, it was 1996 when the Cards last won in the series. That span includes 13 years when the...
Annika Redell applied to become a Spokane Interstate Fair Ambassador to help pay her way through college at Eastern Washington University. But the member of Medical Lake's class of 2017 found there were some unexpected perks along the way during her 10-day stint. The duties included being an official representative of the fair and working at different activities. Redell joined Maggie Bailey from Freeman, Mead's Maddie Gendreau and Taylor Johnson of Deer Park as the faces of...
For many in the Medical Lake community, about the only time they see members of the high school’s Junior ROTC program might be in the roles of the color guard prior to sporting and other events and activities. But as some recent events show, these students have much more visibility as they do many projects and activities outside of the traditional ones. In mid-September, crews of volunteers descended on the Medical Lake Cemetery to conduct a cleanup and general maintenance. A...
A month later than originally planned, the Medical Lake School Board officially signed off on a new three-year contract for teachers and classified employees in the district at its Sept. 25 meeting. The new contract provides teachers with a 9.76 percent salary increase. “They did a nice job, both teams,” Superintendent Tim Ames told the board who approved the deal, minus Ron Cooper who was away on district business. “It was a great team effort.” Under the deal, first-y...
