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The Shriner's Hospital for Children - Spokane were the recipients of $9,000 worth of proceeds from the 2018 Lilac City Invitational golf tournament held at The Fairways. Representatives received the ceremonial check following the conclusion of play last Sunday....
Thank goodness for rival Cheney when it comes to Medical Lake’s American Legion Post 196 baseball team. It was a 4-2 win over the independent Summerhawks last Saturday that helped Medical Lake end a six-game losing streak, including an 0–4 finish in the North Central Pod of the Wood Bat Classic. Against Cheney, after an early 2-2 tie, Medical Lake pushed across the winning and an insurance run with three consecutive singles in the bottom of the fifth. Medical Lake is a per...
Staff ReporterPuyallup's Vinnie Murphy III decided at the last minute to enter the Lilac City Invitational. Turns out it was the right choice for the 23-year-old as he survived a brutal final hole and held on for a one-stroke victory over Sammamish's Li Wang and Shane Prante July 8 at The Fairways Golf Course on the West Plains. Murphy, a recent graduate of Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Ariz. used a 4-under 68, a four-day total of 274 to win $10,000. Prante equaled...
The Medical Lake 24-hour Tennis-A-Thon takes place Wednesday and Thursday July 18 and 19 at the tennis courts across from the high school. Starting at noon on July 18 and ending at noon the following day, activities include free tennis lessons, taught by members of the Cardinals' tennis team. A special celebrity match will take place featuring MLHS Principal Chris Spring and athletics director Justin Blayne facing off against Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich and school...
Medical Lake’s American Legion Post 196 baseball team heads into the Wood Bat tournament on a roll with three consecutive wins through June 29. Those victories include a June 28, 8-7 league win over Rogers, plus a pair of victories over the independent Cheney Summerhawks, 17-10 and 16-5 June 29. Medical Lake had 14 hits against Rogers, rallying to score three runs in the sixth and another in the top of the seventh to hold on for the win. Joe Griffey, Pete Richardson and T...
What are those old axioms: “Once bitten, twice shy,” or “Fool me once shame on you; fool me twice shame on me?” They came to mind as I was trying to figure out what to write in this space. I was racing to get a week’s worth of writing — plus a string of stories for the Cheney Rodeo — completed so I could have yet another week of vacation, after just returning from one. When you read this, I’ll hopefully be on the home stretch of another “bucket-list” check-off, running the Rog...
When Hank Frame sunk his long putt and Mike Roters did not answer on the second hole of a sudden death playoff at the 2012 Lilac City Invitational golf tournament at The Fairways Golf Course, it seemed to set the stage for some frantic finishes. Frame, at the time an amateur and a member of the Washington State University golf team, nailed a 15-foot putt from the fringe to complete a four-day, 14-under par 274 and then watched Roters miss his eight-footer to win the title....
All that John Durgan, son of Lilac City Invitational Tournament founder Joe Durgan recalls of the 1960 event won by Bob Duden, is "I was 8 years old." Pat Keegan was Durgan's high school classmate and fellow golf team member at Gonzaga Prep in the late 1960s and 1970s. His teenage recollections are more vivid. "Where were you when we landed on the moon?" Keegan has been asked. At 16, he was a caddy at the Lilac, founded and then held at Spokane's Downriver Golf Course. "I...
While campaigning for Medical Lake mayor last year, Shirley Maike found that one of the things that kept coming up at forums was developing programs for senior citizens and how to connect them with those activities. That interaction revealed Medical Lake has a solid Parks and Recreation program, especially for kids. “I said to (City Administrator) Doug (Ross), what do we have for seniors, an official senior services program?” Maike said. As the two went through a list of dif...
The end of the 2017-18 school year review in Medical Lake included updates on CTE and STEM programs with some notable advancements announced. The district's CTE or Career Technical Education and STEM - standing for science, technology, engineering and mathematics - have gone through what was presented as a very rigorous re-approval process by the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. "All program areas had to be reapproved," program coordinator Ann Everett...
Crews were moving a lot of earth last week at the site of Project Rose, a four-story, 2.6-million square foot distribution center located on Geiger Boulevard north of Interstate 90's Medical Lake exit....
Elizabeth Rosenbeck is right back where she started from a year ago - a member of the Medical Lake City Council. Rosenbeck was the unanimous choice of the council in a vote at the June 19 meeting to replace John Merrick who resigned in April after job commitments forced him to miss a number of early meetings in 2018. Ironically, it was Merrick who defeated Rosenbeck last November for the Position 2 seat, 56.4 – 43.1 percent or by a 528-403 margin in votes. She finished s...
There’s nothing like discussion of how Medical Lake will police itself in the future to make a City Council meeting lively. At its June 19 meeting the council — short one member, Ted Olson who was away on vacation and still trying to fill a vacancy — voted 3-2 to approve a two-year extension of the deal with the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office to deliver police services. Councilman John Paukuli, the chair of the Public Safety Committee, was one of the yes votes along with To...
Medical Lake American Legion Post 196 AA baseball team concluded last week’s play with a 1-3 record and dropped to 3-11-1 overall in National League play. The week began with a 3-0 loss at home to Rogers on June 18, a split at Mt. Spokane on June 20 — winning 7-2 before losing 8-3 — and wrapping up things with a 12-8 loss at home to Ferris last Saturday. “Rory Schuller pitched six solid innings for us,” head coach Austin Sharp wrote in an email. Medical Lake committed...
As Eastern Washington University's hockey team turns 20, the program will be returning to its roots. After spending the past seven seasons in the British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League with very limited success, and against schools few had ever heard of, the Eagles will now be part of the expanded Pac-8 Hockey League for the 2018-19 season. As one can presume from its name, the five-year-old league, now with 12 schools, has some familiar names like Washington,...
New Eastern Washington University volleyball coach Leslie Flores-Cloud had her first official live introduction to the media June 25, and like some of those before her had to vie for attention with a youngster. Flores-Cloud comes to EWU from Drake University where she served as the assistant and associate head coach at the Des Moines, Iowa school for the past five seasons. In the past, young children have stolen at least parts of the show when former athletics director Bill Ch...
The La Nina and El Nino climate phenomena are prime drivers of how winter weather in the Northwest behaves. But those two siblings of sorts also can dictate what summers will be like. That was the message, in a roundabout way, from retired Eastern Washington University geography and meteorology professor Bob Quinn as the region officially moved into summer on June 21. "Basically, we've had two weak La Ninas the last two winters," Quinn said. "They have been non-distinctive...
The area's oldest, and longest, professional golf tournament has an injection of the Fountain of Youth. The 2018 Lilac takes place July 5 – 8 at the Fairways Golf Course located between Cheney and Spokane on the West Plains. And among the changes, and thanks to some additional fill material brought in from a neighboring construction project, the course now has two new back tees to challenge this year's field as well as some increased mounding. The back tee on No. 5 will be str...
Few believe that Leroy Lemaster has finally coached his last crew of kids in tennis. Except, perhaps, Lemaster's knees and legs, which are just not what they used to be, even the new artificial knee he got in 2000. Lemaster's trying to "get by" with the other one, warding off major surgery at age 80, which he turned last November. He takes supplements, but it's time for him to simply be a fan. It was last week while conducting another of his 30th or so Medical Lake parks and...
Personally, there’s nothing like the crashing waves, the bubbling of a moving river or the pure solitude of a high mountain meadow to be able to reflect. While many seek church, I’m sold on God’s creations in Mother Nature. As those waves crashed night and day — and another spectacular, yet rare, sunset due to VOG, volcano-induced sulfur dioxide nasty air — it offered the perfect cocktail for serious thinking time. Oh, that’s along with the fleeting thoughts of favorite so...
Editor's note: This is part two of a series started in last week's issue. Mention the use of rotenone treatments to help create a healthier fishery and it can make some people panic. But it should not be thought of as such a scary word, Department of Fish and Wildlife district fish biologist Randy Osborne said. The planned treatment of West Medical Lake in the fall to rid it of an invasive goldfish population will use rotenone for the first time since 2009. Rotenone has been...
Best Impression Dental's Dr. Alicia Burton (right) with husband Jonathan (left) and West Plains Chamber of Commerce executive director, Toby Broemmeling, were on hand with employees and others on June 5 to officially open a new practice in Medical Lake....
(Editor's Note: This is part one of a two-part series on the planned treatment to remove an invasive population of goldfish in West Medical Lake.) A Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) proposal to treat West Medical Lake, plus portions of two other streams in the eastern part of the state to restore trout fisheries will proceed. The planned treatment this fall will seek to rid West Medical of pesky goldfish and portions of Smalle Creek and Highline Creek in Pend...
That hush-hush big building project planned for the West Plains near Spokane International Airport, rumored to be a massive Amazon fulfillment center, has a permit application in front of Spokane County Building and Planning personnel. But don't let that revelation make you think the possibility of the online retail giant locating here is a done deal 3rd District County Commissioner Al French said. Speaking on Monday, June 11, French said any turning of earth on nearly 80 acre...
As he wrote in the June 14 edition of Crunch Time, reported Paul Delaney was on hand 40 years ago to take in the first-ever stock car race at Spokane Raceway Park. Some of those photos from decades ago are seen here. Old time race fans might recognize 01, Don Dowdy, No. 6 Steve Mason and No. 7 Ron Eaton in the front stretch photo. Garrett Evans (64) leads the three car group. And Ron Hall (28) is the car that spun out. The 07 car...not sure?... Full story
