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Vandals caused the Sunday service at Lake City Assembly of God in Medical Lake to be put on hold, after doing extensive damage throughout the church and its property. The break-in, which took place between Saturday, Jan. 12, and Sunday morning, Jan. 13, caused around $50,000 in damage to the church. Joseph Knop, 23, was arrested on burglary and malicious mischief charges two days after the crime took place. Pastor Nick Hawkins said janitors arrived early Sunday to find that a large potted plant outside the building had been...
Ask Phil Snowdon Elementary School principal Shawna Fraser or any of her staff members what is the most common phrase used by people viewing the new school for the first time, and to a person that answer is just three words. "It's so beautiful," Fraser said while conducting another tour Aug. 14. Cheney's newest and eighth school building opens its doors for real when students arrive for classes Sept. 4. At just over $13.35 million in construction costs alone, not to mention...
CHENEY Dec. 2 Domestic violence – verbal dispute – was reported on the 2200 block of Lilac Court. Second-degree theft was reported on the 700 block of Chestnut Street. Cash was taken. Prescription medications were lost on the 900 block of Fourth Street. A two-car, non-injury collision occurred on the 100 block of West Sixth Street. Dec. 3 A 17-year-old male was arrested for possession of a controlled substance and possession of paraphernalia on the 500 block of Annie Place. Third-degree theft was reported on the 700 blo...
Wade Benson is doing his best to dispel the notion that you can’t come home again. And so far, the current – and former – Eastern Washington University volleyball coach is winning that argument on numerous fronts. Benson returned to his old job in December 2012 after departing Cheney for a position at Auburn University following the 2006 season. He served one-year as an assistant, the position he was originally hired to fill, and three as head coach. Benson’s first squad w...
Medical Lake has passed its biggest test of the season so far on the baseball diamond. Now the exams continue, and probably get tougher. Following a 6-0 win Saturday morning over Brewster, plus surviving to claim an 8-7 victory over defending state champion Cashmere in the afternoon, the Cardinals have made the round of 16 for the first time since 2003. “I think we’re going to have a little bit of a target on us now that we’ve knocked off one of the giants,” Medical Lake he...
The Cheney Blackhawks wrestling team continues to grind through the season. The team traveled to Colville to wrestle the Indians, Dec. 18. Colville would win the meet, 53- 24. Despite losing losing the meet in points, several Cheney wrestlers put on impressive performances throughout the evening. In the 182-pound division, Josh Wessels earned a 9-2 decision victory over Brock Vanquekelberg. At 145 pounds, Vern Sanderson scored points for the Blackhawks when he captured a 10-4 decision win over Grady Nelson, who is one of...
Cheney girls track and field head coach Tom Stralser knew at the beginning of the season that the Blackhawks were going to be a good, big-meet team. Turns out he was right. With just seven athletes the Blackhawks competed their way to a third place team finish in the 2A classification at last weekend’s 2A, 3A, 4A track and field state championships at Lakewood’s Mt. Tahoma High School. While individual state titles proved elusive, Cheney did come home with three seconds, a third, a fourth, a fifth and two sixth place fin...
Eastern Washington fell short of the tall order of toppling legendary basketball giant, the University of Connecticut, but it certainly was not for lack of trying. The Eagles hung with the No. 15 UConn Huskies off and on most of the game before falling 82-65 last Saturday at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Conn. as Eastern concluded its nonconference schedule. The Eagles spent the week of Christmas on the East Coast opening with a 92-70 loss to Seton Hall Dec. 22. “It was a good day for us even though we didn’t get the win...
Following Eastern Washington’s failed attempt to track down Sam Houston State in a 2012 Football Championship Subdivision semifinal playoff game, and the pending graduation of a talented receiving corps, there was a certain amount hand-wringing. What would follow with the loss of so much of the offense provided by Brandon Kaufman, Nicholas Edwards and Greg Herd? How about these: • Eastern’s watershed victory over nationally-ranked Pac-12 foe Oregon State, 49-46 in the season o...
Micah Dingfield led the Medical Lake boy's cross country team to Pasco and gave them the chance to win a state championship. And the team returned the favor, helping carry the weight last Saturday and delivering that first-ever state championship at Sun Willows Golf Course. The Cardinals scored 72 points to easily outdistance LaCenter's 112 and the 128 from Meridian, delivering the school its fifth overall state title. Little did anyone know that Dingfield's dominating Most...
If Eastern Washington University men’s basketball coach Jim Hayford was going to realize his goal in year-three of getting his team to the Big Sky Conference tournament he’ll do it under some less than normal circumstances. Hayford’s Eagles would, for one, reach the postseason without a single senior, and his team would enter conference play tonight at Weber State having played the Big Sky’s most rugged schedule. “I have never coached a team without seniors,” Hayford said. “I...
Ryan Gray will look back pretty fondly at 2013. Eleven wins at various Pro Rodeo Cowboy’s Association events, a return to the National Finals in Las Vegas and a No. 4 ranking in the wild world of bareback bronc riding – the profession of doing his best to hang on for eight seconds to a whirling dervish weighing nearly a half ton. But he’s really got his eyes on 2014, and rodeo has nothing to do with things. Sometime in the next few days, or even perhaps already, Cheney High...
In the end, it took two kicks and four feet to ease the pain of four years of frustration for the Cheney High School boys' soccer team in the state 2A title game. The first came from midfielder Micah Weller, who possessed a ball near the end of the first overtime last Saturday against Tyee, dribbled 15-20 yards before passing forward to forward/midfielder Ian Schmandel. The junior in turn dribbled ahead of the Totems' defender and fired a shot from near the 18-yard box that...
1 Years Ago Jan. 8, 2004 A cold weather snap descended on Cheney recently with temperatures on Jan. 6 falling to a near-record minus-22 degrees with the next punch of 8-12 inches of snow expected. The Medical Lake City Council approved the final plat of the 29-lot second addition to the Fox Hollow housing development. Medical Lake's offensive machine, which was averaging 92 points in two games, got wins 92-73 over Tonasket and 93-26 over Colville in the Northeast A League...
Wanda M. (Gober) Heinemann Mother was born Oct. 31, 1918 in Klamath Falls, Ore. to Marion James Gober and Maxie Myrtle (Pardue) Gober. She peacefully passed away Dec. 26, 2013 at the Cheney Care Center. She married Fred Heinemann on July 26, 1941. She is survived by three sons: Robert Heinemann of Cheney, Warren (Judy) Heinemann of Livermore, Calif. and Dean (Kerry) Heinemann of Cheney; eight grandchildren, seven great grandchildren, two great great grandchildren. Wanda...
Nokleby service is Jan. 11 A memorial service for Cheney resident Bud Lloyd Nokleby, who passed away at age 81 or Nov. 29, 2013, will be held Saturday, Jan. 11 at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Cheney at 11 a.m. A reception will follow in the church hall. The family has suggested that in leu of flowers that donations be made to the Humane Society....
City of Cheney • Jan. 4, Let there be Legos, Lego build day at Cheney community library meeting room, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. • Jan. 8, Kids Explore and Discover Club, Cheney community library, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. • Jan. 9, Play and Learn Storytime (ages 3-5), Cheney Community Library, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Cheney School District • Jan. 8, Toddler Play and Learn Storytime (ages 1 1/2-3), Cheney Community Library, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. • Jan. 8, School board meeting, CMS, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. City of Medical Lake • Jan. 8, Play and...
United Church of Christ Projecting the scripture, the essence of the teaching and the words of hymns with the new audio-visual system, Pastor David Krueger-Duncan will lead the communion service during the 10 a.m. worship service. The United Church of Christ is located at 423 N. Sixth St., where all are welcome. School-age children are urged to attend classes after the Children’s Minutes but may attend the entire service with their parents. Childcare is available in the nursery from 9:45 to 11:15 a.m. Please stay for a few mi...
Once I sat in a group of people who were just talking, each saying whatever they wanted to. A woman spoke. It was her turn. What she said almost knocked me out of my chair. She said, "George Washington was a drunkard." This was before the times we are now acquainted with when someone runs for office the "hate dogs" start to attack him. George Washington was my hero. I wasn't about to let someone besmirch his reputation. "How could you possibly know he was a drunkard?" I...
The city of Cheney took one step closer to owning a piece of geological history. The City Council authorized Mayor Tom Trulove to sign a purchase and sale agreement for the purpose of buying 15 acres of property overlooking what is known as the Williams Lake Plunge Pool. The pool is located just off Williams Lake Road between Williams and Badger lakes, and used to be a large cataract area as a part of the larger Ice Age floods which swept through and carved a good portion of the area and Eastern Washington and the Central...
Eastern Washington University and the United Faculty of Eastern have approved a new three-year collective bargaining agreement that will bring the university’s faculty compensation package to an on-par level with national peer institutions. The contract calls for yearly faculty pay increases based upon how that faculty member’s salary compares to the average of their rank and discipline at peer institutions, according to information contained in a university news release. Faculty with salaries below 90 percent of market val...
The Medical Lake City Council was described as having done nothing to enhance the city or the community at its Tuesday, Feb. 19 meeting. Medical Lake resident and food bank president Bob Kibling spoke at length regarding a lack of support for the annual Founder’s Day celebration in the city. Kibling ended his two-year run of organizing the festival last year. Since then, few people have been interested in volunteering and organizing the event, leaving it to the city’s parks and recreation coordinator, Ashlee King, to tak...
Voters turned down Spokane County Proposition 1 on Tuesday, Nov. 5, defeating it by 51.2 percent, leaving many questions hanging in the balance. Proposition 1 would have raised $18 million in property taxes over nine years to buy mobile home parks in Accident Potential Zone Two, an identified encroachment to Fairchild Air Force Base. Residents living in the area would have been relocated and the parks demolished, allowing the land to be transformed for industrial use. Without those funds, however, there won’t be much a...
On Friday,May 3, three airmen from Fairchild Air Force Base perished in the crash of a KC-135 aircraft near Chon-Aryk, Kyrgyzstan. Capt. Mark T. Voss, 27, of Boerne, Texas; Capt. Victoria A. Pinckney, 27, of Colorado Springs, Colo. and Tech. Sgt. Herman Mackey III, 30, of Bakersfield, Calif. were lost in the incident, the cause of which is still under investigation. The 93rd Air Refueling Squadron is part of the 92nd Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild. The crew were just one of m...
The Cheney School District board of directors voted unanimously to declare the district's Fisher Building as surplus property. It's the first step in the process of selling the 84-year-old former high school, appraised at $1,055,000. District executive director for finance and operations Brian Aiken told the board the appraisal figure, prepared by Auble, Jolicoeur & Gentry, was in the "ball park" for what they expected. He also noted that the district does have the ability to...
