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If a city's comprehensive plan updating process is like a surgical operation, then what the Cheney Planning Commission experienced at their meeting Jan. 11 can best be described as "pre-op." City planner Brett Lucas and Public Works Director Todd Ableman gave the commission a short briefing on what to expect as they review and update the city's main long-range planning document. That briefing included a "work plan" for how the commission can expect to spend its meetings over...
Salave Elementary School student Jersey Sconce (right) poses with the Safeway gift card she won at Salnave's Blizzard Bingo, Jan. 8 next to her friend Austynn Brash....
An F-15 Eagle fighter from the Oregon National Guard awaits its turn to receive fuel during a Jan. 8 refueling flight conducted by the 92nd Air Refueling Wing based at Fairchild Air Force Base. Members of the media were invited to ride along to experience what aircrews do on a daily basis. The mission first refueled four F-15s and later gassed up a C-17 transport aircaft over central Oregon....
Medical Lake City Council members (left to right) Jessica Roberts, John Paikuli and Laura Parsons were sworn into office at the council's Jan. 5 meeting. Roberts is serving for the first time. Paikuli was elected after being appointed in 2014 to fill the seat of former council member Brenda Redell, who resigned when she moved from the city. Parsons has served on council several times, and was last elected in 2011, defeating Paikuli....
Spokane Teachers Credit Union announced it approved $1.1 million in low-cost emergency loans in the month following the Nov. 17 windstorm that pounded the Inland Northwest. Responding to the crisis that left 200,000 people without power, STCU announced the day after the storm that it was offering personal loans as low as 1.99 percent annual percentage rate, depending on applicants' credit history. Called "Get-it-fixed," the loans were essentially a break-even, David Flood,...
The Cheney Police Department and Eastern Washington University may have parted ways over dispatch services, but when it comes to maintaining law enforcement data, they’re still buddies. At its Jan. 12 meeting, the Cheney City Council approved a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the university’s police department and Cheney’s to provide storage service for Eastern’s ACCESS data. Documents such as Cheney Municipal Court warrants and protection orders, stolen vehicle records, outstanding arrest warrants, missing person...
1 Years Ago Jan. 19, 2006 Eastern Washington University requested that property in an area on North Tenth Street from Elm to Cedar streets be vacated to accommodate the construction of the planned recreation center. The football field at Cheney High School was officially named Tom Oswald Field in honor of the Washington State Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame former coach of the Blackhawks. Medical Lake's Richelle Daily led her team to wins in two of three games over...
Cheney United Church of Christ You are cordially invited to attend our Jan. 17 service at 10 a.m. at UCC. The sermon presented by pastor David Krueger-Duncan will be titled “Home Town Boy... or NOT.” It will focus on Luke 4:14-30, exploring the concept of “fulfilled” and how Jesus opened the promises of God to the gentiles. Special music will be provided by tenor, Evan Dornfeld. A coffee hour will follow in the church fellowship hall. The next men’s breakfast will be on Jan. 24 at 7:45 a.m. at Marketplace Cheney. Newcomers...
One hundred twenty-five years ago on Jan. 5, 1891, the city of Cheney organized an all-volunteer fire department. Learn more about our area's history at www.cheneymuseum.org....
City of Cheney • Jan.15, Baby Play and Learn Storytime (ages 0 – 18 months), community library, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. • Jan. 18, Martin Luther King Holiday, all city offices closed. • Jan. 19, American Legion Veterans (male and female) meeting, American Legion Post 72, 116 College Ave., 6 p.m. • Jan. 20, Baby Play and Learn Storytime (ages 1 1/2 – 3), community library, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. • Jan. 21, Kiwanis meeting, Sessions Village Commons, 7 a.m. • Jan. 21, Preschool Play and Learn Storytime (ages 3 – 5), community library...
In Kabul, where the Afghan Peace Volunteers have hosted me in their community, the U.S. military maintains a huge blimp equipped with cameras and computers to supply 24-hour surveillance of the city. Remotely piloted drones, operated by Air Force and Air National Guard personnel on U.S. bases, also fly over Afghanistan, giving U.S. military analysts miles of camera footage, every day. Billions of dollars have been invested in a variety of blimps that various vendors such as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and...
I appreciated the Free Press article “Cheney voters choose trust and lift levy lid.” (Jan. 7) With trust there is honor. With honor there is respect. In my opinion, Proposition 1 (for continual public safety, etc.) passed because of the needs of the Cheney police and fire departments. In Proposition 1, public safety (police, fire) was emphasized in parenthesis. This made a strong statement in believing that these two departments would take top priority in having their needs met first before any other department. The pol...
On Dec. 17, 2015, Rep. Donald Beyer (D-Virginia, 8th District) introduced House Resolution 569, titled “Condemning violence, bigotry, and hateful rhetoric towards Muslims in the United States.” As of Jan. 12, 107 other Democrats had signed on to sponsor the resolution, but unfortunately, no Republicans. The title speaks for itself, and the full text can be found online. The website GovTrack.us gives the resolution an 8 percent chance of passing the House, 9 percent to make it out of the committee. There is plenty of evi...
The following editorial is reprinted from the Jan. 12 Orange County Register. It does not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the Cheney Free Press. For the second year in a row, government was the largest problem facing the nation, according to Gallup polls. Based on Gallup’s monthly polls of the most important issues facing the U.S., an average of 16 percent identified government as the top problem, followed by the economy with 13 percent and a tie between unemployment and immigration with 8 percent. It was the h...
J.C. Sherritt, Edmonton Eskimos linebacker and former Eastern Washington University football player (pictured above) was the keynote speaker at the Jan. 7 West Plains Chamber of Commerce meeting at Northern Quest Resort and Casino....
High school robotics teams from all over Spokane County, including Cheney and Medical Lake, attended the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition 2016 season kickoff, Saturday Jan. 9, at Eastern Washington University. At the event teams received their kits which included motors, sensors, control system parts and a robot radio. As in previous seasons, teams are challenged to build and program a robot to perform prescribed tasks against a field of competitors. They also create a log...
Eastern Washington University’s Veterans Resource Center is partnering with the Washington state Department of Veteran Affairs and AmeriCorps to put together a display for veteran suicide awareness and prevention in the JFK Library alcove from Jan. 19-21. EWU Vetcorps navigator Angela Sanchez explained the display will have 22 sets of boots to represent the estimated 22 veterans that are killed by suicide each day. It will also include a Powerpoint presentation and information for students to recognize symptoms and signs t...
The oldest source of news on the West Plains is embracing some of the newest technology as it moves forward with its mission. The Cheney Free Press launched its "See E.Wa" app in an effort to remain solid in its mission that has gone on since the paper was established in 1896. "There's been talk that people on the West Plains need to have instant communication and this app is going to allow us to do that to a certain extent," publisher Harlan Shellabarger said. One of the elem...
The littlest things can sometimes offer great inspiration. And while the need to find socks and underwear for children was not the sole reason for starting a new retail enterprise in Cheney, it certainly helped. Sweet Pea Boutique, located on a quiet side street - 108 College Ave. - is the collaborative effort of Cheney resident Danielle LaBar and Sarah Sibley from Spokane. The niche for Sweet Pea is providing goods that people do not have to go to Spokane to find. That includ...
It's one thing to build and program a robot to move on land, but it's something else to a build a machine to do that underwater. Both Cheney and Westwood middle schools recently started another year of their SeaPerch after-school programs. According to its website, SeaPerch is a program that equips teachers and students with resources to build an underwater remotely operated vehicle - ROV. Students build the ROV from a kit comprised of low-cost, easily accessible parts,...
For parents who have children with special needs, or adults who need a little help, Cheney High School’s Special Education Services is hosting its first transition career fair in the cafeteria, Jan. 20, from 6-8 p.m. Angela Pischel, secretary for Special Education Services, explained the event is to provide information and help students and parents make the right choices for post-high school opportunities such as continuing education, healthcare, jobs, training and housing. The department is bringing many resources and b...
Medical Lake 2015 Senior Citizen Volunteer of the Year nominees sought The annual Medical Lake Kiwanis Senior Citizens Valentine’s Day dinner is coming Feb. 13, and Kiwanis officials are looking for nominees for its 2015 Senior Citizen Volunteer of the Year award. Nominations should be submitted in writing, and forms along with more information can be obtained by calling 299-5478. Reasons for nominating someone need not be confined to the past year, but can go as far back as the person nominating feels is relevant. O...
If you're an Airway Heights resident and you have some questions about how your recently approved emergency medical service levy funds are going to be used, don't worry. Fire Chief Mitch Metzger has some answers. In fact, two of those answers are already on duty at the city's fire station. Volunteer firefighters Ian Dillon and Trevor Marks have changed their roles with Airway Heights and become what Metzger terms "call volunteers." Call volunteers are not traditional...
Cheney High School students try to make as many shots as they can in two minutes during halftime of the Blackhawks boys basketball game Friday with visiting Clarkston. The winners of the contest, sponsored by the Cheney Boys Basketball Association, each won a coupon for a free Doritos Locos Taco from Taco Bell....
No matter where you live in this state, it’s likely you and your neighbors felt impacts from Washington’s record-setting wildland fire year — and the Spokane County Library District hopes to find out what those impacts were. The district is holding a series of “kitchen-table” style community conversations later this month and through February at all 10 library branches — including Cheney, Medical Lake and Airway Heights — for residents to share their experiences and opinions on the effect the over 1 million acres that bu...
