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Medical Lake students try to out-yell their Cheney counterparts during a competition that was part of last Saturday’s annual Golden Feather Spirit Game between the two schools. The object was to be the loudest — as determined by using a decibel meter — and score points towards winning the Golden Feather Spirit trophy. Medical Lake regained the trophy after losing it last year to Cheney for the first time....
CHENEY – While temperatures are warming, with the end of winter still officially over two months away the chances are still good the area will see more snow - including some heavy snowfalls. For instance, after a fairly dry January, February 2019 turned out to be the snowiest February in more than 100 years and the second snowiest on record - tallying over 30 inches for the month. If history repeats itself, snow will need to be removed from the streets and also from the sidewalks, parking lots and essential equipment such a...
OLYMPIA – With the Legislature in session for a short 60 days, most of the action will be pretty fast and furious, with 150 bills having already been pre-filed for consideration. Seven of those belong to 6th District Sen. Jeff Holy (R-Cheney), who hopes they will not only receive hearings but also advance to the Senate floor and beyond. Six of those have received bill numbers, and three have already been scheduled for hearings in two different committees. All three of those bills in committee are new proposals from Holy. S...
MEDIAL LAKE - Cardinal wrestlers gave the Riverside Rams a pounding before heading to the Crusader Classic at Northwest Christian High School where they took fifth in a field of 22 regional teams on Saturday. "About like I thought it would be," head coach Matt Leenhouts said of the 54-27 shellacking Cardinal wrestlers gave to the Rams. It was pin-city on the Cardinals home spotlight on Thursday, Jan. 16, with six of the 12 matches resulting in Card pins, along with one 10-4...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Lady Cards have won one and lost a couple in the past week, extending their record to 4-1 in the Northeast A League and 4-9 overall. The Cards earned their win the old fashioned way when they traveled to Newport on Wednesday, Jan. 14, beating the Grizzlies (1-5, 6-8) in a 58-39 blowout. “It wasn’t really a surprise,” head coach Kyle Lundberg said. “They were able to play four quarters, and that was huge for us.” Four quarters has been Lundberg’s...
(Note: All schedules subject to change. Consult school, club or facility websites to confirm.) College men’s basketball Saturday, Jan. 25, EWU vs. Southern Utah University, 2:05 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27, EWU vs. University of Northern Colorado, 6:05 p.m. College women’s basketball Saturday, Jan. 25, EWU at Southern Utah, 1 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27, EWU at Northern Colorado, 11 a.m. College men’s tennis Friday, Jan. 24, EWU at Sacramento State, 1 p.m. College track Thursday, Jan. 23, EWU at University of Idaho, 10 a.m. Boys high...
CHENEY – It took a few weeks, but the Lady Blackhawks basketball squad now has back-to-back wins for the first time this season. The girls wasted little time in earning their first Great Northern League win of the season, opening a 17-9 first quarter lead and holding the visiting Greyhounds to single-digit scoring in each of the next three quarters for a 51-23 win on Thursday, Jan. 16 in a game moved from Jan. 10 due to snow. Maggie Smith led all scorers with 18 points as C...
CHENEY — The Blackhawks were only able to keep the Golden Feather Trophy one year before the Cardinal’s took it back at the 10th annual Golden Feather Spirit Games at Eastern Washington University’s Reese Court last Saturday evening. Medical Lake’s boys basketball team (4-1, 11-2) balanced out the Cardinal girls’ loss with a signature last second 53-50 finish over the Blackhawks (1-3, 2-9) in the non-league game in which both teams traded the lead multiple times. The Cardi...
You write that Matt Shea wants to build a theocracy (“The theocracy of Liberty State,” CFP Dec. 26, 2019) and that is ridiculous. Obviously you have never interviewed him or researched his proposal for a 51st State. You just want to continue the smear job of others. If you were honest you would find out what he believes by listening to him on the following website: https://youtu.be/LPZrn77dj94. Barbara Green Liberty Lake, Wash....
A year ago, much of America’s heartland was inundated by Missouri River flood waters. At least 1 million acres of U.S. farmland in nine major grain producing states were under water. More than 14 million people were impacted. Damage exceeded $1 billion. With 11 dams on the Missouri, why was the flooding so severe? Why didn’t the dams absorb the excess waters? Its dams are above the flooded areas. The last impoundment is at Gavins Point Dam in South Dakota and heavy rai...
In his daily commentary on Jan. 21, veteran political commentator Chris Cilliza pointed to a recent poll by Gallup that reflected an 82-point partisan gap between Republicans and Democrats over approval of the job President Donald Trump is doing. Overall, 89 percent of Republicans approved of the job the president is doing while 7 percent of Democrats feel the same way — the largest presidential approval gap in the poll’s 74-year history. Cilliza is quick to point out, correctly I will add, that this phenomenon is not an inv...
One hundred years ago in 1920, George Brown opened a Chevrolet car dealership at 503 1st Street. Martin Holter later joined the operation, and Brown & Holter served the city until it was sold in 1974. Learn more about our area’s history at www.cheneymuseum.org....
Book club meets Jan. 28 The Friends of the Cheney Library Book Club will meet on Tuesday Jan. 28 at 6 p.m. in the library’s public meeting room. The club will discuss “The Educated a Memoir,” written by Tara Westover. Charlene Lund will lead the discussion. The public is welcome to attend....
Bradley Alan Wright, aged 61, passed away peacefully in his home in West Richland, Wash. on Christmas Day, 2019. Born Feb. 9, 1958 in Caldwell, Idaho, Brad was the youngest child of Gordon Keith Wright and Tommie Lee Stallings. He was brother to Lee Anne, Bruce and Brian. Brad graduated Cheney High School in 1976. He married Catherine Gresham and the couple settled in Colfax, Wash. where their children Jason and Ashley were raised. Brad was a graduate of the Pacific Coast Bank...
Cheney Congregational Church Pastor Matt Goodale has just started a new series about “The Kingdom of God: Backwards and Upside Down.” There is a children’s area in the Sanctuary and we have a children’s Sunday school during the sermon. Join us for fellowship, conversation and refreshment following the service. Please visit our website at www.cheneycongregational.org for previous sermons and more information about our church. Choir practice will be 9 a.m. on Sunday morning. All voices are welcome. Youth group (grades 6-12) m...
MEDICAL LAKE — St. Johns Lutheran Church has a new pastor. Two, actually. Greg and Carol Yeager arrived in mid-December and began tending to their flock that includes Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Reardan on Jan. 1. The Yeager’s came from North Carolina via North Dakota where they spent “three winters,” as Greg put it, before moving south where they pastored for 15 years at various churches in the Carolina heat as independent Lutheran pastors. And Greg, at least, was just fine w...
MEDICAL LAKE — A Spokane County Sheriff’s Deputy arrested an alleged vehicle prowler after backtracking the man’s footprints in the snow early Monday morning, Jan. 13. Deputy Garrett Spencer was on patrol when he stopped a man walking in the road just after 4 a.m. near South Broad and East Grace streets in a heavy snowstorm. The man, Joseph Blaine Thornton, was wearing clothing “not appropriate for the snow and 24-degree weather,” according to the police report. When ques...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS – For the third time in four months a Cheney Public School teacher has been named Eastern Washington University's Teacher of the Month. At an assembly in front of the entire student body on Thursday, Jan. 16, Sunset Elementary School third-grade teacher heard her name called by representatives from EWU, local TV station KHQ and Spokane Teachers Credit Union as the latest district winner of the award. As with other winners, a former student nominated Monroe, a...
MEDICAL LAKE - The Medical Lake High School Washington 81st Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps continues to do well in the Cascade Mountain League. The high school recently became a dormitory of sorts during the weekend of Dec. 14 when 420 students from 16 teams in the league that spans across Washington and as far south as Bend, Ore., encamped in classrooms to compete in a variety of events, from precision drill to physical fitness. Medical Lake finished first in the...
Hallett Elementary School announced its Partners Advancing Character Education (PACE), and other awards for the month of November. This months character trait: Caring. PACE: Citizenship awards Kindergarten Brooklyn Hopper Jasmine Romesburg Colton Stemkoski First Grade Julia Zuber Casey Young Bentley Gerke Calvin Marston Second Grade Lydia Scott Selena Wasickanin Keziah Potter Summer Baxter Third Grade Walker Hays Jayme Robinson Paxton Dubey Nolan Kiritz Fourth Grade Kenalie Brogan Emma Michaud Parker Hammer Fifth Grade Ezra...
CHENEY – Eastern Washington University’s fledgling Center for Entrepreneurship has received national recognition as it was named 2020’s top emerging entrepreneurship program by the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE). According to the association’s website, the Emerging Program Award “recognizes the development efforts of nascent entrepreneurship programs that show early signs of innovation, boldness, and student impact.” To be nominated, programs must be in the first three years of de...
CHENEY – The City Council unanimously approved extending a public hearing on a request to vacate a portion of a city right of way on 1st Street in order to make a more sellable piece of property for the owner of two adjacent parcels of land. At its first meeting of the year on Jan. 14, the council elected to send the matter back to the public works committee for additional research and direction on how to deal with access the right of way currently provides for several nearby residential uses. The committee will also c...
MEDICAL LAKE — After 37 years as the city’s legal representative, city attorney Cynthia McMullen is hanging it up — finally. Hired by Mayor Don Johns as city attorney and prosecutor in 1983, McMullen has since helped the city maneuver the legalities of municipal governance on a variety of issues that ushered in slow changes in the small, bucolic community. McMullen began her career out of Gonzaga Law School as a clerk, intern and eventually an attorney for the city of Spoka...
1 Years Ago Jan. 21, 2010 Cheney School District banked on future enrollment growth and a promise of no new taxes to convince voters to pass a $79 million capital bond. Taxes would actually go down due to the expiration of another levy. A $2.6 million budget gap had Gov. Christine Gregoire threatening to close Pine Lodge Correctional Center for Women, despite a bill passed by the Legislature that specifically stated no closures were to occur unless specified in a final facility closures report. 20 Years Ago Jan. 20, 2000...
