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When is it appropriate for an elected official to skip their duties? That was a point of discussion at the Medical Lake City Council’s regular meeting Tuesday, Feb. 5, after one councilman chose to skip the meeting to instead watch the State of the Union address. The council was a total of three members shy Tuesday. Councilwoman Laura Parsons was home tending to a sick child. Councilman Don Kennedy was vacationing in Hawaii. And Councilman Ted Olson chose to stay home to w...
By SHANNEN TALBOT Staff Reporter The Cheney boys wrestling team delivered at districts with a vengeance, taking first place in the Great Northern League with 260.5 points and smashing the competition by more than 75 points. East Valley followed with 185.5 points, Clarkston with 176, West Valley with 166.5 and Pullman with 144. “We’ve seen all these kids throughout the year, and we knew if they wrestled to their potential we were going to win that tournament,” head coach Jason Connor said. The Blackhawk grapplers have contr...
The 501 (c) (3) non-profit West Plains Angels organization recently donated $1,000 to the Medical Lake High School “Circuit Breakers” robotics club to help them travel this summer to national competition in Houston, Texas. The West Plains Angels raised the funding through December’s “Christmas Tree Bonanza” raffle, with winners receiving various prizes from local businesses along with $500 in cash. The West Plains Angels, founded by Tony and Amy Blount, raised over $2,800, p...
CHENEY Feb. 5 A 17-year-old male was arrested for minor in possession of alcohol at Cheney High School. Feb. 6 James B. Copeland, 40, was arrested on charges of alleged unlawful issuance of a bank check in relation to an incident that took place on Jan. 8 on the 100 block of 1st Street. Harassment was reported on the 1000 block of Betz Road. Incident was a possible neighbor dispute between renters. Identification theft was reported on the 300 block of 4th Street. Feb. 7 Trespassing was reported on the 300 block of North 7th...
1 Years Ago Feb. 19, 2009 The National Collegiate Athletic Association slapped Eastern Washington University’s football team with several sanctions for violating participation rules regarding academically non-qualified and ineligible students. The college was banned from participating in the 2009 playoffs, lost two scholarships and one coaching position and was given three years’ probation. Local homeowners took issue with their neighbors, saying some houses were occupied by four to five college students at a time. They cla...
Longtime Medical Lake High School tennis coach Leroy Lemaster was named this year's Kiwanis senior citizen volunteer of the year Saturday at St. Anne's Parrish Hall in front of nearly 80 of the area's fellow seniors. Lemaster was recognized for his years of work in the tennis community, and his efforts at the Department of Social and Health Services' College In Residence Volunteer program at Lakeland Village, where he supervised over 40 college students who provided enhanced...
Dr. Donald Ray Bell, of Cheney, passed away on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019 at the age of 88 in Spokane, Washington after a hard-fought battle with cancer. Don was born in Foreman, Arkansas in 1930 to Thomas Andrew and Lena Pearl Bell. His family moved from Arkansas to Oregon in 1940. Don met the love of his life, Betty Lou, at a dance while they were attending Bend Community College. They married in 1958. Don and Betty moved to Eugene, Ore., where he completed his Doctorate in...
Denny Harmon, 70, went home to be with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on Feb. 4, 2019. He was born in Everett, Wash. on March 27, 1948. The family moved to Walla Walla after Denny’s birth. He graduated from Walla Walla High School and then moved to Cheney where he graduated from Eastern Washington State University with a bachelor of arts degree in business administration. He worked his way through college as a drywaller. Denny was a veteran. He joined the Army after colleg...
Cheney Congregational Church Everyone is invited to join our Sunday morning worship service at 10 a.m. On Sunday, Feb. 17, pastor David Krueger-Duncan’s sermon will be “The Triumph of Adam & Eve Sisyphus: Are We Destroying Our Planet?” Plan to join us in the fellowship hall following the service to celebrate our church’s 138th birthday. Cheney Congregational Church was formed Feb. 20, 1881. The “Lunch Bunch” will meet in the fellowship hall at noon on Feb. 14. Everyone is welcome to join the group and share good food and conv...
StageWest hosts tryouts for ‘Savannah Sipping Society’ StageWest Community Theatre is holding open auditions for the upcoming spring play, “The Savannah Sipping Society,” written by Jessie Jones, Nicolas Hope and Jamie Wooten and directed by Kay Bryon Pacheco. Auditions will be Friday, March 1, at 6 p.m. and Saturday, March 2, at 11 a.m. at Cheney’s Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 639 Elm St. in the lower level of the building. Rehearsals begin in March and performances will be April 26,27,28 and May 3,4,5,10,11, 2019. The followin...
By ROBERT BAUER Contributor Robert Mill, one of the first pioneers in the Cheney/Spangle area, was born near Saint Nicholas, Aberdeen, Scotland on Nov. 1, 1803. Robert’s birth name was Robert Milne. The Milne family was part of the Gordon Clan. Robert married Margaret McGregor on Dec. 7, 1834 in Strathdon, Aberdeen Shire, Scotland. Margaret’s family was also part of the Gordon Clan. In 1836 Robert and Margaret immigrated to The United States of America by ship. They sai...
I am deeply discouraged by the news regarding several county sheriffs and county commissioners, among others, arbitrarily deciding that Initiative 1639 is unconstitutional therefore they are not upholding it as a law. Are these same individuals, who are supposedly sworn to uphold the law, now giving permission to all citizens to break any law they want if they don’t like it. Sounds like anarchy! The law has been voted on by a majority of voters wanting to improve the safety of citizens against gun violence? I voted yes for I...
America’s drift away from our market-based economic system is perplexing. Equally, mystifying is the new push to replace entrepreneurs with government bureaucrats in planning and controlling services and products offered to us — the consumers. Scrapping capitalism is a very bad idea. History shows that socialist and communist regimes dominated by strong-armed dictators, such as in Venezuela, and Soviet-style politburos are ripe for economic collapse and suppression of fre...
Along with millions of other Americans, I watched last week’s State of the Union Address. I’m not sure what I was expecting, but that wasn’t it. The President was uncharacteristically subdued. He didn’t pick any fights nor call anyone names. He was definitely un-Trump-like. The Democrats and the national press hate everything the President does, so it was no surprise when they discounted everything he said. Republicans, on the other hand, proclaimed it to be the best speech since Gettysburg. To me, it was kind of bland....
I have a friend who can cuss up a storm. Talk about making sailors blush — his blue language could peel paint on a battleship. In fact, my friend drops f-bombs so much, it’s more like he’s adopted the word as an adverb or adjective (interchangeable based upon the situation) rather than an expression emphasis on his opinion. My dad, on the other hand, was a sailor. Lieutenant junior grade, U.S. Navy, 1943-1946, South Pacific. He seldom swore, and never the “F” word. So on those rare occasions when he did cuss, you knew he w...
Cheney police were busy on Tuesday, Feb. 12, designating vehicles for removal from city streets in order to facilitate snow plowing. City codes require vehicle owners to remove them within a certain time period once the snow flies. This vehicle was one of about a dozen marked for removal on Washington Street from Oakland to just north of 3rd Street....
Cheney High School’s January Students of the Month are pictured above: front row left to right: Alex Hill, Skyla West, Jamie Sprague, Jasmine Sprague and Madison O’Riley. Back row left to right: Karson Mitchell, Jacob Simonsen, William Stevens, Walker Ross and Jameson Powell. Not pictured: Connor Stoddard, Realm Pope, Audriana Thoeny and Abby Witt....
The Cheney School District did not present attendance boundary recommendations to the school board at their Feb. 13 meeting as originally planned, school officials said Tuesday. Instead, they will be working to revise the current recommendations and will likely hold one more public meeting to get local feedback on those revisions. Assistant Superintendent Sean Dotson said that following some concerns from families, the district will be reworking its plan and “trying to find an alternate path.” The concerns stemmed mainly fro...
Multicare Health System, a not-for-profit healthcare organization, opened an access center on the West Plains last month to better serve their Spokane County patients. The center employs more than 45 people, and Multicare officials are predicting steady growth in the future. Multicare acquired several local healthcare facilities in July 2017, and has been planning its West Plains patient access center in earnest for about six months, Access Center Executive Director Wray...
Our internal strength comes from controlling our perceptions and reactions to things external to us, or so ancient stoic philosophers believed and practiced. Of all the things Medical Lake High School senior Destiny Earle has learned to date in her high school career, that lesson may be the most enduring. That’s because Earle has transformed from a delinquent under juvenile court supervision to a successful student leader and cheerleader with a bright future. But getting t...
There are several varieties of plants and flowers that are good for native and honey bees, but the best by far are sunflowers, Sarah Red-Laird of the non-profit “The Bee Girl” said. In a recent study, most bee-friendly flora attracted about four varieties of bees, while sunflowers attracted a stunning 16 diverse bee types. Cosmos, phacelia and milkweed are also popular with many bee species, as is eriophyllum, also called “Oregon Sunshine.” Some scientists have planted entire fields of milkweed in order to stimulate bee hea...
A fire consumed a single-wide mobile home just off State Route 904 between Cheney and Four Lakes on Feb. 11, leaving a Spokane County Fire District 3 volunteer firefighter homeless in the process. District 3 Division Chief Bill Dennstaedt said they received the call around 10 a.m. Monday, and were joined at the residence by units from Cheney and Medical Lake fire departments. The fire was well "established" when District 3 arrived, but due to some obstructions, Dennstaedt...
Eastern Washington University was buzzing on Saturday, Feb. 9, when it hosted the Washington State Beekeeper's Association Conference, bringing in beekeeping experts and newcomers from all over the Pacific Northwest to discuss issues facing local beehives. "Beekeeping is a little bit of a science and a little bit of an art," executive director of the Washington State Beekeeper's Association Jennifer Priest said. "One in three bites of food is dependent on pollination, and...
Cheney residents might notice something different in a couple weeks at the corner of 1st and I streets just south of downtown. Something will be missing — but its removal shouldn’t go unnoticed. Historic Preservation Commission administrative assistant Sue Beeman told commissioners at their Feb. 7 meeting that a house located on property purchased by the Cheney Depot Society is scheduled to be demolished in a practice burn by Cheney’s fire department on Sunday, Feb. 17. The removal of the house signals the first sign of pr...
Cheney firefighters were busy Feb. 4 with a pair of incidents that each had different outcomes because of one device — sprinklers. According to a department report, firefighters responded to an apartment fire at Eagle Point Apartments on the 1000 block of Betz Road that was apparently started on the unit’s stove while one of the occupants was cooking. Fortunately, an automatic overhead fire sprinkler head in the kitchen activated, confining the fire to the unit and preventing it from spreading to other apartments in the bui...
