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Freshman Scott Nadeau was the only Cheney High swimmer to reach the event finals at last weekend’s boys’ state swimming meet at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way. Nadeau reached the consolation B finals in the 200-yard individual medley, making the top 16 with a 14th-place finish in the prelims with a time of 2 minutes, 15.26 seconds Friday, 1.34 seconds off his qualifying mark of 2:13.52. In the Saturday finals he also placed 14th with a time of 2:16.11. Stephen Boden of eventual 2A state champion Archbishop Mur...
A turnaround keyed by some solid defensive play in the final 10 minutes earned the Eastern Washington University women’s basketball team both some redemption and a 78-70 Big Sky Conference victory over Southern Utah last Saturday night in Cedar City. “The last 10, maybe 15 minutes just defensively we were able to get some stops,” Eastern Washington University women’s head basketball coach Wendy Schuller said. The win kept Eastern (10-5 Big Sky, 14-10 overall) in third place i...
A quick scan of iconic Norman Rockwell images of grandfathers and grandsons sharing special time includes traditions like fishing, ice-skating, raking leaves and just plain relaxing. Surely there are many more. The classic painter of traditional Americana died in November 1978 so his work never reflected the birth of monster trucks. But even had he lived to see their emergence in the early 1980s it’s likely his canvasses would never have depicted a young lad and a granddad p...
The Cheney High girls’ basketball team came up a couple wins short of advancing in last week’s Great Northern League/District 7 playoffs. The fifth-seeded Lady Hawks opened with an upset of fourth-seeded Colville, but couldn’t find the right combination to know off either Spokane Valley 2A schools, falling in the second round to eventual district champion West Valley and eliminated the next day by East Valley. Cheney played the Knights close, trailing by two points after...
The Cheney High School wrestling season is officially over, with three of its team members placing at the Mat Classic XXV Championships in Tacoma Feb. 15-16. Returning to the top, this time in the 182-pound weight class, was senior Eli Mason, who pinned his first round opponent, Anacortes sophomore Aron Tisinger, in 1 minute. Mason proved to be dominant from there, winning his next matches 17-1 and 14-3 against Steilacoom and Washington. In his final match against Selah High...
The first time Eastern Washington and Southern Utah met on the basketball court in a Big Sky Conference game the Eagles got pushed around – and lost 69-55 in Cedar City. Last Saturday, when pushed, Eastern pushed back and it helped earn them a rugged 86-72 victory at Reese Court. The win, the Eagles’ second straight, improved their BSC record to 6-9 and 8-17 overall. Southern Utah slipped to 8-8 in the league and 10-15 on the season. The outcome, combined with the Eag...
Eighty years ago my mother was in grade school where schoolroom paste was made by mixing a little flour and water together. Memories of that simple glue came back to her when she and I recently stood in my kitchen, mixing two small batches of flour and water. First I mixed regular “better for bread” flour with water in a little dish, then I did the same with special test flour made from a new type of durum wheat. The first mixture was a pasty, lightest-of-light-tan color, the second had a pale but clearly evident yellow hue...
How many people traversing the streets in Cheney have noticed the sign at the abandoned Conoco service station? If you are among the few who have seen it, you might be surprised at the number who haven’t. The sign says “oldest bee in town.” Translated into English with all letters intact the original message was “Coldest beer in town.” I’ve often wondered about that “bee.” Has he survived the winters? How old is he and how many years does a bee live? Imagine having a sign d...
Margie A. (Buob) Brown Margie A. (Buob) Brown, age 82, was entered into rest Feb. 11, 2013 at House of Hospice in Spokane, Wash. She was born Sept. 9, 1930 on a ranch south of Cheney, Wash. to Howard and Alda Buob. She graduated from Cheney High School. Margie was a long time resident of the Cheney/Tyler and Sprague area. She was very active on the farm and worked beside her husband Jack with the Black Angus cattle for 49 years. She was a lifetime member of the Tyler Grange....
For nearly four years, President Obama refused to admit a foreign-policy “secret” that was widely known here and throughout the world — namely, that the White House, Pentagon and CIA are engaged in ethically questionable and rapidly escalating drone warfare that’s killing innocent civilians as well as enemy soldiers in Afghanistan, Yemen and elsewhere. But by nominating John Brennan, the architect of this high-tech kill policy, to head the CIA, the president has let the drone out of the bag. In the past few days, both Br...
In his famous novel “1984,” George Orwell warned that it doesn’t take a military boot against your neck to oppress you. Government can do it by using talking points — what Orwell called “newspeak” — to hide truth, distort language and keep the public in the dark. Orwell cautioned that this manipulation poses the biggest threat to freedom, whether the government doing the manipulating is right wing or left wing. President Obama seems to be taking a page from “1984.” The novel’s main character is a young bureaucrat living in a...
One of the Spokane’s most known and admired figures, Appeals Court Justice the late John Schultheis, once gave some advice to young lawyers in a 1999 Spokesman Review article to: “Spend more time in the raising of your kids.” It’s good advice not just for lawyers, but also for anyone who has chosen to have a family, natural or adopted. It’s also good advice that if followed, might lead to something many people in and out of government are advocating for: education reform. Federal, state and local spending on K-12 education...
The following students were named to the Medical Lake High School honor roll for fall trimester 2012-13. To qualify, students must earn a GPA of 3.50 or higher. Seniors Sydney E. Ahlf, Tiffany E. Allen, Luke H. Alvarado, Dominique N. Anderson, Andrew C. Bliss, Joshua T. Bonsant, Danielle B. Burris, Harrison K. Cochran, Rachel R. Crofoot, Sabrina R. Earle, Amanda Gallagher, Florian A. Geiger, Naomi E. Guidry, Seth N. Hansen, Nikolaus T. Hofer, Teresa G. Jensen, Annabelle L. Jones, Tracie M. Jones, Anton P. King, Zebulon T....
The Cheney Middle School FBLA team competed Feb. 6 in Spokane. Three students competed and qualified for the state competition to be held in Spokane April 26-28. Hannah Spakousky placed third in Digital Design, Houston Moczulski fourth in Parliamentary Procedure and Alexa Brooks fourth in FBLA Policy and Procedure. Other team members included Alecia Brooks, Brooklyn Spencer, Kristie McGourin and Trevor Babcock. Cheney Middle School was the only middle school competing with 18...
The Cheney High School’s FBLA Club (Future Business Leaders of America) completed a very successful 2013 Northeast Regional Winter Conference at the Eastpoint Church in Spokane Valley, Feb. 6. The Cheney club was able to qualify 47 of its 67 attending members in 77 different events for the state conference in Spokane April 26-28. Of the 77 events that Cheney placed in, it had 20 first place finishes and 18 second place finishes. The list of winners is as follows: Name Place E...
The Ice Age Floods Institute, Cheney-Spokane Chapter is co-sponsoring a free public lecture with the Eastern Washington University Department of Geology, Thursday, March 7, “Geology of the Cheney-Palouse Falls Fracture Zones,” 7 p.m. in room 137 of the Science Building on Eastern’s Cheney campus. EWU geology professor Chad Pritchard will discuss fracture zones in the Columbia River basalts that have been recognized on geologic and topographic maps for the last century, yet little descriptions or analysis are present in the g...
Spokane County’s Engineering and Roads Department announced Feb. 13 that seasonal weight restrictions would be implemented on county roads – effective immediately. Roadway surfaces and the structures beneath the surface have become weakened during this winter’s cycle of freezing temperatures, followed by warmer temperatures and precipitation. As a result, roads are vulnerable to severe damage and the implementation of weight restrictions reduces the need for increased road maintenance and auto repairs later this year. Roads...
In partnership with the IRS, the AARP Free Taxaide service is again open at the Cheney Library. Volunteers are certified with the Internal Revenue Service to assist taxpayers with their taxes. The IRS sponsors the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) and Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE) programs to provide free basic tax return preparation for low-to-moderate income and elderly taxpayers. This includes taxpayers with disabilities, limited English proficiency, students and the military. The Cheney site is available by...
Opening his own private practice has been a dream long in the making for Dr. Michael Reznicek, but that dream is finally a reality. Last week marked the opening of his clinic, Peak Performance psychiatry and counseling, located at 1717 S. Rustle Road, just on the outskirts of the West Plains. Reznicek has practiced psychiatry for the past 24 years and has an extensive background with military training and corporate counseling. He and his wife Linda, who works in the front office of the practice, moved to Lewiston, Idaho to...
A 33 percent decline in donations plagued the Medical Lake Community Outreach last year, severely limiting its ability to provide help for residents in the city and surrounding areas. “We help people who can’t pay their water bill or are about to get their power disconnected,” treasurer Joyce Callaway said. When a family isn’t able to meet their monthly utility bill, Outreach is able to speak directly to utility companies and lend some assistance. “We work on their behalf to try and negotiate with the power company,...
Community in Schools volunteer coordinator Jessica Deutsch speaks to a pair of Eastern Washington University students about volunteer opportunities at the fifth annual Workit Conference Feb. 8....
It may not seem like it yet but spring isn’t too far off, and with that in mind the city of Cheney is beginning its process of clearing away trees and vegetation around local power conductors. It’s a practice Cheney has done for years, with work being subcontracted to local arborist firms beginning in 2001. Prior to that it was city crews doing the trimming, with results sometimes not so complimentary to the trees, let alone landowners desires. “They’re (city crews) basically line workers and not certified arborists so we t...
The top portions of Eastern Washington University’s new residence hall catch the final rays of daylight Tuesday. The residence hall, scheduled to open this fall, will provide living spaces for 352 students in 178 rooms along with community areas and administrative offices in its 104,000 square feet of space....
Growing up in the Bellevue, Wash.-area, former college basketball player Nick Livi took advantage of the opportunities larger metropolitan areas offer regarding youth programs, taking part in sports and activities through the parks and recreation department, after school programs and boys and girls clubs. Pursuing his master’s degree in social work at Eastern Washington University, the former Eastlake High School basketball standout began working with the Cheney Parks and Recreation Department this summer and came to r...
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...
