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Linda Heiydt On Monday, Feb. 18, 2019, the good Lord called another angel home. Linda Mary Heiydt passed away surrounded by her family after a long and tough-fought battle with cancer. She was a dedicated wife, mother and Catholic. Linda was born in Vancouver, Canada, on Jan. 10, 1945. She immigrated to the U.S. and became a naturalized citizen. She was a proud American and a well-read historian. She majored in geology and dreamed of going on an archaeological dig. Linda...
At Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ Feb. 21 town hall in Medical Lake, no topic was off the table, with attendee questions ranging from her stance on deportation and the national debt to her own recent campaign contributions. Republican McMorris Rodgers, U.S. Representative for Washington’s 5th Congressional District, kicked off the meeting by highlighting her political record, referencing several bills she sponsored that have passed into law before taking constituent que...
(Note: All schedules subject to change. Consult school, club or facility websites to confirm.) College Basketball Men Thursday, Feb. 28, EWU hosts Sacramento State, 6:05 p.m. Saturday, March 2, EWU hosts Portland State, 2:05 p.m. Thursday, March 7, EWU at Idaho State, 6:05 p.m. Women Thursday, Feb. 28, EWU at Sacramento State, 7 p.m. Saturday, March 2, EWU at Portland State, 2 p.m. Thursday, March 7, EWU hosts Idaho State, 6:05 p.m. College Tennis Men Saturday, March 2, EWU at Portland State, 1 p.m. Sunday, March 3, EWU at...
Central Washington University head coach Ian Shoemaker has accepted a position at Eastern Washington University as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, Eagle head coach Aaron Best announced Monday, Feb. 25. His hiring is contingent on Shoemaker successfully passing EWU's mandatory background check. Shoemaker has been CWU's head coach for the past five seasons, compiling a 38-16 record and winning Great Northwest Athletic Conference championships in 2017 and 2018. In t...
The Cheney Blackhawk boys swim team, just off of one of its largest districts showings in recent years, sent two individual qualifiers to state competition at the King County Aquatic Center on Feb. 15. The team took 22 of 33 swimmers to districts, where they moved up one spot from last year and captured third place. Several of those swimmers placed, while Trae Babcock and Jared Jeschke qualified for state. Babcock dropped two full seconds off his 100-yard freestyle time to take third place in 50.48 seconds. He also was third...
The final week of the regular season will see the Eastern Washington University women’s basketball team on the road. The Eagles, winners of four out of their last five games, looks to avenge earlier losses this season to Sacramento State and Portland State. Eastern has won five out its seven games in February and looks to close out the final month of play on a strong note when they take on the Hornets on Thursday (Feb. 28) at 7 p.m. The Eagles then open the month of March with a contest at Portland State on Saturday (March 2...
Cheney gymnast Lauren O'Callaghan made her hometown proud at the 2019 Washington state championships last weekend in Sammamish on Feb. 21-22. On beam, O'Callaghan tied for 45th place out of more than 100 competitors with a score of 8.550, sharing the spot with Ava Motroni of Mercer Island and Maddi Bughi and Kate Roth from Mt. Spokane. "She did great," head coach Jamie Frucci said. "She got her highest beam score of the season." The four-day state meet dedicated two straight...
This is a basketball story. But it doesn't necessarily involve statistics, unless you can quantify desire. The Medical Lake Cardinal girls, led by Northeast 1A League Most Valuable Player Jessica Lohman, has had another winning season. Watching Lohman play one would never know that getting there took no small amount of perseverance and determination. "This is her year," Lohman's mother, Dee Dee said. It's been a long road for the blond-headed, 5-foot-11-inch Lohman. Although...
The Medical Lake girls moved ahead in post-season play in a low scoring, defensive 42-31 road victory against King’s Way Knights Friday at West Valley High School. But the beginning of the game didn’t look like eminent victory. The Card girls took the first quarter to warm up, allowing the Knights to outscore them by three points, and going only 1 for 8 in 3-point shooting. “King’s Way shot the ball really well in the first quarter,” head coach Kyle Lundberg said. That was...
CHENEY Feb. 11 Second-degree theft was reported on the 300 block of North 7th Street. A trumpet was taken. Domestic violence/verbal dispute was reported on the 1000 block of Betz Road. Feb. 12 Rape was reported on the 100 block of North 9th Street. Fourth-degree assault was reported on the 2200 block of North 6th Street. Roger L. Walters, 31, was arrested on the 2800 block of Al Ogdon Way for third-degree driving while license suspended (DWLS). Feb. 13 Twenty-four vehicles were towed from various locations around Cheney due...
Cheney Congregational Church Sunday worship starts at 10 a.m. with coffee, refreshments and conversation in the fellowship hall following the service. On Sunday, March 3, Dr. Mike Folsom will deliver the sermon for vacationing pastor David Krueger-Duncan. Everyone is welcome. If you like to sing, you are welcome to join our wonderful choir. Practices are held Sunday mornings at 9 a.m. If you have any questions contact our choir director Kate Francis at (509) 481-5234. We will be serving lunch for the kids at Crosswalk in Spok...
Emmanuel Lutheran Church celebrates “Fat Tuesday” The public is invited to come to Cheney’s Emmanuel Lutheran Church and help celebrate “Fat Tuesday” at the 10th annual “Festival of Chocolate,” March 5. There will be activities for children, door prizes and all the chocolate treats you can eat from 6:30 – 8 p.m. at the church, 639 Elm St. Donations benefit Vacation Bible School. The event is a Thrivent Team project. For more information, call 389-3776....
1 Years Ago March 5, 2009 Cheney student Matt Cooper and the rest of his eight-piece ska band won a recording session in a local music competition. The session was set to take place a well-known Seattle recording studio. The West Plains Chamber of Commerce moved to a new location along Interstate 90 due to the leaky roof and inefficient windows at its existing building, meant to improve visibility for prospective businesses. A donor-supported “compassion fund” at Medical Lake...
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a four-part series about the Mill family, early pioneers in the Cheney/Spangle area. The stories are researched and written by Robert Bauer, the great-great-great-great-grandson of Robert Mill. Ella Ruby Bauer, maiden name Mill, was born on her grandpa Robert Mill’s 160-acre homestead located on Wells Road south of Cheney in the Washington Territory on Jan. 4, 1885 in a wood-frame house that measured 16 feet by 20 feet with a loft. The house is now known as the Original Homestead Hou...
The animosity expressed by tone of voice, facial expressions and questions about undocumented people (i.e. illegal aliens ) at political meetings amazes me. I attended a “Conversations with Cathy” (5th District Rep. McMorris Rodgers) meeting in Medical Lake in October 2018 when disdain for the undocumented was expressed by one woman who shouted out “Build that Wall” and others appeared to agree. On Feb. 21, I attended another Conversations with Cathy meeting in Medical Lake. After Representative McMorris Rodger’s opening rema...
This is in response to the Feb. 21 story “Holding out for a hot breakfast” in the Cheney Free Press. Inmates and Gov. Jay Inslee don’t seem to get it. Incarcerated individuals are being punished, not sent to an all-expenses paid country club. They shouldn’t eat any better than the minimum wage workers of America and they definitely shouldn’t be catered to. I think what the state has provided is better than most grade school kids get who eat at home before school. I know my high school sons decided sleeping an extra 20 minute...
I went to college in New York. It was a long way from home, but West Point offered to let me play football in exchange for a quality education and a career. New York was quite a culture shock for a small town farm boy. The drinking age was 18, the voting age was 21 and the only thing that prevented us from smoking was the price of cigarettes. We did most of the stupid things that college kids do, but no one got hurt that I know of, and we didn’t break any laws. Times have sure changed. College kids are now deemed mature e...
Three Cheney restaurants will be joining others in Spokane, Spokane Valley and other county locations on a week-long campaign to build community while raising money for the Spokane non-profit Meals on Wheels. The campaign, “Waffles 4 Wheels” was created by Cheney resident, community fundraiser and longtime marketing professional Tad Richardson. Launched in 2016 at a Spokane restaurant, Waffles 4 Wheels raised almost $2,000 for Meals on Wheels in its first two years. This yea...
Bill Bresnahan knows a good idea when he sees one. Just as importantly, he also knows how to take someone else's discarded idea and make it better. The Medical Lake resident saw such an opportunity a couple years ago when a man approached him for help with an idea to improve one of the oldest tools in the world - the wheelbarrow. Bresnahan said the man wanted to improve the stability of the yard and garden implement by adding a third wheel, and asked him for help with his...
Medical Lake High School students who earned a 3.25-3.49 grade point average during the first semester of the 2018-2019 school year were placed on the honor roll. Students achieving a GPA of 3.5 or higher earned a place on the Principal’s honor roll. Part 1 of the honor roll featuring seniors and juniors appeared in the Feb. 21 issue of the Cheney Free Press. The lists below are for sophomores and freshmen and were provided by Medical Lake High School. Sophomore Principal’s Honor Roll Jessica L. Beecher, Abigail E. Bol...
Earlier this month, the Cheney Middle School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) chapter showed off their skills at the 2019 Winter Business Leadership Conference in Spokane Valley. Twenty-two students competed at the conference, representing one of only three middle school chapters in the region. Twenty students placed in the top six in their events, advancing to the state competition in April. Cheney representatives placed in 11 different highly competitive events,...
The Cheney Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) club had an impressive showing at the 2018 Northeast Regional Winter Conference last month, with 50 of its 57 attending members earning a trip to the state leadership conference. As a team, club members placed 93 times in competition and placed first in 17 of the 58 different events. Students who place in the top six of their events are eligible to compete at the State Business Leadership Conference in Bellevue April 10-13....
All council members were present at the regular bi-weekly Medical Lake City Council meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 19. The primary focus of the evening was on the first reading of renewals for Avista and T-Mobile franchise agreements that allow the utilities to operate on city property. Set to expire next month, Avista’s electrical franchise agreement allows the utility provider to continue to locate its electrical transmission utilities within city rights of way. The agreement w...
Dr. Patrick Jones is not a prophet. At least that’s what he told the audience at the West Plains Chamber of Commerce’s monthly meeting Feb. 20 at Eastern Washington University’s Tawanka Hall. In fact, he questioned whether anybody could make specific predictions for the future of the region. “Anybody who says they can forecast at county (level) or below county are deluding themselves,” the executive director of Eastern’s Institute for Public Policy and Economic Analysis said. What Jones did provide was a brief overview an...
The Civil War is coming to Cheney. Or rather an historically-close reenactment of the conflict that engulfed the nation for four years during the 1860s and is the deadliest war ever fought by U.S. forces that changed the country in ways still felt today. Whether it's called the Battle of Cheney or the Battle of Minnie Creek, Cheney officials have struck an agreement with the Washington Civil War Association to host the annual Civil War reenactment over two and a half days...
