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CHENEY May 24 A two-car non-injury collision occurred on Woodward Stadium Lane. Theft of a black bicycle was reported in the 100 block of Huron Street; it was later recovered. May 25 Jeremiah S. Patterson, 23, was arrested for driving while license suspended in the 700 block of West First Street as well as for a Spokane County District Court warrant, also for DWLS. Possession of stolen property—debit and credit cards—was reported in the 2700 block of First Street. The cards were stolen from Spokane and used in Cheney. May 26...
A 31-year-old Medical Lake man was in custody last Thursday charged with three counts of third-degree assault after he sprayed a man, his wife and their 3-year-old daughter with pepper spray in a dispute over a tricycle. Deputies were called to the 500 block of North Brower shortly before 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 26, and found the couple and child suffering from the effects of pepper spray. Deputy Ray Miller said all three had orange stains on their faces and arms from the spray, and it appeared the child's skin was beginning...
Capital fund spending is approved as well as agenda items ranging from WIAA membership to fitness fees RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter The Medical Lake School Board authorized administrators to start spending bond money and ran through a host of agenda items and construction talks in their May 25 meeting. A hearing was held just prior to the regular meeting in which the board approved a capital projects budget extension of $6 million. The original capital budget was set at $500,000. “We passed a bond last February that gives u...
Student advisors also receive sendoff in board meeting that eyes summer capital projects, technology upgrades By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter The Cheney School Board's last meeting of the school year began with goodbyes. The board recognized longtime board member Kerry O'Connor as he attended his final meeting of a 12-year-long service Wednesday, May 26. Board members spoke of O'Connor's leadership and hard work on the board. Rick Mount, who joined the board less than a year before O'Connor was appointed in October 1998, said...
The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has dominated so much of the news lately, both over the air and in print. And what's been presented in that coverage gives an opportunity to analyze how such news is presented on various fronts. Sure, we know the old glass-houses adage and probably shouldn't be throwing stones, but we'll take aim at both electronic and print in questioning the type of coverage each offers these days. In an age where the 15-second sound-bite rules so much of what many people profess to know and...
ML Cemetery Association thanks Memorial Day helpers On Monday, May 31, the annual Memorial Day observance was held at the Medical Lake Cemetery. We appreciate the following individuals and groups who provided a meaningful contribution to our program: Mr. Terry Carver, Commander, Medical Lake American Legion; Col. Lyle Powell, Sr. Aerospace Science Instructor and the Medical Lake High School Junior ROTC Color Guard Cadets Keturah Guidry, Chris Garcia, Tyler James, Korina Urquidez, Zanny Jones and Justin Berqguist; CWO Marine...
By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is bad. Really bad. It's officially the worst oil spill in American history and it still hasn't been contained. Pictures of oil-soaked wildlife are circulating and people—drivers and oil company customers—around the country feel like they need to do something to help. Many have decided to boycott BP gas stations to punish them for this horrendous blow to the environment. Public Citizen has a petition to boycott their stations for three months. The “Boycott BP” F...
By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter They set up 90 chairs for the opening night performance of “Alladin” Saturday, May 22. The audience totaled 107 that night, something specialized recreation director Lavertta Lawrence found amazing and gratifying for her first attempt at inclusive theater. Inclusive theater features people with disabilities or special needs as the actors in the play. Lawrence got the idea from Cheney parks and recreation director Paul Simmons, who told her about an established inclusive theater program in Fed...
By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter Thousands of service members, veterans and supporters braved a drizzly Memorial Day Monday to attend the dedication of the first Washington State Veterans Cemetery just west of Medical Lake. Airway Heights Mayor Patrick Rushing and Medical Lake Mayor John Higgins, both of whom served in the U.S. Army, said before the ceremony that they were pleased to have the burial ground in their neighborhoods. “It's only fitting to have the cemetery put here in the West Plains,” Rushing said, pointing to...
By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter Medical Lake's planning commission had a busy meeting May 27, where they continued reviewing the city's zoning ordinance and had detailed discussions of the city's future and the school district's tenuous building plans. While additions to Hallett Elementary were nearly last on the agenda, they were at the forefront of the commission's interest last Thursday. City Planner Glen Scholten outlined the Medical Lake School District's desire to bypass a city ordinance that prohibits building within...
Local rancher promotes holistic management ranching technique By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter Before he started planned grazing on his Lazy R Ranch, Maurice Robinette says he didn't make much money and wasn't having any fun raising cattle. Now, he works a lot harder and makes about the same amount of money. But he says the holistic management techniques he's applied to his 1,000-acre ranch have made the job a whole lot more fun. Holistic management is a grazing system that limits cattle to certain sections of pasture for...
Unannounced inspections led to increased Medicare rating from four to five stars By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter There are five stars next to Cheney Care Center on the Medicare Web site. The long row of blue stars is rare; only 25 of the 232 nursing homes in Washington earned the top rating this year. Cheney Care Center executive director Keith Fauerso and director of nursing Carol Sands said the rating, up from four stars the last two years, comes thanks to the daily work of the staff at the facility. Sands wanted to credit...
The Arena Football League announced June 1 that Spokane Shock and former EWU receiver Raul Vijil, as well as linebacker Kevin McCullough have been honored with league awards. Following his performance in Spokane's 67-57 victory over top-ranked Jacksonville, Vijil was selected as the Russell Athletic Offensive Player of the Week. Vijil recorded 11 receptions for 130 yards and scored an AFL season-high seven touchdowns. McCullough was honored with the Cutter's Catch of the Week for his first quarter interception. With the...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Jarrod Swanson had the most success of Medical Lake track athletes at last weekend's state championships in Tacoma as the senior scored the highest finish of the small contingent of Cardinals who competed. The senior emerged from the preliminaries to finish seventh in the triple jump with a 43 foot, 2 inch jump. Will Hallberg of South Whidbey won with a 46-7 1/2. Swanson's 18-10 3/4 was 14th in the long jump behind the 22-10 of Anacortes' Thomas Kassa. In the 200 meters Swanson was unable to...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Medical Lake golfer Natalie Pendell came a long way in reaching her first state tournament, according to her coach. Nice thing is the junior has one more year to improve and see if she can take herself deeper into next year's event. Pendell returned from last week's AA tournament at Apple Tree Golf Course in Yakima after an opening-round 109 didn't allow her to make the cut and move on. Pendell told coach Ivan Gustafson that next year she was going to have a driver like everyone else. “I t...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Medical Lake's AA American Legion baseball team's new head coach Kerry Kelly might feel as though he's won the lottery as the upcoming season approaches. With 13 players on the roster, Kelly jokes, “We have some options now,” unlike when he was assistant for ML's Great Northern League season that had all of 11 player on a roster that earned Medical Lake a 7-7 league record and a 12-8 overall finish. Kelly, who will handle the day-to-day duties on the field with assistants Josh Smith and Mike Pau...
Blue Devils bank on West Plains players to earn way back to state tournament Five Blackhawks, one Cardinal will play key roles for defending Senior Legion champs By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter The Spokane Blue Devils are likely to bank their fortunes for a return trip to the state American Legion tournament � and hopefully beyond � on a half dozen players who honed their skills on the baseball diamonds of the West Plains. Those �beyonds� include spots in the ALB Northwest Regionals that take place in the Devils� b...
Cheney returns all but one player for new run next season By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Representing a program that hasn't reached state since the early part of the last decade of last century, Cheney High's softball team didn't do too badly last weekend. The Lady Hawks posted a 1-2 record at the 2A state tournament in Selah; finishing in a four-way tie for ninth place overall. For head coach Gary Blake, it was a solid performance from a team with one senior and one returning junior. “For such a young team, I don't feel they c...
Blackhawks return home with third straight runner-up trophy By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Next year. It's a refrain beginning to wear on Cheney boys' soccer players, coaches and fans alike. For the third straight season the Blackhawks advanced to the 2A state championship game and for the third straight season they came up short of the title, this time a 1-0 loss to the Bellingham Red Raiders – a team Cheney eliminated from the 2009 state quarterfinals on a last minute goal. Many felt this year's Cheney team was more talented, b...
