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When it comes to hiring a replacement for recently departed City Administrator Arlene Fisher, Cheney is taking the same approach it did when Parks and Recreation Director Paul Simmons left in November 2013 — wait. Mayor Tom Trulove doesn’t anticipate a search replacing either leadership positions will commence much before late April or May. Right now, he feels he and other department heads have things in control running the city’s daily operations. Trulove has several reasons for holding off on filling both positions, one of...
1 Years Ago March 11, 2004 With parking becoming an ongoing problem at Eastern Washington University's Woodward Field, the Cheney Planning Commission decided it better start looking at the school's proposal to add 1,500 seats to the stadium. It took two wins on back-to-back nights over Pullman, 65-63, and over Chewelah, 59-52, to send Medical Lake on to the State 1A boy's basketball tournament. Following a surprise 58-43 loss to Lakeside the previous week, the Cards were in...
City of Cheney • March 7, Baby Play and Learn Time (0-18 months), community library, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. • March 8, Second Friday Late Night (middle school grades), EWU URC, 6 – 10 p.m. • March 10, LWR Quilters meeting, Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 1 p.m. • March 10, Planning Commission meeting, council chambers, 5:30 – 7 p.m. • March 10, Al-Anon meeting, Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 7 p.m. • March 11, City Council meeting, council chambers, 6 – 8 p.m. • March 12, Toddler Play and Learn Storytime (ages 1 1/2 – 3) community librar... Full story
The Cheney-Spokane Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute is holding its annual spring hiking and field trip to the Lower Palouse Canyon to Palouse Falls Saturday, March 15. The hike runs 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is led by Lloyd Stoess and Gene Kiver The hike is eight miles up the Palouse Canyon to Palouse Falls State Park. It emphasizes the Ice Age Floods story and local Native American and settlement history and follows a combination of established trails, game trails, and bush whacking. There are also some steep ascents and d...
Emmanuel Lutheran Church The first Sunday of Lent will be celebrated at Emmanuel Lutheran Church this week on March 9. All are welcome to worship at 10:30 a.m. Christian education for grade school children through adult begins at 9 a.m. Emmanuel would like to thank the community for participating in our “Festival of Chocolate” on Tuesday, Feb. 4. Your generous donations assure a successful vacation Bible school this summer. Lenten mid-week soup supper and worship continues on Wednesday, March 12. Soup supper is served at 5:30...
By LUELLA DOW Contributor When I asked Helen Boots if I could browse through the book she had written about the country school she attended as a girl, I expected it to be a text I could easily hold in one hand. She held out an object tipping the scales at nearly 10 pounds, 11 inches across, and four inches high. She quietly told me of taking a course in college on how to tell a story. Again, I presumed she had written another few pages somewhere else. But here in my lap was...
CHENEY Feb. 25 An incorrigible youth was reported at Betz Elementary School. Third-degree theft was reported on the 2400 block of University Lane. A motor scooter was taken. An abandoned blue Dodge Neon was impounded from the city lot. The vehicle, there for several months, was reported on Feb. 18. A 1994 white Nissan Sentra was impounded on the 100 block of West Fifth Street. The vehicle was reported on Feb. 12. Feb. 27 Domestic violence/verbal dispute was reported on the 200 block of South Cheney Spangle Road. An alleged...
Well, well, well, news flash, former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Terry Yonkers has come out and stated that the Spokane Tribe Economic Project has a “low and insignificant disruption to the Fairchild flying mission.” This along with the Federal Aviation Administration report found no encroachment other than from the trailer parks in the crash and approach zones. Just take part of a day and park at Spoko Fuel gas station and watch the Fairchild planes fly over. If you notice, they fly further north of the planned loca...
With the coming of the New Year our local post, the A. and T. Mautausch Post 11326 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, began our twenty-first year of service to the city of Cheney and the surrounding area. Our mission is to serve veterans of our armed services and to support activities of our local community. One service we accomplished in 2007 was the refurbishing of the veterans monument in the city park (which was later renamed Veteran’s Park) by installing lighted stone benches and placing a lighted flagpole next to the m...
The semi-annual Spokane Regional Council of Governments meeting, known as COG (to everything there is an acronym) proved entertaining and informative last Friday. Particularly when it came to Fairchild Air Force Base and the surrounding environs. Spokane County Commissioner Al French’s presentation “Protecting Fairchild AFB — Helping Families,” revisited Proposition 1, a ballot measure imposing a levy on county residents the proceeds of which would be used to purchase seven mobile home parks in the city of Airway Heights...
Cheney and Medical Lake school districts have been promoting character education at all grade levels since the start of the current school year, using a list of monthly traits developed by the Spokane Valley organization PACE — Partners Advancing Character Education. The trait for the month of the March is diligence, which PACE describes as “persistence, dedication and hard work.” It is important we teach children that through diligence, they can develop a work ethic that will not only take them far into the future, but a...
Alpha Xi Delta spaghetti feed Alpha Xi Delta at Eastern Washington University will be holding its annual spaghetti feed to benefit its philanthropy, Autism Speaks, Friday, March 7 from 4 – 7 p.m. at the Alpha Xi Delta house. There is a $5 suggested donation at the door. Come have some wonderful food as well as taking part in a silent auction/raffle table. All proceeds go to Autism Speaks. Come out and support the philanthropy. ML Friends of the Library read Jennifer Worth The Medical Lake Friends of the Library will be d... Full story
Miss Ivy Winters, a contestant from "RuPaul's Drag Race," performs a lip-sync at the annual drag show fundraiser at EWU, Feb. 27, in the PUB MPR. All proceeds from the event went to the Spokane Aids Network....
Editor’s Note: This is a continuation from the list published in the Feb. 26 issue of the Cheney Free Press. Eighth Grade 3.5 — 3.0 GPA — Keaton I. Mitchell, Zachary J. Nguyen, Ruby M. Thompson, Collin B. King, Gabriel J. Beaudreault, Tiana N. Groff, Cailey N. Hexum, Carson E. Jones, Azaria C. Tillson, Dillon S. Dalton, Grace L. Boyle, Maddyson R. Cowan, Hosny M. El-Aarag, Dylan E. Frederick, Jairus D. Kuhn, Barbara N. Stragier, Eduardo Barrios, Ally J. Bunting, Artur E. Nesterov, Trevor C. Schnug, Courtnee L. Wahl, Zoe M...
Enrollment in the Cheney School District, both full-time equivalent (FTE) students and actual headcounts, continues to remain strong and above counts at this time last year. At the Feb. 26 regular Cheney school board meeting, Executive Director of Finance Kassidy Probert reported that FTE numbers for February were 4,059.44 students, a slight dip from January’s 4,061.77 but comfortably above February 2013’s figure of 3,916.06. Headcounts, actual bodies in desks, were 4,223 in February, two below January’s tally but 122 ahead...
Editor’s Note: This is a continuation from the list published in the Feb. 26 issue of the Cheney Free Press. Juniors Principal’s Honor Roll: 4.0 — 3.5 GPA — Cameron A. Brumgard, Stephanie T. Burris, Annette J. Carlson, Gabriel N. Chernishoff, Timofey N. Chernishoff, Cheyanne H. Dent, Ira Earl, Alyssa A. Fitzgerald, Alyssa M. Higgins, Katelynn M. Houger, Kristopher A. Isherwood, Ethel M. Laird, Queen Sandra V. Layam, Madilyn C. Lewan, James M. Loeffler, Holly N. Marsh, Randy D. Martin, Joshua S. Miller, Ian P. O’Brien...
Medical Lake High School will be getting an addition in the future. STEM coordinator Ann Everett announced that the district was awarded a $100,000 grant from the Cornelius E. Hagan Foundation at the Feb. 25 regular Medical Lake school board meeting. According to a news release from Everett, the grant will be used for the development of a lab for the STEM program where students from Medical Lake and other area schools can explore engineering. The lab will feature industry standard equipment, as well as a curriculum for...
Russ Seaton grew tired of the “hustle, rustle and bustle” of Seattle, so he decided to open Pro Muffler and Brakes, on 14022 West Highway 2 in Airway Heights. “I decided to slow down a little bit, so I opened up a ‘mom-and-pop shop’ in December,” Seaton said. Seaton has worked in the auto service industry for 30 years. His passion for working on cars began in high school, in Pasco, while taking an industrial arts class. “The guy who owned a local muffler shop was looking for a good, trainable hand and I applied, he s...
For families who need funeral services for their pets there is Northwest Pet Cremation Services, in Airway Heights. James Konitzer, owner and operator of Northwest Pet Cremation Services has spent 30 years in the funeral business. Konitzer arrived in Spokane in 1992 and began working at Fairmount Memorial Association. He worked in management for 20 years, mentoring under president Duane Broils. At age 47, he decided to start a pet funeral home, something he has wanted to do...
As founder and executive director for Sustainable Obtainable Solutions, Gloria Flora uses her 22- years of experience in the Forest Service to inform and motivate locals to move toward a more sustainable lifestyle. Flora delivered the keynote address for EWU’s first “Start Something Green: Sustainability Symposium” Feb. 25. While she addressed an audience of students, faculty and staff, Flora told them that it’s important to live a sustainable lifestyle now as the best course to secure a healthy and safe lifestyle for future...
OLYMPIA – A new economic forecast predicts recreational-marijuana businesses will bring millions to the state, and the fight is underway for how the proceeds will be spent, with cities vying for a share. Recreational-marijuana business is expected to bring in $51 million in state revenue during 2015-2017, according to a recent financial report released by the Washington State Economic and Revenue Forecast Council. During 2017-2019, marijuana-tax revenue is projected at $138.5 million. The new source of revenue represents a f...
Airway Heights Mayor Patrick Rushing had a couple of big announcements at the March 4 City Council meeting. Rushing said he attended the Feb. 24 Spokane City Council meeting, where he gave a three-minute presentation on the Airway Heights Joint Land Use Study and what the city has been doing to protect Fairchild Air Force Base. He told the Airway Heights the Spokane council voted 4-3 to reverse a previous resolution opposing the Spokane Tribe Economic Project. Spokane will now have a neutral stance on the project. “We t...
Dr. Raphael Guillory, professor and interim Chicano Education Director, speaks at the Monday, March 3 memorial service at Eastern Washington University's Showalter Auditorium honoring Ashley Gonzales and Nancy Zepeda Zarate. The students were killed in a Feb. 21 car crash near Colfax. The service attracted a nearly full auditorium and featured a variety of tributes from students, as well as EWU President Rodolfo Arévalo....
Cheney Spokane Road residents about a half mile northeast of Cheney will once again find themselves making a case before a Spokane County hearing examiner in opposition to construction of a proposed airstrip north and northeast of their property. A hearing is scheduled for Monday, March 10, at 9 a.m. in the Spokane County Commissioners Hearing room in the lower level of the Public Works Building to take testimony on a conditional use permit filed by Silverbird, LLC and its...
