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As Eastern Washington women’s basketball coach Wendy Schuller said, “I don’t know if we could have scripted the week any better.” Last Thursday night at Reese Court, her Eagles staged a big second half rally that forced overtime and Eastern scored a critical 67-61 win over Idaho State that solidified third place in the Big Sky Conference tournament. Then Saturday afternoon, a pair of players had notable outings on their Senior Day as Eastern put together a pair of 35-poin...
Following a successful run in the 2012-13 Big Sky regular season, the Eastern Washington University women’s basketball team had three individual members honored on the All-Big Sky Conference Team, which was announced last Monday, March 11. In a vote of the league’s 11 head coaches, sophomore guard Lexie Nelson was one of six players selected to the All-Big Sky First Team, while senior Carrie Ojeda earned the first All-Conference distinction of her career as a member of the hon...
Whether it was scoring, rebounding or blocking shots – not to mention passing the ball and playing defense – Venky Jois made quite an impression on the Big Sky Conference in the 2012-13 men’s basketball season. As a result, the 6-foot-7 true freshman from Boronia, Australia, was selected by the league’s coaches March 11 as the Big Sky Conference Freshman of the Year. He was also the lone EWU player on the All-Conference team, earning honorable mention. “It’s a great honor...
By Dr. E. Kirsten Peters Contributor A friend of mine recently returned to the U.S. from deployment with the National Guard in Afghanistan. One of the first things he did when he reached a military base in Texas was to buy a cup of espresso. He even took a picture of it and posted it on the Internet. Good coffee was a sure sign, he said, he’d returned to civilization. The magic in coffee is caffeine, a stimulant that keeps us coffee-drinkers going back for more every day. Many of us know that a dose of caffeine makes us p...
1 Years Ago March 20, 2003 Longtime Cheney football coach Tom Oswald announced his retirement after 25 years on the job with the Blackhawks. Compiling a 166-70-9 record at Cheney, Oswald said the time was right to step down. “I kind of had an idea this would be my last year – even before the football season this year,” he said. Oswald coached his son Drew and had one more year before being able to retire. Facing significant cuts from the city in its budget, the future of how Cheney residents would recycle was up in the a...
Little things, like an announcement heard on the radio, can change the direction of a life. Melode Hall listened, was intrigued by what she heard and opened the door to something new and rewarding. She is known as an elite leader/Instructor for Creative Memories and a 2012 Achiever in Circle of Excellence for the organization. “I’ve helped thousands of people over these past 24 years,” she said. “I’ve put Spokane on the map by being in the top 10, 10 times for different...
As someone who came to the Legislature from private business, I have advocated that the Legislature get serious about turning around our stagnant economic growth through policies to encourage private investments that create jobs. House Republicans continue to offer common-sense solutions that would get economic development projects started sooner, curb the rate at which state agencies are drafting new regulations for businesses, and make it harder for the Legislature to raise your taxes. Here are just a few of our ideas....
Medical Lake may be small, compared to other cities in the Inland Empire. But its recent stance on Spokane County’s Joint Land Use Study (JLUS) is commendable, holding out on approving the land-use document. The City Council has held strong against unfathomable pressure from surrounding jurisdictions, sticking to the interests of its residents. Many came to open houses last year to speak against the document and the numerous regulations it imposes on homeowners and developers. JLUS was created with the main intent of protecti...
It’s too bad last fall’s Initiative 1240 allowing for creation of charter schools didn’t pass by a wider statewide margin. If it had, it would have been easier to claim those filing a lawsuit seeking to overturn the results weren’t hearing what voters were saying – that our public school system needs reforms. The Washington Education Association, League of Women Voters of Washington and Chicano/Latino civil rights organization El Centro de la Raza filed a lawsuit Feb. 27 with the state Attorney General’s office challenging...
Area students were named to the 2012 autumn semester Dean’s List at the University of Montana. To qualify, students must be undergraduates, earn a semester grade average of 3.50 or higher and receive grades of A or B in at least nine credits. During autumn semester, 2.983 students were named to the Dean’s List. Nora Ifft and Elisabeth Olson, both from Cheney, were named to the Dean’s List....
It was never Cheney resident Debbie Anderson’s intention to open a store. It was the clientele at her current business that finally drove her, along with daughter Aly Avey, to open Cheney’s latest foray into the antiques genre, Against the Grain. Anderson is owner along with husband Brian of Cheney’s Holiday Inn Express, whose guests often peppered her with questions about what the city has to offer. “People kept asking, ‘Where can we eat and do you have any unique, quaint pl...
The University of Washington has announced students earning their way to the Dean’s List for autumn quarter 2012. To qualify for the Dean’s List, a student must have completed at least 12 graded credits and have a grade point average of at least 3.5. Cheney Evan Lawrence Cook Colleen M. Davis Danielle Isabelle Gilmour Danielle Marie Vonlehe Spangle Brandon Lewis Thayer...
Cheney High School students Ashley Hall and Austin Mitchell have been named the Cheney Rotary Club Students of the Month for February 2013. Mitchell is the president of the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Club at CHS, while Hall is the club historian. Both are seniors this year planning on attending college next year. Mitchell wants to major in cyber-security at Dakota State (S.D.) while Hall wants to major in film at Cal State East Bay. CHS principal Troy Heuett...
As technology improves, school tests improve as well. The Smarter Balanced Assessment will be the new test for Medical Lake School District beginning in the 2014-15 school year. Currently, the district administers the Measurements of Student Progress in grades three through eight and the High School Proficiency Exam for 10th-graders. End of course assessments are also given to juniors as their final high school test. Director of Teaching and Learning, Dan Mueller, said the Smarter Balanced test is computer adaptive, which...
Members of the military make great sacrifices throughout their time in the service. Although they aren’t enlisted members, the families make just as many sacrifices along the way. Last week, Medical Lake High School’s Mark Newberry received the honor of being named Operation Homefront’s 2013 Military Child of the Year for the Air Force. Newberry was selected from over 1,000 applicants nationwide for the award. He learned of his placement in the top 20 just a few weeks ago....
Eastern Washington University’s Get Lit! programs announces an evening of events with Christopher McDougall, including a Bloomsday training run, reception and reading on Wednesday, April 10. All of these events are free and open to the public. With more than four months on the New York Times Best Seller List, “Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen” (2009) centers on the Tarahumara Indians, a reclusive tribe in the Copper Canyons of northern Mexico. The Tarahumara run ultra-...
Law enforcement will conduct extra driving under the influence (DUI) patrols in Spokane County from March 14-18. As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, revelers are encouraged to remember that finding a designated driver isn’t luck, it’s smart, and the best way to make sure you and your friends get home safely. The Spokane County Target Zero Task Force is reminding drivers not to get behind the wheel if they’ve been drinking. Extra patrols will be going on during the St. Patrick’s Day weekend, where local law enforcement agencies...
Construction work on a new interchange at the Cheney-Spokane Road/US 195 intersection swings into action this week with a groundbreaking today, Thursday, March 14. The $11 million project will result in a diamond-shaped interchange that removes at grade exits and entries in favor of four new ramps linked to a bridge spanning four-lane wide US 195. Selland Construction crews have begun preliminary site work, mainly grading, with construction completion estimated for later this year. Residential development south of the...
The final stages of work in chapter three of Airway Heights’ comprehensive plan are in motion after the Monday, March 11 meeting of the city’s Planning Commission. The document has been under review for the last several months as the commission works on wording for issues facing the city, vision statements and goals for the next couple of decades. At Monday’s meeting, the latter two portions of the chapter were advanced to a final review that will come in the next couple of months. “This entire chapter will come back in a mon...
For American Legion Auxiliary national president Peggy Thomas, taking care of U.S. military veterans boils down to one, simple fact. “These are warriors,” Thomas said in an interview after her appearance at a dinner last Friday night at Cheney’s American Legion Hall. “We made them what they are. You can’t just forget about them.” Thomas addressed a gathering of representatives from local American Legion and Auxiliary districts during a visit last week to Washington...
Chloe and Wyatt Parsons show off their buttercup, the first collected back home in Medical Lake and brought to the Free Press Wednesday, March 6....
An operator from Roger’s Towing prepares to load a 2002 Hyundai that went off SR 904 early Tuesday morning. Washington State Patrol Trooper Ron Snowden said the vehicle driven by Ya Fisher of Cheney swerved to avoid a blue SUV that had veered across the centerline, went into the ditch and flipped over. Fisher and her 13-year-old daughter were unhurt, while the SUV left the scene of the second accident in nine days on the busy, five-mile stretch of highway....
The mysteries surrounding why Katelynn Janes needed a life-saving transplant remain. But at least the critical surgery was able to take place so life could go on. The 2012 Cheney High grad ought to be home recuperating – and so hopefully will her mother, Lisa, who donated one of her kidneys to Katelynn last Friday at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane. According to Katelynn’s dad and Lisa’s husband, Ben, the surgery went well. There was never a warning alarm...
In the past two years, case filings for the Medical Lake Municipal Court have been cut in half. Judge Richard Kane was on hand at the Tuesday, March 5 City Council meeting to deliver an annual court report, detailing the types of cases he’s seen over the past year. Overall, filings are down over a 10-year period and from last year. Total filings dropped from 358 in 2011 to 232 in 2012. Of the cases in the court, driving with license suspended (DWLS) and reckless driving, which make up criminal traffic cases, increased. C...
Cheney Mayor Tom Trulove called it “The Todd Show.” Public Works Director Todd Ableman did seem to command center stage at the Cheney City Council’s Tuesday night meeting, presenting an array of projects that ranged from street repairs to water meter replacement. The council first approved two resolutions pertaining to a $325,100 preservation project of North Sixth Street from Betz Road to Oak Street. Eighty-six percent of the work is being funded through a grant from the federal Surface Transportation program, inclu...
