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There may be some new faces in a few spots, but the Eastern Washington University football team has plenty of experience to help make the spring seem more like a re-loading than a re-building. The Eagles will begin preparations for the 2013 season when EWU opens spring practices April 4. The Eagles will spread out their allotted 15 practices over the course of five weeks, instead of cramming them into four like last year. For the most part, Eastern will practice Tuesdays and Thursdays, and have scrimmages Saturdays. The annua...
The Cheney boys’ soccer team put together perhaps their most complete performance to date in this young Great Northern League season last Thursday, blanking projected league champion East Valley 3-0 at home. “I was pretty surprised by everything we did and what East Valley didn’t do,” Blackhawks’ head coach Mark Kiver said. The Knights played the first half without their main weapon, last year’s GNL scoring leader Adam Talley. The senior forward did play in the second half...
There’s a new debate in paleontology, one that took me by surprise but that shows nicely how some science works. There’s a particular type of ancient fossil called the “Ediacara fauna” found in rocks about 550 million years old. The term Ediacara is reference to a place in Australia where the fossils were located and well-described. In a complex tale that unfolded over decades both before and a bit after the Australian discovery, similar fossils were found around the world at several locations. In time people connected the se...
1 Years Ago April 3, 2003 Cheney police responded to a report of a shooting at a residence on South Cross Road and found 60 year-old Michael Mitchell dead of a single gunshot wound to the chest. The investigation continued with a 56-year-old man being detained for questioning. The future of the Cheney Gun Club was up in the air over the lease of land the group uses for their range. Property owner Roger Helm said the club “has been a poor tenant,” but had leased the club the l...
Cheney Community Church Cheney Community Church will join the other West Plains community churches for both a Good Friday and Easter Sunrise services this coming weekend. The participating churches in addition to Cheney Community are Four Lakes Community Church, Medical Lake Community Church, Hayford Community Church and Crossroads Christian Fellowship. Crossroads Christian Fellowship in Airway Heights will host the Good Friday service, March 29 at 6 p.m. They meet in the former Evangelical Free Church building across from...
As owner and president of J and M Collision Center, Jay Mahaffy said, “J and M is where you are greeted with the ‘Biggest Smile’ in Cheney.” If you wonder about that, walk up to the door of his office and you will say, “Oh, he’s right!” Jay Mahaffy is a Cheney man for sure. He grew up in this town and graduated from Cheney High School in 1983. Mahaffy’s business began at the garage/shop of Wilfred Mahaffy, his father, in 1986. He said, “My dad worked for Ratcliff Ford in...
Over 200 attendees gathered Friday evening at Northern Quest Resort and Casino to congratulate recipients at the West Plains Chamber “Best of the West” annual recognition ceremony. Categories ranging from Non-Profit of the Year to Person of the Year were included in the nomination and voting process resulting in a total of 17 groupings. According to a West Plains Chamber news release, over 180 votes were received from chamber members. “Our goal tonight is to acknowledge men and women whose contributions to our regio...
As owner and president of J and M Collision Center, Jay Mahaffy said, “J and M is where you are greeted with the ‘Biggest Smile’ in Cheney.” If you wonder about that, walk up to the door of his office and you will say, “Oh, he’s right!” Jay Mahaffy is a Cheney man for sure. He grew up in this town and graduated from Cheney High School in 1983. Mahaffy’s business began at the garage/shop of Wilfred Mahaffy, his father, in 1986. He said, “My dad worked for Ratcliff Ford in the ‘50s at the body shop. I picked it up from h...
Cheney soccer players Micah Weller (6) and Ian Shirey (3) share a light moment prior to Monday’s scheduled match at West Valley. Both teams killed time waiting for officials that never showed up, moving the match to Tuesday in Cheney....
A variance to the city’s nuisance ordinance came forward at the monthly study session for the Airway Heights City Council Monday, March 26. The Washington state Department of Transportation applied for the variance, in advance of its upcoming work on Highway 2 later this year. Public Works Director Kelly Williquette said most of the work would be done at night, and would affect some of the city’s noise ordinances, in effect from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Adjusting the ordinance would allow the work to take place during night hours. W...
OLYMPIA – Spring has arrived – maybe. All the same,as temperatures rise across the region, the Washington State Department of Transportation reminds drivers to remove their studded tires by midnight, March 31. Studded tires are legal in Washington from Nov. 1 to March 31, unless WSDOT grants an extension. Multiple forecasts indicate temperatures will be well above 50 degrees in many parts of the state and WSDOT is not planning on extending the deadline. This year, Oregon and Washington are coordinating studded-tire removal da...
If some of your friends are political cranks, then you know the argument. Goes like this: Your town spends, say, $600 providing a “get your picture taken with Santa” event for the local kids. Hopefully, they do it at Christmas “Great,” your crank buddy says. “The whole freakin’ city is fallin’ apart, and Mayor McCheese is playin’ with Santa. That $600 could be spent helping to get drugs out of the city.” The idea is that ANY money spent on ANYTHING other than simple education, minimal road repair and cops, lots of cops, is...
Last week my wife’s van had the door window smashed out at Fish Lake trailhead. To the persons responsible here’s the damage you caused: My five-year-old daughter is now concerned about bad guys, so you stole her innocence. This is what is most upsetting to me; my daughter didn’t make it to be six years old without being the victim of a crime. You broke the tinted window, which was the most expensive one on the vehicle. With no idea of what you would find inside, that just makes you a complete vandal to begin with. Our daught...
This is an interesting week as it marks the juxtaposition of two religious observances important to two different faiths, yet very intertwined. Tuesday, March 26, marked the beginning of Passover for members of the Jewish community, an important holiday, if you can call it a holiday that runs through April 2. The same goes with the other holiday, Easter, which for many Christians begins today with Maundy Thursday and culminates Sunday with Easter. I raise the issue of calling these observances holidays because, unlike other...
It’s time for the state to look elsewhere for better health care coverage, and that can be done easily by allowing health care options to be purchased outside of Washington. Opening up health care across Washington’s state line will allow for greater opportunities for other companies to come in and compete with the established health insurance companies. Unfortunately, it appears that the state Legislature isn’t even close to considering that type of change. Although politicians may say otherwise, part of the reason for not c...
Several Cheney High School music students received an honorable mention for the 2013 Outstanding AAA Jazz Ensemble Award at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, Feb. 20-23 at the University of Idaho. The students are pictured above left to right: Wade Taylor, Courtney Schwendiman, Chris Knox and Sam Schreiber. Also named but not pictured is Tim Dystra....
Medical Lake resident Mark Hudson asked the Medical Lake School District board of directors to consider adding curriculum that would introduce scientific questioning of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. At the Tuesday, March 26 board meeting, Hudson wasn’t alone, however, and brought along a petition signed by 299 others in Medical Lake who hoped the item would be added to the district’s curriculum. Some, he pointed out, thought the theory of evolution was correct, but wanted children to have the opportunity to quest...
Eastern Washington University’s Get Lit! Programs is back for its 15th annual literary festival. On Saturday, April 13, festival authors will conduct eight writing workshops—four during a morning session, 9:30-11:30 a.m., and four during an afternoon session, 3:30-5:30 p.m. The workshops will be held at the Red Lion Hotel at the Park located at 303 W. North River Drive, Spokane. Writers of all levels and ages are encouraged to sign up to work with published authors and writing professionals on various forms of creative wri...
The 12 Rotary Clubs of Spokane teamed with the Diversity Offices of School District 81 and Gonzaga University to host a Martin Luther King essay contest beginning this year. The Cheney Rotary Club of Cheney sponsored the competition at Cheney High School, receiving many essays and selecting one winner: senior Aleksander Chernega. For writing the best essay tying Martin Luther King’s ideals to Rotary’s Four-Way Test – Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build...
Cheney High School senior Connor Bichler has been named a 2013 Chase Youth awards winner in the category of arts and creativity. He is the first Cheney student to win a Chase award since 2007. Bichler received his award at the annual Chase Youth Awards program Monday, March 11 at the Fox Theatre in Spokane. Chase Youth awards are given annually in eight categories each with three divisions: elementary, middle and high school. According to the commission’s website, winners i...
In a city where parking is a perennial sore spot, officials at Eastern Washington University are taking steps to hopefully alleviate that – at least when it comes to students and football game days. The university has received a mitigated determination of non-significance (MDNS) from the city of Cheney for construction of a new, 550-stall parking lot just off of Washington Street and north of Roos Field. The lot is essentially an extension of the existing P-12 lot that serves...
The future of the city’s recycling center received a lengthy discussion at the last Medical Lake City Council meeting, stemming from a decision to change the facility’s pick-up service. At the Tuesday, March 19 meeting, the city reiterated it had changed from Recycle America to Sunshine Disposal to pick up recyclable material dropped off at the center. Recycle America transported items to Waste Management’s new recycling center, which opened toward the end of last year. The change stemmed from a heavy price increase imple...
William Seeberger gets ready to take a swing at a pitch from brother Jeremy while Tony Alton waits at second to race home as the three boys enjoyed some nice weather Tuesday with a little after school baseball at Cheney’s Salnave West Plains Little League fields....
Approving a contract for pruning and removing trees along the city’s electrical distribution system was the only action item on the Cheney City Council’s short agenda Tuesday night. Light Department Director Joe Noland told the council that eight bid packages had been prepared and sent out to qualified contractors, and only two responded with proposals, with the low bid submitted by Davey’s Tree Service of Kennewick. Davey’s bid $4,770 a week, $5,184.99 with tax added. Noland said the amount was about $500 more per week th...
The first steps to planning future regional roads took place last Thursday night, March 21 at Sunset Elementary School in Airway Heights. The city of Spokane hosted the first of two workshops to gain public input on developing a united regional transportation plan. Participants included the city of Spokane, Spokane County and Airway Heights. Bill Grimes, principal with Studio Cascade, Inc., said the plan will factor in plans for the typical major highways as well as non-motorized transportation methods for groups like...
