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At every school board meeting I attend, there is a PACE character trait read. They read about honesty, diligence and other honorable endeavors. This month’s trait is trustworthiness, ironic since so many families are not feeling trust in our schools, administrators or board members. For months now, Bill Johns has repeatedly asked the board and Yes To Kids Committee to open up a dialogue and debate him, so the public can decide on the bond. Since the August meeting it has been repeatedly ignored. Why? In fact, board member M...
Over the last two years I have researched and prepared an alternative which would only cost $11.6 million instead of $44.8 million proposed with this (Cheney High School) bond. This alternative would provide additional classrooms, safety, circulation and a new alternate high school. I have repeatedly challenged the school district and the Yes Committee to debate. They refused prior to the first running of this bond and now have again repeated this refusal. Has it become OK with voters that there does not need to be an open...
I am writing to support the Cheney School District’s high school bond measure in the April 28 election. I live and work in the Cheney area, and my children attend Betz Elementary. I am proud of the fact that so much of our community is based in education from our public schools to an outstanding university. I am excited that my children will have the opportunity to attend Cheney Middle School. When our community approved a bond to build the middle schools, it sent a message that we really care about our kids and we want t...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor There are a lot of issues surrounding the Cheney School District’s proposed $44.8 million bond to expand and renovate Cheney High School. Proponents and opponents of the bond have lined out some of these through letters to the editor, advertisements and other methods. As someone who visits the high school fairly regularly, I’ve witnessed the overcrowding. Over the years, I’ve nearly been trampled during class changes, and I’ve tripped over students eating in the hallways at lunch. I’ve listened...
I’ve lived in Cheney for more than a decade, I work at Eastern Washington University, and I have two kids in the Cheney School District. As we consider whether or not to approve a bond to renovate Cheney High School, I think many of us find ourselves wondering whether anything more than improved building security and additional classroom space is really essential. It’s a good question, and one that deserves our careful consideration as we cast our votes. As adults of voting age, we know it’s the knowledge and skills that...
Eastern Washington University’s fast approaching commencement exercises June 13 will be the last to be held in Cheney on the Red Turf at Roos Field. In a press release, the university announced it had signed a multi-year agreement with the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena to begin holding commencement exercises at the Spokane facility beginning in 2016. With over 2,000 undergraduate and hundreds of graduate students receiving their degrees, and many more of their family members and friends in attendance to watch them walk, h...
Feed Cheney April meal On Monday April 27, Feed Cheney will offer the monthly dinner and groceries. It’s free and available to all, without any qualifying required. It all takes place at the Wren Pierson Community Center at 615 Fourth St. from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m., where there will also be live entertainment. The Cheney Clothing Exchange will be open from 5 – 6:30 p.m. Feed Cheney is provided in partnership with Women and Children’s Free Restaurant, 2nd Harvest, Let’s Move Cheney and several Cheney churches. For more informati... Full story
The Medical Lake Cemetery Association will hold its annual meeting on Monday, May 4, at 6:30 p.m. at the Medical Lake Library located at 321 Herb St. Please contact Janice Radmer at (509) 299-5269 for more information....
The Medical Lake Founder’s Committee is looking for volunteers to help with the Saturday, June 20 event. Some of the duties for volunteers include helping coordinate the parade by contacting parade entries, staging and managing the various activities and fundraising and selling raffle tickets from now until June 20. For more information, please contact Ashlee King at Medical Lake City Hall at (509) 565-5000....
Medical Lake Middle School honored six students who were selected for the April Partners Advancing Character Education (PACE) Student of the Month award. They received certificates and T-shirts and were treated to a special lunch April 17 provided by Grandma G's, out of Airway Heights, and the school. April's PACE trait of the month was trustiworthiness. Name: Jerimiah Pullom Grade: Sixth Favorite Subject: History What trustworthiness means to them: Somebody can trust you...
Cheney High School has released the names of students who have achieved honor roll status for winter quarter 2015. The students are listed below by grade point average. SENIORS 4.0 GPA Drew C. Colvin, Andie L. Connor, Keith C. Emert, Valentina C. Grisafi, Anthony M. Hartman, Sonora M. Hetrick, Danielle M. Hoblin, Helen Levchenko, Mary E. McCombie, Danielle N. Meredith, Robyn M. Ross, Allison M. Sanchez, Amber C. Soto and Maricruz Zavala. 3.9-3.5 GPA — Ashleigh A. Allington, Sierra O. Alsup, Bryce P. Barlow, Marlon A. B...
Dr. Rex Fuller, who was a finalist to become Eastern Washington University’s new president a little less than a year ago, was named the 23rd president of Western Oregon University in Monmouth, Ore., April 16. Fuller, an economist and professor of public administration, has served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at EWU since 2011. As provost, Fuller developed a new EWU College of Health Science and Public Health and a new master’s program in Public Hea...
The Cheney High School FBLA Club (Future Business Leaders of America) competed last weekend at the Washington State Business Leader conference in Spokane, April 15-17. In a competition of 1,700, the chapter had 53 students attend the conference. At the awards ceremony 21 different students placed top-5 in state 17 times with 15 students placing first, second or third to earn automatic entry to the FBLA national conference to be held June 29 – July 2 in Chicago. Also of note f...
The fourth-grade Hallett Hawks Elementary Math is Cool team brought home a new plaque for the school's trophy case after they placed third with 109 points at the Spokane Division II Math is Cool competition at Whitworth University, April 17. Hallett was one of several elementary schools in the West Plains, along with Betz, Salnave and Snowden in Cheney, Sunset in Airway Heights and Michael Anderson in Medical Lake that participated in the event. The students prepared for the...
CHENEY April 13 Identification theft was reported on the 900 block of Skyview Place. Identification theft was reported on the 300 block of Plum Tree Court. Identification theft was reported on the 700 block of Montague Drive. Second-degree assault and harassment through intimidation and domestic violence was reported on the 200 block of College Avenue. An investigation is ongoing. Fourth-degree assault and domestic violence was reported on the 800 block of Salnave Road. No arrest has been made. April 14 A possible tobacco...
Spokane County Fire District 3 honored a pair of volunteer firefighters at its annual Firefighter Appreciation Banquet March 21. Firefigther/EMT Jolissa Ramos and Lieutenant Firefighter Luke Swift were recipients of the 2014 Firefighter and Officer of the Year awards respectively. Ramos is a five-year member of Four Lakes Fire Station No. 22 and an instructor at Spokane Community College while Swift works installing fire and security alarms for Allied Security and has been...
Cheney School District voters are being asked to approve more than $44.88 million in general obligation bonds to fund expansion and renovation of the district's only high school in a special election ballot April 28. It's the second time the district's board of directors has elected to run the high school bond. In a special election ballot Feb. 10, the bond received over 58 percent 'yes' votes, but fell short of the 60 percent needed for passage. The graphic above combines...
The city of Airway Heights is slowly making progress acquiring two mobile home parks located on Lawson and Campbell Streets in the Fairchild Air Force Base Accident Potential Zone II (APZ), the area beyond the clear zone of a runway that is a risk for accidents. In an April 14 news release, the Washington State House of Representatives passed a capital budget that includes around $94 million in various projects for Spokane County, including setting aside $1.5 million toward...
Diane Womack, Washington Federation of State Employees/American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 28 executive board member, speaks during an April 18 "Public Service Matters" event in the Denny's Harvest Foods parking lot in Medical Lake. The event was staged to urge Legislature to fully fund state-employee contracts and give raises to workers....
The Airway Heights City Council breezed through a slim agenda at its April 20 meeting. The council approved an agreement between the city and Prothman Company to help hire an interim public works director to help manage the department until the city fills the position with a permanent replacement. City Manager Albert Tripp said the interim replacement will make $70 per hour. The council authorized the city to submit a grant application to the Spokane Regional Transportation Council (SRTC) for its Transportation Alternatives...
The Cheney City Council did something a little unusual at its April 18 meeting by awarding a bid for an upgrade to its information technology system to a company that was not the lowest bidder. The city opened two bids on April 10 for the project estimated at just over $100,000 which includes replacement of existing servers and software, one from Intrinium totaling $107,954.32 and one from JW Affinity IT for the amount of $106,500.70. Finance Director Cindy Niemeier told the council that the bids were evaluated on criteria...
One of the longtime businesses in the city of Medical Lake will be closing its doors soon. Medical Lake Physical Therapy, which has been operating in the city for 10 years, will have its last day April 29. Dr. Nola Petrucelly opened the clinic in 2005 on Lake Street. A year later, the clinic moved to 725 N. Stanley St., above what used to be the urgent care center run by Dr. Jane Akpamgbo — now Rockwood Clinic. Petrucelly is thankful for the support from the community in the last 10 years and explained that the decision to c...
Contributed photos by Over 300 volunteers fanned out across Cheney to pick up litter and collect items dropped off by residents during the eighth annual Cheney Clean Sweep....
Thanks partly to passage of Initiative 594 last November, the Cheney Police Department has another function to keep track of with its Monthly Accountability Report, known as “the MAR.” I-594 expanded background checks for firearms sales and transfers to all such transactions, with a few exceptions. Recent court cases and new laws surrounding reissuing firearms to individuals involved in domestic violence — the Sheena Henderson Act — require police departments to do more tracking of firearms. Cheney Police have respond...
Airway Heights mayor Patrick Rushing was recently cleared of misdemeanor citations of hit-and-run and following too close to a vehicle, both of which resulted from a two-vehicle accident back in January. On the morning of Jan. 7, Rushing was driving an empty school bus for the Medical Lake School District when he rear-ended a vehicle at the corner of Highway 2 and Brooks Road. No injuries were reported in the accident and the other vehicle’s left tail light was broken. According to Rushing, both parties left the scene due t...
