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Airway Heights is hitting the one-year anniversary of the water crisis, when PFOS and PFOA chemicals from Fairchild Air Force Base contaminated two wells in 2017. The City Council was still discussing the matter a year later at the May 14 meeting with an emergency preparedness presentation from Fire Chief Mitch Metzger and Police Chief Lee Bennett. The presentation started off with explaining their incident command system, which coordinates emergency responders from multiple agencies to be effective in a situation. Metzger...
Both golf teams will be representing Cheney High School at the 2A State Tournament as Katarina Ljubisic from the girls team along with Tyler and Nathan Koohns on the boys roster advance after their performances at districts. Tyler Koohns finished second overall with 153 strokes. In the first round, he hit a 72 par followed by 81 strokes. Nathan Koohns earned sixth with 159 strokes. He shot a 77 in the first round and 82 strokes in the second. Eric Martin from Pullman finished first with 146 strokes. As a team, Cheney took...
By JOHN McCALLUM Managing Editor When it came to team scoring in last week’s District 7 meet at Cheney High School, things didn’t work out the way the host Blackhawks boys expected. For starters, Cheney came up short in its bid for a championship, finishing second behind Pullman 199.16 – 194.50. For boys head coach Derek Slaughter, the score wasn’t necessarily about finishes, but about how points were awarded. “We have five teams in our league and (we) score it like an invite,” Slaughter said. “Top eight spots score, with o...
I have been following sports for as long as I can remember, but track and field was never really on my radar before I started working in the athletics department at Eastern Washington University. I have worked at the 1B/2B/1A State Track meet at Roos Field for the last couple years, but I started covering the Eagles track team towards the beginning of the school year for EWU. That is about as far as my track history goes, but I have actually grown to enjoy following the sport. Last week, I was fortunate enough to travel to...
After winning their second consecutive Great Northern League regular-season title, the Cheney High girls track and field team followed that with another repeat - winning their second-straight District 7 championships by edging Pullman 178-176 last Friday in competition at Cheney's Tom Oswald Field. "That was pretty sweet," girls head coach Tom Stralser said. "Everything worked just fine." The girls were led by Alsatta Bakana. The senior won district titles in the 200 and...
Medical Lake drag racer Justin Cooper had a very special Sunday on May 7 at Boise, Idaho's Firebird Raceway. Not only did he drive his way to one championship at the 48th annual IGNIGTOR in the Super Street class, but accomplished an even more unusual feat by doubling down and also emerging victorious in Super Comp as well. Cooper, driving cars owned by Tom Clark of Spokane Valley, knocked out Mike Hiatt, of Fallon, Nev., in Super Comp, a dragster class, running 9.159 seconds...
For the first time in six years, the Cheney High School softball team will be spending the first part of Memorial Day weekend doing what they’ve spent the last two-plus months doing — playing softball. The Lady Blackhawks blanked East Valley 10-0 for the second game in a row, but the one on Tuesday, May 15, was the one that counted most as it sent Cheney to its first 2A state tournament appearance since 2012. The Lady Blackhawks got all they needed Tuesday in the bottom of the second inning against the visiting third-seeded K...
CHENEY May 7 A subject ordered by the court to surrender his weapons did so at the police department. Weapons were logged into property for keeping. A dispute over a dog was reported on the 1500 block of Ridgeview Drive. A credit card was found on the 600 block of First Street. May 8 Parents reported to police that inappropriate texting was occurring between juveniles at Cheney High School. Third-degree malicious mischief was reported on the 200 block of South Cheney-Spangle Road. Damage was done to a door. Domestic...
Cheney book club set to discuss ‘A Man Called Ove’ The final meeting of the Friends of the Cheney library book group will be held on May 22 at 6:30 p.m. This month’s read is the book “A Man called Ove” by Redrik Backman. Discussion of the book will be led by Lucinda Larsen. The list of the next series of book will be available for your summer reading. ‘Paint and Sip’ class will be held at the Mason Jar West Plains Arts Academy will be hosting a “Paint and Sip” class at The Mason Jar in downtown Cheney on Friday, May 18, f...
Cheney Congregational Church We would like to have you check us out some Sunday soon. Stay for “coffee hour” and get acquainted over refreshments. We think you’ll be glad you did. Pastor David Krueger-Duncan’s second sermon in the series “Reading My Bible” will be “Words Worth Dying For.” The text is Acts 20:28-32. Mariann Donley is hosting women’s fellowship with a taco soup lunch this Sunday. Carpools will form during coffee hour to drive to the Donley’s home. Janet Hubbard’s piano students will play a recital in our sanc...
Seventy-five years ago, weatherman H.F. Raup reported that April’s cold and wet did not help Cheney’s war-time Victory Gardens. Hail fell on three days, there were 13 days of rain, and even a dust storm that slowed gardeners’ progress. Learn more about our area’s history at www.cheneymuseum.org....
Dennis Myers, 66, passed away May 9, 2018 at his home at Fish Lake. Dennis was born Dec. 23, 1951 in Spokane. He was a manager/barkeeper at D. J.’s Tavern at Fish Lake when it opened in 1973, and worked there until it closed in 1995. He acquired many friends and seemed to remember everyone. Even when D. J.’s closed, he kept in touch with many of those friends. He is survived by his brother Mike, his nephews Scott Myers and Brian Myers and two great nephews, William and Christopher. He was preceded in death by his mother Ber...
1 Years Ago May 15, 2008 Three junior girls from Medical Lake High School were picked from a pool of many candidates to attend Evergreen Girls State and would have sponsorship by the American Legion Auxiliary. The attendees included Natale Szabo and Kimberly Neser. Brianna Bazo was selected as the alternate. The Eastern Washington State Veterans Cemetery governing council announced that it reached a milestone in its planning efforts for a new veteran’s cemetery, with the selection of a design plan to submit to the N...
Last month we read of yet another missile attack on Syria paid for by U.S., British, and French taxpayers as “punishment” of the Assad regime’s alleged used of chemical weapons. We could ask who made these governments judge, jury and executioners, or how this punishes a dictator safe in his palace, but a more useful question might be, if we were the majority of Syrians, what would we want from the international community? Would it comfort us to hear that the world cares more if our child is suffocated by gas than if she is bl...
Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s attempt to influence the 2016 election is getting more and more press lately. The prosecutor and his team are not actually tasked with finding out if the Russians tried to influence the election. That is the purview of the FBI. The special prosecutor law limits investigations to alleged misconduct of federal elected officials while in office. Thus, Mueller’s team is investigating whether or not someone in our government worked with the Russians in an alleged attempt to influence ou...
Growing up with technology, I never really wrote letters to people because I could just send a text or make a phone call instead. Well that all changes when you have a loved one at basic training and writing a letter is the only form of communication you have. Even though it has been difficult to not talk to your person every day, I have gotten into a routine with writing letters and I have grown to love it. That must be the journalist side of me. Also considering that I had never really been into sending mail before, I also...
Toss out the notion of just what the idea of a 4-H club is all about and what kind of feedback might one expect? Surely it would most likely revolve around farms and animals. But as West Plains Rangers 4-H club leader Brianne Rasmussen will quickly point out, there is much, much more to the organization that had its birth in 1902, lists approximately six million members and 25 million alumni. It's simply not just about raising a prize pig, lamb or goat, but rather instilling...
Police are seeking more information about a suspect wanted in conjunction with an assault and theft at the T-Mobile store in Cheney. According to the Cheney police incident report, at approximately 8 a.m. the owner of the store at 2742 First St. was in the process of opening up the business when he heard the sound of breaking glass outside. The owner went outside to investigate and saw a white male rummaging through his vehicle. The owner shouted to confront the man, who immediately got back into his vehicle and attempted to...
The health services of Cheney School District won the Annette Grainer Team Collaboration award at the May 9 employee recognition ceremony....
Eastern Washington University is officially part of a new statistic, as it is one of 19 schools nationwide to be granted first-time accreditation from National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP). “It puts a stamp of approval on the program,” Melinda Bowman, the EWU in the High School director said. “It means a lot to us because we are one of only two universities in the state to have this mark. It took four years to get to the point to apply and over a year to get the approval.” This program offers...
The five girls of Cheney Girl Scouts Troop 5110 want to earn the highest honor possible in Scouting - a bronze award. To do that, they must finish a project that impacts their community, and the one they picked impacts about as close to home as you can get - urging people to become blood donors. The girls, Chloe Kelton, Ella Mizzoni, Daylynn Newbill and Alexsandra and Lydia Swenson, witnessed the urgent need for blood first-hand through Newbill's mom, Theresa Fochtman....
Logan Lanet carefully studies a tick he captured last Saturday during his visit to the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge's "Floods, Flowers and Feathers Festival." By dragging a large piece of cloth over a patch of grass at the refuge, Lanet caught the tick and with tweezers place it in a vial containing alcohol. Experts say we're in the heart of tick season and to be wary of the critters that like to attach themselves to the scalps of humans and pets, and potentially carry...
The Cheney City Council gave its blessings to Fire Chief Tom Jenkins to pursue a contract with a software company that would bring the fire department’s medical response information system into the 21st century. Jenkins said software and fire department applications company ESO Solutions has bought out the department’s current software provider Fire House, and that subsequently that software will be phased out. The department budgeted funds to improve its call program from “dial up to flip phone,” but entering into a contract...
As those who live there know, you gotta' want to get to Medical Lake to visit its waterfront, trails and other elements that make the bedroom community special. There are no major highways, just State Route 902 passing through the city that has just clicked over the population signs at the city limits to a sprinkle over 5,000 people. And a lot of people really like it that way. One part of the community that has become popular with the residents, and now, perhaps, by those loo...
Cheney’s planning department is asking the public to weigh in on two notices of application for project work — one of which is citywide. City officials are proposing creation of an “Institutional Zone,” an amendment to Cheney’s municipal code that would set forth design parameters specific to institutional structures such as schools, the fire and police stations, City Hall and Spokane County Fire District 3’s Presley Drive headquarters — the exemption being Eastern Washington University which is already covered under a “Publ...
