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Aug. 21, 1930 – May 2, 2019 On the evening of May 2, Heaven received another angel, Mary Lee Eberly. Just a short four weeks to the day after her husband’s passing. At age 18, Mary married Don Eberly and led a wonderful life with him by her side for 70 years. She was a homemaker, office assistant and secretary. She was a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother. Mary’s hobbies were fishing, oil painting, ceramics, reading books and w...
Cheney’s City Council approved a final plat designation for the fifth phase of the Golden Hills subdivision at its May 14 meeting, a move a Cheney developer made a last minute request to deny due to a property dispute. In a May 14 email to Cheney senior planner Brett Lucas, and read to the council by city attorney Stanley Schwartz, developer Steve Emtman requested a “hold on any and all permits issue by the city of Cheney” regarding a pair of disputed parcels, and that any boundary line adjustment (BLA) process for those...
Last weekend, an ordinary conference room in Cheney's Holiday Inn Express was transformed into a cotton candy colored paradise thanks to the 3 Craft Chicks crafting retreat May 17-19. The "Under the Sea" themed retreat was hosted by Airway Heights business 3 Craft Chicks, owned by Michele Craft. Attendees decked out in bedazzled shell shirts and scaled aprons festooned with tulle lined tables elbow to elbow surrounded by a creative's dream: reams of brightly colored scrapbook...
By JOHN McCALLUM Managing Editor It's often said that the only certainties in this life are death and taxes. Cheney-area residents can add one more - in a good way - to that list - Tyler Daze. The annual, one-day community celebration just over 11 miles west of Cheney on State Route 904 takes place - rain or shine - as it always does on the first Saturday of the month, which this year is June 1. The community flea market runs from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. with numerous activities t...
StageWest Community Theatre had great success with the last production of the 2018-2019 Session, “The Savannah Sipping Society” by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten. Most performances had a capacity crowd and the dinner theatre was a complete sell out. StageWest would like to thank the congregation of Emmanuel Lutheran Church and the minister, Arianna Arends, for the generous use of their building for all of our auditions, rehearsals and performances. Without this kind gift, StageWest would not have been able to...
I recently received word that the Eastern Washington University Downtown Student Gallery will be closing soon. I understand that this is due to a lack of funding, not participation, therefore, I would like to make the following statement and suggestion for keeping the gallery doors open. Since I moved here four years ago, I have participated in several Spokane art-fests. While Spokane offers outlets for my art, I am more interested in bringing art into Cheney. I have been in communication with some local artists as well as...
It is garden season which is a passion close to my heart. I find myself cringing in horror whenever I see Roundup weed killer, marketed by Monsanto/Bayer, lining store shelves in Spokane and around the country. I recently read in “Living Maxwell,” an organization that supports organic and healthy food sources, that 250 million pounds of Roundup are sprayed each year. Research is showing that many products that we eat now contain glyphosate absorbed from the weed killer. According to the article, 0.1 ppb (parts per bil...
Our court system is out of control. I was watching a Mariner’s game the other day when the network filled a break in the action with a half dozen commercials. My drink and chip bowl were both full, so I sat back in my recliner and day-dreamed. I came fully awake when a law firm announced they had won a $289 million settlement against the makers of Roundup and requested I call the number on the screen to see if I could share in the bounty. I have used Roundup in my garden for several years, so, after the ball game, I r...
There are dams that should come down and those that shouldn’t. Hopefully, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts its review of the 14 federal dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers, that will become abundantly clear. That review is expected to be ready for public comment in late 2020. Here is the difference. Demolishing the two dams on the Elwha River west of Port Angeles was a good thing. They were built in the early 1900s to bring electricity to the Olympic Peninsula a...
America celebrates Memorial Day this weekend, a long-running and, in the past, controversial holiday eventually made official by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966. The purpose of the holiday is to remember our nations fallen servicemen and women who have died in the defense of these United States. The weekend also unofficially ushers in the beginning of the summer vacation season with local parades, picnics, camping and road trips, baseball games and, less often, trips to...
Thanks to a government grant, some West Plains firefighters should be able to breathe a little easier. Spokane County Fire District 10 received 78 new self-contained breathing apparatuses via a Federal Emergency Management Act grant worth more than $600,000. The grant provides the new air packs along with 156 bottles to replace the district’s outdated packs. The district was able to meet the required 5 percent match to accept the grant, taking just over $31,000 out of the district’s 2019 budget. The new packs meet the 201...
A passing semitrailer sprays accumulated stormwater across the front of Bogle's Auto Repair at 16 1st St., Cheney, after a May 16 thunderstorm that inundated the region with various amounts of intense rain. Bogle said it was the fourth time his business had flooded since April 1....
Spokane County Sheriff’s Office Traffic Unit investigators attempting to piece together a hit and run collision that left a pedestrian dead believe they’ve found the suspect vehicle after searching for nearly five days. Spokesperson Cpl. Mark Gregory said investigators seized what they believe to be the vehicle involved in the crash on the evening of Tuesday, May 21, and are working to positively identify the driver. This follows several days of work in which investigators sought contact with the drivers of specific veh...
The West Plains Chamber of Commerce’s May breakfast broke in the banquet hall at the new Airway Heights recreation center as local business leaders gathered to watch a legislative recap presentation by Association of Washington Businesses Vice President Gary Chandler. Chandler noted that out of the $122 million allocated for the Spokane area from the state budget, about $80 million is specifically for the West Plains. He called West Plains officials “hard-working” and said the area is thriving. “I think we had some of the...
The Airway Heights City Council was so busy at their Monday, May 20, meeting that several agenda items were pushed back to a later meeting date as council members heard a presentation from the Spokane Conservation District. District Director Vicki Carter gave the council a brief history of the organization and said the conservation district was created in Spokane in 1941, along with many others formed nationwide in the aftermath of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. She drew a significant distinction between a conservation district...
The Medical Lake School District is sponsoring the Summer Food Service Program for children up to age 18. The meals are free, and will be served at Hallett Elementary School, 524 S. Hallett St. Beginning Monday, July 1, breakfast is served between 9:15 – 9:30 a.m., followed by lunch from 11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. There will be no meals served on July 4, Independence Day. Meals are served Monday through Thursdays. The program ends Thursday, Aug. 15. The program has served between 994 and 1,492 meals each summer for the past f...
Spring is often thought of as the season of change, and that adage has certainly proven true for a staple Cheney business. William Thompson, the owner of Cheney Pawn on 1st Street, is retiring and has sold his business to a new owner through a realty company, he said. The new owner is Sam White, and Thompson said he is leaving the business in good hands. The deal closed on April 17. Thompson, 73, said he plans to use his retirement to relax and that his wife intends to do more gardening. Shannen Talbot can be reached at...
If there's a sure sign of summer, it's roadway construction, and like seasonal temperatures, things are beginning to heat up near the Interstate 90 Medical Lake interchange. Work has already begun on one of three projects slated for construction in the area that are being driven by West Plains residential and commercial growth. One project has broken ground. Spokane County's low-bid contractor, Acme Concrete Paving, recently began work on the first of four phases of a...
Eastern Washington University's annual Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Senior Exhibition "Traces Of" is taking place May 24 – June 6 on campus at the Art Department's EWU Gallery of Art in the Fine Arts Complex. The exhibition opens tonight (May 23) with a reception from 6 – 8 p.m., also at the gallery. According to a May 13 news release, the exhibition features the work of graduating seniors enrolled in the BFA program, and includes works of five candidates working in a var...
Six Cheney High School students were honored at the 27th annual Spokane Scholars awards banquet on April 15 at the Spokane Convention Center Ballroom. Students receiving Spokane Scholars Foundation Medal of Academic Achievement awards were Camden Butikofer – English, Carter Little – Fine Arts, Samuel Fix – Math, Jaymee Knutson – Science, Jameson Powell – Social Studies and Madison O’Callaghan – World Languages. O’Callaghan was also one of 24 recipients of a $3,0000 scholarship award in her content area. Area schools nominat...
By LEE HUGHES Staff Reporter In the fall of 2017, one of Lina Terporten's teachers asked her if she would be interested in applying for a scholarship to be an exchange student. He didn't ask her in English, however, but in Terporten's native German. That conversation set in motion months of preparation, testing, and interviews - in English and German - that eventually led to Terporten being awarded the scholarship from the German Bundestag, or Congress, in January of 2018....
Cheney Fire Department Lt. Jeff Anderson snaps a group photo of area firefighters engaged in a practice burn last Wednesday of a house at 1st and I streets. The home, built in 1908, was burned by the Spokane Fire Training Academy to make way for the hoped for relocation of the Cheney historic Northern Pacific Railroad depot later this summer....
A three-year financial audit by the Washington State Auditors Office found that the City of Medical Lake has had issues keeping track of its internal finances. But don’t be alarmed, Kathleen Cooper, director of communications for the state auditor said. “It’s not an usual finding,” Cooper said. “Internal controls are the most common finding. They don’t have enough internal staff to do (the accounting) so they hire someone.” The audit found the city incorrectly classified $5...
While the battles and emotions making up the American Civil War took place far from the territory of Washington, the land that would eventually become the 42nd state in the union on Nov. 11, 1889 found itself affected by the conflict nonetheless. Before, during and after, the Civil War’s impacts were felt across this land. Mixed support for slavery Washington Territory was carved out of the Oregon Territory in 1853, and consisted of the present day state along with Idaho a...
The Civil War is coming to Cheney — or at least a pretty fair approximation of the four-year conflict that ended 154 years ago. Called “The Battle of Cheney/Minnie Creek (depending upon which side wins), the Washington Civil War Association in partnership with the city of Cheney is presenting a re-enactment of the 1861-1865 conflict this weekend. The reenactment takes place Saturday — Monday at a forested field nestled along Anderson Road between the city’s Utility Buildin...
