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Cheney’s City Council agreed at its May 28 meeting to extend a moratorium on development south of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific railroad tracks by another seven weeks. Originally enacted at the council’s Dec. 11, 2018 meeting to deal with traffic associated with high-density development in the area known as Terra Vista and its impacts on emergency services when linked with increasing rail traffic, the moratorium set to expire June 10 is extended to July 31. The moratorium prohibits the issuing of any new...
Baseball First team Julian Chabot Senior Pitcher Luke Martin Senior Catcher Peyton McPherson Junior Infield Nick Berman Senior Outfield Second team Kyle Peabody Junior Infield Koby Holt Junior First base Van Vega Sophomore Outfield Jake Berman Senior Designated hitter Boys golf First team Thomas Baycroft Senior Nate Koohns Junior Regular season medalist — Thomas Baycroft District Tournament Medalist — Thomas Baycroft Girls golf First team Kat Ljubisic Soccer Coach of the Yea...
StageWest Community Theatre is proud to announce that the first production of the 2019-2020 season is the grand premier on the West Coast of John Kaasik’s play “Stranger in the Attic.” The play is set in the country home of freelance writer Brian Hollander and his wife Dana. Their quiet life is unexpectedly upset by the arrival of a stranger named Kendrick, who is offering an exclusive story to Brian about a murder that has not happened yet. Brian pursues discussions of the story with Kendrick, and meets his neighbors Dougl...
June 10 is Feed Medical Lake’s anniversary dinner Feed Medical Lake’s eighth annual anniversary supper is Monday, June 10, beginning at 5 p.m. Hot dogs, barbecue chicken and picnic fare will be served. Grocery distribution begins 4:15 p.m. The St. Anne parish hall will be closed in preparation for the annual summer rummage sale coming on June 28 and 29. It’s all free and fun for all ages. For more information call Joanna Williams at (509) 714-1150....
Cheney Congregational Church The community is invited to join us for Sunday morning worship. The service starts at 10 a.m. in the church sanctuary at 423 N. 6th Street in Cheney. Plan to stay for coffee, refreshments and conversation in the fellowship hall following the service. The next men’s breakfast will be Sunday, June 9, at 7:45 a.m. at the Marketplace Bakery and Eatery on 1st Street in Cheney. The lunch bunch will meet on Thursday, June 13, in the fellowship hall at noon. Bring a potluck dish to share. Everyone is invi...
1 Years Ago June 4, 2009 During their regular meeting on May 28, the Medical Lake Planning Commission revamped more guidelines to the resource lands and critical areas section included in the city’s comprehensive plan chapter on zoning. This move came at the recommendation of the state Department of Ecology. A kayaking accident on North Idaho’s Marble Creek claimed the life of an Eastern Washington University professor. Throughout their 2A state tournament run, the Cheney soccer team’s bend-but-don’t-break defense mostly...
It was an impulsive decision. Born in Lakewood, Ohio, in 1945, Jerry Foster chose to join the U.S. Marine Corps in 1962, four days after he turned 17. He hadn’t even finished high school. “I was borderline a lot of problems,” Foster said of his enlistment, thinking the Marine Corps would instill the self-discipline he said he lacked at the time. “Boy they sure gave it to me.” He was assigned to artillery after boot camp at Parris Island, S.C. He started in fire direction contr...
Congressional Democrats want to fundamentally transform Medicare by imposing socialist price controls on prescription drugs. But they know such drastic changes would be dead-on-arrival in the Republican-held Senate. In the meantime, some of them are coalescing behind a more moderate-sounding proposal that would achieve a similar result. This proposal, known as “binding arbitration,” would allow government-appointed arbitrators to dictate, er “negotiate,” drug prices. Currently, Medicare pays for drugs in different ways. M...
President Trump vowed to expand patient access to prescription drugs on the campaign trail. But with one proposal, his administration seems to be working against this goal. The Department of Health and Human Services recently unveiled a plan to impose artificial price controls on the advanced, physician-administered drugs covered under Medicare Part B. While the proposal could trim government spending, it will reduce access to medicine and devastate innovation. The president should reconsider. It’s no surprise that HHS w...
Memorial Day weekend was busier than usual this year in Cheney. Here are some thoughts on that. This year saw the first staging of a reenactment of the American Civil War by the Washington Civil War Association. In partnership with several businesses and organizations — including the city of Cheney and American Legion Post 72 — the two-and-half-day event featured association members in period dress and accoutrements engaging in battles and demonstrating how people lived and thought during that conflict over 150 years ago...
The first law of economics is Murphy’s Law. The second, right behind Murphy, is the Law of Unintended Consequences, which says: “Any outside input into the free market tends to disrupt its normal flow.” The free market can be visualized as an intricate web of connections, kind of like a spider’s web. The spider can feel a fly at the very extreme edge of the web and reacts to secure a meal. The market also feels the slightest outside influence and reacts in ways that can only be predicted in hindsight. More often than not, th...
The home of Art and Donna Kulibert has been named the Medical Lake Yard of the Month for June. From left are Jean Nelson of the Gardeners of Cheney, Dan Dorshorst of the Medical Lake Kiwanis, homeowners Art and Donna Kulibert, and Gayle Hennings the of Gardeners of Cheney. Each month during the spring and summer a yard is selected. The homeowner receives a $25 gift certificate to a local merchant....
Police have identified a suspect in May’s fatal hit and run that killed a man near the intersection of North Hayford Road and East Sprague Avenue in Airway Heights. The man hit was identified as 39-year-old Jackson Lawless. Lawless was crossing Hayford in a place with no crosswalks when he was struck by a silver, 2010 Dodge Ram at about 9 p.m. on Thursday, May 16. According to court documents, surveillance footage indicated that the suspect stopped at a nearby Chevron but then continued driving. A police spokesman told l...
All summer long adults, kids, and families can explore the planets, stars and more at Spokane County Library District during “A Universe of Stories.” The district has partnered with the Spokane Astronomical Society for Astronomy at the Library, where adults can learn to use binoculars for stargazing. In partnership with Spokane Falls Community College Planetarium, the district is offering passes to the show “Secret Lives of Stars” in June, July and August to in-district library card holders. The library has programs that will...
Cheney residents will soon have a permanent location where they can dispose of unused, out-of-date prescription drugs. Once approvals are given, the Cheney Police Department will be home to a drop box that residents can use to safely dispose of unused prescription drugs. Northeast Washington Educational Service District 101 community prevention coalition coordinator Jessica Deutsch said the drop box idea came out of the drug take-back program held during Cheney Clean Sweep on April 25. ESD 101 hosted the take-back at Cheney’s...
A new operator is coming to one of three branches of the state-owned Palouse River and Coulee City (PCC) rail system. After requesting proposals to run the railroad’s P&L Branch, the Washington State Department of Transportation selected Omaha Track as the next operator through a competitive evaluation process. Once an agreement is signed later this summer, the Omaha, Nebraska based company will operate the branch line that runs between the Idaho state line near Pullman and Marshall, just south of Spokane. The P&L branch i...
They came to Waterfront Park in Medical Lake on Saturday from across the country to celebrate the end of an era. About 100 current and former Lakeland Village College in-Resident Volunteers (CIRV) alumni gathered to remember their work in the program that has served the residents at Lakeland Village since 1970. The nearly half-century old program is the latest victim of budget cuts. The program originally started as a high school program that brought kids from the Tri-Cities...
The Spokane County Public Works Department announced on June 4 that seasonal weight restrictions have been removed on county roads. According to a news release, typically, each winter the region experiences a freeze-thaw cycle that weakens roadway surfaces and undermines roadway sub-structures, requiring the implementation of weight restrictions to reduce the amount of damage. Weather conditions vary from year-to-year and dictate the extent of the restrictions and when they go into effect. Normally, these restrictions do not...
After 18 months of planning, The Moving Wall, a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington D.C., will be arriving at the Medical Lake Middle School soccer field on the 200 block of South Prentis Street on Thursday, June 13 at 9 .m., via an escort by law enforcement, fire and veteran motorcycle groups. The Wall will be on display beginning noon Thursday through noon Sunday. It will be staffed by volunteers and available for viewing 24 hours a day....
The Medical Lake School Board considered a number of policy revisions and resolutions, and heard reports on a recent state audit and other updates at its regular monthly meeting Tuesday, May 28, at Hallett Elementary School. Chad Moss, director of finance reported on a recent financial audit by the Office of the Washington State Auditor. “It was one of the most intensive audits that I’ve been a part of,” Moss said. The two-part audit looked at both financial statements and a...
The Easterner and Associated Students of Eastern Washington University held a discussion panel called “Media and Politics” on May 16 to focus on the relationship between the media and the government in America. The four panelists who took part of the event were ASEWU President Dante Tyler, The Easterner Editor-in-Chief and senior Michael Brock, Spokane Public Radio news director Doug Nadvornick and civil rights investigator Sharon Schnebly. According to Brock, the relationship...
As smoke from a 5,000-plus acre wildfire in Grant County filled the local air, volunteer firefighters with Spokane County Fire District 3 tested their hoses on Fred Johns Way in Cheney in preparation for the upcoming fire season. All 10 stations conduct the hose check annually....
The Cheney Care Center has submitted a rezone application to the city in order to proceed with the next phase of its Blackstone Estates project. The application, submitted April 15 with a notice dated May 28, would change the designation of 4.94 acres of land from R-1 single-family residential to R-2 two-family residential. If approved, the Care Center would proceed with building 12 senior housing duplexes, 24 units total that would be home to up to 48 middle to high-income...
The non-profit organization West Plains Angels, assisted by Yoke’s Fresh Market and Copy Junction, presented the Eastern Washington University Pop-up Food Pantry with a $600 shopping spree on May 21. Students with the Food Pantry loaded up their shopping carts with items from Yoke’s, with assistance from the university’s Office of Community Engagement and Food Pantry coordinator Shelby Shackelford (front row middle)....
The Airway Heights City Council had a full plate at its June 3 meeting, hearing a presentation from Avista Utilities on the introduction of smart meters to the West Plains and getting a legislative update from the city’s governmental affairs representatives. Avista began a $165 million dollar rollout of smart meters across the utility company’s Washington service territory in February, starting with Spokane. Avista representatives said smart meters will be coming to the West Plains in October. Local residents can expect to se...
