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Elizabeth Rosenbeck is right back where she started from a year ago - a member of the Medical Lake City Council. Rosenbeck was the unanimous choice of the council in a vote at the June 19 meeting to replace John Merrick who resigned in April after job commitments forced him to miss a number of early meetings in 2018. Ironically, it was Merrick who defeated Rosenbeck last November for the Position 2 seat, 56.4 – 43.1 percent or by a 528-403 margin in votes. She finished s...
BOSTON – A 2016 Medical Lake High School graduate and Medical Lake, Wash., native will celebrate America's 242nd year of independence as part of a hand-picked Navy crew serving on the world's oldest commissioned warship afloat, the USS Constitution. Seaman Taylor Ruggles, a gunner's mate, serves aboard the 220-year-old Boston-based ship named by President George Washington to honor the Constitution of the United States of America. Famously known as "Old Ironsides," the Constit...
There’s nothing like discussion of how Medical Lake will police itself in the future to make a City Council meeting lively. At its June 19 meeting the council — short one member, Ted Olson who was away on vacation and still trying to fill a vacancy — voted 3-2 to approve a two-year extension of the deal with the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office to deliver police services. Councilman John Paukuli, the chair of the Public Safety Committee, was one of the yes votes along with To...
This weekend marks the magical days of summer because Hoopfest is in town. Ever since moving to the area, I have loved attending the event every year because it brings the whole Pacific Northwest together in the most entertaining way. You can walk the streets of downtown Spokane and go from watching cute little kids balling it up to older guys trying to relive their glory days. Even though this will be my first year not playing in the event in about eight years, I am still looking forward to going down and enjoying the...
As Eastern Washington University's hockey team turns 20, the program will be returning to its roots. After spending the past seven seasons in the British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League with very limited success, and against schools few had ever heard of, the Eagles will now be part of the expanded Pac-8 Hockey League for the 2018-19 season. As one can presume from its name, the five-year-old league, now with 12 schools, has some familiar names like Washington,...
New Eastern Washington University volleyball coach Leslie Flores-Cloud had her first official live introduction to the media June 25, and like some of those before her had to vie for attention with a youngster. Flores-Cloud comes to EWU from Drake University where she served as the assistant and associate head coach at the Des Moines, Iowa school for the past five seasons. In the past, young children have stolen at least parts of the show when former athletics director Bill Ch...
CHENEY June 16 Brandon R. Malet, 27, was arrested for fraud and second-degree theft charges stemming from an incident on Dec. 19 on the 300 block of Erie Street. Lynn M. Englehardt, 51, was arrested for unlawful issuance of a bank check and third-degree theft charges stemming from an incident on June 15 on the 100 block of F Street. Ray-Jaun D. Stelly, 21, was arrested for second-degree theft and possession of stolen property charges stemming from an incident on June 15 on the 900 block of First Street. A hit and run collisio...
Fifty years ago in 1968, the cost of sending a letter increased to 6 cents. Learn more about our area's history at www.cheneymuseum.org...
St. Paul's Episcopal Church's community garden at 625 C St. in Cheney has once again been planted with lots of green beans, peas, squash, zucchini, cucumbers and more. The veggies will go to the Cheney Food Bank, Eastern Washington University student food pantry and Feed Cheney. The church would like to thank all the members, including campus students and others, who so generously give their time and energy to the planting, maintenance and harvesting of the...
Emmanuel Lutheran Church All are welcome to worship with us this Sunday at Emmanuel Lutheran Church. Coffee hour follows the worship service. Christian education for grade school through adults is on hiatus until September. You may watch our pastor’s sermons on YouTube at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Cheney. Mark your calendars for Vacation Bible Day Camp. This year the Lutherhaven staff will once again lead our VBS program from July 16 – 20. Registration forms for children and volunteers are available on our website at www...
1 Years Ago June 26, 2008 A new development was being proposed in Cheney that included a 9,375-square-foot site between 105 and 121 N. Ninth St. The finished project was set to be a two-story, multi-family residence that would have standard and studio apartments. It was geared for student housing for Eastern Washington University. Village Square Antiques Plus store was opened in Airway Heights by storeowner and manager Elsie Patten. The store was in the old Sunset Grange Building that was once City Hall and a jailhouse, but...
Spots and patches of white or gray talcum powder-like substance on your plant means powdery mildew infected your plant. This is one of the most widespread fungal diseases and attacks a wide range of plants. You may see mildew on a variety of trees, shrubs, flowers, vegetables and lawn grasses. Don't despair - you can reduce the risk of this disease with proper plant selection, maintenance and if needed organic intervention. Powdery mildew is most common during hot dry weather....
There is a certain tyranny to the 24-hour news cycle, a specific grip on human awareness and attention. We have been rightly consumed by the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant parents from their children, and the media have been filled with pictures and stories of anguished families, along with voices of critics from across the political spectrum. Yet though President Trump has retreated on the issue, he has still successfully used the powers of his office to dominate the media. He and his staff have been a...
I frequently decompress by laying back in my overstuffed recliner as I read the paper. I was doing fine until a sentence in a nationally syndicated column caught my eye and raised my blood pressure. This well known columnist said he didn’t want to understand the conservatives, he simply wanted to defeat them. Wow! So much for finding the middle ground. This ultra-adversarial attitude is becoming more and more common. At my family reunion a few months ago, one of my relatives proclaimed she hated those damned Republicans. ...
The home of Robert and Bridie Riddick at 30 North Seventh St. across from the Cheney pool, is the Cheney Kiwanis and Cheney Garden Club Yard of the Month for July. The Riddicks receive a $25 gift certificate from Jarms Ace Hardware. Pictured next to the sign are Garden Club member Betty Ray (left) and Bridie Riddick (right)....
Growth has created transportation challenges on the West Plains, and attendees at a recent West Plains Chamber of Commerce breakfast received an overview on how those challenges are being met. Washington State Department of Transportation engineer Mark Allen told the record crowd that they are designing a series of changes to handle increased traffic at Interstate 90 interchanges at Medical Lake exit 272 and Geiger exit 276. Business development at both, along with new and...
Scammers at it again with fake law enforcement warnings The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office continues to receive reports of scammers trying to lie, intimidate, trick, and threaten people into giving up their hard-earned money or personal information, leaving them vulnerable to identity theft. Law enforcement, courts or any other government agency will never call and demand prepaid credit cards for payment while threatening arrest if you don’t, but scammers will, so don’t be duped. Theses scammers/criminals continue to call, s...
Village Centre Cinemas in Airway Heights is bringing back the summer matinee series for everyone to enjoy. The series started on June 18 and will run until Aug. 16 for a fun activity to last throughout the summer season. The next movie up to watch is "Paddington 2" on July 2-3 and 5. This sequel showcases Paddington the bear as a popular member of the community after he settled in with his new family, the Browns. He goes on an adventure to find a perfect present for his aunt...
Northern Quest Resort and Casino officially opens their Kids Quest and Cyber Quest on June 29 for family-friendly activities. On the Kids Quest side, an hourly children's entertainment center for children between the ages of six weeks to 12 years will be featured. Included in the Kids Quest is a private "Tiny Tot" room for babies six weeks to 30 months. The next stage is "Club 305" that has age-appropriate activities for kids 30 months to five years old. Other items for kids...
Expansion and renovation work at Cheney High School is one step closer to beginning, thanks to the approval by the school district’s board of directors of a resolution accepting a constructability review report. The review was based upon architect ALSC’s 90 percent completed construction documents dated May 14, and was conducted by staff at the district, construction management firm OAC and general contractor Lydig Construction. In addition, Coffman Engineers performed a peer review of the documents. According to an OAC dec...
Eastern Washington University associate professor Gina Mikel Petrie, Ph.D., has been selected by the U.S. Department of State for a six-week English Language Specialist assignment in Amman, Jordan. The English Language Specialist Program is the premier opportunity for leaders in the field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) to enact meaningful and sustainable changes in the way that English is taught abroad. Petrie is part of a select group, as one of approximately 80 U.S. citizens each year selected...
The Washington state Future Farmers of America Association announced in a June 14 news release that Cheney High School’s agriculture education teacher and FFA advisor Allen Skoog had been awarded a $27,000 grant from the association. The funding will be used to acquire CASE Curriculum equipment and technology to advance agriculture science education. The grant funding was included as part of the state Legislature’s 2018 capital budget allocation Curriculum for Agriculture Science Education (CASE) is a system of ins...
Cheney’s Planning Commission approved an annual update to the city’s six-year capital improvements plan at its regular meeting in June. The plan identifies project the city views as essential to maintaining established levels of service (LOS) over the next six years, and names revenue sources to be pursued in bringing those projects to fruition. Senior planner Brett Lucas told the commission the improvements plan is a smaller portion of two other plans the city utilizes when it comes to handling growth: the capital fac...
The La Nina and El Nino climate phenomena are prime drivers of how winter weather in the Northwest behaves. But those two siblings of sorts also can dictate what summers will be like. That was the message, in a roundabout way, from retired Eastern Washington University geography and meteorology professor Bob Quinn as the region officially moved into summer on June 21. "Basically, we've had two weak La Ninas the last two winters," Quinn said. "They have been non-distinctive...
