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By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Cheney's Fire Department put its high-rise firefighting capabilities to the test on Monday by battling a fire atop the CoAg, formerly Cheney Graingrowers, elevator located at 11 G St. CoAg employees moving grain in order to begin cleaning up for the coming harvest reported the fire at 10:13 a.m. Cheney fire crews arriving at the site saw smoke oozing out of the top of the conveyor belt system that carries grain to the top of the elevator for distribution. Firefighters determined that the fire was in...
Spokane County OKs agreement, asks city to do likewise to avert looming utility concerns at County Raceway By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter The Airway Heights City Council spent a large portion of their June 21 meeting discussing an agreement with Spokane County that would secure land for a regional community recreational complex. Council members hashed out pros and cons of a memorandum of understanding to exchange treated water and other utilities at the county's Raceway Park for a 70-acre portion of adjacent county land....
By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter A Cheney man died from injuries sustained after a car hit him Sunday night on the 1300 block of First Street. James Dahl, 61, died at Providence Sacred Heart Hospital after he was struck by a 1997 Kia Sephia driven southbound by William Knight, 47. The collision occurred at 10:46 p.m. Sunday, according to a Washington State Patrol Report. Dahl was the owner of Chet's Flowers with his wife Joy since 2008. Troopers said members of Dahl's family witnessed the collision and reported it to Cheney...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Incoming Fairchild Air Force Base commander Col. Paul Guemmer figures that over the course of four different Pentagon assignments he's spent close to 3,000 hours commuting back and forth in Washington D.C. traffic. That's almost 120 days of drive time, and while demanding, it's not the reason he finally got his request granted to live and work in the other Washington further west. “Fairchild has a reputation for excellence, mission focus and great community relations,” Guemmer told a crowd of loc...
Park board looks at revamped 50-acre park bond, Wren Pierson redesign By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter It was the most eventful park board meeting in recent memory. At the meeting and community open house June 24, plans for the Wren Pierson Building remodel were unveiled to the public, large grants were discussed and it was revealed that the city is considering placing a $2.5 million bond on the November ballot to begin construction at the 50-acre park. Parks and recreation director Paul Simmons said he had instructions from...
Officials of the National Hot Rod Association announced June 23 the addition of Spokane County Raceway to the NHRA Northwest Division Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series. The Northwest Thunderfest event, scheduled for Thursday through Sunday, July 29-Aug. 1, will be the third in the series taking the total number of events to six in the division and 40 in the series. Spokane County Raceway came on board as an NHRA member track last year and hosted its first ever Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event and the winners were Shawn Cowie,...
Photo by Paul Delaney Heather Evans (right) dives to make a play as partner Abra Amwake moves in to help at last Wednesday's Doubles Beach Volleyball match with Brooke Sweat and Kristen Batt staged at Northern Quest Resort. Sweat and Batt defeated Evans and Amwake 21-9, 21-11 on the way to an eventual championship in the inaugural event....
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter The attention of Medical Lake's AA American Legion baseball team shifts focus a bit, off their chase of a final playoff spot in the American West standings to hosting and playing in a pod of the 2010 Wood Bat Classic. The Cardinals will kick things off early with a game Friday at 8 a.m. against Black Hills, the first of four seeding games in two days for Medical Lake, 5-9 overall and 2-7 in league play. ML meets Mead in a 6 p.m. Friday game before playing Pendleton, Ore. Saturday at 8 a.m. and...
Defending AAA Fourth of July champs get tough draw in Wood Bat tournament By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter There's some concern that the Spokane Blue Devils AAA Senior American Legion team might have some vision problems and it tends to sometimes affect their ability to bat, hit and play defense. The ailment, coach Tony Byrne said, seems to be a periodic issue with his team looking too far ahead in the schedule – to August 5-9 when they hope to be the area's automatic entry in the regional tournament at Gonzaga University. A...
Longtime football rivals meet in Seattle, Sept. 11 FROM STAFF AND NEWS SERVICE REPORTS Home will once again be on the road for the Eastern Washington University football team in the second edition of the “Showdown on the Sound.” EWU will face off against Central Washington University Saturday, Sept. 11 at 6 p.m. at Qwest Field in Seattle with the two schools co-hosting the event. The game will offer a two-fold benefit for Eastern, one from the standpoint of alumni outreach to the tens of thousands of former EWU students that...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Not only did Eastern Washington University sports land a better home for their radio broadcasts this past Monday, but the Eagles got a new voice in the bargain. EWU and KXLY Radio Group have reached a radio agreement to have all home and away EWU football and men's basketball games broadcast live on 700 ESPN The Ticket. The three-year agreement includes football and men's basketball coaches shows, as well as internet coverage (www.espnnorthwest.com) of all broadcasts. Larry Weir will still call...
Eastern gets broadcaster bonus in new radio deal By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter It's been quite a year's journey for Dennis Patchin. With the official announcement this past Monday that radio broadcasts of Eastern Washington University football and basketball will shift from bouncing around the dial to firmly landing on 700 ESPN, Patchin's path, it seems, has taken him right where he's longed to be. Patchin will take over play-by-play of Eagles basketball from Larry Weir, who remains Eastern's football voice. About a year...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Cold bats and opponents' good pitching led to a split for the Cheney American Legion A team in games last week. The Summer Hawks suffered their first shutout of the season, a 9-0 loss to Spokane American Legion South Division leaders' University No. 1 on June 22, followed by a 4-3, eight-inning setback against Colville in non-league action June 24. The Hawks returned to the winning track with a pair of victories to finish the week, downing last place West Valley 12-6 on June 25 and regaining their offe...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Summer's heating up, and so apparently are the Summer Hawks. With three wins last week Cheney's American Legion AA team stretched its winning streak to five, giving them a 6-4 mark in the Spokane American Legion's American League West Division and 9-4 overall. The Summer Hawks swept a doubleheader with Whitman County last Tuesday in Colfax, 7-1 and 6-4, and followed that with a 12-3 win over Mead Thursday night at AK Jackson Field in Spokane. Cheney got what manager Ed Franklin called a “pitching g...
