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The Cheney High School volleyball team will welcome Courtney Webb as new head coach for the 2014 season. Webb, who grew up in Ephrata, Wash., played varsity volleyball, girls' basketball and tennis in high school. She attended Gonzaga University then transferred to Eastern Washington University in 2010. In 2011, she graduated with a bachelors degree in education in Health and Fitness. During this time, she was an assistant volleyball coach for one of the seventh-grade teams...
1 Years Ago July 8, 2004 Cheney’s population was quickly coming close to the milestone 10,000 mark as current census numbers showed 9,855 residents in the city. In an effort to provide necessary funding, Medical Lake City Administrator Curt Kelling was promoting a metro park system combining residents within the boundaries of the Cheney and Medical Lake school districts. Medical Lake’s Pink Penguin B Balla basketball team, featuring McKenna Wesselman, Emily Paulson, Gabby Daily and Savannah Raczykowski, won their Hoo...
City of Cheney • July 4, State, county and city offices closed. • July 7, “A Bird’s Eye View of the Lake Missoula Floods,” community library, noon. • July 7, Cheney Farmers Market, City Hall parking lot, 2 – 7 p.m. • City Council meeting, 6:30 p.m., City Hall Council Chambers. • July 9, Toddler Play and Learn Storytime (ages 1 1/2 – 3), community library, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. • July 9, “Brew Your Own Beer,” community library, 6:30 p.m. • July 10, “Squishy Circuits,” community library, 2 p.m. • July 10, Preschool Play and L... Full story
Cheney Community Church “Christmas in July” is the theme for Vacation Bible School which begins at Cheney Community Church Monday, July 7 and runs through July 11. VBS meets 9 a.m. - noon each day. Pre-registration is open now by calling the church office, 235-4841, or by registering at the church the morning of July 7. Children from age 3 to those who have completed fourth grade are welcome. There will be Bible stories, music, arts and crafts, games and snacks. The week will culminate with participation in the Cheney Rod...
Long-time Cheney resident Raymond P. Whitfield passed away Saturday, June 21, at Cheney Care Center at age 98. Born in Big Timber, Mont., Ray moved with his family to Sunnyside, Wash. in 1918. He grew up in Sunnyside, graduating from Sunnyside High School in 1934. After working for four years in a local bank, Ray enrolled at Central Washington School of Education and earned a degree in history. While at Central, Ray was a top-ranked tennis player. His love of tennis continued after graduation and he continued playing through... Full story
Pat passed peacefully with family by her side on June 15, 2014 at Sacred Heart Hospital Spokane, Wash. Pat was born to Orville and Bess Elmore on Sept. 8, 1932 in Cheney, Wash. She was an only child. Pat graduated from Cheney High School then married her high school sweetheart James E. McConnell. Pat then went to work at Lakeland Village and taught in Medical Lake School District until her retirement. Pat loved spending time with her kids, grandkids and great-grandkids. She... Full story
Carole Francis Hubbard passed away peacefully, with her husband at her side, in the early morning of June 24. At her request, a service will not be held, but her life was celebrated June 28. Carole was born Oct. 29, 1942 in Leeds, England, to John and Rita Bianchi, the youngest of three children. After her father passed, Carole immigrated with her mother, brother and sister to Hicksville, Long Island, N.Y., when she was 7 years old. Carole lived and worked in New York City throughout her early adult life, until moving to... Full story
I was the "new kid on the block" in a group of rural women who called themselves Merry Makers when I first met June Labish. Some of the women stared at me. Others ignored me. June smiled and made me feel welcome. June and her husband Joe had tackled the 24-hour chore of milking 20 cows on the Boone Mill place. Residents of the Amber area could tell you exactly where that was. The Labish's milk was shipped to Darigold for processing. Tired of the dairy business, June and Joe...
We would like to thank the staff at the Cheney Care Center for all the help and support they gave to both our mother and our father over the last several years. Director Keith Fauerso, Shannon Reitan and all of the staff at the Assisted Living Center are wonderful people who genuinely cared about our father. The nursing home staff was equally supportive of our mother. We always felt comfortable in leaving our parents in the care of such kind and caring people, and for this we are very grateful. Tom and Marian Whitfield...
Sunday night I decided to let my inner child take over and watch the WWE’s — formerly the WWF — “Money in the Bank” event.The show had its big moments and it took me back to what I enjoyed watching wrestling when I was younger. I’ll admit it. I’ve been a fan of professional wrestling ever since I was in elementary school. I was enamored with larger than life characters like Hulk Hogan, The Undertaker and Sting taking on villains like the Iron Sheik, “Nature Boy” Ric Flair and “Macho Man” Randy Savage — or “Macho King” as...
We wish to thank the following businesses for supporting your EWU/Cheney SCOPE with our annual fundraiser and rest area donations: Blackhawk Veterinary Hospital, Mitchell’s Harvest Foods, Copy Junction, Sandi’s Expression, Rosa’s Pizza, Les Schwab, Chet’s Flowers, Cheney Veterinary Clinic, Sears, Latah Trading Company, Foxy Horse and Hound, Jimmy John’s, Vision Haus, Pet Paradise, Snap Fitness, Owl Pharmacy, Cheney Trading Company and Farmers Insurance. Your EWU/Cheney SCOPE helps with bicycle helmets, O.F.I.D.C. (fingerpr...
One of the lessons I learned in my first management course is you can’t improve something unless you can measure it. So let’s apply that to government. As ambitious government programs go, it’s hard to top the “Great Society,” which recently marked its 50th anniversary. President Lyndon Johnson, after all, vowed “to give every citizen an escape from the crushing weight of poverty.” That’s a tall order. So five decades, nearly $22 trillion and roughly 80 welfare programs later, it’s fair to ask how we’re doing. The short an...
It was 1974 when Tom Litzinger painted the cougar on the center of the floor and on the wall of the Medical Lake Middle School gym. Forty years later those paintings are still in the gym. During the middle school’s promotion ceremony, the district honored Litzinger for his contribution to the school. When he was a teenager, Litzinger started painting as a hobby. After he finished school, he had trouble finding work and started painting professionally. Over the years, he sold paintings at different art shows throughout the c...
The Cheney School District's board of directors unanimously passed the district's $45.7 million 2014-2015 general fund budget at their regular meeting June 25. The amount is just over 8.4 percent more than the district's projected expenses for the 2013-2014 fiscal year, with a projected revenue increase of 7.25 percent over last year's numbers. Most of the rise in expenses stem from increased basic education staffing costs associated with enrollment growth, mainly salary and b...
All-Class reunion July 19 Please mark your calendar and plan on attending the Cheney All-Class reunion Saturday, July 19. Pack a lunch and head to Salnave Park in Cheney. Not hungry? Just come to visit. People start arriving around 10 a.m. but come any time. Donna Lewis Pilcher and Jo Jordan Budweg want to especially encourage Amber Grade School alumni and staff to attend. They are hoping to have an honored guest from Cheney’s storied past attending. All classes are encouraged to bring old pictures to share. Rodeo parade r... Full story
As Mayor Tom Trulove, city, school district and county officials look on, Cheney School Board student adviser McKinna Kent cuts the ribbon officially dedicating the school district's Crunk's Sports Fields Complex at a ceremony last Wednesday evening....
Cheney’s Kevin Ottosen was one of 107 Washington insurance agency owners to receive the Allstate Premier Agency designation in 2014. According to a company news release, local small business owners such as Ottosen are recognized for their customer service and involvement in their respective communities....
The Cheney Farmers Market is open for business. The market is open every Tuesday from 2 – 7 p.m. from now until Sept. 23 in the City Hall parking lot, corner of Second and D streets. There will be plenty of fresh, local produce along with handmade arts and crafts....
SPOKANE COUNTY The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office has a quick and efficient method of tracking sex offenders living near resident’s home, business, daycare or other locations. There is a link on the Sheriff’s Office main page, located at www.spokanecounty.org/sheriff titled Sex Offenders Search. This application gives users the ability to register by entering their name, address, email address and the radius from the address they input that will show them where level II and III registered sex offenders live. The radiu...
Eastern Washington University will no longer be hidden away in downtown Spokane's University District. The university recently announced that the Phase 1 building at 668 N. Riverpoint Blvd., located at its intersection with Trent Avenue, will become EWU property with the transfer from Washington State University. Eastern took control of the property in a ceremony in early June. The building, originally dedicated in 1996, currently houses the school's College of Business and...
The Medical Lake Planning Commission continued discussions about whether or not to allow a marijuana retail, production and processing facility in city limits at their June 26 meeting. City Administrator Doug Ross presented numbers on how residents of Medical Lake voted on Initiative 502, back in November 2012. Ross said the city voted 1,008 to 905 (52.69 percent) in favor of I-502. “Medical Lake is divided into three precincts,” Ross said. “One precinct voted no and two precincts had a yes majority.” In regards to crime s...
When new Eastern Washington University President Dr. Mary Cullinan was officially introduced June 26 at a reception at Hargreaves Hall, not only did her unveiling draw a standing-room-only crowd inside but Mother Nature seemed to pause outside and take notice, too. Or so thought Mike Westfall, the university’s vice president of advancement who opened the ceremony noting the symbolic return of sunshine on an otherwise grey and rainy day. EWU board of brustees President, Paul T...
A cropduster begins a spraying run on fields straddling Salnave Road just outside Cheney Monday evening....
Cheney's Save Our Station (SOS) organization has narrowed a list of "potential' sites for relocation of the former Northern Pacific train depot from 10 down to five. Group member Sue Beeman cautioned, however, that calling these potential sites is a rather "nebulous" reference. The sites could be potential once the group settles on a plan on how to use the station built in 1929 and currently owned by Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, if the railroad is willing to sell...
Transportation was the name of the game in action items at the Cheney City Council’s June 24 meeting. And with that, city residents should expect to see a lot of Shamrock Paving gear around town. The Spokane-based company secured three contracts for street and arterial work this summer, the biggest being the North Sixth Street Preservation Project. Shamrock was by far the lowest of three bidders on the work from Oak Street to Betz Road, coming in at a total of $494,595 — over $90,000 less than the next bidder. The $380,118 st...
