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Crime reports in Medical Lake have gone up. According to statistics from the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office, 269 crimes were reported from January to June 2014, a 16 percent increase over the 227 reports generated during the same time last year. Major crimes are up 27 percent (102 compared to 140). Domestic violence crimes remained the same at seven reports, while dead on arrival/suicide and telephone harassment increased slightly. Minor crimes that do not fall into a specific category are up 42 percent (27 to 46). A...
City of Cheney • Current through Sept. 23, Cheney Farmers Market, City Hall parking lot, Tuesdays 2 – 7 p.m. • July 18, Mobius Science Spectacular, community library, 10:30 a.m. • July 18, Baby Play and Learn Storytime (ages 0 – 18 months), community library, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. • June 27, “The Every Day Scientist,” community library, 2 – 3 p.m. • July 22, “Science of the Swing,” Fairways Golf Course (Spokane County Library District), 6 p.m. • July 22, City Council meeting, City Hall council chambers, 6 p.m. • July 23, Toddler...
My stingy dictionary tells me Benjamin Franklin was an American statesman and an inventor. And then it stopped. Surely there was much more to tell about him, much more than a few words. Joe Wurzelbacker is known as Joe for America.com and Joe the Plumber. He has put together 10 of Benjamin Franklin’s little-known accomplishments. I am proud to pass them on to you. Benjamin Franklin was born Jan. 17, 1700. He learned to swim at the age of 19. He jumped into a river and swam about 3.5 miles. This effort won him the honor of int...
The West Plains Bandits 14U softball team wrapped up their regular season schedule with a road doubleheader sweep of Mead’s Stealth (Finch) team. The Bandits scored in the first five of six innings to win game one 10-5. In the nightcap, West Plains rallied to overcome a three-run deficit with six runs in the bottom of the fourth for a 10-8 win. West Plains scored twice in the top of the first in game one, getting RBI singles from Kaitlyn Kinzel and Taylor Pavao. The Stealth took the lead with three in the bottom of the f...
This weekend I had a chance to make it out to the Bi-Mart Arena to enjoy a little bit of the Cheney Rodeo. I haven't been to many rodeos in my lifetime - in fact, this was the second rodeo I have ever attended. I was in awe of the pageantry of the event. I also tip my hat to the riders in the various events, specifically the cowboys in the bareback and bull riding competitions. I've only ridden a mechanical bull and that was hard enough. I can't imagine the skill and...
The Spokane Blue Devils accomplished what they set out to do — make the Spokane AAA American Legion playoffs. Now it’s a matter of how long they stay and it’s so far so good. Following a must-have sweep of the Northeast 49ers last week that nudged them past the Spokane Cannons and into third place in the final league standings, the Blue Devils beat the Cannons 6-3 this past Monday in a first-round playoff. Then this past Tuesday afternoon, the Blue Devils got a 2 for 5 perfo...
Medical Lake completed an important series of games in Spokane American Legion AA play winning five of six games last week. But they'll still come up short of making the postseason. Head coach Kerry Kelly said the winning streak to bring his team near to the end of the season, "Was probably the best ball we've played all year," as their streak was snapped in the nightcap of a Sunday doubleheader at home versus Cheney. "I'm really proud of that because that's one thing we alway...
The Cheney SummerHawks AA American Legion Baseball team finished their regular season with an 11-4 record after three consecutive Federal League doubleheaders against Freeman, July 12, Medical Lake, July 13, and Trail, July 14. In game one against Freeman, Cheney beat the Scotties, 3-1. The SummerHawks took an early lead in the first inning on runs scored by Andrew Witt, Connor Pratt and Chance Gleave. The Scotties managed to score a run in the top of the seventh before the en...
Lyndon Johnson had it right after all Ed Feulner, in his guest commentary for the Cheney Free Press, July 3, 2014, says that he’s learned, “you can’t improve something unless you can measure it.” He then goes on to label Lyndon Johnson’s ‘Great Society’ “an abject failure” without measuring anything. According to Feulner, “an ever expanding portion of the population” is receiving the largess of LBJ’s War on Poverty. Apparently the management course Feulner credits with teaching him about measuring things didn’t include t...
Next Wednesday, July 23, I leave again on a mission trip to Guatemala. It will be my third consecutive trip, fourth overall, and likely my last for a while — at least a year. It’s an amazing adventure to be in that country, to travel and experience the culture, to see a different society in action, and to interact on many levels with its people. But believe me, it’s no vacation. It’s exhausting frankly. Not just being country, traveling for long stretches on bad roads, traversing washed out areas, sometimes standing in the...
Plenty has changed in the last 25 years in Spokane County. Most notably, we’ve grown by nearly 120,000 people, some of the most rapid growth ever. In the upcoming Aug. 5 primary election, the citizens of the West Plains will select the top two candidates among three to move onto the November general election and face off for District 3 county commissioner. Voters will select between incumbent Al French, former commissioner Bonnie Mager and newcomer, Mary Lou Johnson. But while much has changed in the past quarter century, o...
Cheney High School alumna Nora Ifft made the University of Montana’s Dean’s List for spring 2014. To qualify, students must be undergraduates, earn a semester GPA of 3.5 or higher and receive A or B grades in at least nine credits....
Eastern Washington University recently named the following Airway Heights, Cheney and Medical Lake students to the spring quarter dean’s honor roll for the 2013-14 academic year: Airway Heights — Tiffany Perez. Cheney — Alexander Adams, Abdullah Al Mughairah, Joshua Alent, Abdulkarim Aljami, Naif Aloudah, Abdullah Alqasem, Jaclyn Archer, Samantha Ayotte, Cody Bafus, Dallin Bifano, Chelsie Bleeker, Keryia Borchers, Yuriy Borisyuk, Heather Boswell, Christopher Boyd, Julia Boyd, Alyssa Bray, Jeena Bushnell, Stephanie Campb...
Jessica Jensen, of Cheney, and Richard Aley, of Medical Lake, graduated from Whitworth University. Jensen was awarded a bachelor of arts in music. Aley earned a bachelor of arts in kinesiology and a bachelor of science in athletic training. Whitworth, located in Spokane, Wash., is a private liberal arts university affiliated with the Presbyterian church. The university, which has an enrollment of nearly 3,000 students, offers 60 undergraduate and graduate degree programs....
Eastern Washington University has received a $2.125 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Education designed to support students from migrant and seasonal farmworker backgrounds during their first year in college. This is the third time since 2002 EWU has been awarded the five year College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) grant. The CAMP grant will allow Eastern to provide students with both financial assistance and support services, with the goal of preparing them to continue their education at the university be...
Cheney High School alumna Elica Chelsy Starr received a $2,000 Seattle Business Forum Scholarship for the 2014-2015 academic year. Starr, daughter of Gary and Himoni Starr, plans to attend Western Washington University and will enroll in the Honors Program and major in English. She hopes to become a teacher and an author. Starr graduated from CHS this past June with a 3.95 cumulative GPA. She was involved in the Cheney Youth Commission and was a member of the school’s tennis team....
Medical Lake School District students continue to increase their reading and math scores. Kim Headrick, director of teaching and learning, unveiled Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) math and reading test scores for the 2013-14 school year at the June school board meeting. Headrick explained that all-day kindergarten was at 100 percent growth for reading and 99 percent in math scores for the first year in Medical Lake. “A lot of these kids are outgrowing their grade level in reading and math and are ready for the next le...
At the June 7 meeting, the Airway Heights City Council authorized a work order for Century West Engineering to develop a pavement management plan for the city. Public Works director Kelly Williquette explained that the management plan would consist of doing an inventory of all pavements, streets and sidewalks. Williquette said the city would go and take a coarse sample of asphalt from the base and sub base of paved streets and gravel roads. “This is something we do every year,” Williquette said. “We’ll break out a chunk o...
One of Cheney's own is returning Wednesday, July 23, to perform in the Summer Concert Series at Sutton Park. Karen McCormick - pronounced "Car-en" - is a 2013 graduate of Cheney High School who has been following her dream to write and perform music that "people can relate to and have fun." McCormick began her musical career at age 7, and began learning guitar around age 11. About that same time, an event helped shape her musical direction. McCormick said she was in the car...
Dorothy Sawyer, the current CEO of Eastern State Hospital wants to make it a mission to bring the community together and educate it about mental illness. Sawyer took the CEO position in August 2013. She has over 30 years in the health care industry. Sawyer grew up in Spokane in the 1950s and '60s. She got into the health care profession not only because her friends were becoming nurses, but also because she was impressed by the nurses who worked in the field. "I said 'you...
The Cheney Planning Commission resumed its municipal code review process by taking a look at Chapter 22 – Subdivisions and Title, and Chapter 23 – Development Code Administration at their July meeting on Monday. The commission also took a look at a proposed amendment to Chapter 2 – Hearing Examiner that changes the project review process. Proposed language to be added to the examiner’s “duties and powers” would change what binding site plans the examiner hears to those of five lots or more, with city staff hearing anything sm...
The Cheney City Council unanimously approved a contract for technical support at the city’s water and wastewater treatment systems at its July 8 meeting, as well as entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Cheney School District on a grant to enhance after school programs. Applied Solutions, LLC was the successful bidder on an advertised proposal for professional services to provide support and maintenance of the city’s Supervisor Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems at the plant as well as Cheney’s water...
