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Hal Meili is a well-known man in the Cheney area for his multiple talents. He was born in Bismark, N.D. and came with his family to Spokane when he was six years old. Now, right here it’s up to you to keep Meili’s secret. You see, he wanted a job with the Forest Service and boldly told them he was 18.“They never checked my age,”he said. Now you know and you must promise to never tell. Meili worked hard for the Forest Service and put himself through college fighting fires....
St. Paul's Episcopal Church All are welcome. We are a welcoming haven, nourishing all God's people in body, mind and spirit. This Sunday is the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Holy Eucharist is at 11 a.m. Rev. Christine Soule will preach and preside. Child care is available. Our best wishes to all students for a nourishing, adventurous summer with family and friends. Narcotics Anonymous meets in the Parish Hall each Tuesday and Saturday evenings at 7 p.m. Fellowship breakfast is each Thursday morning at 7:30 a.m. in the...
At 14-years old, Otter Pops, video games and lake days consume most kids’ summers. But for Isaiah Rigo, he was busy competing at the 2013 International Paralympic World Championships in Lyon, France. The Cheney Middle School student made his hometown proud taking fifth place in the T52-1500M as a member of the United States national Paralympic team. And even though Rigo, who was born with arthrogryposis, a rare congenital disorder where joints are stiff and muscles a...
Former Eastern Washington University wide receiver Brandon Kaufman made his professional debut last Sunday with two catches, including one for a touchdown in the Buffalo Bills’ 44-20 NFL preseason victory over the Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium. Kaufman, an undrafted free agent who signed with the Bills April 29, scored on a 5-yard pass from former Washington State quarterback Jeff Tuel, giving his team some breathing room and a 37-20 lead with 4 minutes, 34 s...
Eastern Washington University’s new/old women’s head volleyball coach Wade Benson is calculated in his approach to the 2013 season. With a solid core of returning players, plus having the most successful coach in the program’s history, it may be easy to have great expectations. It appears Benson certainly knows the potential, but he’s careful not to show many of his cards. “This year is more about learning how to win a conference championship,“ Benson said. “If we can get ou...
Eastern Washington head football coach Beau Baldwin had a smile on his face through much of the second half of this past Monday’s practice. Of course it is football season and that in itself generally makes Baldwin happy. However, Monday was the first of a series of two-a-day practices that will take place each of the next two weeks at least as he and his coaches prepare the Eagles for their season opening game, Saturday, Aug. 31 at Pac-12 Oregon State in Corvallis. “We had...
Kerry Pease thought his baseball career ended nearly 40 years ago when in 1976 he suffered a painful broken finger as a senior at Sunnyside High School. Fast forward to 2013 and Pease, the Associate Director of Eastern Washington University’s Sports and Recreation Center, is still at it as a member of the Cheney Tigers men’s senior baseball team that plays in the Inland Northwest Men’s Baseball League. And yes, there’s still pain, some tendonitis, but it’s more self-infl...
All these stories about local football teams’ fall practices kicking into high gear is getting me excited for the upcoming season. Especially Eastern Washington University since, as you know, I’m an Eagles alumnus, season ticket holder and fan. I think that last one is pretty important, especially on game days. Sports fans are there to support their favorite teams, the players, coaches and support personnel. We also reserve the right to live up to the root of the word fan, as in fanatical. Within reason of course; things like...
Cheney’s Steve Emtman, considered one of the best defensive linemen in college football history as a member of the Washington Huskies, is one of two people who will be inducted into the State of Washington Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2013. Emtman, a two-time All-American and the 1991 Outland Trophy winner as college football’s top lineman, also won the Lombardi Award and was UPI Lineman of the Year, joins sports promoter Bob Walsh as inductees who will be honored at Safeco...
CHENEY Aug. 5 Carolyn M. Strand, 34, was arrested on the zero-hundred block of Cheney-Spokane Road on a warrant from the Department of Corrections for escaping community custody. Aug. 6 A motor vehicle was reported stolen from River Park Square. The city of Spokane requested the Cheney Police Department take the initial report because the victim lives in Cheney and had called in the incident report from his home. A residential burglary was reported on the 500 block of West Fifth Street. Access to the residence was unsuccessfu...
It’s a rare issue that brings together Washington’s agricultural industry, immigration rights groups, business associations, faith organizations and politicians from both sides of the aisle. After years of hard work by many organizations and individuals in the state and elsewhere, the U.S. Senate passed a bi-partisan immigration reform bill that promises to benefit Washington’s agriculture, its economy and many people living and working here. We are so close to achieving this long-sought goal that we can’t let this opportu...
On Monday, Aug. 5, actually early Tuesday morning, I returned home from my third mission trip to Guatemala. It was my third trip to this country, second consecutive year, and I have no doubt it will not be my last. As with my first two trips, I learned a lot, experienced a lot and return home with new insights and in some cases, emotions. I also carry changed attitudes and, hopefully, expanded and reinforced beliefs. One of those is a renewed sense of the educational value of travel. Yes, I realize a mission trip is...
Spokane County Sheriff’s Office officials are advising the public to be careful regarding a phone scam perpetrated in their name. According to a news release the SCSO administrative office has taken calls over the past 2-3 months from citizens receiving phone calls where the caller identifies themselves as being from the Sheriff’s Office. The caller then says that the citizen has outstanding warrants for their arrest and a relative or spouse may be charged for harboring a wanted person. The caller then tells the citizen tha...
With most of our troops being withdrawn from service in Afghanistan by 2014, there may be an area where some of them could be used to address a pressing issue at home. That issue is immigration, specifically border security and mainly along our border with Mexico. Republicans in Congress have made increased border security a condition for passing an immigration reform bill that would change the status of over 11 million immigrants here illegally. Currently, border security staffing is at an all-time high and technology used...
The Cheney School District board of directors voted 4-0 at their regular meeting Aug. 7 in favor of an agreement with a local developer to purchase the Fisher Building. The object of some public debate, sometimes emotional, the Fisher Building has served as the district’s administrative headquarters for several decades after having started as the high school in 1929. Cheney developer Steve Emtman has formed a limited liability company, Save the Fisher LLC, to purchase the buil...
Della Mae’s Jenni Lyn Gardner plays a melody on the mandolin at Blue Waters Bluegrass....
Pearl Snaps, a Spokane bluegrass group, entertains the audience at Blue Waters Bluegrass in Medical Lake last weekend. The annual three-day festival draws dozens of talented local and national touring bands to the Northwest....
Colleen Hegney (right) stands with Gardners of Cheney members Ralph and Sandy Laws and Kiwanis Club’s Pat Isbell as she is presented the Gardener’s of Cheney “Yard of the Month,” for the month of August. Hegney, who is the secretary of the music department at Eastern Washington University, has lived at the 1306 Gary St. residence since 1988 and spends hours a day maintaining her lawn and garden....
In the only action item on a light agenda Tuesday night, Cheney’s City Council approved authorizing Mayor Tom Trulove to sign a memorandum of understanding with Educational Service District 101 to create two AmeriCorps position for the 2013-2014 school year. Both positions will be in the city’s Parks and Recreation Department. Parks and Recreation Director Paul Simmons originally presented a proposal for five AmeriCorps positions to the council back in May. Budget cuts to ESD101 trimmed that back to two, he said. Each pos...
Eastern Washington University linebacker’s coach Josh Feter gives encouragement to Andre Lino during the first day of the Eagles’ fall football camp last Wednesday at the Sports and Recreation Center fields....
A multifamily development north of Highway 2 on Craig Road drew some raised eyebrows at the Airway Heights Planning Commission. The project, still in the planning stages, was the topic of a workshop at the commission’s Monday, Aug. 12 meeting. It’s meant to provide housing opportunities to residents living in Accident Potential Zone Two, leading to the runway of Fairchild Air Force Base. Those residents would have the first opportunity to move into the facility. Development Services Director Derrick Braaten said the city doe...
If Cheney’s new zoning code review process can be summed up in two words, it’s likely those words are simplicity and flexibility. Particularly the latter, something city planner Brett Lucas repeated often as the Planning Commission continued its Chapter 21 reviewing process. At its Aug. 12 meeting the commission focused on Low Density Residential, currently defined as single-family and two-family housing. The new section is actually two sections combined into one by eliminating the old Single-Family Residential (R-1) Zon...
Medical Lake, Airway Heights and Spokane County Fire District 10 have a plan to share resources in an effort to help each other operate more efficiently throughout the West Plains. The three fire departments are working together to produce a document that shows any duplications of service between them. Airway Heights Fire Chief Mitch Metzger said the idea first gained some traction within the city when one of the two pumps failed, necessitating the purchase of a new one...
The West Nile virus was detected at Fairchild Air Force Base last week, after sampling a mosquito trap site on the Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape Trail. Members of the 92nd Aerospace Medicine Squadron gathered sample pools of mosquitoes on the south side of the base near one of the cedar trails. The diseased mosquito was found in that area. Mosquitoes become infected with the virus from a bird that carried it. Other mammals, like humans and horses, aren’t carriers of the disease. “Members from 92nd Civil Eng...
Halfway through 2013 the Cheney Police Department is seeing something they haven’t witnessed in a few years – a summer time lull in crime. Through June, overall crime reports in the city had dropped 28.8 percent compared to the same time in 2012, with all 11 areas of reportable offenses showing decreases. Police Cmdr. Rick Campbell said it was something they hadn’t seen in 4-5 years, and attributed it to a couple of factors, the first being fewer people in town due to vacations and extended weekend trips – fewer people...
