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CHENEY — All Aboard Washington (AAWA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting state-wide connectivity through passenger and freight rail services, stopped in Cheney Friday, Aug. 20, to discuss expanding passenger rail routes from Seattle to Spokane. The “2021 Train Trek” team presented a project that would renew daily rail travel across Stampede Pass, Yakima, Kittitas Valley and into Eastern Washington by utilizing dormant tracks across the region. The route could potentially utilize Ritzville and Cheney at an estim...
Medical Lake football players hope early practice leads to catching some winning vibes this season. Football practice opened up for area high school and college teams, who are looking at their first fall season in two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic....
MEDICAL LAKE — The City Council recently held a meeting via Zoom, and discussed several issues present in the community. The choice to stay with Zoom meetings came as a result of recent news regarding in person meetings. The council discussed changes to their law enforcement department, announced the upcoming budget discussion, talked about water issues, and gave all the pertinent department reports. Medical Lake will be putting some new law enforcement additions to work in the near future. The city was awarded $20,000 to u...
SPOKANE - Voting is a process - one as essential to our democracy as yeast is to making a good loaf of bread. On it's surface, that process involves the voter opening their ballot, reading and learning about candidates and measures up for consideration, properly making their choice and then sealing and returning said ballot. That's on the surface. Like an iceberg, most of what takes place at the Spokane County Elections Department - and similar departments around the state -...
CHENEY - One of the oldest American Legion Posts in the country is getting a facelift in downtown Cheney thanks to the efforts of a small, dedicated staff of volunteers. "It's been really difficult because of Covid to try and keep the doors open and keep the bills paid and everything. I want the community to know we're still here, we're open," Commander Mitch Hankel said. In recent years, fraternal veteran organizations have fallen victim to declining enrollment due...
FROM STAFF AND NEWS SOURCES SPOKANE — September is Library Card Sign-up Month and the perfect time to get a library card for kids heading back to school. Spokane County Library District offers library cards at no cost, cards that open up a variety of opportunities for their users, beginning with access to books, CDs, DVDs and magazines. The district’s Digital Library has online resources to download books, do research, find a tutor, take online classes, read magazines and more. Library cards and everything you can do wit...
COLFAX – About 80 dead white-tail deer have been found so far in the Colfax area. The Colfax public works have picked up the carcasses found in city limits, said Colfax police Chief Bruce Blood. Four of the deer were found while they were alive and ill. They were dispatched by Colfax officers. “To let them go would have left them suffering,” he said. “It’s tragic that something like this happens.” Blood said a similar situation happened in 2015. “It’s not very unusual, unfort...
By DON C. BRUNELL Contributor When thinking of England’s fabled Sherwood Forest, the medieval images of Robin Hood and his band of archers and swordsmen hiding in the woods giving the Sheriff of Nottingham a hard time comes to mind. Who would envision a crew of young American oil workers concealed among the giant oaks drilling oil wells? However, the crude production from those wells was essential in helping fuel the D-Day invasion launched from English shores in 1944. Until Guy Woodward and Grace Steele Woodward published “T...
Every day, millions of workers enter people’s homes to provide care to those with disabilities and the elderly. These “direct-care” workers assist individuals with bathing and dressing, cooking and eating, taking medication, and getting exercise. For the people they help, they are lifelines to health, independent living, and economic stability. Yet our system for providing this care is in desperate need of repair. Medicaid serves approximately 4.8 million Americans with home- and community-based services, but there are still...
Convert landscape and garden trimmings into valuable compost. Incorporate this soil amendment into garden soil to improve drainage in clay soil and increase water-holding ability in fast draining sandy soils. It also promotes healthy plant growth more resistant to insect and disease problems and keeps plant-based kitchen scraps and garden waste out of landfills. Composting is as simple as placing disease- and insect-free plant debris into a pile and letting it rot. Don’t add meat, dairy, or fat that attracts rodents or w...
Jacquelyn Belock is a progressive candidate for Cheney City Council Position 3 and deserves your consideration. Her answers to the questions the Cheney Free Press published on July 22 got my attention, and I have now met with her and confirmed my intent to vote for her. She’s not afraid to do the right thing, even if it makes some enemies. You can read about her in the Progressive Voters Guide (progressivevotersguide.com) and at electbelock.org, where you can also request a yard sign. She is a paleontology instructor at S...
There was an old woman who just had to write She composed and erased most of the night She did much of her work at a quarter past two Some of her work was not even true She wrote of sweet blossoms on crabapple trees Of ice crystal daggers on edges of eaves She wrote of the children she’d known in her life And when she was younger and was a dear wife Though much of her stories would never be heard Wild celebrations she captured in word She often wrote novels that stayed on her shelf Just waiting for someone to honor their w...
Cheney Congregational Church Greetings from Cheney Congregational. You’re invited to join us for our “Church in the Park” events on Aug. 29 and Sept. 19. Partnering with two other churches, we are holding our Sunday morning services outside in Sutton Park at 9:30 a.m. on those Sundays. We hope you’ll join us to learn about God’s creation while physically being in it. We hope to see you there! Also, we welcome you to join us on Sunday mornings for in-person worship at 10 a.m. and fellowship time afterwards. Masks are requi...
CHENEY — Eastern Washington University’s women’s soccer team is still searching for its first goal of the season, having come close on several occasions in back-to-back losses to open the 2021 campaign. The Eagles fell 4-0 in the season opener Aug. 19 at Gonzaga University, finding themselves in an early 3-0 hole on the strength of three goals in the first 15 minutes by the host Bulldogs. Eastern followed that with a 1-0 loss in the home opener Aug. 21 against Arkansas State, the lone goal coming in the 11th minute of play. ...
CHENEY - In its lone exhibition before officially starting the 2021 season next week, the Eastern Washington University volleyball team dropped a five-set exhibition match to Central Washington University on Aug. 20. Eastern Washington had a 24-21 lead after a 4-0 run in the opening set, but Central Washington responded and fought off set point three times to tie the set. The Eagles evened things at 25-25, but CWU found the final two points to win 27-25. The Eagles bounced...
Cheney High football players line up for drills in preparation for the upcoming season....
CHENEY Aug. 16 A building and trailer were damaged with graffiti on the 400 block North 6th Street. Trespassing was reported on the 600 block of 3rd Street. Police reported to second-degree malicious mischief on the 100 block of College Hills Street. Furniture and household items were reported damaged. Fourth-degree domestic violence was reported on the 800 block of West 1st Street. James R. Bell, 45, was arrested. Court violation was reported on the 1100 block of 1st Street. Aug. 17 Verbal Domestic violence was reported on...
SPOKANE COUNTY — The Medical Examiner’s office has identified the man who was killed in a single vehicle accident Aug. 4 on Cheney-Spokane Road near Latah Creek. Nyckolas Davis, 20, was killed then the vehicle he was traveling in, a 2002 Lexus driven by 19-year-old Rayce R. Kent, left the roadway at approximately 6:45 p.m. and rolled near the intersection with South Sherman Road. Spokane County Sheriff’s Office deputies said the Lexus was traveling toward Spokane at a high rate of speed, failed to negotiate a curve and left...
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