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Eastern Washington University’s women’s soccer team came up both goal-less and winless in their two opening matches of the season this past weekend at the Sports and Recreation field in Cheney. The Eagles dropped a 1-0 contest to Gonzaga Friday afternoon and then followed that Sunday getting shutout again, 2-0, be Seattle University. Despite a fast start in which EWU junior Cassie Black had a scoring chance in the second minute, nothing found the net. Black had other first-half scoring chances, each snuffed by the play of Bri...
Medical Lake soccer player Emily Bonsant takes part in a ball control drill during a Tuesday morning practice. While the Cardinals do not play their first game until Sept. 14, Cheney will begin play Saturday, Sept. 7 versus Rogers at Rypien Field in Spokane....
Eastern Washington University head volleyball coach Wade Benson gets to see if what he learned while at the next level can help rekindle the magic as the Eagles make their debut this weekend at the Oregon Classic tournament in Eugene. The Eagles will take on host Oregon, Friday (Aug. 30) in a 7 p.m. contest at Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene. They follow with matches versus Ohio University and Bryant University from Rhode Island. Benson, who returns to the helm for the first...
Auditions were held for additional roles in Eastern Washington University’s upcoming 12-week football season that they plan – not hope – to add additional dates to the schedule. In the end following Eastern Washington’s final scrimmage of the 2013 preseason camp last Saturday at Roos Field, Eagles’ head coach Beau Baldwin liked what he saw, because he saw a lot of what he calls his “2s” and “3s” in reference to the depth chart. “We continued to work the young guys at tight...
The fall sports season is fast approaching, as I’m sure many of you know or have noticed. So what does this mean, exactly? For starters, it means the annual Cheney Free Press Fall Sports Preview is coming Sept. 12 with in-depth pieces on your favorite Cheney and Medical Lake high school teams. It means the excitement of sitting in the stands during a crisp, fall evening watching your favorite football team while reveling in another excellent halftime show by a dedicated and talented marching band. It means the r...
Medical Lake assistant football coach Jim Mason works with some of the Cardinal linemen during a morning practice this past Tuesday. Head coach Wes Hobbs reports that over 60 players turned out for drills, the largest group in many years. The Cardinals open their season Friday, Sept. 6 hosting St. Maries, Idaho in a non-league game. Cheney travels to Yakima to meet East Valley that same night....
A mere nine points separate Eastern Washington from pondering “what if” to shouting loud and proud at being the kings of Division 1 college football in the state. An interception inside the final 30 seconds preserved the University of Washington’s 30-27 victory in 2011 as the Huskies escaped the Eagles in the team’s season opening contest in Seattle. Then, a batted down long pass into the end zone on the game’s final play allowed Washington State to escape with a 24-20 win...
Cheney resident, Janine Hamilton married James Carbis of Spokane on Sunday, Aug. 11 during the morning service at Emmanuel Lutheran Church with pastor David Ophus officiating. The bride and groom were happy to celebrate the occasion with their children, Marlena Hamilton, Taizer Carbis and Nate Hamilton, family, close friends and the congregation of Emmanuel. The Carbis-Hamilton family will reside in Cheney. The bride works in the marketing department for the Spokane Business and Industrial Park. The groom is a freelance...
“Knowledge is a big subject. Ignorance is bigger. And it is more interesting.” So begins Stuart Firestein’s book “Ignorance: How It Drives Science.” Part of the core message in the book about how science should work is wrapped up in a brief story about a physicist named Isidor Isaac Rabi. When Rabi came home from school each day his immigrant mother didn’t ask him what he learned, but rather whether he had asked any good questions in class. That approach to thinking about learning helped propel Rabi to enormous professiona...
1 Years Ago Sept. 4, 2003 The effort to bring a parks department back to Cheney will require both volunteers, and volunteers’ money, interested residents were told by members of the citizens group Save Parks and Recreation. SPAR was pushing a ballot measure on the issue. Work was scheduled to begin on a SR 904 that included new striping and installation of rumble strips on both the shoulder and centerline. The work had a 20-day window and would be complete by the time s...
Emmanuel Lutheran Church The congregation of Emmanuel Lutheran Church invites you to worship with us this Sunday, Sept. 1, at 10:30 a.m. as we celebrate the 15th Sunday after Pentecost. Come early for Bible study at 9 a.m. Rally Day is rapidly approaching, mark your calendars for Sunday, Sept. 15. All-age Sunday school classes commence Sunday, Sept. 22. Mark your calendars for Saturday, Nov. 2 for our annual church bazaar and luncheon from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. St. Paul's Episcopal Church All are welcome. We are a welcoming haven,...
Sometimes another person’s story reminds you of your own, sometimes not at all. Larry Jackson grew up in a family of eight children in Hoopeston, Ill., four miles from the University of Illinois at Champaign. His wife, Sally, grew up in the small towns of Spangle and Rockford and other remote places in Washington state. Her family moved a lot. Before they met, both Larry and Sally had endured the heartbreak of having several loved ones die at a young age. Life was not finished...
In Brockton, Mass., about 30 minutes from where I live, someone beat a 74-year-old man to death with a hammer. Oddly (or maybe not), I have some experience with hammer attacks. I’ve helped cover two of them in the last 10 years — one fatal, one not. The best thing about a hammer killing is not the tearing screams of the victim, though you’d think it would be. It’s not the impressive “splatter factor” caused when the skull is smashed by a claw hammer (especially true if you use the claw end). It’s not even the once-in-a-lif...
Evidence of the astonishing incompetence of the Obama administration continues to roll in. It started with the stimulus package. One-third of the money went to public employee union members — a political payoff not very stimulating to anyone else. Billions went to green energy loans, like the $500 million that the government lost in backing the obviously hapless Solyndra. Infrastructure projects, which the president continues to tout, never seem to get built. He’s been talking about dredging the port of Charleston, for exa...
Spokane County Fire District 3 Fire Chief Bruce Holloway says last week’s 50-acre fire near Depot Springs Road cost an estimated $150,000–$200,000 to fight and contain. That’s nothing compared to the over $1 billion already spent this year fighting more than 33,000 fires burning 3.4 million acres nationally, including 40 large wildfires from Arizona to Alaska. Among those are the Lodgepole and Beaver Creek fires in central Idaho, Big Windy Complex and Government Flat Complex in Oregon and the Conrad Lake fire in Washi...
Cheney Pee Wee Rodeo Queen Chloe Bass always wanted to be a rodeo queen, but was hesitant to give it a try. That’s when a friend of hers – Eastern Washington Junior Rodeo Association 2013 Queen Mollee Gray – stepped in. Bass said they talked about how much fun it would be if they could both be rodeo queens together, talk that helped inspire the incoming Central Valley High School freshman to pursue a dream with something close to her heart. “I’ve always loved rodeo and I tho...
According to elementary school principals in the Medical Lake School District, parents are excited about all-day kindergarten in the upcoming school year. Although not funded by the state this year, the two elementary schools in the district will begin all-day kindergarten. At the Tuesday, Aug. 27 school board meeting, Superintendent Dr. Pam Veltri said the district sacrificed a curriculum adoption to make it happen. Hallett Elementary will have three kindergarten classes and Michael Anderson Elementary will have four....
Renovating and expanding Cheney High School will have to wait at least another year. The Cheney School Board voted 4-1 at its Aug. 21 meeting to delay until 2015 a bond vote to fund high school renovation work. The bond would raise $44.9 million for work at the high school that includes 12 new classrooms, a larger cafeteria, redesign to ease overcrowding and student traffic flow along with a 700-seat performing arts auditorium. The board made its decision after a public...
The math is pretty striking when one does some simple calculations about last Tuesday’s wildfire off of Depot Springs Road south of Cheney. The preliminary estimated cost to fight the 50-acre blaze that consumed a mix of private pasture and forest was between $150,000-$200,000, or $3,000-$4,000 per acre. The cause is still being investigated. “That was turned over to DNR (Department of Natural Resources),” Spokane County District 3 Fire Chief Bruce Holloway said. “It was a DNR...
The police activity that might have been observed at Cheney Middle School last Wednesday was much to do about a lot of things. Hopefully for local law enforcement, it’s training they never have to use. It was the sixth year in a row that Eastern Washington University conducted active shooter training for local emergency agencies. The focus of the exercise was to assist both police and fire on how best to deal with both a shooter, and then any potential victims. The Clery A...
An intense, fast moving, thunderstorm roared through the Eastern Washington-North Idaho region late Sunday evening, with winds and lightning strikes knocking out power transmission and plunging much of the West Plains past the Geiger exit into darkness. According to the National Weather Service, about one-third of an inch of rain fell on the area in a short period of time Sunday evening, with wind gusts jumping from near zero just after 8 p.m. to around 50 mph within the span...
Cheney City Administrator Arlene Fisher got a rare opportunity at Tuesday’s City Council meeting to receive a prestigious award twice. Fisher, City Administrator since 2006, was presented the Award for Excellence by the Washington City/County Management Association at its annual conference Aug. 13-16 in Port Townsend. Tuesday night, she was re-presented the award by an appreciative Mayor Tom Trulove and City Council. According to a city press release, the award “recognizes an outstanding administrator or manger who has enhanc...
An alternative housing project first brought forward to the Airway Heights Planning Commission earlier this month received some additional talk at the City Council’s monthly study session Monday, Aug. 26. The City Council discussed the proposed rezone of a subdivision located on Craig Road north of Highway 2, bringing other non-action items to the table that will appear at future council meetings. The project has drawn some criticism from area jurisdictions, given its proximity to the Joint Land Use Study 65 decibel noise c...
