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The Cheney Blackhawks upended the Colville Indians on their home turf, shocking the defending state 1A champion, 21-20. The first half of the game was all Cheney as the Blackhawks rolled to a 21-0 lead at the half. The second-half was all Colville, as the Indians answered with 20 points. The difference in the game was Colville's missed PAT and a late fourth-quarter fumble recovered by Cheney. Here are a few photos of the game....
If the Cheney High football team’s mission this year is to learn to finish games, they took a small step in that direction last Friday night in Colville. The Blackhawks scored the game’s first 21 points, and then hung defensively as the Indians scored the final 20, eeking out a slim 21-20 season-opening win on the road against the defending 1A classification state champion. Weirdly for a team that likes to grind down opponents with a running game, all of Cheney’s points came...
(Note: All schedules subject to change. Consult school, club or facility websites to confirm.) College football Saturday, Sept. 14, EWU at Jacksonville State University, 1 p.m. College soccer Friday, Sept. 13, EWU at South Dakota State, 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 15, EWU at South Dakota, 10 a.m. College volleyball Friday, Sept. 13, EWU at Grand Canyon, 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, EWU vs. San Diego State, 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, EWU vs. UC Riverside, 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19, EWU at North Dakota, 5 p.m. College golf Monday...
Editor’s note: This story has been updated from a previous story that appeared Sept. 6 on the Cheney Free Press website. Eastern Washington University’s Board of Trustees unanimously took a step to upgrade the university’s aging and out of date Roos Field football stadium by approving a $25 million package at a special meeting Sept. 6 that relies solely on private funding. Vice President for University Advancement Barb Richey told the board that the funding level could be re...
Two of the top NCAA Football Championship Subdivision programs in this decade square off in Alabama when the No. 4/5 Eastern Washington University football team plays at No. 17/16 Jacksonville State of the Ohio Valley Conference. It will be just the ninth game East of the Mississippi River for Eastern, which will play their 1,000th game in history — 111 seasons worth — later this month. Kickoff is 1 p.m. Pacific time in a game between nationally-ranked foes broadcast live on ESPN+. Fans can also listen to the game on 700...
I’m a big fan of sports, the national anthem and free speech. Like most fans, I enjoy watching talented people who have trained hard to hone their natural athletic gifts to compete against others on the field in their chosen sport. Sung at these events, the national anthem uses the American flag as a symbol of the endurance and perseverance of America and its so-called “American values” — those values being different things to different people — against its enemies on the fi...
The Medical Lake volleyball squad headed to Davenport on Saturday, Sept. 7 for the Davenport Jamboree, where they notched but a single win in four matches. But that’s OK with head coach Todd Harr. “Each of the girls played better as the day continued on,” Harr said in an email. “We will be looking to make adjustments headed into our next competition and make opponents work even hard to earn points.” The Cardinals opened the tournament facing Lind Ritzville, losing in two se...
It’s a building season for the Medical Lake Cardinals football squad, and they definitely hit a building called St. Maries in a one-sided, 32-2 non-league blowout in their season opener Friday, Sept. 6, in Idaho. It was an aggressive St. Maries defense that was penalized five times for 50 yards in the game. It as also a game of opposites. With roughly the same time of possession, and the St. Maries defense zeroed-in on the Cardinal running game and pushing them back for a l...
“Agitators are generally involved only for themselves.” My observations combined with reading some history of agitators provides me with a completely different opinion of these people than Frank Watson expresses in the Aug. 29, 2019 issue of the Cheney Free Press. Consider the agitators such as George Washington, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and cohorts. Today we have Elizabeth Warren, four young Congresswomen, Bernie Sanders and Mandy Morris, all of whom are bringing to our attention many of the social problems...
My hubby and I have been Cheney residents for 40 years next January and the whole time we’ve read the Cheney Free Press to first learn about our community, and then to keep track of the many issues facing our community. Even though we’re county folks, Cheney is our home community. In a time when so much fragmented - as well as opinionated - information is shared, we still rely on the Free Press to know about issues important to Cheney whether we agree — or not — with decisions concerning those issues. So keep up the good wo...
Our nation is on an unsustainable borrowing trajectory and it could get much worse unless voters start asking politicians: “How are taxpayers going to pay for what they promise!” We now owe over $22.5 trillion to lenders of which nearly half are off shore. (China $1.11 trillion). At the rate which we are selling treasury notes, the deficit will balloon to $24 trillion by 2020. That means when the presidential election rolls around next year, each taxpayer’s share of the debt...
Many of us in Cheney are affected by Spokane city and county administrations. At today’s (Sept. 5) Spokane Homelessness Coalition with candidates Ben Stuckart, Nadine Woodward, Breean Beggs and Cindy Wendle, I took away one realization. We need a mayor and city council president with experience to work together. I like to support qualified female candidates, but the only two I trust to improve homelessness is Ben Stuckart and Breean Beggs. I’ve immersed myself in these issues for the past year at Monday Camp Hope meetings wit...
I had a wonderful opportunity in 2000. I was selected as part of Spokane’s sister city educational exchange, and taught English in the Japanese public school system. One of my students was considering applying to be an exchange student in America. She asked me several questions including how safe my country was. I assured her that the reports of violence were overblown by our free and open media. Although we were not as safe as Japan, we felt secure anywhere in our country. I couldn’t make that statement today. School sho...
Is democracy threatened? Look around and it seems like — feels like — something is off. Things are amiss, and to offset what some consider the beginning of the end of democracy as we know it requires civic responsibility. We are seemingly bombarded on a daily basis by arguably disturbing news about far right conservative leaders like Donald Trump and Britain’s Boris Johnson, both of whom are actively undermining long-held and intertwined systems of trade, commerce and strat...
Former U.S. ambassador to Iran and Afghanistan Ryan Crocker will be the speaker at a Sept. 19 public forum presented by People For Effective Government (PEG). The topic of Crocker's talk at the Gonzaga University Jepsen Center's Wolff Auditorium will be "Middle East Meltdown: Causes and Consequences." The forum begins at 7 p.m. According to a news release on Crocker's talk, the Middle East has long been a turbulent region, punctuated with revolutions, counter-coups and border...
A medical emergency last Wednesday at Cheney’s Safeway precipitated something generally not seen in the community — a Life Flight helicopter landing in the parking lot. According to a Cheney police report, emergency responders were called to Safeway at 4:07 p.m. for a fall, and observed a woman lying on the floor unconscious near one of the front registers. A witness, who was in line behind the woman, identified as Nola F. Hensley, told police she was having problems initially...
The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office is again offering a women’s self-defense course on Saturday, Sept. 24, between 8 a.m. and noon at 6011 N. Chase St. in Newman Lake. There is a $35 non-refundable fee. Women and girls ages 14 years old and up are encouraged to attend. To register, send an email to [email protected]. Please include the name of all attending and an email address for each. The class is an introduction to women’s self-defense tactics including deterrents, avoidance, and detection of a perso...
The specter of Amazon’s massive fulfillment center has loomed above the West Plains for months, but local residents have remained in the dark as to when the warehouse might open for business. That opening date is at least a little clearer now, with an Amazon spokesperson announcing this week that the fulfillment center will be up and running sometime in mid-2020. Amazon originally expected the center to be functional by October ahead of the holiday rush. Amazon officials have said that launches tend to take place between o...
Last year, Airway Heights was designated an “Opportunity Zone” for investors and developers. Now, the city is hoping to take advantage of the designation and is encouraging those investors to commit to a 10-year investment in the area and maximize their tax savings. Opportunity zone designations were created by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 as an innovative approach to encouraging long-term private sector investments within select low-income communities across the country, according to Airway Heights staff. Investors wit...
Eastern Washington University Gallery of Art is pleased to present “Embedded Consciousness,” an exhibition of mixed media sculpture by Rob McKirdie, Oct. 2 through Oct. 25. An opening reception will be held Wednesday, Oct. 2 at noon in the EWU Gallery of Art. McKirdie is a mixed media sculptor who works with wood and metal, integrating found and fabricated objects together. His artistic practice encompasses mold making, fabrication and metal casting. McKirdie was born in Chica...
If the Guinness World Book of Records wasn’t made aware of last Thursday’s CPR training at Cheney High School, they should have been. School officials in conjunction with West Plains firefighters conducted an ambitious session to train all 1,400-plus Blackhawk students in what to do should someone have a medical emergency, including how to stop bleeding, at an all-day “Save a Life Day” held in the CHS main gym Sept. 5. Cheney Fire Department firefighter and event organizer Dre...
The condemned 99-year-old building at 110 S. Lefevre St. in Medical Lake has received a reprieve after owner and Spokane investor Andy Louie successfully submitted required engineering documents to city officials that paved the way for rehabilitation of the crumbling structure. Contacted by phone, Louie said the city was “still giving me some runaround, but it’s doable.” Previously condemned after complaints by an adjacent business owner and local residents prompted an inspe...
The Airway Heights City Council tackled a study session Monday that lasted long after its usual meeting time, covering a wide variety of topics that included energy efficiency, marketing and red light cameras. Council passed two resolutions, but not without some controversy. A resolution authorizing Fire Chief Mitch Metzger to send the city of Spokane a letter withdrawing from the Spokane Regional Emergency Communications’ combined communications center interlocal agreement b...
Cheney’s Fire Department debuted their new main attack engine last Friday afternoon in the Yoke’s Fresh Market parking lot. To hear Fire Chief Tom Jenkins describe it, the only thing the $800,000 vehicle can’t do is cook dinner. “It’s like the Swiss Army knife of fire trucks,” Jenkins said of the new engine, which officially replaced the department’s 32-year-old No. 1 engine Saturday morning, Sept. 7. The roll out at Yoke’s was not only to show off the new engine, but als...
Admitting their response was fueled by a high degree of skepticism, Cheney’s Planning Commission tabled adding a new chapter to the city’s zoning code allowing construction of cottage developments and deleted a staff recommendation to allow some small commercial uses in residential zones. The request for changes at the commission’s Sept. 8 meeting to allow limited commercial in multifamily zoning comes from the developers of the Parkside Commons student housing complex, under construction on North 8th Street across from...
