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CHENEY Sept. 13 Theft of bicycle pedals was reported on the 1100 block of Moyer Street. Malicious mischief—damage to a vehicle—was reported on the 200 block of West Third Street. A purple bicycle was reported found on the 2200 block of Sunrise Drive. A runaway juvenile was reported on the 2800 block of Bethany Street. Taking motor vehicle without owner's permission was reported on the 800 block of Oak Street. The vehicle was recovered in Spokane. Sept. 14 Theft of an orange bicycle was reported on the zero hundred block of...
Harvest workers wages per day in 1908: wheat sack sewer $3; header driver $2.75; header-box driver $1.75; loaders and stackers $2.25; sack carrier $3; separator tender $5. Wheat harvest took a crew of 10 to 20 men in those days compared to the two to five people used today. Learn more about our area's history at www.cheneymuseum.org....
Robert C. Lutchendorf, age 67, passed away Sept. 14 surrounded by his loving family at his home in Cheney after a long battle with liver disease. Robert was born Aug. 11, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pa. to George and Flora (Roth) Lutchendorf and was a graduate of Frankford High School, class of 1961. He married his high school sweetheart, Nancy Wrenn on March 6, 1964. They were married for 47 years. Robert worked as a building systems specialist for the phone company, retiring in 2000 after 40 years of service. He had many hobbies...
Cheney High School will be conducting two Cancer Awareness weeks. The first will be Sept. 27-Oct.1 in conjunction with football, and the second will be Oct. 11-16 with the volleyball team. Items that can be purchased, with all proceeds going to the American Cancer Society, are hope rings ($1), bracelets ($2), small car magnets ($2) and large car magnets ($3). The rings, bracelets and car magnets come in 18 colors that represent specific types of cancers, such as pink for breast cancer, dark blue for colon cancer, gold for...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Cheney's girls cross country team placed all five of their scoring runners in the top 10 to open defense of their Great Northern League title with a 25-32 win last Wednesday at Deer Park. Sanne Holland ran away from the field for first place in a time of 20 minutes, 4 seconds while teammate Amie Zachman finished second in 20:54. Kendall Dunn was fifth overall with a time of 22:15 while Savannah Phelan was eighth in 22:41, edging teammate Amanda Batchelor who finished two seconds back in ninth overall....
Voters should oppose privatization of state liquor industry Accolades to the Cheney City Council for publicly opposing both proposals to privatize the state liquor industry. And accolades to the Cheney Free Press for putting the action of the City Council on the front page (“Cheney council opposes liquor initiatives,” Sept. 16). In my opinion it is front-page news, and it is my hope that every city council in the state of Washington will follow suit. Both proposals to privatize are only a smokescreen by the liquor ind...
By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter A state-mandated review of the two sites selected for facilities to replace the Spokane County Jail at Geiger Heights should be finished by the end of this month and efforts to generate support for the project are well under way. Over the past several months county officials have conducted a State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) review of land west of the I-90 Medical Lake interchange and property adjacent to the existing downtown Spokane jail. Spokane County Commissioners chose both...
Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge and the Spokane Audubon Society will host a community work party as part of National Wildlife Refuge Week Saturday, Oct. 16 from 9 a.m. to noon. This is part of an ongoing community effort to restore native riparian habitat to benefit all wildlife. The refuge has hundreds of native saplings to plant and fencing to build at the project site to protect the trees from deer, elk and moose browsing. Everyone is welcome with groups asked to call in advance to register to assist the refuge in their...
Contributed photo by Mignon Heggen Cheney's Ryan Gray is seen here during one of his rides in bareback competition at the Pendleton Roundup this past weekend. With his win at the legendary Oregon rodeo, worth just over $8,200, Gray boosted his Pro Rodeo Cowboys Association series-leading earnings to $149,785 and appears well on his way to the 2010 championship....
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter A win is a win no matter who it comes against or how long it takes says Medical Lake's new volleyball coach Julie Smith. It took four tries but last Thursday at home the Cardinals got their first victory for both the team and coach this year with a 3-2 win over Deer Park in Medical Lake, 25-12, 21-25, 17-25, 25-15 and 16-14. That earned Smith's team a split in their week's games after dropping a 3-0 decision to East Valley on Tuesday. “Our goal this week was to find our fighter mentality, to p...
National nonprofit organization focuses on dropout prevention programs that engage kids By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter Cheney Middle School is abuzz with activity most days after school. Teens and preteens grab snacks, participate in clubs, go to dance classes and play games. Communities In Schools of Spokane County hosts these activities with a very serious goal: dropout prevention. “We provide services that are targeting dropout prevention for the entire school population and then we provide targeted individual i...
Stella M. Green, age 64, longtime resident of Cheney, passed away Sept. 14, 2010 in Spokane, Wash. She was born Jan. 8, 1946 in Melborne, Ark. to James T. and Mildred J. (Hill) Elliott. She was married to Jesse Kenneth Green on April 28, 1963 in Oregon. He preceded her in death in 1991. Stella is survived by her children; Jessie Green of Cheney, Kenneth Green of San Bruno, Calif., Simuel Green of Spokane, and Brenda Jamison of Cheney. Sisters; Marie Fuentes of Albany, Ore. and Bertha Thacker of Pasco, Wash. Brothers; Everett...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Medical Lake's goal scoring woes are going hand in hand with their mounting injury report it would seem. The Cardinals were shutout in a pair of Great Northern League games last week, 5-0 at home Tuesday against East Valley and 3-0 at Deer Park last Thursday. The loss of scoring might be attributed to last year's leading scorer Sam Kelly going out with an undisclosed hip injury at Deer Park. “We're not real sure, she didn't break anything but she'll be out for a while,” Medical Lake head coa...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter One of these days the bounces just have to go the other way. When that day arrives – and the laws of nature say it will happen – Medical Lake might be able to get on the right side of the score, not the 24-23 defeat they suffered in overtime last Friday night to the Lakeside Eagles at Holladay Field. Quarterback Zach Warlick's successful 2-point run on the conversion after he found Kinner Blum all alone in the end zone for a touchdown on their first possession of OT earned the Eagles (1-2) their...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Results were mixed for the Cheney girls' swimming team in their first week of action. The Blackhawks opened with a dual-meet 107-46-loss to visiting Pullman on Tuesday, but had only 11 of 22 swimmers competing. “Most didn't have enough practices to compete because they started after school began,” Cheney head coach Jennifer Hochwalt said Tuesday. That didn't stop the Blackhawks from qualifying six swimmers for 2A Eastern Washington district meet competition, and one swimmer achieving a qualifying tim...
Jarrett field goal, Williams' fumble return helps EWU to first Cheney win over Montana since ‘91 By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Somehow football games between Eastern Washington University and the University of Montana just seem destined for dramatic endings. And last Saturday's meeting, won by the Eagles 36-27 in the debut of the new Roos Field red turf, was no different. No matter where or when - in the wild or on the football field - a Grizzly is just darn tough to bring down. So even after Eastern had broken a 27-27 tie w...
Son says Woodward would like new turf, stadium name, once he got used to it By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter In the matter of just a few seconds last week history was both made and changed on the Eastern Washington University campus. Last Saturday night, 20 years of field futility ended when, with just four seconds on the clock, Mike Jarrett's third field goal of the game provided the winning points in Eastern Washington University's eventual 36-27 football victory over the Montana Grizzlies. It was the first win over the Griz...
