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FROM NEWS SERVICE REPORTS Junior Brad Wall from the Eastern Washington University track and field team placed first in the 400 meters at the Big Sky Conference championships last Saturday in Pocatello. The Eagle men placed fifth in the team competition with 67 points. Sacramento State won the team title with 133 points, just a half of a point ahead of Northern Arizona (132.5). The Eastern women placed eighth overall with 45.5 points. Sacramento State also claimed the team title with 144 points. Wall surpassed the favorite in...
It's first win for Eagles at Dahlberg Arena since 1987 By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Eastern Washington women's coach Wendy Schuller put her team's 71-63 victory over the Montana Lady Griz last Saturday at Dahlberg Arena in Missoula into both some historical and personal perspective. Schuller was 10, the same age as her son Rory, when Eastern last won a regular season game at Dahlberg in 1980. She was a junior in high school in her hometown of Redlands, Calif. in 1987 when the Eagles upset the Griz in the conference...
By JANINE HAMILTON Contributor The Waves swim team sent 12 swimmers from Cheney to the 2011 Inland Empire Swimming (IES) Short Course Championship meet this past weekend in Coeur d'Alene. Swimmers attending this senior meet had to qualify with a top time in their event during the past short course season (Sept. through Feb.) or be over 15 years old. Because of the qualifying standards, teams sent only their best swimmers to compete. A total of 356 swimmers from Washington, Idaho and Oregon attended. Of the 23 teams there,...
Contributed photo from Medical Lake High School Medical Lake High School presented their winter sports awards last week. Those honored included: (clockwise from bottom left): Megan Lajeunesse (inspirational), Natalie Pendell (captain), Devon Prince (captain), Mike Tripp (inspirational), Kevin Fisher (MPV), Amelia Cook (MVP) and (center) Micah Weishaar (inspirational)....
Cheney High School 2008 graduate Kyle Miller has received several recent honors as a member of the Eastern Oregon University women's basketball team. On Feb. 21 the Mountaineers junior guard was named Red Lion Cascade Collegiate Conference Player of the Week for her performances against 23rd-ranked Northwest University and Evergreen State College. According to a press release Miller was 13 for 26 from the field, including 5 for 7 from 3-point range, scoring 38 points overall and leading the team in scoring in both games to he... Full story
By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter Cory Janssen almost died seven months ago. Technically, he did die; for a few minutes Janssen's heart and his breathing stopped after he was pinned underneath a city-owned tractor that he had driven off the road. First responders were praised for their quick work to bring Janssen back and get him on a helicopter to the hospital, where he remained—in various locations—until December. Janssen's pelvis was shattered, his leg was broken and his intestine and bladder were ruptured in the injury. His... Full story
1 Years Ago March 8, 2001 Cheney's boys' basketball team got to experience up close and personal one of the largest earthquakes to ever hit the state of Washington when a 6.8 magnitude trembler struck 11 miles north of Olympia on March 7. The team was in Tacoma preparing for the State 3A basketball tournament at the Tacoma Dome, which did not suffer any damage. Thieves were targeting cars parked in the lot at Medical Lake High School. Some cars have had their windows broken while others have shown no sign of forced entry as...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Last year at this time the Eastern Washington women's basketball team had clinched the Big Sky Conference regular season championship and were hosting the league tournament. Fast-forward through another season and while the Eagles still find themselves in the post-season, where they play is still a mystery, and just making the tournament is a goal-come-true. The first two teams in the regular standings receive byes and other seeds play next Thursday, March 10 to see who survives to meet in the n... Full story
Former downtown revitalization organization brought back to accept donations for Cheney's celebration By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter A familiar organization is getting a new purpose in Cheney. The Cheney Jubilee is the newest event to try to bring community organizations and Cheney Rodeo crowds together in town. Pathways to Progress was created in 1999 to revitalize Cheney's downtown, but it fell apart a few years ago following funding cuts from Eastern Washington University and the city of Cheney. Now the old and the new...
Recipe for weight loss includes calorie counts, cardio and patience By JUSTIN ULBRIGHT Contributor “What's the problem? I've been doing everything you told me to do: cardio five times a week for 30 minutes, resistance training three days a week, and even watching what I eat very closely. So why haven't I lost any weight?” This is a fair question and one asked at least once a week. If you've experienced this, my first answer is don't stop training! Next, I start asking for more details about training methods and eating hab... Full story
From March 4 through April 16, Eastern Washington University's Get Lit! Programs is hosting “The 2011 Big Read for the Inland Northwest,” thanks to the Spokane Public Library, Spokane County Library and Fairchild Air Force Base Library. The point of the Big Read is to draw communities together around a single book through a month of related literary events. Get Lit! Programs selected Tim O'Brien's “The Things They Carried” because it exemplified this year's festival theme of “Telling the American Story.” This award-winni...
In 1872 Civil War veteran, William Spangle settled in the place where his namesake town would later be built. His son, Frank Spangle, became a businessman and postmaster of Cheney, he also married Cheney's first teacher, Mary Cook. Learn more about our area's history at www.cheneymuseum.org.... Full story
StageWest Community Theatre of the West Plains recently finishes a successful run of “The Fairy Tale Courtroom,” by Dana Proulx and directed by Patty Steen. Audiences came to the performance through all kinds of weather from as far as Moses Lake. There were several raffle winners during the play's run. The first week had two raffles and the other two weeks gave away one raffle apiece. There was one larger raffle that went the entire three weeks and was won by Bob King. Jen Hamilton, Julie Butler, Rachel Kerr and S. Merai won... Full story
Thanks STA, for finding a way to keep bus service in ML I want to respond to the STA article in the Jan. 27 Cheney Free Press (“New STA bus cuts plan largely spares West Plains routes”). I am very relieved that bus service to Medical Lake is not being eliminated. Many people without their own transportation are completely reliant upon the Spokane Transit Authority to get to work and school, not to mention doctor appointments and many other necessary activities. I use the bus and so do other members of my family. Without the... Full story
CHENEY Feb. 21 Financial fraud—unauthorized use of a debit card—was reported on the 100 block of West First Street. Feb. 22 Tires were slashed at Cheney High School. Feb. 23 Sarina M. Walker, 21, was arrested for shoplifting at Cheney Trading Company. A one-vehicle collision with minor injuries occurred on the 500 block of First Street. A one-vehicle non-injury collision occurred on the 100 block of Paradise Road. A one-vehicle non-injury collision occurred on the 1100 block of Oakland Street. A two-vehicle non-injury col...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor In last week's Cheney Free Press a letter to the editor appeared criticizing Cheney codes defining who can live together in a single-family residential zone. I had an editor's note placed after the letter regarding these codes because the writer insinuated the code limiting unrelated occupancy in residential zones was something new. It is not. It has been an issue for years, dating to before I became editor and was a lowly staff reporter covering Medical Lake. In trying to remember when the city made... Full story
Also discuss negotiations with Medical Lake Education Association, technology plan By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter The Medical Lake School Board received an update on construction projects at Medical Lake Middle School and Hallett Elementary School at their Feb. 22 meeting. Rusty Pritchard, senior project manager with the district's construction consultant Hill International, said unsuitable soils and a wet early winter delayed work at MLMS but the project has now broken ground. After water was found to be migrating toward...
District numbers drop off in February; school board also addresses legislative concerns By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter The Cheney School District lost 28.5 full time equivalent students in February, dropping the total enrollment count below budgeted predictions. The enrollment numbers and legislative updates were discussed at the school board meeting Feb. 23. Finance director Brian Aiken said the current enrollment was 3,721, 19 below the 3,740 budgeted, but he pointed out that state funding allocations are tied to average en...
By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter People have asked me more than a few times, if our newspaper is called the Free Press, why do they have to pay for it? The Cheney Free Press isn't technically free. It costs 75 cents. Of course, I always hope the people who ask me that are joking. Everybody knows that the freedom of the press was part of the very first amendment of our country's Constitution, right? The name “Free Press” isn't referring to money. It says that our coverage is free from commitments to any private or public int...
Is it better to avoid doing your job and get your way, or to stand and fight an unwinnable battle? That's been the question for 14 Wisconsin Democrats who have spent the last two weeks in Illinois, hiding out to stall a vote on the governor's budget repair bill. If the Senators return to Madison, the Republican majority will outvote them and the bill will take collective bargaining rights away from many unions. Gov. Scott Walker's refusal to negotiate with unions makes it clear the man is less interested with moving his...
By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter Two Medical Lake High School seniors were selected for national honors programs this year. Devon Prince was a finalist for the National Achievement Scholarship Program, an academic competition established in 1964 to provide recognition for outstanding black American high school students. More than 160,000 students took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test and just 1,300 were selected as finalists on the basis of their Selection Index Scores, the sum of reading,...
Dates and times of activities are subject to change. For updated information call the Cheney High School activity line at 559-4120 or the Medical Lake High School activity line at 565-3232 or www.goeags.com. COLLEGE BASKETBALL Men Saturday, March 5, Big Sky Conference basketball tournament quarterfinals, teams, sites TBA. Tuesday, March 8, Big Sky Conference basketball tournament Quarterfinals, teams, sites TBA. Wednesday, March 9, Big Sky Conference basketball tournament championship, teams, sites TBA. Women Thursday, March...
By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter The earliest known barbers were priests who, along with taking a little off the top, performed marriages and baptisms. A few thousand years later they were the hub of conversation, where a guy could catch up on the local news while he had his morning shave. These days Medical Lake barber Jim Terry embodies both of these traditions. Terry, who turned 89 last Sunday, was a pastor for more than 40 years – preaching in Loon Lake, Kettle Falls, Newport, Chewelah, Medical Lake and Davenport b... Full story
Spring will come, start your seeds inside By LaVERLE McCANDLESS Contributor “In like a Lion, out like a Lamb” A weather lore saying. March seems to be one month that everyone has something to say about. First of all, what does the first day of March have to do with the end of March? The above quote is the most popular March quote said. Does it hold true? You be the judge. March has the “Ides of March,” which is a great read if you are interested. Type “Ides of March” into your search engine and see what comes up. Another is...
