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Hallett Elementary School students in Cheryl Spilker's fifth-grade class got a surprise last Thursday - a pizza party. The class was awarded a party after the efforts of their classmate, Skylar DeVore who recently submitted a letter about Spilker for the "My Teacher Rocks" contest to her orthodontist, Dr. Jacob DaBell. According to its website, the office holds the contest for students who think "their teacher deserves a special shout out." "From reading the letter, she (Spilk...
The Cheney City Council’s Sept. 19 budget workshop wasn’t so much about crunching numbers, but more about what Mayor Tom Trulove described as “looking to the future at things we should be worrying about.” Department heads were asked to provide a budgetary mission for 2017, listing what components would be needed to achieve that as well as positioning the city to meet needs 5 – 6 years down the road. This week, departments with designated revenues will be examined, with general fund departments presented next week. Light Dep...
Cheney Community Church The annual Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child (OCC) project is on the horizon. This year, Cheney Community Church will serve as the relay collection center for the West Plains. Shoebox gifts will be brought here for processing and shipping. The Sunday worship service at Cheney Community Church is at 10 a.m. Children’s church and nursery care are provided. There are Bible studies Sunday morning at 9 a.m. for teens, college students and adults. A number of other groups meet during the week. Mond...
As ethologist Konrad Lorenz wrote in his classic 1963 book, “On Aggression,” we humans are closer to prey than predator — but that makes us more dangerous in some terrible ways. A “real” carnivore very rarely kills members of its own species. They have instinctive signals that allow for surrender and subservience. The dominant animal will almost never cross that signal to kill another of its species. Prey, however, do not expose their jugular vein to fellow members of their species. And since they do not possess fearsome...
Margie Heller is not a grandmother, at least not yet. And besides, you don't need to be a grandmother to be a member of the Ragin' Grannies, a grassroots protest group that draws attention to their causes by wearing colorful, grandmother-ish clothes and singing well-known songs with humorous and satirical made up lyrics. Heller said someone just needs to be old enough to be a grandmother, which, when she thinks about it "could be about 32." The Marshall-area resident has been...
Kathleen was born in Baker City, Ore. Jan. 28, 1929, to Erma and Ray White. She was raised in the Oregon towns of Bridgeport, Sumpter and Baker. As an only child, Kathleen had many memories and stories about her childhood in Sumpter, where riding her horse and hanging with her very best friend were her passions. Kathleen graduated from Baker High in 1947 and married in 1950. After living in San Diego, Salt Lake City, and Baker again, she and her husband moved to Portland,...
I do research and vote according to my conscience as someone must fill these government offices or we would have complete anarchy. However, I also recognize that changing leaders and parties in and of itself will not resolve our issues. I continue to seek “a better way” of relating to one another than we have now. We need to rise above the consciousness of “us” and “them” and see our essential oneness as members of one human family. When we begin to see how interconnected we all are, regardless of the many human labels that...
It is estimated that annually, police in the U.S. have 385,000,000 contacts with the public and make 11,205,833 arrests, in which 48,315 police officers are seriously injured and 990 people are killed by police. According to the Dolan Consulting Group (Richard R. Johnson, PhD), since 1971 police shootings have decreased at approximately 3.3 percent annually to historic lows. Locally, here in Cheney officers responded to roughly 32,000 calls for service last year, and physical force was used in only 13 cases, with no deadly...
The ribbon cutting ceremony was not the only special occasion during Grocery Outlet's Sept. 29 soft opening. Moments before Grocery Outlet owner Dylan Hartung cut the ribbon, he presented $1,000 in food donations to pastor Dale Jenkins of the Airway Heights Baptist Church. "We'll use all of this food at our next distribution," Jenkins said with a laugh. The church, located at 12322 W. Sunset Highway, has been a food pantry in Airway Heights for the last 14 years. It...
Medical Lake Middle School honored six students for the Partners Advancing Character Education (PACE) award for September. September's trait is respect. Students received certificates and T-shirts, and were treated to a lunch, Sept. 30, sponsored by Subway. From left to right: Suzana Gavrilyuk, Riley Chiamulon, Marin McKee, Keziah Flaherty, Cameron Wagman and Tristan Francis....
October is known for Halloween and cooler weather, but it is also known as a month for awareness of breast and liver cancers. Chances are we’ll see pink ribbons on numerous products at the grocery store. We’ll also see pink during athletic events — NFL and college football players will throw pink into their uniforms and gear during October. However, Liver Cancer Awareness Month, which is symbolized by a green ribbon, does not get as touted. Cancer, in any form, is something that touches people’s lives. According to a study f...
What’s that they say about people who live in glass houses should not it throw stones? It’s been interesting the past several days to watch once again the media coverage of Donald Trump’s income tax issue. For me, it’s what they cover, and why. But more importantly from this vantage point is what is so often left out. While the current “scandal” has moved off the front page and out of the lead in most newscasts — displaced by Hurricane Matthew — it should only be a matter tim...
I’m not sure who scares me the most. Hillary Clinton and her history of lies and criminal activities or Donald Trump and, his self worship and incoherent rantings. What I do know is that the political class failed us big time in giving us these choices. I’m tempted to fear for our country — but then I realize that Clinton and Trump are so deeply flawed that they can’t possibly succeed as president. My guess is that by the 2018 mid terms, this will be obvious to the voters and the party in charge of the White House will pa...
Cheney High School celebrated its annual Homecoming Week. There were several activities through the week leading up to the Cheney Blackhawks' Homecoming game against East Valley. Top: During a visit from Tom's Tailgate, CHS Associated Student Body president Jack Peabody (middle) receives a check from KREM weatherman Tom Sherry (right) for $222 before the football game. Right: Sophomores Alexis Goozmer (left) and Haillie Champlin dress up for Twin Day....
In 2015, the Medical Lake School District received a five-year Department of Defense Education Activity grant that will help staff support the social and emotional, as well as the academic, needs of its military students. The first year of the grant focused on building — as the district refers to it — a “multi-tiered system of support” into grades K-12. There are three tiers of support. Tier one focuses on general education classrooms using strategies. Tier two is for students who need targeted interventions and tier three i...
A social event aimed at parents visiting this weekend for Homecoming at Eastern Washington University has been cancelled by the sponsoring Cheney Merchants Association. A reception that had been scheduled for Friday, Oct. 7 from 6–8 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Express’s new banquet and meeting facility that would have helped introduce CMA member businesses will not happen this year. The announcement came at the Oct. 3 CMA meeting. Because of some delays promoting the night, CMA...
When the Walt Disney Company came looking for someone to provide printed items to help market their movie, "Dick Tracy," back in the early 1990s, there was a catch. To get the first bit of business, they needed to piggy back with a second movie project that no one seemed to want. While in negotiations, Zak Designs CEO, Irv Zakheim said Disney would let his company produce dinnerware for Dick Tracy, but they needed to take on another project, "The Little Mermaid." And that...
Cheney firefighters ‘Fill the Boot’ to support fight against muscle-debilitating diseases Members of the Cheney Fire Department L1919 are set to kick off the firefighter’s annual “Fill the Boot” fundraising campaign to help the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) find urgently needed treatments and cures for muscular dystrophy, ALS and related diseases that severely limit strength and mobility. Firefighters from Cheney Fire Department Local 1919 will be out with boots in hand for this year’s drive on Saturday, Oct. 8, at...
Cheney High School 2016 Homecoming queen Asiamay Diaz (center) is flanked by 2015 queen Tera Phelan (right) and Katie (McKeehan) Van Blokland, who was crowned in 1966. Van Blokland was on hand to crown Diaz during the Cheney Blackhawks' Sept. 30 Homecoming game against East Valley....
The city of Cheney’s planning department has issued a notice of application and State Environmental Protection Act review checklist for remodeling of the Cheney School Districts’ Fisher Building. The application was issued Sept. 28, and comes from the prospective buyer of the district’s former high school, junior high school and administrative building — Eastmark Capital Group of Seattle and their consultant, Lori Noto Consulting. Application documents can be viewed at the city’s Community Development Department, 112 Ander...
One may not realize that there are two different zip codes in the Airway Heights city limits. One is Airway Heights, WA 99001, serving the majority of the city. The other is Spokane, WA 99224, which is for properties in the eastern area the city annexed in 2012. The city is hoping to change the latter. During its Oct. 3 meeting, the City Council passed a resolution that formally requests the United States Postal Service to change the zip code in the East Annexation Area from 99224 to 99001. In 2012, the city annexed...
Cheney Fire Department Lt. Tim Steiner tosses the effigy of Eastern Washington University's Homecoming opponent - the Northern Colorado Bears - into the flames at Sunday's bonfire held in the EWU parking lot near Roos Field....
It’s been over a year since the city of Medical Lake implemented curbside recycling and things seem to be going well. “I haven’t heard any complaints lately,” City Administrator Doug Ross said. “That doesn’t mean there aren’t complaints out there, but I haven’t heard them. I always take that as a good sign.” Prior to its implementation, curbside recycling had been discussed by Mayor John Higgins and Ross. Community reception to the program was lukewarm at first. Most of the complaints focused on the size of the 4-foot, 96 ga...
Eastern Washington University student Brian Rebar's opening song at the Sept. 26 Feed Cheney in Sutton Park couldn't have been more appropriate for the community-building event: The Beatles "With a Little Help from My Friends." Providing nutritional "help" through building networks of "friends" was what Natalie Tauzin and others envisioned when they started the monthly free-restaurant in 2010. But then, Feed Cheney is more than just a free-restaurant. It's a place where those...
The Airway Heights City Council went through several housekeeping items at its Oct. 3 meeting. In action items, council awarded a bid in the amount of $322,483.48 to Blue Star Enterprises Northwest, Inc. for drilling and testing of a future well on the city’s Deno Road property. Public Works Director Kevin Anderson said Blue Star’s bid came in over $35,900 less than the engineer’s estimate for the project. Anderson explained that the project entails drilling into the paleo channel to see “what water is there.” The work will...
