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The Ice Age Floods Institute, Cheney-Spokane Chapter, is sponsoring a free public lecture “Some Springs and Fossil Discoveries in Washington Territory” Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. in the Student Union Building at Spokane Community College. Charles T. Luttrell, Washington State Parks archaeologist, will talk about numerous fossils that were recovered during the late 1870s from natural springs located within the northern Palouse Hills, an area mostly bypassed by the many Glacial Lake Missoula outburst floods. Columbia mammoths are the...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) announced the additions of Dr. Pam Veltri and Leta Meyer to the WIAA Executive Board, filling vacant positions previously held by George Juarez and Michele Webb. Veltri, the Superintendent for the Medical Lake School District, will become the Region C representative, while Meyer, the Athletic Director at Heritage High School, will be the at-large representative. “Last year we went over and presented an appeal for our c...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter It's back on the road again this week for Medical Lake's cross country team when they head to compete at the Quincy Invitational at the Gorge Amphitheater in George, Wash. Medical Lake is fresh off a solid performance at the Curtis Invitational in Tacoma where the boys' team, led by senior Jacob Morrison's 17-minute, 31-second time on the 5K course, finished eighth out of 19 teams with 266 points. 4A Puyallup won the team competition with 89 foll...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Medical Lake's volleyball team reaches the halfway point of their season and moves into the downhill stretch this week with matches on the road at Pullman this past Tuesday and at East Valley tonight (Oct. 7) at 7 p.m. The Cardinals come off a 3-0 Great Northern League loss at home last Tuesday against West Valley and then traveled for a non-league match at Reardan and another 3-0 defeat. They entered this week's play 1-4 in GNL play. “West Valley had some good runs and serving aces, but o...
Turnovers open door for Greyhounds in 37-7 loss By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter In the beginning of last Friday's football game with Pullman it looked as though Medical Lake might have carried momentum with them from a win the week before. Tim Haynes capped off a six-minute drive with his 8-yard touchdown run and Joel Linafelter's kick gave the Cardinals a 7-0 lead. Medical Lake head coach Wes Hobbs said Medical Lake “stunned them. We marched right up the field and had a 6-minute drive, scored and we're up 7-0.” But then cam...
Texan Mitchell has gotten comfortable in his new home away from home By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Not sure if one can feel more comfortable – at least on the football field – than Bo Levi Mitchell did last Saturday when he had a career day for the Eastern Washington University Eagles. Mitchell, EWU's Texas transfer at quarterback, went 23-of-36 for 337 yards and four touchdowns in Eastern's crucial 35-24 Big Sky Conference win over the Wildcats on a hot afternoon in Ogd...
QB Mitchell has best game as an Eagle, defense's picks stop three Wildcat scoring chances FROM STAFF AND NEWS SERVICE REPORTS The Eastern Washington University Eagles discovered, albeit somewhat reluctantly, there is football success without Taiwan Jones. Without their biggest total yardage producer and electric big play man, Eastern scored 21-straight second-half points to beat the Weber State Wildcats 35-24 in a Big Sky Conference football game last Saturday at Stewart Stadium in Ogden, Utah. Junior quarterback Bo Levi...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Cheney's girls' soccer team learned something in last Tuesday's 3-2 overtime loss at East Valley. They learned they have the capabilities to rally. After falling behind 2-0 the Lady Hawks fought back in the second half against the Great Northern League co-leaders Lady Knights (4-1, 6-4, 12 points). East Valley scored in the first minute and the 36th minute, but Cheney pulled within one on Luci Scott's goal and assist from Madie Moore in the 60th...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor In 2000 former Cheney Free Press editor David Rey developed an unusual hobby. He started a collection of campaign press releases. And not just in a folder. He started stacking them on his desk, if memory serves. We wanted to see whose pile would end up taller by Election Day – George W. Bush or Al Gore. Bush won by a considerable margin. No court decisions needed. No dangling chads on Dave's desk, just two large piles of campaign drivel. I think Bush's team averaged about 4-5 releases an hour. OK m...
An interesting – if not alarming – statistic emerged recently from August's primary election. Numbers released by Washington Secretary of State Sam Reid showed only 10 percent of voters between the ages of 18 to 34 thought it important enough to vote. And that's considering in 37 of Washington's 39 counties voters cast their ballots by mail, so it's not like the right is a rigorous task. That population block comprises nearly a quarter of the registered voters in the state. On the flipside, voters over age 55 – a 40 perce...
Sean Scholer of Cheney cruised through Week 4 of the Cheney Free Press football contest with just one loss to finish in first place. Scholer will win a $50 gift certificate from an area merchant. Runer-up Rob Tyson emerged from a tiebreaker to finish second and will win a pair of football tickets to Saturday's EWU-Northern Arizona game at Roos Field. Be sure to get your chance to win by filling out the entry form found on page 5 of this issue....
FROM NEWS SERVICE REPORTS With only one match on tap this weekend, the Eastern Washington University volleyball team hopes to make it count, as it travels to Portland State to take on the Portland State Vikings Saturday at 7 p.m. The Eagles will be looking for their first conference road victory of the season when it battles the No. 2 team in the Big Sky Conference at the Peter W. Stott Center. Saturday's match between the Eagles and Vikings will also mark the first volleyball event of the newly created “Dam Cup” riv...
FROM NEWS SERVICE REPORTS Two current Cheney residents are among those who will be inducted into the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame in ceremonies that take place this Saturday. The new inductees include the 1950 football team, which won Eastern's third-straight Evergreen Conference championship and finished the year with five-straight shutouts and an 8-2 record. The coach from that team, Albert Harold “Abe” Poffenroth will be inducted posthumously. Other individual inductees include track and field standouts - and Cheney res...
Cheney Community Church Join us for Sunday morning worship service at 10 a.m. All are welcome! Child care is available and children's church for those three years through third grade. A women's Bible study began this past Tuesday, and will meet each week from 6:30-8:30 p.m. The group will explore a study by Chip Ingram on spiritual gifts. Those interested may join us at the church on Tuesday evenings. Other adult small group fellowships are being planned for the weeks ahead. The men meet for breakfast this coming Saturday,...
Proposals to remedy volunteer recruitment problem include a per-call fee, annexation of city services and increases in the city's EMS levy By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter Spokane County Fire District 3 officials are urging the city of Medical Lake to find a way to respond to their own emergency calls instead of regularly relying on outside services. “Short term, it's no big deal, but when it becomes the response standard for us to go and take care of Medical Lake's calls we need to do something different,” District 3 Fir...
