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The Cheney girls’ soccer team halted their five-game losing streak in impressive fashion last week, notching a pair of shutouts with home wins over Deer Park, 11-0, and Colville, 4-0. The Lady Hawks recorded three hat tricks in Tuesday’s game with the Stags, who were missing their leading scorer Sierra Lewis. Jaisa Holland got the scoring going with a goal in the sixth minute, followed by Chae Brown in the 21st minute. Sierra Dixon recorded the first hat trick, scoring in the 24th minute with an assist by Holland, fol...
Cheney’s cross country teams notched two more wins in Great Northern League dual meet action last week, and are beginning to look ahead now to post season competition. Tuesday at Colville the boys ran to wins over the host Indians, 22-39, and West Valley, 23-35 – scores head coach Jay Martin said weren’t indicative of how close the race actually was. The girls’ competition wasn’t quite as tight, with Cheney coming out on top of Colville 16-44 and West Valley 19-40. Sanne Holland led the Cheney girls, finishing first wit...
Medical Lake’s boys’ cross country team came within mere seconds of staging their biggest win and upset in years last Wednesday at home versus Lakeside. The Cardinal boys brought home three runners in the top-5 against the defending state 1A champions, but still fell 25-30 to the Eagles in a Northeast A League meet. Sophomore Micah Dingfield clocked a 17 minute, 10 second time on the 3.1 mile campus course to finish second behind Lakeside’s Ryan Coffman’s 17 flat. The Eagles’ J.T. Lauderdale ran a 17:12 for third place while...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter They had a solid start and finish. But it was the soft middle of their game that did in the Medical Lake Cardinals last Friday in a 33-28 Homecoming/Hall-of-Fame football loss to Chewelah at Holliday Field. The loss was Medical Lake’s first of the season giving the Cardinals a 2-1 Northeast A League record and 5-1 overall. The Cougars improved to 3-0 in NEA play and 5-1 overall. Medical Lake took the opening kickoff, going 68 yards, scoring on M... Full story
If the first half of last Friday’s football game with visiting East Valley belonged to Cheney running back Austin Kautzman, the second half – particularly the fourth quarter – belonged to the Blackhawks’ defense. Kautzman rushed 20 times for 238 yards, most of it in the first 24 minutes, and four touchdowns to stake Cheney to a 27-7 halftime lead. In the end, Cheney’s defense played the game’s final seven minutes in their own territory, holding the previously unbeaten an... Full story
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Fans at Saturday’s football game with Eastern Washington University and North Dakota got to experience something not usually seen at local college games. In the third quarter North Dakota linebacker Derrick Goard was involved in a play near Eastern’s goal line that left him lying prone and unmoving on the field. Fans watched as people gathered around him, first trainers and teammates and the longer he lay on the red turf, emergency medical personnel. Goard was eventually strapped to a stretcher, secure...
The University of North Dakota has no nickname nor mascot. And last Saturday the school, whose teams were formerly known as the Fighting Sioux, also had no answers to stop Eastern Washington University in a Big Sky Conference football game played at Roos Field in front of a crowd of 8,646 on Hall of Fame Day. Scoring on the ground, through the air, and with special teams, Eastern (3-0 Big Sky, 4-1 overall) steamrolled UND 55-17 in the first-ever meeting between the schools....
Coats are still being collected for the annual Coats 4 Kids/Cheney Community Coat Drive through Oct. 19. Coats are donated to children and families through the work of community volunteers and partners. Coats can be donated at any Cheney School District schools or at many local churches and businesses. All coats are being cleaned by Scollards. Collection will continue through Oct. 19 with distribution Saturday, Oct. 27 at Salnave Elementary School, 1015 Salnave Road, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. A second distribution will be...
John Goodwin was born on Jan. 28, 1920 to Sidney and Medora Goodwin at Crabcreek, Wash. (near Sprague). He died on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012 at age 92. He attended school at Amber, Wash. Later, he worked as a farm laborer in the Amber and Cheney area. John served his country during the Korean War. Survivors include a sister, Florence Harris at Cheney and a brother, Maurice Goodwin at Medical Lake, sisters-in-law Eloise Goodwin and Devota Goodwin at Cheney, and brother-in-law Pete Floyd of St. Charles, Ill. He had many nieces...
A young mother in a threadbare jacket holds the hand of her shivering little boy, who wears a too-small sweater and ragged pants. The soles of his shoes flop with each step he takes. They cross the street and enter the Cheney Clothing Exchange. Twenty minutes later a mother and son cross the same street. The little boy, wearing warm boots and mittens and zipped into a fleece lined snowsuit, skips and smiles. His mother, now tucking her gloved hands into the pockets of a warm...
Everyone agrees the rising cost of health care in the United States is unsustainable. Last year Americans spent $2.4 trillion, or nearly 18 percent of our gross domestic product, on health care. Frivolous lawsuits against doctors and hospitals contribute significantly to these rising costs, with estimates as high as 10 to 20 percent of added health care costs caused by the legal system. In many states, health care lawsuit reform, that is, reasonable limits placed on the cost of lawsuits, has helped hold costs down and...
We’re nearing the midpoint of October in an election year. With the myriad issues that face our nation and our state, voters are engaged and turnout is expected to be high. Hopefully, most citizens recognize the importance of voting, of participating in this funny little democracy we call America. Nearly everybody knows who they’re voting for in the presidential election, and hopefully folks here in Eastern Washington know who they’ll send to the other Washington and to Olympia to represent them. Voting is important, and I’ll...
The results of a study conducted 2008-2010 and released last Thursday concluded that free birth control led to lower rates of abortion and teen births among low-income women in St. Louis, Mo. The project tracked more than 9,000 women, many of them poor and uninsured. When price wasn’t an issue, the women chose the more expensive and effective options of implanted birth control devices. The results were impressive: 6.3 births per 1,000 teens as compared to a national average of 34 births per 1,000 in 2010. There were also 4...
Grant-funded safe routes around Sunset Elementary in Airway Heights are on hold until next year. City Planner Derrick Braaten said bids for the project came back $65,000 over the engineer’s estimate, and were put on hold until next year, with the hope of a lower bid. As a result, the projected construction start date is around early April, if everything goes according to plan. While funds have been approved by the state Legislature since 2010, the city wasn’t released to spend the funds until this year. The project is expecte...
The theme of the Airway Heights Planning Commission’s Monday, Oct. 8 meeting was a 20-year outlook. The commission looked at chapter three of its comprehensive plan, which factors in community issues, visions and goals. Having been static since 2006, the chapter received some proposed updates to modernize the vision of Airway Heights for the next two decades. An extensive discussion took place regarding the issues likely facing the city during that timeframe. One of the issues facing the city’s planning involves a lack of...
This fall, students in Eastern Washington University’s Department of Psychology will spend Thursday afternoons learning principles of compassion and practice from a world-renowned scholar and teacher - Venerable Geshe Thupten Phelgye (Geh-shay Toop-ten Pel-gay). A Tibetan monk, Phelgye is founder of the Universal Compassion Movement (UMC) and a member of the Dalai Lama’s Parliament-in-Exile. While serving as a Scholar in Residence at EWU, he will offer a seminar on Buddhist psychology. The discussion-focused course will int...
By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter It seems like a simple proposition: you take an advanced class, work hard all year and take a test in the spring to measure your knowledge. If you do well, you receive college credit, getting a head start in pursuing your degree. Advanced Placement classes and tests are the norm for many college-track high school students, but these students are not all the same. Corey Anderson, Cheney High School counselor and AP coordinator, said AP students have different motivations for taking on college-lev...
Gone are the days when a dedicated amateur photographer was easy to spot. Camera bags bulging with gear have been replaced, in some cases, by a sleek smartphone. Taking good photos is no longer a really expensive and exclusive hobby, and this Saturday photographers of all skill levels and equipment sizes will take to the streets of Cheney to practice their art, socialize and swap tips. Crissy Rasmussen, a former Cheney resident, will lead a Worldwide Photo Walk in town this Sa...
Spokane Transit Authority presented its long-term plans for regional transportation, which includes creating easier access to Medical Lake, at the Oct. 2 meeting of the Medical Lake City Council. The plan includes upgrading the Medical Lake exit on I-90 with a transit center for STA’s planned high performance transit network. The network would exist as an overlay on top of the current transportation system, improving on existing services. While the network doesn’t have any existing funding sources, representatives said it...
Around 20 firearms were taken from a Medical Lake home Saturday, Sept. 29. Last week, Spokane County Sheriff’s deputies helped recover some of those, while still pursuing the remaining weapons. Officers arrested Cody Wolfley, 20, on a charge of first-degree armed burglary, 17 counts of possession of a stolen firearm, theft of a firearm and second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm. At press time, Wolfley was being held on $100,000 bond. According to a press release, officers were contacted by a homeowner on the 1100 b...
By JAMES EIK Staff Reporter Inflatable jump toys, a seemingly endless streak of orange and some old-fashioned community personality all mix together to make for an entertaining family getaway right in Airway Heights. Teen Challenge, a local non-profit residency program that helps rehabilitate those with life-controlling issues, is running its first pumpkin patch on Hazelwood Road just off Highway 2. Unmistakably lined with orange fencing, the pumpkin patch has plenty of...
Medical Lake’s 2012 Homecoming King Luke Alvarado and Queen Gracie Pruchnic are all smiles following their coronation during halftime ceremonies at Friday’s football game with Chewelah.... Full story
By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter Members of the West Plains Chamber of Commerce celebrated a year of growth at its annual meeting Oct. 4 held at Northern Quest Casino and Resort in Airway Heights. Representatives from area cities also spoke at the meeting to share their “State of the City” addresses with the region’s business leaders. Chamber membership has nearly doubled in the past two years, and revenues have grown by over 30 percent. While none of the municipal leade...
By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter Cheney’s new zoning code could bring a lot more diversity in terms of building types and uses for commercial centers. Proposed changes to the commercial zoning code were discussed Monday by the Cheney Planning Commission; the commercial changes are part of a complete overhaul of the city’s development code. Community Development director Brian Jennings and city planner Brett Lucas presented their draft of the commercial zoning code, which was divided into three districts, C-A, C-B and C-C. Dis...
By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter Tuesday night, the Cheney City Council responded to what Mayor Tom Trulove called the largest community outpouring of his mayoral career. “I have never received more public comment,” he said. “This is an issue a large number of people have urged us to take action on.” The council voted unanimously to name a new city street “Mike McKeehan Way” after longtime Cheney teacher and City Councilman Mike McKeehan, who died suddenly this summer. Public Works director Todd Ableman told the council that th...
