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Three years ago, Duran Slater and Cassie McManus had never even heard of Grocery Outlet. Now, the couple is the owner/operator of one of the chain’s newest branches set to open Nov. 21 on 1st Street in Cheney. The store, not far from Safeway, Bi-Mart and Yoke’s Fresh Market stores, is smallish for a Grocery Outlet, but Slater said it has plenty of room to carry the franchise’s signature goods — which are tailored to fit the communities the outlets are in. Cheney’s store is abo...
CHENEY – Cheney High School’s Derek Slaughter gets to keep his current hair color — at least until the next season’s wager. The Blackhawks cross country head coach had pledged he would dye his hair bleach blonde should the boys’ team mount the trophy stand at the 2A state meet last Saturday. Cheney gave it a valiant effort, but came up short, finishing seventh out of 16 teams competing at Sun Willows Golf Course. “A podium finish means that you have a perfect race,” Slau...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake cross country team came back from the state 1A cross country championship meet with a trophy — just not the one they had hoped for. The Cardinals had to settle for third place at Pasco’s Sun Willow Golf Course on Saturday, Nov. 9, behind first place Lakeside and Klahowya, who took second. “I was really pleased with our kids,” head coach Gene Blankenship said. “They competed really well. We were leading at two miles, but we couldn’t ho...
CHENEY – There was little doubt last Saturday about the Lady Blackhawks chances in 2A soccer post season play. Cheney took an early 1-0 lead, and then poured it on with three more goals in the last eight minutes of the first half to dominate visiting Othello 5-0 in regional action between the Great Northern League’s No.1 seed and the No. 4 of the Central Washington Athletic Conference. The win advanced the Lady Blackhawks to the first round of state tournament play, hos...
I have been following Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers’s voting record for more than 10 years. She has a consistent record in supporting deregulation and “freedom.” Just recently, according to the Thomas Voting Reports, Inc. of Oct. 25, 2019, CMR voted against Combatting Election Interference (H.R. 4617) and also against requiring sponsors of internet political ads to identify themselves in the ad. Furthermore, she voted for an amendment to the above bill to strip it of the authority of the U.S. Attorney General to co...
Just before Veterans Day, the last known survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor died at age 98. With the passing of George Hursey of Massachusetts, it closed that chapter of World War II — the world’s most deadly conflict in which over 60 million people perished. President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Dec. 7, 1941, “the date which will live in infamy.” During the surprise attack, 350 Japanese aircraft descended on Pearl Harbor and nearby Hawaiian military installation...
In my 20 years of military service followed by over two decades of national security work in intelligence, counterintelligence and information operations, I recognized the former Soviet Union, now the Russian Federation, as a formidable adversary. As a result of America’s confused and counterproductive posture towards NATO and the recent decision to green light Turkey’s incursion into Kurdish-held territory in Northern Syria, Russia has gained strength and influence in this strategic area and in other areas of U.S. int...
The House has decided to make the closed door inquiry an official impeachment process. The headlines indicated that they had enough votes to unveil their activities. I heard rumors that some Democrats were going to vote against it, but CNN didn’t mention any. The radical left and CNN present a unanimous front. I have never witnessed such hatred. The radical Democrats with the support of a liberal national media have been trying to overthrow the 2016 election from day one. It began with the “Not My President” demonstrations be...
At a recent high school assembly marking Veterans Day, keynote speaker retired Gen. Neal Sealock suggested that students be the “kind of American worth fighting for.” He defined that as a citizen who is active in elections by promoting voter registration, casting informed votes themselves and speaking out against injustices such that everyone could realize the benefit of the freedoms our veterans and active military have and continue to protect. “We can do that by volun...
SPOKANE COUNTY — Local and federal officials announced on Tuesday, Nov. 6, a $11.3 million transportation grant award for the construction of the Rail-Truck Transload Facility near Spokane International Airport. The facility, to be located east of Craig Road between McFarlane and Thorpe Roads, will improve freight mobility for shippers and manufacturers, and create up to 7,000 jobs, generate $77 million in tax revenue, and produce $773 million in total economic impact, a...
(The following story is updated from a version that appeared online at www.cheneyfreepress.com on Thursday, Nov. 7) CHENEY – Police are still looking for one, possible two males who held up the Exxon service station at 630 W. 1st St. on Wednesday evening, Nov. 6. Police spokesman Sgt. Nate Conley said the department received a panic alarm through the service station’s alarm company at 7:18 p.m., and as officers were en route a 911 call from the clerk on duty. The suspect had fled the scene by the time officers arrived and...
Camber Moad (left) and Stuart Crawford perform Gavotte’s Cello Suite No. 6 at the second annual Arts and Culture Night at Cheney High School Nov. 8, hosted by the high school Writer’s Club....
By JOHN McCALLUM Managing Editor CHENEY – In a dramatic turnaround, the Cheney School District’s $4.27 million capital facilities levy has gone from a losing proposition to apparent passage. As of Tuesday, Nov. 12, ballot Proposition 1 was passing by a comfortable 53.48 – 46.52 percent margin. On election night, Nov. 5, the proposition was failing by 22 votes, with 50.25 percent voting no, 2,189 – 2,167. There were also 223 under votes, voters who either neglected or refused to cast a vote for the measure that would spend $...
By LEE HUGHES Staff reporter Airway Heights City Council Incumbent Councilman Larry Bowman defeated challenger Jared Lacambra by a large margin to maintain his seat on the Airway Heights council. Bowman received 519 of the 810 votes cast, easily winning by a 64 percent margin. Jennifer Morton beat Sarah Slater by over 23 percentage points to claim departing Councilman Dave Malot’s seat on the council, receiving 491 of the 815 votes cast. Incumbent Councilwoman Veronica Messing was unchallenged. Medical Lake City Council T...
The Columbia Plateau Wildlife Management organization recently donated $500 to the Cheney Food Bank. Pictured above left to right are Columbia Plateau members Wayne Baker and Jerry Hickman, Food Bank President Jerry Stewart, Columbia Plateau President Bill Hinkle and Mitchell's Harvest Foods Jerry Mitchell....
Twelfth annual Turkey Trot coming on Thanksgiving The 12th annual Turkey Trot is taking place Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28. The 2-3 mile run/walk kicks off at 9 a.m. at Cheney High School and is open to walkers and runners of all ages, with dressing in costumes encouraged. Dogs are allowed too! The race only entry fee is $5. Entry forms are available by emailing Camille Moseley at [email protected]. Entrants receive a ticket for a drawing to win prizes, including a turkey. Portion of the proceeds are donated to the Cheney Food...
Shirley was taken home to be with the Lord on November 3, 2019 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. Shirley was born April 25, 1925 and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, the youngest of four children and the only girl in the family. When her children were young, Shirley enjoyed being a stay at home mom; volunteering with the PTA, American Heart Association and Cancer Society. Later, she would be employed as a secretary, working with engineers at McDonnell-Douglas on early d...
Cheney Community Church Cheney Community Church invites you to worship with us during this Thanksgiving season. Our Sunday service is at 10 a.m. Bible classes for adults, young adults and youth are available at 9 a.m. Coffee is available in the narthex prior to the service. There is a nursery for infants and toddlers, and Junior Church for older children. We host Women’s Bible Study Fellowship each Tuesday evening at 6:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Our youth group (Holy Flame) meets every Monday evening at 6 p.m. for dinner and B...
1 Years Ago Nov. 12, 2009 Some Cheney businesses were considering re-forming the former chamber of commerce after expressing dissatisfaction with the 10-year-old West Plains Chamber of Commerce. The Cheney High School girl’s soccer squad earned District 7 to seed after beating both Deer Park and Pullman in post-season playoff action. 20 Years Ago Nov. 11, 1999 About 300 Cheney residents petitioned the City Council to silence the “ear-splitting” train whistles that were blowing at road crossings. Medical Lake City Counc...
MEDICAL LAKE - Members of the Medical Lake Planning voted to recommend the City Council not approve a request to amend an individual parcel designation of a future land use map in the city's recently completed comprehensive plan from mixed-use commercial to multi-family at its regularly scheduled meeting on Thursday, Nov. 7. At issue before the commission was a request by Spokane developer A&K Development, Inc. - made during an annual 45-day window allowing change requests -...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake School District has been selected as one of two state districts to participate in a joint University of Washington, Seattle Children’s Hospital pilot program called Partnership Access Line for Schools, or PAL. The two-year program will provide school councilors and mental health professionals with access to psychologists and psychiatrists via telephone and televideo consultations for clinically relevant sessions, according to a press rel...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake middle and high schools took time out from classes to honor veterans and their families ahead of Monday’s Veteran’s Day holiday, and to hear from one special guest about what the national holiday truly signifies. The Medical Lake Middle School assembled in the gym to listen to the seventh and eighth grade choir sing several songs and to recognize current active military and veterans in the audience along with students of military families on Thu...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Medical Lake City Council approved two city-wide tax increases and held a preliminary budget hearing during its regular bi-monthly meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Without discussion or debate, the City Council quickly passed two property tax increases totaling 5 percent that will take effect on Jan. 1, 2020. The first, a 4 percent increase, tapped into the city’s available 8.04 percent “banked levy capacity” — tax increases the city has opted not to use since 19...
CHENEY – The Planning Commission is again scheduled to take up discussion at its Nov. 18 meeting of an issue whose resolution has evaded local officials for decades — how to regulate non-family occupancy of single-family homes. In 2009, the Cheney City Council adopted an ordinance limiting the number of unrelated persons who can live in a home or apartment outside of what is consider by definition in the city’s municipal code as a “family” or a “functional family.” Under the definitions, a family “means one or more persons...
(The following story is updated from a version that appeared online at www.cheneyfreepress.com on Thursday, Nov. 7) CHENEY – Eastern Washington University students staged a counter protest in response to three anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ “street preachers” who appeared on campus late Thursday morning, Nov. 7. According to media reports, one of the speakers was arrested for an alleged assault after he spit on a woman and slapped her on the buttocks while an EWU student was arrest...
