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Webster’s Dictionary defines the word hoopla very simply: “To Do.” Cheney Merchants Association members hope that’s exactly what local residents will find this weekend at the inaugural “Holiday Hoopla” celebration downtown. The two-day event, running Friday night, Nov. 30, from 5:30 – 9 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 1, from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m., incorporates the city’s tree lighting ceremony into a larger mixture of activities for the family. CMA vice chair Debbie Anderson said the organization has always wanted to take on a couple...
Twenty-seven Cheney High School athletes were named to various fall sports all-league teams. Nineteen were All-Great Northern League selections, with eight swimmers being named to All-GNL/Central Washington Athletic Conference first and second teams. Cross country (boys) First team: Bas Holland (junior) Second team: Julian Torres (senior), Beckett Schoenleber (sophomore) Cross country (girls) First team: Marion Mager-Reeser (sophomore) Football First team offense: Mekhai...
CHENEY Nov. 19 Domestic violence/verbal dispute was reported on the 1000 block of Betz Road. Nov. 20 An MP3 player was found on the 500 block of First Street. Second-degree theft was reported on the 400 block of North Sixth Street. Unauthorized use of a purchasing application. Nov. 21 A civil problem was reported on the 300 block of Erie Street. Possible case of custodial interference. A vehicle was impounded on the 2700 block of First Street. Spokane Police Department located a vehicle in the Safeway parking lot that was use...
Gardeners know the benefits of digging in the soil. It elevates a person’s mood, improves mental and physical well-being and the outcome is always good — added beauty or tasty nutritional food. But many of us are stuck indoors for the winter, have a lack of space to garden outdoors or just can’t get enough of this healthful activity. Adding greenery indoors expands our gardening opportunities and provides the many benefits of living with and tending plants. Let’s start w...
Two unsuspecting Eastern Washington University students are suprised with scholarships on Nov. 27 as part of the college’s “Giving Joy Day.” The day is a take on International Giving Tuesday, dedicated to encouraging generosity and goodwill. Giving Tuesday occurs annually on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. The goals of Giving Joy Day are to fundraise for the university, and specifically to raise $275,000 for scholarships and other areas of student need. As of press time, the Eagles had exceeded their goal, raising over $316,...
Surrounded by her children and husband, Darrelyn McDermott passed peacefully away on Nov. 24, 2018. Darrelyn was born to Ruth and Richard Owens on May 17, 1938. She is survived by her devoted husband Elroy; her daughters Christie L. McDermott, Shelly Tracy (Von Tracy), Elizabeth Jones (Craig Johnson), Lorraine Jones (Loyal Allen) her son, Patrick E McDermott (Angie McDermott), and her 19 grandchildren and 47 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her six sisters and...
Gary Warren Gueths was born in Fond du Lac, Wisc. to Gustav and Sadie Gueths on Aug. 5, 1928 and passed away peacefully at the Cheney Care Center on Nov. 10, 2018. He is survived by Eva, his wife of 61 years, his children: Ellen Rose, Gail Pollard, Diane Gueths, Gary Gueths, and Cathy Gueths; his sister Beverly Schmidt, and his grandchildren: Gustav Gueths, Annmarie Pollard, and Marianne Pollard. Gary enlisted briefly in the Army and spent almost 24 years in the U.S. Air Force...
Cheney Congregational Church Cheney Congregational Church invites everyone to join us in worship this Sunday at 10 a.m. Pastor David Krueger-Duncan will deliver a sermon on “The Gospel Without Words: How the Church has Taught the Gospel to Illiterate People Throughout the Centuries.” Communion will be served and is open to all. Choir rehearsal will be held Thursday at 5 p.m. at the church. You are welcome to come and join in, or call Kate at (509) 481-5234. Women’s fellowship will be meeting on Thursday, Dec 6, at noon....
1 Years Ago Nov. 27, 2008 The Airway Heights City Council was updated on the first phase of the city’s $4.45 million water reclamation facility. Career criminal Eddie Ray Hall was once again on the loose and headed for Spokane County. The Cheney Free Press estimated at the time that more than $1 million in taxpayer dollars were spent to arrest, try, convict and confine Hall over the span of 25 years. Eastern Washington University claimed the Big Sky volleyball title after a drawn-out match against Sacramento State. 20 Y...
If you like to put up more than a single string of Christmas lights, the Gardeners of Cheney Club want to hear from you — or your neighbors. The folks who have been awarding the nicest looking yards each month since at least the mid-1990s now want to award the home with the best looking Christmas display this holiday season. Together with the Cheney Kiwanis Club, the Gardeners are seeking nominations for the home with the best holiday decorations in Cheney, with the winner getting a $25 gift certificate from Jarms Ace H...
Cheney • Nov. 30, Holiday Hoopla, Downtown Cheney, 5:30 p.m. - 9 p.m. • Nov. 30, Mandala Snowflake Pre-School Painting, Cheney City Hall, $8 per child, 10 a.m. - 11 a.m. • Dec. 1, Holiday Hoopla, Downtown Cheney, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. • Dec. 1, Santa pictures, Owl’s Pharmacy, $3, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. • Dec. 1, Pictures with Santa, Jarms ACE Hardware, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. • Dec. 1, Art Studio Open House, Blue Heron Pottery, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. • Dec. 5, Cheney High School Jazz Night, Betz Elementary School, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. • Dec. 6, The Jazz...
Borrowing a page from Hollywood and the holiday movie “The Grinch,” Medical Lake will turn its downtown into “Whoville” on Saturday, Dec. 8 for the second annual Re*Imagine Christmas Winter Festival. The event has numerous activities for all ages, for those who just want to wander or get active. Kids’ activities include Santa’s Workshop which runs from 3 – 7 p.m. with free-for-kids activities and take home treasures that include building wooden sleds with Santa. They may also...
With the Airway Heights Recreation Complex’s opening looming on the horizon — and the under-construction building doing some looming of its own — the city’s Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department hosted a question and answer event for community members to learn more about the soon-to-be-completed facility. A panel comprised of Parks, Recreation and Community Services Director J.C. Kennedy, Deputy Director of Parks and Recreation Andy Gardener, recreation program supervisor Glen Horton and the new complex...
Maybe it was the tug-o-war and preparation for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. Or, perhaps, the fact that the front door of City Hall remained inadvertently locked? Or it could be that having had the opportunity Nov. 6 for input on the city’s expectation to spend $3.394 million in 2019, compared to $3.255 million in 2018 — approximately a $140,000 increase in the new budget — there were no further concerns. Whatever the reason, the council chambers were noticeably absen...
The Internet has revolutionized the way we interact, study, research, and do business. As a technology non-profit in Washington, we use the Internet to reach users across the U.S. and the world. Our ability to reach those users is threatened by the repeal of net neutrality rules, which prohibited large broadband providers from blocking and slowing web traffic or creating pricey priority fast-lanes online. Launched in 1991, the Inland Northwest Technology Alliance is an organization comprised of technology professionals,...
(Editor’s note: The “Man from the North” is a fictional character from Rivera Sun’s first series of novels. She has him offering essays beyond her novels.) The time is up. The time is now. Gather the people to do the work: the healing, transformative, deepening work of building community, solutions, understanding, skills, knowledge, and hope. You must be the one to make a change, to step out of the rutted tracks of the looming train wreck that is our culture. You must have the courage to walk into the wilderness of what yo...
Dear CNN, I watched your broadcasts protesting the revocation of Jim Acosta’s White House press pass. You have now turned to the courts in order to bolster your continued feud with President Trump. I will agree that the president is pompous, rude and undiplomatic. He certainly carries much of the blame for your conflict. You should, however, acknowledge that you are at least partly responsible. In the case of; Jim Acosta, you are just plain wrong. Your network, and to a degree the national press in general, have come to b...
It was the perfect ignition point for discussion on the devastating, and oddly titled, Camp Fire that torched the ironically named community of Paradise, Calif. On Halloween, just days before the Nov. 8 start of the fire that killed scores and leveled much of the community of some 17,000 in the Sierra Nevada foothills, there came another in a long line of scary reports of pending doom from man-made climate change. Published in the journal “Nature” and widely distributed to...
Ground was recently broken on a new business in Cheney’s Commerce and Industrial Park. JC Steel Targets is a Cheney-business relocating and expanding into a 5,000 square foot facility in the complex located in south Cheney. Pictured above at the Nov. 14 groundbreaking are, left to right, Councilwoman Jill Weiszmann, Mayor Chris Grover, Devon Vibbert, JC Steel Targets owner Jake Vibbert, City Administrator Mark Schuller and Public Works Director Todd Ableman...
Coaches hoping to host youth sports camps during the school year are often out of luck due to a statewide rule that prohibits contact between coaches and players outside of their regular season, but coaches in the Cheney School District are prepared to think creatively to make these camps happen. Several sports at local high schools host youth summer camps that introduce elementary and middle school students to different types of sports and offer them the benefits of participating. But due to a Washington Interscholastic...
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice towards a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called rocks, across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a circular target marked on the ice, where lanes measure 150 X 16.5 feet. The curler can induce a curved path by causing the stone to slowly turn as it slides, and the path of the rock may be further...
Many people find it surprising that Cheney has an ice rink in the first place. It’s one of just four sheets of ice — Spokane’s ice ribbon not included — in an area between here and Coeur d’Alene. And it is all thanks to the students of Eastern Washington University who are paying for it with their investment in the University Recreation Center, which opened 10 years ago. But that community is likely to get more notoriety for its ice sheet in the coming months and years, fo...
"Never let the fire get behind you." The words imparted to me by Airway Heights Fire Department training chief Alex Turner echoed in my brain, bouncing back and forth between my ears until I was sure I could feel them reverberating off the inside walls of my skull. It was about that time that I questioned whether joining West Plains firefighters at their yearly training was a good life choice. But by then it was too late, and orange-black flames were licking across the...
One of the Cheney Fire Department’s major accomplishments for 2018 was actually taken care of in October 2017. That was when the City Council pulled the trigger on purchasing the department’s long-needed replacement for its main attack engine — agreeing to spend over $800,000 for the new pumper from Rosenbauer Fire Engines. The city applied $200,000 it had been saving from revenue collected via 2015’s levy lid lift along with taking out a $600,000, low-interest, 13-year...
Increases in booking fees and emergency response times, combined with the potential for a large turnover in command personnel are three of the challenges faced by the Cheney Police Department in its 2019 budget. The department was recently blindsided by a memo from Spokane County informing them that booking fees at the county jail would be increasing by 30 percent in 2019. Cheney Police Chief John Hensley told the City Council during his budget presentation at the Nov. 13 meet...
