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Medical Lake’s Abigail Morrison shoots a jump shot in Friday’s 25-15 non-league basketball win over Deer Park. The Cardinal girls split weekend games falling to visiting Okanogan 63-16 Saturday. The Medical Lake boys held off the Stags to claim a 47-45 win but suffered the same fate as the girls, losing 70-46 to Okanogan. Adam Paulson had 15 points Friday and 13 Saturday to lead his team while Brandi Wren’s six points and five from Becky Troutt were tops for the girls each...
The Cheney girls’ basketball team opened the 2012-2013 season with a split of their first two games last week. The Lady Hawks’ aggressive, up-tempo style of play was more than a visiting team from Lakeland High School in Rathdrum, Idaho could handle in Cheney’s 57-32 win in the opener Tuesday night. Saturday the Lady Hawks fell behind early on the road against an Ellensburg team that blew out Pullman the night before by 23 points, rallied and came within a shot or two of a win, losing 54-41. Tuesday the Lady Hawks opene...
Eastern Washington’s men’s basketball team showed off the freshened up Reese Court and a pair of talented freshman last Friday. Both passed the test in the Eagles come-from-behind 79-75 non-conference victory over Cal State Fullerton as forwards Venky Jois from Australia scored 22 points and German recruit Thomas Reuter chipped in 16 points, including 13 in the second half. Jois also added 13 rebounds for his third double-double in the last four games. Fans at Reese got to tes...
It’s December and you know what that means? Well yes, that too, but December in the sporting world means it’s bowl season. That annual bellying up to the money trough by the NCAA and it’s associated Division I conferences and teams. Between Dec. 15 and Jan. 7 there are 35 bowls with an overall payout of anywhere between $274 million and $286 million and change. Snort, munch, crunch, rolf, snort, careful, don’t get too close, you might get something on you. A quick run down of these annual local chamber of commerce wallet-...
Three games into the young season Cheney boys’ basketball head coach Joel Soter knows his team isn’t where they need to be yet with their game, but he is seeing signs on how to get there. The Blackhawks opened play last week at 1-2, starting slowly but eventually cruising past Lakeland of Rathdrum, Idaho 79-60 before getting out shot in a 76-55 loss at Rogers and having a fourth-quarter rally fall just short in a 55-47 loss at Ellensburg. “We’re definitely not where we want...
Wagner College prepared well and won some key battles in their second-round Football Championship Subdivision playoff game last Saturday at Roos Field against Eastern Washington University. The Seahawks continued their record of not surrendering a turnover, and forced the Eagles into coughing up the ball three times. Losing the turnover battle has spelled problems for Eastern in their two losses this season. But the visitors from Staten Island, N.Y. were unable to prepare for...
Last Thursday, Nov. 29, the board of Spokane County Commissioners voted to pull their funding from Martin Hall Juvenile Detention Center in Medical Lake beginning in 2013. The move is estimated to save the county $320,000 each year for the guaranteed five beds reserved for Spokane County. Martin Hall currently has 60 beds, but only 20 are in regular use, Commissioner Al French said. Payments averaged out to $175 per bed every night, regardless of whether it was being used. Contract negotiations arose with other counties...
Select offenders at Airway Heights Corrections Center are receiving some invaluable real-world experience during their time at the facility, leading up to their release date. Correctional Industries blends both business and government in an effort to provide offenders with much-needed workplace skills while also providing state facilities with various items, including furniture, clothing, office furnishings and commissary items. The Airway Heights Corrections Center is the...
Medical science increasingly has some evidence of a principal your mother warned you about: there really is too much of a good thing. A few folks throw themselves headlong into aerobic exercise. Most of these hard-core endurance athletes start young. Many fall by the wayside in middle age, but there are also those who keep going, completing marathons and similar events well into retirement age. What happens to the heart muscles of such titans of lifelong exercise? A recent British study set out to address that question. It...
Larry Danielson lives on a family farm that was homesteaded in 1891. He helps his son, Dale with the hay crop and cattle. Some of the land is in the government CRP program, which means it rests, undisturbed. It was the sixth generation back of the Bradfords and the Brownes in his mother’s lineage that sailed to America on the Mayflower. Larry’s dad, Helge, was a Finlandian. A family cemetery has been established on the property in honor of generations of those sturdy peo...
A big question these days is whether it would be good or bad to build large coal-shipping terminals in Washington and Oregon, enabling transport of substantial quantities of U.S. coal to China and possibly other Asian countries. The answer is not simple. Proponents of the idea point primarily to jobs that the construction and, to a lesser extent, operation of coal terminals could provide, as well as new jobs related to mining and transport of coal. To be sure, sales of coal could also be a boon to our balance of trade with...
Unbelievably, the year 2013 is nearly upon us. We’re nearing the end of the year, and this is the time of year to start reflecting on the previous 340 days of what was 2012. At the same time, it’s a chance to look ahead and hope we’re a lot smarter next year. Specifically, it’s time we lay to rest some of the overused terms and figures of speech that have plagued us thus far. Sure, some are carryovers from previous years, but it’s time to tackle these life-threatening issues once and for all. Every year, Lake Superior...
The state of Washington would like to have you shop with them this Christmas and buy a Discover Pass for all of your favorite outdoor enthusiasts. The Discover Pass is Olympia’s way to try to raise the funds to support a myriad of state outdoor agencies. Having one allows you access to nearly 3 million acres of state recreation lands and avoid a nasty fine that approaches $100. There are more than 100 state parks that are the best-known recipient of monies raised by either your $30 yearly or $10 daily passes. But there are a...
Attendance by both vendors and shoppers at the Cheney High School bazaar was very good last Saturday and Sunday. Funds raised at the bazaar will help various activities at the high school....
Cheney School District officials are taking the first steps to create an energy-themed STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) site at the district’s new facilities on the grounds of the former Washington Air National Guard communication station located just off Andrus Road southeast of Four Lakes. The district held a meeting Oct. 23 with 40 representatives from local school districts, universities and governmental agencies to determine possible science uses f...
Christmas gifts came a few weeks early for the Medical Lake School District’s budget. At the Tuesday, Nov. 27 school board meeting, business manager Don Johnson said the district had received about 15.3 percent of its projected revenues after two months of school. To help with other revenues, final federal impact aid payments from previous years will soon be coming to the district. An adjusted final payout from 2008, totaling $99,000, would arrive in the near future, followed by adjustments from 2009 and 2010, amounts of whic...
After months of working with the state Department of Transportation, Cheney work crews were finally able last week to erect the sign on SR 904 pointing the way to the city’s downtown business core....
The city of Cheney is taking comments on environmental reviews of three buildings proposed for construction in its Commerce and Industrial Park – buildings that only exist on paper, at least for now. The reviews are part of new city efforts to find tenants for the four-year-old development located near its southern city limits. So far the only two tenants in the park are packaging manufacturer AllPak Trojan and the Cheney Free Press, both of who were already there before ground was broken on park construction in 2008. City of...
Facing another tight budget year, the Airway Heights City Council voted to postpone a reduction in sewer rates for 2013. The City Council received a suggestion from the FCS Group, which recommended reducing rates by 9.63 percent next year, which would have dropped rates from $67.50 to $61 per month. It would have resulted in an estimated $29,000 revenue drop. One large concern factoring in the delay was a union contract currently in negotiation that could affect the city’s payroll. “I want to reduce sewer rates as much as...
The trophy that commands the most headlines for Eastern Washington university is the one the football team won in early 2011 in Frisco, Texas where the Eagles were crowned the NcAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision national champions. But to most of those inside the athletics department at EWU, the 2010 Big Sky Conference’s President’s Trophy – the award that recognizes the academic accomplishments of all teams at the school – is one that really honors their o...
The city of Medical Lake unanimously adopted a moratorium on the processing and retailing of marijuana on land-use applications. Marijuana use, by the passage of I-502 last month, becomes legal today, Dec. 6. The state has until December 2013 to finalize its rules regarding marijuana, and some cities are passing similar moratoriums until some direction comes from the state level. “What most cities are doing, and what I would propose to you, is passing this moratorium since we don’t know what we’re supposed to do on issue...
An Eastern Washington Gateway Railroad engine ran off a short, deadend siding behind Gatto’s Pizza in downtown Cheney last week during heavy rains, causing damage to the tracks (insert). At press time the engine was still there, and specifics regarding the accident were not available....
