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Earlier this month, state Department of Fish and Wildlife Director officials said they needed an additional $26 million to effectively manage its existing lands and programs. They said that if they didn’t receive additional money from the Legislature this coming session, they will have to reduce staffing and services. Agency Director Kelley Susewind himself said it would be “pretty catastrophic” if his agency doesn’t get more money. Why then is the agency simultaneously pushin... Full story
CHENEY – Not only is Marketplace Bakery & Eatery owner Lori Musgrave excited about this year’s Cheney Festival of Trees, but she can hardly contain her enthusiasm for the fourth edition next year. Cheney’s third-annual community fundraiser has nine trees — same number as 2018 — but Musgrave said not only have all six sponsoring businesses pledged to have trees in 2020, but an additional five more want in. “That just goes to show what an amazing community we have,” Musg...
Dorothea B. Haase, age 88, passed away on Dec. 5, 2019. She was the eldest daughter of Henry Wallner and Dora (Scheele) Arnold. She was born on March 21, 1931, in Spokane, Wash. on July 22, 1948. Dorothea married Harlan Haase at Redeemer Lutheran Church. Together they raised 14 children. While her children were young she stayed at home, but later went to work as a seamstress. She worked for Katherine Louise Industries for a number of years. Later, she went to work for the... Full story
By JOHN McCALLUM Managing Editor CHENEY – New head coach Frankie Keplinger believes for the Blackhawks boys’ basketball team to find its way into the win column, they need to find their offense. Cheney lost two more games last week, dropping to 0-4 overall. The visiting Post Falls Trojans found an amazing shooting touch — especially junior guard Caden McLean — to blow open a relatively close game last Thursday with a 31-point third-quarter, downing host Cheney 69-40 in non-lea...
SPOKANE VALLEY — Head wrestling coach Matt Leenhouts wasn’t really looking for anything more than some challenging wrestling opportunities and a chance for his wrestlers to eat some humble pie against larger, 4A-type schools. But his wrestlers surprised him. “We had three placers,” Leenhouts said. “The most I’ve ever had was one.” He may have had five, he said. But its education first, and Jared Pendell, who wrestled on Friday, had to bow out to take his SATs on Saturday. Las...
MEDICAL LAKE — It’s been said it’s the sweaty, tired men in the arena that count. And you’d have experienced that first-hand if you had been in the Medical Lake gym on Thursday night, Dec. 12, to watch the Cardinal boys basketball team’s amazing 15-point comeback thriller that ended with Ashton Hamilton-Becker’s clutch 3-pointer in the final seconds of the game that notched the 58-56 Cardinal win. The win, according to head coach Jordan Starr, was in part due to a team double...
There is much to take issue with in James Haught’s “Our country is ill-served by having zealots in high offices.” In the limited space allotted in a letter, I’ll leave aside the smeary boilerplate that combines multiple guilt by association with dark hints regarding the “rapture” (gasp) and the shameful fact that some of our high officials attend — hold onto your hats — Bible studies. All of this neatly tied together and subsumed under the hated label of “Fundamentalist.” As a scholar in the field of American religious...
A big thank you to all who put up holiday lights. At this time of year when the days are short, dark, cold and often dreary, as is so often the news, the cheerful brightness of the lights is a gift to the community. Thank you for the delight they provide to young and old. Mary Robinson Cheney...
Bridges shouldn’t have to sink to be replaced. However, at times that’s what it takes. Too often new projects succumb to years of fighting among interest groups and endless political bickering. In 2013, opposition killed Columbia Crossings project which was formed to construct a replacement I-5 bridge across the Columbia River connecting Vancouver and Portland. We all want more roads and a bridge as long as they are in the other persons’ neighborhood and someone else pays....
Nigerian Christians celebrate Christmas in special ways. If possible, most return to the village of their ancestors, even those living abroad. Beginning early on Christmas day, goats are brought to slaughter and then the cooking and feasting begins. Children are all around, and there is a competition among grandmothers as to which “compound” is the noisiest, i.e. has the most people returning for the celebration. The day is spent in attending church, feasting, visiting, discussing and arguing various topics including pol...
By JOHN McCALLUM Managing Editor I’ve been thinking about Christmas. Right, haven’t we all. Or at least most of us in some way. According to a 2019 report by SafeHome.org using data from various Pew Research Center surveys, nine in 10 American adults will celebrate Christmas in some way. That’s not bad considering census figures put the number of people identifying as Protestant Christians around 55 percent with about 30 percent of Americans claiming affiliation with non-Christian sects along with agnostic and atheist. Accor...
Scenes from last weekend’s Winter Festival in Medical Lake...
MEDICAL LAKE — Over 250 people braved freezing temperatures and solid gray skies to pay tribute to veterans interned at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery by laying over 2,000 wreaths during a Wreaths Across America ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 14. While a few dignitaries were seated inside the cemetery’s committal shelter, including Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the bulk of attendees endured the cold outside to listen to speakers and observe a ceremonial wreath pla...
Cheney Congregational Church holds candlelight service Dec. 24 Cheney Congregational Church will have a Christmas Eve Candlelight Service at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 24, at 423 N. 6th Street. Children will have the opportunity to dress up in costume while the Christmas story is being read and carols are being sung. Pastor Matt Goodale’s sermon will be titled “Do Not Be Afraid,” about how God is much different than we thought and much better than we feared. All are invited to this service....
1 Years Ago Dec. 17, 2009 After surviving various budget cuts, the Pine Lodge Corrections Center for Women was again under Gov. Christine Gregoire’s budget ax. The closure, along with several other facilities, was estimated to save taxpayers $65 million in four years. Cheney’s new garbage disposal enterprise was estimated to cost $30,000 less than originally projected as the city prepared to take over the service from Sunshine Disposal. 20 Years Ago Dec. 16, 1999 After three years of assessments, the city of Cheney dev...
One hundred twenty-five years ago in 1894, Anna Deakin Marshall wrote in her journal that she stuffed a turkey, made 7 pies, made doughnuts, and completed the ironing today. Learn more about our area’s history at www.cheneymuseum.org....
Cheney Community Church Cheney Community Church is celebrating the Advent Season, and will light the candle of JOY this coming Sunday. We welcome you to join us for worship at 10 a.m. Bible classes for adults, young adults and youth are held at 8:45 a.m. Coffee is available in the narthex prior to the service. A nursery is provided for infants and toddlers, and Junior Church for the older children. A Christmas Eve service is planned for Tuesday, Dec. 24, at 5:30 p.m. Please join us as we celebrate the birth of our Savior,...
CHENEY – A lot has changed in the field of medicine. That includes nursing, and how that has changed is reflected in a book that took 10 former nurses to write — including two who live in the Cheney School District. Donna Knott Pierce of Marshall and Ruth Martin Van Kuren of Cheney are two of the authors of “Memories Beneath our Cap,” a look at the life and times of the Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing graduating class of 1964. The book provides a glimpse into nursing...
Contributed photos Cheney School District SPOKANE – Cheney School District’s Westwood Middle School students took part in an all-day field trip to volunteer at 2nd Harvest Food Bank on Friday, Dec. 13. Eighth-grade National Junior Honor Society (NJHS) students organized by Kristi O’Donnell volunteered from about 9:45 a.m. to noon while the seventh-grade NJHS students helped out from 1 – 3:30 p.m. According to a news release, there are five “pillars” of NJHS membership...
Eastern Washington University it is now accepting nominations for its annual Alumni Awards. Nominations are reviewed by the EWU Alumni Awards Selection Committee, made up of current EWU Alumni Association board members. This committee follows a standard protocol to select recipients of the highest caliber, giving equal consideration to all who have achieved excellence in their respective fields. Categories include Lifetime Achievement Award, Alum of Service Award, Inspirational Young Alum Award, Exceptional Military Service...
CHENEY – Eastern Washington University is terminating a time-honored tradition by ending its offering of married student housing at the end of the 2019-2020 term. In an email, Housing and Residential Life senior director Josh Ashcroft said the university’s two complexes dedicated to married student housing, Townhouse Apartments and Anna Maria Apartments will begin renting by the bedroom instead of by the unit this fall. Current residents and families living in those apartments and renting by the unit will be able to con...
WINDSOR – The excitement and buzz grew with each student entering the Westwood Middle School library on Dec. 13. At first it was a trickle of solitary students tentatively and quietly entering the library beginning just after 11 a.m. But as the lunch bell sounded, more students swung the doors open, entering in groups of three, four and more — each scanning the room with various levels of excitement and wonder and all clutching a bright neon green slip of paper with their nam...
Medical Lake residents pause to watch fireworks during the tree lighting ceremony part of last weekend's Winter Festival. For more pictures, turn to page 10....
CHENEY – Police arrested two individuals on Dec. 11 who are believed to be responsible for doing damage to at least 14 vehicles in Cheney overnight on Dec. 9-10. Included in that number is a silver Subaru parked on Buena Vista Street outside Garden Manor Apartments that was also spray painted with alleged racist graffiti. According to a Dec. 11 news release, Cheney police received a call that a person or person were sleeping in a white van parked outside one of the townhouses on Blackhawk Lane east of the railroad tracks. T...
MEDICAL LAKE — The kids sit at various tables working on Christmas projects, as kids will do during the holidays. The concrete walls of the large, utilitarian room devoid of decoration echo with youthful voices and laughter as they decorate Santa-shaped cookies with sprinkles and frosting, or paint cheap wood craft store ornaments with the help of volunteers dressed in a Santa costume or sporting headbands of reindeer antlers or oversized elf ears. The kids are all dressed nea...
