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1 Years Ago May 25, 2000 Cheney city attorney Steve Miller is awaiting word from a judge on a discipline recommendation that may result in his disbarment. Miller is facing disbarment after violating several of the Bar Association's rules on professional conduct during his professional dealings with the estate of deceased Cheney resident Mamie Ottomeier. Included was his being named the sole beneficiary of her $750,000 estate. The Medical Lake City Council voted to approve the purchase of a new $15,000 pontoon boat to help...
Stagewest Community Theatre of the West Plains is happy to announce next year's line up of shows. In October we have “Delval Divas” by Barbara Peace Weber and directed by Kay Byron Pacheco. This is an hilarious comedy about four women who are educated, successful, professional women in the Delval prison for white and pink collar crimes. With the warden in one pocket and the cell block guard in another, the Divas indulge their lavish lifestyle until one of their mates are released early and replaced by a murderess. Come see... Full story
Emmanuel Lutheran Church Join us this Sunday, May 30 at 10:30 a.m. as we celebrate the Holy Trinity. Pastor David Ophus will preside. Our last day of Christian education will be this morning at 9 a.m. Classes will resume in September. In observance of Memorial Day, the church office will be closed Monday, May 31. StageWest Community Theatre will hold auditions in the Fellowship Hall on Friday, June 4 at 6:30 p.m., Saturday, June 5 at 1 p.m. and Sunday, June 6 at 3 p.m. Rehearsals are scheduled to begin the third week of...
In Washington state, 1958 was a year of school district consolidations. In our region that year Hayford District #91, Windsor District #92, Sunset District #353, Marshall District #343, and Garden Springs District #42 all merged into the Cheney School District which was then re-numbered as district #360. Learn more about our area's history at www.cheneymuseum.org.... Full story
Variety abounds in the garden! Enjoy the different scents, flavors and textures By LaVERLE McCANDLESS Contributor “How miraculous that growing on my own little plot of land are plants that can turn the dead soil into hundred flavors as different as horseradish and thyme, smelling ranging from stinkhorn to lavender.” John Seymour, English Naturalist. What a wonderful quote! Then I got to thinking, ‘Just what is a stinkhorn to be in the quote opposite of lavender which is one of the most soothing aromas around.” You can bet...
Area businesses offer unique products, unexpected treasures By LUELLA DOW Contributor You never know where a jaunt down the road might lead you. My granddaughter, McKindsay, and I, encouraged by a phone call to Tom's Custom Cuts (meat, not hair), travelled a few miles further and stopped at the Country Market. There, Tom and Sammy Turnbough operate a fresh produce market and animal farm. They have six milking shorthorn cows. Sammy said, “It's a Grade A micro-dairy. We sell the milk to Fresh Abundance in Spokane and S...
By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter CopperWood Furniture Gallery is going out of business after three years in Cheney. Owners Ron and Micki Sebold said business has been slow since the economic downturn late in 2008 and they can no longer afford their rent. “How many days do you go to work with a smile on your face and not get paid?” Ron Sebold said. The Sebolds, who live near Tyler, opened the store in August 2007 after another furniture store went out of business. Ron Sebold said they thought they could make a furniture sto...
By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter What does it take to run a farm? Or even just plant and maintain a garden? Some city kids may not know, and the new PEACH farm is hoping they want to learn. PEACH—People for Environmental Action and Community Health—will host several weeklong farm camps for kids this summer at their new farm outside of Cheney. “The camps are kind of just the basic understanding of how farms operate and how we make connections with the earth, just manipulating it, bringing all of our different senses to the s... Full story
CHENEY May 17 A runaway juvenile was reported in the 200 block of North Sixth Street. A 15-year-old female was taken into custody and returned home. A credit card was reported found in the 200 block of Washington Street. Theft of an iPod from a vehicle was reported in the 1000 block of Third Street. May 18 Kaneshia S. Brooks, 21, was arrested for disorderly conduct in the 600 block of West First Street. Annoying/harassing phone calls were reported in the 2200 block of First Street. A runaway juvenile was reported in the 100... Full story
Officials have determined the fire that destroyed a mobile home in Airway Heights last Tuesday was caused by a juvenile with a lighter. The trailer fire at 2002 S. Campbell Road was reported at about 3:30 p.m. on May 18, drawing response from Airway Heights Fire Department, Spokane County Fire District 10 and Medical Lake Fire Department. While crews were able to contain the fire to the trailer, the residence was a total loss, according to Fire Marshal Nathan Whannell. Whannell said the youth who started the fire is not... Full story
By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter It didn't take long for Tian Lun Massage to set up shop. The vacant windows of the former Ready Money payday loan at 502 1/2 First St. were transformed, seemingly overnight, with the installation of signs for Tian Lun and several bright red hanging lanterns. Business owners Ming Xuan Liang and Fanny Wu said they planned to open the business in the next week or so. Early this week they were setting up furniture and had a box full of flyers advertising the prices for massages. They will offer... Full story
Instructor Gail Phillips says band as a whole has had a good year marked by solid improvement By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter Medical Lake High School students Zach Empkey and Danielle Burris both placed first in their respective divisions during MusicFest Northwest 2010, which took place in Spokane May 9-14. Since 1945 MusicFest has drawn from 1,200 to 1,500 young musicians from across the region and is considered to be the largest festival of its kind in the United States, according to the event's Web site. Empkey, a senio...
Hallett places second, MAE sixth in masters competition; two students also place high in individual rounds By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter The “Math is Cool” teams from Medical Lake's Hallett Elementary and Michael Anderson Elementary both placed high at the state masters competition in Moses Lake over the weekend. The Hallett sixth-grade team placed second and the MAE team, comprised of both fourth-and third-grade students, placed sixth out of the top 12 Washington teams in Division 2. This division is comprised of sma... Full story
4th annual Lion's Club Youth Appreciation Night honors students from schools across the ML district By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter The Medical Lake Lion's Club honored 31 students of all ages from schools across the district during the 40th annual Youth Appreciation Night, May 19 at Medical Lake High School. Lion's project chair Dan Mueller introduced the ceremony with a review of the event's history, recounting how in 1970 Lion's member Ozzie Miller proposed that something be done to credit students who exemplify... Full story
By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter Cheney High School DECA club members put their marketing skills to work this year, raising a record $2,010 dollars to donate to Ronald McDonald House Charities. The club presented a giant check to Theresa Norman, a representative from Ronald McDonald House, which provides reduced cost housing for families with a hospitalized child. “Each year we choose a different charity,” DECA member Millie Holy said. “We knew it was a good thing to help parents stay with their kids in the hospital.” The clu... Full story
Vail responds to letter on the decision to close Pine Lodge In response to the letter to the editor, “Decision to close Pine Lodge prison leaves many questions,” (April 22) I feel compelled to respond. It is with great sadness that we see Pine Lodge Corrections Center for Women close at the end of this month. It was a great facility, with great staff that ran a very effective program. Our decision to recommend closure of Pine Lodge to the Legislature was never based on the quality of the program or the people who ran it. Tru...
By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter This past weekend I was finally able to kick a long-term addiction. More accurately, my drug of choice will no longer be televised. “Lost” – the crack cocaine of television programming – has finally concluded after 121 episodes. For those who somehow managed to stay clean, allow me to provide a hugely ineffective recap: A plane full of attractive, multi-ethnic individuals crashes on a mysterious island. Survivors undergo increasingly mysterious experiences including polar bear attacks...
Speculation has already begun surrounding the recently filed, Bill Gates Sr.-backed Initiative 1077. The push for signatures to get it on the ballot in November has just gotten underway, and people are fired up about it. I-1077 proposes an income tax on the states wealthiest 3 percent, those who make $200,000 a year, $400,000 for a couple. According to the filed documents, the added revenue for the state would allow for a 20 percent decrease in state property taxes, a bump in the business and occupation tax credit from $420 t...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter A Cheney gallery and local artist are teaming to present an exhibition of unique printmaking. Viza Arlington, a Cheney native who has been fortunate to pursue her passion as a business, will display a variety of her work at the Perfect Picture Framing Gallery and Boutique, 1831 First St. in Cheney, starting with a reception on June 4 from 1-9 p.m. Arlington will be on hand from 5-9 p.m. to talk about the limited edition prints, which will be for sale as well. Refreshments will be served from 3... Full story
Transportation Benefit District discussed as one method of generating revenues via license fees, tax increases By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter Like many local leaders, officials with the city of Airway Heights are examining ways to secure more money for street repair projects, including the possibility of a Transportation Benefit District. TBDs can be used to fund selected transportation improvements and maintenance projects through a variety of voter-approved sources, including sales and use taxes, impact fees and annual... Full story
Ladies and Gentlemen prepare for services at the new Washington State Veterans Cemetery By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter It could be a young soldier cut down in battle, an elderly veteran who died in his sleep or a spouse who kept the home fires burning all those years ago. But whoever might find their final resting place at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery, the Ladies and Gentlemen will be ready to receive them with honor while supporting the loved ones they leave behind. In Medical Lake next week the WSVC will...
By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter The Medical Lake School District may have to compromise on where six new classrooms will be built onto Hallett Elementary School in order to bypass city regulations limiting construction near designated wetlands areas. Recent updates to the Medical Lake municipal code require a 200-foot buffer zone between any high-intensity land use, such as a school, and category 2 wetlands, or those the Washington state Department of Ecology has deemed difficult to replace. Medical Lake city planner Glenn S...
University feels ‘uniquely qualified' to help should legislation pass providing undocumented students a path to citizenship By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Eastern Washington University's board of trustees agreed to send a letter to the state's congressional delegation making elected officials aware of possible impacts of the passage of the federal Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act, known as the DREAM Act. The trustees voted unanimously to take the action at their May 20 meeting. Trustee Paul Tanaka said they h...
