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Garden club does a lot for Cheney Care Center I want to thank the Cheney Garden Club for their tireless efforts to help keep Cheney looking great. They do such a wonderful job making our North Sixth flowerbeds beautiful. The flowers they provide and work they do continues to give our residents great enjoyment not to mention passers by. I would especially like to thank Karen Smith and Penny Bone for the hours of work they have put in pulling the weeds even in the extreme temperatures. Thank you again! Keith A. Fauerso...
Immix offers world class cuisine, but not world class price By DAVID TELLER Staff Reporter For those who might be looking for a place to eat in Cheney that offers something other than fast food, pizza and Mexican food, the answer has arrived. Immix Fusion is a table service restaurant opening is doors on Friday, July. 31, by offering an eclectic blend of French, Thai and Greek food along with sushi and steaks. Executive chef and owner Mathew Irvin said Immix means to mix or fuse together different elements. In this case it... Full story
Bonneville Power Administration announced numerous rate changes that are expected to take effect Oct. 1, 2009. Rates for customers that buy power and transmission will increase on average by 6 percent. Transmission rates will stay the same. Power rates will increase by an average of 7 percent. This is the first power rate increase since 2002 and it's driven by both rising costs and decreasing surplus revenues. Power customers will also receive $163 million in returned overcharges due to a 2007 U.S. Ninth Circuit Court...
Dr. Tony Oertling, a veteran boater, died last Friday on North Idaho's Marble Creek By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter A kayaking accident on North Idaho's Marble Creek last Friday has claimed the life of an Eastern Washington University professor. Dr. Tony Oertling, 54, of Spokane, and chair of EWU's Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, was paddling the creek, a tributary of the St. Joe River, and became momentarily separated from the rest of his group. When Oertling did not catch up to the rest of his group they went looking...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Many businesses have a story associated with their names. Not so with the Rusty Moose Bar and Grille. “There's really nothing behind it,” Rusty Moose managing partner Aaron DeLis said. “Maybe we should make one up.” There might not be a need. DeLis and his father, Frank, bought the Airway Heights-area business formerly known as Prospectors in March this year. They operated it under the former name until the July Fourth weekend, and even after the switch, business has been very good. Aaron DeLis s...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter While I hope there’s still plenty of time left to experience other memorable vacation experiences - Alaska, Australia, Italy, a return to Ireland are some that quickly come to mind - one got crossed off the list over the last week. This past Sunday I returned home after having spent five days on Idaho’s Selway River. Only three days were spent actually on the river. There were two longer days of coming and going to the launch site at Paradise Guard Station, well into the Selway-Bi...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Enjoying the great outdoors has been a family tradition for, I guess, as long as I can remember. There were tent trips to Osoyoos Lake when I was a little crew-cut toe head, not even in school. The strong smell of that old canvas umbrella tent still lingers in my mind to this day. So do the earwigs that I poured out of the box of sugar and onto my cereal. The treks to go camping here and there across our area continued into my teen years when multiple families would gather along the banks of... Full story
They just don't make things the way they used to, do they? We hear the old adage often, but cast the notion away, much like we do with items we buy these days that just don't stand the test of time and deliver. It just takes something to push us to the tipping point, perhaps, to remind us that, indeed, products – and service – are just not the same today as they were 10, 20 or 30 years ago. Not sure what it was that prompted this look at yet another wise old saying – caveat emptor – Latin for “buyer beware.” Maybe it wa...
By LUELLA DOW Contributor We continue our visit with Gary and Louise Belsby about their enjoyable time in Norway last fall. Surrounded by relatives, they basked in the rich heritage of the Belsby family history. Gary and Louise said, “Norway is now a modern country. Oil was discovered in the North Sea.” However, with prosperity, country roads are still not improved. Louise said, “Farmers zip up and down them with their tractors.” The government is socialist. It subsidi...
By JOHN McCALLUM Sports Editor There's really no secret to basketball. The team who scores the most points wins. But to score, you have to have the ball, and last Wednesday night the Cheney boys' basketball team had a hard time keeping their hands on it in a 54-46 loss at Lake City. The Blackhawks' possession problems were particularly evident in the first quarter. Eight turnovers led to only six shots, enabling the Timberwolves of Idaho's 5A classification to open a 16-5 lead... Full story
By DAVID TELLER Staff Reporter Wilcox Farms produces a lot of waste. They are also finding ways to recycle it. The Cheney City Council approved the diary producer's application to renew its discharge permit to release wastewater into the Cheney sewer system. Currently, Wilcox Farms produces 90,000 gallons of wastewater a day, which is enough water to supply 108 single-family residences. Under the changes agreed upon by the council, Wilcox increased their biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), which is a chemical procedure for... Full story
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter No matter how jacked up the Medical Lake football team was before their Great Northern League opener against Colville last Friday night, their emotional high could not overcome the back-breaking plays that would doom the Cardinals in a 48-15 loss. A slew of big plays – a 64-yard punt return and 98 yard pass and run among them – would break the spirit the “get-r-done” chant tried to instill in the pre-game warm-ups. The win helped keep the Indians a perfect 4-0 while Medical Lake evened its rec... Full story
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter It took just 15 seconds for Medical Lake to get on the scoreboard against the Oroville Hornets last Friday in a non-league football game in Oroville. As it turned out the Cardinals needed to squeeze out every point possible in posting a record-setting 67-42 non-league road win. According to school sources, the previous high for points in a Medical Lake football game came in 1998 when the Cards scored 55 against Newport. “We went out and watched some pre-game,” Cardinal head coach Rick Olson sai...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Take away Joe Wilson's 200 yards and four touchdowns. Add in the four scores from massive fullback Taylor Champion, and three more from his backfield mate Devin Dean. There you have the difference in the 46-13 lickin' the Medical Lake Cardinals received at the hands – make that feet – of the Columbia Bruins of White Salmon last Friday. Wilson, the star of the Card's opening week victory over Davenport, injured his back in that game and was held out of practice last week in hopes he'd be rea...
Dates and times of activities are subject to change. For updated information call the Cheney High School activity line at 559-4120 or the Medical Lake High School activity line at 565-3232. CROSS COUNTRY Saturday, Sept. 8 Blackhawk Invitational at EWU 10 a.m. Medical lake at Silverwood 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 15 Cheney and Medical Lake at Highlander Invitational 9:30 a.m. HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL Friday, Sept. 7–Cheney hosts Cashmere 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7 Medical Lake at Columbia (White Salmon) 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14 C...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter The thunder that rolled across the sky prior to the start of last Friday's season opening non-league football game between Medical Lake and Davenport produced some leftover lightning on the field in the form of Joe Wilson. The senior running back collected four touchdowns, two of them electrifying long runs as his Cardinals routed the undermanned Gorillas 44-12 at Holliday Field in Medical Lake. “Big players, big plays, a great team win,” Medical Lake head coach Rick Olson said. Olson has bee...
Dates and times of activities are subject to change. For updated information call the Cheney High School activity line at 559-4120 or the Medical Lake High School activity line at 565-3232. CROSS COUNTRY Tuesday–Sept. 4–Medical Lake at Chewelah 3 p.m. Saturday–Sept. 8–Blackhawk Invitational at EWU 10 a.m. Medical lake at Silverwood 8:30 HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL Friday–Aug. 31–Cheney at Wapato 7 p.m. Medical Lake hosts Davenport 7 p.m. Friday–Sept. 7–Cheney hosts Cashmere 7:30 p.m. Medical Lake at Columbia (White Salmon) 6 p.m....
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter There's an optimism surrounding a turnaround in the fortunes of Medical Lake football that appears to go deeper than just the words of fourth-year coach Rick Olson. The combination of a more experienced squad, a kinder schedule and an apparent new attitude throughout the team gets its first test Friday night at 7 p.m. as the Cardinals entertain 2-B power Davenport. “We have a chance to make something happen and control our own destiny,” Olson said. “We're better this year than we were last year...
