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MEDICAL LAKE - Area residents got to flood Waterfront Park in Medical Lake for bluegrass music. The annual three day bluegrass music festival that brings Medical Lake together was held over the weekend. According to Blue Waters President, Nick Burgis, this year's festival had a great turnout. "We had a fantastic turnout this year," Burgis said. "We had a lot of people by full weekend passes and others that stopped by for Saturday's showing." Burgis said the effort put forth by...
As to my experiment with permaculture: I had reported that the corn seed I planted in the midst of my weeds was more robust than the ones I planted in rows. Sadly, my theory has been dispelled. Now the corn in rows have overtaken the growth of their wilderness relative. The squash plant is faring well, however, the deer ate the beans that were planted. After a little more research, I learned corn needs to have neighbors, as those luscious ears are pollinated from the tassels of other corn plants by the wind. Those...
Area kids in Medical Lake try to beat the heat by floating at Waterfront Park and playing with squirt guns....
Medical Lake Kiwanis and Cheney Garden Club Present the August Garden of the Month to Yvonne Bresnahan at 910 East Stanley Drive. Yvonne received a $25 gift certificate from the Kiwanis Club. Pictured are Donna Kulibert, Yvonne Bresnahan, and Dan Dorshorst...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS – A Spokane based band that frequently plays community events will once again be gracing the stage Aug. 19 in Sunset Park for Airway Heights Day. Alchemy has been seen and heard at events such as Cheney Mayfest, Medical Lake Founder's Day, and previously played Airway Heights Day. According to Jim Brickey, the group's drummer, their goal is to create a relaxing musical environment for people. "You know we just want to create a nice ambient environment that peopl...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS – People attending Airway Heights Day on Aug. 19 can look forward to some classic blues as Too Slim & the Taildraggers will be playing the community event. Tim "Too Slim" Langford grew up in Spokane and formed the band in 1986. Langford loved playing the guitar as soon as he picked one up, and he gained inspiration from artists such as Lynyrd Skynyrd, Robin Trower, Duane Allman, and others. Langford also studied music at Eastern Washington University, but s...
My husband and I love going to the movies. We both grew up enjoying a darkened theater, hot buttered popcorn and the thrill of the unknown unfolding before our eyes. We met and married in a small town in southern New Mexico. As adults living in Tiny Town, USA, there wasn’t a whole lot else to do on a sweltering hot weekend. Fortunately back then, the summer time was prime time for new movies to come out. As the years progressed and we moved to the booming metropolis we call Spokane, we still headed to the movies, r...
Horticulturalist: one who cultivates and manages the garden. Environmentalist: one who is concerned with protecting the environment. Agronomist: one who studies the science of soil management and crop production. Biologist: one who studies living organisms. Pathologist: one who studies and identifies diseases. Entomologist: one who studies insects. Or if these hats fit: Do you love to watch healthy things grow, feel the warm tilth of the soil in your fingers, watch butterflies dance above the flowers? Do you listen to honey...
SPOKANE – The Junior Livestock Show of Spokane has announced its meetings and auctions schedule, and changes being planned. The organization that allows aspiring young farmers to show and sell their animals will host its annual membership meeting on Sunday, Nov. 12. A time and location has yet to be announced. The organization has scheduled its Junior Show Benefit Auction for Feb. 17 and its 89th annual Junior Livestock Show for May 1-4, both at the Spokane County Fair and Expo Center. The rules for next year’s shows are sti...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS – The annual Airway Heights celebration is coming up quickly and starts Friday evening Aug. 18 and runs through Saturday Aug. 19. The big kick off event is the annual watermelon race. Participants try to build the best racer they can and will face off in a series of races. The biggest catch is that the winners will move on to the next rounds of the event, and the losers will get their melons smashed by the winners. According to Andy Gardner the city just w...
MEDICAL LAKE - The Farmer's Market kicked off National Farmer's Market Week with one of their busiest days ever according to Gerri Johnson, the President of Re*Imagine Medical Lake. "We had the highest attendance we have ever had this weekend," Johnson said. "And it's all thanks to the people coming out to support the local farmers and small businesses in the area."...
MEDICAL LAKE – Farmer's markets across the region are in full swing, and the same can be said for the Medical Lake Farmer's Market. In its second year of operation, the market is still new. Organizers are looking to help the event grow in both vendors and customers. The market opened for the season on June 3, and will run the first and third Saturdays of each month through October 7 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. According to Erin Bishop, the market manager, the market is sponsored b...
MEDICAL LAKE – An old school band known as one of the regions premiere bluegrass bands will be taking the stage as one of the performances at the Blue Waters Bluegrass festival. Custer's Grass Band was originally formed in 1976, and they are noted as recording the first bluegrass album originating from the Pacific Northwest. That album includes special instrumental contributions by a Grammy winning fiddler from the northwest, Mark O'Connor. "We are really excited to have t...
MEDICAL LAKE – The annual Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival is coming back to Waterfront Park in Medical Lake August 11-13. According to organizers the weekend will be filled with live music, music workshops and vendors galore. Blue Waters is a non-profit group that started in 2002 that puts the show on every year, except for a brief two-year hiatus through the COVID pandemic. Being a non-profit means the group is fully funded by donations and community support. According to t...
MEDICAL LAKE – The Blue Waters Bluegrass festival is coming up quickly, and it takes a big team of volunteers to make the event happen according to organizers. According to Blue Waters President, Nick Burgis, the volunteers are an extremely important part of the festival. "Our volunteers help in nearly every aspect of the festival," Burgis said. "From setting up the stage to attending the front gate, we have a lot of volunteer opportunities." Volunteers can sign up as part o...
New ASB officers in Rosalia ROSALIA – Rosalia High School has a new slate of officers for its Associated Student Body for the 2023-24 school year. Thomas Place will be student-body president and Briley Smith vice president. Other officers include Secretary Kayla Eilertson, Treasurer Megan Maley and Historian Capryce Robbins. Feed Cheney partnering with high school CHENEY - Starting in September, Feed Cheney, the monthly free community meal, will be catered by the Culinary Arts class at Cheney High School. The grocery d...
Permaculture: A New Concept? Why do we make so much work for ourselves in the garden when we can practice permaculture? The history of permaculture dates back to when man, or maybe it was woman, noticed the seeds thrown on the ground from fruits and plants they ate grew new plants and trees. Evolution of gardening employed varied methods. Each more refined than the precious attempt. Gardeners cleared the land, artificially altered seeds and disposed of all plant debris. The ground became sterile and eventually blew away....
A childhood memory that has lived with me forever and I’m sure subconsciously had a part in shaping my life. When I was three years old, our family lived in a rented house on the outskirts of Curlew, Washington. That is a little cattle and logging community up near the Canadian border. Our house sat out from town where it met the open prairie. I can remember a covered front porch and a uard surrounded by a white picket fence. It was open range country. There was a herd of cows and calves that grazed close to our place. A c...
I bought a lottery ticket again. I know it’s foolish, but you can’t win if you don’t buy a ticket. I’m not naive enough to truly believe I’m going to win, but I can dream, can’t I? Sometimes I feel like throwing caution to the wind and doing foolish things just for the fun of it. Is that a sin, or just a carefree indulgence? Perhaps you’ve heard the joke about the two farmers who came to a one lane bridge at the same time. The first farmer said, “I never back up for a fool!” The second farmer replied, “I always do,” and proce...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS - A new Vision Institute Northwest location opened at 11919 W. Sunset Hwy, Ste F on July 20. Vision Institute Northwest is owned by Dr. Melissa Barnhart. Barnhart has owned Franklin Park Vision since 2015 and purchased Broadway Eyecare in 2021. With the addition of a third location, the decision was made to rename the clinics to Vision Institute Northwest. Approximately 60 people from the surrounding area came and went during the grand opening event at which...
SPRAGUE – A whippet named Charmander, a German Shephard named Reece, and a collie named Gracie took home the top three spots in the disc dog competition held at The Viking Drive in at 209 E. 4th on Saturday July 22. The wind was a major factor, so the pups had to work a little harder for points. So did their owners to keep the discs in bounds during throws. The dogs score points by catching as many throws as possible with each round lasting one minute. Each dog gets to run t...
President Amy Ammons of Chapter AJ, of P.E.O. International Org., recently awarded Tatum Sloan with a monetary award for her excellence in academics and athletics. She is the granddaughter of Betty Hatch, a longtime member of Chapter AJ. Also pictured are Tatum’s mother Chris Ann and members of the Chapter. For information on various awards available to women and girls by the Chapter, please visit peointernational.org and click on projects for qualifications for our various a...
CHENEY – People's furry four legged friends can now enjoy a project over five years in the making. The dog park on the corner of Highway 904 and Presley Rd. officially opened on July 15. Cheney Parks and Recreation held a ribbon cutting to celebrate the project being completed. Recreation Director Kelly McGinley Ashe was on site to help oversee the event and welcome people and their pups to the new park. The Cheney Lions Club was onsite to provide guests with free dog t...
Medical Lake Kiwanis and Cheney Garden Club Present the July Garden of the Month to Gary & Tami Templeton at 1022 N. Lindsay. They recieved a $25 gift certificate from Windermere Real Estate. Pictured are Gayle Hennings, Melanie Potter, Tami & Gary Templeton....
Master Gardener Shari and husband John Staat, longtime Cheney residents, have transformed their yard, over many years, from just trees and mounds to graceful cool color. They appreciate the gift certificate from Jarm's Ace Hardware. Gayle Hennings, Gardeners of Cheney, John Staat, Pat Isbell, Kiwanas, Shari Staat....
