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CHENEY— A packed house at the Mason Jar downtown Thursday night, May 19, was treated to 45 minutes of classical music performed by the Spokane Symphony. The appearance was part of the symphony’s “Out and About” concert series. The traveling series intends to provide something unique to local communities and integrate the symphony into people’s everyday lives. Spokane Symphony Executive Director Jeff vom Saal said the concept of the “Out and About” performances have floated...
CHENEY— Local organizations are coming together through different events over the Memorial Day weekend to honor the many lives lost in the nation’s wars. American Legion Post 72 is setting up a “Poppy” table at 9a.m.-3p.m. outside of Mitchell’s Harvest Foods and Yokes Market and Ace Hardware on Saturday, May 28. Members will hand out paper poppy flowers for people to wear on Memorial Day. The poppy symbolizes remembrance and hope for a positive future and peaceful world. Po...
There is much talk among Spokane County gardeners about raised beds. I’m not referring to the bunk beds your kids and grand kids jumped from but the intentionally framed structures surrounding an ample amount of soil. However, the recycled kid’s bed is a possibility for very short or very tall gardeners. The whole idea of raised beds is to eliminate a degree of back and knee pain. Also, the elevated growing surface is usually a happy place for plants. At my house, where rocks and clay seem to be the prominent feature in my so...
Paul and Gerri Barthelmes purchased their property at 1001 Summit 33 years ago, for the view. Now, a mighty eagle perches at the entrance to their lovely yard, a symbol of nearby Eastern Washington University, America and the Air Force where Paul served. Gardeners of Cheney, Kiwanis, and Jarm's Ace Hardware are delighted to award this beautiful yard Cheney's Yard of the Month for May....
The Friends of the Library Book Club will meet on Tuesday, May 24 at 6:30 p.m. in the Cheney Library meeting room. “Becoming” written by Michelle Obama will be discussed. This will be the last meeting until September....
The rain didn't seem to be too much of a downer as a good time was had by all at the 2022 Mayfest celebration....
If you belong to the DIYG’s “Do it Yourself Gardeners,” temptations at nurseries and garden centers are endless. I find the tool isle especially intriguing. Glittering steel rakes and battery-powered diggers and weeders, Ah, the joy of it all. However, my tool belt includes a good quality hand pruner, pocket-size fold-up saw, a strong weed prong, rubber hose washers, and a flathead and Phillips screwdriver (for hose and irrigation line repair). It also includes a small jar of *Vick’s Vapor Rub to repel biting insects...
Where do we go from here? Are we there yet? Who let the dogs out? Who ate the last piece of cake? What is my purpose? What should I do now? Where’s the restroom? How did we get here? What’s the meaning of life? How many angels can dance on the end of a pin? Where do I begin? Where do I end? Is there life after death? What makes the sky blue and the grass green? What’s your favorite color? What do you love? Do you love me? Are we lost? Who knows where the time goes? Who knows? Lisa Conger April 28, 2022...
By Eleanor Stilwill-Kirkpatrick Continued from last week... I mix it up in the KitchenAid my grandmother bought in 1955, which still runs great and has a regular motor. Enjoy! Ingredients: 1 cup flour 1 cup sugar ½ tsp. baking powder ¾ tsp. salt 2 Tsp. cocoa 1 tsp. vanilla 2/3 cup oil 2 eggs 1 cup walnuts, chopped Instructions: Blend vanilla, oil and eggs. Combine dry ingredients. Blend into wet ingredients. Add walnuts. Pour into greased 13”x 9” pan. Bake 25-30 minutes at 350 degrees....
The Spokane County Library District will be hosting several programs through the month of May. Program topics include wellness, Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage, digital business resources, and tips for sustainable nonprofits, information about Medicare, and trivia. Programs available in Cheney, Airway Heights, and Medical Lake are as follows. Prevention Plus Wellness: Vaping Parents can sign up youth ages 10–14 CHENEY LIBRARY: Tuesday, May 17, 6:30–7:30 p.m. AIRWAY HEIGHTS LIBRARY: Tuesday, May 24, 6:3...
While in grade school, when my mother was in the hospital for months, my grandmother came to take care of us. She looked stern, but was soft-hearted. She read to us from the Little House series, and told us about her life as a girl on a Montana homestead. She taught us how to make and sail walnut boats in the sink. She wore dark dresses, and sturdy shoes. Fascinating to us, she kept her false teeth in a glass beside her bed at night. When we came home from school for lunch, she made us sandwiches using one slice of white...
My grandmother’s kitchen was a wonderful place where the fragrance of canning spices defused throughout the entire house. There was always something good to eat in her fridge, a variety of home canned fruit and veggies in her pantry, and plenty of ice-cream in the freezer. It was the place her children and grandchildren congregated nearly every Sunday afternoon for dinner. Weekly family gatherings were more common then. My grandparents owned the only appliance/television/music store in Moses Lake. The store was profitable e...
Again, I found myself at the grocery store with a bad attitude. Are you kidding me? I fumed at the produce manager—$3.00 for a green pepper? I stomped out of the vegetable section, bought some packets of seeds and left the store in a huff. I stopped at the hardware store and purchased some “Soil for Seed Starting.” Visions of colorful jars of canned veggies danced in my head all the way home. I had saved stacks of plastic cups and poked three holes in the bottom of each one. To insure there were no contaminants in my recyc...
The Washington State Board of Health unanimously passed a motion to accept the recommendation from a technical advisory group (TAG) against a COVID-19 immunization requirement for school entry. Board members did reiterate support for the COVID-19 vaccines and hoped for voluntary vaccination of school children. The vote against a vaccine mandate for school children came after an hour-and-a-half of public comment and thousands of emails over the past months opposing such a requirement. (My public comment is included below.) I...
Time. Time is movement. Movement is time. Time is change. Change is movement. Change, movement and time are all the same concept. What we consider as clock time is just our assigning measurement to the day’s rotation of the earth. A year is a measure of the orbit of earth around the sun. From the electrons moving around the nuclei of atoms that make up all substance, to the incomprehensible vastness of infinite space, movement/ change/ time never ceases. Our planet is 24,901.5 miles in circumference at the equator. The 24 h...
The Friends of the Library Book Club will meet on Tuesday, April 26 at 6:30 p.m. in the meeting room at the Cheney Library. The Bi Necessity by Rose George will be the book discussed. Everyone is welcome to attend....
Tika loves her walks in the morning. She follows me endlessly, ensuring I don’t get off-track and do something useless like grab a tea or say, wake up before rushing out the door to go to the park. Mornings are time for fast, goal oriented movements. Get dressed, throw some mouthwash in that trash can you call a mouth and get out the door. And so my mornings go. Every single morning, rain, shine, snow, sleet and or hail—well you get the picture. There’s no sleeping in for me unless I’m sick. I know this sounds whiny and it...
Amazing Grace Fellowship 416 West Betz Road (509) 235-6199 Family Easter service on Sunday, April 17, at 10:30 a.m. with a small drama presentation. Cheney Community Church 1307 Third Street (509) 235-4841 Friday, April 15. Good Friday service 6:30 p.m. (including the West Plains community churches) Easter Sunday service, April 17. Free breakfast from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Worship service at 10:00 a.m. Cheney Church of Nazarene 338 west Betz Road (509) 235-6261 Sonrise service on Sunday, April 17, at 8:52 a.m. with a potluck t...
All you windowsill gardeners, container, raised bed, and in-ground gardeners too, by now you have probably named most of your plants. Rosemary, Thyme, Sage and their friend Parsley, Tomato, Pepper, Zucchini. Black-eyed Susan, Daisy and Cosmos all are showing off their grown up leaves. These nick-names for plants are great but when you are trying to find out more about their specific cultures it is good to understand their Latin names as well. It really isn't hard to do as ther...
Deer are known to frequently wander the streets of Medical Lake, and these two were part of a group of eight or nine that were snacking on some foliage near Waterfront Park. With the weather starting to warm up, the deer have started to lose their Winter coats....
MEDICAL LAKE – The chilly midnight air wasn't enough to keep a couple hundred area runners from filling the streets for the 44th Annual Only Fools Run at Midnight community fun run on April 2. The event, sponsored by various local businesses and groups, started at the high school and ended at the Pizza Factory. According to race organizer Kim Headrick creative thinking helped the group keep the event going through the COVID pandemic. This was the first time since that they w...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS SUNSET PARK EASTER EGG HUNT 913 South Lawson Street Sat., April 16, 9 a.m. Age separated egg hunts: 4 & under, 5 & 6, 7 & 8, 9 & 10. Special prizes in each group. CHENEY HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION MEETING Zoom meeting Thurs., April 7, 5:15–6:30 p.m. Contact the Planning Department at 509-498-9240 to request a link to the meeting. NORTHWEST PERCUSSION FESTIVAL 2022 Eastern Washington University Fri., April 8, 7 p.m –Sun., April 1, 1 p.m. PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Zoom meeting Mon., April 11, 6–7 p.m....
How does the song go? “I close my eyes. Only for a moment then the moment’s gone.” (Dust in the Wind, Kansas- Eric Benet) Oh, but a sweet moment. There is a place I go to de-stress, unwind, and just relax. I don’t have to change out of my pajamas or comb my hair. I don’t have to drive anywhere. It’s my thinking place and I do close my eyes. This is a dreamy collection of several places that make me happy. I come here whenever I need it. It’s spring time in New Mexico. I’m walking in a forest edged meadow. The sun is warm on...
My family was of British origin. Most dinners were prepared in a pressure cooker. Vegetables were cooked to baby food consistency and recognizable only by the color, green, purple, off-white, yellow, orange. Meat, if not pressure cooked, was fried or baked to hard crack. We were often served boiled beef tongue (identifiable by the taste buds), beef heart, kidney and calves’ liver. The only food my mother under cooked was oysters, which she coated in crushed saltines and fried for 5–10 seconds max. The gag reflex was tes...
