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OLYPMIA – Washington state’s Guaranteed Education Tuition (GET) program is now open for a new enrollment period, providing families an opportunity to start saving for future college costs while their children are young. According to an Oct. 30 news release, the 2020-2021 enrollment period runs through May 31, 2021, with a unit purchase price of $133. As a 529 prepaid tuition program, the state guarantees a family’s GET savings will keep pace with in-state college tuition and state-mandated fees. While GET account value...
CHENEY – U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials have announced they will be conducting prescribed burns on the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge from now through February, 2021. Inland Northwest Refuge Complex fire management specialist Ken Meinhart said the controlled burns will be taking place on a total of approximately 375 acres of Refuge land. Meinhart identified four major areas, a 185-acre section in the southwest corner of the Refuge, a 150-acre area along the northern boundary east of Cheney-Plaza Road, one in the c...
MEDICAL LAKE – The state Department of Ecology is proposing “three major” changes to its permit that allows lake managers to use pesticides and chemicals to treat noxious weeds and algae such as Eurasian milfoil. “Very often… the most effective way to treat it is to use a pesticide to initially melt it down and then go with hand pulling or harvesting to keep the population down after the pesticide treatment,” Water quality general permits supervisor Nate Lubliner said. “It’s really the fact that we’ve got that tool while s...
FROM STAFF AND NEWS SOURCES SPOKANE – The Historic Flight Foundation will open its museum at Felts Field on Wednesday, Nov. 11 for Veterans Day. All veterans who visit that day will be given complimentary admission and a personal tour of the vintage aircraft collection. On this special occasion, the Historic Flight museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Veterans are encouraged to wear something from their time in the service, with stories about their experience w...
CHENEY – Avast and beware, yea matties, the H.M.S Nemesis is about to sail and fear will be the wind that guides her. OK, that's corny, but somewhat fitting for the Golden Hills home of the Steve and Kym Grime family - a home that has helped transform the quiet, Steven Speilberg-esque (think the movie, "E.T.") Field of Dreams subdivision into a "Field of Screams." The Grimes' have been opening their home to a variety of ghouls, goblins, monsters and other horror features s...
Cheney Congregational Church Greetings from Cheney Congregational Church! Join us for our current sermon series titled “God and Politics.” We are taking a look at how Jesus’ life informs the ways we engage with our politics, particularly in how we interact with those who vote differently than we do. Only Jesus’ radical love is enough to heal the current division in our nation. Join us on Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. for worship. We are currently worshiping in our parking lot outside until the end of October, and beginning on No...
Feed Medical Lake is returning to a twice-a-month schedule. Inside dining is still not allowed, so the organization is offering grab-and-go meals on the second and fourth Monday of each month between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. at the ramp door behind St. John’s Lutheran Church, 223 S. Hallett St. Groceries, when in stock, will also be distributed at that time. Please note if the temperature is 32 degrees or lower and/or if there is two inches of snow or more on the Saturday prior to the meals, Feed Medical Lake will be closed and n...
Cheney Congregational Church Greetings from Cheney Congregational Church! Join us for our current sermon series titled “God and Politics.” We are taking a look at how Jesus’ life informs the ways we engage with our politics, particularly in how we interact with those who vote differently than we do. Only Jesus’ radical love is enough to heal the current division in our nation. Join us on Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. for worship. We are currently worshiping in our parking lot outside until the end of October, and beginni...
SPOKANE COUNTY – Halloween is one of the more popular holiday’s of the year, partly because of all the variety of public events — from parties to haunted houses and the traditional trick-or-treat excursions about the neighborhood. But in the year of coronavirus, this high-level of social interaction outside the household could also be recipe for spreading Covid-19, the lower respiratory disease associated with coronavirus that, according to the Johns Hopkins University Covid-19 Dashboard, has resulted in over 8.18 milli...
MEDICAL LAKE – Re*Imagine Medical Lake is hosting a Halloween Drive-Through Festival on Saturday, Oct. 31, from 2 – 4 p.m. at the high school bus loop. The event is drive-through/walk-in style, with masks and social distancing expected by participants. There will be music, a costume contest, trunk-or-treat, pumpkins, Kettle Korn, prizes such as Amazon gift cards and more, including the crowning of the 2020 King of Candy at 2 p.m. by 2019 King Wispies Salon for the business that collects the most candy. According to a new...
Eastern Washington University football players Ty Graham and Cody Clements (holding sack) perform a little city beautification as part of Cheney Clean Sweep last week. The duo was part of a group of representatives from the EWU Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC), led by president Brittany Delridge, who helped pick-up trash during the annual re-scheduled from April to October. EWU student-athletes concentrated their efforts in a designated area along College Avenue, leading from downtown Cheney to EWU’s Showalter Hall. B...
CHENEY – The Columbia Plateau Wildlife Management Association is holding its second annual Food Drive to benefit the Cheney Food Bank. The drive takes place this Friday and Saturday, Oct. 16 and 17, at Mitchell’s Harvest Foods from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Dry goods food donations as well as cash contributions are gladly accepted, with all proceeds benefiting the Food Bank....
CHENEY - Two Free Press Publishing staffers were honored Friday night for their newspaper work in 2019. Graphic artist Walter Willand and Publisher Roger Harnack were among those recognized in the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association's Better Newspaper Contest. Willand and Harnack contribute to all of Free Press Publishing's newspapers and websites, including the Cheney Free Press. Willand received second place for his 2019 Outdoors section cover design. Harnack, was...
There is still a little more time to donate to this year’s community Cheney coat drive. New coats only can be dropped off through Oct. 12 at Copy Junction, 1921 1st St. in Cheney. Beginning Oct. 14, coats will be distributed at Cheney Outreach, 616 3rd St. Outreach is open on Wednesday’s from 8:30 a.m. until 2 p.m., and also on Mondays from 4-6:30 p.m. There are no qualifying criteria needed to receive a coat. Cheney Kiwanis and Copy Junction are helping with this year’s event....
Cheney Congregational Church Greetings! Cheney Congregational is currently hosting outdoor Sunday worship services in our parking lot at 10 a.m. We have developed a Covid-19 safety plan that is in compliance with guidelines set up by the state. Masks are required and we are using social distancing among other safety precautions. We will be meeting outside in our parking lot for the foreseeable future. We encourage you to bring your own lawn chair, and we will have chairs provided. As the weather gets colder we invite you to...
REARDAN - A crowd of around 50 people gathered at the Mann family ranch off Highway 231 north of town Friday, Sept. 18 for a dedication of a historical marker recognizing Medal of Honor recipient and Reardan native Joe Mann, who died at 22 after jumping on a grenade to protect his comrades in World War II. The event began with a welcome message by Rae Anna Victor of the Jonas Babcock chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. A presentation of colors by the Fairchild...
Cheney Community Church On Sunday, July 26, the congregation of Cheney Community Church transitioned to a new pastor. The baton was passed from pastor Todd Luce to pastor Trevor Jensen. Luce moved to South Carolina to be closer to family on the East Coast. He served at Cheney Community Church for five years. Pastor Jensen and his wife, Christina, have attended and been involved in the church since 2010, so felt right at home in their new position. They are excited to take on this new role. The Jensens have four children. The...
fulfilled an item on his "bucket list" when he published a book on local history earlier this summer. A 1973 Sprague High School alum who retired in 2017 as the superintendent of the Sprague School District, Whipple said it was on his "to do" list to write a book about some of the stories his grandfather and father told him. "I've had them in my head for 20, 30, 40 years - a long time," Whipple said. "My dad always told me he was going to write some of them down when he retire...
Cheney Congregational Church Greetings! Cheney Congregational is currently hosting outdoor Sunday worship services in our parking lot at 10 a.m. We have developed a Covid-19 safety plan that is in compliance with guidelines set up by the state. Masks are required and we are using social distancing among other safety precautions. We will be meeting outside in our parking lot for the foreseeable future. We encourage you to bring your own lawn chair, and we will have chairs provided. As the weather gets colder we invite you to...
The Sept. 28 Feed Cheney will continue as it has for the last several months. There will be a brown bag meal of prepackaged food distributed beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the parking lot of the Wren Pearson Community Center at 615 4th Street, along with a supply of groceries to see people through the month. The meal and groceries are free and no paperwork is required. Beginning with the Oct. 26 Feed Cheney, the meal and groceries will be distributed inside the multi-purpose room of the Wren Pierson Community Center, with just a...
WEST PLAINS – October is when members of the international education sorority Alpha Delta Kappa honor their founders by providing service to the community. The local ADK chapter, Alpha Nu, is continuing this tradition even in the face of the coronavirus pandemic that has changed the look of instruction — which in Cheney, Medical Lake and many other school districts is now mostly online line rather than in person. Alpha Nu member Bonnie Sullivan said the chapter, which is comprised of 50 current and former educators from Che...
Cheney Congregational Church Greetings! Cheney Congregational is currently hosting outdoor Sunday worship services in our parking lot at 10 a.m. We have developed a Covid-19 safety plan that is in compliance with guidelines set up by the state. Masks are required and we are using social distancing among other safety precautions. We will be meeting outside in our parking lot for the foreseeable future. We encourage you to bring your own lawn chair, and we will have chairs provided. As the weather gets colder we invite you to...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Private Jeremy Robert Blom, 18, of Cheney, Wash graduated from United States Marine Corps boot camp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego on Sept. 11, 2020. Blom successfully completed 13 weeks of intensive basic training at MCRD San Diego in Alpha Company Training Platoon 1014. He will immediately report to Camp Pendleton for a month at Marine Combat Training and then to Military Occupation Specialty school....
CHENEY – Despite winds, fires, smoke and a pandemic, work on relocating Cheney’s Northern Pacific Railroad Depot continues. The heavy lifting part of the project, which began in 2014, took place June 18 when crews from Mt. Vernon, Wash.-based movers DB Davis transported the structure from its former location along the railroad tracks near ADM Mills to its present and permanent home along 1st Street. Since then, the Cheney Depot Society’s project general contractor, Walker Construction, has been busy building the found...
NASHVILLE, TENN. – Born in Brazzaville, Congo to a white father and black mother, Karen McCormick has often found herself facing a decision when filing out employment forms. Particularly the part that asks about race. "OK, I don't fit in all the way here and I don't fit in all the way here," McCormick said of the selection boxes. "Where is the box for me?" The 2013 Cheney High School and 2018 Eastern Washington University graduate and aspiring country music artist has r...
