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  • What do you play?

    Keely Fournier, Cheney Free Press|Updated Jan 7, 2025

    I’ve been playing volleyball since I was 5, then after Freshman year of High School I stopped playing. After I started volleyball, I never stopped playing sports either it being a little dance class, basketball, lacrosse and wrestling, I have always been involved as well as all the kids around me. After all those years of playing sports, I now face knee injuries, which cause me to stop playing until Lacrosse season, but with this recent injury it made me think…how many high schoolers face sports related injuries? With dee...

  • Senior Journal

    Keely Fournier, Cheney Free Press|Updated Nov 26, 2024

    ‘Tis the Season As the snowy season comes in, scholarship applications are open and ready for you as well as FASFA opening the first of December. Be ready to start writing those application essays and get all your paperwork filled out. I and many seniors in the area want to pursue nursing; the most common nursing programs in the area are Spokane Community College Nursing program, which applications are open now and Eastern Washington University Nursing program, which applications open Dec. 1. Many common jobs graduates t...

  • How time flies by

    Keely Fournier, Cheney Free Press|Updated Nov 7, 2024

    As we wrap up our last Halloween and homecoming in high school, let’s look back at these memories. Cheney High School had its football homecoming game Oct. 18 versus Mead High School, unfortunately losing 0-42. Following the Blackhawks, the Medical Lake Cardinals played the Kodiaks from Leavenworth for their homecoming football game Oct. 18, losing 14-42. My home team — the Tekoa-Rosalia Timberwolves — played the Waistburg Cardinals and losing 6-14, we almost won but in the last minute the Cardinals scored. We are also exper...

  • Medical Lake school board addresses policy changes

    Allan Gainer, Cheney Free Press|Updated Nov 7, 2024

    MEDICAL LAKE – During its last meeting, the School Board conducted a second reading of school improvement plans and parental input policies. They will be addressed on the third reading in its next meeting. The first policy under review, Board Policy 3241, focused on student discipline. The district removed references to alternative forms of discipline that had been considered or attempted in the past. Additionally, it was decided that principals and certified staff at each school would no longer be responsible for d...

  • Welcome to the senior class of 2025

    Keely Fournier, Cheney Free Press|Updated Oct 9, 2024

    We made it! My name is Keely Fournier and I’m a senior at Rosalia High School as well as a sophomore at Eastern Washington University. Welcome to the Senior Journal where I will be discussing the challenges that we seniors face including community service hours, senior projects, college applications, fund raising, and everything in between. This is one of the most stressful years we will face in our teenage years, but also one of the best. It is the year where we grow into adulthood, learn lifelong lessons, and make d...