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By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter When – and if – we see the green, green grass again in the spring, Pete Johnson of Arbor Pro would love to hear from you. Now, however, he's likely going to turn away your business. Johnson's big boom truck, a piece of equipment normally assigned to trimming tall trees, was recently seen at the Cheney Plaza, removing snow from an awning roof that appeared to be buckling, and potentially collapsing. “It was an emergency situation,” Johnson...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS Jan. 3 Police investigated an alarm in the 11300 block of McFarlane Road. Everything was OK. Nathan A. Thomason, 24, was booked into jail on warrants for second-degree DWLS, Driving under the influence, malicious mischief, and reckless endangerment. He was contacted at Sunset Highway and Hayford Road. Police assisted Spokane County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) deputies on a traffic collision in the 10600 block of 12th Avenue. Officers responded to the 11900 block of Sunset Highway for a disorderly subject. Police...
CHENEY Dec. 29 An abandoned auto was reported in an intersection at 300 Presley Drive. A Nissan was impounded. Dec. 28 Third-degree malicious mischief was reported on the 800 block of West First Street. A car window was broken. Dec. 27 Threatening and harassing phone calls were reported on the 500 block of Annie Place. A suicide attempt was reported on the zero hundred block of West Fifth Street. Subject was voluntarily transported to Sacred Heart Medical Center. Civil problems (landlord tenant dispute) were reported on the...
By DAVID TELLER Staff Reporter Thomas Myers has filed law suit against the city of Cheney through the U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington, as he continues to appeal the fines assessed against him by the city. Myers’ attorney, Dennis Clayton, said the suit is from the city revoking the site plan it had previously approved in 1995. He said the revocation of the site plan came when Cheney “shut off†Washington Street. In so doing, Clayton said the city destroyed the economic viability of the facility. “The issue...
By CARA LORELLO Staff Reporter Darlene Hardenbrook is crafty when it comes to fine detail. Just ask anyone who owns, or has seen a piece of her line of handmade jewelry and crafts. “Small details, that’s my specialty—that’s what everyone says when they describe my work. That, and the character they have. I think the word for it is whimsical,†the Medical Lake resident said from her home studio, the headquarters for her business, Little Darlins, which she sta...
By CARA LORELLO Staff Reporter For today’s youth, raising animals, whether it’s a pet, or project for their school’s FFA program, is a less popular venture than it was when Carl Grubb of Medical Lake was younger. “Things are a lot different from when I was a kid,†Grubb, a longtime real estate businessman who got his first experience in farming and raising cattle at age 7. His father used to own acres of farmland in the southern end of Medical Lake before the area g...
By CARA LORELLO Staff Reporter A surplus fire engine previously used by Medical Lake Fire Department city officials have advertised online for a month and so far only gotten one offer for one-third of their asking price of $3,000. During the Nov. 2 City Council meeting, council members debated whether or not to revise the sale price for the American LeFrance engine to $1,000, or continue advertising as is. The vehicle, City Administrator Doug Ross said, is taking up space at the city maintenance garage where it's currently...
By CARA LORELLO Staff Reporter When it comes to Christmas trees, local businessman Emory Clark of Hi-Country Nursery knows his stuff. After all, he got his start earlier as a 14-year-old kid in Idaho, clearing trees from farmers' land and carting them off in his pickup to take to lots for sale. He's done tree lot sales almost every winter since then, starting his business in 1953. Though he took time off through the years long enough to earn a mater's degree, transition from...
By DAVID TELLER Staff Reporter The small park in the Golden Hills neighborhood in Cheney will just have to wait a little longer for its name. The Cheney Parks and Recreation Department had naming the park on their agenda Thursday, Dec. 5, but questions about wording in the Parks and Recreation park naming policy draft put off naming the park until a later date, especially since the policy was never formally adopted. The small park, also called a “pocket park,” on the cor...
By CARA LORELLO Staff Reporter Members of the governance committee for the Eastern Washington State Veterans Cemetery will meet with federal Veteran Administration officials from the nation's capital this month to discuss details of the proposed master plan design the committee's team of architects created last spring. Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs Director John Lee announced via the department's online monthly newsletter that the next step for the project...
CHENEY Dec. 5 Benjamin Mendoza, 23, was arrested on the 400 block of Third Street for driving under the influence (DUI), resisting-obstructing police officers third-degree driving while license is suspended (DWLS). Dec. 4 Abraham H. Yosief, 18, was arrested at Safeway for third-degree theft/shoplifting when he was caught taking condoms. Damon S. Morton, 18, is listed as a missing person. Third-degree theft was reported on the 100 block of First Street. Cash was taken in a fraudulent subscription sale of the Cheney Free...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter If only all the trains that end up using the new Geiger Spur will be as timely. Work on the new connector line that joins industrial trackage along McFarlane Road that once needed access to and through Fairchild Air Force Base to the mainline, was completed on time and on budget according to officials at both the Washington State Deptartment of Transportation and Spokane County. WSDOT's deputy state rail and marine director Andrew Wood said construction began in June on the five miles of track...
By DAVID TELLER Staff Reporter Call them retro, vintage or just old-fashioned, but Cheney has brought back the old-style, light-pole-mount Christmas decorations that were common in cities for many years. Light Department director Joe Noland said Cheney Mayor Allan Gainer and the City Council thought in light of the unstable economic climate the country is facing, the decorations would make people feel a little better. “I've had nothing but positive comments from everybody that has seen them up,” Noland said. “I think it wa...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Eastern Washington University's Computing and Engineering Building rang last Saturday, Dec. 6, with the sounds of something not normally associated with a college academic facility – cheering. Cheering resonating from kids and parents taking part in the first annual FIRSTLEGO League robotics competition. The competition is one of the programs the university is sponsoring as part of its Project STEaM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Match), an e...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Eastern Washington University president Dr. Rodolfo Arevalo announced in a campus-wide email that he would be taking a one-month leave of absence to assist his recuperation from surgery last summer. Provost and vice president of academic affairs, Dr. John Mason, will be filling in while Arevalo is on leave, Eastern media specialist Dave Meany said Tuesday. Arevalo had surgery this past summer, during which a cancerous tumor was removed. He had been undergoing chemotherapy during the fall. Meany said...
By DAVID TELLER and CARA LORELLO Staff Reporters The Cheney School District board of directors held an emergency meeting Nov. 28 to re-certify their 2009 general fund maintenance and operations levy after being notified by the state Office of the Superintendent for Public Instruction (OSPI) that it was reducing the district's Levy Equalization Assistance (LEA) by 3.4 percent in the wake of a $5.1 billion state budget deficit. During the special meeting, the board unanimously approved resending a resolution to adjust the levy...
By DAVID TELLER Staff Reporter The Cheney Historic Preservation Commission will share information about forming another historical district near Sutton Park on West Sixth Street in Cheney at their monthly meeting Dec. 4 in the City Council Chambers. Secretary to the commission, Sue Beeman, said the commission received an inquiry from Judy Hamel about listing properties near Sutton Park as a historical district. Beeman added that the commission entertained the idea, but was reluctant to take lead on the project without...
By CARA LORELLO Staff Reporter What a difference 11 months makes. Todd and Beth Mathison, owners of West Plains Fitness, have stayed busy since opening their business in January 2008. They’re now preparing for their upcoming grand re-opening on Dec. 4 where they’ll premier several new and expanded gym facilities to include group classes, tanning, child care services, and a sauna. When the Cheney Free Press last spoke with the Spokane Valley couple, they’d chosen the Wes...
By DAVID TELLER Staff Reporter The name Joe Tortorelli has been used around Cheney for the last few years, but there are some who do not know him or what he does for Cheney. The answer is: A lot. Tortorelli is Cheney’s economic development consultant. For the last eight years. He dedicates his time to attracting new businesses to Cheney, developing partnerships with Eastern Washington University and helping lay the ground work for some of Cheney’s biggest and newest businesses. Tortorelli has been in economic developme...
By CARA LORELLO Staff Reporter It’s a buyer’s market in the real estate world right now, probably the best Medical Lake Realtor Donna Audett of Monark Realty said she’s seen in recent years. Interest rates are at an all time low, but so is consumer confidence. Audett attributes low demand to the gloomy picture the national media is helping create, where the focus is all on home foreclosures and plummeting market values. “I think they’re making it out to be worse than...
By DAVID TELLER Staff Reporter It's a good time of year to be in the tire business. Cheney Les Schwab Tires assistant manager Jared Thueson said as soon as the first snows of the year arrive, his store gets busy. Last Friday was no different as the West Plains got its first measurable snow fall, and drivers flocked to tire stores like his. Thueson said he began a waiting list by 10 a.m. By 3 p.m. the wait time swelled to over three hours and the store had already mounted 500 sets of snow tires and had quit taking orders...
By CARA LORELLO Staff Reporter All of Medical Lake’s city parks, minus the skateboard park, will stay open this winter but visitors can forget about using the public restrooms, which have all been winterized and will remain closed until next spring, parks and recreation committee chair Jeff King reported at the Nov. 4 City Council meeting. King also reported that a slide at Wilcox Park was damaged recently. City Administrator Doug Ross said a sharp object carved grooves onto the surface of the slide by an unidentified sourc...
By DAVID TELLER Staff Reporter During the town hall meeting on Nov. 6, Cheney Mayor Allan Gainer said he wants to look into compiling a preferred renter’s list to provide students with reputable landlords. Being the owner of the Tree of Knowledge, Gainer frequently interacts with Eastern Washington University students. After the town hall meeting, he said they regaled him with horror stories of intrusive, neglectful landlords. He said maybe half of them are aware that he is the mayor of Cheney. Gainer said recently that...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor The Spokane Regional Health District announced last Friday that senior meals services that had been cut in October, including some services to the Cheney Care Center, are being restored. Thanks to some stopgap funding and cooperation between Spokane’s Mid-City Concerns, community agencies and the regional health district’s Senior Nutrition Program (SNP), all local senior centers’ noon meal offerings have been returned to full service. Mid-City Concerns has offered to help pay the cost of meals...
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