Cheney Hangout is open and ready for business

By JOHN McCALLUM

Editor

It's official. The Cheney Hangout is now open and ready for business – the business of keeping kids off the street and engaged in fun, safe activities.

The popular after school destination for youth ages 9-13 reopened its doors with an open house last Thursday after being closed for over a year and relocating from Eastern Washington University's Brewster Hall to more spacious digs at Cheney's Wren Pierson Building.

While the city will provide space for the Hangout, staff from EWU's children's studies program will run the facility, providing supervision and instituting p...