Medical Lake High School Principal Russ Brown had a hard time getting in and out of his office as students literally boxed him in with donations for the local food bank. Students collected over 3,000 cans that year.
10 Years Ago
Dec. 30, 2004
Medical Lake's gambling tax, first imposed in 2003 as a 2 percent tax on gross receipts from pull-tabs and punch cards, would remain in effect in the New Year after a vote of the City Council. The tax brought in over $77,000 yearly.
The Medical Lake girl's basketball team saw its perfect season, a 4-0 start, come to an end with a 59-58 defeat at the hands of Liberty Bell who rallied from a large deficit. Desirea Goddard led the Cardinals with a career-high 13 points.
20 Years Ago
Dec. 29, 1994
Footings were being poured for the brand new headquarters of the Cheney Free Press, located between Key Tronics and the Cheney Funeral Chapel and set to open in the summer of 1995.
Students in the Cheney School District continued to show improved state test scores. With the exception of fourth grade reading, fourth, sixth and eighth graders all scored above state averages.
30 Years Ago
Jan. 3, 1985
Former Cheney resident, Denver Daw Parmenter II, was charged in connection with one of the largest armored car robberies staged on the West Coast. The 32-year-old allegedly took part in a pair of heists, $500,000 from a Seattle robbery and $3.6 million from a Ukiah, Calif., robbery.
Cheney car dealer Gary Anderberg and former Eastern Washington State College president Emerson Shuck were two candidates vying for a seat on the Spokane Planning Commission.
Too many turnovers, 31 for the game, likely cost the Cheney Blackhawks a boy's basketball loss, 72-61 to Lewiston. Bill Raunig scored 19 to lead Cheney.
40 Years Ago
Jan. 2, 1975
Dan Maggs, a Gonzaga law professor and attorney, will begin his new duties as judge in the Cheney Municipal Court.
Fire damage occurred in a house at Ableman's Trailer Court in Cheney resulted in an estimated $3,500 in damage to a residence occupied by Bob Watson and Karen Bauersfeld.
EWSC men's basketball team was off to one of its best starts in many years with a 4-2 record after a road trip that saw the Savages travel to Alaska, Forest Grove, Ore., and Tacoma.
50 Years Ago
Jan. 1, 1965
Lucile Corkle, 28, pled innocent to a complaint charging the former EWSC head cashier with the alleged theft of $12,830 in college funds.
A two-car accident on an icy highway between Tyler and Sprague took the life of former Spokane mayor, 58-year-old Kenneth Lawson, who was traveling on business to Ellensburg.
The Red Barn Eating House was a new Cheney restaurant set to open in the former Bestway Building Supply at First and G streets.
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