Widening SR 904 is about more than helping football fans

I’ve been thinking about Coral Muscarella lately. I’ve also been thinking about Lorissa Green.

The latter many area residents will remember as the Cheney High School 16-year-old girl killed in a Jan. 17, 2009 collision at what used to be the at-grade intersection of Cheney-Spokane Road and State Route 195. Thanks to the dedicated, focused efforts of her mother, Debbie Hammel, who worked tirelessly to make legislators aware of the dangers, that deadly intersection is no more — replaced by a safer, $11 million interchange/overpass.

Hammel and Green’s story have been recounted many times in the l...