Two former Cheney students join expedition to Canadian Arctic

A pair of Cheney High School graduates will be spending part of their summer cooling off — literally.

Connor Netz and Evelyn Rowe are joining 110 other high school and university students and 80 staff members representing 18 countries on a journey from Ottawa, Canada to Greenland and the Canadian Arctic as part of the 15th annual Students on Ice annual expedition. According to a news release, the two-week combined sea and land-based expedition, which departed Ottawa July 27, will journey to the communities, coasts and fiords of western Greenland before crossing the Davis Strait to Canada’s hig...