CHS senior restores welcome sign

Olivia Swenson said she has a lot of respect for Cheney, and on Sunday, May 29, she turned that respect into action.

The Cheney High School senior, who walked down the commencement aisle June 3, said she kept seeing the city's "Welcome to Cheney" sign on Cheney-Spokane Road each time she came and went from school and kept thinking it wasn't right what somebody had done. Cheney Police reported the sign was vandalized on May 6.

Swenson said she and her father, Cheney School Board Director Mitch Swenson, were talking about the sign recently, and decided they were going to do something about it. S...