Looking Back

10 Years Ago

June 22, 2006

The Cheney City Council voted to approve the purchase of the James Madison Moorman House and also pay for moving the historical structure to a new location.

Eastern Washington University graduated its second largest class ever, 2,088 undergrads and 577 graduate students in ceremonies held at Woodward Field.

Cheney’s AA American Legion baseball team earned a pair of forfeit victories over West Valley after the offenders were caught using an ineligible player.

20 Years Ago

June 20, 1996

Cheney High School was to spend about $27,000 on a special treatment to improve the lifespan of a roof that was only installed three years ago.

Cheney was on the verge of having its first cellular telephone tower as Sprint Spectrum applied to the city’s Planning Commission for approval to install a 125-foot tower behind Gary’s Chevron station.

Tucker Urdahl of Cheney was named as the Frontier League’s most valuable baseball player and as a member of the league’s first all-star team.

30 Years Ago

June 26, 1986

The rights of groups of more than five unmarried or unrelated people to live together in R-1 zones will last one more year following the passage of a new ordinance by the Cheney City Council.

City of Cheney officials were updated recently on how the community might embrace the new “Good Sense” energy standards being promoted by the Bonneville Power Administration who sell electrical power to the city utility.

Cheney was among 100 cities and towns in the state of Washington that qualified as “Year to Shine” communities, places that conducted citywide cleanup efforts earlier in the year.

40 Years Ago

June 24, 1976

Funeral services for Clarence D. Martin Jr., son of former Gov. Clarence Martin whom Eastern Washington State College’s Martin Hall is named, were held recently in Spokane. Martin, a successful California auto dealer, was a member of the Cheney High School class of 1934.

The Savage House Pizza, which burned in 1973, was preparing to open a new restaurant at 122 College Ave., employing 30 people, both full and part-time.

The Cheney Invitational Track Meet was being planned for EWSC’s Woodward Field and would attract an estimated 700 competitors, according to spokesperson Ruth Van Kuren.

50 Years Ago

June 23, 1966

Cheney was temporary home to some of the best retrieving dogs in the country with the National Amateur Retriever Club Championship Trials.

A letter of resignation from college president Don C. Patterson was rejected by the EWSC board of trustees. Patterson, serving since 1954, was the college’s 19th president.