News Briefs

Cheney Fire Department sponsoring open house

The Cheney Professional Firefighters Local 1919, in conjunction with the Cheney Volunteer Firefighters and the Cheney Fire Department, is sponsoring an open house on Saturday, May 13.

In addition to the Mayfest activities happening throughout the downtown area that weekend, the firefighters invite the whole community to come by the station at 611 Fourth St. between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. There will be continuous tours of the station and trucks, demonstrations and displays of fire and emergency medical equipment, providing the opportunity for the public to ask questions to the firefighters and kids to have fun dressing up like firefighters and climbing through the fire trucks.

The department will furnish information on some of its unique programs, such as response to potential active shooter incidents. The Cheney Professional Firefighters are sponsoring free hotdogs, beverages and popcorn for everyone.

EWU fraternity hosts breakfast for ‘A Greater Cause’

Eagle’s Pub was the site of a pancake-feed breakfast sponsored by Eastern Washington University’s Kappa Sigma fraternity last Sunday, April 23. The breakfast was a philanthropy event to raise money for the Military Heroes Campaign, which is a principal program of the fraternity’s A Greater Cause Foundation.

The pancake feed raised just over $600 for the campaign, which provides charitable donations to organizations such as the Fisher House and other entities.

According to Kappa Sigma’s website, the Military Heroes Campaign was created in 2007, and honors and aids thousands of military veterans and their families in communities throughout the U.S. and Canada. Since its inception, the campaign has donated over $1,000,000 to non-profit organizations who advocate on behalf of servicemen and women and those wounded in combat.