Looking Back

10 Years Ago

May 24, 2007

Even with the decrease in the number of incidents reported, statistics from the Police Department’s Monthly Accountability Review report showed crime in Cheney was running higher than it did in the previous year by 12 percent.

Cheney High School DECA students raised $1,150 for a local charity, Spokane’s Shriners’ Children’s Hospital.

The Medical Lake Cardinals advanced seven boys and two girls from district competition to the state track meet at Mount Tahoma Stadium in Tacoma.

20 Years Ago

May 29, 1997

Custodian Steve Spear found an injured and abandoned baby duck on the Cheney Middle School grounds. He took it to the front office where the bird was taken to a teacher with a makeshift incubator. Warm and safe, Hubert (as named by students) was adopted by Cheney High teacher Melvie Strampe and her husband Robert.

The volunteers at the Medical Lake Outreach were honored at a tea event. Many of the volunteers have answered phones and helped area residents since 1989.

Cheney High School’s Bryan Eggart and Chung Wei Kuo teamed up to qualify for a berth at the state meet for tennis.

30 Years Ago

May 28, 1987

Members of the Medical Lake Lions Club presented their annual Ozzy Miller Youth Appreciation awards to 30 students within the Medical Lake School District.

Capt. Mike Brents, president of the Parent Supportive Committee at Blair Elementary School on Fairchild Air Force Base, presented Femme Munn, principal, with a check of $675 for the Jerry Gower Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Cheney’s Jim Dyck Jr. was trying to make it to Seoul, South Koreafor the Olympic games in bowling.

40 Years Ago

May 26, 1977

Cheney City Council members heard a report recommending that the idea of operating a local, independent library be abandoned and that membership in the county library district be maintained.

Almost 400 parishioners at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church gathered Sunday for a double celebration. They honored Father John McGraw’s 10th anniversary as a priest and burned the mortgate for the building.

50 Years Ago

May 25, 1967

Medical Lake’s royalty, Queen Janet Neil and Princesses Kathy Schager and Sue Zerby were aboard their prize-winning float, “Reflections of Spring.” This entry was the sweepstakes winner at the Lilac Festival Torchlight parade and first place in the Community Division in Armed Forces day parade in Spokane.

Scholarships of $200 were awarded to two outstanding Medical Lake High School seniors David Ralphs and Kathy Mayer at the annual PTS scholarship dinner held at the high school.

Cheney’s track team, coached by Floyd Cook, was sending three men to the state meet in Ellensburg on the Central Washington State college track. Mike Bennett was competing in the 880, Robin Halwas in the mile and Tom Whitfield in the two-mile event.