Combine a steady, heavy rain, add a sudden downpour and on top of that, a drainage system not designed to handle the situation and what do you get? A sudden pond like the one that formed at Clay, just off First Street in Cheney. After a couple pumps were employed, the drainage system had a chance to catch up and the pond disappeared as quickly as it formed.
10 Years Ago
Aug. 16, 2007
Medical Lake School District accepted a $202,404 bid from Granite Petroleum Incorporated to build a 12,000-gallon above ground fuel tank for the district's bus garage.
The Federal Aviation Administration dedicated a new traffic control tower at Spokane International Airport. The 271-foot, $29.8 million tower replaced the airport's original 70-foot control tower, dedicated in 1960.
About 150 firefighters and 50 trucks were involved in combating fires that first started in the city of Spokane along Thorpe Road but quickly developed into three other fires along Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks leading through Marshall and past Cheney.
20 Years Ago
Aug. 21, 1997
Jesse Erienbusch and Mike Morrison addressed the Cheney City Council and inquired if the city would help them procure a safe and legal skating area. The council sounded unenthused so it appeared that street skating would stay the norm in Cheney.
Fish Lake Park received its first taste of the funded good life as the county parks department dropped off a new riding lawnmower during a celebration to honor the volunteers that have turned an overgrown eyesore back into a nice park.
The Cheney Library's bland old text based computer user interface stepped aside for a more colorful and easier to use graphical interfaces.
30 Years Ago
Aug. 20, 1987
As many as 50 officials from small towns throughout the Inland Empire converged upon Cheney with the purpose of letting local leaders know what might be done to spur development in town.
Several members of the first committee of the Golden Ages Club of Medical Lake were honored at a potluck picnic in Waterfront Park.
Cheney's Launi Meili notched the biggest accomplishment of her shooting career when she took a pair of silver medals at the Pan Am Games.
40 Years Ago
Aug. 18, 1977
Cheney police were looking for two suspects in connection with a burglary of Town and Country TV and Appliance.
Remodeling work that would create a moderate adult corrections facility in an unused section of Eastern Washington Sate Hospital began at the institution just west of Medical Lake.
The Cheney fire department took on the blaze, which caused an estimated $15,000 worth of damage to the John Graf house at 80 Fifth Street.
50 Years Ago
Aug. 17, 1967
Lunch prices for public schools were 30 cents for grades first through sixth and 35 cents for grades seventh through 12th. The price of milk remained at 2 cents.
Construction on the Ruth Streeter Hall, a new women's residence hall at Eastern Washington State College was rapidly rising. The $2 million hall housed 346 women.
Three local women – Mrs. Donald Pierce, Mrs. Mike Oswald and Mrs. J.B. Murphy – helped earned their golf team a tie for first place in the Spokesman-Review cup race.
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