Looking Back

10 Years Ago

April 23, 2009

Cheney’s track team split their squads for competition on April 18, sending about 22 qualifiers south to the Pasco Invitational, and keeping the rest home to compete in the annual Big Red Classic at Cheney High School.

The experts at Spokane Asphalt Inc. expanded into the horticulture business with their newly opened, full-service nursery and garden center, Earth & Sky Nursery, located just off of Interstate 90’s Geiger exit.

The Cheney City Council unanimously approved a resolution at their April 14 meeting to become a member of Northwest Intergovernmental Energy Supply along with other city-owned utilities to get better prices when buying tier two electrical power.

Cheney High School senior Desiree Winters was one of 167 semi-finalists named in the Washington state Letters for Literature competition.

20 Years Ago

April 22, 1999

After a miserable failure trying to form a local improvement district along State Route 904 in south Cheney to pay for the road and sidewalk construction project on the highway next year, the city searched for an alternative funding source for the local matching dollars it needed to receive $1.5 million in grant funds for the project.

A 90-acre plot of land that the Cheney City Council felt would be too expensive to develop was the location chosen by Steve Emtman for the future site of apartments and a housing development.

The Cheney Blackhawks hosted rival West Valley in doubleheader action Saturday afternoon, continuing a stretch run through the Frontier League.

30 Years Ago

April 27, 1989

As Spokane County commissioners mulled over how they would divide $1.1 million in federal money, the city of Cheney was fairly certain it would be receiving a $155,000 share.

Two students and two teachers received special honors as local Masonic Lodge members held their annual Junior Achievement awards program.

The Cheney High School track and field program got off to a good start in Frontier League action, as both the Blackhawk boys and girls ran up some big points against outmatched Deer Park squads.

40 Years Ago

April 26, 1979

Two Eastern Washington University student-written and directed one-act plays were presented by the Eastern Washington Theatre as the next offering in “A Spring Outing.” This showcase of Eastern drama student works opened May 3 and continued each Thursday, Friday and Saturday through May 19. All performances took place at the University Theatre in Cheney.

The mayor and town council of Medical Lake designated May 7-11 as “Spring Clean Up Week,” when the town maintenance crew would pick up all rubbish that normally would not be taken by the garbage collectors.

EWU senior Lisa Sorrell led the Eagle women’s track team to third place in the Washington Women’s Collegiate Track meet at Spokane Community College with her four first-place races. SCC won the team title with Washington State University second.

50 Years Ago

April 24, 1969

One of the worst thunder and lightning storms in years created considerable havoc on Tuesday evening, April 15.

Two Cheney students at Eastern Washington State College, Janice V. Darling and Alex G. Rajala, were on the 10-member EWSC team that entered the three-day Big Sky speech tournament starting Thursday, April 24, at the University of Montana, Missoula.

Two members of the EWSC swim team that set records in the Inland Empire Junior Olympics Short Course meet at Pullman Sunday.