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Ending weeks of speculation in the rumor mill, Eastern Washington junior wide receiver Brandon Kaufman announced he was leaving school and entering April’s NFL draft that begins April 25. EWU head coach Beau Baldwin has confirmed that Kaufman, a two-time All-American signed with an agent Jan. 6. Baldwin also said quarterback Kyle Padron, who transferred to Eastern last fall from Southern Methodist University, is not enrolled for winter quarter and presumably will pursue his o...
When Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina warned on national television over the weekend that Chuck Hagel “would be the most antagonistic secretary of defense toward the state of Israel in our nation’s history,” either his memory served him very poorly — or he was simply lying to smear his former Senate colleague. For whatever Hagel’s perspective on Mideast policy may be, it would be absurd to compare him with the secretary of defense whose hardline hostility toward Israel became notorious during the Reagan admini...
The mainstream media will deny tactics by the Obama administration that includes arrest and execution of our citizens without due process of law. The 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, signed into law on Jan. 2, 2013 by President Obama, allows the arrest and indefinite military detention of U.S. citizens for exercising their rights that are protected by the First Amendment. The Obama administration also maintains it has the authority to secretly target U.S. citizens for execution without even charging them with a...
You know that old saying that there are no dumb questions? It’s not true. I know. As a journalist, I’ve asked my share of stupid questions. Yet even in the context of my own shortcomings, I do not understand what the White House press corps is thinking during what passes for a news conference in the Obama White House. Consider Monday’s news conference. The last presser of President Barack Obama’s first term spanned 53 minutes. Seven reporters asked questions — after Obama called on them as if according to script. In his fa...
bNew Year’s resolutions are a lot like the lotto: you have to play if you want to win. We all know people who make them, both the serious ones and the funny. It’s either about losing weight, becoming more organized, better money management or the attempt to not hear the campy song “Christmas in the Northwest” for the fifth year in a row. Yes, the latter is one of mine for this year. Proactive Change noted that about 40 to 45 percent of Americans make resolutions for the new year. And how many people keep them? Well, around...
There are certain things we come to expect in life, and one of those is when the snow flies, the plows roll. Recent sizeable snowfalls have demonstrated the value of having capable and dedicated street crews ready to get out no matter how treacherous the conditions are getting into work and prepare the roadways for our use. Particularly the crews in Cheney who did impressive work last week clearing the paths from a heavy overnight snowstorm Jan. 6-7. We appreciate that there is an economy of scale when comparing plowing in...
The following Cheney High School seniors received placement on the 2012-13 first trimester honor roll. In order to qualify for placement, students must earn a grade point average of 3.50 or above. Joshua B. Baker, Marlon A. Barlow, Calvin A. Berstler, Katie L. Bethel, Connor G. Bichler, Matthew D. Bitz, Daniel A. Bogart, Dmitriy N. Borisyuk, Nathaniel C. Brewster, Nicholas J. Brewster, Darien A. Brophy, Artem A. Buhalov, Kendall M. Case, Jacob D. Christianson, Robert W. Cook, Breanna T. Davis, Janessa G. Day, Rosa E....
Eastern Washington University’s Computer Science Alumni Endowment has reached the $25,000 mark, thanks to a 20-month fundraising effort that reflects the growing interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) programs. Starting in the spring of 2011, computer science graduates were asked to give $1,000 back to the department to create an endowment to “pay it forward” for the next computer science student at Eastern. The fundraising effort resulted in 20 gifts or pledges that ranged from $100 all the way up to...
The following area undergraduate students have qualified for the Dean’s Honor List at Eastern Washington University for fall quarter 2012. To be listed, a student must carry at least 12 credits and achieve a grade point average of 3.5 (4.0 scale) or above, which is equivalent to the letter grade A. Cheney Cody Ableman, Kyra Allen, Samantha Ayotte, Tanya Baker, Tristan Bennett, Tyler Bennett, Brooke Berdis, Keagan Berstler, Dallin Bifano, Benjamin Bissell, Keryia Borchers, Dmitriy Borisyuk, Yuriy Borisyuk, Kaitlin Bosch, H...
FHallett Elementary announced its award winners for the months of November and December 2012. This month, students are focusing on the following character traits: Having a positive attitude, Always doing their best, Working together and Knowing the rules. HAWK Award for Nov/Dec: Joseph Tyson, Shaellyn Deardorff, Kali Vio, Billy Neighbors, Kaitlyn Wiley, Shayley Taylor, River Harmon, Eliot Beal, Isaac Sweeney, Jonas Bovey, Riley Chiamulon, Sarah Firestone, Angel Mendez, Pebbles Choe, Jacob Whitehead, Jessica Beecher,...
Eastern Washington University has been selected to host the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), a prestigious academic event that will bring up to 3,000 students and faculty to the Cheney-Spokane area for the three-day conference, April 16-18, 2015. Eastern’s bid was evaluated by the Council on Undergraduate Research’s NCUR oversight committee. Members of the committee visited campus in early September as part of an extensive review process for this respected conference. The university was one of two fin...
Cheney School Board directors voted to table a proposal on elementary school boundary revisions presented at their Jan. 9 board meeting. Board members said they felt they and the public needed time to review and possibly offer different options on the changes, which were presented for the first time at a public meeting in Airway Heights of the Boundary Review Committee just two nights earlier. Associate superintendent Sean Dotson said the boundary review process actually began when the district was planning for the new middle...
StageWest Community Theatre of the West Plains is changing its performance schedule. The performance intended for this month, “Way Out West In A Dress or Life is a Hurdle when Your Wearing A Girdle,” is being changed because of the inability to cast all the parts, especially some of the essential lead roles. Instead, StageWest will present “An Evening of Sketches by Carol Burnett,” directed by theatre veterans John Brooks and Richard Craven. These skits are some of the extremely funny ones that Burnett performed in her pop...
Patty Hunt began to see the beauty of the world as a child near Bonney Lake in Western Washington. Patty is gifted with a great deal of musical ability. One day as a young girl in school she was singing and a boy laughed at her. Instead of breaking into tears as some girls might, Patty said to herself, “I’ll show him!” Her teacher gave her voice lessons. She was chosen for the All-State Choir and was named as one of the top 10 sopranos in the state of Washington. Patty enrolle...
BA few weeks ago I lost the use of my toilet and learned firsthand just how much I missed it when it wasn’t there. My plumbing went out of order when the pipe between my house and the city’s sewer line in the street collapsed. Pipes like that belong to the homeowner, so it was my responsibility to get it fixed. It took about a week for the workmen to come and replace it. During that week I had to go to the local fast food place to use the facilities. It got old fast. More than 2 billion people around the world today don’t hav...
Purchasing affordable clothes and helping victims of domestic violence go hand in hand at one new Airway Heights store. After searching across numerous locations in Spokane for their thrift store over the past couple of years, the Women’s Healing and Empowerment Network selected Airway Heights as its home for Cleone’s Closet, located at 13514 W. Sunset Highway. The store, which opened Monday, Jan. 14, sells low-priced, gently used clothing for adults and kids and other hou...
New Cheney School board director Henry Browne, Jr. takes nothing for granted when it comes to having the opportunity to receive a good education, and he didn’t have to walk 20 miles through 10-foot snow drifts barefoot – one way – to get it. Browne, born in the West African nation of Liberia, had other challenges. Challenges like growing up the only boy and oldest of four children in the northern mining portion of the nation where his father used to bring home water for the f...
Officers in Airway Heights are still looking for a suspect involved in a Monday, Jan. 7, Jack in the Box robbery on the 10306 block of Highway 2. The male suspect entered the Jack in the Box at approximately 10:40 p.m., dressed in a blue hooded sweatshirt. He then displayed a handgun and demanded money. Cashiers at the restaurant gave him some money from the till and the safe. Following that, officers said the man fled on foot, leaving with an undisclosed amount of money. Airway Heights police said the suspect is still at...
Overall crime went down in 2012 for Medical Lake, according to Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich at the Tuesday, Jan. 15 Medical Lake City Council meeting. The city saw 604 total responses last year, down from 633 in 2011. Knezovich did have a concern with the amount of violent crimes taking place in the city. “The only part that has me a little concerned about the report I’m giving tonight is that yes, crime is down. But Medical Lake seems to have a little more of the violent crime side of the coin,” he said. A large...
Following its approval of the Joint Land Use Study, the Airway Heights Planning Commission was back to its regularly scheduled agenda for its Monday, Jan. 14 meeting. This year will largely consist of updating the city’s comprehensive plan, which will take place from 2013 to 2016, depending on other issues that may arise throughout that time. This month, commissioners looked at some final changes to chapter three, which focuses on issues facing Airway Heights and the city’s vision statement for many of its larger dep...
Spokane County Sheriff officers are continuing to work on a shooting near Airway Heights on the 4000 block of North Garfield Road Sunday, Jan. 13 at 4:30 a.m. Once arriving on scene, officers located a deceased adult male in the residence, now identified as James S. Cavazos, 31, who died from a gunshot wound to the head or neck, according to the medical examiner’s office. Officers arrested his father Mark Cavazos, 52, for second-degree murder and booked him into the Spokane County jail, booked on a $100,000 bond. He will h...
Cheney Planning Commission members got a light start to the new year at their January meeting Monday night. Other than a workshop on how the proposed zoning changes to the city’s single-family residential codes would work, the commission received a staff report on a conditional use permit application by Cheney Faith Center. The center wants to build a 900 square foot church addition and a 3,378 square foot new sanctuary building on its .82-acre property on the corner of Oakland and North Second streets. The proposal also incl...
The new Spokane Caterpillar Distribution Center opened last Thursday, Jan. 10, to a well-attended group of local business leaders and elected officials. Inside, the facility has 562,000 square feet on which to operate; enough to fit at least five football fields. On the outside, an additional 250,000 square feet provide some extra storage and bays for trucks to load or unload items. The facility contains around 130,000 parts from over 2,600 different worldwide suppliers and...
Vandals caused the Sunday service at Lake City Assembly of God in Medical Lake to be put on hold, after doing extensive damage throughout the church and its property. The break-in, which took place between Saturday, Jan. 12, and Sunday morning, Jan. 13, caused around $50,000 in damage to the church. Pastor Nick Hawkins said janitors arrived early Sunday to find that a large potted plant outside the building had been thrown through the front glass door. From there, a string of...
