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City of Medical Lake officials have sent 41 letters to members of the Washington State Legislature asking for one simple thing, and that is to have at least one person pick up the phone and call Mayor John Higgins to discuss the nature of the city’s police services arrangement with Eastern State Hospital. More specifically, the city wants the state to pay the costs incurred by the city for providing police services at Eastern — as the state does for Western State Hospital in Lakewood. City Administrator Doug Ross said Lak...
For Cheney High School girls basketball coach JT Johnson, all signs point to his Lady Blackhawks making the turn from a team competitive most of the time, to a team competitive all the time. Johnson even has a short list of "to-do" items to get them there that boil down to one need - the need to play a full 32 minutes of basketball. The Lady Blackhawks split their games last week, going on a 10-0 second-half run to open up their game with Medical Lake en route to a 59-41 win...
The Cheney Blackhawks, and now the Riverside Rams will be darn glad when Cory Wagner has suited up for his last basketball game. First the senior guard delivered his second consecutive knockout blow - a 3-point shot from the left side of the arc in overtime that gave his team a 62-58 lead with 12 seconds left in overtime - to deliver a 64-58 win for Cardinals over the Blackhawks in the Golden Feather Spirit Game Thursday night in Cheney. It was exactly a year ago on Jan. 14...
For the time being the every four-year cycle of reclassification for high school athletics in the state of Washington will not feature any major upheaval. But if trends continue, in four years the landscape could look significantly different, especially for Cheney High School. Since the 2008-10 shuffling of schools Cheney has watched enrollment slowly increase from 823 to 905 in the most recent count. “We knew we were going to be close to 2A, but after four years I easily s...
City of Cheney Jan. 22, “Conversation with Cathy,” U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Wren Pierson Community Center, 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Jan. 22, Baby Play and Learn Storytime (ages 0 – 18 months), community library, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Jan. 26, “Just Play,” community library, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Jan. 26, City Council meeting, City Hall Council Chambers, 6 p.m. Jan. 26, Book Discussion Group of the Friends of the Cheney Community Library, author E. Reade Brown “Fifty years of Fur, Fins and Feathers,” community library,...
Three 1946 Cheney High School graduates Joe (Lad) Zvanovec, Charles (Chuck) Beaudreau, and Gildon (Gil) Beall met in October at Lad's home in Newport, R.I. In 72 hours they attempted to reconstruct some of the intervening 70 years. As they reviewed their experiences they recalled how work, school and people in Cheney had influenced their lives. The Bealls, Harry, Helen, Gildon and Betsy, arrived in Cheney in1936 when Harry assumed the role of editor and publisher of the Cheney...
Fifty years ago on January 4, 1966, the city was stunned with the death of Mayor Nolan Brown. The 56-year-old Brown was serving his third term as mayor when he died of a heart attack at his home. Learn more about our area's history at www.cheneymuseum.org....
1 Years Ago Jan. 26, 2006 Local voters would receive their ballots beginning Feb. 22 for the Cheney School District’s Maintenance and Operations levy. The measure requests them to spend $3.47 per $1,000 of assessed valuation to support and maintain service levels. Jim Wallingford, the longest serving member of the Cheney Police Department, announced he would soon retire after 18 years on duty, most recently as a detective. 20 Years Ago Jan. 25, 1996 The Cheney Public Works Department gave its approval to the proposed i...
Tom was born on July 25, 1946 passed away peacefully in Puyallup on Jan. 9 after a battle with cancer. He is survived by his loving wife of 50 years, Dawn of Puyallup; their two children, Steve (Kasey) Samons of Tacoma and Penni (Sean) Vasquez of Clovis, Calif.; four grandchildren, Dylan, Samantha, Johnathan and Abby, his sister, Mary Kay Howe and many extended family members. Tom was born in Spokane to Mel and Kate Samons. He grew up in Cheney before settling in Puyallup....
Cheney United Church of Christ The next services at Cheney UCC will be Sunday, Jan. 24 at 10 a.m. Pastor David Krueger-Duncan will preside, and we hope you will be in attendance. Special music will be provided by Al Rannow. We would like to get to know you in the church fellowship hall during the coffee hour that follows services. Men’s breakfast will be on Jan. 24 at 7:45 a.m. at Marketplace Cheney. Future meetings are on each second and fourth Sunday. Newcomers are welcome. Everyone is welcome to attend any of our s...
Medical Lake’s Parks and Recreation is offering two yoga classes to residents in February. The first is a seven-week class from Feb. 16 to March 31 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30-7:45 p.m. at City Hall. The cost is $50 for one of the classes and $75 for both. The other is a Mother/Daughter Valentine’s Day Yoga class, Saturday Feb. 13 from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Cookies and tea will be served after class and all ages are welcome. Cost is $20 per mother and daughter couple. Residents can register for both classes at City Hal...
Many Eastern Washingotn University students marched in the Jan. 18 Martin Luther King, Jr., parade in downtown Spokane....
Eastern Washington University is one step closer to finding its new provost and vice president of academic affairs. In a news release, EWU announced the committee leading the search has announced the names of three finalists: ● Karen B. Schmaling, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Washington State University Vancouver. ● Brian L. Levin-Stankevich, PhD, President and Professor, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah. ● Scott A. Gordon, PhD, Dean, Pott College of Science, Engineering and Education, University of Southern India...
Two Medical Lake Middle School robotics teams competed in the Central/Eastern Washington FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Lego League state championships, Jan. 16. The Mecatronix team finished 10th out of 30 teams and the Build-A-Bot team took 11th. Both teams qualified for the event after placing high enough in the regional FIRST Lego League competition at Salk Middle School back in December. For this year's competition, teams took on the "Tra...
Despite a curve ball tossed at them from Mother Nature in the form of over 20 inches of snow, and a couple of stints of bitterly cold Arctic weather, the expansion of Cheney's Holiday Inn Express is on target for a March completion and an April opening. "We're enclosed and they are trying to get the roof on," Debbie Anderson, who along with husband Brian, own the Cheney hotel on Betz Road and State Route 904 said. In a Jan. 4 interview Anderson said they were two weeks behind...
Various classrooms at Windsor Elementary School were transformed into a number of different laboratories for the school's family science night, Jan. 14. Many of the classrooms had different activities for students and their families to participate in relating to different sciences, including biology. In the gym, students ran through an obstacle course modeled after a living heart. In one of the classrooms, students got to play with a model of a pig's heart and lungs, as well...
Cheney School District recently launched the Discovery phase of its second Thoughtexchange conversation. At the beginning of the school year, Cheney conducted its first Thoughtexchange conversation as a way to gain feedback from the community. That first conversation had 879 participants who shared 1,555 thoughts and 43,686 stars assigned to those thoughts. Sixty-seven percent of participants (586) were parents/guardians while 18 percent (159) were staff members, 12 percent (109) were a combination of parents and staff and 2...
Medical Lake (left) and Cheney (right) students engage each other in the time-honored rally cry of "We've got spirit, yes we do" during last Thursday's annual Golden Feather Spirit Game between the two West Plains high schools....
Airway Heights commission selects officers Airway Heights Planning Commission members elected its presiding officers at their monthly meeting Jan. 13. The commission elected Kal Patel as chair and new commission member Sonny Weathers to serve as vice chair. Only three of the four current commission members were present at the meeting, with Commissioner Matthew Pederson excused due to an out-of-town scheduling conflict. Community Development Services Director Derrick Braaten suggested the commission proceed with the selection...
The Airway Heights City Council appointed Councilwoman Tanya Dashiell the new deputy mayor, following a 4-3 vote at its Tuesday meeting. Dashiell, who was nominated by Mayor Kevin Richey, takes over for Steven Lawrence, who replaced Richey after council appointed him mayor by the council last summer following the resignation of former mayor Patrick Rushing. Richey’s term on the council was set to expire at the beginning of the year, so the duties of deputy mayor expired with it for Lawrence when he took over the position. I...
At Cheney Care Center, EWU student Monica Mack (right) and resident Gloria Porter make a craft. Mack was one of several Eastern students who volunteered at the Care Center for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day....
Cheney's Ty Graham gives Medical Lake's Cole Soliday (20) a congratulatory hug after the Cardinals defeated the Blackhawks 64-58 in overtime in the annual Golden Feather Spirit Game last Thursday in Cheney....
Cheney dispatcher Thomas Hall doesn't think of his job as just that - a job. Nor does he want residents to think of him and the rest of his Cheney Police Department comrades as merely public safety. "Think of us as insurance," Hall said. Hall has been named the department's 2015 Dispatcher of the Year, the third time he's received the award. He appreciates the honor, but sees it as something akin to a sports most valuable player award. "All of us here in dispatch, we all do a...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Police Officer Nate Conley never thinks to equip himself with a "craziest story" about his time patrolling the streets of Cheney that he can whip out at social gatherings when asked to do so. What he does think about a lot is some advice given him while he was still somewhat new to the profession. "Someone told me early in my career to treat each call like it's your mother who's calling it in and do that level of service," Conley said in a Jan. 15...
At its Jan. 12 meeting, the Cheney City Council approved a three-year contract between the city and the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 1919 chapter; giving Cheney firefighters pay increases and making changes to language in the previous contract. The new contract, which runs through 2018, provides firefighters a 1.5 percent base salary increase this year. It also provides a base wage increase of 1.75 – 3 percent in 2017 and 2018, depending on the West Region’s consumer price index and how it affects sim...
