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By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter Memorial Day is full of traditions, whether you attend a parade, a pancake breakfast or a family barbeque. This year, the Cheney Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 11326 asks residents to take an hour out of their holiday to honor two men—both Cheney citizens, students, husbands and fathers—who died while serving in the military. The names of Army Chief Warrant Officer Clint Prather and Army Staff Sgt. Chad Caldwell will be engraved on the memorial at Veterans Memorial Park, located on Fourth Str...
Move is designed to increase efficiency when it comes to small contracts By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter Cheney City Council approved an ordinance at its May 25 meeting that allowed the mayor to authorize small contracts worth no more than $10,000. The measure was one of two brought to council Tuesday night that were aimed at improving procedures and efficiency, after recent discussions focusing on those issues within city government. The ordinance gives the mayor the right to authorize purchases that were already approved in... Full story
The Eastern Washington University women landed among the top three schools in the Big Sky Conference in the 2009-10 All-Sports Trophy standings. The Eagles garnered 75.5 total points, finishing just behind Montana (76.0) and the 2010 BSC All-Sports Trophy winner Sacramento State (88). Points for the All-Sports Trophy are determined based on a team's finish in the regular-season standings for soccer, volleyball, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's basketball and football, while additional points are awarded based on a... Full story
Three former Eastern Washington Eagles played big parts in last Saturday's Spokane Shock Arena League football win over the Utah Blaze. Raul Vijil scored four touchdowns and led the team with 160 receiving yards as Spokane improved its record to 5-2 on the season and won for the second time this year against Utah. Erik Meyer saw his first significant time at quarterback as toe former Eagle played the entire second half, completed 10-of-17 passes for 197 yards and four touchdowns. Finally, fullback Harrison Nikolao scored on...
Medical Lake High School's booster club is staging its annual “Grapes and Hops Fundraiser” on Friday, June 11 at St. Annes Parish Hall from 7-10 p.m. Cost of a ticket, which includes both food and beverages is $35. Orgainzers are currently soliciting donations of both gift baskets and individual auction items. “I have seen a variety of baskets from wine baskets, car washing baskets, movie baskets, man baskets, kitchen gadget baskets, etc.,” MLHS athletics director Chris Spring said. Info and tickets: Chris Spring, 565-329...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Several West Plains area students of the sport of karate will have the opportunity of a lifetime when they get to learn from perhaps the best instructor in the world. From June 2-6, as part of the Miyagi Chojun Festival and Pan-American Karate Championships at the Family Karate Center in Spokane, students of the sport will have instruction from Sensei Morio Higaonna. “The significance of this event to Cheney, indirectly, is merely that we are brushing elbows with one of the most well-known k...
Annual comedy and music extravaganza created to honor Eastern Washington University student-athletes By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Athletes who are normally as stoic and serious as surgeons with a scalpel when they are doing their business on the field and court will get an opportunity to have some let-your-hair-down fun next week. The “EeeWoos,” an annual comedy and music extravaganza created to honor Eastern Washington University student-athletes, takes place for the second time on Wednesday, June 2 at 7 p.m. at Sho... Full story
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter They may have gone out early during play in last week's District 7 championships, but Medical Lake's girls' tennis team hardly disappointed their coach, Dawn Eliassen. Medical Lake's singles entries each lost in opening-round play, while one of the two doubles entries suffered the same fate in competition that took place at Washington State University last Friday and Saturday. Just as they did in the regular portion of the Great Northern League season, Clarkston breezed through the tournament...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Head coach Justin Blayne didn't get any of his Medical Lake boys' tennis players to state this year, but he may have gotten to see a glimpse of potential future success. The Cardinals got into the second round in doubles' play, but that was it at the District 7 championships played at Washington State University last Friday and Saturday. Regular season champion Clarkston ran away with the team title, scoring 54 points. Deer Park was a very distant second with 17 points, while the Cards were... Full story
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Medical Lake got two of the athletes they expected to reach state and a surprise they maybe didn't anticipate following competition last Thursday and Friday in the District 7 championships, staged at Eastern Washington University. Senior Jarrod Swanson was third in the 200m with a time of 23.79 and scaled the long jump with a 20 feet 3 inches, good for third and triple jump at 42-7 where he was second to Cheney's DeAngelo Jones with 45 1/2. Matt Friddle's 6 foot 2 inch effort got the junior a... Full story
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Cheney girls golfer Marye Fuqua fired a two-round score of 192 to finish fourth overall at District 7 competition last Monday, May 17, at Meadow Wood Golf Course in Liberty Lake, in the process qualifying her for this week's 2A state competition at Apple Tree Golf Resort in Yakima.. Fuqua finished strong with a 93 at districts after opening with a 99, placing the junior 10th heading into the final round. Blackhawks junior Marina Wilbur also finished strong with a second-round 103 after opening with a...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor The Cheney boys and girls tennis teams wrapped up their 2010 season at district competition last Friday and Saturday in Pullman, both coming home with fifth-place finishes overall. The boys notched 11 points to finish above Medical Lake and Riverside, one point back of West Valley while the girls scored four points to tie the Cardinals for fifth, both finishing ahead of Deer Park and Riverside. Cheney's doubles teams fueled the Blackhawks finishes and chief among those was the boys' pair of Tanner...
Reluctance to accept EWU Foundation's red turf donation could hamper future fundraising efforts By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Word has it there is a back-story to Eastern Washington University's proposal to rename Woodward Field in honor of Michael Roos. The former Eagles and current Pro Bowl lineman for the Tennessee Titans donated $500,000 in January to help get the university's project to install new, red artificial turf off the ground, with his money buying the turf and the non-profit EWU Foundation raising installation... Full story
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Cheney's second straight appearance in the 2A state tournament may not have ended the way the Blackhawks had hoped, but it might serve as a program-builder nonetheless. Cheney employed its game-in-motion offensive philosophy to perfection for an 11-2 win in the opener last Saturday against East Valley-Yakima at Davis High School in Yakima, but fell a game short of the Final Four double-elimination round with a 12-4 loss to Selah in the quarterfinal. The Blackhawks scored four runs in the bottom of the... Full story
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor What could be better than winning a couple of league championships? How about a pair of district titles to boot? The Cheney boys and girls teams pulled off such a feat, complementing their Great Northern League regular season championships by winning the District 7 meet at Eastern Washington University last Thursday and Friday. The Blackhawks' boys cruised to the title with 167 points, 62 ahead of second-place West Valley while the girls finished with 165 points, 59.25 ahead of Riverside. DeAngelo... Full story
Blackhawks earn third straight trip to Sumner with wins over Quincy and Interlake By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Cheney goalkeeper Andrew Wilson said it best after the Blackhawks' 2-0 2A state quarterfinal win over visiting Interlake last Saturday afternoon, jubilantly exclaiming to the mass of celebrating players and fans, “The boys are back.” Thanks to a pair of second half goals the Blackhawks are indeed heading back to Sumner's Sunset-Chev Stadium for their third consecutive appearance in the state tournament's double-eliminatio... Full story
Cheney makes first trip to state since 1992 as district's 2nd seed By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Lady Hawks' head coach Gary Blake will tell you the last time a Cheney High School softball team qualified for the state tournament there were just two classifications – 3A, and everybody else. The year was 1992. By winning two of three games in last week's District 7 tournament Cheney finally ended that 18-year absence, taking the district's second-seed to this weekend's 16-team 2A state tournament in Selah. To get there, Cheney r...
