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  • Medical Lake soccer, volleyball conclude regular seasons

    Updated Oct 25, 2013

    Medical Lake’s soccer and volleyball teams conclude regular season Northeast A League play today (Oct.24). The Cardinals’ soccer team (0-7 NEA, 0-11 all games) will be at home at the lower field at 4 p.m. with the difficult chore of trying to earn their first win of the season against league-leading Lakeside (6-0, 11-1). Volleyball (3-8, 6-12) will visit Freeman (10-1, 12-2) for a 6:30 p.m. contest. The fifth place Cardinals are trying to stay ahead of sixth place Kettle Falls as Tuesday’s first round of the playoffs begin...

  • Medical Lake grinds out crucial win over Kettle Falls

    PAUL DELANEY, Staff Reporter|Updated Oct 25, 2013

    There was a lot to like about Medical Lake's 24-15 Northeast A League football victory over Kettle Falls in last Friday's Homecoming game according to Cardinals' head coach Wes Hobbs. The win, which was Medical Lake's second straight improved their NEA record to 3-2 and overall mark to 4-3. "It was good, we needed that one," Hobbs said. "Regardless of the outcome with Freeman we've got a shot (at the postseason)." With Jackson Tappero scoring twice and rushing for 145 yards...

  • Cardinals after CC crown

    PAUL DELANEY, Staff Reporter|Updated Oct 25, 2013

    Medical Lake’s top-ranked 1A boys’ cross country team kept within striking range of earning their first Northeast A League championship in over a quarter century scoring an easy 16-43 win at home last Tuesday over Chewelah. Medical Lake’s girls won an equally impressive 15-47 win on their home 5,000 meter course. This past Tuesday the teams – the boys a perfect 4-0 and the girls 2-2 – traveled to Bear Lake County Park for their final NEA meet with league-leading Riverside...

  • Lady Hawks still looking for ingredients for more league wins

    Updated Oct 25, 2013

    By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Cheney girls soccer head coach Nils Radtke said he’s tried about everything he can, books, video, different lineups, you name it, but hasn’t be able to find the magic touch to coax a couple more wins out of the Lady Hawks. Cheney dropped both games last week to the Valley Schools, East and West, losing 3-1 Tuesday at home to the Knights and 4-0 to the Great Northern League-leading Eagles 4-0 on the road Thursday. Radtke said in both games the Lady Hawks had early scoring chances that might have changed...

  • Eastern women win at I.E. Invitational

    NEWS SERVICE REPORTS|Updated Oct 25, 2013

    With four of its runners finishing in the top six, the Eastern Washington University women’s cross country team won the team title among NCAA Division I schools at the Inland Empire Invitational Oct. 19 in Lewiston, Idaho. Eastern finished with 26 points, Washington State was second with 33, Gonzaga finished third and Idaho fourth. Sophomore Katie Mahoney led the Eagles with a second-place finish, covering the 5,000-meter course in 17 minutes, 17 seconds. Sarah Reiter, also a sophomore, was third in 17:32. “All in all it was...

  • Blackhawks' runners take on W. Valley, Colville at Plantes Ferry

    John McCallum, Editor|Updated Oct 25, 2013

    Cheney High's cross country teams squared off with West Valley and Colville in Great Northern League competition last Wednesday at Plantes Ferry Park in Spokane Valley. The Blackhawks girls notched a pair of forfeit wins as neither the Eagles nor Indians fielded enough runners for varsity teams. The boys notched a split, easily defeating Colville 24-32 but getting edged by West Valley 26-29. Mariah Brenton led the Cheney girls, finishing second with a time of 20 minutes, 47 se...

  • EWU men predicted mid-pack in Sky

    NEWS SERVICE REPORTS|Updated Oct 24, 2013

    Encouraged by a youthful team with a fast finish a year ago, the Eastern Washington University men’s basketball team has been picked to finish fifth by the coaches and sixth by the media in preseason polls announced by the Big Sky Conference Oct. 17. Eastern returns four starters and seven total letterwinners from last year’s team, which finished 10-21 overall and 7-13 in the 11-team Big Sky under head coach Jim Hayford. Now entering his third year at the helm of a squad with no seniors, EWU was picked to finish behind pre...

  • Missoula a tough, but welcome place for EWU

    PAUL DELANEY, Staff Reporter|Updated Oct 24, 2013

    Despite being a house of horrors with painful losses in his last two visits to Washington Grizzly Stadium, Eastern Washington University head football coach Beau Baldwin is looking forward to returning there this Saturday when his third-ranked Eagles clash with the No. 10 Grizzlies. “It’s going to be a tremendous challenge, but that’s what we love,” Baldwin said this past Monday during the EWU Coaches Show. “We love those challenges, we love going on the road; what better pl...

  • Eagles get rolling in second half of SUU win

    PAUL DELANEY, Staff Reporter|Updated Oct 24, 2013

    For a half and then some, last Saturday's Homecoming football game between Eastern Washington and Southern Utah had a certain sense of déjà vu to it. It seemed eerily familiar to the 2012 contest between the two teams played in Cedar City where missed opportunities eventually cost the Eagles both the game, 30-27, and their No. 1 ranking in the Football Championship Subdivision. In the 2012 game, then redshirt freshman quarterback Vernon Adams struggled in his start and was r...

  • Blackhawks execution leads to 28-14 win over Deer Park

    John McCallum, Editor|Updated Oct 24, 2013

    Just about any coach will tell you the secret to winning on the field is execution – plain and simple doing what you're supposed to do. In the first half of last Friday's Homecoming game with visiting Deer Park the Cheney football team was their own worst enemy at times, with mistakes preventing the Blackhawks from getting any real momentum and helping the Stags to a 7-0 halftime lead. In the second half, execution took over. The Blackhawks scored three straight touchdowns, o...

  • Mariners need to step out of insolvency

    JAMES EIK, Staff Reporter|Updated Oct 24, 2013

    It’s October, and that means it’s time for the greatest spectacle in the history of sports: the end of another Seattle Mariners season. On “The X-Files,” FBI agent Fox Mulder said “I want to believe” regarding the existence of extra-terrestrial life. Mariners fans across the Northwest, including myself, have adopted the saying for the team, wanting to believe that one day the team will manage to have a stretch of success. The organization is arguably in deeper despair than it was at its last major crisis, around 2008 when i...

  • EWU women picked to top Big Sky in basketball

    NEWS SERVICE REPORTS|Updated Oct 24, 2013

    After winning a program-record 14 league games and advancing to the WNIT for the second time in school history a year ago, Big Sky coaches and media members have tabbed the Eastern Washington women's basketball team first in the Big Sky preseason polls, announced by the conference office Wednesday, Oct. 16. EWU's previous best preseason ranking under head coach Wendy Schuller came prior to the 2010-11 season when the Eagles were picked to finish second in both polls. Eastern...

  • Ernest Henry Gilmour Jr.

    Updated Oct 24, 2013

    Ernest Henry Gilmour Jr. (age 55) was born in Whittier Calif. Feb. 4, 1958 to proud parents, Ernest H. Gilmour Sr. and Marie J. Zabel. Ernie moved with his family to Cheney, Wash. in 1967. Ernie graduated from Cheney High School class of 1976. He is survived by his parents and his two wonderful children, a son, Shawn A. Gilmour and a beautiful daughter Kristy M. Gilmour and a granddaughter named Lily M. Gilmour. Ernie also had a very special, significant other of over eight... Full story

  • Christen Michele Peterson

    Updated Oct 24, 2013

    On Oct. 10, Christen Michele Peterson, 27, found peace again. Christen was born June 4, 1986 and was raised by her parents Sean and Tiffany Peterson in Cheney, Wash. Christen spent her early years attending Betz Elementary and Cheney Middle School before graduating from Cheney High School in 2004, where she was active as a cheerleader. Christen recently graduated from Spokane Falls Community College earning her AA degree and was accepted to Eastern Washington University. She was living in Spokane, Wash. with her boyfriend, Ry... Full story

  • What's Happening on the West Plains

    Updated Oct 24, 2013

    City of Cheney • Oct. 25, Baby Play and Learn Storytime (ages 0-18 months), 10:30 a.m., Cheney Library • Oct. 26, Mother Goose on the Loose with Nancy Stewart, 11 a.m. Cheney Library • Oct. 29, Celebrate 100 years of Boy Scouts, 5-7 p.m., Latter Day Saints Chapel • Oct. 29, Become debt free, 12 p.m., Cheney Library • Oct. 30, Toddler Storytime (ages 1 1/2-3), 10:30 a.m., Cheney Library • Oct. 31, Preschool Play and Learn Storytime (ages 3-5), 10:30 a.m., Cheney Library City of Medical Lake • Oct. 30, Play and Learn Storyti... Full story

  • Looking Back

    Updated Oct 24, 2013

    1 Years Ago Oct. 30, 2003 Cheney High School senior Lysanna Kuindersma, an exchange student from Holland, was named the 2003 Homecoming Queen during halftime of the football game between the Blackhawks and Rogers. For the first time ever, Cheney High School was represented in the Spokane Lilac Festival as Emma Larson, Heidi Huppert, Tasha Bustamante, Allison Proctor, Courtny Leslie and Chelsea Alent were chosen to compete for queen or princess roles. Brad Rasmussen scored two...

  • Churches

    Updated Oct 24, 2013

    Emmanuel Lutheran Church Join us Oct. 27 for Reformation Sunday. Grade school through adult Christian education begins at 9 a.m. Worship begins at 10:30 a.m. Fellowship will follow the worship service. Emmanuel is hosting StageWest Community Theater’s production of “It was a Dark and Stormy Night” written by Tim Kelly and directed by Charles Kenfield. Play dates are Oct. 25, 26 and 27. Friday and Saturday shows begin at 7 p.m. Please note that the Oct. 26th show is by pre-sale reservation only with dinner served at 6 p.m. Sun...

  • Gear up for the Tyler Grange Hall dinner and auction

    Luella Dow, Contributor|Updated Oct 24, 2013

    Did you say you don't know the person sitting next to you? That doesn't happen at the Tyler Grange Hall. As somebody said to me recently, "We're all family." Walk into the Grange Hall and observe. It's the night of the Nov. 2 Harvest Dinner. Some folks are working side by side in the kitchen, stirring the gravy, mashing the potatoes, peeking into the oven to see how the turkey's doing. Others are arranging tables, setting chairs, receiving the baked goods scheduled for auction...

  • Spokane County opens radio dispatcher job with Sheriff's Office

    NEWS SERVICE REPORTS|Updated Oct 24, 2013

    Spokane County Sheriff’s Office is accepting applications for radio dispatcher entry level positions. The dispatcher position receives and transmits messages to and from units operating in the field as well as answers the incoming hotline calls from 911. Also included in the job description includes maintaining logs of communication, in addition to other duties. The salary range is listed at $3,436.36 - $4,636.84 per month, plus benefits. Applicants must submit a civil service application, sealed official transcripts, a c...