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CHENEY April 5 A two-car non-injury collision occurred in the 1200 block of Washington Street. Domestic violence-related harassment was reported in the zero hundred block of North Second Street. The incident is being investigated. A gas driveoff—third degree theft—was reported in the 2300 block of First Street. Heather L. Futchko, 31, was arrested for unattended hit and run at Cheney Middle School. Officers assisted the Glendale, Ariz. police department with identifying a child and placement with Child Protective Services in...
StageWest's production is a well-done bargain anywhere We had the opportunity to see an incredible live theater performance last weekend. The best part is that it was right here in Cheney. The StageWest presentation of “Diary of Anne Frank” is professionally done and touchingly beautiful. It is truly an outstanding production and the good news is that it is being performed again this weekend. Great theater, bargain price and right in Cheney – we can't recommend it enough! Carol and Chuck Kriegh Cheney Roos' red turf money...
By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter Some people call it a small town mentality, but I think it's a human mentality. Most people fear change. It's natural. If you're comfortable doing what you're doing, why change it? One good reason to change things: the way you're doing it is killing you. There's been a big push lately toward healthy lifestyles and it's been a long time coming. The First Lady has started the Let's Move campaign to reduce childhood obesity, and Cheney has already jumped onboard with Let's Move Cheney. Spring is...
It happens every spring. While you might have thought we were talking about the start of baseball season, this activity continues into summer, fall and winter too. It's the time of the year called “scam-time,” a season that spans the entire calendar, no matter the weather. The latest emerged in recent local headlines when agents of the FBI and the IRS raided the offices of a Spokane business, Team Spirit America. The resulting investigation revealed that hundreds of people were fleeced out of 10s of millions in yet ano...
Eastern Washington University's Get Lit! Festival – a weeklong celebration of reading and writing – presents more than 50 festival events for people of all ages and interests April 14-21. Headliners include: sustainability expert Anna Lappé, religious scholar Dr. Reza Aslan, children's author Janet Wong, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo, National Book Award finalist Jess Walter, essayist Sallie Tisdale and performance poet Patricia Smith. In keeping with the Get Lit! roots, more than 30 other local and regi...
Project aims to enhance student learning while bridging the gap between school and community By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter It all started with a couple of teachers and a pipe dream. A garden now in the final planning stages on the campus of Medical Lake High School is the brainchild of health teacher Val Von Lehe and Dr. Laurie Morley, an instructor in the college of education and human development at Eastern Washington University. The two developed the idea of a “living laboratory” on school grounds as a way to int...
By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter During an April 7 special meeting the Medical Lake School Board approved submittal of an application asking the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to authorize the district to issue Qualified School Construction Bonds. These specialized bonds are made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and are taxable and interest free. Federal law provides a yearly limit on the number of these bonds that can be issued for each state and in Washington OSPI allocates th...
Hundreds of students listen to second-generation Japanese-American who fought on front lines By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter It's an opportunity most people will never get. More than 200 Cheney High School students listened last week as a Japanese-American veteran of the famed WWII 442nd division shared war stories. Fred Shiosaki, a Spokane native, recounted his experience as a second-generation Japanese American after the attack on Pearl Harbor before sharing some of his harrowing experiences on the front lines of the war...
Nobody is going to second guess Cheney's Ryan Gray about his decision to delay knee surgery so that he could compete in the Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo, least of all Ryan Gray. Gray won the Saturday night semifinal at Holt Arena on the Idaho State University campus in Pocatello and then came back to put a 90-point ride on Brookman Rodeo's Good Times in the final to capture the bareback riding title and a rodeo-best $19,978. “I guess that should cover the cost of the surgery,” Gray said. Gray has at least one tear in...
What a difference a week makes for both the Spokane Shock and former Eastern Washington University Eagle Raul Vijil. After dropping their first game of the season, 74-62 to Milwaukee, the Shock (1-1) and Vijil - returned to form and defeated the Utah Blaze (0-1) 68-34 at the E Center in West Valley City, Utah. Vijil, benched in the second half against the Iron after committing two turnovers, would score touchdowns in the second, third and fourth quarters. He caught seven passes for 87 yards....
FROM STAFF AND NEWS SERVICE REPORTS What was good for the Eastern Washington University offense was bad for the defense. And vice versa. The Eagle offense rolled up 364 yards but had three turnovers as EWU ended spring practice No. 5 with a 55-play scrimmage last Saturday. Junior quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell, a transfer from Southern Methodist University, completed 6-of-8 passes for 75 yards and a touchdown in his Eagle debut. In all, the offense also had 194 yards on the ground and 170 through the air. But Eagle running...
Medical Lake's girls' tennis got a key doubles win from Jessica Kauffman and Briana Vinson, defeating Sam Hruban and Vishaka Muhunthar, 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 as the Cardinals beat Pullman 4-3 in a Great Northern League match Tuesday in Medical Lake. The win snapped a three-match losing streak for Medical Lake, which plays at West Valley today (Thursday, April 15) before hosting Cheney next Tuesday. Both matches begin at 3:45 p.m....
Medical Lake opened the Great Northern League portion of their schedule by earning a split with West Valley last Saturday in a doubleheader played in Millwood. The Cardinals won the opener 7-4 but were held to just one hit at the Eagles won the second game, 15-1. The Cardinals used the three hits of Ryan Owens and scored in their first four innings on the way to the victory in the opener. Ryan Wagner got the win, going five innings while Ronnie Miller got the save by shutting down the Eagles in both the sixth and seventh...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Medical Lake boys' golf team coach Jim Mason approached the season with the uncertainty of someone who is cautious about opening a cupboard, expecting it to be empty, yet finds it well stocked, and with a couple of sweet treats to boot. “We have a whole bunch of new kids. We came in with almost a whole new varsity,” Mason said, noting. Among them were a couple of surprise performers, “Two of them are shooting in the 80s,” Mason said of Drew Holmes and Andrew Gentry. “Each week their score kee...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Medical Lake's girls' track team will have to rely on limited numbers and youth in 2010. Like on the boys' side, the Cardinals girls' will have co-coaches Steve Keith and Phil Averill calling the shots as regular coach Phil Tennison recovers from back surgery. But the new leaders appear to be finding a lot to like about their little group. “We're just a little thin,” Averill admitted. Senior Emily Pake will be the “anchor of our team. Expect great things from her,” Averill said of the competi...
Co-coaches will specialize with Cardinals' athletes this season By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter With Medical Lake's track program this year, two heads are hopefully better than one. Steve Keith and Phil Averill have temporarily taken over the duties as co-coaches of Medical Lake track while Phil Tennison mends after having back surgery. Tennison still does some work with the team, helping guide those athletes who do throwing events. Keith specializes in field events such as jumps, while Averill's knowledge is in the running...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor If getting that first win under its belt always makes a team feel good then the Cheney girls' tennis team is flying pretty high right about now. Cheney eliminated the goose egg in the left hand win column in a big way last week, notching home victories over Deer Park and Riverside to even their season Great Northern League mark at 2-2. The Blackhawks got solid play from their doubles teams to down the Stags 4-3 last Tuesday, and then finished the week with sound play all around to blank Riverside 7-0...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Cheney's girls golf team scored 381 points to finish seventh out of 10 teams at the East Valley Invitational tournament last Thursday at Meadow Wood Golf Course in Liberty Lake. The Blackhawks finished above three of the four Spokane Valley schools in attendance, with only tournament champion University finishing higher with 291 points. Marye Fuqua was the Blackhawks highest placer, finishing 12th with a round of 109. She was followed by Marina Wilber at 133, Allie Brown at 139, Danielle Bauge at 141...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Building for the future, and treating any success that comes as an early and pleasant surprise is pretty much the goal head coach Jeff Pike has for his 2010 Cheney boys golf team. The Blackhawks return two seniors from last year's team, Sean Thaut and Eric Zito. Both are hard workers, Pike said, and will provide match scoring and leadership in their final campaigns. Three juniors are back, Christian Wright, Matt Chapman and Richi Perez. Wright is likely out for the season with an injury, but Pike said...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Despite miserable weather the Cheney boys' tennis team still found ways to post their first wins of the season. The Blackhawks downed Deer Park on Tuesday, 5-2, then turned around to shut out Riverside 7-0 on Thursday, both matches on the road. Like their soccer counterparts the Stags are benefiting from a couple of foreign exchange students in singles. Cheney's David Denney showed improved serving but couldn't work deuce games to his advantage in losing 2-6, 2-6 to Alejandro Canseco, an exchange...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Cheney softball head coach Gary Blake calls it “post-spring break syndrome” – that lethargic, lack of focus that rises up to bite a team after the annual early-season week off. Whatever it was, Blake's Lady Hawks didn't look like the same team that entered spring break with a 2-0 start. Cheney played what Blake called “probably the worst performance of the season” in a 20-2 loss last Tuesday at 1A Lakeside, and then added insult to injury by playing 15 good innings Saturday in dropping a doublehea...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Cheney girls' head coach Tom Stralser used two words to sum up his team's work in their first meet back from spring break – “not bad.” The Blackhawks had some good performances in scoring 30 points for an eighth-place finish last Saturday at the annual Mooberry Relays, hosted by Rogers High School and held at Gonzaga Prep's track and field. “We're starting to put a few things together,” Stralser said. The Blackhawks were led by Shelby Maurer. The senior won the 100-meter dash in a time of 12.60 sec...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Saturday's Mooberry Relays produced good news and bad news for the Cheney boys track team. The good news is the Blackhawks showed steady improvement in finishing tied for 12th with Shadle Park out of 19 boys teams competing at Gonzaga Prep's track and field facility. The bad news is they lost a top candidate for state in the field events and a key member of a relay team to a season-ending injury. Cheney boys head coach Todd Hering said Nathaniel Youmans was rounding the final turn on the anchor leg of...
