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The Cheney School District board of directors voted 4-1 to rerun the district’s $44.88 million bond proposal for expansion and renovation of its high school on the upcoming April 28 special election ballot. The district previously ran a vote on the bond in a Feb. 10 special election, receiving 58.43 percent approval but short of the 60 percent yes votes needed for passage. Since the vote was certified by the county election’s office Feb. 25, the district has instituted measures to gain public feedback. Superintendent Dr. Deb...
Emmanuel Lutheran Church Emmanuel Lutheran Church welcomes you for Sunday school and worship. You may also watch our pastors’ sermons at our website www.emmanuelcheney.org of on YouTube at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Cheney. Our mid-week Lenten worship service continues on Wednesday evenings though March 25. A soup supper is served at 6 p.m. followed by worship at 6:30 p.m. Mark your calendars for March 29 and plan to worship with us at our Passion/Palm Sunday service at 10:30 a.m. All are welcome. United Church of Christ M... Full story
1 Years Ago March 17, 2005 The Cheney Light Department was anticipating a future rate increase of between 3-5 percent to offset approximately $60,000 in additional charges from the Bonneville Power Administration. The Medical Lake school district was seeking $4,500 in funding to replace the 30-year-old lighting system on the high school’s tennis courts. Medical Lake rallied from a 16-point second half deficit and scored a 44-41 boy’s basketball victory over the Quincy Jackrabbits in the 2A state title game in Yakima. The...
“Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific” by Mary Cronk Farrell is the March selection of the Book Discussion Group of the Friends of the Cheney Community Library. The group meets Tuesday, March 24, at 7 p.m. at the library. Farrell will join the group to talk about her book, which describes the experiences of nurses at Army and Navy hospitals in the Philippines and what happened to them after Dec. 7, 1941 when the Japanese invaded the islands. The nurses became pri...
All events are free unless posted otherwise. To get your event or meeting in the weekly What’s Happening section send an email with date, time, location and event to jmac@cheneyfreepress.com. City of Cheney • March 20, Baby Play and Learn Storytime (ages 0 – 18 months), community library, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. • March 20, Free AARP Tax-Aide, community library, noon – 5 p.m. • March 21, Stars and Stripes, Boots and Spurs Pancake Feed, Cheney Faith Center, 300 N. Second St., $8 adults, $4 children 10 and under, 8 – 11 a.m. • March... Full story
Back when some prominent Republicans were reasonable, they endorsed some measures now advocated by the Obama administration. Quickly coming to mind is Obama Care, which essentially copied Massachusetts’ 2006 health care reform under then-Republican Gov. Mitt Romney, who now effectively opposes his own plan. This Massachusetts reform included the individual mandate of Obama Care, now opposed by Republicans, but also included in the Republican response to the Clinton administration’s unsuccessful 1993 health care reform pro...
On Saturday afternoon, March 7, around 4 p.m., I left our house near Sutton Park to collect some materials from the Cheney Library. Before I opened the door to leave, I heard a train rumbling around the curve. It got louder as I approached the library, and after I checked materials out of the library, I could hear the continual clicking of the train down First Street, so I headed southwest, and met cars backed halfway down the street toward the Cheney Federal Credit Union. I continued to Mitchell’s Harvest Foods, and met m...
March 5, the Free Press printed Dave Daugharty’s letter re: Washington Policy Center (WPC) and six related issues. Dave — a long time colleague/friend — and I both wish the best for our country, our state and our people but have differing views on what that means. I wish to address each of his six points. 1. Dave’s claim: A supermajority needed for state tax increases will “ensure tyranny by the minority.” He then asks if such represents democracy. Of course not. The United States has never been a democracy but rather a repre...
As one of the “Uninformed” voters who live on the West Plains and north of Fairchild Air Force Base, I was one of the ones who voted no on the Cheney School District’s last bond issue. This was not because I don’t support schools or children’s learning, but more about living within a budget. According to my property tax statement for this year I paid $2,087.98. Out of that, $814.47 or 39 percent of all taxes raised goes to schools. Over the last few years, Cheney School District has come to the voters to approve a $79 milli...
We all should make informed decisions when we vote. In regard to the need for an auditorium at Cheney High School, I would like to address some points presented in previous letters to the editor. Perhaps on-the-job experience of a 40-year, music-teaching career will help. Multipurpose rooms One one-third of the CHS student population participates in the performing arts. Part of the students’ learning experience (required by the state) is performance etiquette while watching other groups. The multi-purpose facilities in the di...
Whoever coined the phrase, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me,” probably never dealt with bullies. Maybe they did but never told anyone about it. Bullying is one of those problems that never seem to go away. No matter how far advanced we like to think we are as a society, bullying continues to exist in different types of forms. I like to think bullying began in the caveman era. The bigger caveman pushed around the smaller caveman and messed up the latter’s cave paintings because he was jealous...
Car club pancake feed The Stars and Stripes, Boots and Spurs Car Club invites the public to its second annual pancake feed Saturday, March 21, from 8 – 11 a.m. at the Cheney Faith Center, 300 N. Second St. Breakfast is $8 adults, $4 children age 10 and under. There will also be door prizes. All proceeds benefit Cheney Junior Rodeo and the veteran’s organization Time of Remembrance – families of our fallen heroes. Contact Sherrie at (509) 230-7166 for more information. Eco Green Compost sale Cheney’s Eco Green compost will be... Full story
Guests who plan to attend the annual Medical Lake Dollars for Scholars (MLDFS) “Spring Thing” fundraiser, March 21, won’t need to dig through their closet in search of their expensive clothes or have to rent a suit or a dress for the event. The theme for this year’s fundraiser, which takes place at St. Ann’s Parish Hall, from 6:30 - 10:30 p.m., is “Going Casual.” “In the past we’ve always done ‘Puttin on the Ritz’ and everyone always dressed up,” MLDFS secretary Alicia Noble said. “This year people can come in jeans and a t...
It starts with an announcement on the school public address system: "Standby for Hawks news!" Several students immediately begin a countdown from 20, 19, 18...5...4...3...2...1 - the small, tripod-mounted video camera goes live and the images of Shilo Schmidt and Alyssa Lien stream into each of the school's classrooms with the greeting "Good morning Salnave!" Another five-minute production of Salnave Elementary School's morning newscast is underway. "Hawks News" has been a...
Students at Eastern Washington University recently gave their approval, albeit by a relatively small margin, to move ahead with plans to remodel the Pence Union Building on campus. By a vote in late February of 1,052-983, a 51.2 percent yes margin, students approved raising approximately $30 million to significantly remodel the five decade-old student union center. "We're just glad to see great numbers, a great turnout vote," Associated Students of Eastern Washington...
The Medical Lake High School Knowledge Bowl team didn’t come home empty handed after they took third place at the Washington State XXXIII Knowledge Bowl championships, March 14 at Arlington High School. The competition began with a written round of 50 multiple-choice questions with a 35-minute time limit, followed by four preliminary oral exam rounds consisting of 50 questions each. “It’s kind of like team ‘Jeopardy,’ except you cannot pick your categories,’” Virgina Luhn, one of the team’s advisors said. At the end of five...
The Cheney School District board of directors elected to table a proposal by a pair of developers to purchase the surplused Fisher Building, at the board’s first regular meeting in March, March 11. The proposal by Collegetown Development, LLC, a collaboration between developers Rob Brewster and Ron Wells, would purchase the district’s former high school/junior high school/administration building for $949,500, 90 percent of its appraised value of just over $1 million. Like the two previous proposal to purchase the nearly 86-ye...
CHENEY March 9 Illegal dumping was reported on the 1200 block of First Street. March 10 Failure to yield to a public vehicle was reported at Fish Lake. Third-degree theft was reported on the 2700 block of First Street. Alcohol was shoplifted and recovered. Mental health issues were reported on the 1000 block of Betz Road. The individual was voluntarily committed. March 11 The Cheney Police Department assisted Child Protective Services on the 2400 block of University Lane with a child placement. Third-degree theft was...
The public is invited to an open house Tuesday, March 24, to learn more about Spokane Transit Authority’s Proposition 1 to appear on the April 28 ballot. The open house takes place at Spokane International Airport’s Irv Reed Center, just west of the Ramada Inn off MacFarlane Road, from 4 – 6 p.m. Proposition 1 proposes to increase local sales tax by three-tenths of 1 percent. If approved, the funds would be used to maintain existing service levels along with enhancements such as construction of a West Plains transit cente...
A person who walks into Fresh Design Gallery and Vintage Rental, 116 N. Lefevre St., where Greene Management used to be in Medical Lake, will smell flowers and candy, displayed inside of a glass from the Forever Creamery in Hillyard. Fresh Design Gallery, run by Holly Dalke and longtime Medical Lake resident Todd Hoffman, opened in January. The store features all kinds of vintage furniture, household items and decorations customers can rent for weddings, parties and...
There are changes ahead for the Eastern Washington University Surplus Store. First, the facility will be finally making a long-anticipated move from its current location in downtown Cheney on 120 G Street to quarters adjacent to the new parking lot addition north of Roos Field. The other change is in personnel where Friday, March 20 will be the final day on the job for current manager and EWU student Katie Emery. "Spring quarter will be my last quarter at EWU," Emery wrote in...
Quick, name one of the area's sporting events that makes interest in hotel rooms spike and something area merchants dig. Nope, it's not Hoopfest, nor is it Bloomsday. Months in advance teams block out hundreds of rooms to accommodate players from across the nation who will be competing in the Pacific Northwest Qualifier volleyball tournament March 20-22 and then again March 27-29. Eastern Washington University will be one of three venues that will house 661 teams for the...
The Cheney City Council approved a resolution declaring an emergency in order to waive the competitive bid process and proceed with purchasing needed electrical components to repair a main underground switch cabinet damaged in a Feb. 15 auto accident. City Administrator Mark Schuller said the reason for the emergency resolution, which would exceed $7,500, is because some of the parts are 12-15 weeks out. Repairs to the cabinet, located at the northeast corner of North Sixth Street and Betz Road, are temporary and if...
An afternoon of nervously waiting to hear the name of Eastern Washington University called during Selection Sunday for the NCAA Basketball Tournament ended with smiles from players and coaches following the news the Eagles would face Georgetown University tonight (March 19) in Portland, Ore. at 7 p.m....
Vehicles and transportation were major topics at the March 16 Airway Heights City Council meeting. The council approved the Parks Maintenance Department’s request to purchase a 2004 Dodge Ram for $25,347 from Dishman Dodge. Parks, Recreation and Community Services Director J.C. Kennedy explained that when staff sent out the first proposal, bids came back too high and that City Manager Albert Tripp asked the council if they could increase the bidding amount. Kennedy said Glenn Pike, parks maintenance coordinator, has already i...
