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The Cheney High baseball team began Great Northern League play after splitting a doubleheader against Clarkston, March 26 losing the first game 8-6 and winning the nightcap, 8-7. Cheney took an early lead in the first game after Trey Martin's RBI brought in Riley Jones. Clarkston answered with two runs in the second to take the lead and four more in the third to make it 6-1. Gleave scored a run on stolen bases in bottom of the third inning. In the fifth inning Cade VanWormer h...
In their first year in business in downtown Cheney, the owners of Wild Bill's Long Bar decided to subscribe to some old-fashioned notions. One is that there is no need to reinvent the wheel, and the second is that there is a great deal of knowledge to be learned from the customer, Greg Hubbard and Charlie Witte said. While an adjacent watering hole - the former Asylum and Goofy's - sits vacant and in the process of being remodeled for a future bar, sales are up 52 percent...
1 Years Ago April 6, 2006 The Medical Lake Police Department was investigating a bomb threat, delivered in the form of graffiti on the wall of a girls' bathroom, at Hallett Elementary School. There was an ongoing discussion taking place in Spokane County over jail overcrowding and its effect on communities - including Cheney - who were seeing inmates being turned away because of a lack of space. The Cheney girls' track team won 16 of 18 events and scored a 123.5 – 25.5 win o...
Addressing both comfort and convenience at the same time, Fairchild Air Force Base officially opened its new passenger terminal during ribbon cutting ceremonies March 25. The new terminal replaces the old facility located at the base's operations building. Its new location in the 92nd Logistics Readiness Squadron's cargo handling building centralizes the mission of accommodating passengers, facilitation personnel deployment and moving cargo into one building. It also upgrades...
Medical Lake High School sophomore Kayla Gerry, who is an athlete and a musician, can add another accolade to her list: Washington State Senate Page Gerry was one of 30 students from across the state who served as a senate page during the 2016 legislative session in Olympia where she received first-hand experience in learning how the state government works. Her opportunity to serve as a page came through the Washington Senate Page Program where students spend a week working...
Cheney United Church of Christ He is risen indeed! As we celebrated the resurrection of Christ we enjoyed fellowship with each other over Easter breakfast. You are cordially invited to attend future Cheney UCC services and activities. Sunday, April 3 at 10 a.m. will be our next regular service. Pastor David Krueger-Duncan will deliver the message on this communion Sunday. Our communion is open to all who wish to partake. Special music will be provided by violinist, Emma Mortenson. A coffee hour will follow in the church...
Kiwanis collecting aluminum for Outreach Kiwanis of Medical Lake will be collecting aluminum cans on Saturday, April 2, from 9 a.m. – noon at Denny’s Harvest Foods parking lot. Part of Kiwanis “One Day” service events world-wide, the money raised will go to support Medical Lake Outreach which helps people with emergent needs to pay for utilities, rent and other critical services. Employee/parent focus group April 5 New Student Transitions and Parent Programs and Admissions are conducting an EWU employee/parent focus group t...
Deanna Marie Stragier passed away on Feb. 26, 2016 in Auburn, Wash. She was born on March 27, 1973 in Spokane, Wash. to Pamela (Gerhauser) Smith and Patrick Stragier. Deanna is survived by her three children: two sons, Sean Hall and Chad Hall and daughter Emma Nelson; her mother, Pamela Smith, her father and step-mother, Patrick and Doris Stragier; her sisters Jaime Lund (Issac) and Samantha Stragier; her brothers Blake Stragier (Laura) and Rian Smith; and numerous aunts,...
Jeffrey L. Smith, age 66, of Cheney, Wash. passed away March 13, 2016 in Spokane, Wash. Jeff worked at the family jewelry store in Cheney for many years. He was the only child of Peter J. and Frances L. (Fred) Smith who have both preceded him in death. A graveside service was held March 28 at Spokane Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Cheney Funeral Chapel was in charge of arrangements....
Michael James Delaney, age 67, was born Aug. 15, 1948 in Salem Ore. and passed away peacefully in his Cheney, Wash. home on March 22, 2016. Mike was preceded in death by his parents, James and Wilda Delaney and younger brother Daniel Delaney. He is survived by his loving wife Allison, son Ryan Delaney, daughter Ashley Wickward and step-daughter Kendra Grimes; siblings, Debra Cates, Pat Delaney and Janice Delaney-Hill and grandchildren Lacee, Anson and Delaney. Mike graduated...
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. Cheney • April 1, Baby Play and Learn Storytime (ages 0 – 18 months), community library, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. • April 1, Free AARP Tax-Aide, community library, noon – 5 p.m. • April 2, All You Can Eat Pancake Breakfast, Marketplace Cheney, $11.99 benefiting local veterans and their families, 9 a.m. – noon. • April 2, Free AARP...
The final corner of the busy intersection at U.S. Highway 2 and Hayford Road in Airway Heights is catching up with its neighbors. A new retail development known as Hayford Crossing is being constructed on the southwest quadrant and will include a 17,500 square-foot Grocery Outlet store and an accompanying 9,000 square-foot Dollar Tree as anchor tenants. It doesn't seem that long ago the land housed a hamburger joint operated by the Longhorn that served up scrumptious...
FROM STAFF AND News Reports Cheney’s Doney wins regional History Bee competition Eight eighth-graders from Cheney Middle School competed in the regional History Bee competition in Seattle, March 22. Dylan Doney won the competition and became the National History Bee state champion. Doney, along with Lucy Nester, Rylie Potter and Luke Hamburg, qualified for the national competition in June. Betz students fill care packages for airmen Betz Elementary School second-graders from Cynthia Tilque’s class donated items to fill two...
Eastern Washington University’s Downtown Student Gallery will host the exhibit “Elise Engler: A Year on Broadway,” which opens Friday, April 1. The artist’s reception will be held on Thursday, April 21 from 4:30–6:30 p.m. The exhibit is in conjunction with EWU’s 2016 Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Surroundings: Views on Environment” with events from April 20-April 21. Engler will also have a Drawing Workshop April 21, from 10 a.m. – noon in the EWU Fine Arts Building, Room 208. Students should email jhyde@ewu.edu t...
At its March 22 meeting, the Medical Lake School Board approved a 5 cent raise to school lunches for the 2016-17 school year. The price of lunch at the middle school and high school will increase from $2.80 to $2.85. Lunch at Hallett and Michael Anderson elementary schools will rise from $2.40 to $2.45. Business manager Chad Moss presented a report from the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction’s ICOS (Information and Condition of Schools) Asset Preservation program. He and maintenance supervisor, Gary Hartman, c...
The Cheney School board breezed through a quick agenda at its March 23 meeting. In action items, the board approved the proposed calendar for meetings for the 2016-17 school year. Cheney High School’s library will be the site for the regular board meetings instead of Betz Elementary School’s Viking Room. Superintendent Dr. Deb Clemens said the Viking Room is where Betz serves lunches during the day and setting up for the board meetings in the evening “is more work for staff.” Regular board meetings will still be at 6 p.m. Me...
Ice Age Floods presents ‘The Big Picture’ Ice Age Floods Institute, Cheney-Spokane Chapter, and Eastern Washington University Department of Geology are sponsoring a free public lecture, “The Ice Age Floods in the Pacific Northwest: The Big Picture,” on Friday, April 8, from 7 – 9 p.m. in Science Building Room 137 on EWU’s Cheney campus. Dr. Gary Ford, president of the Ice Age Floods Institute will discuss aspects of the floods that flowed from western Montana to the Pacific Ocean. Ford will provide the big picture so individu...
From an official standpoint, capital facilities are defined as the basic services provided by the public sector to a community as it exists today and as it is expected to develop in the future. Planning for those services and how they also develop in support of a community are a requirement of the state’s Growth Management Act — something city attorney Stanley Schwartz told Cheney’s City Council resembles a three legged stool of people, land and facilities. “You’re not allowed to grow if you don’t have the capital fac...
The Airway Heights City Council received a rough overview of the proposed recreation center project at its March 28 study session. ALSC architect Ruston Hall cautioned the council that the site and building plans were preliminary and mainly for determining the size of project bond the city will ask voters to approve at the ballot box Aug. 2. Hall presented three different configurations for the building to be built on 70 acres of city property south of Deno Road, west of Northern Quest Resort and Casino and east of Spokane...
The city of Cheney is gearing up for its annual day of community-wide spring-cleaning. The ninth Cheney Clean Sweep takes place Saturday, April 16, from 9 a.m. – noon, and volunteers are needed. In exchange for the work patrolling city right of ways picking up litter, and helping unload larger items at drop-off points, sponsors are providing not only coffee and pastries before the event but also a free lunch to anyone returning to Veterans Park afterwards. Last year, 300 individuals, including 266 volunteers, helped with C...
After 19 years in the Cheney School District, Dr. Deb Clemens will be serving another school on the west side of Washington state. Clemens will be the new North Thurston Public Schools’ superintendent, replacing the retiring Raj Manhas, who had served the district since 2009. According to a March 26 story in The Olympian, the North Thurston School Board voted unanimously to offer Clemens the job pending the acceptance of a mutually agreeable contract. “Altogether, we believe that she was a very strong candidate,” North Thurst...
