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Cheney residents owe it to “Obamacare” for bringing frozen yogurt to Cheney. Seriously. As outlandish as it may sound, Stephen Kraft, the general manager of the Froyo Earth chain which is now at seven different locations throughout the state, may have never of ventured into the frozen yogurt business if it were not for the passing of the health care act in 2010. “I had been working in the medical device industry for years,” Kraft said. “And then my brother got sick and I took...
The Airway Heights City Council may shake up its study session schedule in the near future. Councilman Steven Lawrence asked if there was a way to look at council compensation, since the City Council had dropped its number of committee meetings from three to one, condensed into the monthly work session. City Manager Albert Tripp said he would look into the matter and bring some information to the next study session Monday, Sept. 23 at 5:30 p.m. Other council members, including Barron Williamson and Kevin Richey, said their...
A member of the Cheney Blackhawks’ football team goes through drills this past Tuesday afternoon as the team prepares to meet East Valley of Yakima Friday on the road in their season opener....
Cheney High School junior Keenan Williams has been named to Ron Siegel’s Preseason Scouting and Research All-State team for the class of 2015. The selection was made for the website Scout.com and was originally published on FoxSportsNext.com Aug. 19. Williams, a 6-foot, 3-inch 245-pound defensive lineman, was one of 17 football players picked to Siegel’s first- and second-team senior squad and the junior team. He joins four Greater Spokane League players on the list: Class of 2014 first team offensive lineman J.D. Boden (Ce...
Eastern Washington University’s third season of play in the British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League has head coach Bill Shaw excited about both his roster and schedule. The Eagles are currently in camp through much of the rest of September at the University Recreation Center as they prepare for exhibition games in advance of their league opening game against the defending champion Selkirk Saints from Castlegar, British Columbia, Oct. 4 on the road. Despite a late s...
While some of Wes Hobbs’ friends in the business of teaching and coaching are charting new paths in and towards retirement, the head football coach at Medical Lake High School continues to charge ahead in both of the family businesses. Earlier in the summer Hobbs spent a few weeks, as he always does, on the family farm near Pullman. Then he scrubbed off the dust, shook out the chaff and hung the whistle around his neck, like his dad, Ray, did for so many years at Pullman H...
Maybe the turnaround has already begun for Eastern Washington University volleyball. With back-to-back wins this past week, including Monday night’s 3-0 victory, 25-18, 25-22 and 25-21 over Seattle University on the road at the Connolly Center, the Eagles under head coach Wade Benson, have evened their record at 2-2. It took until October 2012 when Eastern scored consecutive victories, this time in Big Sky Conference play with a pair of 3-0 wins over Sacramento State and Montana, to equal the win totals they have after f...
The first item on the list has been checked off. And it couldn’t have been a bigger one to cross off of Eastern Washington’s to-do list of their so-called “Unfinished Business” theme that is the focus of the 2013 season. The Eagles’ 49-46 upset football victory last Saturday in Corvallis over the then-No. 25 Oregon State Beavers of the Pac-12 Conference launched Eastern on the path towards their off-season goal of returning to the Football Championship Subdivision national...
Cheney lost a friend and an artist with the death of Joseph C. Daugherty Aug. 27. He was born in Uhrichsville, Ohio, May 24, 1921. He appreciated growing up in this railroad town where everyone was a friend. He was the artist of the senior class annual and drum major of the band for his high school. He graduated from Ohio State University with a degree in fine arts in 1939. After serving three years in the U.S. Navy, he began teaching art in Woodland, Calif. Here he met and...
St. Paul's Episcopal Church All are welcome. We are a welcoming haven, nourishing all God's people in body, mind and spirit. Sept. 8 is the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Holy Eucharist at 11 a.m. Rev. Christine Soule will preach and preside. Please join us. We wish all students and teachers best wishes and blessings as they look forward to another year of learning and discovery following a splendid summer. Narcotics Anonymous meets in the Parish Hall each Tuesday and Saturday at 7 p.m. Fellowship breakfast is each...
1 Years Ago Sept. 11, 2003 Cheney voters were about to receive their ballots that would decide whether or not to fund the revival of the Parks and Recreation Department with an increase in utility taxes. With the help of Ducks Unlimited ducks on the West Plains were about to receive a new sanctuary located on 238 acres of land adjacent to the Cheney’s wastewater treatment plant. After providing services for some 4,000 area residents Planned Parenthood was going to open a c...
All of a sudden, I must find something important to say. I have set aside a few silly remarks that occasionally squeeze into other stories and give you only what I believe is worth telling. From www.theblaze.com, 5/1/12: In April of 2012 the Oklahoma Supreme Court decided unanimously “that a state effort to grant personhood to unborn children is clearly unconstitutional.” How convenient those who made this decision have already been born and have lived their lives. There must be millions of people in our country whose bir...
John Huffstutter has found a soft place in his heart for hardened steel. The Cheney-area resident is a blacksmith in his spare time away from his 9-5 job as the budget director for the Community Colleges of Spokane. The 51-year-old first discovered the craft at a very young age he said. “When I was about five I went to Colonial Williamsburg for the first time, then about 30 years later I went back,” Huffstutter said. “I saw these guys working in the dark with glowing metal...
Webster’s dictionary tells us that Labor Day was “set aside for special recognition of working people.” That’s nice, but “set aside” by whom? It certainly wasn’t the Wall Street corporate and political powers that be. They nearly swallowed their cigars when the idea of honoring labor’s importance to America’s economy and social well-being was first proposed in 1882. Rather, this holiday was created by the workers themselves, requiring a 12-year grassroots struggle that finally culminated with an act of Congress in 1894....
It’s interesting how a train of thought can develop. For instance, nearing the end of our 12-mile round trip hike along the Dungeness Spit north of Sequim last Saturday, we noticed a sea lion swimming towards us. He or she may not have noticed us standing in the grayish, post-sunset twilight along the shoreline because it was definitely swimming with the purpose of making landfall. Once the animal noticed us, it pulled up, went into a holding pattern and followed us, maybe out of curiosity, as we walked further along the b...
Coal dust is indeed a major problem. My wife and I were along a trail in Ponderay, Idaho several times last week. When empty coal trains returning passed us on the BNSF rail line we could smell coal dust. On two different mornings we could also see coal dust rising from the empty gondolas. I do not where these trains unloaded their cargo but if the coal plant (Boardman, Ore.) nearest our location in Idaho; we were approximately a distance of 300 miles that the train had traveled before reaching us. This implies that the...
By the time you read this, events surrounding potential military action against Syria will have likely changed several times over. In the few days since the Cheney Free Press editorial board discussed the issue of a military strike against the Assad regime for its alleged use of sarin gas against its own people in the two-year-old civil war, events have swung dramatically. For starters, some public opinion polls prior to last week indicated 9 percent of respondents were in favor of military action, rising to 25 percent if...
With one opening on the Medical Lake School Board of Directors, the board interviewed a potential candidate right before the last meeting, Tuesday, Aug. 27. Felicia Jensen answered a series of questions posed by the board, ranging from her previous work experience to what vision she has for the school district. Jensen is a candidate for the position vacated by director Julie Albright, who resigned in June. Jensen is a former military member, serving 24 years in the armed forces before recently retiring as operations manager...
Reports from the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction show fairly steady Measurement of Student Progress test results for the Medical Lake School District. Math scores were mixed compared to last year, with a noticeable drop in fifth-grade results, with only 38.7 percent of students meeting standards. While that drop was significant, seventh-graders jumped up from 51 percent to 69 percent meeting standards. Overall, reading showed a slight improvement across the board, with third, fourth and 10th grades hitting...
When it comes to reading and math 1 (algebra), Cheney High School students are tops. According to information from the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, Cheney High students received scores of 91.1 percent in reading and 88.4 percent in math 1, well above the state average of 83.5 and 80.7 percent and the highest among 13 schools in the Spokane-area. The district was fourth in writing at 90.5 percent, behind Deer Park (92.9), Mead (94.6) and Mt. Spokane (94.7), and was fourth in biology at 91.3 percent,...
For the past several months, community members in Airway Heights have been working hard to prepare for the inaugural service of The Heights Church coming up Sunday, Sept. 8. Jacob Powers, the pastor at The Heights Church, said 40 to 50 church members have helped throughout the prep period, and that they’re ready to hit the ground running for the first service. “They’re involved and dedicated,” he said. Powers, a pastor at Life Center North in Spokane, first contemp...
An aerospace composite course at the Airway Heights Corrections Center is providing hands-on lessons for offenders. The program teaches offenders skills to help them obtain an entry level job creating aerospace composite materials, covering all of the elements needed to be a versatile presence in the workforce. Chad Lewis, Director of Department of Corrections communications, said the concept of teaching and putting vocational skills to work at the same time has made the...
Cheney High girls soccer coach Nils Radtke watches his team work on its conditioning by running the Oak Street hill west of the high school last Friday. The Lady Hawks open their season Sept. 7 at Rogers High School in Spokane....
In the battle with obesity, it’s not just junk food alone that’s the enemy. It’s also a culture that says if it’s healthy, it can’t taste good. It’s fighting an attitude. In this fight, the Cheney School District may be seeing the lines of battle shifting in favor of students and families, thanks to steps taken by the district and city of Cheney that promote new attitudes towards eating as well as practices. According to recently released results of a two-year study of 47...
Cheney Kiwanis club members would like the public to know that the rumors of their imminent demise are greatly exaggerated. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. The Cheney chapter, which was founded in 1995, of the international organization dedicated to serving children is in the midst of a membership drive. And if the discussion at last Thursday’s weekly breakfast meeting upstairs at Willow Springs Restaurant is an indication, they’re making a contest out of it. “We actually have a membership commi...
