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Elijah Farmen's three interceptions help Medical Lake roll over Rams 42-6 for first 4-0 start in a decade By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter After racing to a big victory the week before over Newport in the start of Northeast A League play, the Medical Lake Cardinals showed up last Friday for their Holliday Field game against Riverside with their offensive engine sputtering and in need of a tune-up. “We just weren't quite firing on all cylinders that first quarter,” head coach Wes Hobbs said. But sophomore linebacker Elijah Far...
FROM NEWS SERVICE REPORTS Staff members of the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) recommended slashing millions of dollars from Avista's electric and natural gas rate increase request Wednesday, Sept. 19. In testimony filed with the UTC, commission staff members urged rejection of the company's initial request to raise electric revenues by $41 million and instead recommended an overall revenue reduction of $1.3 million (-0.3 percent). Commission staff agreed Avista should raise natural gas revenues; but...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor There is some light to be shined on Mitt Romney's comments about 47 percent of Americans before those comments are consigned to the historical dustbin. In surreptitiously recorded remarks at a May $50,000-a-plate fundraiser obtained and published by Mother Jones magazine last week the Republican presidential candidate claimed 47 percent of Americans don't pay income taxes, support President Barack Obama and are “dependent upon government, who believe they are victims, who believe the government has a... Full story
Uprisings in the Middle East, sparked in Libya and Egypt have called into question the notion of free speech and its consequences. One of the big factors in the uprisings, according to the U.S. government, has been a low-budget video made by a California filmmaker. The video was uploaded to YouTube a couple of months ago but only recently reached the region, and depicts the Muslim prophet Muhammad in a negative light. Some protesters have spoken out against the government, despite its denouncing the film and affirming no...
The following students were named to the Cheney High School honor roll for spring quarter 2012. Cody J. Ableman, Jeremy J. Alderman, Ashleigh A. Allington, Alexis M. Altmaier, Amy D. Anderson, Jay D. Anderson, Kalina N. Anderson, Caleb A. Athonvarangkul, Fletcher D. Aukerman, Cheyanne M. Autrey, Samantha L. Ayotte, Rustin J. Babcock, William C. Baines, David Y. Balakirev, Justin A. Barker, Lucas A. Barry, Kyle A. Barsness, Amanda J. Batchelor, Shelby L. Beedle, Jordan G. Bennett, Tristan T. Bennett, Tyler E. Bennett, Misty...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor The Cheney girls swimming team continued to show improvement in their lone dual meet last week. The Blackhawks notched their first individual event wins of the season last Thursday in Clarkston, even though Cheney came away with a loss to the Bantams. The score was not available at press time due to “incorrect scoring,” but head coach Jennifer Hochwalt said the Bantams scored sufficiently to still get the win. Kaylie Geschke, Brittany Meyer and Kaylie Watters all touched the wall first in at least one... Full story
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor East Valley showed the Cheney volleyball squad what it means to be a good closing team. If the league-leading Lady Knights (4-0, 4-2) weren't opening some big leads early they were rallying and extending leads late in downing the Lady Hawks 3-1 in Great Northern League competition Thursday in Cheney. East Valley opened a 7-0 lead in game one, and even though Cheney pulled to within one at 7-6 on the serving of Ashley Seiler, then EV gradually pulled away for a 25-16 win. In game two it was the Lady Haw...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter It took six matches and a load of frustration but finally Medical Lake broke through into the volleyball win column last Saturday. With the help of some coaching strategy the Cardinals rallied to defeat Liberty of the Bi-County 2B 3-1 at home. After dropping the first set in a big way 12-25, Medical Lake won the next three 25-21, 25-16, 25-22.s “We got ourselves a win, we got ourselves a victory,” an obviously happy head coach Julie Smith said. “It was quite exciting.” In the Liberty win Rac... Full story
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter Medical Lake broke out of a dry spell in a big way last Thursday scoring more goals in one game than they had in their previous four with a 6-4 Northeast A League girls' soccer victory over Riverside in the Cardinals' league opener.s With senior defender/forward Sabrina Earle scoring the game's first three goals, and junior Brenda Stark scoring the last three, Medical Lake won its second straight game and improved to 1-0 in NEA play and 2-3 overall. “It was a wild one,” Medical Lake head coa...
Assets from shared agency cases help fund new equipment By JAMES EIK Staff Reporter Upgrades for the city's police department equipment dominated discussion at Airway Heights' City Council work session Monday, Sept. 25. After receiving funds from a shared assets case with the FBI and Washington State Patrol in 2010, the city's Police Department had $271,105.62 to invest in upgrades to fight crime. Among the items pursued by Police Chief Lee Bennett include three new vehicles, handguns, Tasers and threat-level entry body...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter After Saturday's showing at the Connell Invitational cross country race there may not be many event organizers who choose to let Medical Lake race. Poor air conditions forced cancellation of the Seaport Invitational in Clarkston last Saturday so the defending boys' champions of that event were left without a place to race. Some quick action by Cards' head coach Gene Blankenship landed his teams down US 395 where they promptly won both boys' and girls' 1A championships on the 5,000-meter course....
By JAMES EIK Staff Reporter Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich addressed the Medical Lake City Council at its Tuesday, Sept. 18 meeting, as part of his regular semi-annual report to the city. Despite a recent report from Spokane media, overall crime in the city is down by around 25 percent, comparing January to August figures from 2011 and 2012. Should that trend line hold, Knezovich expects continued decreases in Medical Lake. “That's not bad, given the population growth,” he said. “But the biggest issue is juven...
By CHRIS THOMAS Washington News Service SEATTLE - Federal agencies, conservation groups, fishermen and sportsmen, Native American tribes and dam managers have rarely all been in the same room – unless it's a courtroom – in the long battle over how to restore native salmon and steelhead populations in the Northwest. However, one leader in the region is voicing his official agreement with what conservation and business groups have been saying for years: that a whole new approach is needed to save the endangered fish spe... Full story
Old shipping containers help firefighters lean to save lives and property By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter To some the scene might look like the remnants of a wayward freight train that somehow veered off the tracks and deposited its containers in an orderly manner at the corner of SR 904 and Presley. But to the residents of the mammoth area that Spokane County Fire District No. 3 serves – all 500-plus square miles of it – those former trans-ocean shipping containers might someday help save lives and property. The new tra...
TACOMA – John Soennichsen, a Cheney resident and author, has been awarded the John McClelland Award for his Columbia magazine article, “A Toe in the Water: J. Harlen Bretz's First Field Exploration of Eastern Washington's Channeled Scablands,” by the Washington State Historical Society Board of Trustees. The article sets out in detail Bretz's initial field visit to the Eastern Washington scablands in 1922 that engendered his theory that a massive flood, not a slow retreat of glaciers, created the landscape. The award recog...
Eastern to meet Southern Utah for first time in VB It's a busy weekend in Cheney and the Eastern Washington University volleyball team gets it all started with an anticipated match-up against new Big Sky member, Southern Utah, tonight (Sept. 27) at Reese Court. First serve between the Eagles and Thunderbirds is slated for 7 p.m. Eastern will then take on one of the league's best teams in 2012, Northern Arizona, Friday, Sept. 28, also at 7 p.m. After a disappointing trip to Montana where Eastern lost to Montana State 3-2 and...
It was on Sept. 25, 1858 that Colonel George Wright hung the Indian leader, Qualchan, at a bend along Latah creek. Six more Indian men were hanged the next day, forever changing the name of the creek to Hangman. Learn more about our area's history at www.cheneymuseum.org.... Full story
A lifelong writer, EWU teacher earns second runner-up title for fiction award By JAMES EIK Staff Reporter For Polly Buckingham, writing is a life-long intrinsic passion. Buckingham, a Medical Lake resident and senior lecturer at Eastern Washington University, was recently announced as runner-up in the 2012 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for her submission “The Stolen Child and Other Stories.” This is her second time receiving runner-up status in the contest, one that she's followed for a number of years. Win...
COLLEGE FOOTBALL Saturday, Sept. 29, Eastern Washington hosts Montana, 4:15 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, Eastern Washington hosts North Dakota, 5:05 p.m. COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL Thursday, Sept. 27, Eastern Washington hosts Southern Utah, 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28, Eastern Washington hosts Northern Arizona, 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, Eastern Washington hosts North Dakota, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, Eastern Washington hosts Northern Colorado, 7 p.m. COLLEGE SOCCER Thursday, Oct. 5, Eastern Washington hosts North Dakota, 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7,...
Seattle win is whopper of a story in NFL officiating debacle By JOHN McCALLUM Editor You know how sometimes when you go fishing you catch something that's too small, the wrong species or just so dang ugly that you don't want to take it home? What do you do – you throw it back. That's how I felt Monday night after the Seattle Seahawks improbable last-play win over the Green Bay Packers. Ewww, ick, throw it back. I'm a Seahawks fan, don't get me wrong, but thanks to the nature of how they pulled out the win, throwing it back i...
Nationally-ranked teams always put on a show to remember FROM NEWS SERVICE REPORTS It's a long-awaited home opener for the Eastern Washington University football team, but one with plenty on the line. Meeting for the 11th time in 17 years with both teams nationally-ranked, the No. 7 Eagles host the 21st-ranked Montana Grizzlies Saturday in a game televised live regionally on Root Sports. Kickoff at Roos Field is 4:15 p.m. in EWU's latest home start since 1981. The radio broadcast of this week's game, featuring Larry Weir,...
Late fumble recovery seals 32-26 Big Sky victory in Ogden, Griz visit Roos Saturday FROM STAFF AND NEWS SERVICE REPORTS The scene was different but so much of last Saturday's Eastern Washington University season-opening 32-26 Big Sky Conference victory over Weber State had such a familiar ring to it. With 34 seconds remaining, Jerry Ceja sacked Wildcats' quarterback Mike Hoke and forced a fumble that Will Katoa pounced on at the 50-yard line to clinch the win at Elizabeth Dee Shaw Stewart Stadium in Ogden, Utah. For Katoa,... Full story
