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When three-term Medical Lake Mayor John Higgins decided to step away from wielding the gavel at City Council meetings, three residents chose to vie for the position. In August, sitting Medical Lake City Council member Shirley Maike earned the most votes - 350 and 44.25 percent - in a three-way race in the primary. Mikeal Suniga edged out another council member, Laura Parsons 232–201 for the right to move on to the Nov. 7 general election. Maike has spent 20 years on council an...
It's Homecoming at Eastern Washington University, with a week-long slate of activities kicking off this Sunday, Oct. 29, with the annual bonfire, pep rally and bed races. Members of the Eagles football team will be on hand at the bonfire and pep rally, which begins at 6 p.m. in parking lot 9 behind Roos Field, with the popular bed races getting underway at 8 p.m. on the Inferno's red turf. There will also be a free DJ performance at the bonfire and rally. That's just a small...
The Cheney High girls soccer team hopes to ride a bit of momentum into this week's District 7 playoff action. The Lady Blackhawks have won two of their last three, with the loss coming in double overtime against Great Northern League-leading East Valley. Cheney captured the season series with West Valley, two games to one, with a 4-2 win last Tuesday at home. The Lady Blackhawks took a 2-0 lead midway through the first half with goals by Makenna Benson and Kaitlin Teeters,...
Tom Musser was born Dec. 2, 1950 in Spokane, Wash. He was the fourth of five children born to Oscar and Donna Musser of Espanola. Tom crossed over peacefully on Oct. 15, 2017 after a short but courageous battle with cancer. Tom is survived by his only son Creighton Thomas Musser, his future daughter-in-law Tiffany and his cherished grandson Nolan Thomas. He is also survived by his three sisters, Sandy, Terrie and Wendy, his brother, numerous nieces, nephews, lifelong friends...
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 Oct. 27, Medicare Open Enrollment Assistance, community library, 1 – 4 p.m. Oct. 27, Pumpkin Carving and Harvest Party, Wren Pierson Community Center, 6 – 8 p.m., $16. Oct. 28, All Community Costume and Glow in the Dark Dance Party, Wren Pierson Community Center, 7 – 11 p.m., $10 a person. Oct. 31, Flightless Bird Running... Full story
Hazel Newkirk, 76, of Cheney, passed away on Aug. 11 at Hospice of Spokane's South House from metastatic breast cancer. Hazel was a faithful, loving, and thoughtful Christian woman throughout her life and it showed in everything she did and the way she treated everyone. She will be remembered as an energetic, generous, and unwaveringly strong woman who remained devoted to the people in her life even through the most difficult hardships and losses in her life. Along with her...
Natalie Eve Downing (née Yarwood) was born in Durham, N.C. on March 19, 1973 and died on Oct. 11, 2017 in Spokane. She is survived by her husband, Michael Sarles, a son, Caelin Downing-Sarles and stepson, Connor Sarles, also her parents, Jane and Ed Yarwood, a brother, Craig Yarwood (Rosemary) of Atlanta and nephews Carter and Harrison Yarwood. In addition she has family in Delaware and New York. Natalie grew up in Cheney, attended Cheney schools, graduating from Cheney High...
The Medical Lake Food Bank Association and volunteers would like to thank everyone who helped in the moves while new flooring was put in place at the Food Bank. We thank all the students and advisors, mayor and council members, political candidates and the community. The response to our call for volunteers showed what a great city this is. Thank you all. Shirley Maike Vice President Medical Lake Food Bank Association...
To the Betz Elementary School staff and Cheney police department, and most importantly, the concerned person who called in a suspicious person at the school last week: thank you. Thank you so very much for your alert swift action and selfless act. Thank you for speaking up, for being vigilant. Thank you for being there that day. Thank you for listening to your gut, and your heart and thank you for doing something. The world needs more people like you. Thank you responding officers, and thank you Betz staff, who took every...
Last year, Seattle Times aerospace reporter Dominic Gates wrote about the similarities and differences between Boeing’s corporate office move to Chicago and Amazon’s plan for a second headquarters. Boeing wanted to leave Seattle in an effort to separate its corporate leadership from manufacturing sites while Amazon, with an unusual strategy, plans to keep its headquarters here but set up a parallel operation elsewhere. Boeing hoped to find a more conservative business cli...
Tim Gainer would be perfect for Cheney City Council at this time for many reasons. Cheney is growing and has been for a number of years mainly due to the success of Eastern’s sports and academics. As an alum, I am happy for this and as for our city, I’m elated. Tim knows there are issues with the city growing as fast as it is and sees our problems before they become a problem. By the way, he is spot on about the water issue. Like myself, Tim is for open government and believes the more our citizens know about an issue, the...
By GRACE POHL Staff Intern The month of October flew by and now it is only a few days away from Halloween, the day where you can dress up and be whoever or whatever you want to be, and then go around asking for free candy. What an interesting concept. I have always thought Halloween is a fun holiday, even though I am the person handing out the candy now instead of going trick-or-treating. It was a day I always looked forward to in elementary school because you were able to dress up with your friends and eat candy instead of...
It was announced back shortly after the huge 48-41 win over Grizzlies, that Eastern Washington University football would not play the University of Montana every year from now on due to new rivalry rights with the University of Idaho entering the Big Sky. The Eagles will now be playing Idaho and Portland State every year instead of the annual Griz game. To give a comparison, the competition with Montana dates back to 1938, while the Eagles have been playing PSU since 1968. The root of the problem is that protecting Portland...
Spokane businessman Rick Fleck took this photo of a memorial to former Cheney resident and CHS 2002 alumna Rachel Parker while visiting Las Vegas on Oct. 21. Parker was one of 58 people killed when a gunman opened fire on attendees at a country music festival from the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino on Oct. 1....
Cheney police are asking the public to be on the look out for a suspicious individual who approached several young women at Salnave Park Tuesday evening, Oct. 17. According to an email from Capt. Rick Beghtol, police received a report between 5-6 p.m. Tuesday from a citizen who noticed a male in his 30s with brown to black hair wearing baggy clothes going back and forth between the restrooms at Salnave Park and a vehicle in the parking lot. The woman was concerned because of the activity and the presence of young children pla...
SCOPE releases names of volunteer of the year winners The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office has announced that Darwin McKibbins and Ken Dickson have been named as recipients of the Sheriff’s Community Oriented Police Effort (SCOPE) volunteers of the year award at their respective stations. McKibbins has been a volunteer at the Cheney/EWU SCOPE office since 2016 after moving to the city from West Valley where he began with SCOPE in 2014. Before joining, he lived in a secluded rural area where he experienced problems with illegal...
Cheney High's girls swimming team said good-bye to seven seniors at the end of last Thursday's meet with Prosser and Grandview: Lucy Boston, Tiana Groff, Ammi Hanna, Zarah Meyer, Evarosa Perry, Elizabeth Potter and Hannah Rigo....
At the Oct. 23 Study Session meeting, the Airway Heights City Council discussed raising the property taxes by 1 percent in the city. “This is a minimal way to stay up with the inflation,” Mayor Kevin Richey said. “Cities that do not raise the taxes, like Spokane, are now in a budget crisis.” The city did not raise the taxes last year due to asking the citizens for the recreation center funds. The City Council will officially vote on raising the 1 percent at the next meeting, but the board voted unanimously in favor. Derrick...
Lions and tigers and books, oh my. Those are not the words that some might recall Dorothy speaking as she cautiously walked down the yellow brick road through the scary forest in the “Wizard of Oz.” But they were at the Oct. 17 Medical Lake City Council meeting. In citizens’ comments, resident Scott Christenson, told the council of discussions he has had, and that continue, on a suggestion that Cat Tales Zoological Park to move to property in the Medical Lake area. The park,...
The Eastern Washington University Downtown Gallery is currently presenting "The Art of Gail Tremblay: Searching for Ways to live in the Circle of Things That Support Life 1990-2017." The exhibition features baskets woven from film and sweet grass, installation pieces and mixed media art by Tremblay, an Onondaga and Mi'kmaq artist. The showcase runs to Nov. 3, Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m....
At the Oct. 18 Planning Commission meeting in Airway Heights, there was a lot of discussion on different rezones around the city, but no action taken. The most discussion came in the first rezone requested by the city. This rezone is about 20 acres of land located in the northwest quadrant of Airway Heights. The properties are proposed to go from R-1, single-family residential, to R-3, to accommodate the alternative housing site for the residents located south of Highway 2 and within Fairchild’s accident potential zone (...
An important funding mechanism used in paying for the future cost of college tuition is soon to emerge from a state of two years in hibernation. The GET program — acronym meaning guaranteed education tuition — is poised to start accepting contributions on Nov. 1. It will do so with a renewed enthusiasm buoyed by lower rates and a new program. “We did refer to it as a unit purchase and enrollment delay,” GET’s senior associate director Luke Minor said. There was a two-year...
Cheney High senior Evarosa Perry had an idea for a project for her Future Business Leaders of American club, but didn't know how to fund it. Fellow senior Megumi Call had an idea for a fundraiser, but no project for any potential money. The two FBLA co-presidents got together this summer at a church retreat, compared notes and came up with "Trick-or-Trot." The run - Call's idea - is a 1.5-mile loop beginning and ending at the high school taking place for walkers or runners of...
Lacambra is deeply rooted in the community Council Position 4 candidate Jared Lacambra has had a long history with Airway Heights, with his family settling in the area in 1999. Although he moved almost 13 times before going to high school, of all the places he had been, Airway Heights had always been home. He attended Sunset Elementary School for fifth and part of sixth-grade before his dad, who was in the Navy, was reassigned to Mukilteo. Once his dad retired, Lacambra moved...
Piece by piece - even if small pieces - the relocation of Cheney's former Northern Pacific Railroad depot is slowly coming together. The latest piece involves creation and installation of a sign for the depot at its future home on First Street. The sign was an Eagle Scout project for candidate Ben Rose, who coordinated the work. Cheney Depot Society board member Sue Beeman said Rose, who is the grandson of Historic Preservation Commission member Martin Seedorf, did all of...
