Articles from the November 5, 2015 edition
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Cheney public safety wins big
Tuesday night was a good night for public safety measures on the West Plains. As of press time, the city of Cheney’s Proposition 1 was passing easily with 58.73 percent of the vote. The measure would do a one-time lift of the c... — Updated 11/5/2015
Medical Lake ends soccer season with win
The Medical Lake girl’s soccer season ended on a positive note with a 2-1 nonleague shootout win for the Cardinals over St. Georges (7-5) last Thursday, Oct. 29. Earlier in the w... — Updated 11/5/2015
Seniors lead Medical Lake to 27-12 win over Chewelah
The 2015 football season ended on a positive note for Medical Lake as they closed with their second consecutive victory. Behind the efforts of a pair of seniors — 100 yards r... — Updated 11/5/2015
Cardinal boys earn state team cross country berth
As they have in the past two years in winning the state 1A cross country championship the Medical Lake boy’s have often surprised their coach, Gene Blankenship. The Cardinals did i... — Updated 11/5/2015
ML's McDaniel wins in Week
Zane McDaniel of Medical Lake was the winner in Week 6 of the 2015 Cheney Free Press football contest, earning a $50 merchant’s gift certificate. McDaniel missed two games. Also missing two games was Spokane’s Bob Pierce who was... — Updated 11/5/2015
West Valley ousts Lady Blackhawks from playoffs
The Cheney High School girls soccer team saw its 2015 season come to a somewhat inglorious end last week at the hands of the West Valley Eagles. The Eagles scored three goals in the first 13 minutes of the first half, and three... — Updated 11/5/2015
Sports Week
(Note: All schedules subject to change. Consult school or facility websites to confirm.) COLLEGE CROSS COUNTRY Friday, Nov. 13, EWU at Western Regionals, Seattle, times TBA. COLLEGE FOOTBALL Saturday, Nov. 7, EWU hosts Northern... — Updated 11/5/2015
Norman, Schmidt capture district swim titles
The Cheney girls swim team finished third out of 13 teams with 225 points at 2A-1A Districts in Moses Lake, Oct. 31. Makenzie Norman once again took home two district championships in the 50-yard freestyle in 25.07 seconds and the... — Updated 11/5/2015
Eagles continue homestand against high-flying Lumberjacks
The fourth-ranked Eastern Washington University football team seeks to extend its six-game winning streak when the Eagles play their 89th annual Homecoming game this Saturday in an... — Updated 11/5/2015
Cheney tops Pullman, earns playoff spot
The Cheney Blackhawks football team kept its season alive after a 30-22 win over the Pullman Greyhounds, Oct. 30. The Blackhawks finished with a 3-1 Great Northern League record, 8-1 overall, to earn the second seed in a regional... — Updated 11/5/2015
Black is the new (insert your color here)
“I see a red field and I want to paint it black.” That used to be the funniest thing I have ever read about Eastern Washington University’s red turf, written on a website back when it was rolled out in 2010. I say used to be becaus... — Updated 11/5/2015
Blackhawk boys cross country to state
After a year's absence, the Cheney High School boys cross country team is headed back to back Pasco. The Blackhawks used a 40 second time gap between their first five runners, with... — Updated 11/5/2015
West Plains Police News
CHENEY Oct. 26 Rape was reported on the 200 block of South Cheney-Spangle Road. An investigation is ongoing. Drugs and drug paraphernalia were confiscated on the 500 block of First Street. Oct. 27 A 16-year-old male and a 17-year-o... — Updated 11/5/2015
McMorris Rodgers absence troubling
Do what I say and not what I do is the mantra of Cathy McMorris Rodgers. When asked how to solve our political problems, her canned answer is we must have lots of committee meetings. She doesn’t talk about resolutions, just conveni... — Updated 11/5/2015
Presidential candidates creative juices
Permit some random, somewhat related thoughts on today’s political class. Hillary Clinton, while a U.S. senator, voted for the Defense Of Marriage act, and against same sex marriage. Now that she’s in favor of same sex marriage, sh... — Updated 11/5/2015
Once again, Cheney keeps people warm
You did it again, Cheney. It will be a warmer winter for many thanks to the hard work and generosity of the Cheney community. A total of 236 coats were donated to this year’s coat drive and 213 were given away at three separate d... — Updated 11/5/2015
Farming fits veterans and veterans fit farming
The Center for Rural Affairs has worked to support and assist beginning farmers and ranchers for over 25 years. And increasingly, beginning farmer and rancher inquiries come from military veterans. They have the same needs as... — Updated 11/5/2015
Veterans' need for mental health services transcends modern era
(Editor’s note: Capitalization, phrasing and line breaks from Walt Whitman’s poem “An Artilleryman’s Vision” used in this column have been retained in keeping with the original meaning of the work.) When I did not receive m... — Updated 11/5/2015
Football field is latest school prayer battlefield
The volatile and emotional fight over engaging in prayer on the grounds of a public school recently jumped back into the headlines, and did so with a regional flavor. Bremerton, Wash. High School assistant football coach Joe... — Updated 11/5/2015
News briefs
Airway Heights behind in property tax collections Airway Heights’ officials are waiting on a bit of money. According to the city’s latest financial report, the city is running at about 54 percent of its projected property tax col... — Updated 11/5/2015
Airway Heights council hears budget, parks plan
It’s budget season, and not to be left out the Airway Heights City Council held a public hearing at their Nov. 2 meeting to review the city’s planned revenue and expense forecasts for 2016. City officials are projecting cur... — Updated 11/5/2015
Cheney's 2016 budget: Enterprise funds - Public Works
When it comes to Cheney’s Public Works Department budget, over half of it is in some liquid form. Water and wastewater account for 54 percent of the department’s $7.18 million budget in 2016, with the larger portion — 36 perce... — Updated 11/5/2015
Cheney's 2016 budget: Enterprise funds
Growth and a long overdue rate increase have helped Cheney’s Light Department from dipping further into its reserves. At the City Council’s Oct. 27 meeting, Light Department Director Steve Boorman told the council revenues and exp... — Updated 11/5/2015
What size neck?
Eastern Washington University senior Jorge Garcia, from Wenatchee, attempts to help EWU mascot Swoop with a T-shirt selection during Monday's Homecoming week kickoff rally on the... — Updated 11/5/2015
On training the trainers
Three quarters of the way through 2015, statistics from the Cheney Police Department paint a picture of what has become, at least for now, the new normal — relatively low criminal activity, high dispatch call volumes and overtime e... — Updated 11/5/2015