Water fight caps Cheney band camp

By BECKY THOMAS

Staff Reporter

For two weeks in August, a bunch of teenagers got up early in the morning to voluntarily heft heavy objects, high-step in formation across a field and make beautiful music, all in the heat of late summer.

While this might sound like torture to some, for those select students at Cheney High School it's called marching band camp.

More than 100 students make up the 2012 marching band at CHS, and they spent those two weeks preparing their set, which director Mike Suhling called one of the most difficult the band has taken on. The students spent long days in the sun l...