Sports camps provide boost to local business

 

Last updated 7/7/2016 at 8:40am

File photo Eastern Washington University summer sports camps, including the men's basketball camp (pictured), draw thousands of students to Cheney.

By PAUL DELANEY

Staff Reporter

A decade ago businesses in Cheney reveled as the calendar turned to August and the Seattle Seahawks invaded the city for its NFL training camp.

Following the team's relocation to Kirkland and the shores of Lake Washington, there was some hand-wringing as to what the loss of revenue from thousands of visitors might mean.

But any slack for some local businesses, it appears, may have been taken up over the years with a variety of Eastern Washington University summer camps that draw thousands of students to town from June through August.

If anecdotal research is...



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