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Lakeside scores first goal of season against Medical Lake By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter There's a dent in the armor, but still no damage going into another important week of Great Northern League soccer play for Medical Lake. The Cardinals ride a 6-0 GNL mark, 7-0-1 overall, into this past Tuesday's showdown for first place at home with Cheney. Medical Lake emerged from their test last week with three wins, two in GNL play. Last Tuesday the Cards got a 1-0 shootout victory at home against Pullman and followed that with a 2-0... Full story
It will take time for Woods to change his ways Lefty Mickelson's emotional win takes Master's spotlight By JOHN McCALLUM Editor No doubt, the best sports story over the weekend had to do with golf. Phil Mickelson's performance in winning his third Master's title was only surpassed by its emotional impact generated by his wife Amy's yearlong battle with breast cancer. While the future prognosis is good, the past year has been difficult, and Amy was only just able to come to the course on Sunday to watch her husband win. There...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor An offensive explosion propelled the Cheney boys' soccer team to a pair of wins last week, running the Blackhawks winning streak to seven games. Cheney scored virtually at will in a 9-0 win at Colville Tuesday, and overcame windy conditions and a good Clarkston team to score four second-half goals en route to a 5-0 win over the visiting Bantams on Thursday. Cheney wasted little time in getting on the board against the Indians (0-6, 0-6, 0 points), starting with Brett Igbinoba's goal in the second... Full story
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor A pair of doubleheader sweeps last week has the Cheney baseball team on top of the Great Northern League standings with a seven game winning streak. Cheney rallied twice for wins over Clarkston last Wednesday in a doubleheader postponed on April 3 due to wet field conditions. The Blackhawks scored a run in their last at bat for a 3-2 win in game one, and scored four runs in the sixth while holding off a Bantams rally for an 8-7 win in game two. Cheney's game one win came without an RBI. Michael... Full story
On April 10, 2010, Dorothy May (Baird) Kile, age 92, went home to Jesus with her family surrounding her. She was born on the Baird family homestead between Spangle and Cheney on November 17, 1917 to Riley and Rosie Baird. She was the ninth born of ten children. Dorothy graduated from Spangle High School. She worked for Ernie and Birdie Geschke and married Douglas Kile in 1944 as he was headed to war. Dorothy is preceded in death by her husband, Douglas Kile and her daughter Connie Kile-Raney, parents Riley and Rosie Baird,...
If your club or organization's meeting time has changed, or you currently are not listed in this column, call 235-6184. CHENEY Al-Anon Meets every Monday from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 639 Elm St. For more information, call 235-5385. Alcoholics Anonymous Meets Mondays and Fridays from 7:30-8:30 p.m. at the United Methodist Church, on the corner of Fourth and G streets in Cheney. All meetings are open. For more information, call 235-9015. The Allen and Trudy Mattausch Veterans of Foreign Wars # 11326...
Cheney Community Church Free movie and popcorn! The public is invited to a free movie night this coming Saturday evening, 6-8 p.m. “Gifted Hands” is the story of the American neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson who changed the course of medicine with hemispherectomies and the first successful cranial separation of Siamese twins. Raised in a broken home amongst poverty and prejudice, Dr. Carson's school grades suffered and his violent temper flared. God intervened and put him on a path whereby he would become one of the world's top... Full story
1 Years Ago April 13, 2000 Construction of a tourist welcome center at the corner of SR-904 and Cheney-Plaza Road, plus a welcome to Cheney sign at the west end of town were two of the projects that the City Council considered in their most recent meeting. Total construction cost was estimated at $171,600, paid for through federal grants. Cheney police were investigating the rape of a woman in her West First home. The incident occurred early in the morning and police responded to a 4:10 a.m. 911 call. An assailant entered...
Verda Leberman, president of the Errol L. English Unit 196 and several members met junior class girl students at the high school who applied to attend the Girls' State progam at CWU, Ellensburg June 13-19. Local teacher Andy Dolson is director. This has been a “Workshop in Democracy” program for 63 years. This program allows young women an opportunity to live together as self-governing citizens in a town or city or county or state. Mothers of these girls are invited to join our auxiliary so they can carry on this program and...
Forget the old pains, have faith your plants will thrive By LaVERLE McCANDLESS Contributor “Part of the work of the gardener is ‘forgetting'….If we are to start the new season with vigor and enthusiasm, we must forget the backaches, the scratched arms, the loathsome prevalence of the slugs and other pests, the superiority of our neighbor's sweet peas and certain humiliations suffered from the behavior of certain alpine that turned up their small toes and died in the face of our most earnest ministrations.” L. B. Wilder,...
Couple contributes quietly to Cheney community through ministry and time By LUELLA DOW Contributor Some people go about their business of giving and ministering to others quietly and without acclaim. Their reward is the inner joy and peace they receive for their efforts. Robert and Russana (Rusty) Morris came to Cheney in March of 1999. Robert worked first as a custodian at EWU and presently works in EWU's warehouse central stores. Russana is retired. Earlier, the Morrises lived in Colorado. They visited The Oaks Assisted... Full story
The local newspaper's raison d'être, three big responsibilities By JOHN HANRON Editor, Methow Valley News If one could boil down the purpose of a community newspaper to three tasks they would likely include 1., informing readers of happenings in their community and afar; 2., acting as a watchdog for government agencies and speaking out against injustice; and 3., keeping the channels of free speech open and active. All of these tasks are important to our free and open society, and we take our responsibilities seriously....
The last sad laughs: A cautious outlook for America after the recession By RICK SLOAN Contributor How much longer will America's ‘gravest recession' last? Of course, no one knows for sure, but a table produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which since 1939 has tracked the increase or decrease in non-farm jobs as reported in its monthly Employer Survey, offers a very cautionary note. From its post-Great Depression base of 29.2 million, America added 109.6 million non-farm jobs until reaching the peak figure of 138.8 milli...
Turnbull Wildlife Refuge and the Spokane Audubon Society will host a community work party on Saturday, May 15, at the refuge in celebration of International Migratory Bird Day. The work parties are part of ongoing community efforts to restore native riparian habitat to benefit birds and other wildlife species. Volunteers will be helping to plant more than 40 native saplings, along with erecting protective fencing to guard the new trees against deer, elk and moose browsing. Everyone is welcome to attend and help out. The work...
By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter Spokane will not be part of a countywide ambulance contract, but the Ambulance Service Board has every intention of moving forward without the county's largest city. The board has been working to create a contract with ambulance provider American Medical Response for more than three years in an effort to manage prices. The Spokane City Council voted 4-3 to end the city's membership on the board at their March 22 meeting, citing the already low costs enjoyed by Spokane residents thanks to an AMR...
By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter The Airway Heights City Council was joined at their April 5 meeting by Spokane County Commissioner Bonnie Mager and county parks director Doug Chase to discuss a draft memorandum of understanding between the jurisdictions. The proposed deal gives the city roughly 70 acres of undeveloped land in exchange for providing treated wastewater and sewer and water services to the Spokane County Raceway. The agreement also provides the city with first rights of refusal on nearly 30 additional acres,...
A Cheney Free Press Feature By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter It's a long road to travel, from waving to thousands from the top of a float in the Lilac Festival parade to washing your clothes in a bucket in an earthquake-ravaged third-world country. Courtney Leslie took that road, and she says the lessons she's learned are worth the struggle. TSgt. Leslie worked with the U.S. military's relief effort in Haiti, using her training in digital imaging and military intelligence to locate appropriate sites for refugee camps to serve...
Budget also calls for multi-agency workgroup to decide the fate of residential habilitation centers like Lakeland Village By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter As part of a hard-won compromise budget approved early Tuesday, state lawmakers in the House and Senate decided in favor of closing Pine Lodge Corrections Center for Women but opted to postpone the move until June of 2011. The budget, narrowly passed in the last hours of the 30-day special legislative session, makes up a $2.8 billion deficit by drawing $757 million in new t...
City officials chalk up most of the damage to bored minors, not gangs By RYAN LANCASTER Staff Reporter As Medical Lake Parks and Recreation Department employee Jim Roellich does his morning rounds of the city's parks, he often comes across the fresh tracks of vandals. A decapitated sprinkler head, a scorched restroom dispenser drained of soap, obscene graffiti sprawled across a picnic table – these are annoyances he labels as “just part of the job,” problems to be fixed promptly and then forgotten. In his 11 years with the c...
Residents and leaders gather to plan program to promote healthy living By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter Community leaders gathered last week to define the goals of a new initiative titled “Let's Move Cheney.” They're not looking to move the buildings and streets of the city; rather, it's Cheney residents the program hopes to move. More than 40 city, business and civic group leaders gathered April 9 for a kickoff meeting. Participants began outlining the program, which aims to reduce obesity and organize events that promote hea... Full story
By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter The Cheney City Council approved several resolutions at a short meeting April 13. The business was done in less than an hour, with Mayor Tom Trulove capping the meeting with a lengthy report on the reasons why renovating the Wren Pierson Building is the best option for the city's community center. Trulove spoke in response to a letter in the Cheney Free Press April 8 that asked whether city leadership had considered taking over the current Cheney Middle School, slated for demolition next year to...
