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By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter A 1-2 week has Medical Lake likely looking ahead - not to the post season, but next year as the 5-15 Cardinals close out their 2008 AA American Legion season this week with four games. Losses to league-leading University, 3-1 last Tuesday and Cheney, 8-2 on Friday were sandwiched around a 9-4 win at Lincoln County. The Cards hosted Cheney in a Tuesday contest and then hit the road for a Wednesday game at Central Valley before taking on East Valley in a home-and-home series to wrap up the schedul...
Dan Dickau along with Northern Quest Casino in association with Northwest Sports & Entertainment, is pleased to announce the 2008 Northern Quest Casino Dan Dickau Celebrity Poker Tournament. This third year event will take place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 3, in the casino's main ballroom. The tournament is open to the first 100 paid entrants plus approximately 20 celebrities from the basketball world, mixed with three world championship poker players. Entry fee is $500. Each participant will receive one seat into the...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter The Spokane Storm 14U fastpitch softball team ran its Spokane Girls Fastpitch Softball Association record to 9-1 this past week with two impressive wins over the Medical Lake Cardinals, 12-0 and 23-3. With the wins the Storm moved to a one-game lead in league standings over the 9-3 Mt. Spokane Explosion who have completed play. The Storm can clinch first place with a win in one of their two games against the Lakeside Stars. The Storm have won four in a row in league play. In the sweep over...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter It's proving to be just plain hard to deliver a knock-out punch to the Cheney SummerHawks AA American Legion baseball team lately. Blasted 10-0 in game one of their doubleheader against powerful Lewis & Clark on Saturday, the SummerHawks came back to edge LC in the nightcap. Then, in almost the same scenario this past Monday, Cheney was routed in their first game against Shadle Park 14-3, only to “10 run ‘em” in the second game, 14-4 according to manager Matt Crawford. With the split, the Summe... Full story
By CARA LORELLO Staff Reporter Medical Lake teachers shared performance results from some of their learning assistance programs (LAP) offered last year with the district school board on June 24, which showed marked improvements in student RIT scores, the unit measures used to determine grade averages. Last year Medical Lake High School offered before- and after-school learning assistance classes, some created with the help of LAP funding from the state. Principal John McSmith said the LAP dollars created four support math... Full story
By DAVID TELLER Staff Reporter The Cheney School District board of directors approved 5.13 percent cost of living allowance (COLA) for teachers for the next school year. Cheney School District finance director Brian Aiken said changes in state-funded programs in the last few years have created an offset in COLA funding and the district is playing catch-up, getting the raises to district employees. Aiken said the legislature funded a COLA of 3.9 percent, and then a .5 percent “catch-up” for all staff. Examples he cited wer...
Robert (Bob) B. Anderson passed away July 5 at Wesley Homes Care Center in Des Moines, Wash. He died of complications with lymphoma (cancer). Bob was born Sept. 7, 1928, in Missoula, Mont., to Irvin and Lucille Anderson. He went to grade school and high school in Missoula and attended the University of Montana where he was a varsity football player and president of the associated student body in 1950-51, a member of Phi Delta Theata and where he received his bachelor's degree in 1951. Bob served in the Marine Corps during the...
James “Jim” Earl Harbin passed away on July 13 in Spokane. Jim was born on Oct. 8 in 1934 in Genoa, Ark. As a young child Jim moved with his family to Springfield, Ore., where he was raised and graduated from high school in 1952. After graduation Jim enlisted in the United States Air Force and was stationed at Fairchild Air Force Base. It was here that Jim met and married his first wife, Leona Laffoon (deceased 1997) of Troy, Mont. Jim was a veteran of the Vietnam War and retired from the Air Force in 1974 after 21 years of...
By LUELLA DOW Contributor We continue with Jim Johnson's story. Back home in Medical Lake Johnson stepped right into the town's director of park and recreation position. “The lake was eutrophic,” he said. “It was a mineral lake. Anyone who tried to swim in it tangled with blue-green algae bloom. Swimmers walked out with skin irritation and itchiness.” He oversaw the treatment of the lake, using a pontoon boat with 55-gallon drums of alum and out riggers. The alum bonded with the phosphate and settled to the bottom. “We had...
By DAVID TELLER Staff Reporter The Cheney City Council accepted a bid from Darden Enterprises to do an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) upgrade at the city hall building. Light Department director Joe Noland said the renovation comes when a facility assessment was done in 1997 and the architects suggested the improvements. Noland added that the Light Department owns the building and rents it to the general fund. Noland said egress in the building would be modified at the auditorium, with a stairway exiting in the vacant... Full story
By DAVID TELLER Staff Reporter Cheney will get a blast from the past when long-time rockabilly star, Bobby Wayne, plays in the Cheney summer concert series July 23. Rockabilly style of music emerged in the mid-1950s breeding singers like Johnny Cash and the early days of Elvis Presley. According to the rockabilly hall of fame website when Wayne went to the studio to record “Sally Ann” in 1955, he joined Bill Haley, Elvis Presley and Rick Carty as the first known recording rockabilly artists. Wayne was inducted into the Roc... Full story
By DAVID TELLER Staff Reporter Medical Lake resident Carl Grubb is the proud owner of 15,000 square feet of downtown Cheney property. Grubb submitted a bid of $48,150 on the Cheney property Spokane County declared surplus and had requested bids for last month. Spokane County Commissioner Bonnie Mager said the county received no other bids, neither verbal nor written. She said all that's left is for Grubb to sign some paperwork and bring in a check and the transaction is complete. The Spokane County Commissioners held a...
By CARA LORELLO Staff Reporter Airway Heights City Council unanimously approved a fee waiver on July 7 for a new home being constructed by Hayden Homes development company's Giving Fund that is slated for a late summer completion date and dedication. It's the second Hayden Giving Fund home to be built in the community, the first being in 2006 to a family of three in the Sunset Crossing subdivision. A family has also been selected for the yet-to-be-completed three-bedroom home, which has a market value of $137,000. City planne... Full story
By CARA LORELLO Staff Reporter One Medical Lake family is without a home after a morning fire got out of control and took the strength of fire crews from several local agencies responding to get under control, but not before it destroyed their Minnie Street home on July 9. The family of four, who asked their names be withheld, said they'd arranged for temporary lodging at Fairchild Air Force Base, and the mother and her two children who were home at the time managed to escape before it got out of control. According to the...
By DAVID TELLER Staff Reporter Cheney Fire Department responded to three fires all within a week of each other, though none caused serious damage. The recent string of fires raises concern about the dry weather and warm temperatures as Cheney Fire Chief Mike Winters is getting ready for a busy fire season. On July 6 a fire at 23 4th Street broke out when a new tenant moving into a building set a heavy box on the stove. Winters speculates a knob on the stove was bumped, inadvertently turning the burner on. Most of the damage... Full story
By CARA LORELLO Reporter The city of Medical Lake sent out 1,393 surveys in June asking if citizens wanted to see fireworks banned within the city's corporate boundaries, and results heard by the City Council on Tuesday said of the 427 returned (31 percent), 19 percent said they don't favor a ban, while the remaining 11 percent said yes to it. While the survey itself doesn't stand as a vote by City Council on the issue, it will be taken into account in a future decision to be made at a later date, as Mayor John Higgins,... Full story
By DAVID TELLER Staff Reporter The Cheney Planning Commission voted to continue the hearing on the proposed Harvest Bluff to their next meeting after a flurry of concerns emerged during the meeting on July 14. Aside from concerns about the wetlands and having another park, most of the issues addressed at the meeting focused on pedestrians crossing Betz Road, especially children that attend Cheney Middle School. “How are you going to get kids across the road safely when 6,000 to 8,000 cars travel that road daily?” Com... Full story
During the Cheney Rodeo, bulging eyes and flared nostrils where a common sight as rodeo contestants and animals had it out in a battle of strength and will. Cheney Rodeo Commission president Matt Wichman said attendance recovered after Thurday's bad weather and fires led to a “packed house” on Saturday. - Photo by Harlan Shellabarger... Full story
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor All my hurts, my garden spade can heal. – Ralph Waldo Emerson. Want to learn about using Diatenasious earth in your garden? Or the best remedy to heal an ailing tree? You could go online and Google the information, or peruse books and magazines at your local library or bookstore, but the best and easiest way is probably staying local by getting a hold of the Gardeners of Cheney. The club, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary this August, is composed of people from all over the West Plains who s...
