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ML Dollars for Scholars yard sale fundraiser this week If you have been here before, you know we have the “stuff” you need and want! Lots of furniture, clothing, tools, household goods, books, electronics and even some antiques hidden in plain sight. Come out to support our graduating seniors’ scholarships. The sale runs 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Friday May 3 and 7 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Saturday May 4. It’s the largest yard sale in the area! Feed Medical Lake to hold food-oriented classes Feed Medical Lake is hosting two food-orient...
A traveling half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., called The Traveling Wall, will arrive in Medical Lake on June 12 and will be available for viewing at 250 S. Prentis St., Medical Lake, on the Medical Lake Middle School playfield. Each day will include an opening and closing ceremony. The Traveling Wall will be available for viewing for four days until June 16. For more information about The Traveling Wall’s visit to Medical Lake go to http://medicallake.org/vmwall/.... Full story
James T. Grant, a beloved husband and father, died April 27, 2019 at the age of 87. He is preceded in death by his sister Emma Louise and his parents. James was born Dec. 7, 1931, in Omaha, Neb. to Edward and Lois Grant. He began his studies for ministry at Midland Lutheran University, achieving a bachelor or arts cum laude. He next attended Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkley, Calif. and earned a master's of divinity He was ordained at St. Matthew's Lutheran... Full story
United Methodist Church The United Methodist Church will begin worship this Sunday at 10 a.m. Pastor Alissa Bertsch will begin a new sermon series called “The Catch.” This week’s topic is “Becoming Relentlessly Outward Focused.” Service includes the celebration of Holy Communion. The church will also have a multi-age Sunday school class for middle and high school aged students at 9 a.m. prior to worship. The adult fellowship will gather for a Mexican themed potluck for Cinco de Mayo at the church this Sunday evening a...
1 Years Ago April 30, 2009 The Cheney City Council approved a resolution to accept a $69,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to install a remotely monitored camera in the downtown corridor in efforts to reduce and investigate crime. TRIO, an organization of first generation students, and the Eastern Washington University Eagles track team pooled together volunteer students for a litter pick up in the downtown area and surrounding neighborhood in Cheney from the southeastern edge of the campus to Front...
Logan David Herriman of Cheney, Washington tragically passed away April 20, 2019 in a car accident. Logan was born April 18, 2001 in Spokane, Washington. From a young age Logan was destined to be a cowboy. He always traveled with dad to multiple rodeos a weekend and hung out with the guys while dad picked up or judged. As Logan got older, he started competing at junior rodeos where his dad judged and was always his biggest supporter. Without fail you could always count on his... Full story
All events are free unless posted otherwise. To get your event or meeting in the weekly What’s Happening section, send an email with date, time, location and event to jmac@cheneyfreepress.com. Cheney • May 2, Historic Preservation Commission meeting , City Council Chambers, 5:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. • May 3, Lavender Graduation 2019, EWU’s Showalter 109, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. • May 3, Master Gardeners: Cheney Plant Clinic and Information Booth, Cheney library, 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. • May 4, Bird Watching Class #2, Turnbull National Wildlife... Full story
Medical Lake resident Gary Starr had a talent for hitting the target while in the Army. His first assignment as newly-minted second lieutenant was platoon leader in an U.S. Army mechanized infantry battalion in Germany in early 1967, where he took first place in the Army’s 8th Division Pathfinders marksmanship competition. Later that year, after a promotion to 1st lieutenant, Starr was given command of an Army Airborne infantry company within the 8th Division. Under his l...
Local theater goers wishing to catch a performance of StageWest’s “The Savannah Sipping Society” have a few more chances to do so. And according to the West Plains production company’s officials, audiences might want to hurry and get tickets. “What a fantastic opening weekend for StageWest Community Theatre’s production of “The Savannah Sipping Society” written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten,” StageWest publicity director Nancy Kuonen said in an email. “The audience members really seemed to enjoy the performa...
As president, Donald Trump has leaned heavily upon what he has called an “America First” policy. This nationalist approach involves walking away from cooperative agreements with other nations and relying, instead, upon a dominant role for the United States, under girded by military might, in world affairs. Nevertheless, as numerous recent opinion polls reveal, most Americans don’t support this policy. The reaction of the American public to Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from key international agreements has been host...
“One of the biggest challenges of the 21st Century is dealing with the progress of the 20th Century — especially old computers, monitors, cellular phones and televisions. These appliances depend on potentially hazardous materials, such as mercury, to operate. After a five-to-eight year useful life, many are tossed into dumpster and sent to landfills where they can leach into the soil and groundwater.” That was the opening paragraph of a column I wrote 20 years ago. Howev...
This week I had the privilege of eating lunch at a local middle school while working on a story. In the process, I talked to school officials and some students about what they were eating and the importance of a good meal during the school day. Over the course of my career I’ve talked to kids at sporting events, political rallies, domestic violence shelters and volunteer events. These conversations have led me to one conclusion, which I can look upon with absolute clarity. We don’t give kids enough credit. Children are con...
On March 15, a small group of white supremacists attacked a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 50 worshipers. Political and religious leaders throughout the world condemned the act and the terrorists. The six gunmen were rounded up and will be punished to the limit of New Zealand law. As far as we know, the motivation of the attack was more racial than religious. In retaliation, a group of Islamic terrorists sent seven suicide bombers to Christian targets in Sri Lanka last week. They inflicted 800 casualties, 300...
More than 200 volunteers took part in last Saturday's Cheney Clean Sweep, the city's 12th annual day of cleaning up not only the city's public spaces but also residents' homes and personal items. Some of the activities taking place gave residents the chance to safely dispose of personal documents at "Shredfest" at Cheney Federal Credit Union (above). City staff and volunteers pitched in to repair portions of the structure of the Sutton Park gazebo (above right) while families...
Five employees working at the Airway Heights Corrections Center on the West Plains were honored for exemplary performance at the state Department of Corrections annual agency awards on Friday, April 26. A total of 162 employees out of 1,050 across the state were nominated by their colleagues and received awards, according to a Department of Corrections (DOC) press release. Those honored from Airway Heights included sex offender treatment specialist Andrea Apaa, who received the “Equitable and Inclusive Workplace” award for he...
Lady Blackhawks softball player Parker Cagle watches as several of her teammates are temporarily swallowed up in a swirling dust cloud during last Saturday’s doubleheader with visiting Pullman. Windy conditions all afternoon led to frequent stoppages of play as players, coaches, umpires and fans attempted to dodge the effects of the blowing dirt....
A luxury electric sports car manufacturer has signed a letter of intent to build a 1.3-million –square-foot facility on the West Plains, and county and company officials say that space is just the beginning. Fresh off of introducing its product at New York’s International Auto Show in April, California-based Mullen Technologies Inc. announced last week its plan to work with the West Plains-Airport Area Development Authority (PDA) to manufacture its new Qiantu K50 super-EV electric sportscar, bringing 55 jobs to the area imm...
Eastern Washington University is set to host the first-ever Cinco de May Latino Forum as part of its ongoing commitment to recruit, retain and graduate a diverse group of students in innovative new ways. In an April 30 news release, university officials said the Friday, May 3, event will include nationally renowned keynote speakers, educators, community leaders and professionals leading panels and roundtable presentations on how the diversification of curriculum would benefit the Latino and diverse students attending EWU. It...
Officials at Cheney School District’s Westwood Middle School have released the names of students named to the third-quarter honor roll. Part one of two begins below. 4.0 Thayne E. Acedo, Elizabeth S. Bae, Lily J. Bare, Elsa B. Bertelsen, Alyssa R. Brown, Kaitlyn M. Brown, Logan A. Burnett, Addysen L. Butikofer, Leilani L. Cailing, Regina R. Camacho, AnnaMarie K. Campbell, Kitana-Jolie K. Cano, Bella L. Carter, Camden M. Collins, Mika J. Corneil, Kacy M. Cowell, Lucas J. Cox, Sage R. Cramer, Jezreel D. Crosby, Isabella J. D...
After hearing from one high school group on the instructional use of new Chromebook computers in Spanish language studies, and watched a demonstration of Knowledge Team students who had placed seventh in state competition this year, the Medical Lake School Board, absent member Peggy Schweikhardt, quickly got down to business. The board approved a first reading of revised policies related to student health, infectious diseases, and anaphylaxis prevention and response. One polic...
Cheney’s City Council approved a resolution and an ordinance at its April 23 meeting to pay for repairs to aspects of the city’s water supply system. The ordinance authorized an interfund loan from the Light Department and Sewer Department reserves to the Water Department to pay for the balance of work on the city’s redrilling of Well 3. The city was able to secure $750,000 in funding from the state for the project in last year’s supplemental budget, but was unsuccessful in its application for funding from the state’s...
If there’s an analogy for the challenges facing the state’s mental health system, it might be found in the sweltering heat in the office of Eastern State Hospital CEO Mark Kettner. On a pleasantly cool mid-April day outside, his office is at least 80 degrees. “There’s no central anything in this building,“ Dean Davis, director of facilities said of the building’s antiquated steam heating system. The focus is instead on a $6.7 million capital improvement project currently u...
Medical Lake High School Junior ROTC members, along with volunteers from three other Cheney and Medical Lake organizations, braved chilly and windy conditions to try and break a world record at the Cheney NAPA store for the most cars washed in an eight-hour period. As of press time, no word was available on whether or not the national effort succeeded....
Diving through the mobile home parks on the south side of Airway Heights is a study in opposites. Neat, brightly painted homes share a fence with residences that seem abandoned, with windows boarded up and yards littered with trash, broken furniture and all manner of odds and ends rotting from exposure to the rain. It’s a sight Airway Heights code enforcement officer Kristina Blake sees every day, and one she says has improved dramatically since she began her duties nearly a...
Cheney’s City Council voted unanimously at its April 23 meeting to follow recommendations by the Planning Commission and move forward to approve the establishment of traffic impact fees in the city municipal code. The fees are aimed mainly at residential developments in the southeast portion of the city across the Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific railroad tracks on land referred to as Terra Vista. The property is owned by Cheney developer Steve Emtman’s Defender Development. The council approved the first of thr...
