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Does Cheney really need a dog park? That was the central question Cheney council members wanted to know about a request to build such a facility in the city, presented at their June 26 meeting. The concept actually first came to light at the council's June 12 meeting when resident Chris Babcock approached them with the proposal. Babcock was seeking a letter of endorsement from the city to help a group she is working with apply for a $25,000 grant to build the facility at...
Peggy Pettis passed away at her home on June 25, 2018. She was born in Spokane to Lloyd and Joyce Beckley on February 17, 1954. She is survived by her husband Dave Pettis, her sons: David Pettis and daughter-in-law Tawnya, James Beckley and his fiancée Cassandra Boyle, daughter Elizabeth Culp and son-in-law Jason, eight grandchildren, sisters: Lori Wilson, Sue Turnidge, and Melissa Mabe, as well as many nieces, nephews and claimed children. She was preceded in death by her... Full story
Feed Medical Lake brings Christmas to summer It’s Christmas in July at Feed Medical Lake on Monday, July 9, at 5 p.m. The menu includes roast turkey, garlic mashed potatoes/yams, green bean casserole, rolls and red/white/blue dessert. Grocery distribution will begin 4:15 p.m. if available due to holiday and inventory at supplier. Door prizes and, if room available, the kids get to play “Pin the Nose on Rudolph.” Come join the fun; it’s all free. For more information call Joanna Williams at (509) 714-1150. Airway Heights...
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 • July 6, Master Gardeners: Cheney Plant Clinic and Information booth, community library, 1 – 5 p.m. • July 6, Salish Songs and Stories with LaRae Wiley, community library, 2 – 3 p.m. • July 10, Music and Movement, community library, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. • July 10, Flightless Birds running club, Barrelhouse Pub & Pizza, 6 p.m. ... Full story
Keep your eye on the ball Six-year-old Toree Soto practiced her forehand during "beginner tennis" lessons. Waiting her turn is Danielle Spisak, also 6. They were part of a class taughy by Bryan Eggart, offered through the Cheney Parks and Recreation Department....
Cheney Congregational Church The Cheney Congregational Church decided to join National Association of Congregational Christian Churches (NACCC). The NACCC national convention was held the last weekend in June. Sunday, July 1, Rhonda Jared spoke of her experiences at the convention. Sunday, July 8, pastor David Krueger-Duncan will preach on the response about our request to NACCC. Communion is Sunday, July 8, at 10 a.m. Every Sunday we meet at the church on 423 N. Sixth St. in Cheney. We are all in different places in our...
1 Years Ago July 3, 2008 The Eastern Washington University board of trustees passed the university’s 2008-2009 fiscal budget. The document achieves a milestone by topping the $200 million mark for the first time at $200,800,484 — about $562,200 less than the draft proposal presented at the trustees’ previous meeting. Medical Lake Food Bank was offering chances to buy fresh produce and opportunities for local families on limited incomes to “stretch” their food dollars by eating healthy and saving money with two summer co...
Keep your perennial gardens looking their best throughout the hot summer months with a bit of midsummer grooming and care. Investing time midseason means you'll be enjoying beautiful gardens now through the end of the growing season. Start by deadheading, removing faded flowers, to improve the plants' overall appearance. It won't extend bloom time on all perennials, but will keep some like bergenia, lamb's ear, peonies, and perennial geraniums looking neat and tidy throughout...
While campaigning for Medical Lake mayor last year, Shirley Maike found that one of the things that kept coming up at forums was developing programs for senior citizens and how to connect them with those activities. That interaction revealed Medical Lake has a solid Parks and Recreation program, especially for kids. “I said to (City Administrator) Doug (Ross), what do we have for seniors, an official senior services program?” Maike said. As the two went through a list of dif...
CHS graduate performs with Seattle Cascades The Seattle Cascades, the oldest and most decorated drum and bugle corps in the Pacific Northwest, announced its 154-member corps for the 2018 season in a June 7 news release. Among those selected to play through auditions is Cheney High School 2017 graduate Joanna Wilkerson. Auditions began in November 2017, with members attending monthly camps through the winter, followed by a rigorous three-week training program in the spring, building stamina and putting together the music and...
After years of not having a code enforcer, the city of Airway Heights has brought in Kristina Blake to take over the new job. Blake earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Portland State University in 2012 and went on to complete a master's online. She has a lot of history in security as she was part of campus security at Central Oregon University and was the code enforcement officer for two years in Boardman, Ore. Most recently, she was living in Goldendale,...
Most Americans cannot relate to the lives of our sisters and brothers who live in Third World countries. Though only occasionally traveling overseas, we often select Europe as our destination — a cruise on the Danube or a trip to Italy. Thus, imagining what it is like to live in real poverty is almost incomprehensible. After living in three different African countries for 17 years, I have experienced extreme poverty. In most African villages, owning a bicycle or a radio is a sign of wealth. When I visited the village at C...
Our governor and attorney general are at it again. They decided to sue the president over his policy to separate the children of illegal immigrants when the parents are detained. The paperwork was prepared and ready to submit when the president caved under public outcry and reversed his policy. Rather than waste a good opportunity to file a lawsuit, our state leaders modified a couple sentences and filed suit claiming that reversing the separation policy wasn’t enough. I wonder what they really want. The only possibilities I...
By DON C. BRUNELL Contributor The Jetsons television series about a space-age family featuring “Rosey the Robot” gave us a preview of life with robots, kiosks and interactive television. In 1962, it was a fictitious cartoon; however, in 2018, many of the Jetsons’ conveniences are a reality. Take fast-food restaurants, for example. Faced with a growing shortage of workers and increased costs, some are turning to robots to flip hamburgers and clean grills — mundane, unpleas...
It is crazy to me that we are already halfway through the year and that it is now July. This will personally be a big month for me as I move across the country to Knoxville Tenn., at the end of the month. As I realized that I will be moving from my home of just over 10 years in just a matter of weeks, I thought of all the good times that Cheney and the West Plains have brought me. I am a proud alum of Cheney High School and Eastern Washington University. I will forever be a Blackhawk and I am officially an Eagle for life. If...
The Cheney School District kicked off its final and largest project stemming from the 2017 bond last Wednesday - the expansion and renovation of Cheney High School. Several area dignitaries and officials got a chance to turn a shovel of earth brought in especially for the occasion at the future location of the project's 500-seat performing arts center. School district officials picture at top from left to right are Finance Director Jamie Weingart, Associate Superintendent...
Medical Lake High School has released its 2017-2018 second semester honor roll. Students making the honor roll are listed by last name first as follows: Freshmen Bridges, Cheyenne Deitschman, Breanna Earley, Natalee Eberhardt, Mayah Harper, Anne Alyce Hartwell, Lissandra Laffitte, Alexa Lear, Chandler Murphy, Madison Olmstead, Jake Pullom, Jeremiah Ransier, Rachael Shcherbina, Elizabeth Swenson, Kaylee Williams, Sawyer Sophomores Armstrong, Anthony Bliven, Savannah Bridges, Daniel Dutton, Mayden Gates, Hunter Jones, Tobias...
Medical Lake High School has released its 2017-2018 second semester Principal’s honor roll. Freshmen Acord, Ellie Beecher, Jessica Bode, Rachel Brown, Violet Cain, Kaycee Castro, Kyler Cook, Chloe Davis, Ethan Dickey, Cameron Dyess, Preston Edison, Jacob Ehman, Nicholas Figueredo, Jun Flaherty, Keziah Gibby, Tyler Gilbert, Kirsten Headrick, Paige Henry, Benjamin Howard, Joseph Kaulig, Michael Lansdowne, Ty Lewis, Issah Lindsey, Jonah Marsh, Kyle Merritt, Trista Mills, Jackson Munden, Madison Niblock, Aidan Paikuli, K...
The end of the 2017-18 school year review in Medical Lake included updates on CTE and STEM programs with some notable advancements announced. The district's CTE or Career Technical Education and STEM - standing for science, technology, engineering and mathematics - have gone through what was presented as a very rigorous re-approval process by the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. "All program areas had to be reapproved," program coordinator Ann Everett...
Construction work on all four of the Cheney School District's facilities included in 2017's $52 million bond is underway. In a presentation to the school board last Wednesday, June 27, OAC project manager Rusty Pritchard said work on the three elementary school expansions was "going gangbusters." Prior to the meeting at Cheney High School, the board toured work at nearby Betz Elementary School, where walls and most of the framing is up on the $2.448 million expansion....
West Plains Chamber of Commerce members and representatives gathered in Airway Heights to celebrate the opening of the new Apex Physical Therapy with a ribbon cutting ceremony last Thursday. The newest Spokane-area location is at 10258 W. Highway, Suite 4. Apex has locations in Cheney, Medical Lake and near the Fairways on Aero Road....
Keeping airmen healthy on Fairchild Air Force Base is quite the task, but the 92nd Medical Group started an innovative program in the beginning of the year to help support full-spectrum readiness. Team Fairchild's "Human Performance Cell" (HPC) begun earlier this year and is taking a holistic approach to help combat chronic injuries that can help airmen get back to the fight and defend the country. HPC is composed of a multitude of medical specialist that deliver a...
Between 40-50 community members gathered at Cheney’s City Hall auditorium June 25 to talk about what can be done to revitalize the city’s downtown — and how the state and other communities can help. The meeting, hosted jointing by the city’s planning department and the Cheney Merchants Association, featured a presentation on the Washington State Main Street Program. The state program, an offshoot of the national Main Street program, currently has been used by 32 cities in the state, many with populations approxi...
Crews were moving a lot of earth last week at the site of Project Rose, a four-story, 2.6-million square foot distribution center located on Geiger Boulevard north of Interstate 90's Medical Lake exit....
A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report came out regarding some of the contaminants that were found in the water in Airway Heights last May. The 852-page document concluded that the PFOA/PFOS could be more damaging than people thought before, but the city has actually not been using any water that was contaminated last year. "We know that any level (of the chemicals) isn't acceptable," Public Works Director Kevin Anderson said. "I think we are at the...
