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The Shriner's Hospital for Children - Spokane were the recipients of $9,000 worth of proceeds from the 2018 Lilac City Invitational golf tournament held at The Fairways. Representatives received the ceremonial check following the conclusion of play last Sunday....
CROSS COUNTRY Eagles hire Sam Read as new cross country coach Eastern Washington University has hired Sam Read, former assistant at Montana State University, to become EWU’s new head cross country coach, effective July 9. He received his master’s degree from MSU in 2016 and his bachelor’s degree in 2014 from Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. Read was at MSU from 2014-18 where he assisted Dale Kennedy, the recently-retired director of cross country and track and field for the Bobcats, and Lyle Weese, Bobcat head cross count...
Medical Lake drag racer Justin Cooper, seen here in the near lane in 2017 at Woodburn, Ore. drag strip, will return to that track this weekend to try to defend the Super Comp title he won there last year. The win helped him earn the NHRA Division 6 Super Comp championship....
Thank goodness for rival Cheney when it comes to Medical Lake’s American Legion Post 196 baseball team. It was a 4-2 win over the independent Summerhawks last Saturday that helped Medical Lake end a six-game losing streak, including an 0–4 finish in the North Central Pod of the Wood Bat Classic. Against Cheney, after an early 2-2 tie, Medical Lake pushed across the winning and an insurance run with three consecutive singles in the bottom of the fifth. Medical Lake is a per...
Cheney High School senior softball player Meghan Krantz has been named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association's High School West Region Second Team, according to a July 2 news release. Krantz, a 2018 graduate, was picked at third base. She was one of three players from Washington selected to any of the 10 teams, first and second teams from five regions. The others were from Western Washington's Montesano High School, Abi Parkin and Lindsay Pace, both West Region Second...
Staff ReporterPuyallup's Vinnie Murphy III decided at the last minute to enter the Lilac City Invitational. Turns out it was the right choice for the 23-year-old as he survived a brutal final hole and held on for a one-stroke victory over Sammamish's Li Wang and Shane Prante July 8 at The Fairways Golf Course on the West Plains. Murphy, a recent graduate of Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Ariz. used a 4-under 68, a four-day total of 274 to win $10,000. Prante equaled...
The Medical Lake 24-hour Tennis-A-Thon takes place Wednesday and Thursday July 18 and 19 at the tennis courts across from the high school. Starting at noon on July 18 and ending at noon the following day, activities include free tennis lessons, taught by members of the Cardinals' tennis team. A special celebrity match will take place featuring MLHS Principal Chris Spring and athletics director Justin Blayne facing off against Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich and school...
CHENEY July 2 Suspicious circumstances were reported on the 1900 block of Fourth Street. A business called police to report that one of its customers had been contacted by an individual claiming to represent the business, but who was not employed by them. Mohammed B. Bin Eiyed, 21, was arrested on the 500 block of F Street for third-degree driving while license suspended (DWLS). A two-car, minor injury rear-end collision was reported on the zero hundred block of Cheney-Spangle Road. Report was taken for recording purposes...
Christmas comes July 22 in Medical Lake The West Plains Angels presents the “Angel Gift Surprises” live auction community event to benefit the Medical Lake High School Associated Student Body and the Medical Lake Care and Share Thrift Store. The event takes place Sunday, July 22, at 1 p.m. at the Pizza Factory, 123 S. Broad St. For $8.99 per person, guests get all-you-can-eat pizza, breadsticks and salad bar. Each guest or group is asked to bring a festively wrapped gift. The mission of the West Plains Angels “is to finan...
On this date 50 years ago in 1968, the first Cheney Rodeo was held at the Fair Grounds on the Four Lakes-Cheney Highway just south of Jensen Road. The bleachers consisted of flatbed hay trucks lining the field. Ginny Strohmaier was the first Rodeo Queen. The July 11, 1968 Cheney Free Press showed some of the scenes. Learn more about our area’s history at www.cheneymuseum.org....
Sandra Anne Synstad Sandra Anne Synstad was born April 22, 1944 in Tampa, Fla. to Rex Porter and Gloria Etchey and died July 7, 2018 at home under care of Hospice of Spokane. She grew up in North Seattle and attended elementary school at Our Lady of the Lake Parish and later attended Blanchard High School. She married the love of her life Robert Synstad on Sept. 9, 1961 and they were happily married for 56 years. They had two children, Debbie (who preceded Sandy in death) and... Full story
Daniel Robert "Bob" Wagner Daniel Robert "Bob" Wagner, 77, entered into eternal peace on June 29, 2018 at Hospice House South in Spokane surrounded by his loving family. Bob was born on May 7, 1941 in Strasburg, N.D. to Math and Cecelia Wagner. The family relocated to Spokane in 1943. Bob was very proud to call Hillyard his home. He attended Rogers High School, the Washington State School for the Blind in Vancouver, Wash. and graduated from Hudson's Bay High School. He... Full story
Cheney • July 13-14, Friends of the Cheney Library Book sale, community library, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. • July 13-15, Cheney Rodeo festivities. • July 17, Revett Lake Hike trip, transportation provided to and from Wren Pierson Community Center, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m., $10. • July 17, Flightless Birds running club, Barrelhouse Pub & Pizza, 6 p.m. • July 18, Mojo Box concert, Sutton Park, 6:30 – 8 p.m. • July 19, Kiwanis meeting, Sessions Village Clubhouse at 2219 North Sixth St., 7 a.m. Guest speaker. • July 19, American Legion Pos... Full story
