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The Airway Heights City Council faced an extensive agenda at its Aug. 5 meeting, honoring local legislators and hearing a presentation relating to a proposed Highland Village development resolution. Council first unanimously passed a resolution honoring the 6th District’s legislative delegation, comprised of Sen. Jeff Holy, Rep. Mike Volz and Rep. Jenny Graham, for their work during the 2019 legislative session. Airway Heights received significant funds from this year’s session, including more than $5 million for the Hig...
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Junior quarterback Eric Barriere has been selected by STATS as one of 25 players in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision to be selected to the Walter Payton Award Watch List, it was announced on Wednesday (July 31). Barriere took over as EWU’s starter midway through the 2018 season and helped lead the Eagles to the cusp of the NCAA Division I title, going 8-1 as a starter before EWU fell in the title game. He passed for 24 touchdowns and rushed for another eight in a total of 14 games played as a sophomore. He is joined...
In late April, communities across Washington State welcomed back their local legislators from Olympia after the conclusion of the 2019 Legislative session. The 2019 session was a long, 105-day session and the Legislature finished their work on time concluding at midnight on the 105th day. While many issues were resolved over the course of the session, a major issue for the city of Airway Heights this session was to identify funding to help complete the Highland Village Housing project. The project is designed to remove an enc...
Frank Watson (“Socialism is a one-way trip to disaster,” Cheney Free Press, Aug. 1, 2019). I will defend his right to say whatever, but to allow this white-privileged, right-wing individual to spew without any rebuttal is what I really find objectionable. His latest diatribe about the horrors of socialism is too much. We have in this country socialism for the richest, ever since Reagan’s trickledown nonsense. Why is it OK for them and not the rest of us? I too am a vet. Unlike Frank, I was a grunt with frightened 18-year-old...
I was disappointed to learn that only 1 percent of Medicare beneficiaries with dementia have received a personal care plan that has been available to them since 2017. Apparently many physicians are unaware of this code and service that can help their patients. Alzheimer’s Association advocates have asked members of Congress to cosponsor the Improving HOPE for Alzheimer’s Act, which will give doctors information about how they can develop a care plan for each patient who has dementia. I am grateful that Congresswoman Cat...
Let’s say this first, just to get it out of the way. Most of the problems facing this country brought once again into the limelight from the two mass shootings over the weekend were not created by the current occupant of the White House. The same can be said about the issues Donald Trump’s apologists are trying to steer us towards in order to deflect blame he may bear for exacerbating them. But the inconvenient truth is that Trump bears a lot of responsibility for making things worse. Indeed, he and his followers take pri...
By FRANK WATSON Contributor When our legs began to complain about the climb into the overhead bunk of our camper, my wife and I bought a year-round cabin on the Pend Oreille River. It has become our get away when the normal pressures of life need release. One such day last March, we decided to go to the cabin and take a day trip to the Kalispel Swan Festival. The newspaper told us the ice was still on the lake where the swans normally stop. We were a little bummed but decided to come anyway. To our delight, the swans had...
Last week, spurred by the crimes of former U.S.A. Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, two U.S. Senators released a 235-page report summarizing an 18-month investigation into sexual abuse in sports. But the senators — one a Democrat from Connecticut, the other a Republican from Kansas — haven’t stopped there. Richard Blumenthal and Jerry Moran have also released a bill that goes beyond the benign admonitions of past legislation and instead details concrete steps to prevent crimes like Nassar’s from happening again and from go...
Rarely do football players lose weight as their collegiate careers unfold, but defensive tackle Chris Scott did exactly that and had one of the greatest football seasons in Eastern Washington University history. The Big Sky Conference Defensive MVP in 1997, Scott will be among the 19th class of inductees into the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame on Sept. 28, in conjunction with EWU’s football game versus North Dakota at Roos Field in Cheney. Previously announced inductees includ...
The Eastern Washington University football team will begin the 2019 season as the No. 4 team in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision, according to the STATS FCS (Football Championship Subdivision) Preseason Top-25 poll released on Monday. North Dakota State, which has won seven of eight NCAA Division I titles since EWU won in 2010, was a unanimous No. 1 pick. James Madison was ranked second and South Dakota State third, a year after JMU bowed out of the FCS playoffs in the second round and SDSU advanced to the...
Cheney High School alum and current Walla Walla High School track and field head coach Eric Hisaw has been named the Boys High School Coach of the Year for Washington by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, according to a July 23 news release from Walla Walla Public Schools. Hisaw guided the Blue Devil boys to the 4A state title this season, the third time the program has won the state title but first since the 1952-1953 season, according to the...
1 Years Ago Aug. 13, 2009 The annual Airway Heights Festival took a hit in attendence thanks to poor, stormy weather. Eastern Washington University’s Police Department hosted an extensive active shooter training exercise on campus. The mock scenario had actors playing victims while professional first responders practiced their roles. Two Cheney homeowners appealed to the Historic Preservation Commission in the hopes of getting their homes on the local registry of historic places. 20 Years Ago Aug. 5, 1999 Plans for the M...
Cheney Congregational Church Searching for a church? Check us out any Sunday at 10 a.m. at the corner of N. 6th and Oakland streets, and stick around for refreshments afterward at 11 a.m. We’d like to get acquainted. Our new pastor, Matt Goodale, is continuing his sermon series, “A Surprising Family of Faith,” focusing on how we all encounter God in unique ways, this Sunday, Aug. 11, at 10 a.m. Our faith journeys may look different, but they are all embraced by God, who uses each of our stories to reveal a different textu...
Feed Medical Lake serves spaghetti dinner Aug. 12 Feed Medical Lake is serving spaghetti/meatballs, salad and garlic bread with parfait dessert on Aug. 12 beginning at 5 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church; 223 S. Hallett St. Grocery distribution begins 4:15 p.m., along with some school supplies for the kids. It’s all free. Then join the lunch bunch on Aug. 24 at 11:30 a.m. It’s free, too. For more information call Joanna Williams at (509) 714-1150....
Plans to move the historic Cheney Railroad Depot are close to becoming a reality, despite a slight slowdown in logistics. In a July 10 email, Cheney Depot Society secretary Sue Beeman said the organization completed an agreement with Sunshine Investment partnership to receive as a gift property owned by the partnership at the corner of Union and 1st streets. The property, located across from Sears and Jarms Pump, was originally a home fuel oil storage facility, and until a...
Drivers traveling between Cheney and Medical Lake may have noticed the return of an unusual aquatic neighbor on Heron Pond, adjacent to Salnave Road just west of Interstate 90. Marsha the Marsh Monster is back, and she's brought her offspring, Reed, with her. The sculptures are the creation of retired fiberglass fabricator Jerry Pitts, a long-time resident of the pond. Long an icon on the rural highway, Marsha has a bit of a storied past. While her origin dates vary depending...
The West Plains Fire Academy is once again accepting applications for new volunteer and career firefighters, and local fire officials say it’s hoping to foster a new, more regional focus. Spokane County Fire District 10 Division Chief of Recruitment & Retention Deb Dodson said the academy is seeking aspiring firefighters — particularly ones that live in the district for which they are applying. “People think they can’t be firefighters, but they can,” she said. “They can be farmers, truck drivers, teachers, anyone with an int...
What’s going on with the Lefevre Street Bakery and Café in Medical Lake? That question has been on many people’s minds since the restaurant suddenly shut down just over a month ago. A July 6 post on the business’s Facebook page, and notes taped to its doors, said a leak in the heating and cooling system was dripping into the kitchen, forcing the restaurant’s closure until it could be repaired. Then a July 20 Facebook update explained that water damage from the leak was more ex...
Oregon State University officials have announced that senior Molly E. Jarrells of Cheney has been named to the spring term 2019 Scholastic Honor Roll, achieving a grade point average of 3.5 or better. Jarrels is one of 4,352 students earning the distinction at the Corvallis, Oregon university. To be on the Honor Roll, students must carry at least 12 graded hours of course work....
The Medical Lake School Board approved a new school budget on Tuesday, July 30. The details were outlined for board members by district staff at a public hearing held before the board’s regular monthly meeting. The $5.2 million 2019-2020 district budget represents a $600,000 revenue shortfall the district is offsetting by dipping into its general fund. That same scenario is built into the district’s four year revenue projection that, assuming nothing changes, will nearly dep...
The Cheney School Board’s July 31 meeting was a swift one, as multiple staff members delivered reports on matters essential to the future of the district. Superintendent Rob Roettger said the district has been working with Davis Demographics, a K-12 school planning, consulting and mapping firm. The firm is in the process of releasing a report estimating Cheney’s student population projections over the next 10 years. According to Roettger, the finalization of the report has been postponed to early September, but preliminary da...
Pete Baccarella is retiring - again. The long-time Cheney Realtor is planning to step aside from his management role at Coldwell Banker Tomlinson in order to free up more time for him and family. But he's not stepping away completely from the real estate business, electing to remain in that field to work with buyers and sellers in Cheney and Medical Lake. Prior to 22 years in real estate, Baccarella spent 22 years in the U.S. Air Force - a career that first brought him to...
Firefighters from multiple agencies were dispatched to Eastern State Hospital for a reported commercial structure fire in the northwest wing of the hospital at 12:11 p.m., Wednesday, July 31 — only to find there was no fire. Medical Lake Fire Chief Jason Mayfield, on his way out of town for vacation, turned around to respond to the call and was the first on scene, according to department spokesman Capt. Jake Kirwin. Seeing no obvious smoke when he arrived, Mayfield began a s...
Exercising its responsibility to review appropriate changes to historic properties, the Cheney Historic Preservation Commission gave its approval — with conditions — at its Aug. 1 meeting to $11,000 in repair work to a historic house at 306 F St. The house, known historically as the David and Bessie Lowe House, is owned by the Alpha Phi International Fraternity. According to the city’s staff report on the application for certificate of appropriateness, the house was listed on the National Register of Historical Places and t...
