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Cheney’s City Council moved swiftly through a number of action items at its first meeting in September Tuesday night, passing eight resolutions and holding all three readings and final passage of a budget ordinance. Resolution E-162 allows the city to accept an additional $39,995 in Community Development Block Grants for its residential road and water project. Cheney was originally awarded $98,700 for work replacing water mains on L Street from West Third to West Fifth streets and D Street from Second to Third streets. P...
Not even an hours-long road trip and ton of penalty yardage could keep the Cheney football team out of the win column last Friday night. The Blackhawks overcame a three-plus hour road trip and 160 yards in penalties, many coming late in the game, to knock off East Valley-Yakima of the 2A Central Washington Athletic Conference 30-8 in the season opener for both teams. The win avenged a 12-6, last-minute loss last year to the Red Devils at Eastern Washington University’s Roos Fi...
When my dog and I walk along the Snake River during the warm seasons of the year, we can both come home with a tick or two. I’m used to feeling those little legs on my skin or scalp and picking off the critters. If I’m lucky, I get to them before they attach and start sucking my blood. Because I’ve been doing this all my life I don’t get stressed out about ticks, but I do know they can carry certain diseases. Recently the Shots Website of National Public Radio reported that scientists have made an advance about an unusual...
Friends and family are invited to celebrate the life of our dear and unforgettable friend, Tony Clibon. This event and fellowship will be held from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14 at Waterfront Park in Medical Lake under the picnic gazebo. Share a meal to celebrate Tony's life, so please bring a dish, and favorite memories to share with his family – everyone. Tony's dear friend, Dave Perry will be cooking hamburgers, so a dish to share, or side dish, your favorite beverage and all the love in your heart for Tony is all you n... Full story
Robert Edgar (Bob) Danforth, 83, passed away on Aug. 6 at his home in Walla Walla after a courageous one year battle with cancer. Barbara, his wife of 61 years, and other family members were by his side. Bob was born Sept. 7, 1929 in Spokane to Edgar and Agnes Danforth. His father died when Bob was only a year old. His mother remarried Otto Schmitt in 1935 and they moved to the Lance Hills area of Cheney. He attended Cheney schools until his senior year when he moved to Waitsburg to help out an uncle, where he graduated from... Full story
David Scott Bell, 79, passed away in the arms of his wife of 35 years, Melanie, on Aug. 29 at their home on the east bank of his beloved Columbia River in Evans, Wash. He was a husband, father, brother and grandfather lovingly called BopBop. David was born July 27, 1934 in Rockford, Ill. Following high school, he spent three years in the U.S. Marine Corps where he discovered a love of the diverse cultures of the globe and, in particular, Southeast Asia. This interest led to... Full story
It’s that time of year again; watching for the school bus, checking the clock to make sure you’re on time for class, watching the teacher write on the overhead, and of course reading. All these tasks are quite easy unless your child has a vision problem. When we think of kids and vision problems we generally think of garden variety nearsightness and astigmatism. Simple glasses and contacts can often clear vision adequately. Imagine seeing blurred in one eye and clear in the other, or seeing double unless you close one eye...
1 Years Ago Sept. 18, 2003 Initial totals from a ballot measure that would restore funding to Cheney parks through an increase in utility taxes showed it to be passing by over 200 votes. As of Sept. 16, with 1,257 of Cheney’s voters casting ballots, the measure was passing 732-525. Juvenile crime nearly doubled in Cheney according to a recent report from the Cheney Police Department with records showing 41 arrests as compared to 22 for the same time the previous year. A 50-year-old New Hampshire man, whose identity was n...
The Dorfners consider their three-and-a-half-year sojourn working with nine boys on the Hutton Settlement a ministry. Kelly Dorfner gives a brief account of how the settlement came to be. “In the late 1900s Levi Hutton, who was an orphan himself, made it big in the silver mines in Idaho,” she said. “He came to Spokane and built a beautiful estate for orphans. Hutton Settlement is still today what Levi built: a beautiful working children’s home.” The estate has four brick mansions that can house nine children at a time. The...
Emmanuel Lutheran Church Join us Sunday, Sept. 15 for Rally Day. Meet and greet our Sunday school teachers from 9:30-10:15 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall. A blessing of students and teachers will take place during worship at 10:30 a.m. A potluck lunch and barbecue will be held directly after the worship service. Mark your calendars for Saturday, Nov. 2, for our annual holiday church Bazaar and Luncheon from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. St. Paul's Episcopal Church All are welcome. We are a welcoming haven, nourishing all God's people in body,...
SPOKANE - One in 12 Washington drivers was spotted either texting or talking on the phone, in a study of motorists’ behavior released Monday. Researchers sat at busy intersections in six counties over the summer to track what they saw, observing some 7,800 motorists. And their findings - that just over 8 percent of drivers are distracted by electronics - don’t surprise personal injury attorneys who deal with the consequences of devastating accidents that can be caused by car...
A reunion of Fairchild Air Force Base 92nd Wing veterans is taking place Sunday, Sept. 15, from 1-4 p.m. at Medical Lake’s Waterfront Park. The reunion is for former and current Air Force members (including civilians) from Fairchild’s 92nd Wing. Limited food and drinks will be provided, so plan accordingly. Call (509) 939-6539 or email wendansim@centurylink.net for more information....
Washington Traffic Safety Commission officials released results last week from the recent “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” DUI enforcement campaign conducted from Aug. 16 through Sept. 2 in Spokane, Whitman, Ferry and Pend Oreille counties of Eastern Washington. Preliminary numbers show that 119 local motorists were stopped and arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs (DUI). Statewide, law enforcement officers arrested 1,420 drivers for DUI. Last year in Spokane, Whitman, Ferry and Pend Oreille Counties du...
A car-cement truck accident at the First Street and Cheney-Spangle intersection downtown last Wednesday afternoon sent the driver of the Jeep Grand Cherokee to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries....
The September meeting of the Airway Heights Planning Commission was canceled due to lack of quorum. One of the commission’s current three members was unable to make the meeting, which led to its cancellation. There are still two open spots on the dais. Among the items originally on the agenda included a public hearing regarding the proposed multifamily development on North Craig Road, which could serve as an alternative housing location for residents living in Accident Potential Zone Two, leading to the runway of Fairchild A...
This summer 18 Cheney High School students had the amazing opportunity to travel to Europe for 19 days, visiting 11 major cities in seven different nations. Five adults accompanied them, including myself as group leader. I take student groups to Europe every other summer, and this was her seventh time to do so. The group departed from Spokane on June 27 and returned on July 15. The tour began in London where the travelers saw the “Changing of the Guard” at Buckingham Pal...
Cheney residents avoided potential disaster Monday night when the driver of this truck bypassed road closed signs at the corner of Second and C streets, struck and went over a sand berm and into a water works vault that had been exposed as part of water main work along C Street between Second and Third. The truck just missed a valve controlling a 12-inch water main. Cheney Police Department Cmdr. Rick Campbell said the unidentified driver was transported to a Spokane trauma...
The Friends of Turnbull invites families, and small groups to enjoy a bike ride on the 5.5-mile auto tour route through the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge on Saturday, Sept. 28, particularly from noon to 4 p.m. Bring bikes loaded on your car and park in the lot near the refuge administration building. Those who would rather walk, or families with younger children can take a one-mile hike around Pine Lakes to see swans and other birds, river otter and coyote signs. Guides...
Local pharmacies generally don’t couple as the fashion center of a town, but that is exactly what Owl Pharmacy is trying accomplish in Cheney with the opening of their new clothing store expansion Hoot Boutique. While the idea may seem unusual, it is not far-fetched considering the amount of success that Owl has had selling clothing apparel since they began offering more “boutique” like items two years ago. “A couple years ago we started changing the type of clothes we carried...
On Sept. 17, 1787, 42 delegates from 13 colonies met at Independence Hall in Philadelphia to sign the Constitution of the United States. The four-page, handwritten document they signed that day is now considered by many to embody the greatest expression of statesmanship and compromise ever written. When it went into effect, a new nation known as the United States of America officially came into being. That new nation and its Constitution expressed a movement toward liberty that was in direct contradiction to the long held bel...
The economy is still struggling, gas prices are high, Congress is debating potential actions in the Middle East, JJ Abrams has placed his love of Star Wars above Star Trek and the Mariners are still in the cellar of the American League West. I tell you, the more things change, the more they stay the same. So, forget all about that doom and gloom and let’s turn for a brief second to something that never changes: tea. Yes, this is a column about tea. And, cue the action-packed text! I’ve always been a tea lover. When I was you...
Back on Aug. 31 when Vernon Adams’ touchdown run with 23 seconds remaining helped propel Eastern Washington to a stunning 49-46 upset victory over Oregon State, the news shocked the college football world. After all, the only thing the Eagles were to leave Corvallis with besides their battered, bruised and bloodied frames in what Oregonian columnist Ken Goe has now famously termed a “body bag” game was the nearly $500,000 promised payday. Nichols State, a fellow Football Championship Subdivision team was massacred 77-3 last...
Last Friday, Sept. 6, government representatives and business leaders met at the annual Council of Governments meeting at the Spokane Interstate Fairgrounds, bringing forward some of the larger issues affecting the Inland Northwest. First off was Fairchild Air Force Base’s 92nd Wing Commander Brian Newberry, who focused on its connections with the county. Those connections have helped especially in the last year as budget sequestration made cuts to the base. “Sequester isn’t going away anytime soon,” he said, noting that th...
Owners of the final two phases of Cheney’s Golden Hills subdivision will get an additional two more years to finish a project that began almost nine years ago and has helped expand the city’s northern residential boundary. Cheney planning commissioners unanimously approved a preliminary plat extension for Golden Hills Fourth Addition at their regular meeting Monday night, Sept. 9. The hilly, 8.15-acre site is one of two plats located north of the current second addition str...
Following a public hearing Tuesday, Sept. 10, the board of Spokane County Commissioners voted unanimously to support Proposition 1 in the upcoming general election, which would collect property taxes to eliminate encroachment on Fairchild Air Force Base. An estimated $18 million would be collected over nine years across the county to pay for the purchase of a mobile home park south of Highway 2 and in the Accident Potential Zone leading to Fairchild’s runaway. That money would also be allocated to finding a proper r...
