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Monthly meal offers healthy food, time to connect with neighbors By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter The mission is in the name: Feed Cheney. A year after Natalie Tauzin launched the Feed Cheney Free Restaurant, the project has blossomed into a community standby. But Tauzin had organized the monthly free dinner as a yearlong pilot program, and its future is uncertain. On the evening of Feb. 28, snow fell heavily outside the windows of the fellowship hall at the Cheney United Church of Christ, but inside a dozen round tables were... Full story
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor This year marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War, so for the next four years we can expect a number sesquicentennial observations of a variety of events from our nation's bloodiest conflict. Some of those have flown under the radar, such as the secession of Southern states beginning in January 1861 and their subsequent seizing of federal forts in February. The “biggie” though is just around the bend, the April 12 attack on Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C., considered the off...
These students from the West Plains earned undergraduate degrees at Washington State University this fall: Cheney: Carly Jean Kendall, B.A. in Anthropology; Matthew Morrow McDonald, B.S. in Civil Engineering, summa cum laude; Jonathan Chase Miller, B.A. in Business Administration; Ashley Christine Riney, B.S. in Nursing; Yvette Greycen Dahl Strampe, B.S. in Biochemistry, magna cum laude; Katherine Lee Taylor, B.S. in Nursing; and Kimberly Marlyn Whitfield, B.A. in Business Administration, magna cum laude. Medical Lake: Jesse... Full story
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The 10th annual Eastern Washington University Spring Shootout 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament will be April 16-17 at the EWU Sports and Recreation Center. It's a double-elimination tournament with officials on all courts. Team entries must be received by Friday, April 1. For further information go to www.ewushootout.com or call 359-4836....
Athletics director Chaves hopes to have replacement named within a month By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter A new person will be pacing the Eagles' sidelines next basketball season as Kirk Earlywine's one-year contract was not renewed last Monday. Earlywine's departure comes after four seasons on the job at EWU and a 42-78 won-lost record, including 24-40 in the Big Sky Conference. The Eagles lost 79-70 to Weber State last Saturday in Ogden in the first round of the conference tournament. It was Eastern's first tournament appeara...
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Fire calls are steady, EMS shows increase By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter Cheney Department Fire Lt. Ken Johnson knows charts and spreadsheets aren't the most exciting things to look at. But he posted the fire department's 2010 report on the city's website anyway, along with summaries of the department staff's duties, just in case someone was looking to disprove the theory that firefighters just sit around the station playing cards all day. “You hear people say that we're not that busy,” he said. “But a lot of days we're...
8 years ago on March 6, 1886 the Cheney Christian Church organized in Cheney. The congregation disbanded in 2005, donating its church building at the corner of Fifth & D streets to Eastern Washington University in order to preserve its history. Learn more about our area's history at www.cheneymuseum.org....
Emmanuel Lutheran Church Emmanuel Lutheran Church invites you to worship with us as we celebrate the First Sunday in Lent this Sunday, March 13 at 10:30 a.m. Pastor David Ophus will preside. Faith Building classes for all ages begins at 9 a.m. All are welcome to join us this Wednesday evening as we begin our mid week Lenten soup supper and worship. Supper is served at 5:30 followed by Holden Evening Prayer at 6:30. Mid week Lenten services will be held through Wednesday, April 13. Lutheran Campus Ministries Eighth Annual...
1 Years Ago March 15, 2001 Efforts to move the second stage of the SR-904 corridor ahead have hit a roadblock as bids on the project came in $80,000 over engineer's estimates this year and $160,000 over what was projected in 2000. “If we expected anything to go smooth on this project we were wrong,” Cheney's public works director, Don MacDonald, said. Medical Lake's Parks and Recreation department is receiving a $30,000 grant from Spokane County but they are not sure they want to keep it. The funds are designed for cap...
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Christa and Toni Kohlhofer of Erfurt, Germany would like to announce the marriage of their daughter Conni Kohlhofer to Marc Mosbarger. They wed March 3, 2011. Marc is the son of Karen and Ken Mosbarger, former residents of Cheney, Wash. Marc is a 1996 graduate of Cheney High School. Conni is a communications major and working on graduate degree from University of Berlin. She was also working for the European Union. Marc and Conni met in Stuttgart, Germany where Marc has been stationed (U.S. Navy) for the past four years....
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Bid packages low enough for district to accept alternates By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter The bids were opened and the machinery could be rolling within weeks. More than a dozen construction firms vied to build two new middle schools in the Cheney School District. The lowest bidders were Lydig Construction, on the Betz Road site next to the current middle school, and Garco Construction, on the Abbott Road site behind Windsor Elementary School. Lydig's base bid was $24.8 million, while Garco's base bid was $25.5 million. NAC...
By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter More than a year of meetings, workshops and city staff work culminated Tuesday night when the Cheney City Council approved an ordinance enacting a new comprehensive plan. The plan was adopted unanimously at the March 8 meeting of the council, following the two previous meetings that marked the first and second readings of the ordinance. Cheney resident Rande Lindner raised a request that a portion of land he owned north of the city be added to the urban growth boundary, a request he has brought... Full story
Not to be left behind in the slime, we're jumping on the Charlie Sheen bandwagon. Rest assured, our interest is not to further promote this superman of self-destructiveness, and it's certainly not the future direction of your community paper. However, the editorial board of the Cheney Free Press recently wondered just what was it that has drawn so much media attention to Sheen, the justly fallen star of one of the most popular programs on television? It's been weeks since his last public display of debauchery, but somehow he...
Pride Center hosts speaker who examines impact of drag on gay community By JOHN McCALLUM Editor The story had all the elements needed to captivate the 40-50 students and community members in attendance last Thursday afternoon at Eastern Washington University's Pence Union Building's second floor lounge. Conflict, violence, betrayal, denial and finally personal redemption all recited by a sharply attired and coifed 42-year-old woman who had experienced it. But things weren't quite as they seemed. That 42-year-old woman was...
Months of preparation culminate in Cheney High School spring performance of classic comedy farce By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter “Arsenic and Old Lace” is a little over two hours long. For the members of Cheney High School Drama, each scene represents hours of work: memorizing lines, constructing sets, sewing costumes and wiring lights. The group of almost 40 students showed the fruits of their labor to the public last weekend, premiering “Arsenic and Old Lace” in the Fisher Building auditorium March 4 to an audience of pare... Full story
