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By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter This past Monday was one of both wonderment and reflection for Medical Lake High School athletics director Chris Spring. On a day spent away from the office, but not from work, Spring got to enjoy watching his kids make a snowman and chuckle as a pair of moose nosed around outside his backyard during the observance of Veterans Day. Then Spring turned to the subject of the day, the strides the teams under his watch as the activities administrator had made this past fall season. Medical Lake’s c...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter As UC Davis head football coach Bob Biggs approached the final road game of his long career with the Aggies he knew his team needed to get the big plays that had eluded them so far in 2102. His team responded – in the first half – but in the end it was the Eastern Washington Eagles that got their share of big plays too and scored a 31-28 Big Sky football victory Saturday on a cold 30-degree day at Roos Field in Cheney. The game ended with Agg...
In his first season as the head coach of the Eastern Washington University men’s basketball team, Jim Hayford entered some relatively uncharted territory in moving from Division 3 to Division 1. He did have some senior experience to rely on and he parlayed that to an 8-8 Big Sky Conference finish and 15-17 overall. Eastern hosted and won their first Big Sky Conference Tournament game since 2006. Eastern improved by five victories from the year before. But in some respects H...
When you’re playing the top-ranked team in the state, you can’t afford to make mistakes – especially deep in your own territory. That proved to be the downfall for the Cheney High football team last Saturday on the road in their 42-7 2A state playoff loss to a top-ranked, unbeaten Othello team. The Blackhawks stayed close to the Huskies through the first two quarters of the first-round game, but in the third fell victim to mistakes – a blocked punt and two fumbles – in their...
Students in Medical Lake High School’s Junior ROTC program performed a drill routine at the Veterans Day program Thursday, Nov. 8. See more photos of the concert on page 3....
The Airway Heights Planning Commission continued its work on chapter three of the city’s comprehensive plan, which focuses on community issues, visions and goals. At its Tuesday, Nov. 13 meeting, the commission reviewed its work from the previous meeting, largely tackling the issues they believe will face Airway Heights over the next several years. A large part of the chapter focuses on transportation issues. The commission particularly considered Highway 2 and Hayford Road to be important, while also recognizing that b...
Medical Lake High School put on a show Thursday, Nov. 8 in the auditorium. The high school’s Wind Ensemble (above), Windborne Singers (below), and Jazz Band performed in a Veterans Day program, showcasing their musical talents. Parents, family and veterans all attended the concert. Brian Newberry, Commander of the 92nd Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild Air Force Base was also in attendance. At right, Brendan Satcher performs a solo during the jazz band’s rendition of “Bo...
We all have our own ways of moving on from an election like we saw last week. My way? See a James Bond movie. I’m not a diehard James Bond fan, but the latest movie, Skyfall, is by far one of the best in the franchise. Over the last 50 years, 23 Bond films have entertained audiences and made millions of children wish they were secret agents. After all this time, the franchise has an entrenched legacy that has endured through the good, bad and slightly weird entries. In order to remain relevant, the franchise has had to c...
Leave it to a progressive state like Washington to do something that bucks the system. Last week voters passed a referendum granting same-sex marriages, becoming one of three states to do so by popular vote. Not to be out done, but less heralded at the time, voters also passed an initiative legalizing marijuana. While there will be hurdles and conflicts with implementation of the first one, legalizing, regulating and taxing the production, distribution and sale of marijuana for individuals over 21 might prove even more...
This month Hallett Hawks are focusing on the school’s guidelines for successful behavior. These include: Having a positive attitude, always doing their best, working together and knowing the rules. The following students who earned the HAWK Award for October: Silas Dutton, Ella Mizzoni, Cody Huston, Lily, Sheehan Connors, Nolan Matheny, Caeden Bahr-Crewdson, Eli Ueda, Mason Satko, Kamaile Paikuli, Allison Payne, Joseph Griffey, Kyler Castro, Sierra Peone, Christa Martin, Lily Montney, Victor Long and Brandon Giles. The follow...
Teaching team moves walls for education By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter After two months of classes in the Cheney School District’s two new middle schools, teachers are finding more technology and spaces than they know what to do with, yet. As with the new interactive whiteboard Starboard systems, time is one limiting factor for utilizing the new tools, but logistics is another. Each classroom at both schools has a moveable back wall that can be opened to create on big room. T...
By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter If as retired Soviet military expert analyst Dr. Steve Schwalbe says, and the Cuban Missile Crisis was not the take-the-world-to-the-brink-total nuclear-annihilation-moment it has always been though to be, then just what have been those other near misses? As Cheney-area resident Schwalbe pointed out at a recent luncheon presentation to the Rotary Club of Spokane during his “War Scares,” program, he detailed over the past half century where the...
By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter Sometimes, separate but similar people sit around in separate but similar rooms talking about how they can separately reach the exact same goals. When it comes to promoting the outdoor recreation opportunities surrounding Cheney, city leaders suspected this was happening. A couple of years ago, Community Development director Brian Jennings came up with an idea to bring all the organizations involved in outdoor recreation in the area to the same table to advance a common mission of publicizing...
Cheney High School senior Jessica Kumar presents teacher Randy Hunt with a flower in honor of his service during a Veterans Day ceremony last Thursday. Flowers were presented to about 20 area veterans with one of them, Dr. Steve Schwalbe, talking to students about his service in the Middle East....
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Speed and narcotics may have led to an accident just north of Cheney that sent six Cheney High School students to area hospitals Friday night. Spokane County Sheriff’s deputies received a call about 10:16 p.m. of a rollover on the 13700 block of Betz Road, about one-and-a-half miles north of its intersection with Washington Street. Upon arriving on scene they discovered a 2001 Nissan Pathfinder had apparently failed to negotiate a 90-degree curve at the top of the hill, struck a curve indicator sign, o...
By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Fearing what city attorney Nathan Smith termed as “unintended consequences” from the recent legalization of marijuana by state voters the Cheney City Council unanimously passed a six-month emergency moratorium at its Tuesday meeting regarding land use considerations revolving around production, processing or retailing of the drug and products associated with its use in the city. The moratorium allows the city to put off review and consideration of the “filing, acceptance and processing of appli...
