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The split the Eastern Washington women’s basketball team earned this past weekend at the 2012 Cal Classic by Doubletree at Haas Pavilion in Berkeley is just fine as far as coach Wendy Schuller is concerned. “Your goal when you go to a tournament is to at least go 1-1, two teams are going to do that,” Schuller said. Somebody’s going 2-0, somebody’s going 0-2 and Schuller’s just happy she wasn’t the latter. The Eagles fell to the nation’s 11th-ranked team, Cal, 91-58 Friday befo...
This time in his appearance on the national football stage, Bo Levi Mitchell was unable to work the kind of miracles he did two years ago helping lead Eastern Washington to the Division I national championship. But given only the final two minutes to do what he could to make Canada’s 100th Grey Cup championship more of a game – and not the runaway the Toronto Argonauts crafted in their eventual 35-22 victory last Sunday – Mitchell did deliver as he tossed the lone Calga...
Jim Hayford has never been in this territory before as his Eastern Eagles prepare for their official home opening men’s basketball game Friday versus Cal Fullerton. “I have never started a season as a coach with a 1-5 record,” he said. “It is not easy, but I knew it would not be.” This after Eastern played a grueling six games in 13 nights and spent 13 of the last 16 nights on the road, including the Thanksgiving holiday. So tomorrow’s 6:05 p.m. tip-off at remodeled R...
Last year at this time Brandon Kaufman was hobbling around on crutches, one of a host of Eastern Eagles out of the line-up due to injuries. In 2012 Kaufman has shown he’s fully recovered and the junior wide receiver heads a list of five Eagles who were recently named to the All-Big Sky Conference’s first team. Kaufman, Eastern’s nominee as the league’s Big Sky Offensive Player of the Year, was an All-American and again a first-team all conference player in 2010, helping...
It’s an impressive team on a darn good roll that makes a nearly 3,000 mile trek across the nation to face Eastern Washington in the second round of the FCS playoffs Saturday at 3:05 p.m. at Roos Field. Not only have the Wagner Seahawks (9-3) from Staten Island, New York won nine straight games after a 0-3 start, but they had to do it with an interruption from Hurricane Sandy. Wagner registered its impressive 30-0 victory over Albany in the wake of the storm. Evacuated from cam...
By LUELLA DOW Contributor Carol and Chris Kaplan live near Airway Heights in a cozy home that originally was a country school. Instilled in the students were the basic three R’s. As Kaplan spoke I was reminded of how far the world has advanced in technology, how we continually reach out for more knowledge and exploration. Those simple one-room schools were the foundation for America’s ever-widening view of our world. Carol Kaplan’s love of science, particularly biology, guide...
December promises to be a busy, event-filled month. And that’s without football. So what’s happening? Well, there are the various holidays, biggest of which (to us Westerners) is Christmas. There’s also the end of the world. For those not following along this will happen when the Mayan calendar (go check the one hanging in your kitchen) runs out Dec. 21. I don’t know the time, I’m not Nostradamus. And of course there’s the fiscal cliff. You know the one. The agreement struck during debt ceiling negotiations in August 2011...
While Washington State University and the University of Washington fought valiantly for bragging rights in the Apple Cut last week, the Eastern Washington University Eagles were counting down to their first FCS playoff game of this season Dec. 1. It’s the first of many we hope and is against Wagner of Staten Island, N.Y. this Saturday at 3 p.m. at Roos Field. There were 30,544 fans packing Martin Stadium in Pullman for the annual rivalry game, despite WSU’s then 2-9 losing record and UW’s fourth-place finish in the Pac-1...
The Medical Lake School District continues to enjoy the early months of its Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) grant awarded in June earlier this year. Last week’s article focused on the programs being offered at the district’s elementary schools. This week’s article takes a look at how STEM principles integrate in the regular classroom. While the after-school events at the elementary schools have taken off in popularity, the real effect of the grant can be felt in the classrooms. Teachers are able to ap...
The murder of a male patient at Eastern State Hospital Tuesday, Nov. 20 is still under investigation. Amber I. Roberts, 30, is suspected of killing Duane Charley, 56, between Monday and Tuesday. According to Associated Press reports, she appeared in court Wednesday, Nov. 21 and pleaded not guilty. At the time of publication, she was being held in Spokane County Jail on a $1 million bail for first-degree premeditated murder. “The Spokane County Sheriff’s Department is investigating in an effort to determine the facts sur...
By JAMES EIK Staff Reporter Recommendations to reduce sewer rates in Airway Heights were presented at the Monday, Nov. 26 City Council study session. City Manager Albert Tripp said rates increased as construction commenced on the wastewater treatment plant. They are currently set at $67.50 for this year. “This rate worked progressively its way to that current funding level over the past four to five years as the city was undertaking construction for the plant,” he said. Prior to the plant’s construction, rates in the city...
Christmas Gifts for Cheney Kids’ organizers have made changes they hope will help them avoid the slow start of last year’s campaign happening with this year’s drive. The deadline for contributing and signing up for the gift distribution has been extended by almost a week, with the deadline now Dec. 19 and distribution Saturday, Dec. 21, at the Wren Pierson Community Center’s main room, 616 Fourth St. Last year both took place Dec. 14, possibly contributing to a slow start to t...
Cheney planning officials have released a draft proposal for revisions in the city’s low-density residential zoning codes, with some component changes the first since the code was originally written in 1961. The changes were unveiled at a Nov. 19 workshop, and were to have been the topic of discussion at the following regular Planning Commission meeting. The meeting was canceled due to several illnesses, pushing review and further public discussion to the Dec. 10 meeting. ...
The Medical Lake City Council heard the first reading of its preliminary 2013 budget at its Tuesday, Nov. 20 meeting. The city is putting forward a $9 million budget, one that remains virtually unchanged from previous years but includes a decrease of 4.5 percent from 2012. Spending in the city’s general fund has decreased from $3.103 million in 2010 to the proposed $2.911 million for 2013. In his budget message included in City Council packets, Mayor John Higgins said the c...
The holiday season is in full swing at Teen Challenge’s Christmas tree lot, evidenced by a stock of trees, games for kids and even the two reindeer at the site. Tony Cloud, program coordinator for Teen Challenge, said the lot has been the organization’s site for Christmas trees for the last six years. Continuing off the success of its pumpkin patch in October, a number of amenities help make it a destination for Airway Heights residents and those in the area. The 600 tre...
Cheney you have a budget. City Council members unanimously approved budget ordinance V-99 at their Nov. 27 meeting and in doing so adopted the city’s $23.22 million spending plan for 2013. The council adopted the plan with very little citizen comment at any one of its three budget meetings, nor via other channels, with only a few changes Tuesday night. Chief among these was a reduction in the $100,000 Light Department’s appropriation request for a remodel of the council cha...
