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Fireworks are usually the topic of discussion closer to summer than winter in Medical Lake. But they were both on the agenda, and visible within the City Council chambers at the Nov. 21 meeting. An agenda item asking for a permit to have a public fireworks display on Dec. 9 in conjunction with Re*Imagine Medical Lake’s Christmas Winter Festival drew testimony from resident Lahnie Henderson, long a critic of their legal nature in the city around Independence Day. There are a l...
Medical Lake's state championship cross country team led the list of Cardinals selected to All-Northeast A League teams in the fall of 2017 with six members. The playoff-qualifying soccer squad landed three athletes and football, one. In addition to league awards, head cross country coach Gene Blankenship earned honors as the 1A Coach of the Year, having helped guide the school to two titles, the other in 2014, and a pair of second place finishes in the last four years. Cross...
Donna Elaine (Steen) Diteman passed away peacefully surrounded by family members on Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017, immersed in the love of her devoted husband Richard Thomas Diteman and her five children, 12 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Donna had recently been diagnosed with cancer, but had also endured rheumatoid arthritis, with its challenges and complications, for many years. Throughout these years, she kept a positive, humorous, and hopeful outlook on life, even...
Barbara Shirley Ramsey was born at home on March 22, 1940 in the small village of Cimila in South Wales, UK to Frederick and Ann Williams. She passed away Nov. 20, 2017. She was the seventh of seven children. She was a very active child being involved in Girl Guides (Girl Scouts), Flossy Snow dance troop, swimming at the Noll pond and running in the hills on Wimberly Mountain. As she grew up, she enjoyed schools in Cimila and Neath. Barbara always wanted to travel, so she join...
All events are free unless posted otherwise. To get your event or meeting in the weekly What’s Happening section, send an email with date, time, location and event to jmac@cheneyfreepress.com. Cheney Dec. 1, International Ninja Day, community library, 4 – 5:30 p.m. Dec. 2, White Elephant Wreath Making, Wren Pierson Community Center, 1 – 4 p.m., $14. Dec. 5, Flightless Bird Running Club, Barrelhouse Pub and Pizza, 6 p.m. Dec. 7, Kiwanis meeting with guest speaker Mary Reinbold from Transitions program in Spokane, Sessi...
StageWest Community Theatre proudly presents a Readers’ Theatre production of Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol” adapted by Tony Palermo and directed by Kathleen Bell. This production has a limited number of performances, StageWest’s publicity director Nancy Kuonen said in an email, advising the public to not “wait and miss out.” “Christmas Carol” is the timeless story of a miserable miser, Ebeneezer Scrooge, who on one special Christmas Eve is visited by his dead partner, Jacob Marley, and three other “ghosts” who te...
Four Lakes Community Church We are a non-denominational Village Missions Church. We exist to exalt the Lord, to educate and edify the saints and evangelize the lost. Sunday school is at 9:30 a.m. and worship service at 10:45 a.m. All are welcome. Our upcoming sermon will be on Isaiah 64:1-9 by pastor Sean Carney entitled “Hope in the Advents of Christ.” Our worship services combine contemporary choruses and traditional hymns. Join us for Tuesday women’s Bible study, Wednesday music practice and Thursday AWANA all at 6:30...
1 Years Ago Nov. 29, 2007 Faced with the need to balance their community's increased utility demands as a result of urban growth, Airway Heights City Council had to decide whether to approve recommended rate increases to the city's water and sewer utilities. Spokane County was considering a location in Cheney, along with nine other county sites for a new jail to be built by the time the Geiger Corrections Center lease expired in 2013. Medical Lake Middle School received a...
Medical Lake’s food bank would like to thank the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts of troops 307 and 351 for spending a day collecting food for our community. Their selfless act will not go unappreciated by the families that depend on the food bank. Thank you again for your time and effort. Terri Worl Medical Lake...
Thank you to my campaign committee: Lahnie Henderson, Barb Reis and Bob Kibling for all your support during Medical Lake’s Mayoral campaign. You were committed to helping Medical Lake stay the remarkable city it is and I truly appreciate your hard work and dedication to our city’s future. Thank you all so much. Thank you to the Medical Lake community organizations who hosted the candidates during this election. Kiwanis, Lions Club, Feed Medical Lake, Re*Imagine Medical Lake, Senior Lunch and the Retired State Employees all...
The election is over and most likely none of us had things fully go as we would have liked. That’s the way democracy works. As I see it, the most important thing is to cultivate hope, which means that we live in “expectancy” that good things will happen in spite of so much emphasis on the negative in the media. If we keep biting and devouring one another we only perpetuate problems. I understand that there are many serious issues to be addressed, but nothing will ever improve in the larger world unless it starts with each...
On behalf of the Cheney High School Cross Country program, we would like to thank the community of Cheney for their support of our 10th annual Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning. There were over 530 walkers, joggers or runners present for this community event that benefits not only the Cheney Food Bank, but also our cross country program at Cheney High School. We would like to especially thank our sponsors: Stadium Sports, Cheney Federal Credit Union, Owl Pharmacy, State Farm Insurance, Safeway, Snap Fitness, McDonald’s, Hil...
Recently, the Institute for Justice determined state licensing barriers for lower-income workers and aspiring entrepreneurs not only hurts people trying to establish themselves in a profession, but annually drives consumer prices up by $203 billion. Washington requires people in 77 jobs, including driving school buses, well-drilling and operating cranes, to be licensed. That means applicants must successfully complete education and training, pass their exams, and pay...
This is the time of year that we all seem more generous with the holiday spirit around us. According to an article from USA Today, about 34 percent of all charitable giving is done in the last three months of the year. Of those donations, about 18 percent are given in December alone. The idea of giving to those less fortunate than us is great, but we should be doing it yearlong instead of the last couple months of the calendar year. Here at the Cheney Free Press, we started “A Year of Giving” in honor of this idea. Our hop...
Cheney folk singer/songwriter releases first album Cheney Indie folk singer/songwriter Brian Stai is issuing his first full-length solo album with a release show on Monday, Dec. 4, at The Bartlett in Spokane. The show begins at 8 p.m. Stai, who worked at Eastern Washington University at the Newman Center with his wife, traveled to North Carolina to record “Your Dreams,” with renowned producer Doug Williams, who has produced albums for acts such as the Grammy Award nominated Avett Brothers and many others. In a news rel...
Below are some figures from the 1980 and 2017 city of Cheney budgets 1980 2017 General Property Tax $ 159,482 $ 1,493,600 Police $ 336,192 $ 3,147,300 Fire $ 215,592 $ 3,019,900 Planning $ 20,309 $ 474,800 Legal $ 20,353 $ 209,000 Light charges for service $ 1,359,426 $ 9,684,900 Water sales $ 250,000 $ 3,396,100 Sewer charges $ 175,000 $ 3,222,700 Solid waste $ 88,000 $ 1,606,000 Liquor excise taxes $ 23,078 $ 58,400 Liquor profits $ 65,684 $ 98,500 Total governmental revenues $ 1,276,386 $12,635,900 Total governmental...
Just about a year after breaking ground, the Spokane Tribe of Indians' chair, Carol Evans, told the West Plains Chamber of Commerce at its Nov. 15 breakfast meeting that their Spokane Tribe Economic Project - or STEP - will open soon. "Everything is moving along," Evans said, adding that separate lawsuits filed by the Kalispel Tribe and then the Spokane County Commissioners did not impede construction. "We figured we would prevail anyway," she added. Despite a long 2016-17 win...
On Dec. 9 from 8 – 11 a.m., Santa Claus will be visiting the Cheney High School cafeteria for Santa's breakfast. The cost to join the fun will be $5 a person with all proceeds benefiting the senior all-nighter committee. On the menu will be pancakes, eggs, sausage, fruit, coffee, hot chocolate and milk. Santa will be there to take pictures with everyone and there will also be a live pianist playing Christmas tunes throughout the morning. "We are very excited for this year's S...
Principal Ty MacGregor (right) and assistant principal Laura Roehl (left) helped hand out PACE (Partners Advancing Character Education) awards for respect and responsibility to students at Sunset Elementary School's Nov. 17 assembly....
Cheney schools will soon get an increase in the number of personnel dedicated to the security of its students. In fact, it will double. Superintendent Rob Roettger told the school board at its Nov. 15 meeting that officials at the district and the Cheney Police Department have been discussing changes to the school resource officer (SRO) contract that would open the way for the creation of a director of safety position. The director would be a school district employee, while the SRO position would remain with the city. Cheney...
The Cheney Free Press staff selects the top-five news and top-six sports stories of the year, and runs them in our Christmas and New Year’s issues. This year, we would like to hear from you. What stories did you find the most important to you and your community? Drop us a line at jmac@cheneyfreepress.com, and we’ll incorporate your comments in our selection process. If we receive enough comments, we’ll include an additional news and/or sports story as a “Reader’s Choice” selection. Thank you for reading the Cheney Free...
When it comes to charitable giving, writing a check, making a cash or credit card payment to a favorite cause tend to be the easy ways to satisfy a need. The more difficult decision is the donation of time, a commodity there never seems to be enough of but always needed the most. Volunteers for Medical Lake recently tried to organize those people who have time to spare and can help the residents of the West Plains in a myriad of ways. It operates with the help of social media...
Any call early in the day on a Monday that first asks a question just might have trouble attached. Medical Lake Schools Superintendent Tim Ames received that call a couple of weeks ago with the greeting: “Mr. Ames, how are you?” as he got word the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office was investigating possible involvement of a student in dissemination of sexually explicit photos that allegedly featured some high school students. It’s a case investigators have cautioned will no...
Before the 10th annual Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving at Cheney High School, there was a "Parade of Paws." The dogs were walked around a circle in the parking lot with their owners while judges picked out the best outfit. There were a variety of costumes including a T-Rex, a lion, a grandma, a butterfly and one dog sporting a cape....
Do you remember 1980? “Airplane” was one of the most popular movies that year, Mount St. Helens blew up and the U.S men’s hockey team beat the Soviet Union team en route to the gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y. Minimum wage was $2.39 an hour; a gallon of gas was $1.03 and a similar amount of milk $1.60. The average annual income was $11,321 and a new car went for $5,413. The city of Cheney’s total governmental revenues were just over $1.27 million with current expenses the same, and the entire budget...
