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CHENEY Nov. 24 Sandra Rangel-Torres, 23, was arrested for fourth-degree assault/domestic violence on the 800 block of Cedar Street. Nov. 25 A hit-and-run collision occurred on the 100 block of Alki Street. Nov. 26 A cell phone was found on the 200 block of Third Street. Nov. 27 Financial fraud was reported on the 200 block of Gregory Place for unauthorized use of a credit card. Third-degree malicious mischief was reported on the 700 block of West First Street. A vehicle prowl was reported on the 2300 block of First Street....
After going through multiple special sessions to adopt the state’s 2013-15 budget, the last thing lawmakers will want to do is fight about a 2014 supplemental budget. State agencies, however, have already submitted their 2014 supplemental budget wish list requesting a combined spending increase of $895 million and 806 new FTEs. As lawmakers weigh the “restraint” of this proposed spending increase they’ll want to keep in mind the 2013-15 budget is already projected to result in spending in excess of the state’s spending...
On behalf of the Cheney High School cross country program, we would like to thank the community of Cheney for their support of our sixth annual Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning. There were over 360 walkers, joggers, and runners present for this community event which benefits not only the Cheney Food Bank, but also our cross country program at Cheney High School. We would like to especially thank Safeway, and the Cheney Trading Company for turkeys and food donated as door prizes for this event, as well as Jim Missel and...
I wanted to respond to your article in the Nov. 28 Cheney Free Press regarding Proposition 1. There are many reasons why this did not pass and I take exception to Al French stating that we the people of Spokane County didn’t fully understand what we were voting for regarding Prop. 1. I think the voters did fully understand what was presented to them, and could see through the scam that Prop. 1 was. The main reason was that most people in the county could not afford to raise their property tax. The second reason was that peopl...
We have less than two weeks left to get new unwrapped books and other gifts to one of the decorated boxes around Cheney for local kids who qualify through Cheney Outreach. There are two new collection locations this year, at the Cheney Library and Bank of America. Repeat locations are Mitchell’s Harvest Foods, Sears, Cheney Owl Pharmacy, Cheney Federal Credit Union, Cheney City Hall, Jarms Ace Hardware, Jazzercize, Apex Physical Therapy, The Wellness Center, State Farm Insurance, Cheney Trading Company, SNAP Fitness, C...
Nearly a month has passed since a special legislative session was called by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee. The job at hand was to try to wrangle together packages to fund major transportation projects and tax breaks to encourage one of the state’s foremost employers, Boeing, to keep building their world-class aircraft here. The roads fix never actually made the agenda, and the Boeing deal was made moot when on Nov. 13 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers voted overwhelmingly – by a 67 per...
Members of Cheney's Jazzercise entertain participants at the sixth annual Turkey Trot at Cheney High School Thanksgiving Day. This year's fun run to raise money for the Blackhawks cross country program and Cheney Food Bank saw more than 360 runners and walkers turn out on a frigid Turkey Day....
One person was killed and eight others injured in a four-vehicle accident last Wednesday on Interstate 90 just south of the Cheney/Four Lakes exit. According to a Washington State Patrol collision memo, at approximately 8:02 a.m. Jose L. Mendoza, 44, of Walla Walla was eastbound in a 2006 Nissan Frontier pickup when he lost control of the vehicle under icy conditions on the Four Lakes/Medical Lake Road overpass. The pickup went off the roadway into the median and crossed the...
Longtime Cheney resident Helen Boots accepts an award presented by the Spokane Pomona Master of the Grange, Walt Radmer. Boots, an 80-year Grange member, was honored for her service in World War II....
StageWest Community Theatre presents Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol,” radio adaptation by Anthony E. Palermo and directed by Kay Byron-Pacheco. Opening night is Friday Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. with additional performances on Saturday Dec. 7 at 7 p.m., Sunday Dec. 8 at 3 p.m. and Friday Dec. 13 at 7 p.m. A special dinner theater will be held on Saturday Dec. 14 at 6 p.m. Dinner is being catered by Willow Springs Restaurant, the cost is $25 per person and reservations are required by Dec. 10. Regular performance ticket prices are...
City of Cheney • Dec. 9, Planning Commission, 5:30 p.m., Council Chambers • Dec. 11, Toddler Play and Learn Storytime (ages 11/2-3), Cheney Community Library, 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. • Dec. 12, Preschool Play and Learn Storytime (ages 3-5), Cheney Community Library, 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. • Dec. 13, Free Second Friday Night for middle school students, Wren Pierson Community Center, 7 p.m. to 11p.m. City of Medical Lake • Dec. 6, Community Tree Lighting, at Coney Island Park, 6 p.m. • Dec. 9, Medical Lake Book Club Holiday Par... Full story
Katherine L. Anderson (age 100) of Cheney passed away Nov. 27, 2013. She was born July 16, 1913 in Renton, Wash., the eldest of 11 children. She grew up on the Lund Dairy Farm on Cow Creek in Benge, Wash. Katherine completed her two-year teaching certificate at Cheney Normal School, and her bachelor of arts at Eastern Washington College. She married Cecil Anderson June 4, 1934 in Newport, Wash. where they ran Kelly's Tavern and cut wood for a living during the depression...
Bud Lloyd Nokleby (age 81) Cheney resident of 24 years, finished his earthly journey Nov. 29, 2013. Bud was born September 19, 1932 in Sedro Woolley, Wash. to Lloyd and Verlie (Neal). He had 2 sisters: Joanne Bithell of Pendleton, Ore. (deceased) and Nancy Strippling of Mount Vernon, Wash. (deceased). He also had a brother Jerry Nokleby (Maureen) of Anacortes, Wash. Bud spent his childhood in the Mount Vernon-Burlington area. He loved participating in the school safety... Full story
1 Years Ago Dec. 10, 2003 The ghost of awnings past appeared to be influencing city policy as the Cheney City Council passed a new ordinance governing private business signs. The proposed additions to Medical Lake’s gambling tax have two of the community’s businesses, The Dirty Shame Saloon and the Wagon Wheel Tavern, concerned about the plan to add pull tabs to the taxable items in a new gambling tax. The city of Medical Lake’s 2004 budget, an estimated $6.5 million, was presented to review by Finance Director Pam McBro...
Emmanuel Lutheran Church The congregation of Emmanuel Lutheran Church invites you to worship with us this Sunday, Dec. 8 at 10:30 a.m. as we celebrate the second Sunday in Advent. Come early for Christian education at 9 a.m. Emmanuel invites you to attend our weekly midweek Advent soup and bread dinner followed by worship on Dec. 11 and 18. Soup supper is served at 6 p.m. followed by Holden Evening Prayer at 6:30 p.m. StageWest cordially invites everyone to their Dec. “Reader’s Theater” production of Charles Dickens “A Ch...
OK, so Thanksgiving is over. Or is it? The American Indian Relief Council, which is an organization I know nothing about, sent me a nice article entitled “The tradition of the wishbone.” It relates to the Pilgrims and the Indians who helped them to live through those hard times when they could have all died from starvation and illness. The story begins with the Pilgrims giving thanks to God and to the American Indians. When the Pilgrims settled on Plymouth Rock they found the place full of wild turkeys. I’m just repea...
Gardeners Christmas party Gardeners of Cheney, it is party time. Highlights of the Dec. 9 meeting include bringing a finger-food snack and donating an unwrapped gift item for a resident of the Cheney Care Center. Also, if you bring a wrapped gift worth no more than $10, you can participate in the “Gift Exchange Game” – in which you can pick a wrapped gift or “steal” one already unwrapped by someone else. Bringing gifts is optional, but don’t miss the party. Junior rodeo fundraiser The Cheney Junior Rodeo Association...
Cheney’s City Council unanimously passed five resolutions at their Nov. 26 meeting, including one authorizing the Public Works Department to opt out of the Spokane Regional Solid Waste Management System and set up a separate plan for the city. Cheney received a letter from the Spokane County Commissioners notifying the city that the city of Spokane no longer wishes to be a regional provider of solid waste services, and invited Cheney to join in a regional plan. In a summary of the county’s solid waste plan developed by HDR...
The Cheney High School Class of 2016 recently concluded its annual food drive. Students contributed food in their homerooms with the goal of collecting the most food items to win a free breakfast cooked by their class officers. The officers set a goal of collecting 500 food items. Class of 2016 students collected 1,020 items with Adam Smith's homeroom winning the free breakfast by collecting 520 items. Lincoln Bryant's homeroom finished second, collecting 410 items. The class...
LOUISVILLE – Medical Lake High School graduate Brett Moriarty has been named to the 2013 All-American Livestock Judging Team and was a part of the Texas A&M University Livestock Judging Team which claimed the 2013 national championship at the National Collegiate Livestock Judging Contest Nov. 18, marking its 12th national livestock judging title. The contest took place at the North American International Livestock Exposition in Louisville. It is the oldest and most prestigious livestock-judging contest in the nation, a...
The Medical Lake School District board of directors received a lesson in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) from some of the district’s students at its meeting last Tuesday. At the Nov. 26 meeting, the students went through their various presentations given at a recent West Plains Chamber of Commerce breakfast. Ranging from the high school’s robotics demonstration to middle school biomedical lessons and a run through of how a circuit works from the elementary school level. When asked by the board wha...
The future of solid waste disposal in Airway Heights took precedence at the Nov. 25 City Council study session. Cheney Councilman Doug Nixon and Cheney Public Works Director Todd Ableman sat in on a workshop to discuss solid waste disposal alternatives. Airway Heights’ agreement with Spokane County expires in November next year, and needs to formalize a direction to pursue. At face value, the big issue surrounding a solid waste contract was the finances involved. “I think it’ll save you money in the long run. Lots of money...
Unfortunately the odds say that eventually it would be bound to happen. The day would come when someone who had been celebrating, and admittedly drinking at Eastern Washington University football tailgating, would get in a serious accident. That day came about a month ago when 47-year-old Curtis Cooley from Spokane Valley was headed home following EWU's 55-34 Big Sky football win over rival Montana State at Roos Field. Admitting he had consumed five beers and two Bloody Mary's...
Now in its 12th year, recipient participation in Cheney’s Christmas Gifts for Cheney Kids remains steady, and perhaps even more so this season. Project coordinator Sally Shamp said they began fielding inquiries about the annual gift drive in August and September. Because of that, they decided to open enrollment to families seeking gifts earlier this year, beginning taking names Nov. 6. “It turns out that 60 kids have already been registered for the Christmas gifts by Nov. 13, and we hadn’t even started taking names befor...
Cheney’s interim marijuana zoning ordinance was barely two weeks old before it was back before the City Council Nov. 26, this time facing amendments addressing something not included in the initiative legalizing marijuana for recreational use in Washington – collective gardens. In 1998 voters passed Initiative 692 establishing the use of medicinal marijuana for qualifying patients, which also set up RCW regulations allowing those patients to participate in collective gardens for the purpose of growing, producing and del...
