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CHENEY - "Why now?" It's the question Cheney Public Schools Superintendent Rob Roettger said he gets the most from people when asked about the upcoming Educational Programs and Operations (EP&O) and Capital Facilities levies. Especially this "now" - with so many people feeling the negative economic impacts from measures designed to attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, impacts that range from reduced hours to loss of jobs and businesses. Given many families a...
SPOKANE — The following undergraduate students have achieved Provost’s Honor Roll status for the fall 2020 semester at Whitworth University. To be named to the list, undergraduate students must maintain a grade-point average of 3.75 or better during the semester. Cheney students named to the Honor Roll are Cole Hinrichs and Megahn Short. Medical Lake students named to the Honor Roll are Justyce Brant, Sierra Brock, Megan Goertz and Emma Ransom. Located in Spokane, Whitworth is a private, liberal arts university aff...
CHENEY – High School officials have released a list of students named Students of the Month for December’s PACE (Partners Advancing Character Education) character trait: Caring. The students are Jenae Potter, Kaitlyn Burts, Tyler Flock, Valerie Hanes, Sean San Pedro, Savannah Palanuik, Deegan MacFarlane, Morgan Bro, Nicolas Monzingo, Ava Roettger, Kate Rogers, Carter Lefler, Camden Fraser, Austin Brown, Hope Konig, Natalie Emery, Logen Weekley, Kennedy Prescott, Aine Jessel, Isaac Johnson, Makenna Wieck, Samantha Habegger, Pe...
CHENEY – Eastern Washington University Gallery of Art has resumed presenting exhibitions – this time via an online format. The gallery opens its 2021 season with Intersections - which features the works of artists Kate Walker and Caroline Earley. The presentation runs Jan. 27 – March 5, with both artists giving a lecture on their work Feb. 18 at noon via Zoom. According to a news release, the works of Walker and Earley are injected with humor and content related to socia...
CHENEY — School district re-opening plans for in-person instruction continued this week with a phased return of third-grade students beginning on Tuesday. Third-grade students from families electing to return to in-person instruction were to return in two different groups on different days, with students in Group A in class Jan. 19 and Jan. 21 and students in Group B back Jan. 20 and Jan. 22. Both groups will combine as all third-grade students return to in-person instruction Jan. 25. Also that day, fourth and fifth-grade s...
CHENEY — Thanks to some online ingenuity and extra donations, a holiday tradition continued this season for local low-income students and families. The Cheney Middle School Holiday Store has been a fixture since founder Sherry Syrie asked her sixth, seventh and eighth-grade art students in 2011 to bring in new and like-new items to be regifted to students in need. The response was so great that Syrie went on to work with middle school staff and community members to make the store an annual fixture — something that this year f...
CHENEY – School district officials have announced the resumption of student meal pickups that include several updates from Nutrition Services. According to a news release, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has extended waivers to provide free meals to all students through June 2021. The extension allows Cheney Public Schools to continue its free meals program for all youth ages 1 – 18 for the remainder of the 2020 – 2021 school year. District officials remind participants tha...
CHENEY -- School district officials informed parents and staff that schools would remain closed today, Thursday, Jan. 14, as a result of damage sustained from yesterday's windstorm. Three schools were still without power this morning -- Snowdown and Windsor elementary schools and Westwood Middle School. A number of families in the district remained without power as well, leading to officials to cancel both in-person and distance learning classes. According to information from the Inland Light and Power outage map, a large... Full story
CHENEY - If you ever have a burning desire to find something that accentuates any feelings of inadequacy in life, here's a suggestion on how to accomplish that - attend an Eastern Washington University Mechanical Engineering and Technology Department student capstone presentation. On Dec. 2, seven teams composed of 6 – 7 senior students presented their solutions to a variety of problems posed to them by MET instructions Dr. Matthew Michaelis and Dr. Alex Bae - challenges r...
CHENEY — School district officials have made some modifications in the phasing in of onsite, in-person instruction – plans they feel are on the right track thanks to recent updated guidance released by the state Department of Health and Gov. Jay Inslee’s office. At the Dec. 16 school board meeting, Superintendent Rob Roettger said the district is pushing back the start of third-grade return to classroom from the original Jan. 13 to Jan. 19. Staff felt the move was neces...
CHENEY — The high school’s H3 Club is inviting the community to help it send some Christmas cheer to residents of the Cheney Care Center. The club is partnering with a second-grade class at Betz Elementary School to create holiday cards for members of the Care Center who have been virtually isolated for months due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Completed holiday cards may be dropped off in a box at the high school front office. All cards will be delivered to the Care Center on Friday, Dec. 18....
Cheney High School has announced its Student of the Month/Partners Advancing Character Education (PACE) award winners for November. Receiving awards are Colbie Monter, Alexander Bowman, Selena Martinez, Quaid Kraft, Sage Cramer, Evan Stinson, George Emert, Charles Gerber, Breanna Hewey, Steven Johnson, Paisley Spencer, Joshua McRitchie, Serenity Dow, Jovana Nozinic, Loren Wiley, Grace Payne, Landon Moad, Mackenzie Buck, Jennifer Swisher, Miquela Overmqan, Abigail Jenkins, Dylan Thornburg, Amelia Killin and Ivan Lepekhin. The...
MEDICAL LAKE—The school board unanimously approved a new replacement levy at its Nov. 24 meeting with an assessed value of $1.50 per $1,000 assessed property value. The levy, which would replace the current levy that’s around $1.38 per $1,000 assessed property value, moves to a public vote on Feb. 9, 2021. The total levy collection is what Medical Lake taxpayers will be voting on, with the $1.50 figure being an educated guess based on local property value and projected growth, superintendent Tim Ames confirmed. “We...
CHENEY – Three Springs High School is a small, tight-knit community. It’s also a community without a lot of resources. Both of these can serve to amplify needs, particularly around the holidays. To address those needs, Three Springs staff are asking for the public’s help in providing a better Christmas for students and their families than those families might be capable of providing themselves. For the second year in a row, English and Language Arts teacher Lindsey Villeneuve is organizing an “Adopt a family in the West Pl...
CHENEY — The school district board of directors could propose a regular operations and maintenance levy in February that would shift money collected from the capital facilities fund to the general fund. School district officials are saying that such a move is essentially revenue neutral, rather than leading to an increase in rates seen by taxpayers. Currently, the district’s Educational Programs & Operations (EP&O) levy is set to collect $7 million in 2021 while the Cap...
CHENEY – Fundraising during a pandemic has proven to be a challenge — but Eastern Washington University officials have met that challenge with some success. On Dec. 1, they are hoping the public will help them continue their efforts during the national #Giving Tuesday campaign. While participants are invited to donate to whatever university fund they feel called to, officials have named five scholarship funds they hope donors will consider that are within reach of being endowed — meaning they have attained a level that allow...
CHENEY – High school officials have released the list of students who have received PACE award honors in October. The PACE trait of the month was “Responsibility.” Award winners are Gabriel Daymude, Hannah Davis, Arturo Jeronimo, Korynn Roberts, Malea Farrell, Kamalani Seehawer, Adrianna Wood, Bradley Golden, Van Vega, Sara Graham, Johnathon Palmer, Madison McKerracher, Logan Mink, Merrick Schmeets, Christopher Rowley, Monte Judd, Seth Johnson, Jake Jongeward, Koltin Baldwin, Sarah Culps, Tommy Daniels, Mathias Miller, Natali...
CHENEY – The school district has instituted a second phase of re-opening its facilities to students whose families are prepared to return to in-person instruction, bringing in first-grade students this week followed by second-grade students next week. First-graders returned to in-person classes on Monday, Nov. 2, with half the students appearing that day and the other half on Tuesday, Nov. 3. All first-grade students were onsite beginning Wednesday, Nov. 4. An asynchronous learning day for students was held Oct. 30, along w...
MEDICAL LAKE – Principals and assistant principals from Hallett and Michael Anderson Elementary schools, Endeavors High School, Medical Lake Middle School and Medical Lake High School presented their plans for improving their respective schools to the board Oct. 27. Each principal discussed successful achievements their schools saw in 2019-2020 and gave areas their schools need to improve in. Hallett Elementary principal Kristen Kuster shared that third-through-fifth-graders trended upwards in success in math, while f...
MEDICAL LAKE—Peggy Schweikhardt participated in her last school board meeting Oct. 27 after serving on the board since 1989. She was most recently vice president of the board, working with board president Ron Von Lehe. She notified superintendent Tim Ames of her resignation in September. “I’ve been on for 30 years. It feels like it’s time for me to move on and do other things with my life,” Schweikhardt said. She said that both of her sons having graduated high school signified to her that it was time to resign. Her eldes...
SPOKANE COUNTY – The Library District’s Book-a-Librarian service is now offered remotely by phone and via online video sessions. This service helps library customers discover the tools, skills, and strategies they need to successfully do the things they want to do. Some examples of the services provided during a one-on-one Book-a-Librarian appointment include: Learning how to download the latest best-seller to your smartphone. Discovering strategies for finding the best educational content for at-home student learning. Get...
MEDICAL LAKE – First-graders will be returning to in-person learning five days a week at Hallett and Michael Anderson elementary schools, the district announced Oct. 19. Superintendent Tim Ames said in an online newsletter that the district had success with bringing back preschoolers and kindergartners in-person. These students returned in person Oct. 12. Kindergartners are in school all day, and first-graders will follow suit. Preschoolers are on half days at Michael Anderson, with some students learning Monday/Wednesday a...
CHENEY – Citing health and safety reasons, Eastern Washington University officials announced last week that they will continue with offering most classes online during winter quarter 2021. As with fall instruction, some in-person classes will be allowed for specific courses. Following the “online-first, maximum flexibility” approach used this term, all winter courses that can be taught online will be delivered through this platform. Eastern will identify classes that cannot be offered online, such as some labs, and appro...
WINDSOR – Fun runs play a huge part in funding local associated student body school events, but with Spokane County still not at a point where large gatherings of individuals are allowed under Covid-19 protocols, schools have looked to other means to fundraise. At Cheney School District’s Westwood Middle School, eight student leadership officers put their innovative heads together at the start of the school year and came up with an indoor version of the fun run that everyone could do. According to an Oct. 16 news rel...
CHENEY – Do you have questions about voting and what will happen when you mail your ballot? What are the positions of some of the candidates? And just why do we have an Electoral College? Eastern Washington University’s College of Social Sciences hopes to provide some answers to those questions with “Your Future, Your Vote” — a week-long series of teach-ins and candidate town halls taking place next week. “It’s something we do each election cycle,” College of Social Sciences Associate Dean Vernon Loke said. “We want to help s...
