Hetrick and Emert named CHS valedictorians

Sonora Hetrick and Keith Emert have been named valedictorians of the Cheney High School graduating class of 2015. Both students achieved a perfect 4.0 grade point average.

Hetrick moved to Cheney from the Spokane Valley in the summer of 2011. Both of her parents work at Eastern Washington University, and she has two brothers and a sister.

Science and language arts have been Hetrick's favorite subjects while in high school, although she said she likes almost all of the classes she's taken, including reading and literary analysis and anything that challenges her. Her favorite teacher is Mary Mar...