Looking Back

10 Years Ago

Sept. 7, 2006

Medical Lake residents continued reporting vehicle prowlings to local police as these incidents and other crimes of opportunity occurred in greater numbers around the school year.

Cheney Auto Care moved into its new Betz Road location west of Starbucks and just south and west of the Holiday Inn Express. It was previously located near Cheney U-Haul, but the facility was too small for the expanding business.

Two unidentified naked males wearing Halloween masks went streaking through the Cheney Safeway store around 11 p.m.

20 Years Ago

Sept. 12, 1996

Roaring flames danced in the early-morning darkness as a longtime Cheney landmark fell victim to a fire. Destroyed in the blaze was a wooden grain elevator that had towered over downtown Cheney since the 1920s.

The Moczulski family and their Cheney employees gathered outside the front doors of the newly remodeled Mitchell’s IGA for a formal ribbon cutting celebrating the transformation which had taken place at the grocery store.

30 Years Ago

Sept. 11, 1986

The Cheney City Council voted 5-1 to continue negotiations with Spokane County Fire District 3 for the sale of the city property to the district.

A 1983 graduate of Cheney High School was part of a four-person beach crew from the U.S. Coast Guard, Chetco River Station that rescued a man from an offshore rock where he had been trapped by an incoming tide.

Eastern Washington University opened its 77th football season with a 21-19 victory over Boise State.

40 Years Ago

Sept. 9, 1976

Cheney Fire Chief Tony Singleton submitted his resignation from the Cheney Fire Department to pursue educational goals.

A four-man crew flew to the Spokane hospital to pick up a doctor, nurse and portable incubator, and then flew to Missoula, Mont., community hospital where they picked up a two-and-a-half-month premature boy weighing two pounds, suffering from respiratory problems and transported him to Deaconess hospital in Spokane.

Charles Crawford was appointed to fill the position of sergeant on the Medical Lake Police Department after a seven-month search.

50 Years Ago

Sept. 15, 1966

A new program — Distributive Education, with a class in training for business — had been added to the Cheney High School curriculum through the efforts of Superintendent William J. Riggs and Principal George Fisher.

Bill Dickson scored three touchdowns and set up another as he led Cheney to a 44-13 win over Quincy in the football season opener for both schools.

A golf course in Cheney, a project contemplated for years, from all appearances became a reality. Meeting to establish a Cheney Golf Association were Bob Wilson, Leroy Isherwood, Brent Wooten, Jon Mamanakis, Don Manson, Fred Johns and Don Kallem.