CHS graduate performs with Seattle Cascades
The Seattle Cascades, the oldest and most decorated drum and bugle corps in the Pacific Northwest, announced its 154-member corps for the 2018 season in a June 7 news release. Among those selected to play through auditions is Cheney High School 2017 graduate Joanna Wilkerson.
Auditions began in November 2017, with members attending monthly camps through the winter, followed by a rigorous three-week training program in the spring, building stamina and putting together the music and visuals for its 11-and-a-half-minute show.
The Seattle Cascades open their season by hosting their own competition, “The Seattle Summer Music Games” in Renton on July 7. After that, they embark on a 10,000-mile tour, performing in 21 competitions over 13 states, culminating in the Drum Corps International World Championships in Indianapolis, Ind. Aug. 9-11.
Some of the works performed by the Seattle Cascades in their show include Franz Schubert’s “Ava Maria,” Justin Timberlake’s “What Goes Around Comes Around,” along with some original music by Cascades brass arranger Key Poulan and percussion captain supervisor Micah Brusse.
Cheney native inducted into athletic trainers national hall of fame
The National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA), a nonprofit organization representing and supporting members of the athletic training profession, inducted seven individuals into its prestigious Hall of Fame at the NATA 69thClinical Symposia and AT Expo in New Orleans on Thursday, June 28. Among those inducted were Cheney native Marty Matney.
Matney, MBA, LAT, ATC, first became interested in sports medicine in high school in the 1970s. His grandparents were early residents of Cheney, with his grandfather helping to build the flower mill while his grandmother raised chickens for the store that was the Bair Store.
Matney moved to Cheney from California in 1971 and after graduating in 1975 went to Washington State University.
He started in the clinical setting, and his work has contributed to the expansion of the athletic training profession into the military, performing arts, physician practice and occupational health settings. Matney established two rehabilitation clinics and spearheaded the expansion of an industrial athlete program contracted to a major aerospace manufacturer in the Seattle area.
Matney is credited with the passing of the Washington State Athletic Trainers Act. Since 1984, he has served the athletic training profession at the local, state and national levels. He has been heavily involved with NATA’s governmental affairs efforts and is the current chair of the NATA Committee on Practice Advancement.
Since inducting its first class in 1962, the Hall of Fame now has 317 members.
Teen drivers in the midst of deadly period
Spokane County officials note that the recent Fourth of July holiday should serve as a reminder that we are in the midst of the “Deadliest 100 Days of Summer” — from Memorial Day to Labor Day — for teenage drivers. Parents are asked to remind teen drivers to: slow down, calm down and to put down their cell phones.
In statistics included in a June 28 county news release, Washington State Department of Transportation officials stated that in 2017 there were more than a thousand crashes involving teen drivers in Spokane County. The American Automobile Association (AAA) reports the same period (June, July, August) fatal crashes involving teens increased by 14 percent.
Washington tries to keep distractions for teen drivers to a minimum by requiring a probationary license period (RCW 46.20.075: Intermediate license). For the first six months, teen drivers are not allowed to have any passengers under the age of 20 unless they are with an immediate family member.
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