News Briefs

Cheney FBLA project

Adam Smith

The Cheney FBLA chapter completed a successful community service project that included steps of collecting donations of presents from students and the community, inviting families in need of assistance with gifts this holiday season, and then hosting a “shopping” event where parents and families were able to choose gifts and get them wrapped for free.

During the two-week project club members were able to gather donated presents at the Cheney Craft Fair, in Cheney High School classes, and at donation locations throughout the Cheney School District. The gift drive had a theme to Fill Santa’s Trailer which was parked in front of the school during the event. In addition to gifts, during the drive, the chapter received over $680.00 in cash donations which were used to purchase gifts. In total, the chapter’s project was able to gather over 750 gifts that were given out to over 100 Cheney School District families and reached over 250 children.

The project was led by the Community Service team of Charlie Rajewski, Mika Corniel and Emme Murry. In total, 25 members participated in the project and the chapter had its work featured on KHQ’s news on Friday night December 16.

Petrovich no longer CFO

SPOKANE — Spokane County’s chief financial officer is out of a job.

After more than a decade as the Whitman County administrative director and just two years as Spokane County’s chief financial officer, Gary Petrovich is unemployed.

He was fired in November by the county commission — which includes Commissioners Al French, Mary Kuney and Josh.

The county declined to discuss the reason for his termination.

Cheney CyberPatriot teams advance to regional competition

The Cheney CyberPatriot teams are both advancing to the Regional CyberPatriot competition on January 19th. After the 3rd round of competition, our top team finished second in Washington state in the Platinum Division and finished top 170 in the nation. Our Gold team also finished second in the state in the Gold Division and top 200 in the nation in their division.

The CyberPatriot competition has been going on since October 15th and featured 2 seeding rounds and then the state competition round. In the seeding rounds, Cheney’s top team earned the #1 seed in Washington State to make the Platinum round. Our number two team was 12th in the state to qualify for the Gold Division.

The CyberPatriot competition has over 2,000 teams across the country. There are 42 teams from Washington state. Only the top 20% of teams in the nation qualify for the Platinum division. Only the top 3 teams from each state qualify for the regional competition. Having two of the 6 teams competing on the 19th is a huge accomplishment and is the first time in 10 years that we have had all of our teams move into the regional competition.