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Ooopsy the Clown threw in a bubble machine for the monkey- themed party marking Nicholas Castillo's first birthday.
The drama department at West Valley High School will present a modernized version of "Faustus," Tuesday though next Saturday at 7 p.m. in the school auditorium, 8301 W. Buckeye Ave. Admission is free.
Brittany Johnson, a sixth-grader at Greenacres Middle School in the Central Valley School District, said she usually brings her lunch to school, but when she works as a lunchroom helper, she likes the pizza the school offers.
St. David's Episcopal Church, 7315 N. Wall St., will present a Celtic Christian Communion service Friday at 7 p.m.
If you have been to the grocery or drug store lately, you have seen the aisles packed with heart-shaped and heart-decorated merchandise for Valentine's Day.
For the second year in a row, the Lilac Festival Queen hails from Northwest Christian High School.
The Freeman School District had anticipated the opening of its newly renovated high school gymnasium in December, but unsuitable soil underneath the footprint of the gym has pushed that opening back a few months.
Students participating in the YMCA after-school program in eight elementary schools across the greater Spokane Valley will now receive free snacks from Second Harvest.
It's been 70 years since Shannon (Mahoney) Mitchell was selected as Spokane's first Lilac queen.
Spiritual Living to offer seminars
The Center for Spiritual Living, 2825 E. 33rd Ave., will offer an eight-week course, "This Thing Called YOU," Tuesdays from 6:30 to 8:45 p.m. starting Tuesday.
The Cheney City Council approved an agreement Tuesday with the Washington State Department of Transportation to improve pedestrian crossing over the Burlington Northern Santa Fe and the Union Pacific railroads on Cheney-Spangle Road.
It's been 70 years since Shannon (Mahoney) Mitchell was selected as Spokane's first Lilac queen.
It's been 70 years since Shannon (Mahoney) Mitchell was selected as Spokane's first Lilac queen in 1940.
The Spokane Valley Fire Department responded to 201 calls from Jan. 14 to 20, including five reports of minor fires.
East Valley High School is looking to expand its advanced placement program.The school has several classes for students who want the challenge of advanced courses and can get college credit for them. Steve Pointer, assessment coordinator at the school, said East Valley offers AP U.S. history for juniors, government and politics for seniors, biology, calculus, European history, English language and English literature classes. Next year, the school also will offer AP physics and statistics.
Central Valley School District is starting to plan for its long-term future by holding a series of community forums to discuss its facilities needs.
Sheriff's Deputy Ron Nye spends his days creating relationships with the students in the Liberty and Freeman School Districts. As a school resource deputy, he shows up to football games and dances at the schools and works as an extension of the school staff.
Voters in the Cheney and Medical Lake School Districts should receive their building bond ballots in the mail this week. The ballots must be postmarked by Feb. 9 and each bond requires a supermajority – at least 60 percent – to pass.
First Presbyterian Church, 318 S. Cedar St., will assemble World Vision caregiver kits Feb. 20 and needs donations and volunteers.
We are through the first weekend of the 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. From novice class (as young as 10) to the senior skaters (in their late teens and early 20s), it has been an exciting and busy time.
If the U.S. Figure Skating Championships have whetted your appetite for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, B.C., you don't have to travel far in the next week or so to participate in Olympic activities.
When Mary Floy Dolphin, 81, was a girl, she and her friends would visit the Herschell-Spillman Carousel in Liberty Lake Park during the summers.
The drama department at University High School, 12420 E. 32nd Ave., in the Central Valley School District will present the play, "The Miser … Maybe," an adaptation of a French play by Moliere Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m.
Spokane City Forum will present its January speaker, Earl Martin, dean of Gonzaga University School of Law and acting academic vice president of Gonzaga University, Wednesday from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Spokane First Presbyterian Church, 318 S. Cedar St.
The Cheney City Council has officially changed.Council members Teresa Overhauser and Mike McKeehan were sworn in after winning their re-election campaigns in November. Also sworn in was new council member Fred Pollard and new mayor Tom Trulove.
As I am writing this, we are counting down the days to the 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Spokane.
The faculty of Central Valley High School will compete in an able-bodied wheelchair, Shoot for the Stars basketball exhibition game with Team St. Luke's athletes during halftime of the varsity basketball game with Ferris High School Friday at 7 p.m.
Cheney High School has been named one of the top 9.3 percent of high schools in the country by U.S. News and World Report.
Catholic Charities Spokane, 12 E. Fifth Ave., will present a volunteer information session Wednesday from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m.
There is a new house listed on the Cheney Register of Historic Places.The house on I Street was built in 1885 and was once owned by Guyel and Ella Frost. Bettye Hull, Historic Preservation Commission chair, said the house was added on to twice before 1929.
The Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, 127 E. 12th Ave., will present Windsong, a quartet of four local musicians, Sunday at 4 p.m.
Everyone has events or circumstances in their lives that make them frustrated, irritable or depressed. When I was younger and I would talk about something bothering me, a relative of mine would tell me: "Just don't let it get to you."
Cindy McSmith, principal at Medical Lake Elementary, says she has to use a pair of pliers to turn on the heater in her office. The old contraption doesn't work well and parts are hard to find. The heater is just one of the problems at the school, which serves children in preschool through third grade.
The Center for Spiritual Learning, 2825 E. 33rd Ave., will host the 24th annual World Peace Meditation today at 4 a.m.
Churches throughout the area are celebrating Christmas with services through the weekend.•Mission Community Presbyterian Church, 2103 E. Mission Ave., will offer a Christmas Eve candlelight service today at 7 p.m.
Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful …Now that it is cold and snow is coming, many of us are inclined to settle in, drink hot cocoa with marshmallows and stay indoors until spring or at least until the days get longer.
The Eastern Washington State Veterans Cemetery, under construction at 21702 W. Espanola Road, was burglarized over the weekend.
The Eastern Washington State Veterans Cemetery, under construction at 21702 W. Espanola Road, was burglarized over the weekend.
Latah Valley Presbyterian Church, 202 E. Meadow Lane Road, will present a live Nativity Sunday from 4 to 7 p.m.
Voters in the Medical Lake School District will decide in February whether to approve a 20-year, $15.6 million bond that would add classrooms and other improvements to two schools and tear down Medical Lake Elementary.
Covenant United Methodist Church youth will perform "Evening News Hour," on Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at the church, 1515 N. Gleneden Drive. The play portrays the story of the birth of Christ.
The city of Medical Lake has been contracting police services through the Spokane County Sheriff's Office since Nov. 1. There are three new deputies residing in police headquarters, with a fourth on the way.
The city of Cheney will take over solid waste collection and disposal next year.The city council decided at its meeting Tuesday night that it would not renew its contract with Sunshine Disposal & Recycling which has been serving the city since 2007 – the city had originally contracted with Waste Management in 2004 and Sunshine was later assigned the contract.
If I could give you one thing for the upcoming holidays, it would be perfect health.Unfortunately, it is not something that I can give to you or that you can give to anyone else. But you can give a gift of health that will be joyfully received.
Gift givers are getting ready to cut.Against the backdrop of record high unemployment and other financial struggles, people are taking out their holiday gift lists and finding themselves having to cross off friends, relatives and co-workers this year.
The Spokane Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1620 E. 29th Ave., will present the 2009 Community Nativities Exhibit today through Monday. The exhibit will be open from 3-9 p.m. on weekdays and from noon-9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Cheney Middle School's student population has outgrown its building. Lunches are divided into three groups to get all the students fed. The cafeteria officially holds 250 people, but the seventh-grade class alone has about 345 students.
The Spokane Interfaith Council will host the annual Thanksgiving Interfaith service today at 10 a.m. at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, 127 E. 12th Ave.
Have you or someone you know had a holiday season that felt overwhelming? What about a winter where you wanted to stay indoors, even on nicer days?
Cheney's updated nuisance code has been in effect since March, and while city officials have an easier way to deal with junk cars, abandoned furniture and other nuisances, they are still in the process of tracking and reporting the problems back to the City Council.
•The First Church of Christ, Scientist, 310 E. 14th Ave., will present its annual Thanksgiving Day service next Thursday at 10 a.m.
Cheney will have a new mayor at the start of 2010.Tom Trulove will take the office after a 1,167 to 573 victory over Mayor Allan Gainer in the Nov. 3 election.
The annual weekend holiday bazaars continue at area churches this week.•Caritas Outreach Ministries will hold its annual Christmas Bazaar and Bake Sale at Spokane Friends Church, 1612 W. Dalke Ave., Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The city of Cheney's Proposition 1, which was on the ballot Nov. 3, missed getting a supermajority by just 59 votes.
Crime (11/12/2009)
Cheney
The Cheney Police Department made the following arrests Oct. 31-Nov. 8:
The holidays are a good time to make donations to those in need, and students at Cheney and Medical Lake high schools are doing just that.
The Cheney City Council continued hearing budget proposals from various departments at its meeting Tuesday night. The council has been hearing from city departments at every meeting since Oct. 13 and will continue to hear budget proposals before they approve the final 2010 budget later this month.
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