Medical Lake losing football coaches
The Medical Lake football coaching staff is splitting up. Two assistant football coaches are moving to Davenport to coach, where assistant football coach Aaron Carr just landed a job as head coach. His four years on the job have him in love with coaching high school football and have encouraged his dream to one day be a head coach.
“I’m never going to forget the kids I coached here. I always tell the kids, ‘It’s my dream to be a head coach. I’d be a hypocrite not to take that,’ ” Carr said. The other Medical Lake assistant football coach moving is Jeremy Bahr, who is Carr’s lifelong buddy. He will work alongside Carr at Davenport as an assistant football coach.
Medical Lake head football coach Rick Olson will be moving over to Cheney to be an assistant football coach there.
“He’s (Olson) what you look up to as far as a coach goes,” Carr said with a laugh. “I learned lots from him.”
Mural planned for downtown Cheney
Pathways to Progress staff are working to get a very big, very beautiful mural painted smack dab in downtown Cheney. The community-centered organization is looking for businesses to fund the mural by buying an enscripted brick with their company name on it. The murals will be painted by the renowned Spokane artist Tom Quinn.
The project will be comprised of three paintings depicting Cheney’s farming days in the past, present, and future.
“We’re just trying to find ways to involve the community in public art,” said Amanda Raymond, community and economic development assistant. She is leading the project.
Pathways has so far raised a third of the $7,200 they need to get this off the ground. Donors will get their name stamped in brick inlaid near the mural, putting their name on a piece of eventual town history. So far, funds have been raised through the Cheney Arts Guild and a silent auction last year. For more information, call Pathways to Progress at 559- 5818.
Cabin Fever Antiques opens in Cheney
The knickknacks have arrived. Cabin Fever Antiques just opened in downtown Cheney at 208 First Street. The half antiques and half local arts store opened its doors June 21 to what owner Leslie Johnston said has been a sizable crowd of people.
Earrings from Deer Park, soap from Spokane, wildlife art from Odessa and Loon Lake make this place a real local gem.
“I’m trying to stay with just local kinds of smaller businesses or people that are into art,” Johnston said of the people she buys from.
Her antique wares draw from her and her husband’s own antique collection of the past eight years. It’s a mélange of history; a rocking chair from the early 1900’s, someone’s old tool chest which “could be made into a coffee table,” a Victorian sofa with chairs.
Johnston eventually hopes to open a pottery painting corner in the store.
“I’d like to eventually turn it into an antique mall where there is something for everyone,” she said.
‘Summer adventure program’ for kids
Airway Heights offers a “summer adventure program” that gets kids off the couch and into park and outdoor events. This $80 week-long program runs kids out to the movies, the lake, a water park and maybe even a little roller coaster riding – all in the same week. Call city of Airway Heights at 244-5578 for more information.