In brief: Apply for Cheney Youth Commission

The Cheney Youth Commission is accepting applications for the 2008-09 term.

Students in grades eight through 12 are invited to apply to be on the council, which meets on the first and third Mondays of every month to create youth activities in Cheney.

Members will hold a term of two years, or one year if the student is a senior in high school.

The deadline to register is Wednesday.Applications can be found at www.cityofcheney. org/recreation. For more information about the youth commission, call Paul Simmons at 498-9295.

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Women honored for service

Two members Alpha Chi Omega were honored recently for 75 years of service and membership in the women’s fraternity.

Alice “Belle” Vawter and Velvo Lucas Miller each received 75-year pins at a luncheon and ceremony at the Manito Golf and Country Club.

Vawter attended college at Washington State University, where she met her husband; they married in 1935 and had three sons, one of whom followed his father in employment at URM.

The Vawters traveled extensively. She was a volunteer at Deaconess for about 30 years and currently resides at Fairwood Village, according to Hazel Jackson, her CAREgiver.

Miller pledged Alphi Chi at the University of Oregon and later graduated from Oregon State. She was set up on a blind date by her Alpha Chi sisters and some Sigma Epsilon fraternity brogthers with Richard Felix Miller, according to her daughter, Marcia Miller Magnuson. They were married for 62 years.

They spent most of their life in Cheney, where Richard Miller was a professor in Eastern Washington University’s Language and Literature Department. He died in 1998. They have three children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.