Voices

The “I voted” stickers were out at Greenacres Middle School on Tuesday, even though students aren’t old enough to cast their ballots. Instead they participated in a mock election that will see their results posted on a national Web site. Students voted only for president and Washington state governor. Seventh-grader Cerissa Herman said she voted for Barack Obama and Dino Rossi. “Obama says that he’ll give insurance to employed people like my father,” she said in explaining her split vote. She voted for Rossi because she thought Chris Gregoire had run up the deficit too much.

Q: Five people at the Starbucks in Millwood were asked: “Would you prefer daylight-saving time year-round?”

When Ellwood Landt was a boy, his mother used to tell him to take his .22 and go shoot a pheasant for dinner. In the 1970s Landt bought 100 acres close to Airway Heights with the intent to raise pheasants to restock the land with all the birds he had taken in his youth. He started out with a rooster and three hens, and before he knew it, his farm was overrun by pheasants. In 1980, he opened the pheasant preserve to the public as a shooting farm. But since pheasants are not always easy to shoot and can fly off to never be seen again, demand for a cheaper substitute grew over the years. In 1990, Landt added a clay target range to the shooting farm. It was only the second sporting clay range in the state at that time.

The Spangle Cemetery overlooks the small town nestled among the rolling hills of the Palouse. It has served community members for more than a century, a monument to the people who spent their lives and created families in Spangle. But not everyone who lives in Spangle is within the boundaries of the cemetery district. Residents in the district pay taxes that go toward the upkeep of the cemetery, including cleanup from vandals and stormy weather, mowing the grass and keeping the leaves and other yard debris off the headstones.

For the last 20 years, residents of Cheney have been able to visit the Cheney Community Library on First Street, whether to look for a book, gather research for a school paper, join a reading group or participate in children’s activities. And now for its 20th anniversary, the library is hosting a week of events to celebrate.