E-mail from Cheryl

Facts from the past gleaned from the Moses Lake Herald, Columbia Basin Herald and The Neppel Record by Cheryl (Driggs) Elkins:

From the CBH on Oct. 12, 1976:

Moses Lake seeks citizen advice

The second of two scheduled public bearings to gather public input on community development will be held during today’s 8 p.m. Moses Lake City Council meeting.

The council called for the hearings to consider the citizen input for community development block grants which are available under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974.

At the initial hearing Sept. 28, the only input was from Ray Diaz, who asked if it was to be a union project. Councilman Kent Jones informed him the hearings were to determine which projects could be done and that his question did not pertain to that topic.

With no further comments from the public, the hearing was continued until today.

Among other items the council is to consider will be the first reading of a proposed subdivision ordinance. Among other things this ordinance will require developers to pave streets within the projects they are building.

The meeting will be in the city hall council room.

From the CBH on March 2, 1981:

Cougars overtaken

The Warden Cougars built a lead as big as 33-19 in the first half before the Entiat Tigers slapped on a half-court trap that forced nine second half turnovers.

The turnovers fueled a second half comeback for the Tigers that warmed up in the third period., with the Tigers closing the gap to nine, and then roared out of control as the Tigers overran the Cougars 24-8 in the fourth quarter.

The Cougars got balanced scoring, with Rob Kinder hitting 16, Bruce Roylance and Chris Villegas 10. Marty Whitney was just off the double figure mark with nine.

WARDEN: Kinder 16; Roylance 15; Villegas 10; Whitney 9; Wurzer 6; Martinez 2.

Eagle girl to state

The Soap Lake Eagle girls’ basketball team advanced to the state B tournament this week at Spokane Falls Community College with two upset wins last week over Kittitas and Brewster.

Saturday, in a game that decided seeding, the Eagles fell to Peshastin-Dryden, 60-44. The Soap Lake girls take on Reardon 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in Spokane in the first round of the state tournament.

Becky Scheib led the Eagles with 14 points and Susan Callahan put in 10.

The Eagles entered the tournament as the fourth-seeded team from the South-Central B with an 8-8 record.

The P-D girls outshot the Eagles from the field, hitting 28 of 69 to the Eagles’ 16 of 50. The eagles did better from the foul line getting 12 of 22, compared to P-D’s four of 11.

SOAP LAKE: Callahan 10; Hitzroth 2; Scheib 14; Gardner 6; Arvan 9; Boland 3.