I am originally from Los Angeles, but grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. In between I spent two years of my childhood in Montana. One in Great Falls and the other in Havre. My mom married a Canadian when I was 9, and we moved to Canada. Because the winters in Edmonton were too damn cold, I moved back to California once I was 21. My radio career has taken me to Casa Grande, Ariz., and to Palm Springs, Fresno and San Luis Obispo, Calif., and back to Edmonton, and Yakima. I play poker, basketball and flag football in my free time. My claim to fame is that my wife Monica is sisters with the former Miss El Salvador 1996, who came in sixth in that year's Miss Universe competition. Of course I think my wife is prettier than her sister! I also have a 12-year-old daughter named Noel who is in junior high and was the fifth-grade champion high jumper.
Andy Winford
Looking For A Staycation? Check Out The NW Railway Museum
I love the area around Snoqualmie and North Bend. There is plenty to do over the course of a weekend. You can check out Snoqualmie Falls, Downtown North Bend, hike on Mount Si and visit the NW Railway Museum. If, like me, as a kid you were always fascinated with trains this is a great opportunity to take a 70-minute journey on a real old-time locomotive and experience what it was like when the Gre
It’s Blackberry Picking Season in the Yakima Valley
Our digital guru JT invited me to his home in the nether regions of Selah to pick blackberries this weekend. In the store, blackberries are about $3.99 a pound, which seems silly to pay since they grow wild all over Washington.
I Hope This Kid Got Richard Sherman’s Autograph
Todd and I went to the Seattle Seahawks training camp on Tuesday along with about 1,500 fans. Then there is this kid, who is obviously a very dedicated Richard Sherman fan. If we're to believe his sign, he traveled (converting metric to the English system for you) 3,682 miles which means he's either from the most northern reaches of Canada or San Jose, Costa Rica...
Recycle Your Cans, Plastic Bottles And Cardboard Here In The West Valley
The city of Yakima only provides a single can for all of our trash -- unlike the city of Seattle, where you get cans for regular garbage, recycled items (cans, bottles, cardboard etc.) and another can for yard clippings and grass. So if you want to be a good citizen and conservationist in Yakima, you can go downtown and make a couple of bucks on your bottles and cans BUT if you just want to dispos
Yakima TV Stations Off-Air For Hours On Sunday Night Due To Fallen Power Pole
If you have cable or satellite TV you probably didn't notice that every TV station serving Yakima except for PBS was off the air. So for anyone who watches over the air on a regular antenna then you either got static or a notice from their digital TV tuner saying "No Signal" or "Weak Signal...
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Dead At 79
The San Antonio Express-News is reporting that Senior Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died at a West Texas luxury resort ranch in the Big Bend region south of Marfa where he was on a quail hunting trip. He arrived at the ranch Friday with a party of 40...
Amazing Central Washington Miniature Railroad In a Basement [PHOTOS]
Over the weekend I stopped by an estate sale on Snowmountain Road and saw the coolest thing in the basement: a miniature railroad patterned after the Moxee Toppenish and Western.
As you can see from the photos below, the former owner must have had well over 100 different cars, railroad crossings, stations, hundreds of feet of track, bridges, a representation of Toppenish from more than a century a