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
Thrift Shop Find Of The Week
This is a classic 50's hairpin leg table with a porcelain top. It has drawers for storage and wings that lock underneath that you pull out and lock into place to make the table larger so it's great for any size space. This kind of item doesn't show up at thrift stores very often and when they do they get snapped up fast...
Ebola Could Come To Montana
Should there be more victims of the Ebola virus in the United States they could very likely be flown to Missoula for treatment. St. Patrick's hospital in Missoula is just one of four facilities in the nation equipped to handle someone stricken with the disease...
7 High School Students Arrested In Connection With Football Hazing Incident… But It Happens Everywhere.
7 Students at Sayerville High School in Parlin, New Jersey face sex crime charges from hazing incidents that saw the cancellation of their football teams' season. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer website Philly.com "The investigation found other teens were held against their will and touched in a sexual manner"...
Apparently Red Bull Doesn’t Really “Give You Wings”. Lol.
If you've ever stood at the edge of the Rims by the airport, drank a Red Bull and then expected to sprout wings, jumped and suffered an injury then the makers of Red Bull energy drink may owe you $10. Yes, believe it or not, some enterprising consumers looking for a meal (er, energy drink) ticket crafted a daffy piece of litigation based on the premise that they should have literally been able to
Native Americans From Montana Used In “Daily Show” Skit Insulted By Washington Redskins Fans
In the skit, "Daily Show" regular contributor Jason Jones sat down with 4 Washington Redskins fans who want the team to keep using the name that many in the Native American community feel is racist. During the segment Jones brought Missoula's Migizi Pensoneau into the room along with 7 other Native Americans...
Brutal Traffic In Downtown Billings
I'm no urban planner but there had to be a better plan for all this road construction than what we've been dealing with here in the downtown core the last week or so. Just today on my lunch hour I had to reroute to get myself some Pizza Pizza...
How Soon Will Gay Marriage Come To Montana?
Today the U.S. Supreme Court declined to rule on whether or not individual states can ban gay marriage. In Virginia, Oklahoma, Utah, Wisconsin and Indiana that means that same sex couples in those state CAN get married legally. The reason being is that lower federal courts did rule that those states ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional...
Would You Want This Stuffed Turkey In Your House?
If you hear the words "stuffed turkey" your mouth will probably start watering the way mine does on Thanksgiving. In Montana however it's just as likely to be taxidermy... in other words not roasted with bread stuffing and cranberries but the bird with the head and feathers still attached stuffed and mounted on a plaque you can hang above the mantle on your fireplace...
Thrift Shop Find Of The Week
This Saturday I hit the jackpot! I stopped at the St. Vincent De Paul Thrift Store on Montana Ave. for the 2nd time and found 3 of the Drexel Declaration chairs like the one you see above. Unlike many antique wooden dining chairs this has the signature mid century lines and the funky spindles that are very uncommon in this kind of chair...
Montana Has The 6th Highest Rate Of Gun Deaths In The United States
On their website, the non-partisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (a think tank focusing on global health policy) posted a report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta which shows that Montana has the 6th highest rate of death by firearm in the United States trailing only Alaska, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Wyoming...
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Bunny Rabbits In Downtown Billings!
Many of us like living in Montana because it's the most wild and free state in the lower 48. We are fortunate to have a huge variety of wildlife you can see on nature hikes, hunting in the back country... and walking to work in the middle of town...