CCCNews Pod - Honest Local News for the Mid Columbia, Listeners Edition
Columbia Community Connection, headquartered in The Dalles, Oregon offers honest, relevant, and positively focused local news to folks across the Mid-Columbia region.
Our podcast, the CCCNews Podcast, invited guests, journalists, and other storytellers to help us tell the stories that bring us closer together in this community we call home.
You can read our content and learn more about us at CCCNews.com
Episodes
25 episodes
CCCNews Podcast Finding Your Sole: TD Grad starts 2,650 mile Journey today, April 8
Celia Peterson a 2019 graduate of The Dalles High School, took her first steps with boyfriend Jensen Douillard of Boulder today as they have set their eyes on the Pacific Crest Trail - a 2,650-mile journey of the mind and soles from Mexic...
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CCCNews Podcast With Principal Broker Dennis Morgan - March 18, 2025
Dennis Morgan, a true renaissance man and civic leader, is the Principal Broker and Manager at Copperwest Real Estate in The Dalles. We talk housing stocks, home prices, history, kids, rafting, theatre and interest rates in this all-out CCCNews...
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Hot Gossip & Love Stories in this latest What’s Up The Dalles Podcast
We take it outdoors in the wilds of downtown retail in The Dalles this week with Skookum Outfitter’s Allison Turner as we get the lowdown on upcoming events from TD Main Street’s Cynthia Kortge and a debrief on that delicious Chocolate Crawl an...
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What's Up The Dalles With Cynthia Kortge and Steve Light, Jan 23rd 2025
This week, Steve Light of Freebridge Brewing brings the Dirty Juicy with The Dalles Main Street's Cynthia Kortge in a discussion of all things downtown TD and, of course, beer and pizza. Hear about Federal Street Plaza plans, coming...
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Listen up or lose your presents: CCCNew's Christmas Variety Show Podcast 2024
Join CCCNew’s Robin Denning, Joshuah Albert & Tom Peterson as they welcome special guests Victor Johnson, Aaron Jalen the Mailman, and Christmas Turkey cooking Tipster Colleen Worrell to the all-new and all-exciting CCCNew’s Christmas Varie...
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What's Up The Dalles Ep 4
Join The Dalles Main Street’s Cynthia Kortge and Lindsay Giamei in this week’s Podcast of What’s Up The Dalles. Learn about the festive list of Christmas happenings in downtown TD and get an update on all the collaborations occurring at The Wor...
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Episode 5
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What's Up The Dalles With Cynthia Kortge and Hannah Mapes, Nov. 7, 2024
Join Cynthia Kortge and Hannah Mapes as we explore what's coming to The Dalles this November. We'll also have the Latest in downtown business news, events, and local gossip.
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What's Up The Dalles? Find out in this brand new local podcast
The program features all the latest scuttlebutt in Downtown TD with The Dalles Main Street’s Cynthia Kortge and CCCNews’ Josh Albert and Tom Peterson.
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Columbia Basin Care on Careers in Healthcare and Free Nursing Classes for Students
Join us on the CCCNews Podcast as we delve into the world of Columbia Basin Care, an independent non-profit care facility that has served the Columbia River Gorge for over fifty years. In this episode, we interview Anneta Crown and Keri Dell ab...
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Interview with Dan Richardson, Wasco County Commissioner Candidate
Join CCCNews as Wasco County Commissioner candidate Dan Richardson dives into his campaign, his background, and his time as a city councilor in The Dalles. This interview gets into some of the more recently heated topics at The Dalles City Coun...
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Interview with Jeff Justesen, Wasco County Commissioner Candidate
Join CCCNews as Wasco County Commissioner candidate Jeff Justesen shares insights from his time at the Northern Oregon Regional Correctional Facility's Juvenile program and his coaching experiences and discover how these roles have shaped his v...
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Episode 10
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Kara Davis Candidate for Wasco County DA Interview
Explicit Content Warning: This podcast contains mentions of sexual violence, listener discretion is advised. Sponsored Content: This content was paid for in part by the Friends of Kara Davis. ...
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CCCNews Podcast | Episode 9: Author Talk: Keath Silva on "King Crone and the Empty Nest"
In this episode of the CCCNews Podcast, we interview trans poet and healing arts practitioner Keath Silva, about his new book of poetry titled King Crone and the Empty Nest, transformational poetry and rites of passage. Keath speaks to un...
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PSA: Human Trafficking Awareness in the Mid-Columbia region
In this short podcast PSA, CCCNews journalist Cole Goodwin speaks with Shannon O’Brien, Mid-Columbia Human Trafficking Task Force Consultant about the signs of human trafficking, what to do if you suspect someone may be a trafficking victim,...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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CCCNews Podcast | Episode 8: Kenny LaPoint talks housing, homelessness, and hope despite hardship
In this episode of the CCCNews Podcast we interview Kenny LaPoint, the Mid-Columbia Community Action Council Executive Director leading a local and regional effort to end homelessness. We discuss MCCAC's collaborative approach to addressing hom...
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Episode 8
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CCCNews Podcast Episode 7: Underriner Gives "life saving" Gift of a Free Car To Struggling Single Mom
In this episode of the CCCNews podcast, Cole Goodwin tells the story of a local Christmas miracle made possible by a collaboration from Underriner Ford and Nissan, United Way of the Columbia Gorge, and Skamania County Council on Domestic Violen...
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Episode 7
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CCCNews: Josh & Tom's Christmas Special -'Twas the Night before Chrismas - our present to you
In this special episode, we join Josh and Tom, on guitar, as we read to you "Twas the Night Before Christmas," jumpstarting your holiday spirit. We at CCCNews hope you have a wonderful Christmas.
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CCCNews Podcast Episode 5: New Parks & Preservation with Scott Baker
In this episode of the CCCNews Podcast, we interview Scott Baker, executive director of Northern Wasco County Parks and Recreation. Baker talks the saving of Sorosis Park, adding a Mountain Bike Skills Park and Pump Track with an eye to the Mil...
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CCCNews Podcast | Episode 4: "The Amazing Adolfo"
In this episode of the CCCNews Podcast, we interview first-generation immigrant from Guatemala, Gorge Dancing with the Stars winner, and winemaker, Adolfo Mollinedo about his upcoming trek to Mt. Everest base camp and what it takes to turn your...
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CCCNews Podcast Halloween Special
In this spine-tingling Halloween special episode, we delve into the dark and mysterious life and unusual death of Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier in 1794. Lavoisier, the dreamy French chemist known for his contributions to the metric system and a ...
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CCCNews Podcast | Episode 3: "The Dalles Elementary Student Runs for Kid Governor"
In this episode of the CCCNews Podcast, we interview Lydia LaDouceur of Dry Hollow Elementary School about her campaign to be Oregon’s Kid Governor in 2024. Lydia’s running on a platform of conservation, kindness, and caring for Oregon’s Natura...
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Episode 3
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CCCNews Podcast | Episode 2: "An Inside Look at Career and Technical Education and the TDHS School Bond"
CCCNews Editor Tom Peterson describes modern career and technical education as well as modern school design at neighboring high schools. Robin Denning further explains the cost of The Dalles High School bond and rebuts the assertion it is too e...
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Episode 2
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CCCNews Podcast | Episode 1: "MCCAC's Annex Provides Housing for Heroes"
In this pilot episode of the CCCNews podcast, Co-founding journalists Cole Goodwin and Tom Peterson interview Mid-Columbia Community Action Council (MCCAC) Regional Shelter Manager Rob Mendoza and homeless veteran Joe Davies to get the inside s...
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Episode 1
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