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The McMinnville Yacht Club podcast is hosted by Ossie Bladine and Chelsey Nichol. Fourth generation McMinnville siblings share their memories, opinions and love for their home town.Listen and connect with us as we try and figure out how to hold on and let go of the town we love at the same time.
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What better way to celebrate the hottest day of the year so far but with a new episode and even a new season of the podcast! We've been missing for a few months, but that doesn't mean we haven't been thinking of you all. We have been busy living life and doing all the things, which gives us lots to talk about! For our return to the air, we brought in our pal Bryan Fey for Episode 58: The Fireman and The Dance. We asked Bryan to join us and share about his experience being a volunteer firefigh...
That's what we're all doing anyways right...trying? We loved this week's Episode 57: The Try Zone because not only did we learn about a sport we weren't super familiar with, rugby, but we also learned a lot of fun new sports terms. We had a great time talking and learning with John Mead and Christine Bader, two local youth rugby coaches. This is a fun and intriguing sport and our community and these two leaders are really offering our kids a great opportunity. From the unique rugby culture, t...
What do you expect from us when the sun comes out? We are distracted, outside, just being busy bees! So we think this light episode with two of our friends perfectly fits the season. On this week's Episode 56: Townie Talk - 2 we chat with our good friends, Tara Rich and Shannon Dunn. This is a very comfortable conversation with lots of memories and connecting about our home town. We hope you find something to enjoy in this episode and that we hit you with a bit of townie nostalgia.
That is ultimately the question, right? Do we want and value locally owned, high quality restaurants to enjoy, or do we get distracted and not realize that if we don't show up they may not always be there? We are lucky to talk to two of our friends on Episode 55: You Want It Or Not? Ricardo Antunez from Pura Vida Cocina and Patrick Bruce from Thistle about the struggles they have faced in the restaurant business the last few years. We know some of this story, but it is good to check in to mak...
It's always a good time when you get to spend an hour chatting with fellow locals. It's even more fun when you're chatting with townies, and sharing memories about growing up in Mac. On this week's Episode 54: Townie Talk, we had a chance to catch up with our friends Dan Davison and Todd Godfrey. We talk about our favorite memories, how we feel about change in town, things that we love and things that we don't. Essentially the same conversations you are probably having with your friends as we...
Sit back friends and grab your favorite book, because this episode is going to inspire you to read books by local authors. On this week's Episode 53: A Delight of Emilys we talk with two local authors, Emily Strelow and Emily Grosvenor Diesberg about their experiences getting their books published and what got them into writing to begin with. It's always fun to hear how people found themselves in McMinnville and their unique experiences before they made this their home. We were inspired by th...
Tap tap tap ... are folks still out there? We've taken a long winter nap and are back on the microphone ready to talk! This week's Episode 52: Episode 52 is a bit of an update on what's going on with us and some of the headlines we've been reading about in the news. There's so much to talk about when you haven't done it in a while, but this was a good entry back into the podcast studio and we're looking forward to continuing the conversation with everyone. Cheers to a New Year and a great 2024!
We're ending the year in our favorite place, The Blue Moon. For Episode 51 - Holidays At The Moon - Part 2 we finish up our recent visit to McMinnville's favorite gathering place. We've been working hard this year to keep bringing you new content and sharing information about the town we love. We hope that our long time listeners feel like we put a nice bow on 2023 and our new listeners are inspired to start back at the beginning with us. This final episode of the year has more friends, more ...
What better way to kick off our second 50 episodes than by going back to one of our favorite places in McMinnville?! For Episode 51: Holidays At The Moon we took the show on the road again and went back to see who we could talk to at The Blue Moon. We strolled in on a Tuesday to see who would be hanging out, and to our delight we ran into some good friends, past guests and some new friends. We love connecting with people at The Blue Moon and that's what makes it feel like home. We hope you en...
Horray! We've officially created and published 50 episodes of the Yacht Club! And for this milestone we brought in the people that know us the best, our spouses. So for this week's Episode 50: Podcast Spouses features Ossie's wife Lacy Bladine, and Chelsey's husband Brent Nichol. We have lots of laughs in this one because that's what you do with family...laugh at each other! All jokes aside, we are very thankful for these two's support as we continue on as captains of this ship. We hope you h...
We are carrying on the holiday tradition of promoting our dad Jeb's annual "Shop Local" message he prints in the newspaper each year. We've recorded another Just The Two Of Us and for this week's Episode 49: Shop Local we are highlighting a few things happening in town for the holidays and then spend some time on a message about changes coming with our family-owned community newspaper, the News-Register. Owning and operating a 4th generation local newspaper is not easy, but it's something our...
You probably haven't spent a lot of time thinking about the origin story of McMinnville. Who founded this town we love so much? What were the first businesses and buildings were built that anchored the growth of this community? Like many towns, ours has unique founders and interesting industries that lit the spark of what we became McMinnville. So on this week's Episode 48: How Mac Came to Be, we are talking with local historian Kory Knutz on some of the more interesting moments in our histor...
Is it too early to play Christmas music? Ok, maybe... we will hold off a few more weeks. But that's not going to stop us from getting exciting about the upcoming holiday season! One of our favorite things is downtown McMinnville during the holidays so we thought we would kick off the season with Episode 47: Downtown Girls. This week we chat with McMinnville Downtown Association presidents Dani Chisolm (current) and Heather Miller (past) about what makes downtown so magical this time of year a...
What goes better with a great wine than great friends? You would be hard pressed to find a more perfect pairing than our guests on this week's Episode 46: A Perfect Pairing. Grant Coulter and Renee Saint-Amour of Hundred Suns Wine have made McMinnville their home after relocating from Monterey, California. They're raising their family and business here and have created roots that feel strong and will no doubt last as long as they call McMinnville home. This is the first time we have chatted w...
It's time for our annual check-up! So we made an appointment with two of our favorite medical professionals so we can see how we're holding up. On this week's informative Episode 45: McMedicine, we talk with Dr. Ashley Hyder with West Hills Healthcare Clinic and Amy Bizon from Willamette Valley Medical Center. Prepare to take notes, because we cover a lot of ground in this one and as always we learned something and left feeling like we are good hands with the health care providers we have in ...
It's Tuesday Night Footballlllllll! And we've got two star players on this week's Episode 44: Gridiron Guys. We had a great time talking with DJ Alexander, a former NFL Player for the Kansas City Chiefs and others, and local football star and now coach with Linfield Football, Brett Elliott. It was awesome getting to ask questions about their experiences in college and after, and what experiences they shared and where their paths differed. We won't spoil this one in the intro, you're going to ...
We're great at multi-tasking around the yacht club and so we combined our daily workout sesh with a podcast recording. This week we laced up our tennies and hung out at MVP Performance Training on Episode 43: At The Gym. Over the last few months Chelsey has been working on her fitness at this gym and thought that it would be great to connect with others who are on their own fitness journey. So we talk with gym owner, Sean Burke, about his approach to fitness and how focusing on women's unique...
Nothing hurts more than growing pains. But when you live in a community like McMinnville you can be sure that there will be a lot of folks doing their best to try and preserve what makes “McMinnville” the McMinnville we are proud of. On this week’s Episode 42: Growing Pains we talk with our friends Mike Morris and Beth Caster, two local realtors. We discuss what they are experiencing in the real estate market, and what they can share with us about the broader growth picture in town. There’s a...
And we're back! And we decided it was a good time to start Season 2 of the podcast, so we're here with Episode 41: Changing Seasons to chat about the last few weeks of summer and what we're looking forward to this fall.
Kids are going back to school next week and we hope you've taken a trip to the store to get everything for their lunches! Or, you've probably stopped in to your favorite grocery store to pickup your dinners for the week, or went in to check out what seasonal fruits and veggies they've got to offer. There are so many options when you are deciding where to purchase your groceries, and we hope that with this week's Episode 40: Meet Your Grocer you are inspired to spend a bit more of your dollars...
Welcome to the summer of sustainability! We were inspired by a past episode to continue learning more about what is going on locally to encourage recycling and sustainability. So for Episode 39: Sustainable Summer, we invited Beth Rankin, one of the organizers of the McMinnville Recycled Arts and Sustainability Fair plus one of the vendors participating in the event, Julie Wilson with the The Department of Work. We had a great time learning more about this fun and creative event and think tha...
This episode will get you thinking. In the best possible way. You may be reminiscing about your college experience or feeling pride for your home town school after listening to this week's Episode 38: The University. We've known we would have an episode on Linfield at some point, and the summer seemed like the perfect time to chat with our friends from the University before the new school year begins. We're so thankful we had a chance to spend some time with Professor David Sumner, who has be...
Summertime blues around here ... While we had to pivot from this week's planned episode we thought we would sit and console each other about what's got us down in the world. There's always a lot of change happening in McMinnville, and sometimes its ok to pause for a minute and reflect on things that mean something to this community. And at the same time there's opportunity to share what we hope to see in the future. So this week we talk on Episode 37: Just The Two Of Us - News and Blues, Ossi...
Nothing is better than sitting around shooting the breeze with friends you grew up with. And this week's Episode 36: Don't Tell The Tourists - Part 2 feels a lot like that. We grabbed locals Todd Hyder and Robin VanBuren and asked the question that started this podcast... What are the things about McMinnville that we want to keep special just for locals? We all agree that we enjoy the benefits of the tourism industry in town, but the connection we feel when we can experience things only local...
May we officially introduce you to our new Mayor Remy Drabkin.... We are so thrilled that we got to spend a bit of time with our friend, and now Mayor, and chat about what her life is like in her new job. Remy has been known to many in McMinnville for years as the owner and winemaker of Remy Wines. And we were so heartened when the citizens of McMinnville elected her as our new Mayor last year. Remy brings an energy and enthusiasm for City government that can't be ignored and you will hear in...
We talk a lot about what makes McMinnville special on this podcast, and we keep coming back to the sense of community we share when we connect through service. Our guests today are members of our local school board, and as we have all come to realize, it's an important role that we should know more about. We are thankful to our guest on today's Episode 34: The Board, for giving us a glimpse into the important work a school board does, and maybe more importantly what they don't do. Janis Braic...
What do you do when you want a guest on the podcast but you haven't been able to get them to the studio? You take the podcast to them! And we're lucky enough that it also happens to be at a place we like to hang out. For this week's Episode 33: The Regulars, we take the show on the road again and record from the Grain Station Brew Works and chat with a few friends who have becomes regulars along with Ossie. The conversation varies widely from tech and AI to brewing to wine making. We talk wit...
What does your favorite business smell like? It's probably one of the things that keeps you coming back... or maybe it's the awesome owners and managers and people who greet you when you walk in the door. On Episode 31: Businesses We Love - Part 2, we talk with two more of our favorite local businesses, Casee Clark with R. Stuart & Co. Winery and Tayler Brisbin of Mes Amies. We were able to share notes about each of our favorite places to visit these days, on and off 3rd Street. We dive a...
You may be thinking...wow, guys, that's a bold statement. Who ever could earn such a title? Well, we are about to introduce you to Ramsey McPhillips: The Most Interesting Man In McMinnville. We've been playing around with the idea of dedicating an entire episode to one guest so we can really dive into their story, and Ramsey couldn't be a better fit for this new format. Ramsey's family has owned their farm south of McMinnville for over a century and you will hear about the battles Ramsey has ...
Sweeeeet Caroline ... bum bum bum... good times never seemed so good! So good! Doesn't that get you in the mood to cheer on your favorite team, and maybe your favorite podcast? We're in the sports frame of mind again and this week we had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with two McMinnville legends, Marianne Mills and Don Rutchman. On Episode 29: Hall of Famers 2, we check in with our friends to chat a bit more about what they loved about their coaching careers, what drove them to show u...
Here we are again, just the two of us. After last week's heavy topics, and a week full of fun and important events, we thought we would sit down again and chat with each other about something that is very important in our lives ... service to your community. We've spoken a lot about the value we place on giving your time and so for this week's episode we dive a bit deeper into the subject of service. We're just coming off of the annual Distinguished Service Awards, a long standing tradition o...
Well, let's see how this goes. In this week's Episode 27: Just The Two Of Us, Ossie and I chat with each other for the duration of an entire episode about a few hot button issues. We went back to the root of why we started this podcast, and it was to have a voice. Sure, we could talk about sports, or our kids, or our favorite memories, but that seems too safe. Too easy? So we dig into it, and get honest and share our thoughts with you all on some important issues. Like homelessness, and elect...
Sing...Sing a song...Sing out loud....Sing out strong! This is us beating the drum about local music again. We love this topic and are excited to be putting on a show at The Bindery. We were so inspired by our first McMusicville episode that we not only planned a concert, but wanted to talk to more people who are involved in the local music scene. This week we chat with local musicians, Marcus Glaze and Jamie Howe about how they got into music, some of their favorite memories around music and...
Here is the exciting (and slightly more inebriated) second half to our 25th Episode fun at the Blue Moon Lounge. If you listened to the first half last week you will get a taste for the background noise and the over all vibe of us sitting in the first booth at the Moon talking to folks. In this second part, we have three groups of locals sit down to chat with us. We feel inspired that folks came to talk about specific things, and we hope to be able to do something in the future with that idea...
Oh my gosh, what a night we had! We took the show on the road and recorded Episode 25 from The Blue Moon Lounge in downtown McMinnville. You've heard us talk about how much we love the Moon, so we thought it would be a fun way to spend a night ... with our headphones on talking to people. We spent so long recorded we decided to split this fun into two episodes. So this week you get the nervous, excited hosts talking with people, next week... well, hold tight. Thank you to Justin and the team ...
Turn your night light on and get your cozy blanket for this week's episode all about books and the McMinnville Public Library. For Episode 24: The Librarians, we chat with the library Director, Jenny Berg and librarian Courtney Terry about how they got into the librarian profession and what our library has to offer. We learned so much about all of the fun and important services our public library offers and really get an appreciation for the dedicated staff that guide visitors towards a meani...
It's time to get smart! We had fun on this week's episode being quizzed by Ossie about all things McMinnville, and then we randomly veer into Oregon trivia as well. We know this is the beginning of a fun series of us testing our local knowledge and have lots of laughs while we do it. We're thankful to our friends Erica Anderson and Ryan Manfrin for coming on and giving their best guesses as we test all that we know and realize how much we don't know!
Ok, go easy on us with this one. We're tired and stressed. But we're just fine! On this week's episode we convinced two of our friends, Brooke Anderson and Kara Missildine to come on and share about how this thing called parenthood is going. We know that none of us are experts, and we're going to get it wrong probable more often than we are going to get it right. But being able to talk about our experiences raising kids is truly what keeps us going. Some days are hard, really hard. But so man...
Honor, may we approach the bench? Because we have a lot of questions... And thankfully we have two amazing law professionals on the podcast this week to answer them for us. We got to ask local family law attorney, Alexis Bishop Stern and Judge Jennifer Chapman about some of the ins and outs of the McMinnville legal system. We chat about what they love about their jobs and how they approach their professions while making sure they see the people and not just the problems. We're fortunate to ha...
How do you sum up over 180 years of a town's history in an hour? You don't...and not even more than an hour will do! But we took a good swing at things when talking with locals Ruben Contreras Jr. and Michael Hafner about our local history. We talked about fun random facts with Michael and dove into how Ruben started the popular Draggin' The Gut event in downtown McMinnville. We shared notes on how buildings and landmarks can have unique historical relevance, but also how change can occur in ...
Step up to the plate (you know we love a sports pun!) for this week's episode as we chat with two inspiring local coaches and athletes about their time playing at Mac High. We get to talk with Lisa Macy-Baker, who was a national basketball champ and standout star on her MHS basketball team before playing D1 at Oregon State, and now coaches youth basketball and tennis. And local legend, Ross Peterson, who grew up playing sports in McMinnville and then becoming coach to many sports, but primari...
Cheer to our latest episode! This week we belly up to the bar and chat with two local Brewmasters, Lisa Allen of Heater Allen Brewing and Piper Gladwill with Golden Valley Brewery, all about the local beer making world. We learned a lot from these two local brewers, and we started with the basics. They share what they love about brewing and their journey of how they got into making beer. The beer industry has been "brewing" in McMinnville for years and we were happy to chat about the local be...
We've set the stage for you to learn all about the local film making scene and the annual McMinnville Short Film Festival this week. Get your popcorn and settle in to hear about how this inspiring event took shape after one of the owners of Movie Time video store, Dan Morrow, and his wife Nancy would make movies with their staff at the video store. And we also chat with former News-Register reporter, David Bates, about the importance of film as a cultural asset in the community. We hope...
We hope your pencils are sharped because you may want to take notes on this week's episode. In Episode 16: The Amy and Kourtney Show, we talk with two local educators, Dr. Amy Fast the Principal at McMinnville High School, and Kourtney Ferrua the Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment for the McMinnville School District. We got to ask them what it is like to be a part of teaching our children and helping their fellow educators lead in McMinnville. There are so many layers wh...
Catchy right? Just like your favorite tune.... in Episode 15: McMusicville, you will want to put this one on repeat. Music is a big part of our lives, and live music is an important thing to have access to. In this fun episode we catch up with our friends Jerome Blankenship of the local band Ships to Roam, and Freddie Lamb of Run and Tell That (and as a solo act) about how they got into music and what they like about performing locally. We discuss where you can see live music in town, and wha...
It's something we ask ourselves most days, and if you spend anytime in downtown McMinnville the experience you are going to have is equally as important to what food you're going to eat. We're so lucky to have the restaurant options we have, and the owners become our friends and family. In this episode we chat with long time business owner Cindy Lorenzen (who started with her first business in town, Video Yogurt Express years ago and now is the owner of The Sage) and Scott Cunningham who open...
Is it vetch or veg? And what's up with all the political signs in the fields surrounding McMinnville? These are just two of the MANY questions we had for our guests, Marvin Bernards of Bernards Farm and Erik Grimstad of Even Pull Farm. In this episode we dive deep into the world of local farming, and at the same time it felt like we didn't even scratch the surface of this very complex and nuanced industry. An industry that has defined our local community for generations and continues to resha...
What better way to start 2023 than to look at where we've been and talk about where we are now. And maybe a little about our hopes for the coming year. Today we are chatting with two people who have had tremendous impact on our local community, Mike Colvin, and our dad, Jeb Bladine. Their stories and experience growing up in McMinnville is one shared by many, and those connections are what helped shape our town. Whether through their businesses, or community involvement, these two talk with u...
Santa must not have received your letters asking for another episode for Christmas, because he didn't deliver this week. We weren't able to record the episode we had hoped this week, so we wanted to just take a moment and thank you for listening. We truly appreciate everyone who is taking the time to listen to our little podcast, and hear us share our hearts with all of you. Thank you for sharing all of your positive feedback and have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Hanukkah, and we ...
It's a classic story of boy meets girl...set in a small town. And the troubles they face finding love. Actually, it's us talking with our good friends Lisa Jenson and Sean Cahill about what it's like trying to date in McMinnville. We think this is a topic a lot of our listeners can relate to. We had a great time chatting about where people go to try and meet other singles, what that looks like in your 30's and 40's in a small town, and the complications that come along with it. And find...
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