We received lots of great calls on this episode of The Conversation. John Orr asks the question “Who are the American heroes?”

Join host Donna Quinn as she talks with guests Ariel Russell, with the Harbor, and Seth Ward, of the Utah Ballroom Dance Company, about Dancing with the Clatsop County Stars,” happening at the Liberty Theater in Astoria.

Live recording of the Oct 9 Astoria Design Review Committee meeting in which the committee reviewed the revised plans for the Fairfield Inn hotel project, proposed for the Astoria waterfront on the site of the old Ship Inn Restaurant, by Hollander Hospitality as a 30,000 sq. ft., four story, Marriott hotel.

Join guest host Merianne Myers, sitting in this week for Donna Quinn.

Join Merianne Myers and Linda Perkins for a lighthearted romp through the corridors of cuisine.

Join guest host Merianne Myers, sitting in for Donna Quinn this week.

Join host Teresa Retzlaf for a chat about farming on the coast.

John Stevenson filling in for John Orr.

Vera Wildauer from Hoffman Center & Madeline Olson from North Tillamook Library present America’s Librarian Nancy Pearl Oct 20 at NCRD in Nehalem; Printmakers Marie Powell & Penny Treat open their Installation “Spirits of the Ancient” at RiverSea Gallery Oct 13 during Astoria Art Walk; Founder Ron Craig with ‘Women In Film’ at the Astoria International Film Festival Oct 19-21 at the Liberty Theatre; Dorothy Waetford, Rhonda Haliday & Carla Ruka, Maori clay artists, plus 6 others, present a lecture/ slide show of their artwork & home in Aotearoa in the Royal Nebeker Art Building Oct 17.

John Stevenson fills in for John this week with a conversation about democracy and some of the technical threats to ours in particular, including campaign finance, voter suppression, gerrymandering and the electoral college.