Amador County
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Sep 14, 2026
CassieHOST
Neither one of them would live long enough to testify against him.
CassieHOST
On February 2nd, 2015, 34-year-old Tandon Olson was at work on a construction project near Tiger Creek in Amador County, California.
CassieHOST
He worked for Sierra Mountain Construction, which was doing work connected to the Amador Water Agency's Gravity Supply Line project.
CassieHOST
That day, Tandon was operating a man-lift along a gravel access road when something went terribly wrong.
John McGinnessHOST
I'm John McGinnis on KPK News Radio, 93.1 FM, 1530 AM, and live absolutely everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
John McGinnessHOST
Uh, one of my favorite communities in this region that oftentimes I think is kind of overlooked or forgotten about is Amador County.
John McGinnessHOST
Great, great, great, beautiful.
John McGinnessHOST
The topography there, the people there are great, charming, kind folks.
John McGinnessHOST
And I have had a good close working relationship with many in the criminal justice effort in Amador County for a long, long time.
John McGinnessHOST
And, uh, one of the people who stands out, one of the people who makes that community great, is a gentleman by the name of Steve Onetto.
John McGinnessHOST
He joins the conversation now because he's gonna tell us about an event coming up.
John McGinnessHOST
Uh, very unlikely that I'd ever be talking about a speakeasy, but that's exactly what it is.
James MarzanoGUEST
And a veteran had reached out to me and led me through the VA system and pointed me in the direction of the Wounded Warrior Project and pointed me in the direction of Operation Homefront.
James MarzanoGUEST
Many people don't know this, but there's two of us here in Amador County that were recipients.
James MarzanoGUEST
Recipients of what, you might ask? What that is, is back then, Back during the real estate fall, 2008.
James MarzanoGUEST
Yeah, the recession.
Ronnie GoldGUEST
Um, one of the big things that I would love to see, which I feel like our district has been doing a good job just based off of because I got out of the district not that long ago and graduated.
Ronnie GoldGUEST
Retaining teachers is super important, especially I see a lot of kids or kids, people that I went to school with or even my little sister that they went through the Amador County school system, went off to college and came back.
Ronnie GoldGUEST
And I think that that's like the greatest thing in the world.
Ronnie GoldGUEST
Me too.
Kandi ThompsonHOST
So it is interesting because the bylaws are all available online.
Kandi ThompsonHOST
If you go to Amador County Unified School District, you can check them all out.
Kandi ThompsonHOST
The 9,000 series are all of the school board actions.
Kandi ThompsonHOST
And you can actually search that.
Kandi ThompsonHOST
Mm-hmm.
Keith LynchGUEST
Moving to Amador County changed my life.
Keith LynchGUEST
I would be a drug addict in prison with my brother right now if I did not move to this county.
Keith LynchGUEST
Oh,
Kandi ThompsonHOST
How many
Garrett GrayHOST
people are in Amador County?
Kandi ThompsonHOST
No, no, no, I know, but for colleges, I mean, how many people are at, where, Adam, where's UCLA? Oh, we'll say
Garrett GrayHOST
UCLA, yeah.
Alison LevineHOST
Right
Erin MasonGUEST
... uh, that's planted in other AVAs, and we're working with, uh, Shake Ridge Ranch, uh, in Amador County.
Erin MasonGUEST
Uh, we work with, uh, the Finotti Vineyard, um, which is, uh, El Dorado County.
Erin MasonGUEST
Um, and then w- most recently we started working with, uh, the Bench Vineyard, which is in Lodi.
Kandi ThompsonHOST
I know.
Jack MitchellGUEST
The piece I love about Amador County and our community, and Jim Geady actually is the first individual I met 25, 26 years ago when I arrived.
Kandi ThompsonHOST
Wow.
Jack MitchellGUEST
Which, you've got to understand, it's newspaper, radio.
Jack MitchellGUEST
He had been injured the year before, so he kind of had a plastic jaw.
Jack MitchellGUEST
They actually asked me to ride the bull at that event, and I refused to do it.
Jack MitchellGUEST
And then years later, I did ride the bull out of the Amador County Fair.
Jack MitchellGUEST
Oh, there you go.
Dave JohnsonGUEST
I'm looking at Jackson driving around like, well, they got one out of Grass Valley and one out of a shopping center in Placerville.
Dave JohnsonGUEST
I'm like, these aren't even in Amador County.
Dave JohnsonGUEST
And I was told, well, it doesn't matter.
Dave JohnsonGUEST
You can get comps from wherever you want.
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