Editor’s Note: KOIN 6 News anchorman Jeff Gianola will retire around Thanksgiving 2025 after more than 40 years as a Portland journalist. In this series, Jeff looks back at some of the most memorable stories he’s covered and shared.
This story originally aired in 2012 and re-aired when Mike Donahue died of cancer on August 25, 2023
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A few weeks before his retirement, KOIN documented Mike’s journey back to Albany, Oregon and visited his boyhood home. He hadn’t been back since he was a boy to his childhood home called Hilltop…