(Airdate: June 25, 2024) We’re in the town of Baoji and visiting the town’s Jintai Temple, on the hillside overlooking the train station. Before the temple was built in the 14th Century, it’s site was the residence of a most peculiar Taoist master, Zhang Sangfeng, the patriarch of Chinese Kung Fu….
Local News for 6/25/24
#245 Jim Lopez: Helping Seniors
(Airdate: June 25, 2024) Maryanne interviews Jim Lopez, President of the PT Senior Association. Jim’s a Vietnam vet who used the GI bill to help get him through college. Then came a long career in business & finance. Oddly enough for a town that’s perpetually short on employment opportunities, a job offer lured him to PT. And what better place to retire? Many people confuse the Community Center with the Senior Association. It’s the Association that oversees everything from bingo games to a pool room. Organizations including AA, AlAnon, Disabled Vets, Photography Club, Computer Club all meet at the Center. Senior lunches are offered five days a week. But everything’s currently suspended for a couple of weeks while the building undergoes some renovation. It will all be back in July (contractor permitting)
Empty Bowl
(Airdate: June 24, 2024) In the first part of this week’s Attention Please!, Holly Hughes and John Pierce of Empty Bowl Press read from the poems of the late Clem Starck. The second part of the show is a set of three poems read by Starck with banjo and jaw harp accompaniment. Hosted by Phil Andrus.
County Connections
(Airdate: June 21, 2024) If you feel Deja Vu it’s understandable. This week on County Connections Co-hosts Commissioner Heidi Eisenhower and Jim Burke welcome two guests from EJFR (East Jefferson Fire Rescue:) Community Risk Manager, Robert Wittenberg and Chief Bret Black. They discuss new permanently adopted fire ban rules for the county which go into effect July 1 through September 30 at the moderate level every year. Also, what anyone can do to prevent wildfires, create defensible space around homes, and prevent injuries that are more likely around the July 4th holiday (think fireworks).
Local News for 6/21/24
Brewocracy Now ~ 6/20/24
Taylor Clark and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro welcomed Emily Bufford, Library Manager – Youth & Outreach Services to talk about the summer reading program. Adventure begins at your library. We talked about the Magical Adventures Ferry House workshop, the Backyard Adventures Raising Chickens program, as well Yoga Storytime and a bunch of other events. More information can be found here: https://ptpubliclibrary.org/library/page/summer-reading-program-2024.
Local News for 6/20/24
Observations
(Airdate: June 20, 2024) About Chimacum, Morgan Freeman, and the Wealthy People Who Want to Take Your Babies.
#676 Pacific Rhododendron Forest, part 1
(Airdate: June 19, 2024) We are all familiar with Washington’s state flower, the native Pacific Rhododendron. Did you know there is a classification for that ecosystem – it is called the Rhododendron forest. Remnants of the Rhododendron forest are on the Toandos Peninsula in Puget Sound and are technically part of a “globally imperiled plant association”. This forest type has been confirmed by botanists with the Department of Natural Resources’ Natural Heritage Program. Over the past decade biologists have mapped this globally rare type of forest which represents the largest occurrence of its type left in the world. Although this native forest type was once common west of the Cascades in Washington state, it has largely been eliminated by conversion to tree plantations and development. Join Jackie Canterbury as she talks with Peter Bahls, Director and Biologist for the Northwest Watershed Institute and Heidi Eisenhour, Jefferson County Commissioner about their collaborative efforts to protect this globally rare remaining Pacific Rhododendron forest.
