(Airdate: March 28, 2024) Connectivity Fair 2024 How it Began – Missy converses with the planning team for this powerful day-long event. Ben Bauermeister, Judith Alexander, and Rose Madrone discuss the inspiration for the Connectivity Fair, its purpose and the potential impact for community members to deepen connections, resources and resiliency as a community.
(Airdate: March 27, 2024) Nature Now host Jackie Canterbury talks with Bev McNeil about the nature of Anderson Lake State Park. The park encompasses 496 acres of land with a diversity of plant communities, wetlands, and forests. The name bears the family name of an earlier owner, Amanda Anderson. The land was purchased in 1947. The park now offers trails that pass along the lake and through grassy marches, patches of salmonberries and huckleberries and through forests of young and older western red cedar and Douglas-fir.
(Airdate: March 26, 2024) We’ve just entered the huge hangar that contains the terra cotta underground army that protects the grave of China’s first emperor and, by using our handy dandy fake teacher’s I.D.s, we’ve saved enough to buy a round of cold beers and a plate of deep-fried chicken guts afterwards.
(Airdate: March 25, 2024) Jim Burke speaks with the cast of Gunmetal Blues, opening April 5, 2024 at Key City Public Theatre. AND then we hear an encore airing of Jim’s interview with Karyn Stillwell, instructor of yoga, the Wim Hop Method of COLD immersion, and a leader of cold plunges in Port Townsend at Ft. Worden Beach.
(Airdate: March 22, 2024) Guest host Taylor Clark and co-host Kate Dean welcomed Olympic Peninsula YMCA Executive Director Wendy Bart. We talked about the planned Early Learning & Family Support Center which will be sited a on the Port Townsend High School Campus. More information is available at https://www.olympicpeninsulaymca.org/early-learning-port-townsend.
(Airdate: March 19, 2024) We’re visiting China’s famous Underground Army, east of the city of Xi’an, capitol of the Shaanxi Province. There is a way around the rip-off prices charged foreigners to get in…fake I.D.
Taylor Clark was joined by guest host Shelly Leavens (Director of Communications and Marketing for the city of Port Townsend) and we welcomed Natalie Maitland (Director of Operations for Fort Worden Hospitality) who a member of the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee. LTAC give grants to organizations to promote tourism on the north Olympic Peninsula, with a focus on furthering year round activities and events. Please consider attending the next LTAC meeting March 27 and provide your input on what to do about the visitors information center. We also talked with Natalie at the very end about plans at the fort for the Guardhouse.
