On Mondays from 8 to 9:30am, join DJ Steve for a hefty helping of Comfort Food every Monday morning. Steve will be setting the table with classic rock, jazz, blues, alternative, some country, and even prog, and hard rock from the 80’s, 90’s and beyond. Email Steve.
For a compendium of upcoming featured programs, check KPTZ Spotlight for December 1-15 . Many of our program hosts provide specifics about what’s planned for this half month. If you’re not already a Spotlight subscriber, you’re invited to join our Mailing List. See KPTZ’s current Weekly On-Air Schedule and Daily Program Schedule.
(Airdate: November 28, 2025) County Commissioner Heidi Eisenhour and Jim Burke talked about food insecurity and the impact cuts to government funding and grants to local food outreach organizations plus alternatives to Black Friday including Giving Tuesday. Their guests were:
– Oceana Sawyer ([email protected]), Nourishing Beloved Community (NBC) https://www.nourishingbelovedcommunity.com/. Nourishing Beloved Community emerged from a growing commitment to practice interdependence and develop resilience among People of the Global Majority on the Olympic Peninsula in the state of Washington.
– Roland Faragher-Horwell, President of the Board of Jefferson County Food Banks https://www.jcfba.org/
– Siobhan Canty, Director of The Jefferson Community Foundation, https://www.givejefferson.org/, https://jcfgives.org/
(Airdate: November 26, 2025) Nurse logs, a common site in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, blur the distinction between life and death as they support not only the next generation of trees, but also a host of other plant and animal species. Learn more about nurse logs and what the Jefferson Land Trust is doing to give a hand to these incredibly significant ecological systems. Join Nan Evans this week to talk to Carrie Clendaniel, Preserve Manager for the Land Trust, about nurse logs and fascilitating the fascilitators.
(Airdate: November 25, 2025) Maryanne interviews Aaran Stark, Chef at Jefferson Healthcare. After five years of being closed to the public the café is finally open again. It closed for the pandemic and then construction of the new wing delayed reopening the café. Back pre-pandemic, the café was a favorite lunch haunt for locals who actually had no official business at the hospital. They came for the food! Stark is an immensely creative chef who both trained and taught at the Cordon Bleu. Patients and staff always had food during those five years. A new kitchen was constructed at the Fairgrounds and six trucks a day rushed meals the 2.7 miles to the hospital. That’s creative cooking!
(Airdate: November 25, 2025) We’re in Xinjiang Province, in the town of Hami, and we’ve already visited the tombs of the Uyghur kings, who ruled Hami over 90 years ago. When the last ruler died in1930, Chinese bureaucrats moved in to fill the vacuum and precipitated a rebellion that spread across the entire Province….
(Airdate: November 24, 2025) his week’s Attention Please! comes in two festive parts. Flavia Heinemann and Elizabeth Rowen open the doors to the 38th Annual Chimacum Arts and Crafts Fair. Then, Denise Winter and Brendan Chambers roll up the curtain on Key City Public Theatre’s “Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big Christmas Show”. Hosted by Phil Andrus.
(Airdate: November 21, 2025) Instead of the usual County Commissioner co-host , this week Jim Burke is joined by Pinky Faeria Mingo, Director of Environmental Health and Water Quality of Jefferson County. Jim and Pinky are joined by two others in that Department: Becca Maurer, Code Compliance Specialist and Carter Erickson, Environmental Health Manager.
Becca talks about an alternative program that is relatively new that helps bring property owners into compliance in a collaborative way instead of the usual punitive model, (similar to diversionary programs in Superior Court.)
Carter explains the process for new septic systems and remediation of existing systems. They both stress the importance of clean up of environmental hazards that affect water quality and the general environment in Jefferson County.
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro were joined by PT Mayor David Faber as well as Washington State Parks’ Chris Holm, Campus Business Manager for Fort Worden. Chris brought us up-to-date with changes at the Fort, including possibility of overnight accommodations which are re-starting this week. Reservation information is available here.
